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Raban-Williams, Jocelyn Son of Frederick Raban Williams, and Mabel Ione Foxwell. Married ((06?).1942, Hendon district, Middlesex) ... Pall-Dainty.	(12?).1916 Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire - 12.2004 still alive	Prob. S.Lt. 02.05.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 02.05.1938 A/Lt. 02.02.1940 Lt. ?, seniority 08.02.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 17.02.1946? Lt.Cdr. 08.02.1948 (retd 06.09.1948)	(06.1938) - (08.)1939 no appointment listed 23.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Osiris (submarine) 29.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Malaya (battleship) 16.06.1942 - (02.)1943 French Ship (FS) La Capricieuse 06.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Campbell (destroyer) 04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier) 17.02.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Loch More (frigate) (07.1948) no appointment listed
Raban-Williams, Robin Son of Frederick Raban Williams, and Mabel Ione Foxwell. Married ((06?).1951, Staincliffe district, West Riding of Yorkshire) ... Ozanne.	(12?).1922 Warwick district, Warwickshire - 12.2004 still alive	Midsh. 01.05.1940 S.Lt. 16.04.1942 Lt. 29.11.1943, seniority 16.08.1943 (retd 13.03.1949)	01.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Revenge (battleship) 05.01.1942 - (01.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 15.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Cyclops (depot ship) 11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS P 225 (submarine) 23.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) (for submarines) 14.06.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Tantivy (submarine) 05.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Sheba (naval shore base, Aden) 04.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Trouncer (escort carrier) (04.1946) HMS Victory
Radcliffe, Donald William Son of ... Radcliffe, and ... Batson.	20.06.1923 Amersham district, Buckinghamshire - 12.1990 Portsmouth, Hampshire	Cadet 01.01.1941 Midsh. 01.09.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1943 S.Lt. 1943?, seniority 01.10.1942 Lt. 16.04.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1952 (retd 30.09.1962)	01.01.1941 special entry cadet 01.09.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) 01.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Middleton (destroyer) 10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Rodney (battleship) 22.08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Whitehall (destroyer) 10.07.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Ranee (escort carrier) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 16.01.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Harrier (05.1950)     no appointment listed 22.09.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Newfoundland 18.04.1955 - (01.1957) HMS Harrier (RN school of aircraft direction and meteorology, Kete, Pembrokeshire) (01.1959)     HMS Bulwark * (07.1961)     HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) * * indexed, but not lsited as such
Raikes, Richard Prendergast "Dick" Married (1938) Joan Margaret Edgington (predeceased him); three daughters.	21.01.1912 India ? - 24.05.2005 Salisbury dstrict, Wiltshire	Cadet 01.05.1929 Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S/Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 04.09.1933, seniority 16.01.1933 Lt. 16.03.1935 Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1943 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948) DSO 16.06.1942 destruction U-boat / successful patrols in HMS Seawolf [investiture 02.02.43]	27.04.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) no appointment listed 02.06.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.05.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.12.1933 - (01.1934) Third Officer, HMS L 22 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 09.02.1935 - (02.1936) Third Officer, HMS Clyde (submarine) (02.1937) no appointment listed 06.03.1937 - (07.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS H 31 (submarine) (Portland) 12.01.1938 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Severn (submarine) (Mediterranean) (04.1940) no appointment listed (02.1941) HMS L 26 (submarine) * 09.10.1941 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Seawolf (submarine) 24.08.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tuna (submarine) 10.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 07.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) (04.1946) HMS Pegasus (catapult trials & maintenance ship) * * indexed but not listed as such
Raikes, Sir Robert Henry Taunton Father of Lt. (later V.Adm.) I.G. Raikes Brother of Maj.Gen. Sir Geoffrey T. Raikes.	23.08.1885 Bromley, Greater London - 24.05.1953 [Mantley, Newent, Glos. ?]	... ... Cdr. 1917 Capt. 30.06.1923 Cdre. 1st cl. 20.06.1934? R.Adm. 22.07.1935 V.Adm. 14.01.1939 Adm. 29.10.1942 (retd [>08.]1942) (reverted to retd 1944/45) KCB 01.01.1941 New Year 41 [decoration presented] CB 1937 ? CVO 1935 ? DSO 1916 ? Hkn 26.08.1947 services to Norway	Education: Radley 15.09.1900 entered RN 1908 submarine service 1914 - 1917 served European War: HMS Defence (1913-1915) (despatches, DSO and Bar, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour) 26.03.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) 03.05.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, Boys' Training Establishment, Forton [HMS St. Vincent] 25.04.1932 - (01.)1934 Director of RN Staff College, Greenwich 20.06.1934 - (07.)1935 Commodore and Chief of Staff, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth] 1935 Naval ADC to the King 1936 Admiral-in-Charge Alexandria (temp.) 10.12.1936 - 1938 Rear­Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin] 20.07.1939 - (08.1939) Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Cardiff] 1940 Vice­Admiral Commanding Northern Patrol 1940 - 1941 Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station 10.04.1942 - (06.)1944 Flag-Officer-in-Charge, Aberdeen HMS Bacchante]
Ramsay, Hon. Sir Alexander Robert Maule	29.05.1881 - 08.10.1972 [Windlesham, Surrey ?]	... ... Capt. 30.06.1919 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.11.1929 R.Adm. 09.10.1931 V.Adm. 02.01.1936 Adm. 15.12.1939 (retd 1942) GCVO 1938 ? KCVO 1932 ? KCB 1937 ? CB 1934 ? DSO 14.03.1916 Gallipoli	Education: HMS Britannia; RN College Dartmouth 15.07.1894 entered RN 1896 Midshipman, HMS Majestic 10.1911 - 1913 Naval ADC to Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada 1913 - 1915 Gunnery Officer, HMS Indefatigable (battle cruiser) (served Dardanelles, 1914-1915  (DSO, promoted Captain)) 1915 - 1916 Commander on staff of Adm. J.M. de Robeck [HMS Inflexible & HMS Lord Nelson] 1916 - 1919 Flag Commander, 2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet 1919 - 1922 Naval Attaché in Paris 1922 - 1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) 1924 - 1926 Flag Captain and Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, North American Station 23.04.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 01.11.1929 - (02.)1931 Commodore of Royal Naval Barracks at Portsmouth 1931 Naval ADC to the King (09.192) no appointment listed 15.09.1933 - 1936 Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] 15.05.1936 - 1938 Commander-in-Chief East Indies [HMS Norfolk] 19.07.1938 - (08.)1939 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Air Services (Fifth Sea Lord)
Ramsay, Sir Bertram Home "Bertie" Youngest (third) son of late Capt. William Alexander Ramsay, and Susan, daughter of William Minchiner, of Clontarf, co. Dublin. Married (02.1929) Helen Margaret, only daughter of late Col Charles T. Menzies; two sons.	20.01.1883 Hampton Court Palace, London - 02.01.1945 Toussus- le-Noble, France (airplane crash)	Cadet 15.01.1898 Midsh. 15.09.1899 S.Lt. 15.09.1902 Lt. 15.12.1904 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1912 Cdr. 30.06.1916 Capt. 30.06.1923 R.Adm. 09.05.1935 (retd 10.10.1938) V.Adm. (retd) 12.01.1939 (reactivated 24.08.1939) (reinstated on active list 26.07.1944) A/Adm. 18.06.1942 Adm. 27.04.1944 KCB 07.06.1940 Dunkirk [investiture 26.06.40] KBE 21.12.1943 Operation Husky [investiture 03.02.44] CB 23.06.1936 ? MVO 17.02.1918 ? MID 20.04.1943 Operation Torch - Ntce 20.12.1940 name brought to notice: operations in the field 03-06.40 ? Ush 07.11.1944 Normandy landings 06.44 LM 17.07.1945 Normandy invasion 06.44 LegH ? Normandy invasion 06.44 [presented to next-of-kin]	15.01.1898 - 14.05.1899 HMS Britannia (RN College, Dartmouth) 15.05.1899 - 07.12.1902 HMS Crescent (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 08.12.1902 - 20.07.1903 HMS Revenge (battleship) 21.07.1903 - 04.10.1903 HMS Greyhound (destroyer) 05.10.1903  - 13.04.1905 HMS Hyacinth (light cruiser) (East Indies Station) 14.04.1905 - 06.09.1905 HMS Good Hope (armoured cruiser) 07.09.1905 - 27.07.1906 HMS Terrible (armoured cruiser) 28.07.1906 - 11.09.1906 HMS Renown (battleship) 12.09.1906 - 05.02.1909 HMS Dreadnought (battleship) 06.02.1909 - 14.06.1909 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (to qualify in signals) 15.06.1909 - 27.08.1909 HMS Edgar (large cruiser) 28.08.1909 - 25.09.1910 Flag Lieutenant, HMS Albemarle (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 26.09.1910 - 31.05.1912 Flag Lieutenant, HMS Bacchante (armoured cruiser) (Mediterranean Fleet) 01.06.1912 - 01.07.1912 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signals school) 02.07.1912 - 21.02.1913 lent as Flag Lieutenant, HMS Illustrious (battleship) (for manoeuvres) 22.02.1913 - 09.07.1913 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for war staff course; psc) 10.07.1913 - 12.01.1914 HMS Euryalus (S) (armoured cruiser) (for manoeuvres) 13.01.1914 - 30.06.1914 HMS Orion (battleship) (for war staff duties) 01.07.1914 - 18.12.1914 Flag Lieutenant, Signals Officer and War Staff Officer, HMS Dreadnought (battleship) 19.12.1914 - 06.02.1915 Flag Lieutenant, Signals Officer and War Staff Officer, HMS Benbow (battleship) 07.02.1915 - 08.1915 HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for Signal Section, Admiralty War Staff) 08.1915 - 24.10.1917 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for command of M 25 (monitor)) (Dover Patrol) 25.10.1917 - 14.01.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Broke (destroyer) (Dover Patrol) 15.01.1919 - 10.02.1919 HMS President (additional; for special service) 11.02.1919 - 29.08.1920 HMS New Zealand (battlecruiser) (additional; as Flag Commander and for War Staff Duties): accompanied Lord Jellicoe on his mission to India and the Dominions, 1919-1920 30.08.1920 - 19.11.1920 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 20.11.1920 - 04.1921 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) 04.1921 - 12.05.1923 HMS Benbow (battleship) 13.05.1923 - 06.01.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 07.01.1924 - 07.03.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for technical course) 08.03.1924 - 19.10.1924 HMS President (for senior officers' war course) 20.10.1924 - 07.03.1925 Commanding Officer, HMS Weymouth (light cruiser) 08.03.1925 - 22.05.1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) 23.05.1927 - 26.07.1929 staff, War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 27.07.1929 - 20.07.1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief of Staff, China Station 21.07.1931 - 24.11.1933 HMS President (for duty on Instructional Staff of Imperial Defence College) 25.11.1933 - 15.08.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 16.08.1935 - 10.01.1937 HMS Nelson (battleship) (additional; as Chief of Staff, Home Fleet) 11.01.1937 - 09.01.1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for technical course) 10.01.1938 - 24.09.1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for tactical course) 25.09.1938 - 23.08.1939 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; as Staff of Commander-in-Chief [the] Nore) 24.08.1939 - 22.04.1942 Flag Officer commanding Dover [HMS Pembroke (additional)] 23.04.1942 - 17.06.1942 Flag Officer Expeditionary Force 18.06.1942 - 31.10.1942 Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force 01.11.1942 - 19.07.1943 Deputy Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force 1943 Naval Commander, Eastern Task Force, Mediterranean 20.07.1943 - 02.01.1945 Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force
Ramsay, David Allan Robert Malcolm	1913 [Hong Kong ?] - 10.01.1982	Prob. S.Lt. 25.11.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 25.11.1938 Lt. 1940/41?, seniority 16.11.1936 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1944 (retd 1957) OBE 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 56 [investiture 30.10.56] DSC 20.06.1944 [gldr bm ht ?] West Coast Italy 01.44 [decoration handed at Admiralty] * MID 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 47: minesweeping operations 1939-1945 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star with Burma Bar; Italy Star; War Medal; Naval General Service 1915-62, one bar, Minesweeping 1945-51 * For courage, coolness and devotion to duty when HM Ships Inglefield and Spartan were lost.	(02.1939) - (08.1939) short course of instruction ? - ? HMS Revenge (battleship) 15.02.1940 - 24.05.1940 HMS Wessex (destroyer) (sunk by German bombers off Calais) 1940? - 1941? HMS Impulsive (destroyer) 20.01.1941 - (02.)1941 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent 05.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (in lieu of specialist Gunnery Officer) 22.06.1943 - 29.01.1944 HMS Spartan (cruiser) (sank at Anzio; wounded) 29.01.1944 - (07.1945) sick leave (about 12 months in hospital; lost left leg) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper) ? - (1946) HMS Cockatrice (minesweeper) * 10.11.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (05.1950) no appointment listed 06.03.1953 - (04.1955) HMS Royal Prince (RN parent ship Germany) 01.10.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Royal Albert (RN base, Cuxhaven, Germany) (for miscellaneous duties) (01.1957) HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) ** * (04.1946) indexed, but not listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Ramsey, Sir Charles Gordon Married 1st (13.06.1912) Luleen Clare (died 1939), daughter of William Handcock; one daughter. Married 2nd (1945) Helen, widow of George M‘Murtrie Godley of Long House, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.	04.12.1882 Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire - 19.12.1966 Martin, Florida, USA	Cadet 15.01.1897 Midsh. 15.10.1898 S.Lt. 15.04.1902 Lt. 30.06.1904 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1912 Cdr. 31.12.1915 Capt. 30.06.1922 R.Adm. 01.03.1944 V.Adm. 15.01.1938 Adm. 06.04.1942 (retd [>08.]1942) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 15.10.1942 KCB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 06.08.40] CB 1935 ?	15.01.1897 entered RN 1914 - 1919 served European war: HMS Acheron (despatches, Jutland) 17.10.1917 - ? Commanding Officer, HMAS Vendetta 09.04.1923 - (08.1923) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1925)     no appointment listed 22.05.1925 - (05.1926) Captain (D), 3rd Flotilla [HMS Keppel (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) 30.06.1927 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Impregnable (training establishment for boys, Devonport) 01.07.1929 - (08.)1929 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.08.1929 - (02.)1931 Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 04.12.1931 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.09.1933 - (01.)1934 also: Naval ADC to the King (07.1934)     no appointment listed 29.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 18.07.1935 - (07.)1937 Rear-Admiral, 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Royal Oak (battleship)] (Home Fleet) (02.1938) - (09.)1939 no appointment lsited 03.08.1939 - 15.04.1942 Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland, renamed: Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth (08.1942) no appointment listed 15.10.1942 - (07.1945) Commodore of convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (04.1946) HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Ravenhill, Richard William	(12.)1901 East Retford, Nottinghamshire - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 30.06.1941 (retd 1940/50s) CBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 24.10.44] DSC 05.08.1941 sinking convoy escorts Mediterranean 16.04.41 [investiture 10.03.42] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 11.06.1946 wind up (Far East 46)	(1925) Lieutenant, HMS Wishart 31.10.1938 - (04.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Nubian (destroyer) 10.02.1942 - (12.1943) Deputy Chief of Staff & Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet] 12.1943 - 1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Newfoundland (cruiser) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Raw, [Sir] Sydney Moffatt * Eldest son of late Lt.Col. Dr Nathan Raw, CMG (1866-1940), and Annie Louisa Strong (died 1940). Married (1927) Grace Léonie, daughter of F. Gibson Ward, Rosemont, Bermuda; two daughters. * second Christian name also found as Moffat	19.08.1898 West Derby district, Lancashire - 04.02.1967 Farnham, Surrey South-Western district, Surrey	Midsh. 1914? A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.09.1917 Lt. 15.04.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1933 Capt. 30.06.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.1947-28.06.1949 R.Adm. 08.07.1949 V.Adm. 15.08.1952 (retd 26.08.1954) KBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54 [investiture 06.07.54] CB 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 51 [investiture 31.10.51] CBE 01.01.1942 New Year 42 [investiture 28.07.42] MID 10.07.1945 Burma (operations Arakan coast 11.44-03.45) MID 11.06.1946 Burma (wind up Far East) Crwn 13.10.1942 assistance to Yugoslav Navy (Mediterranean)	Education: privately (Mr Churton, West Kirby); RN Colleges Osborne (05.1911-...) and Dartmouth (...-1914); Trinity College, Cambridge; Naval Staff College (1929); Staff College, Camberley (1934; psc). 08.1914     entered RN 08?.1914 - 08?.1914 HMS Good Hope (armoured cruiser) 08?.1914 - 10.1914 HMS Nottingham (light cruiser) (Heligoland Bight) 10.1914 - 1917 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Dogger Bank, Jutland) 1917 - 1918 HMS Geranium (Mediterranean) 08.07.1918     joined Submarines (then almost continuously in Submarines in Baltic, China, Home Waters, and Mediterranean) 01.10.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Fearless (for submarines) 04.1923 - (08.1923) First Lieutenant, HMS L 7 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 15.02.1924 - (01.)1925 Commanding Officer, HMS H 52 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Maidstone] 14.06.1925 -  (02.)1927 HMS Calcutta (light cruiser) (North America and West Indies) (07.1927)     no appointment listed 09.02.1928 - 31.12.1928 Commanding Officer, HMS H 33 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 07.01.1929 -  (08.1929) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 14.01.1930 - 19.12..1930 Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) 07.01.1931 - (02.1931) Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] (01.1932)     no appointment listed 07.01.1932 - 04.11.1932 Commanding Officer, HMS L 56 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 05.11.1932 - 11.1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Rover (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] (01.1934)     no appointment listed 21.01.1934 - (11.1934) staff course, Staff College, Camberley [HMS President] 03.01.1935 - 31.05.1937 Tactical Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.06.1937 - 18.06.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (flotilla leader) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (and for duty with submarines) 19.06.1939 - 1939 Commander of Submarine Flotilla [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 29.08.1939 - 10.1939 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) [raising of submarine HMS Thetis that was sunk 01.06.1939] 10.1939 - 25.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) & as Captain (S/M) Colombo [8th Submarine Flotilla] 1940 - 1940 Captain (S/M) Malta 09.07.1940 - 07.08.1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)  08.08.1940 - 03/04?.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S/M) Mediterranean [1st Submarine Flotilla] 25.06.1942 - 12.1943 Chief Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (04.1944)     no appointment listed 24.06.1944 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Phoebe (light cruiser) (despatches twice for operations on Burma coast) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1946 served on an Admiralty Committee appointed to recommend on the organization and entry of RN Constructors 1946 Imperial Defence College 01.1947 - 28.06.1949 Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 08.01.1949 - 08.07.1949 also: Naval ADC to the King 20.01.1950 - 01.1952 Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 02.1952     HMS Victory IV (accounting section) 02.1952 - 03.1954 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport [HMS President] 08.04.1954     Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1954)     no appointment listed President, Submarine Old Comrades' Association. Joined Federation of British Industires, 1955.
Rawle, Percival Harry	04.12.1903 Devonport, Devon - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Seaman ? [J95407] Boatsw. 01.04.1934 Lt. 1940?, seniority 01.01.1937 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1945 (retd 04.12.1948) MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	... - ... ... (04.1940)     no appointment listed 05.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Rooke (boom defence central depot, Rosyth) 06.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Barrymore (boom defence vessel) (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (10.1943)     HMS Kellett (Hunt class minesweeper) * 23.11.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Dornoch (Bangor class minesweeper) 16.05.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Rawlings, Geoffrey Noel	25.11.1899 Salisbury, Wiltshire - 29.12.1983 Salisbury, Wiltshire	... ... Lt. 15.02.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1931 (retd 1944?) A/Cdr. < 12.1941 Cdr. (1944?) A/Capt. (1945?) DSO 01.09.1942 minesweeping operations Channel 06.42 [investiture 17.11.42] DSO 02.05.1944 minesweeping [GGaeta?] supporting 5th Army [investiture 11.12.45] DSC 12.06.1945 minesweeping Naples leghorn 44 [investiture 11.12.45] MID 06.06.1941 minesweeping operations area 9ZX 314 MID 14.08.1945 relief of Greece	... - ... ... 07.06.1939 - (08.1939) Instructional Officer, HMS Hastings (escort vessel) 05.02.1940 - (02.1941) Commander, Minesweeping Forces, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon II] * 12th Minesweeping Flotilla 01.01.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) 26.07.1943 - (10.)1943 Commander Minesweeping, Tunisia [HMS Hasdrubal] 10.1943 - 10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Fly (Algerine class minesweeper) 15.01.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Harwich  * (12.1941) & (08.1942) still indexed, but not listed as such
Rawlings, Sir Henry Bernard [Hughes]   Son of William John Rawlings, accountant, and Marion Florence Hughes. Married ((03?).1922, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey) Eva Loveday Beaumont, daughter of William Hastings Beaumont, Esher; two sons, one daughter.	21.05.1889 Downes, St Erth, Cornwall - 30.09.1962 Clerkenwater, Helland, Bodmin, Cornwall	Midsh. 05.1905 A/S.Lt. 15.07.1908 S.Lt. 03.04.1909, seniority 15.07.1908 Lt. 15.01.1910 Lt.Cdr. 15.01.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1923 Capt. 31.12.1930 A/R.Adm. 24.10.1940 R.Adm. 15.01.1941 A/V.Adm. 20.03.1943? V.Adm. 07.11.1943 (retd 23.08.1946) Adm. (retd) 15.09.1946 GBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 [investiture 09.07.46] KBE 04.09.1945 surrender of Japan: for good services rendered whilst in command of the British Task Force operating in Japanese waters KCB 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 22.11.44] CB 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 28.07.42] OBE 1920 British Military Mission in Poland MID 04.10.1940 air operations in Mediterranean MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 GrkWC 11.08.1942 services belligerent Greece [decoration presented] LM 15.10.1946 for services to the USA during the war Geo I 15.04.1947 for valuable services to the Royal Hellenic Navy during the war in Europe [decoration presented]	Education: Stanmore Park; HMS Britannia (01.1904-05.1905); Imperial Defence College (1935) 01.1904 entered RN 05.1905     HMS Goliath 01.01.1910     HMS Kennet [tender to HMS Blake] 1914 - 1918 served European War: 10.1914     Commanding Officer, Torpedo Boat No. 11 (Nore Flotilla) 02.1915 specialized in torpedoes, HMS Vernon 1915? - ? Torpedo Officer, HMS Antrim ? - ? Torpedo Officer, HMS Undaunted ? - 1918 Torpedo Officer, HMS Coventry 1918 - 03.1919 with Foreign Office 03.1919 - 1921 Naval Liaison Officer with British Military Mission in Poland (OBE) 1921?     Torpedo Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (08.1923)     no appointment listed 01.04.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for instructional duties) 28.09.1926 - (07.)1927 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.08.1927 - 21.10.1927 Fleet Torpedo Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)] 21.10.1927 - (06.1928) Fleet Torpedo Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 01.05.1929 - (02.1931) Executive Officer [from 12.1930? Commanding Officer], HMS Emperor of India (battleship) 04.05.1931 - 1931 Senior Officers' Tactical Course, Portsmouth 03.08.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Active (destroyer) (Mediterranean) [as Divisional Leader in the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla] 12.03.1932 - (09.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) [Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron] (Mediterranean) 01.12.1932 - 10.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) [Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron] (Mediterranean) (11.1934)     no appointment listed 15.01.1935 - (07.1935) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 03.01.1936 - 31.12.1938 Naval Attaché, Tokyo & Peking [HMS President] (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 15.05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty) 26.08.1939 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (despatches) [intended in 07.1939 to take command of HMS Norfolk (cruiser) on recommissioning, but got HMS Valiant in stead] 1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 24.10.1940 - (02.1941) Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Malaya (battleship)] 12.05.1941 - (12.1941) Rear-Admiral Commanding 7th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Ajax (cruiser)] 08.04.1942 - 22.02.1943 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, Foreign [HMS President] 20.03.1943 - (10.)1943 Flag Officer Commanding, West Africa [HMS Edinburgh Castle] (Freetown) (12.1943) no appointment listed 28.12.1943 - 30.10.1944 Flag Officer Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] 12.1944 - (07.)1945 Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, British Pacific Fleet & Commanding British Task Forces [from 06.1945 HMS King George V] (04.1946) no appointment listed High Sheriff of Cornwall, 21.02.1950; Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cornwall, 18.09.1951.
Rawlings, Henry Clive Son of Edward Rawlings, Padstow, Cornwall. Married (11.1909, Holy Trinity Church, London) Georgina Helen Watson; one son, one daughter.	20.03.1883 Henton, Somerset - 29.12.1965 [Yealmpton, S. Devon ?]	Midsh. 15.09.1899 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1902 S.Lt. 15.10.1902 Lt. 01.04.1905 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1913 Cdr. 30.06.1917 Capt. 30.06.1925 R.Adm. 19.06.1936 (retd 20.06.1936) (dispersed 02.07.1946) (reld 24.09.1946) (reverted to retd 25.09.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 15.07.1942-(04?).1943 CB 04.05.1943 for distinguished services in the operations which led to landings in North Africa (Operation Torch) [investiture 13.02.45] DSO 08.03.1920 for distinguished services as Senior Officer of advanced patrols in the Baltic MID 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland 31.05.16 China Medal 1900; 1914-15 Star; War Medal; Victory Medal with MID emblem; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star with North Africa bar; Defence Medal; War Medal; Jubilee Medal Geo. V	Education: St Andrew's School, Eastbourne; HMS Britannia, Dartmouth 15.01.1898     entered RN 27.03.1900 - 15.09.1902 HMS Goliath (battleship) (China) 1914 - 1919 served European War (Battle of Jutland and Baltic (DSO, despatches)) 20.01.1923 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier) (China) (05.1926) - (07.1927) Air Ministry 19.03.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 12.10.1931 - (01.)1932 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.03.1932 - (01.)1934 Director, Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.05.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1936 - (02.1936) also: Naval ADC to the King 09.1939 - 05.1940 Commodore of Ocean Convoys (04.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 08.05.1940 - 1942 Rear-Admiral on Staff of Commander-in-Chief Nore [HMS Prembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 15.07.1942 - (02.)1943 Commodore of the Slow Assault Convoy [HMS Eaglet] 30.04.1943 - 1945 Rear-Admiral Naval Air Stations, Indian Ocean [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)] (07.)1945 - 1946 Head of Admiralty Technical Mission, Canada [HMS President] High Sheriff of Cornwall. * indexed, but not lsited as such
Ray, William Henry "Bill" From Alton.	06.03.1909 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 23.02.1983 Alton district	ERA 2 ? [D/M 38397] A/Wt.Eng. 01.04.1943 Wt.Eng. ?, seniority 01.04.1943 Lt. (E) 01.08.1945, seniority 01.01.1944 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.01.1952 (retd 06.03.1954) DSC 05.06.1945 4 war patrols Far East 07.44-01.45 [decoration posted] DSM 04.05.1943 4 war patrols eastern Mediterranean 08-11.42 [decoration posted] MID 06.05.1941 sinking 2 Italian supply ships MID 12.09.1944 4 war patrols Eastern Fleet	(1941?) HMS Pandora (08.1942) - (11.1942) HMS P 46 (submarine) 15.04.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 07.06.1943 - (07.1945) Engineering Officer, HMS Storm (submarine) 29.11.1945 - (04.1946) Engineering Officer, HMS Tradewind (submarine) 01.11.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) 25.03.1949 - (05.1950) Engineering Officer, HMS Acheron (submarine) 13.04.1952 - (05.1953) Engineering Officer, HMS Totem (submarine)
Raynsford, Anthony Edward Montagu	22.09.1914 - 11.1993 Northampton district, Northamptonshire	Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 01.05.1935 Lt. 01.10.1936 Lt.Cdr. 27.09.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1949 Capt. 30.06.1956 (retd 22.10.1958) MID 01.01.1940 New Year 40	16.01.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Valiant (battleship) 03.02.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Despatch (cruiser) 03.01.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.02.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Berwick (cruiser) 04.01.1938 - (08.1938) anti-submarine course, HMS Osprey [HMS Vernon] 19.08.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for Anti-Submarine School) 03.01.1939 - (1940) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) * 12.11.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for miscellaneous duties) 01.06.1942 - (10.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Venture 01.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for miscellaneous duties) 27.12.1943 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Helmsdale (frigate) (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 02.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 02.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Euryalus (01.1956) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) ** Deputy Lieutenant * (04.1940) still indexed, but no longer listed as such * indexed, but not listed as such
Read, Arthur Duncan Son of the late Edward R. Read, of Dublin. Married (1922)  Hon. Rosamond Vere Monckton (1892-1976), daughter of late William Henry Monckton; three daughters.	23.04.1889 Ireland - 29.10.1976 Shorne Ridgeway, nr Gravesend, Kent	A/S.Lt. 30.04.1909 S.Lt. 02.12.1909, seniority 30.04.1909 Lt. 19.01.1911, seniority 30.10.1910 Lt.Cdr. 30.10.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1924 Capt. 30.06.1932 R.Adm. 06.02.1942 (retd 01.06.1945) V.Adm. (retd) 01.06.1945 CB 08.06.1944 HM's birthday [investiture 18.05.45] MID 30.05.1944 Operations Thwart & Covered (operations in Indian Ocean 03.44) MID 31.10.1944 Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.44)	15.09.1904 joined RN 1914 - 1918 served in European War 07.12.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 05.08.1924 - 18.08.1924 Admiralty [HMS President] 19.08.1924 - (05.)1926 an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.12.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 09.01.1929 - (08.1929) Admiralty [HMS President] (for Director of Training and Staff Duties Division's Department) 08.01.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 06.03.1933 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 15.05.1934 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Folkestone (sloop) (China) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 13.01.1936 - (02.)1936 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 04.05.1936 - (07.1937) in charge of Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (02.1938) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * 05.05.1938 - 27.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (till comimssioning 02.11.1938 also for duty with Admiral-Superintendent Contract-Built Ships while being built at Govan, UK, then East Indies) 27.11.1940 - 23.09.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (12.1941)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 14.05.1942 - (08.)1943 Flag Officer, Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 15.10.1943 - 1945 Rear-Admiral Commanding 4th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Sussex (cruiser), later (12.1943?) HMS Newcastle (cruiser), later (06.1944?) HMS Kenya (cruiser), later HMS Nigeria (cruiser)] 04.07.1945 - (07.1945) Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer (RN base, Cardiff)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Reeder, Herbert John	(12?).1906 Wandsworth, London - 23.05.1941 (KIA) [age 34] [Chatham Naval Memorial]	Paym.Lt. 01.11.1928 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1936 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 42	22.04.1929 - (08.1929) for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station [HMS Despatch] 02.01.1931 - (09.1932) Secretary to Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Frobisher, later HMS Vindictive] 08.05.1933 - (01.1934) Secretary to Captain (D), 1st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Duncan] 17.12.1934 - (07.1935) Secretary to Captain (D), 1st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Keppel] 22.04.1936 - (02.1937) for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief Nore [HMS Pembroke] 10.07.1939 - 23.05.1941 Secretary to Captain (D), 5th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Kelly]
Reeves, Frank Edmund	11.07.1896 Portsmouth, Hampshire - died after 08.1989 ??	Seaman ? [M33059] Chief ERA (1936) T/A/Wt.Eng. 22.06.1943 T/Wt.Eng. 1944?, seniority 22.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	(08.1943)     no appointment listed 09.09.1943 - (07.1945) (Assistant) Engineer Officer, HMS Lochy (frigate)
Reid, [Sir] John Peter Lorne 2nd son of Sir James Reid, 1st Baronet of Ellon, and of Susan, daughter of 1st Baron Revelstoke. Married (19.04.1933) Jean (26.07.1909-07.12.1971), only daughter of Sir Henry Dundas, 3rd Bt of Arniston, and of Beatrix, daughter of 12th Earl of Home; one son, one daughter.	10.01.1903 St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex - 26.09.1973 Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1923 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.12.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1935 A/Capt. 10.1940 Capt. 31.12.1941 R.Adm. 08.01.1951 V.Adm. 08.09.1954 Adm. 07.01.1958 (retd 1961) GCB 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 61 [investiture 05.07.61] KCB 01.01.1957 New Year 57 [investiture 12.02.57] CB 11.06.1946 wind up Far East [investiture 28.01.47] CVO 16.07.1953 Coronation Naval Review 53 [investiture 27.10.53] MID 03.02.1942 Battle of Cape Matapan MID 02.02.1943 good service in SW Pacific	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth 1916 joined RN ... - ... ... 1935 - 1936 Fleet Wireless Officer, Abyssinian War 15.04.1939 - (12.)1941 HMS Valiant (operations off Norway 1940 ; operations off Oran, Algeria 1940 ; battle of Cape Matapan 1941) 1941 - 1942 Chief Signal Officer to Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Java, during defence of East Indies 1942 - ? Captain on staff of Sir James Fownes Somerville, Commander-in-Chief East Indies (08.1942)     no appointment listed (02.1943)     no appointment listed 03.03.1943 - (10.)1944 Deputy Director (V/S and W/T), Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.12.1944 - (07.1945) Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS King George V (battleship)] 1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Dido 1948 - 1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Cleopatra 1951 - 1953 Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1953 Rear­Adm. (Review) on Staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1954 - 1955 Flag Officer (Air) Mediterranean, and Flag Officer Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet 10.1956 - 1961 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (Third Sea Lord) and Controller of the Navy Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom and of the Admiralty, 12.10.1962-11.03.1966. Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and of the Admiralty, 11.03.1966-11.01.1973. President, Royal British Legion, Scotland. DL, East Lothian, 1962; Vice-Convener, E. Lothian CC, 1969-. Vice-Lieutenant, East Lothian, 1964 and since 1967;
Renouf, Edward de Faye Son of late Edward Binet Renouf (1862-1929), and Lilian Mary De Faye, Jersey, Channel Islands. Unmarried.	28.07.1888 St. Helier, Jersey - 15.09.1972 Manleys, St Peters, Jersey	Cadet 1903 S.Lt. ? Lt. 08.11.1909, seniority 28.02.1909 Lt.Cdr. 28.02.1917 Cdr. 31.12.1921 Capt. 31.12.1928 R.Adm. 05.01.1940 V.Adm. 03.04.1943 (retd 1943) CB 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [investiture 06.03.45] CVO 03.06.1931 HM's birthday 31 RHSSi 12.1914 for gallantry in rescuing a signal boy from drowning in the North Sea 14.10.14	15.05.1903 Cadet, HMS Britannia 1914 - 1919 served European War (1914) Torpedo Officer, HMS Conqueror (battleship) 07.06.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Vernon (torpedo school) (for torpedo duties) ? - (03.1921) Commanding Officer, HMS Thames (on voyage from UK to Capte Twon, South Africa) 26.07.1922 - (08.1923) Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.09.1924 - (01.)1925 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 26.08.1925 - (07.)1927 Fleet Torpedo Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)] 01.11.1927 - (06.1928) Executive Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 05.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Vampire (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 15.08.1930 - (06.)1933 Naval Attaché, Buenos Aires (Argentina) [HMS President] 16.01.1934 - 25.03.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) & from 1934/35 Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet) 25.07.1936 - 08.1938 staff, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.08.1938 - 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 01.08.1939 - 01.1940? also: Naval ADC to the King (04.1940) HMS President * 18.07.1940 - (02.)1941 Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Gloucester (cruiser)] 28.05.1941 - (12.1941) Naval Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces [HMS President] 06.04.1942 - (10.1944) HMS President (for duty with Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (W)) ? - (07.1945) Naval Assistant to Deputy First Sea Lord [HMS President] In command of Jersey Sea Cadet Corps. * indexed, but not listed as such
Renshaw, Maurice Frank	24.06.1918 - 10.1987 Bournemouth district, Hampshire	Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 01.11.1938 Lt. 01.01.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1948 Cdr. 31.12.1951 (retd 1960?) Aviz ? state visit Portugal 02.57	01.01.1936 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1937 - (06.)1938 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) 22.07.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) 02.01.1939 - (03.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.07.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 12.01.1942 - (08.1942) qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] 01.09.1942 - (02.1943) Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 30.04.1943 - (06.1944) Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) (Scapa Flow, then Portsmouth) 28.11.1944 - (04.1946) Gunnery Officer, HMS Jamaica 15.01.1948 - (07.1948) Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1949) no appointment listed 10.1949 - (05.1950) on staff of Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Forth] 10.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) (04.1955) no appointment listed 27.07.1955 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Chaplet * indexed, but not listed as such
Renwick, George Fisher	(03?).1901 Cardiff, Glamorgan - 31.03.1968	... ... Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 31.12.1942 (retd)	... - ... ... 20.06.1939 - (09.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Rochester (sloop) (02.1941) no appointment listed 15.04.1941 - 09.03.1943 Deputy Director of Air Matériel, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.03.1943 - (06.)1944 Director of Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 13.11.1944 - 01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Attacker (escort carrier) (04.1946) no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Reyne, Sir Cecil Nugent 2nd son of late Col. J.F. Reyne, Hampshire Regiment. Married (1917) Gladys Mary, daughter of Capt. H.C. Savory, Seaforth Highlanders, of Edinburgh; one son, three daughters.	23.12.1881 Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire - 19.02.1958 Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire	A/S.Lt. 23.12.1900? S.Lt. 29.03.1902, seniority 23.12.1900 Lt. 23.03.1903 Cdr. 30.06.1916 Capt. 30.06.1922 R.Adm. 01.06.1934 (retd 02.06.1934) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 12.09.1939-(07.1945) KBE 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 23.05.44] MID 17.11.1942 ocean convoys 39-42	Education: HMS Britannia 15.07.1895     entered RN Gunnery specialist 1899 - 1902 served in South Africa 1914 - 1918 Gunnery and Executive Officer, HMS Dreadnought 18.12.1918 - 1920 Commander, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) [Staff/Squadron?] Gunnery Officer (SGO) to late Admiral Sir R.F. Phillimore, commanding Reserve Fleet 15.05.1923 - (01.)1925 Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Curacoa (light cruiser)] 1925 Commanding Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) 08.03.1926 - (05.)1926 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.1926 - (07.)1927 Chief Staff Officer to Commodore in Command of New Zealand Station [HMS Diomede (cruiser)] (at Navy Office, Wellington) 09.1926 - 03.1929 also: 2nd Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board (08.1929) no appointment listed 29.12.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) & as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Nore 21.08.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) 02.07.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) & as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport (10.1932) - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Comus (cruiser)) & as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport 08.12.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) & as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Devonport 11.10.1933 - 01.06.1934 also: Naval ADC to the King 12.09.1939 - (07.1945) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] 10.1942 - 11.1942 Convoy SL 125 (Suez - Manchester) [SS Nagpore] (ship torpedoed & sunk 28.10.1942) 14.07.1943 - 30.07.1943 Convoy ... (Liverpool - New York) [SS Pacific Shipper] 20.08.1943 - 04.09.1943 Convoy HX 253 (New York - Liverpool) [SS Ruahine] 25.07.1944 - 08.08.1944 Convoy HX 301 (New York - Liverpool) [SS Reinholt]
Rhodes, Philip Montague Son of Montague John Rhodes, and Amy Clemson.	(06.)1914 Lymington district, Hampshire - 07.02.2008 Palmerston North, New Zealand	Cadet 01.09.1931 Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 01.05.1935 Lt. 01.07.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 07.02.1946, seniority 01.07.1945 (reld 07.05.1946; medically unfit)	05.09.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 29.08.1932 - (08.)1934 HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 27.09.1934 - (02.)1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.04.1935 - (07.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth 09.11.1935 - (08.1936) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 04.01.1937 - (02.)1937 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 13.05.1937 - 28.06.1937 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 29.06.1937 - (08.1939) HMS Salmon (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Maidstone] 05.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nettle (for submarines) 20.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for miscellaneous duties) 23.08.1942 - (01.)1945 on staff of Rear-Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] & for anti-submarine duties 04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines) Antiques dealer.
Rich, Lawrence St George	10.05.1908 Kensington, Greater London - 05.1990 Towcester, Northants.	Midsh. 15.05.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1928 S.Lt. 16.05.1929 Lt. 16.09.1931 Lt.Cdr. 16.09.1939 (retd 20.12.1949) A/Cdr. < 07.1948 Cdr. (retd) 20.12.1949 DSO  04.05.1943 sinking U205 E Mediterranean 17.02.43 [investiture 22.06.43] DSO  27.07.1943 action with 2 Italian destroyers E Mediterranean 15.04.43 [investiture 28.09.43] MID 24.03.1942 sinking U131 17.12.41 MID 14.04.1942 convoy escort destruction U-boat 01-02.42	09.12.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 04.1929 - (08.1929) Lieutenant's course, Portsmouth 06.01.1930 - (04.1930) submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 10.11.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Pandora (submarine) (China) (09.1932) no appointment listed 27.03.1933 - (01.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Portland) 23.10.1934 - (02.1936) First Lieutenant, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) 04.01.1937 - (02.1937) submarine commanding officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 17.04.1937 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine) 14.10.1937 - (02.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS H 44 (submarine) 16.04.1938 - (06.1938) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) 22.07.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) 02.1940 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS H 43 (submarine) 26.09.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Proteus (submarine) 06.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Exmoor (destroyer) 04.01.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Paladin (destroyer) 30.07.1943 - (10.1943) Training Establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex [HMS King Alfred] 04.11.1943 - (06.1944) Officer-in-Charge, Landing Craft Maintenance Base, Port Glasgow [HMS Monck] 16.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Carysfort (destroyer) (04.1946) HMS President * (07.1948) Admiral Commanding Reserves' Office * * indexed, but not listed as such
Richards, George Dick Kendall "Dicky" Son of George Westley Richards and Nora Ellen Mitchelson, of Weeke, Hampshire. Husband of Sylvia Elizabeth Mary Richards.	(09?).1918 Reading district, Berkshire - 29.05.1943 (KIA) [age 25] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 67, 3]	Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 01.01.1939 Lt. 01.01.1940 DSO  13.07.1943 action trawlers Belgian coast 04.04.43 [presented to next-of-kin] DSC 25.08.1942 action Channel 14.06.42 [investiture 01.12.42] MID 03.03.1942 action enemy ship Boulogne 16.11.41 MID 13.10.1942 action R-boats Channel 16.08.42 MID 19.02.1944 action trawlers Dunkirk 28.05.43	01.09.1936 - (08.1938) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 05.09.1938 - (04.1939) promotion course, Portsmouth 12.06.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Ivanhoe (destroyer) (02.1941) HMS Drake IV * 15.09.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Wasp: (1941) Commanding Officer, MGB 60 (11.1941) Commanding Officer, MGB 68 (06.1942) Commanding Officer, MGB 113 (08.1942) Commanding Officer, MGB 10 & SO 2nd MGB Flotilla (08.1942) - 29.05.1943 Commanding Officer, MGB 110 & SO 9th MGB Flotilla [& SO MGBs] * indexed, but not listed as such
Richardson, Donald George	? ? - died between 08.1973 and 08.1977 ??	Midsh. (A) 16.01.1939 A/S.Lt. (A) 20.06.1940 Lt. (A) 20.12.1942 (Emgcy List 03.061946) DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [decoration presented]	16.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training) 15.05.1939 - (08.1939) observers' course [HMS Excellent] (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm ? - 24.09.1940 observer, 810 Squadron FAA [failed to return when shot down by Curtiss H.75C-1 in bombing attacks on ships in Dakar harbour; captured] 24.09.1940 - 1943? POW in French captivity 28.06.1943 - (12.1943) observer, 823 Squadron FAA 17.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton) (for instructional duties) 04.09.1944 - (07.1945) observer, 848 Squadron FAA
Richardson, Herbert John Carbray Son of ... Richardson, and ... Carbray.	(03?).1915 Plymouth, Devon - 16.05.1941 (KIA) [age 26] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 1]	Cadet 01.05.1932 Midsh. (E) 01.01.1933 A/S.Lt. (E) ? S.Lt. (E) 16.01.1936 Lt. (E) 16.05.1938	23.04.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1933 - (02.)1936 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 01.09.1936 - (04.)1939 HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) (08.1939) - (04.)1940 Fleet Air Arm 06.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Nile II (FAA air station, Alexandria, Egypt) ? - 16.05.1941 805 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
Richardson, Hugh Nicholas Aubyn	23.08.1903 Gorey, Jersey, Channel Islands - 30.10.1978 St Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands	... ... S.Lt. 15.10.1924 Lt. 15.04.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1935 (retd 23.08.1948) A/Cdr. 12.09.1944? Cdr. (retd) 23.08.1948 DSO  01.09.1942 Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 06.42) [investiture 09.07.46] DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 [investiture 09.07.46] MID 09.02.1943 German ship "Ulm" sunk 08.92	... - ... ... (10.1938)     no appointment listed (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 29.05.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties) 27.11.1939 - 25.09.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) (DSC) (12.)1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Marne (destroyer) * (DSO, despatches) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 06.07.1943 - (06.)1944 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Executive Officer, HMS Valluru (RN Air Station, Tambaran, Madras) 16.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Garuda (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Coimbatore, India) (07.1948)     no appointment listed
Richardson, John Sherbrooke Morris	13.05.1907 Sevenoaks district, Kent - 12.1986 Canterbury district, Kent	... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1938 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 30.06.1949 (retd 07.07.1958) DSO  11.02.1941 sinking [F?] Nullo 21.10.40 [investiture 07.07.42] MID 27.01.1942 Operation Demon MID 09.05.1944 Operation FW MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	... - ... ... 14.03.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Bulldog (destroyer) 01.05.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Kimberley (destroyer) 23.06.1942 - (06.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.07.1943 - 15.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 12.1944 - (04.1946) Staff Officer (Q) on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] ... - ... ...
Richardson, Richard Brakell Son of ... Richardson, and ... Brakell.	(09?).1919 West Derby district, Lancashire - 30.10.1981	Lt. 01.11.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1947 (retd)	... - ... ... ? - (10.1944) HMS Hannibal (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 09.02.1954 - (04.1955) Flag Lieutenant-Commander & Staff Communications Officer to Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin]
Riches, Gordon William John Second son of William John Riches, and Margaret Tolfrey (née Rayfield). Married 1st (14.09.1935, Medway district, Kent) Margaret Amy Fielder (after adoption named Course); one daughter, one son. Married 2nd (23.10.1982, Maidstone district, Kent) Gladys Vera Tyler.	03.01.1911 Hollingbourne, Kent - 14.09.2001 Plymouth distirct, Devon	A/Wt.Shipwr. 15.09.1939 Wt.Shipwr. 1940?, seniority 15.09.1939 A/Cd.Shipwr. 18.06.1945 Sen.Cd.Shipwr. 01.10.1946 Shipwr.Lt.Cdr. 05.04.1956 (retd 03.01.1961)	Chatham Dockyard Apprentice, 04.08.1926-04.08.1931. 04.08.1931     joined RN 04.1932 - 11.1934 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) ? - ? HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) 15.09.1939 - 13.02.1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 02.1940 - (06.)1943 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) * (08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 06.12.1943 - 14.02.1945 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) [at a RN Unit in a Government Training Centre in Slough as technical Officer responsible for the training of Shipwrights for Combined Operations] 03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ajax (cruiser) 28.04.1947 - 11.05.1948 HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) (Harwich) 25.05.1948 - (05.)1950 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) 20.07.1950 - 06.02.1952 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (mainly Mediterranean) 07.1952 - 11.1952 HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) 11.11.1952 - (07.1954) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for RN Barracks) 14.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Bulwark (light fleet carrier) 04.07.1956 - 06.09.1957 HMS Jupiter (Reserve Fleet, Gareloch) 06.09.1957 - 10.01.1958 Reserve Fleet, Rosyth ? - (01.1959) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 22.06.1959 - 31.03.1961 Barrackmaster, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] * His 'flimsies' indicate until 23.10.1943.
Richmond, [Sir] Maxwell Eldest son of Robert Richardson Richmond, and Bernadette Farrel). Married (1929) Jessie Messervy Craig (died 1985); one son, three daughters (and one son deceased).	19.10.1900 Wellington, New Zealand - 15.05.1986 McLeod Bay, Whangarei Heads, New Zealand	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1921 S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 15.05.1921 Lt. ?, seniority 15.12.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1930 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 31.12.1942 R.Adm. 08.01.1952 V.Adm. 16.12.1954 (retd 1957) KBE 13.06.1957 Suez operations CB 01.01.1954 New Year 54 [investiture 16.02.54] DSO  30.07.1942 4 Murmansk-Reykjavik convoys [investiture 27.07.43] OBE 01.01.1940 New Year 40 [investiture 06.02.40] MID 25.10.1940 Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation 06.40) MID 07.08.1945 Senio Officer allied destroyers bombarding France RB 17.11.1942 Russian convoys 41-42 [award presented] CdeG 1945 wind up Europe	Education: New Zealand State Schools; Westminster 1918 Cadet Royal Navy (under the Dominion scheme), specialised navigation (08.1923) short course of instruction 03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 16.01.1926 - (05.)1926 Navigating Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) 18.11.1926 - (06.1928) Navigating Officer, HMS Laburnum (sloop) (New Zealand) (08.1929) no appointment listed 24.02.1930 - (04.)1930 Navigating Officer, HMS Harebell (fishery protection cruiser (sloop)) 20.06.1930 - 24.03.1931 Navigating Officer, HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) (and for Navigation duties in flotilla) (Mediterranean) 24.03.1931 - 18.10.1932 Navigating Officer, HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 24.10.1932 - (06.)1933 HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 28.12.1933 - 21.12.1935 Navigating Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigation Officer, Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas (temporary) 22.12.1935 - (08.)1936 HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 10.1936 - 23.08.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Hostile (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (10.1938) no appointment listed 10.01.1939 - (04.)1939 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.07.1939 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Basilisk (destroyer) (Dover Patrol, Norway and Dunkirk) [sunk] 23.10.1940 - (12.)1941 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 28.01.1942 - 18.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Bulldog (destroyer) & Senior Officer, Escort Group (Atlantic and Russian Convoys) 12.1942 - 09.03.1944 Chief Staff Officer to Commodore, Londonderry [HMS Ferret] 12.04.1944 - 08.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Milne (destroyer) & Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet, Russian Convoys and Flank Force, Mediterranean) (04.)1946   no appointment listed 01.06.1946 - 1948 Assistent Chief of Supplies, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.06.1948 - (05.)1950 Naval Liaison Officer, Wellington, NZ [HMS Terror] 1951 Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland 07.1952 - 1955 Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Training) [HMS President] (04.1955) no appointment listed 18.08.1955 - 24.10.1956 Flag Officer (Air), Mediterranean, and Flag Officer Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS St Angelo] (01.1957) no appointment listed
Riley, Gerard Brook Son (with one brother and three sisters) of Maj. Alfred James Riley, Somerset Light Infantry, and Edith Mary Knight Married ((06?).1914, Hardingstone district) Margery Ethel Polwhele ((09?).1890 - 1965), of Musbury, Devon, daughter of the Rev. Arthur Baskerville Polwhele (1858-1926), and Mary Robinson Porter (1861-1953); two sons (Capt. John Francis Riley, RA & Capt. Paul Brook Riley, RAMC), two daughters. Lived at Ituna, Ashtead, Surrey, England, prior to retirement.	05.04.1881 Kensington, Greater London - 01.09.1943 Hartgrove, Musbury, Axminster, Devon	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 15.07.1900? S.Lt. 28.11.1901, seniority 15.07.1900 Lt. 23.05.1902 ?, seniority 15.07.1901 (retd 15.05.1911) Lt.Cdr. 1913?, seniority 15.07.1909 A/Cdr. (retd) < 01.1919 Cdr. (retd) 05.04.1921 Capt. (retd) 22.07.1936 OBE 01.01.1919 New Year 19	15.01.1895     entered RN 01.06.1899     HMS Mars 15.03.1900     HMS Dolphin [based at HMS Boscawen] 01.11.1901     HMS Electra [based at HMS Victory] 11.02.1902     HMS Teazer [based at HMS Victory] 04.1902     HMS Syren [based at HMS Victory] 25.04.1902     HMS Barham 12.01.1903     HMS Empress of India 01.09.1903     HMS Vernon (additional; to qualify in torpedo duties) 01.09.1904     HMS Vernon (for torpedo duties) (1905)     HMS Prince George 07.04.1908     Torpedo Officer, HMS Natal ... - ... ... 10.12.1919 - 02.10.1939 Head of Torpedo Inspection and Deputy Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (Torpedoes), Admiralty [HMS President]
Rimington, Michael Gordon	21.05.1904 - 01.1985 Newton Abbot district, Devon	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 Lt. 15.08.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1940 (retd 21.05.1954; age) DSO  11.09.1940 sinking Italian submarine [investiture 10.03.42] DSO  07.10.1941 7 patrols Mediterranean & sank French submarine Le Souffleur 25.06.41 [investiture 10.03.42] MID 24.04.1945 war patrols Far East 02-12.44	15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.1927) promotion course, Portsmouth 03.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS L 1 (submarine) [tender to HMS Ambrose] 24.09.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS M 3 (submarine) (Reserve, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Ross] 09.12.1929 - (08.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS H 48 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Alecto] [earned his aviators' certificate [#8967] 1930 at Hampshire Aero Club] 01.09.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 16.10.1931 - (06.1933) First Lieutenant, HMS Phoenix (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (01.1934)     no appointment listed 30.04.1934 - (08.)1934 submarine commanding officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto] 27.08.1934 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS H 32 (submarine) (Portland) [tender to HMS Titania] 30.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 23.08.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines) 05.1938 - 09.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Parthian (submarine) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 01.01.1942 - 23.05.1943 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.05.1943 - (12.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Tantivity (submarine) (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Dolphin * 01.1947 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Jamaica 14.12.1948 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Glory 25.08.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 1950/51? - (05.1953) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Ritchie, George Lee Married (1914, Poplar, London); at least two sons (one of whom is Lt.Col. George Lee Ritchie, OBE, MB, DPH, RAMC).	12.11.1889 Aberdeen, Scotland - 29.07.1973 Aberdeen, Scotland	T/Sg. [later: T/Sg.Lt.] 12.01.1915 Sg.Lt. 04.05.1920, seniority 08.01.1915 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 08.01.1921 Sg.Cdr. 08.01.1927 (retd 12.11.1944) Sg.Capt. (retd) 12.11.1944 MC 26.01.1917 attached to RND * MID 09.08.1940 for untiring devotion to duty in attending to casualties after having himself been rescued * For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed great courage and determination in collecting and attending to the wounded under very heavy fire.	Education: MB, ChB 02.03.1923 - (08.1923) Medical Officers' course, Naval Medical School, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Impregnable (training establishment for boys, flagship, Devonport) 28.01.1926 - (05.)1926 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Devonport) 23.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa) (08.1929) no appointment listed 04.12.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (and as Naval Health Officer & Medical Transport Officer) (Rosyth) 08.12.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 30.12.1933 - (01.)1934 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (temporary) 08.02.1934 - (02.1936) HM Dockyard, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] 14.10.1936 - (02.1938) HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (Portsmouth) 18.05.1938 - (06.1938) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 25.07.1938 - (08.1938) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.09.1938 - 14.10.1939 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (sunk at Scapa Flow) 04.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 26.07.1940 - (08.1942) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 21.11.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon) 09.10.1945 - (04.1946) HM Dockyard, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane]
Ritchie, James Stuart McLaren Son of late J.M. Ritchie, Dunedin, New Zealand. Married (04.04.1929, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London) Joan Karslake, daughter of late Lt.Col. John Preston Karslake; one son, two daughters.	12.03.1884 Dunedin, New Zealand - 17.05.1955 Headley, Newbury, Berkshire	... ... S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.05.1905 Cdr. 31.12.1916 Capt. 31.12.1923 R.Adm. 31.08.1935 (retd 01.09.1935) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 1939 CB 01.01.1945 New Year 45 [investiture 16.03.45] StOlav 06.11.1945 services to Norway	Education: Wanganui Collegiate School, Wanganui, NZ (1896-1899); HMS Britannia (1899-1900) 15.05.1899     joined RN (06.1901)     HMS Royal Arthur 09.11.1905     HMS Leander 17.08.1907     specializing in gunnery, HMS Excellent       HMS Dunedin 1914 - 1917 Gunnery Officer, HMS St Vincent (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Portland) 1917     Gunnery Officer, HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 1917 - 1918 Anti-Submarine Division, Admiralty 01.10.1921 - (08.1923) Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 25.08.1924     senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 13.12.1924 - 09.03.1925 Member, Ordnance Committee       war course, RN War College, Greenwich       senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 01.10.1925 - 1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (New Zealand Division) 25.01.1927 - (07.1927) Commanding Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand) 07.03.1928 - (02.)1931 Naval Attaché, Washington, USA [HMS President] 10.08.1931 - 19.06.1933 Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.06.1933 - 30.08.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 19.07.1935 - 01.09.1935 also: Naval ADC to the King 19.08.1939 - 02.1940 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services [convoys]) 02.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Eaglet II (RN base, Birkenhead) (additional; for various services [convoys]) 12.03.1940 - 21.03.1940 Vice Commodore, Convoy HG 22 (Gibraltar - Liverpool) (aboard "Calchas") 28.08.1940 - 12.09.1940 Commodore, Convoy HX 69 (Halifax - Liverpool) (aboard "Ulysses") 14.12.1940 - (10.)1944 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet] (01.1945)     no appointment listed 05.1945 - 1945? Flag Officer, Norway
Ritchie, John Duff "Jock"	1918 ? - died between 08.1989 and 12.1991 ?	Lt. 01.01.1939 ?, seniority 01.10.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1946 (retd 16.10.1948) DSC 08.09.1942 attack R-boats Boulogne [investiture 17.11.42] MID 25.08.1942 action Cap Barfleur 18.06.42 MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45	10.05.1939 - (08.1939) MA/SB No. 3 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey] (06.1942) Commanding Officer, HM SGB 4 (steam gun boat) 16.01.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Spartiate 16.11.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Attack 04.02.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Bee 09.1943 - (12.1943) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Mackay (destroyer) 28.04.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Lancaster (destroyer) 01.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Catterick (destroyer)
Rivaz, Percy Montgomery Son of Hon. Sir Charles Montgomery Rivaz (1845-1926), and Emily Mcgarel Agnew (1853-1941). Married (06.1930) Teresa Evelyn Clanchy; one daughter.	1879 * Punjab, India - 03.09.1950 Blackheath, Greater London * baptized 11.11.1879	Sg. 29.11.1904 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 21.11.1912 Sg.Cdr. 01.10.1917 (retd 11.11.1929) Sg.Capt. (retd) 11.11.1929	Education: MD, BS, DPH 14.05.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Curacoa (cruiser) & as Squadron Medical Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet) 11.05.1925 - (07.)1927 Naval Health Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)] 01.12.1927 - (04.)1928 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 14.04.1928 - (08.)1929 Naval Health Officer, Portsmouth Command [HMS Victory] 31.08.1939 - (07.1945) Medical Officer, HM Dockyard Chatham & as Certifying Factory Surgeon [HMS Pembroke] (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Rivers-Smith, Stanley Gordon Only son of Stanley Gordon Rivers-Smith, CBE, and Marguerite Rivers-Smith,  West Byfleet, Surrey. Married (30.07.1938, Effingham) Sheila Dorothy Hay Robertson, of Happisburgh, Norfolk (she remarried 1947? William Lothian Wilson); one daughter.	(06?).1910 Kings Norton district, Staffs. / Warcs. / Worcs. - 13.04.1946 Norfolk (illness, contracted on active service) [age 35] [Norwich and Norfolk Crematorium]	Midsh. 01.05.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1930 S.Lt. 16.05.1931 Lt. 16.05.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1941 (retd 05.04.1944) MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky	20.03.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Malaya (battleship) 25.09.1930 - (02.1931) Lieutenant's course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.12.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Valiant (battleship) 17.08.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (1937) ADC to Governor-General of Canada 02.11.1938 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Jackal (destroyer) 26.01.1941 - 02.10.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Aberdeen (sloop) (02.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed: (06.1943) HMS Hilary (additional?) (1945) Commanding Officer, Prince of Wales Sea Training School, Stalham, nr Norfolk
Rivett-Carnac, James William 2nd son of late Rev. Sir Clennel George Rivett­Carnac, 6th Bart (1850-1932), and Emily Louisa Crabbe (1854-1894). Brother and heir­ presumptive of Sir Henry George Crabbe Rivett­ Carnac, 7th Bt. (1889-1972). Married (1922) Isla Nesta, 2nd daughter of late Major Harry Blackwood, JP, Kincurdy, Ross­shire; two sons, one daughter.	12.02.1891 Windsor dsitrict - 09.10.1970 [Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk ?]	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 19.12.1910, seniority 15.05.1910 Lt. 01.10.1912 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1920 Cdr. 30.06.1926 Capt. 30.06.1934 Cdre. 2nd cl. > 10.1939, < 04.1939 R.Adm. 08.07.1943 (retd 1947) A/V.Adm. 06.1945 V.Adm. (retd) 03.05.1947 CB 18.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 28.01.47] CBE 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune [investiture 16.03.45] DSC 08.03.1920 for distinguished services as First and Gunnery lieutenant of HMS Cleopatra MID 04.05.1943 Operation Torch MID 18.01.1944 dissolution Force H 11.43 LegH ? liberation of France CdeG ? liberation of France	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 15.09.1905 entered RN 1914 - 1919 served European War (1919) First Lieutenant & Gunnery Officer, HMS Cleopatra (Baltic) 15.03.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Carysfort (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.11.1926 - 15.11.1926 Admiralty 15.11.1926 - (07.1927) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.07.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 24.06.1931 - (09.1932) Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord [HMS President] 29.09.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (borne as additional) 29.04.1935 - (07.1935) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.10.1935 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 14.11.1936 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Leander & Commodore Commanding New Zealand Squadron 26.03.1940 - 02.04.1940 Admiralty 02.04.1940 - (02.1941) Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.1941 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) 09.1943 Rear-Admiral, Force H (Salerno) 1944 Chief Naval Administrative Officer (CNAO) to Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Forces (ANCXF) & Flag Officer British Assault Area (FOBAA) (designate) [HMS Odyssey] (Normandy landings) 03.1945 - 1947 Rear-Admiral / Vice-Admiral (Q) British Pacific Fleet [HMS Beaconsfield, since 01.12.1945 HMS Golden Hind II] Chairman, Thingoe RDC, 1958-1961. DL Suffolk, 1958.
Robb, James Moffat	28.08.1907 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 13.12.1932 S.Lt. RNR 15.05.1933, seniority 13.12.1932 Lt. RNR 13.12.1934 Lt. (Supplementary List) 14.11.1937, seniority 28.08.1931 Lt. 1938?, seniority 28.08.1931 Lt.Cdr. 28.08.1939 A/Cdr. 11.10.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1944 (retd 02.09.1956) Cdr. RAN (Emergency List) 05.08.1959, seniority 31.12.1944 (retd 28.08.1967) MID 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 MID 13.07.1943 defensive work air raids Benghazi	25.11.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Delight (destroyer) (to complete 9 months' training) 14.04.1937 - (08.1939) HMS Penelope (cruiser) 21.08.1939 - (08.1942) HMS Coventry (cruiser) (02.1943) HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) * 01.03.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (for various services) 11.10.1943 - (06.1944) Executive Officer, HMS Campania (escort carrier) (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) HMS Gosling (training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancs) * 03.11.1948 - (05.1950) HMS President 28.10.1951 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Highflyer * indexed, but not listed as such
Roberts, Peter Scawen Watkinson Victoria Cross Reference	28.07.1917 Chesham Bois, Bucks. - 08.12.1979 Newton Ferrers [Holy Cross Churchyard, Newton Ferrers (Efford Crematorium, Plymouth)]	Midsh. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 01.07.1938 Lt. 16.11.1939 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1947 (retd 28.07.1962) VC 09.06.1942 removing unexploded bombs Mediterranean 16.02.1942 [investiture 30.06.42] * DSC 30.06.1942 8 war patrols Mediterranean 06.41-03.42 [investiture 23.05.44] * On 16th February 1942, HM Submarine Thrasher attacked and sank, in daylight, a supply ship under heavy escort. She was immediately attacked by aircraft and bombs and depth charges from the escorts. On surfacing, after dark, the submarine began to roll and it was discovered that two unexploded bombs were in the gun casing. Lieutenant Roberts and Petty Officer Gould * immediately volunteered to remove them. They were of an unknown type. The removed the first bomb, wrapped it in sacking and manhandled it to the bows, where they dropped it overboard. To reach the second bomb they had to go through the casing, it being so low that they had to lie flat, at full length, in order to move inside it. In complete darkness, they pushed and pulled the bomb for around 20 feet or so before it could be lowered over the side. This act of courage was made more difficult, because HM Submarine Thrasher's whereabouts were known to the enemy. Had the submarine been attacked, it would have dived and the two men would have been drowned.	Education: King's School, Canterbury 1935 entered RN 01.09.1936 - 1938 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) 06.06.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Saltburn (minesweeper) 09.1939 submarine service 02.1940 - (04.1940) third hand, HMS H 32 (submarine) 1940 HMS Tribune (submarine) 01.01.1941 - (03.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Trasher (submarine) 16.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Beagle (destroyer) 18.05.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs) (08.)1943 - 07.1945 HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth): (08.1943) - (12.1943) torpedo course 09.01.1944 - (06.1944) instructional department 15.06.1945 - 07.1945 for miscellaneous duties 07.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Black Prince (cruiser) 1946 - 1948 HMS Defiance 1948 HMS Eagle 1950 HMS Gorregan 1952 HMS Apollo 1953 HMS Cardigan Bay 1955 HMS Dingley 1956 - 1957 HMS Vernon, 1956 (HM Underwater Counter- measures and Weapons Estabt, 1957) 1959 HMS Drake
Robertson, Charles Patrick	08.02.1902 Elham district, Kent - 10.1989 Chichester district, Sussex	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.08.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1931 (retd 14.09.1934) Cdr. (retd) 08.02.1942 Capt. (retd) ?	08.05.1924 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) (Portland) 04.1927 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS L 26 (submarine) (Mediterranean) 22.02.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS H 23 (submarine) (Portsmouth) (04.1930) no appointment listed 14.05.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 17.05.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) 01.05.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS L 69 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 20.12.1938 - (08.1939) Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty 03.01.1940 - (04.1946) Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty * indexed, but not listed as such
Robertson, Ewart Gladstone Son of James Forrest Robertson (1860-1940), and Elizabeth Freeborn (1861-1939).	20.05.1898 Ontario, Canada - died between 07.1952 and 07.1959	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 14.12.1917 A/Lt. ? (retd 05.07.1920) Lt. (retd) 15.03.1921, seniority 14.12.1919 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 14.12.1927 A/Cdr. (retd) < 07.1945 Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946	(04.1940) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * (02.1941) no appointment listed (08.1942) no appointment listed 11.09.1942 - (02.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne) 06.04.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs) 01.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Catle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) * indexed, but not listed as such
Robertson, Ian Greig Married Elizabeth Aitken Robertson.	09.04.1907 Eastbourne, Sussex - 07.07.1987	... ... Lt. 01.06.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1938 A/Cdr. < 02.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1944 Capt. 31.12.1950 (retd 07.01.1960) DSO  01.11.1949 Yangtze River 20.04.49 [investiture 17.11.49] DSC 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal [investiture 14.04.42] DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 14.04.42] MID 26.09.1940 Norway 04-05.40	... - ... ... 28.04.1939 - (08.)1939 Signals Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 09.12.1939 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Curlew 04.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) (12.1941) no appointment listed 12.12.1941 - (08.)1942 Signals Officer, HMS Quebec (RN base, Inveraray) * 01.04.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Dundonald II (Combined Operations training establishment, Auchengate) * (08.1943) - (06.1944) Combined Operations HQ * ? - (07.1945) Chief Signal Officer Combined Operations & Chairman Combined Operations Communications Committee, Combined Operations HQ ... - ... ... 05.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Consort ... - ... ... * either starting date for HMS Dundonald II is incorrect, or the appointment at HMS Quebec is incorrectly carried on too long **  indexed, but not listed as such
Robertson, James Ian From Tiverton, Devon.	08.02.1902 Elham district, Kent - 31.05.1976 South East Hampshire district, Hampshire	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.05.1922 Lt. 15.12.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1931 Cdr. 31.12.1937 A/Capt. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 Capt. 31.12.1943 (retd 08.01.1953) RAF: F/O 16.06.1924 F/Lt. 01.07.1931 Sq.Ldr. 01.04.1935 W/Cdr. 01.09.1938 CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 10.06.47] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44	served in World War I 22.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Valerian (sloop) 16.06.1924 - (01.1925) pilot's course (for Fleet Air Arm) at No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon, Wilts. 12.01.1926 - (05.)1926) HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) (for Fleet Air Arm) 01.05.1926 - (02.)1927 pilot, No. 421 Flight, FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) 25.03.1927 - (04.)1928 pilot, No. 421B Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 05.1928 - (06.)1928 pilot, No. 421 Flight, FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) [attached to RAF] 16.10.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 27.12.1929 - (04.)1930 Second-in-Command, No. 449 Flight, FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) [attached to RAF] 01.07.1930 - (02.)1931 Second-in-Command, No. 449 Flight, FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) [attached to RAF] 17.12.1931 - 20.09.1932 Flight Commander, No. 449 Flight, FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF] 20.09.1932 - 11.12.1933 naval duty: 12.12.1932 - (06.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS Sutton (twin-screw minesweeper) 11.12.1933 - 17.01.1934 attached to RAF: 17.01.1934 - (07.)1935 Second-in-Command, S/R Squadron 820, FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) (07.1937 temporarily detached) [attached to RAF] 01.09.1935 - 04.02.1938 Squadron Commander, TSR Squadron 825, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 04.02.1938 returned to naval duty 23.03.1938 - (08.)1938 Executive Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (Portsmouth) 30.08.1938 - (02.)1939 Air Personnel Department, Admiralty 15.02.1939 - (04.)1939 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with Admiral Superintendent of Contract-Built Ships) 31.08.1939 - (02.)1941 Commander Flying, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 10.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Archer (escort carrier) (06.1943) no appointment listed 26.07.1943 - (10.)1943 Training Captain, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 10.1943 - (10.1944) Training Superintendent, HMS Monck (RN carrier training & administration base) (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 27.09.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Patroller (escort carrier) 08.09.1947 - (07.1948) Captain-in-Charge, RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 12.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halifax, Malta) & as Captain (Air), Mediterranean * (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Robertson, Wilfrid James Cameron	1903 ? - 15.07.1961 Westminster district [age 58]	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922 S.Lt. 1923?, seniority 15.09.1922 Lt. 15.06.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1932 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 30.06.1942 (retd 31.03.1951) DSC 14.10.1941 Bismarck action [investiture 22.09.42] BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Atl St - - WM 39|45 - - MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 Medals at the National Maritime Museum	... - ... ... 24.08.1939 - 06.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Walker (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 14.01.1940 - (12.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS King George V (battleship)] (08.1942) HMS King George V (battleship) * 31.08.1942 - (12.1943) Deputy Director of Operations Division (Home), Admiralty [HMS President] 02.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) 12.04.1946 - 10.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Nigeria (cruiser) (later also Flag Captain) ... - ... ... *  indexed, but not listed as such
Robin, Alastair Douglas Son of ... Robin, and ... Arnold.	07.01.1912 Honiton district, Devon - 07.1999 West Surrey district, Surrey	Cadet 01.05.1929 Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 01.11.1932 Lt. 01.12.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1941 A/Cdr. 22.11.1944? Cdr. 31.12.1945 Capt. 31.12.1951 (retd) DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 11.05.43] MID 09.08.1940 attack enemy light forces 05.40	07.08.1929 - (02.1931) Midshipman, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.05.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 17.08.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa) 17.12.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 24.09.1936 - (02.1937) gunnery course [HMS Excellent] 12.06.1939 - 23.05.1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties) 15.08.1941 - (08.1943) Gunnery Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 09.1943 - (01.1944) staff, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka] 27.01.1944 - (06.1944) staff officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Renown] 22.11.1944 - (07.1945) Gunnery Officer, staff, Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station [HMS Lanka] (04.1946) no appointment listed
Robinson, Cecil Edmund Charles	11.09.1898 Portsea Island, Hampshire - 29.05.1940 (KIA) [age 41] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 1]	Lt. 15.04.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1932	08.1914     entered RN 02.07.1923 - (08.1923) Gunnery Officer, HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) (and for duty with 6th Destroyer Flotilla) 15.08.1924 - (01.1925) Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 29.01.1926 - (07.)1927 Gunnery Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China) 13.12.1927 - (08.)1929 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 21.10.1929 - (10.1930) Gunnery Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) no appointment listed 03.04.1931 - (01.)1932 Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.07.1932 - (09.1932) Gunnery Officer, HMS Vindictive (cruiser) (and for gunnery duties in Reserve Fleet) (05.1933) no appointment listed 02.05.1933 - (06.)1933 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.07.1933 - (07.1935) Squadron Gunnery Officer, Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)] (02.1936) no appointment listed 12.01.1937 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Electra (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 03.01.1939 - (09.1939) an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.01.1940 - 29.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Grafton (destroyer) (damaged off Dunkirk by U-62 and sunk by RN [killed in action])
Robinson, Edward Cordeux Son of R.Adm. Eric Gascoigne Robinson, VC, OBE, and Edith Gladys Robinson (née Cordeux), of Liss, Hampshire.	(06?).1922 Liss, Petersfield district, Hampshire - 19.12.1941 (KIA) [age 19] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]	Paym. Cadet 01.09.1939 Paym. Midsh. 01.05.1940	01.01.1940 - 15.05.1940 HMS Malaya (battleship) 16.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Warspite (battleship) (for duty in Admiral's office of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station) 11.09.1941 - 19.12.1941 HMS Neptune (cruiser) (sunk off Libyan coast by a mine)
Robinson, Eric Gascoigne "Kipper" Son of Rev. John Lovell Robinson, MA, RN (1849-1939), and Louisa Aveline Gascoigne (1846-1934). Married (1913) Edith Gladys Cordeux (1891-1938); two sons (both killed in War of 1939-1945: Midsh. (S) Edward Cordeux Robinson, RN & P/O Patrick John Noble Robinson, RAFVR), one daughter.	16.05.1882 Greenwich - 20.08.1965 Royal Hospital, Haslar [buried at St John’s Church, Langrish, Hampshire]	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 15.11.1901 S.Lt. 27.03.1903, seniority 15.11.1901 Lt. 15.08.1903 * Cdr. 20.04.1915 ** Capt. 31.12.1920 R.Adm. 03.01.1933 (retd 04.01.1933) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 24.08.1939 VC 16.08.1915 *** OBE 11.11.1919 for valuable services in command of the Coastal Motor Boats in the Caspian Sea MID 09.1900 China Hkn 26.08.1947 in recognition of services rendered to Norway during the war China War Medal & Clasp "Relief of Pekin" (1900). 1914-1915 Star. British War Medal 1914-1920. Victory Medal. 1939-19145 Star. Atlantic Star. Defence Medal. British War Medal 1939-1945. King George VI Coronation Medal (1937). Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953). Fourth Class Order of the Nile (Egypt) (04.12.1916). Knight, Order of St Anne (Russia). Order of the Sacred Treasure (Japan).Knight, Legion of Honour (France). Croix de Guerre (France). * Special promotion. ** Special promotion: in recognition of the distinguished service rendered by him on the night of the 18th April, 1915, as Commanding Officer of the force which torpedoed and rendered useless Submarine E.15, thus preventing that vessel from falling into the enemy's hands in a serviceable condition. *** Lieutenant-Commander Robinson on the 26th February advanced alone, under heavy fire, into an enemy's gun position, which might well have been occupied, and destroying a four-inch gun, returned to his party for another charge with which the second gun was destroyed. Lieutenant-Commander Robinson would not allow members of his demolition party to accompany him, as their white uniforms rendered them very conspicuous. Lieutenant-Commander Robinson took part in four attacks on the mine fields - always under heavy fire.	Education: St John's, Leatherhead; The Limes, Greenwich; HMS Britannia (1897) 15.01.1897     joined RN (HMS Victory)       HMS Majestic (battleship) (1900)     Midshipman, HMS Endymion (light cruiser) (served with the International Expedition under the command of Sir E.H. Seymour for the relief of the Pekin Legations & in subsequent operations at Tientsin; wounded in action at the taking of Pei-Yang Arsenal) (1907)     qualified for torpedo duties [HMS Vernon] 19.12.1922 - (08.)1923 HMS Shakespeare (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 6th Destroyer Flotilla 01.11.1923 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Spenser (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 18.07.1926 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 10.08.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) (04.1930)     no appointment listed 22.09.1930 - (10.1930) tactical course [HMS Victory] 19.01.1931 - (02.)1931 course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 04.05.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Fisgard (depot for training of Artificer Apprentices) & as Inspecting Captain of Mechanical Training Establishments 11.04.1932 - (09.1932) Captain of the Dockyard, Devonport & Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Devonport, Berehaven and Pembroke [HMS Vivid] 14.10.1932 - 03.01.1933 also: Naval ADC to the King 11.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Eaglet II (RN base, Liverpool) (addtional; for various services) * 07.06.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Cressy (RN base, Dundee) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dundee * (12.1941) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Robinson, Terence Corin One of two children of George Edward James Antoine Robinson (born 1869), WWI artillery officer, and Alice Maud Fox. No children.	14.06.1903 Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire - 03.1987 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 15.06.1924 Lt. 15.10.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1934 Cdr. 31.12.1941 (retd 14.06.1953) DSC 24.04.1945 bombardment Gothic Line Adriatic 09.44 [decoration posted]  MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East	04.12.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 18.08.1924 - (01.)1925 promotion course, Portsmouth 13.03.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) 19.05.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Wakeful (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 31.08.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 06.01.1930 - (10.)1930 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.12.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 11.01.1933 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Watchman (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 09.05.1934 - 30.11.1934 in charge of HMS Eclipse (destroyer) while under construction & for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-Built Ships 01.12.1934 - (02.)1935 First Lieutenant, HMS Eclipse (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 01.05.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Restless (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 23.12.1936 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Harrow (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 11.04.1937 - (02.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Diamond (destroyer) (China) (04.1939)     no appointment listed 06.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 06.07.1940 - 13.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Fury (destroyer) (deployed off the Libyan coast to bombard positions to the rear of Sollum) 14.01.1942 - (02.1943) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (06.1943) - (08.1943) Combined Operations HQ * 11.10.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Undine (destroyer) 21.03.1946 - (10.1947) Executive Officer, HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex) 20.06.1948 - (05.)1949 Manning Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Osiris (05.1953)     no appointment listed
Robson, [Sir] William Geoffrey Arthur Son of Maj. John Robson (1872-1936), and Jennie Mories Clark (1875-1927). Married 1st (1925) Sylvia Margaret Forrester (died 1968); one son. Married 2nd (1969) Elizabeth Kathleen, widow of Lt.Col. V.H. Holt.	10.03.1902 Ceylon - 25.12.1989	Midsh. 1918 Cdr. 31.12.1935 Capt. 31.12.1941 V.Adm. 26.08.1954 (retd 1958) KBE 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 56 [decoration posted] CB 01.01.1953 New Year 53 [investiture 24.07.53] DSO 11.02.1941 sinking Torricelli 12.06.40 [investiture 12.05.42] DSO 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 12.05.42] DSC 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.41 [investiture 12.05.42] MID 22.11.1940 capture Galilei 19.06.40 MID 09.05.1944 Operation FW MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche StOlav 19.02.1957 rescue Dovrefjell 03.02.56 [decoration presented]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 1918 Midshipman, HMS Malaya 1922 - 1937 served in destroyers 1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Rowena 1935 - 1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Wren 1937 RN Staff Course 1938 RAF Staff Course 08.05.1939 - (08.1939) Tactical Course, Portsmouth 1939 - 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Kandahar (destroyer) 02.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Monck 1942 - (02.)1943 Captain Combined Training and Staff, Combined Operations HQ 01.05.1943 - (07.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Hamilcar 25.07.1943 - (10.1943) Chief Staff Officer, Commodore Force "N" (Mediterranean) [HMS Hannibal] 10.12.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Hardy (destroyer) 31.01.1944 - (04.1944) Captain (D) 26th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Tyne] (06.1944) no appointment listed 1945 - 06.1945 Captain Coastal Forces, Nore (Chatham) 06.1945 - 1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Superb 1948 - 1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges 1950 - 1951 President of Admiralty Interview Board 1951 - 1953 Flag Officer (Flotillas), Home Fleet 1953 - 1956 Flag Officer, Scotland 1956 - 1958 Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic 1958 - 1964 Lieutenant­Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Guernsey

 

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