Roche,
Sir Standish
O'Grady;
4th Baronet (1838)
Son of Sir Standish Deane O'Grady Roche, 3rd Bt (1845-1914) and Sybil (1872-1950), only daughter of Col. Julius
DysonLaurie, Gloucester Pl., W. Succeeded father, 09.12.1914.
Married (1946)
Evelyn Laura, only daughter of Major W. Andon; two sons.
|
13.03.1911
-
02.04.1977
[Sao Bras de Alportel, Portugal?]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
Midsh.
|
01.01.1929
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.05.1931
|
S.Lt.
|
01.01.1932
|
Lt.
|
01.10.1933
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.10.1941 (retd
04.12.1952; own request)
|
 |
DSO
|
08.09.1942
|
Malta
convoy 22.03.42
|
|
CdeG
|
1945
|
wind
up, Europe 45
|
|
01.05.1928
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
HMS
Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
30.04.1931
|
-
|
(01.1932)
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
31.08.1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
HMS
Cardiff (cruiser) (Africa)
|
10.08.1933
|
-
|
(01.1934)
|
HMS
Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
(07.)1935
|
-
|
(07.)1937
|
ADC
to Governor-General of New Zealand
|
21.02.1938
|
-
|
(06.1938)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
|
27.07.1938
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Fortune (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
10.08.1941
|
-
|
(08.1943)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Beaufort (destroyer)
|
(10.1943)
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
no
appointment listed
|
07.11.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Matchless (destroyer)
|
12.1947
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
RN Camp,
Stamshaw [HMS Victory]
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
HMS Howe *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rodgers,
John Malcolm

see also: www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk |
(06?).1901
Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
|
A/Lt.
|
15.05.1923
|
Lt.
|
?, seniority 15.12.1922
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.12.1930 (retd
02.07.1946)
|
A/Cdr.
|
1940-(12.1941)
&
20.02.1944?-(04.1946)
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
02.07.1946
|
 |
DSC
|
08.06.1944
|
HM's
birthday 44
|
 |
MID
|
23.12.1939
|
succesful
actions against enemy submarines
|
 |
MID
|
26.09.1940
|
Norway
04-06.40
|
|
(08.1923)
|
|
|
short
course of instruction
|
29.04.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
HMS
Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
(07.1927)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
08.12.1927
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Cumberland (cruiser) (China)
|
02.01.1930
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
HMS
Campbell (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
17.05.1932
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Moth (gunboat) (China)
|
17.12.1934
|
-
|
(02.1936)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
05.01.1937
|
-
|
(02.)1938
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Firedrake (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
12.04.1938
|
-
|
(08.)1939
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Hermes
(aircraft carrier)
|
10.10.1939
|
-
|
05.07.1940
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Whirlwind
(destroyer) (sunk)
|
02.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Glendower (training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)
|
04.07.1942
|
-
|
05.1943
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Watchman (destroyer)
|
28.05.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Vesper
(destroyer)
|
20.02.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
staff, Flag
Officer Flying Training [HMS Merlin
(shore base Naval Air Stations)]
|
|
Rodier,
Mark Fleming
 |
1917 ?
-
28.03.1942
[age 25]
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial]
|
T/S.Lt.
|
29.11.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
?
|
 |
MID
|
10.11.1942
|
attack
St. Nazaire 28.03.42
|
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
-
|
28.03.1942
|
Commanding Officer, ML 177
|
|
Rodney,
Nigel Robert Harley

Son of Mervyn Harley Rodney, and Dorothy
Thompson.
Married (1946) Patricia Ann Merlyn Ashburner; two sons, two daughters.
|
21.02.1917
-
12.1992
Honiton, Devon
|
...
|
...
|
S.Lt.
|
?
|
Lt.
|
01.06.1939
|
A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 07.1945,
< 04.1946
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.06.1947
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1950 (retd)
|
 |
MID
|
01.01.1944
|
New
Year 44
|
 |
MID
|
23.05.1944
|
Operation
Avalanche
|
 |
MID
|
11.07.1944
|
sinking
U450 Mediterranean 10.03.44
|
 |
MID
|
14.08.1945
|
relief
of Greece
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
16.11.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
Basilisk (destroyer)
|
01.08.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
French Ship
"Calais"
|
30.06.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Queenborough (destroyer)
|
01.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Brecon (destroyer)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Roe,
Arthur John Talbot
 |
?
-
died between 08.1977 and 08.1983
|
...
|
...
|
Lt.
|
16.02.1934
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.02.1942
|
A/Cdr.
|
< 07.1945
|
Cdr.
|
?
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1951 (retd)
|
|
DSO
|
?
|
?
|
 |
OBE
|
?
|
?
|
|
?
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Neptune
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Royalist
|
|
Roe,
Albert William
 |
?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1998
|
T/Gnr. (T)
= T/Cd.Gnr. (T)
|
15.09.1941 (retd < 07.1959)
|
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Roe,
Donovan Connor

Only son of Richard George Tennant Roe and Bertha Nugent
(née
Nixon), of Yelverton, Devon.
Unmarried; no children.
|
04.10.1892
Northam, Devon
-
24.05.1941
KIA a/b HMS Hood
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 3]
[memorial at St. Paul's Church
Yelverton]
|
Asst. Clerk
|
07.1910
|
Clerk (Accounting Officer)
|
15.07.1911
|
Asst. Paym.
|
15.10.1913
|
Paym.Lt.
|
15.10.1917
1919/20?, seniority 15.10.1915
|
Paym.Lt.Cdr.
|
15.10.1923
|
Paym.Cdr.
|
15.10.1931
|
|
14|15
St
|
-
|
-
|
 |
BWM
14|20
|
-
|
-
|
 |
VM
|
-
|
-
|
 |
NGSM
|
-
|
&
clasp Palestine
|
Entitled to (but not as yet issued): 1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star and
British War Medal 1939-1945 (& possibly even Africa Star).
|
Education: passed the Accountant Officers Technical
Course
07.06.1910
|
|
|
passed the Civil Service Commissioners competitive examination for assistant clerkship in the
Royal Navy
|
05.08.1910
|
|
|
HMS
Mars (battleship)
|
?
|
-
|
(10?.)1913
|
HMS
Hyacinth (cruiser)
|
12.03.1913
|
-
|
1918
|
served
on the Africa Station on the staffs (as Clerk to the Secretary) of Admiral H.G. King-Hall and Admiral E.F.B. Charlton,
Commanders-in-Chief [HMS Goliath (battleship)] and of Rear-Admiral M.R. Hill, Senior Naval Officer at
Simonstown
[HMS Afrikander]
|
19.12.1919
|
-
|
(1920)
|
HMS
Gibraltar (depot ship for auxiliary patrol, Portland)
|
01.01.1923
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Resolution (battleship)
|
01.07.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
RN Barracks,
Devonport (Division II) [HMS Vivid]
|
18.04.1926
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
Accountant
Officer, HMS Herald (surveying ship) (Australia)
|
11.01.1929
|
-
|
03.1932
|
Assistant
Drafting Officer, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
|
09.03.1932
|
-
|
22.05.1932
|
HMS
President (to attend the victualling course part 2)
|
23.05.1932
|
-
|
(09.)1932
|
for
miscellaneous service at Admiralty [HMS President]
|
01.09.1932
|
-
|
(11.1934)
|
Accountant
Officer, HMS
Berwick (cruiser) (China)
|
31.01.1935
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
Accountant
Officer, HMS
Cyclops (depot ship) (Mediterranean) & as Flotilla Accountant
Officer, 1st Submarine Flotilla
|
30.04.1937
|
-
|
1937
|
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser)
|
(07.1937)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
01.10.1937
|
-
|
(02.)1939
|
Accountant
Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship) (Devonport)
|
25.03.1939
|
-
|
24.05.1941
|
Accountant
Officer, HMS Hood
(battlecruiser) & as Squadron Accountant Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron
(killed in action)
|
|
Roe,
John Gordon
 |
?
-
12.2002 still alive |
Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.09.1950 (retd)
|
|
|
Roe,
Peter Frank Bassett
 |
?
-
12.2002 still alive |
Lt.
|
16.03.1944
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.03.1952 (retd)
|
|
|
Roe,
Robert Charles Thornber
 |
01.02.1885
Hersham, Chertsey district, Surrey
-
04.03.1976
|
Lt.
|
14.10.1916
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
14.10.1924
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
01.02.1930
|
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
no appointment
listed
|
|
Roe,
Richard Edward
 |
?
-
12.2002 still alive |
Lt.
|
01.07.1940
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.07.1948
|
Cdr.
|
?
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1960 (retd)
|
CBE
|
|
Roe,
Robert Gordon Brabazon O'Neil

Son of Lt.Col. Charles Douglas Roe, DSO,
OBE (1882-1960), Indian Army, and Daisy Blanche Marion
Mackenzie-Kennedy (1883-1951).
Brother of Lt. (A) Richard John
Owen O'Neill-Roe, RN.
Married (04.1934) Isabella Grace Farley; two sons.
|
15.12.1911
Ludhiana, Punjab, India
-
30.10.1997
Butleigh Hospital, Somerset
|
Cadet
|
01.01.1929
|
Midsh.
|
01.09.1929
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1932
|
S.Lt.
|
01.05.1932
|
Lt.
|
07.12.1933, seniority 01.06.1933
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.06.1941
|
Cdr. (L)
|
30.06.1948 (retd 15.12.1961)
|
A/Capt.
|
27.10.1958?
|
Hon. Capt.
|
15.12.1961
|
|
Education:
Brittannia Royal Naval College (1925-1929)
05.01.1929
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
04.01.1930
|
-
|
(02.)1931
|
HMS
Kent (cruiser) (5th Cruiser Squadron, China)
|
1931
|
-
|
1931
|
HMS
Cumberland (cruiser) (escorted Prince of Wales into exile in France)
|
31.12.1931
|
-
|
21.08.1932
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
22.08.1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth (Robert Roxburgh Memorial Prize)
|
04.05.1933
|
-
|
(07.)1934
|
HMS
Versatile (destroyer) (5th Flotilla, Home Fleet)
|
1934
|
-
|
1935
|
HMS
Escort (destroyer)
|
17.06.1935
|
-
|
(07.)1935
|
HMS
Scotsman (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
|
23.08.1935
|
-
|
(02.)1936
|
HMS
Thruster (destroyer) (19th Flotilla,
Mediterranean)
|
11.06.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
HMS
Wolfhound (destroyer (1st Anti-Submarine
Flotilla. Portland)
|
29.04.1937
|
-
|
01.08.1937
|
qualifying
for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon] (awarded Ogilvy Medal for Excellence on Torpedo Officers' Course)
|
02.08.1937
|
-
|
(06.)1938
|
qualifying
for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental
establishment, Portsmouth)
|
1938
|
-
|
1938
|
HMS
Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet)
|
04.06.1938
|
-
|
(08.)1939
|
Electrical
Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and
experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
|
1939
|
-
|
1939
|
HMS
Fiji (cruiser)
|
13.12.1939
|
-
|
08.1943
|
Electrical
Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment,
Portsmouth, later Brighton) (St Malo rescue operation of troops & Jutland)
|
03.08.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser) (shadowing Scharnhorst & Russian convoy
duties &
US
7th Fleet)
|
02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Brighton) (for
miscellaneous duties)
|
1946
|
-
|
1946
|
HMS
Glenearn
|
1946
|
-
|
1947
|
HMS
Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
|
(10.)1947
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
Admiralty
Gunnery Establishment, Teddington
|
?
|
-
|
(05.1949)
|
HMS
President
|
19.09.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
President (for service at the Naval Ordnance Department)
|
02.1952
|
-
|
(05.1953)
|
HMS
Glory (Korean war)
|
1955
|
-
|
1962
|
Admiralty,
Bath/Portland:
|
(04.1955)
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS
President *
|
09.04.1956
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
Naval
Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
27.10.1958
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Assistant
Director (L), Underwater Weapons Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS
President] (worked
on underwater weapons
and Seacat and Seaslug missiles with
which the Fleet was equipped)
|
Rejoined
Admiralty in Bath and AUWE Portland as a Naval Civil Servant, 1962-1972. MIEE.
|
Roe,
Thomas
 |
?
-
|
Cd.Eng. (retd)
|
11.05.1941
|
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
FS (French
Ship) Paris
|
|
Rogers,
Daniel William

 |
30.01.1887 *
Hackney, Greater London
-
spring 1950
Barnstaple, Devon
* gave as date of birth 30.01.1886 when enlisting, being underaged
|
?
|
? [220481]
|
Lt.
|
15.02.1918 (retd 22.05.1922; own request)
|
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
|
15.02.1926 (reactivated 03.10.1939) (reverted
to retd > 04.1946)
|
|
|
|
|
served
in the ranks
|
(11.1908)
|
|
|
HMS
Hyacinth (Bombay, India) (as Petty Officer in charge of Physical Education
Department)
|
|
|
|
gunnery
instructor, and served at HMS Warspite & HMS Lion
|
(06.1934)
|
|
|
Antioquia
(destroyer) (Panama)
|
03.10.1939
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Boom
Defence Depot, Aden [HMS Gloucester III, from 01.04.1940 HMS Sheba (RN base,
Aden)]
|
(08.1942)
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
no
appointment listed
|
10.03.1943
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
Boom
Defence Depot, Lyness, Orkneys [HMS Pomona (boom defence depot, Crockness,
Scapa Flow)]
|
01.10.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Officer-in-Charge,
Crockness Camp [HMS Pomona (boom defence depot, Crockness, Scapa Flow)]
|
02.05.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Boom
Defence Depot, Plymouth [HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)]
|
One-time boxing champion for the RN in India.
|
Rogers,
Hugh Hext

|
27.10.1883
Carwinion, Falmouth
-
16.05.1955
[Mawnan Smith, Falmouth ?] |
...
|
...
|
Lt.
|
1904
|
Cdr.
|
1916
|
Capt.
|
30.06.1924
|
R.Adm.
|
02.10.1935 (retd)
|
Cdre. RNR
|
1939 (reverted to
retd 1944)
|
|
MVO
|
1920
|
?
|
|
OBE
|
1919
|
?
|
Humane Society bronze medal, 1913; Order of the
White Lion of Czechoslovakia, 4th class (25.11.1947; services to Czech forces
Harwich)
|
Education: The Old Ride, Bournemouth; HMS Britannia
1910
|
-
|
1912
|
served
Persian Gulf operations in Philomel (medal)
|
1914
|
|
|
HMS
Vanguard
|
1917
|
-
|
1919
|
HMS
Birmingham
|
1919
|
-
|
1921
|
HMS
Renown (including tours of Prince of Wales to Canada and Australasia)
|
1921
|
-
|
1923
|
Commander,
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
|
|
|
|
commanded
HMS Weymouth, HMS Sandhurst, HMS London, HMS Frobisher, 4th Destroyer
Flotilla, HMS Ganges
|
1939
|
-
|
1942
|
served as
Commodore RNR for convoy duty
|
14.02.1942
|
-
|
01.03.1944
|
Flag
Officer-in-Charge Harwich [HMS Badger]
|
JP (Cornwall), 1938
|
Rogers-Tillstone,
Benjamin John Legge Wilkinson
|
30.03.1900
Steyning, Sussex
-
11.01.1973
|
A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
S.Lt.
|
15.09.1918
|
Lt.
|
15.08.1920
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.08.1928 (retd 07.03.1932; own request)
(mobilized 24.08.1939)
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
30.03.1940
|
A/Capt. (retd)
|
01.07.1945? (reverted to retd 1946?)
|
|
28.01.1916
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
21.11.1922
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Emperor of India (battleship)
|
21.10.1924
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
Acting
Observer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) [additional]
|
06.04.1926
|
-
|
(05.)1926
|
photographic
course, RAF School of Photography, Farnborough
|
08.1926
|
-
|
(07.1927)
|
Observer,
HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
|
12.06.1928
|
-
|
(08.)1929
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Observer,
HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
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(04.1928)
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-
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(06.1928)
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no
appointment listed
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12.12.1929
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-
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(04.1930)
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Observer,
HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China)
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05.01.1931
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-
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(02.1931)
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tactical
course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
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(01.1932)
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no
appointment listed
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24.08.1939
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-
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(04.)1940
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HMS
Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
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31.08.1940
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-
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(08.)1942
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instructional
staff, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
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01.12.1942
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-
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(06.1944)
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HMS Jackdaw
(RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) [probably in charge of HMS Jackdaw II (RN Air
Station, Dunino, Fife)]
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(07.1945)
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no appointment listed
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01.07.1945
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-
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(04.1946)
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Commanding
Officer, HMS Nabsford (transportable aircraft
maintenance yard (TAMY) No. 1) (Archerfield, Queensland, Australia)
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Barrister & philatelist. Exhibited his Great
Britain internationally, 1955-65. President Royal Philatelic Society London 1964-67 and largely responsible
for Society’s Centenary History 1969. Contributed ‘Philatelic
Appreciation’ to Philatelic Congess of Great Britiain (PCGB) Yearbook 1954. Co-author with LR Ray, of ‘Background
to Philately’ [1953]. Chairman of Executive Committee PCGB 1956 and 1959.
Congress Medal, 1967. Judge at London International Exhibition 1960. RDP 1970,
and Chairman of Board of Election, 1957-60. President Brighton & Hove Philatelic
Society
of which he wrote a short history in 1956.
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Romer,
Leslie Richard
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18.06.1898
Barnet, Greater London |