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Sabine, C.W.
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Singer, M.M.
Skelton, W.F.
to
Stallybrass, E.O.
Stammwitz, S.S.
to
Syms,
J.A.


 
W.F. Skelton  to  E.O. Stallybrass
Skelton,
William Falcon
"Bill"
W.F. Skelton
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
Mention in Despatches 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
B.M. Skinner
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
Mention in Despatches 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
O.W. Skinner (Photo  courtesy of Mr Robert McMillin)
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
R.M.P. Skinner (Photo: Dunedin Society)
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
L.P. Skipwith
(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?
Mention in Despatches MID
12.08.1941
Lofoten raid
Mention in Despatches 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
C.J. Skrine
?
-
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
G.M. Sladen
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)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
27.01.1942
war patrols 08-11.41
Distinguished Service Order DSO
16.06.1942
attacks Prinz Eugen & Admiral Scheer 02-03.42
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
03.12.1940
attacked U-boat 08.10.40
Mention in Despatches MID
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Croix de Guerre (France) 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
M.S. Slattery
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)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
1960
Short Brothers Ltd.
- Kt
01.01.1955
New Year 55, Short Brothers Ltd.
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1946
New Year 46, Ministry of Aircraft Production
Officer of the Legion of Merit (US) 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
J.E. Slaughter
(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)
Distinguished Service Order 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
W.R. Slayter
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)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
05.06.1952
HM's birthday 52
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
04.09.1945
services during the war
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.03.1944
sinking of Scharnhorst
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
20.09.1918
Zeebrugge-Ostend raid
Mention in Despatches MID
11.11.1919
Caspian Sea
Mention in Despatches MID
01.09.1942
Operation Harpoon
Mention in Despatches 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)