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W.F. Skelton  to  E.O. Stallybrass

Skelton, William Falcon "Bill" Son of Eng.V.Adm. Sir Reginald William Skelton KCB, CBE, DSO (1872-1956), and Sybil I. Devenish-Meares, of Christchurch, New Zealand (died 1953). Married (14.05.1945) Beatrice Louisa Frances Noel (born 1915); two daughters, one son.	04.07.1914 Kingston district, Surrey - 04.01.1996 Berkshire	Cadet 01.09.1931 Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 11.11.1935, seniority 16.01.1935 Lt. 16.06.1936 Lt.Cdr. 08.11.1943, seniority 16.06.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 03.08.1959) A/Capt. 03.06.1957 MID 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 11-16.08.42)	05.09.1931 - (07.1934) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet & Home Fleet) 27.09.1934 - 31.03.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.04.1935 - (07.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth 02.11.1935 - (07.1937) HMS Delight (destroyer) (China) 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (Devonport) 04.04.1938 - (08.)1938 long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 03.10.1938 - (04.1940) Navigating Officer, HMS Auckland (sloop) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 31.07.1941 - (08.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Charybdis (cruiser) 08.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 07.1945 - (04.)1947 Navigating Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) 16.06.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (05.1949)     no appointment listed 26.08.1949 - (05.1950) directing staff, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 1952? - 1953? Commanding Officer, HMS Armada (destroyer) 18.02.1953 - (05.1953) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 1953/54? - 1954? Commanding Officer, HMS Barfleur (destroyer) 18.05.1954 - (07.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Cheviot (destroyer) 01.12.1954 - (01.1956) HMS President (for miscellaneous duties) [probably some time on the staff of  the Imperial Defence College] (01.1957)     HMS President * 03.06.1957 - (01.)1959 Commander of Dockyard and Queen's Harbour Master, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke] * indexed, but not listed as such
Skinner, Bernard Morland Son of Russell Morland Skinner.	? - 22.04.1949 Yangtze River (DOW)	Prob. Midsh. RNR 01.01.1933 Midsh. RNR ?, seniority 01.01.1933 A/S.Lt. RNR 20.04.1936 Prob. S.Lt.  (Supplementary List) 01.06.1937 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.06.1937 Lt. 27.03.1939, seniority 04.03.1938 > 08.1939, < 04,1940, seniority 19.02.1938 Lt.Cdr. 19.02.1946 MID 06.05.1949 Yangtze River 04.1949	(07.1937) - (02.1938) no appointment listed 05.04.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 36.05.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Spearfish (submarine) 17.11.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Echo (destroyer) 19.06.1940 - (02.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Vansittart (destroyer) (08.1942) HMS Afrikander V * 16.12.1942 - (02.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 18.02.1943 - (10.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Crane (sloop) (12.1943) no appointment listed 17.01.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Landguard (escort) 08.05.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Sennen (escort) 19.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Insh (frigate) ? - 04.1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Amethyst (sloop) * indexed, but not listed as such
Skinner, Osborne Wallace Married Beatrice Sybil Ashton; one daughter. Brother-in-law of Eng.R.Adm. James Ashton, RN.	(06?).1883 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 06.03.1962	Eng.Cadet ? Eng.S.Lt. 01.07.1904 Eng.Lt. 01.05.1907 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1915 Eng.Cdr. 31.12.1920 Eng.Capt. 30.06.1930 Eng.R.Adm. 14.09.1936 (retd 15.09.1936) (reactivated 05.1942?) (reverted to retd 08.04.1946)	06.03.1917 - (01.1919) Engineer Officer, HMS Tetrarch (destroyer) 01.08.1923 - (08.1923) Engineer Officer, HMS Dunedin (light cruiser) 23.09.1924 - (07.1927) Engineer Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (in charge while under construction) 12.1928 - (01.)1932 an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (09.1932) no appointment listed 11.03.1933 - (02.)1936 Engineer Overseer, Sheffield and Leeds Districts, under the Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (Admiralty Buildings, Sheffield) 11.05.1942 - (02.)1943 Engineer Overseer, North of England District, under the Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (Dene House, Newcastle-on-Tyne) 06.05.1943 - (07.1945) Engineer Overseer, London District, under the Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (St George's House, Waterloo, London)
Skinner, Robert Michael Phelps Second son and fourth child of Dr E.W. Skinner and Isobel Katharine Freeman of Mountsfield House, Rye. Married (1936, London) Catherine Edith Mary MacDonald; one son. biography (Dunedin Society)	15.11.1906 - 24.11.1941 [age 35] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 3]	Paym.Cadet 01.09.1924 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1925 Paym.S.Lt. 01.09.1927 Paym.Lt. 01.09.1929 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1937	Education: Hurst Court Preparatory School, St Helens, Ore, Sussex from where he gained an exhibition to Tonbridge School; RN College, Osborne (1922) 01.09.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Thunderer (battleship) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 15.05.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 08.09.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 25.04.1929 - (04.1930) for duty in Admiral's Office (V.Adm. W.A.H. Kelly), then Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (and in 1931 accompanied him to China) 09.01.1931 - (09.1932) Assistant Secretary to Chief of Staff, China Station (Cdre. G. Layton) [HMS Kent (cruiser)] 04.08.1933 - (07.)1934 staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 28.12.1934 - (07.)1935 Secretary to Commodore RN Barracks, Portsmouth (R.Adm. G. Layton) [HMS Victory] 22.11.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 21.10.1937 - 26.10.1939 Assistant to Resident Naval Officer, Shanghai [HMS Scorpion (river gunboat, China)] 27.10.1939 - (04.)1940 Assistant to Resident Naval Officer, Shanghai [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] 08.05.1940 - 24.11.1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Skipwith, Lionel Peyton	(06?).1902 Chester district, Cheshire / Flintshire - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Lt. 31.08.1924 Lt.Cdr. 31.08.1932 Cdr. 30.06.1937 (retd > 05.1950, < 05.1953) A/Capt. 15.03.1945? MID 12.08.1941 Lofoten raid MID 23.09.1941 sinking of Mashona 28.05.41	Education: RN Staff College (psc) (08.1929) no appointment listed 31.10.1929 - (02.1931) First Lieutenant, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) 11.07.1932 - (09.1932) Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.07.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Torrid (destroyer) 04.06.1935 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Firedrake (destroyer) 06.01.1937 - (02.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Anthony (destroyer) 02.06.1937 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Imogen (destroyer) (Mediterranean( 11.01.1938 - (10.1938) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 23.01.1939 - (02.1939) tactical investigation, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (04.1939) no appointment listed 22.05.1939 - (08.1939) Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (battleship)] (04.1940) no appointment listed 05.09.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Tartar (destroyer) 26.03.1942 - 07.1943 HMS Edinburgh Castle (depot ship) 07.1943 - (06.1944) Staff Officer (Operations), South Atlantic Fleet [HMS Afrikander] 15.03.1945 - (07.1945) Chief Staff Officer, Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Vindictive] (04.1946) no appointment listed 23.03.1948 - (07.1948) Assistant to Captain of the Dockyard & Passive Defence Officer, HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke]  [23.03.1948] - (05.1950) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
Skrine, Charles James	? - 12.11.1966	... ... Lt. 15.10.1923 (retd 14.04.1931; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.10.1931 Cdr. (retd) 14.01.1942 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	... - ... ... 17.07.1928 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS Scythe (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 14.08.1930 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.12.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Scot (troopship) 03.06.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Black Bear (armed yacht) 05.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for motor launch (ML) base) 06.09.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing crafts, tank (LCTs))
Sladen, Geoffrey Mainwaring Son of Joseph Sladen and Mary Diana Farquhar. Married Anna Mary Rolt; one son, one daughter. Address at one stage: The Old Rectory Cottage, Shafstbury, Dorset, England.	03.08.1904 Reigate, Surrey - 1980 [after 13.10.1980]	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.10.1925 Lt. 15.07.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 30.06.1946 (retd 07.07.1955) DSO 27.01.1942 war patrols 08-11.41 DSO 16.06.1942 attacks Prinz Eugen & Admiral Scheer 02-03.42 DSC 03.12.1940 attacked U-boat 08.10.40 MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 CdeG ? wind up Europe 45 [HMS Matchless]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth 15.09.1922 - (01.1925) HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (China) 14.02.1927 - (07.1927) HMS L 14 (submarine) (for duty with "M" submarines in reserve at Portland) (08.1929) no appointment listed 10.08.1929 - (04.1930) First Lieutenant, HMS H 27 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 15.04.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.09.1931 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS L 54 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 01.12.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 23.03.1935 - (02.1937) staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 09.07.1937 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Shark (submarine) 21.01.1939 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Thames (submarine) (Portsmouth) (04.1940) HMS Oswald (submarine) * 18.04.1940 - (03.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Trident (submarine) 22.03.1942 - (06.1942) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) 12.06.1942 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) 30.03.1943 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 20.02.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Musketeer (destroyer) (1945?) HMS Matchless (destroyer) 27.08.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, 5th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot)] (for Fort Blockhouse) 28.10.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, & Flag Captain, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (05.1950) HMS President * (05.1953) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such Played rugby for England (1929).
Slattery, [Sir] Matthew Sausse	12.05.1902 Bromley, Greater London - 16.03.1990 Warninglid, West Sussex	Lt. 30.09.1923 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1931 Cdr. 31.12.1934 Capt. 31.12.1938 Cdre. 1st cl. 11.02.1943 A/R.Adm. > 06.1944, < 07.1945 (retd 1948) KBE 1960 Short Brothers Ltd. - Kt 01.01.1955 New Year 55, Short Brothers Ltd. CB 01.01.1946 New Year 46, Ministry of Aircraft Production LM 24.06.1947 Chief Naval Repres. 43-45 FRAes (1946); DSc(hc) Queen's Univ., Belfast, 1954	Education: Stonyhurst College; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 1916 joined RN 15.07.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Erebus (monitor) 08.08.1931 - (09.1932) Flight Commander, No. 450 Flight [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (attached to RAF) 08.10.1932 - (01.1934) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers [HMS Courageous] 31.05.1935 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) 06.02.1936 - (02.1937) Commander, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 22.11.1937 - 16.01.1939 Admiralty 16.01.1939 - 1941 Director of Air Matériel, Admiralty [HMS President] 13.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Director­General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production, Ministry of Aircraft Production [HMS President] 1941 - 1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) 02.06.1942 - (08.1942) Chief Staff Officer to Commodore-in-Charge Naval Air Stations (Eastern Stations) [HMS Kipanga] 11.02.1943 - 1945 Chief Naval Representative, Ministry of Aircraft Production & Director-General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production [HMS President], renamed: (07.1945) - 1948 Vice­Controller (Air), Chief of Naval Air Equipment and Chief Naval Representative and Director-General of Naval Aircraft Development and Production [renamed: Chief Naval Representative on Supply Council, Ministry of Supply] [HMS President] Vice-Chairman, Air Requirements Board, 1960-74. Managing Director Short Brothers & Harland, Ltd, 1948-52, Chairman and Managing Director, 1952-60; Chairman: (SB Realisations) Ltd, 1952-60; Bristol Aircraft Ltd, 1957-60; Dir Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd, 1957-60. Special Adviser to Prime Minister on Transport of Middle East Oil, 1957-59; Dir National Bank Ltd, 1959-60, 1963-69; Chairman: BOAC, 1960-63; BOAC-Cunard Ltd, 1962-63; R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., 1966-73.
Slaughter, Jack Etheridge	(06?).1905 Reading, Berkshire - died between 08.1977 and 08.1983	Midsh. 15.05.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925 S.Lt. 30.05.1926 Lt. 30.12.1927 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1940 A/Capt. 27.04.1944 Capt. 31.12.1946 (retd 07.01.1956) DSO 09.05.1940 successful submarine operations against the enemy	15.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Ajax (battleship) 14.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1926 - (05.1926) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 10.02.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship) (Portsmouth) (temporary) 21.11.1927 - (04.)1928 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 15.04.1928 - (06.1928) HMS L 22 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Ross] 05.06.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Otus (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] 09.1930 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Peterel (river gunboat) (China) (09.1932) no appointment listed 15.11.1932 - (07.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS L 27 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Mackay] 12.08.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania] 02.12.1936 - (04.)1939 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) [ship commissioned 25.05.1937] (08.1939) no appointment listed 25.09.1939 - (06.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Sunfish (submarine) (02.1941) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) * 09.05.1941 - (12.1941) Executive Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) [till 10.01.1942 in charge while under construction] 16.03.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Cyclops (depot ship) (for submarines) 27.04.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship) & as Captain (S/M) 2nd Submarine Flotilla (04.1946) HMS Cyclops (depot ship) * 20.05.1947 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (depot ship) 11.11.1948 - (05.1950) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (05.1953) - 08.10.1953 Second Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board 02.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) & as Captain (S/M) 1st Submarine Squadron 07.07.1955 - 07.01.1956 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Slayter, [Sir] William Rudolph Elder son of John Howard Slayter, MBE, MB, CM (1865-1926), and Alice Schlasser, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Dunsfold, Surrey. Married (1925), Helen Justine (died 1969), daughter of Major Russell Hale; one son.	13.02.1896 - 30.04.1971 London	S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.04.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1930 Capt. 31.12.1937 Cdre. 1st cl. 08.11.1943? R.Adm. 08.01.1947 V.Adm. 15.08.1950 Adm. 15.09.1953 (retd 16.12.1954) KCB 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 52 CB 04.09.1945 services during the war DSO 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst DSC 20.09.1918 Zeebrugge-Ostend raid MID 11.11.1919 Caspian Sea MID 01.09.1942 Operation Harpoon MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 1909 joined RN served World War I (despatches, DSC) 1913 - 1916 HMS Queen Mary (battlecruiser) (sunk at Battle of Jutland, 1916)