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Sabine, C.W.
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Sayer, G.B.
Scatchard, J.P.
to
Sharman, F.I.
Shaw, D.A.
to
Singer, M.M.

Skelton, W.F.
to
Stallybrass, E.O.
Stammwitz, S.S.
to
Syms,
J.A.


 
S.S. Stammwitz  to  J.A. Syms
Stammwitz,
Spencer Shelly
S.S. Stammwitz
15.09.1908
Brentford, Middlesex
-
died between 08.1983 and 08.1989 ??
Prob. Lt. RNR
01.12.1936
Lt. RNR
09.09.1937, seniority 01.12.1936
Lt.
01.07.1938, seniority 15.09.1932
Lt.Cdr.
15.09.1940
Cdr.
31.12.1943 (retd 15.09.1958)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.1943
New Year 43 [decoration posted]
Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) Dnbg
03.06.1947
services to Denmark
- Crwn
10.02.1948
Officer, Order of the Crown (Belgium): services to Belgium
Croix de Guerre (Belgium) CdeG
10.02.1948
services to Belgium
01.12.1936
-
01.07.1938
served RNR
04.07.1938
-
(02.)1941
HMS Manchester (cruiser)
10.08.1941
-
04.01.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Britomart (minesweeper)
15.04.1944
-
(06.1944)
Training Commander, HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Port Edgar)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed



Commander (Minesweeping), Belgium
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
(07.1948)


HMS Loch Quoich (frigate) *
15.11.1948
-
(05.1949)
Commanding Officer, HMS Gambia (cruiser)
30.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
29.06.1953
-
(01.1957)
Boom Defence Officer, Portsmouth, Portland & Southampton [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stanbury,
Ralph Neville

R.N. Stanbury
14.09.1917
-
09.05.1998

Langston Green, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
Cadet
01.01.1935
Midsh.
01.01.1936
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1938
S.Lt.
1939, seniority 01.03.1938
Lt.
06.1940, seniority 01.06.1939
Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1947 (retd 01.04.1957)
Lt.Cdr. RNN
01.05.1950

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
07.12.1943
special reconnaissance Sicily & Italy 05.43 [decoration posted]
Letter of Appreciation from the US Government (for beach piloting, Italy landings while at HMS Maidstone)
01.01.1935
-
01.01.1936
special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
09.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
27.06.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS Amphion (cruiser) (Africa)
02.05.1938
-
(10.1938)
promotion course, Portsmouth
23.01.1939
-
(02.)1939
qualifying for anti-submarine duties [HMS Osprey]
28.03.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Mashona (destroyer)
06.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
07.04.1941
-
(08.1942)
Navigating Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser)
11.01.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
(1943)
-
(1943)
Commanding Officer, Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 5 (Sicily, Italy, Salerno)
07.02.1944
-
(04.)1944
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
(06.1944)


no appointment listed
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sirius (cruiser) *
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
08.09.1948
-
(07.)1948
Navigating Officer, HMS Diadem
01.11.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
18.02.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Montclare
(04.1955)


no appointment listed
14.05.1955
-
(01.1956)
on staff of Flag Officer (Air), Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(01.1957)


HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) *
late 1950s


joined, Royal Nigerian Navy
(07.1961)
-
(02.1963)
Commanding Officer, HMNS Penelope
Ran a beauty salon at Langston Green, 1970/80s.
Published: Survey by starlight (1949; under pseudonym Ralph Neville)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stannard,
Edward Rolfe
E.R. Stannard
(09?).1910
St Pancras district, Greater London, London
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 30]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 34, column 2]
A/Gnr.
01.01.1938
Gnr.
?, seniority 01.01.1938
(02.1938)
-
(08.)1938
short course of instruction
30.08.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Buccaneer (tug)
23.11.1938
-
(08.)1939
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
06.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
HMS Jervis Bay (auxiliary merchant cruiser)
Stanning,
Geoffrey Heaton
G.H. Stanning G.H. Stanning
G.H. Stanning
Elder son of the Rev. John Stanning, and Sybil May Jolliffe, of Meonstoke Rectory, nr. Southampton.
Married (11.04.1942, Wickham Church, Hampshire) Mary Elisabeth Kinnear, elder daughter of the late Dr. J.C.M. Kinnear and Mrs Kinnear, of Wickham, Hampshire.
11.04.1912
Droxford district, Hampshire

-
09.10.1997
Swindon, Wiltshire
Paym.Cadet 01.01.1930
Paym.Midsh. 01.01.1931
Paym.S.Lt. 01.10.1932
Paym.Lt.
01.10.1934
Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S)
01.10.1942
A/Cdr. (S)
< 07.1945
Cdr. (S)
31.12.1947
A/Capt. (S)
< 05.1953
Capt. (S)
31.12.1956 (retd 15.10.1963)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.06.1940
1st Battle of Narvik 04.40 [investiture 02.07.40]
Letter of Praise LoP
1944?
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Mention in Despatches MID
02.02.1951
Korea (since 09.07.50)
17.01.1930 - 03.09.1930 HMS Erebus (cadet training ship, Devonport)
04.09.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
20.04.1932 - (06.1933) HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
06.01.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for duty in office of Rear-Admiral 2nd Battle Squadron)
18.07.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (for duty in office of Rear-Admiral Commandng 1st Cruiser Squadron)
08.10.1936 - (02.)1937 Admiralty [HMS President] (for 6 months' study of German)
20.04.1937 - 1937 HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (Devonport)
15.07.1937 - (04.)1939 Assistant Secretary on staff of Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Effingham (cruiser)]
24.07.1939
-
10.04.1940
Captain's Secretary, HMS Hardy (flotilla leader) (took over command of the ship when Capt. Warburton-Lee was killed; ship beached & abandoned, Narvik; seriously wounded in the foot)
(10.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
(02.1941)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
13.11.1941
-
(06.)1943
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.)1943
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed [obviously borne on HMS Odyssey]
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
12.12.1945
-
(10.1947)
HMS Bermuda (cruiser)
(07.1948)
-
(05.1949)
Secretary to Chief of Combined Operations Staff, Combined Operations HQ
17.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
Secretary to Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command Far Eastern Fleet [HMS Belfast]
09.05.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC)
17.05.1954
-
(04.1955)
HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier)
05.1955
-
(1958)
Third Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board
27.10.1958 - (01.1959) Director of Officer Appointments (Supply and Secretariat Officers), Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1961)


Admiralty [HMS President] *
12.02.1962 - (02.)1963 Director of Administrative Planning, Admiralty [HMS President]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Starkie,
Henry Martin
H.M. Starkie
06.04.1913
-
04.
1992
Exeter district, Devon
T/Schoolm. Candidate
12.07.1943
Prob. T/Schoolm.
(10/11/12?).1943, seniority 12.07.1943
T/Schoolm.
1944, seniority 12.07.1943
Instr.Lt.
30.08.1946, seniority 12.07.1944
Instr.Lt.Cdr.
12.07.1952 (retd 06.04.1961)
Education: BA
1941
-
1941
joined RNVR [HMS Ganges (new entry training, Shotley)]
1941
-
1941
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
1941
-
1942
HMS Pelican (corvette)
1942
-
1943
HMS President III (accounting base for DEMS service, Bristol)
(08.1943)


no appointment listed
23.09.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
04.08.1944
-
27.03.1946
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
28.03.1946
-
1947
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth (and for duty at RN Auxiliary Hospital, Southport) [HMS Drake]
23.09.1947
-
(05.)1949
HMS Highflyer
26.01.1950
-
1952
Naval Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
04.03.1953
-
1954
HMS Perseus
19.07.1954
-
(01.)1956
for duty at Pay and Records Office, Royal Marines [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
1956
-
(01.)1957
RN Rhine Squadron [HMS Royal Prince (RN base, Germany)]
1957
-
(01.)1959
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire)
1959
-
1960
HMS Neptune
1960
-
1961
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) ?
Startin,
Harry James
"Jimmy"
H.J. Startin H.J. Startin
Son of Mr & Mrs Hal Startin, of Comox, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and grandson of Adm. Sir James Startin, KCB, AM (1855-1948).
Married 1st ((06?).1949, Westminster district, Greater London) Gwendolyne Myrtle Lidgate, daughter of Mr & Mrs G. Lidgate, of Fenham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Married 2nd (
05.04.1968 - Kensington, Greater London) Lavinia Rohays Lomer, younger daughter of Col. Robert Humphrey Lomer, and Lettice Mary Stafford-King-Harman, of Palace Gardens Terrace, W8 London.
21.07.1925
-
Cadet
01.01.1939
Midsh.
01.09.1942
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1944
S.Lt.
01.06.1944
Lt.
01.02.1946
Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1954
Cdr.
31.12.1958 (retd 16.11.1968; own request)
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (19.01.1939-01.09.1942; Eardley-Howard-Croclett Prize).
01.09.1942
-
30.12.1943
HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
31.12.1943
-
07.05.1944
HMS Bleasdale (destroyer)
08.05.1944
-
29.09.1944
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for courses)
30.09.1944
-
31.10.1944
HMS Loyal (destroyer)
01.11.1944
-
17.06.1946
Signal, Divisional and Watchkeeping Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) [25.09.1945 Bridge Watchkeeping Certificate]
18.06.1946
-
13.10.1946
HMS Speaker (escort carrier)
14.10.1946
-
10.11.1946
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Torpedo Control Officer, Damage Control and Radar Courses)
11.11.1946
-
03.05.1949
Torpedo & Anti-Submarine (TAS) Officer), HMS Concord (destroyer) 
04.05.1949
-
02.05.1950
HMS Victoy (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Instructor Officers' Divisional Course)
03.05.1950
-
18.02.1951
HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth) (for TAS Courses)
19.02.1951
-
14.09.1952
HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth) (for duty with TAS Staff)
15.09.1952
-
02.12.1952
First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1569 (motor minesweeper) [based at HMS Mars (Reserve force Harwich)]
03.12.1952
-
08.03.1954
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1728 (motor minesweeper) [based at HMS Mars (Reserve force Harwich)]
09.03.1954
-
25.04.1954
HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth) (for TAS Courses)
26.04.1954
-
26.03.1957
HMS Saker (Washington, USA) (for duty with British Joint Services Mission as RN Exchange Officer at Fleet Sonar School, Key West, Florida)
27.03.1957
-
28.03.1957
TAS Officer, HMS Kenya (cruiser)
29.03.1957
-
09.11.1958
Flotilla TAS Officer on staff of Flag Officer Flotillas Home Fleet [HMS Superb (cruiser), from 23.08.1957 HMS Sheffield (cruiser), from 12.12.1957 HMS Ceylon (cruiser), from 14.04.1958 HMS Kenya (cruiser), from 29.08.1958 HMS Birmingham (cruiser)]
10.11.1958
-
25.11.1958
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for course at AD&DC School)
26.11.1958
-
01.12.1958
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Divisional Course)
02.12.1958
-
04.12.1960
Commanding Officer, HMS Caprice (destroyer) (while under refit & on recommissioning 17.02.1959) [based at HMS Cochrane (Rosyth Maritime Headuqarters)]
15.12.1958
-
19.12.1958
lent HMS Dryad (training establishment, Portsmouth) (for courses)
05.12.1960
-
18.04.1963
Training Commander, HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth)
19.04.1963
-
30.05.1963
HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for passage & JTC (Senior) No. 1/63 Course at HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS))
13.05.1963
-
24.05.1963
lent HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for WS Course M28)
31.05.1963
-
28.06.1964
Commanding Officer, HMS Diana (frigate) (Far East Station)
29.06.1964
-
15.05.1955
Executive Officer & Second-in-Command, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
16.05.1966

01.09.1968
HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for passage & for suty outside Admiralty on staff of CINCAFNORTH (Norway) as Staff Officer to Naval Deputy)
02.09.1968
-
16.11.1968
HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; on return to UK)
Steel,
Douglas Merson
D.M. Steel (Photo: HMS Hood Association)
Son of Thomas and Mary Steel.
Married Margaret Steel, of Soberton, Droxford, Hampshire.; ... children (one daughter?).

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05.04.1897
Keighley district, Yorkshire
-
24.05.1941
KIA a/b HMS Hood  [age 44]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]
T/Instr.Lt.
21.09.1921
Instr.Lt.
1924?, seniority 21.09.1921
Instr.Lt.Cdr.
21.09.1927
Instr.Cdr.
21.09.1935
Education: Boston Grammar School; Cambridge University (MA)
26.04.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Marlborough (battleship)
29.11.1924
-
(01.)1925
HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
07.05.1925
-
(05.1926)
HMS Thunderer (battleship) (Reserve Fleet)
20.01.1927
-
(02.)1927
staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] (additional; temporarily)
03.05.1927
-
(06.)1928
HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship) (Portsmouth)
03.09.1928
-
(04.)1930
staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
16.09.1930
-
(06.)1933
HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
07.09.1933
-
(07.1935)
HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
06.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
meteorological course, Air Ministry [HMS President]
28.03.1936
-
(04.)1939
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
(08.1939)


short course of instruction
06.08.1939
-
24.05.1941
HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
Steel,
Hugh Patrick de Crecy
"Pat"
H.P. de C. Steel (Photo courtesy of Mrs Patricia Savin, via Mr Ian Sayer)
His parents owned a cocoa plantation in Bahia.
Married (08.08.1931, Holy Trinity Church Brompton, Kensington district, London) Phyllis Evelyn May Houdret; ... children (one daughter?).
16.03.1903
Bahia, Brazil
-
11.04.2000

Edinburgh, Scotland
Midsh.
15.09.1922
A/S.Lt.
15.01.1925
S.Lt.
08.09.1926, seniority 15.01.1925
Lt.
15.10.1927
Lt.Cdr.
15.10.1935
Cdr.
31.12.1941 (retd 19.09.1949)
17.01.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Emperor of India (battleship)
11.01.1926
-
(05.)1926
promotion course, Portsmouth
31.07.1926
-
(02.)1927
HMS Seawolf (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
21.11.1927
-
(04.)1928
submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
03.04.1928
-
(06.)1928
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines)
31.07.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS L 26 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Lucia]
1929
-
1930?
First Lieutenant, HMS H 52 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
(04.1930)
-
(10.1930)
no appointment listed
29.12.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMS Torrid (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
03.1932
-
07.1932
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
25.07.1932
-
(09.)1932
HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (for submarines)
11.09.1932
-
(05.)1933
HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (for submarines)
16.05.1933
-
(08.)1934
First Lieutenant, HMS Rover (submarine) [tender to HMS Douglas]
03.09.1934
-
(11.1934)
submarine Commanding Officers' qualifying course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto]
14.01.1935
-
(02.)1935
HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
22.03.1935
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
13.05.1936
-
(06.)1938
HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)
07.06.1938
-
24.11.1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Triton (submarine)
18.12.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) [1941-1942 instructor on perisher course, Periscope School]
01.1942
-
30.06.1942
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-372 off Port Said]
(02.1943)
-
(04.1944)
no appointment listed
27.04.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines & as Commander (S) 7th Submarine Flotilla)
11.1944
-
(04.)1946
Executive Officer, HMS Sirius (cruiser)
07.1946
-
(05.)1949
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
1949
-
1949
HMS Duke of York (battleship)
Steemson,
John Francis
J.F. Steemson (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Steemson) J.F. Steemson (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Steemson)
J.F. Steemson (Photo courtesy of Mr Michael Steemson) 
Second son of Thomas Steemson, and Emily Lucy Newham, of Ollerton, Nottinghamshire.
Married (13.12.1933, St Giles's Church, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire) Catherine Mary "Kitty" Clarke, only daughter of the late J.J. Clarke, of Bahia Blanca, and Mrs Clarke, of Buenos Aires, Argentina; three sons.

Seaman's service record AVAILABLE.

01.12.1898
Kneesall, Ollerton, nr Newark, Southwell district, Nottinghamshire
-
03.11.1958
Otumoetai, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Boy 2nd class 01.08.1915 [C/J43334]
Boy 1st class 06.09.1915
Ordinary Seaman 29.08.1916
Able Seaman 10.07.1917
Cadet 25.01.1918
Midsh. 15.06.1918
S.Lt. 1920
A/Lt. 15.06.1921
Lt. 27.10.1922, seniority 15.06.1921
Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1929 (retd 03.04.1935; own request)
Cdr. (retd) 01.12.1938 (reverted to retd 11.08.1946)
Education: training ship "Mercury" (with a sea training scholarship from the Nottinghamshire County Council) (1912-1914).
01.08.1915 - 29.08.1916 HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley)
31.08.1916 - 11.09.1916 HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth)
12.09.1916 - 24.01.1918 HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
25.01.1918 - 06.1918 special entry cadet, RN College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
15.06.1918 - 06.09.1920 HMS Revenge (battleship)
07.09.1920 - 01.10.1921 HMS Wryneck (torpedo-boat destroyer)
07.10.1921 - 23.04.1922 Admiralty [HMS President]
24.04.1922 - 10.06.1922 short gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
30.06.1922 - 07.08.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (awaiting draft)
13.08.1922 - 24.04.1924 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Ajax (battleship)
25.04.1924 - 11.06.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (awaiting draft)
12.06.1924 - 24.09.1924 training, HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) [10.07.1924-21.08.1924 at HMS Rowena (training vessel)
25.09.1924 - 02.07.1925 qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College Greenwich [HMS Excellent]
04.07.1924 - 14.05.1926 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
17.05.1926 - 09.06.1927 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for gunnery school, on junior staff)
10.06.1927 - 26.06.1928 Second Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
25.07.1928 - 04.08.1929 Gunnery Officer, HMS Adventure (minelayer) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.08.1929 - 04.06.1931 Gunnery Officer (Training), HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
05.06.1931 - 05.03.1934 Gunnery Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
(07.1934) - (02.1935) no appointment listed
Executive Officer, Watts Naval School, Dr Barnado’s school for boys, North Elmham, Norfolk, 1935-1939.
23.08.1939 - 07.05.1942 member of the senior instructional staff and Lt.Cdr. (Personnel), HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
08.05.1942 - 22.02.1944 Lt. Commander (W) and Gunnery Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
12.04.1944 - 30.11.1944 on staff of Inspector of Merchant Naval Gunnery, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
12.01.1945 - 14.10.1945 Commanding Officer, RN Depot, Brisbane [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia), from 01.04.1945 as independent command HMS Furneaux]
15.10.1945 - 30.11.1945 HMS Golden Hind (manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
01.12.1945 - 18.04.1946 Staff of Senior Naval Representative, British Element, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Australia, for duty with Assistant Chief of Staff (Personnel) to Vice-Admiral (Q), British Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind II (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)]
19.04.1946 - 11.08.1946 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet & Staff Personnel Officer (Releases) [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
Stephens,
James
J. Stephens

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11.04.1900
Consett, Durham
-
11.08.1991
Eastbourne district, East Sussex
Seaman
? [M14990]
A/Wt.Eng.
01.07.1931
Wt.Eng.
?, seniority 01.07.1931
Cd.Eng.
01.04.1941 (retd > 04.1946, < 07.1948)
Lt. (E) (retd)
< 07.1952

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
17.06.1941
successful submarine patrol [investiture 11.05.43]
Mention in Despatches MID
28.06.1940
submarine actions against enemy
(01.1932)


short course of instruction
04.01.1932
-
(06.)1933
HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet)
18.12.1933
-
(02.)1936
HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)
(08.1936)
 
 
no appointment listed
28.12.1936
-
(07.)1937
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
22.07.1937
-
(08.1939)
HMS Spearfish (submarine)
19.09.1939
-
(02.1941)
HMS Tetrach (submarine)
1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS X 2 (submarine)
30.01.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
(1943?)


HMS Taku (submarine)
18.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)
25.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Cyclops
Stephenson,
Sir Gilbert Owen "Monkey Brand"
G.O. Stephenson
Son of R.M. Stephenson. Married (1903) Helen Chesney (died 1954), daughter of late Col. Robert Frederic Williamson, CB; two sons, one daughter.

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13.02.1878
Kensington, London
-
27.05.1972
Saffron W district
A/Capt.
?
Capt.
31.12.1917
Cdre. 2nd cl.
10.07.1926
R.Adm.
20.05.1929 (retd 21.05.1929)
V.Adm. (retd.)
11.02.1934
Cdre. 2nd cl.
12.07.1940?

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

KBE
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43 [investiture 29.06.43]

Companion of the Order of the Bath

CB
01.01.1930
New Year 30
Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George CMG
01.01.1919
New Year 19: most valuable services rendered during the war
Mention in Despatches MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk
WWI: Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus, of Crown of Italy, Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece; 17.04.1918), Distinguished Service Medal (USA; 16.09.1919), Valore Militare (silver), Italy
post-war: Commander, with Star, of the Royal Order of St Olav (Norway), 13.01.1948; Officer, Légion d'Honneur (Fr.), 1948
15.07.1892
 
 
entered RN
1914
-
1919
served European War, commanded Otranto Mobile Barrage Force
31.07.1924
-
(01.1925)
Chief of Staff & Maintenance Captain, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
10.07.1926
-
1928
Commodore, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.03.1929
-
20.05.1929
Naval ADC to the King
1932
-
1935
General Secretary of the Navy League
09.1939


returned to Active Service
12.07.1940
-
late 1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
1949
-
1958
Honorary Commodore Sea Cadet Corps
Literature: Richard Baker, The terror of Tobermory : Vice Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson KBE, CB, CMG  (1972)
Stevens,
Eric Barry Kenvyn
E.B.K. Stevens

Married ((06?).1928, Wimborne district, Dorset) ... McGeagn.
09.01.1898
-
21.12.1971
Cdr.
30.06.1933
Capt.
31.12.1939  (retd 08.01.1949)
Cdre. 1st cl.
03.1943
Distinguished Service Order DSO
26.09.1940
Norway 04-06.40 [investiture 08.04.41]
Distinguished Service Order DSO
14.09.1943
destruction U559 Mediterranean 30.10.42 [investiture 20.05.47]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
23.12.1939
successful actions against enemy submarines [investiture 02.04.40]
Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH
?
capture of Narvik
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
capture of Narvik
...
-
..
...
14.07.1937
-
15.01.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Imogen (destroyer)
23.01.1940
-
20.09.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Havelock (destroyer)
20.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (in charge of flotilla duties)
04.12.1941
-
02.1943
HMS Pakenham (destroyer)
03.1943
-
(12.)1943
Additional Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief Levant [HMS Nile]
28.12.1943
-
(06.)1944
Additional Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal]
(10.1944)
-
(01.1945)
HMS Byrsa *
06.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
BADR(PC), Vancouver, BC [HMS Saker]
...
-
..
...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stevens,
John
J. Stevens
?
-
died between 12.1991 and 12.1998 ?

[perhaps:
10.12.1901
Bow, London
-
01.1991
Havering district, Essex]
A/Gnr. (T)
01.11.1937
Gnr. (T)
?, seniority 01.11.1937
A/Lt.
18.04.1943
Lt.
> 06.1944, seniority 17.04.1940
A/Lt.Cdr.
27.09.1945
Lt.Cdr.
17.04.1948 (retd 20.01.1954)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.01.1941
good service in minelayers
(02.1938)


short course of instruction
14.02.1938
-
(02.)1941
HMS Intrepid (destroyer)
28.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Matchless (destroyer)
13.07.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Redoubt (destroyer)
(02.1943)


course, Portsmouth
17.05.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Musketeer (destroyer)
15.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Queen (escort carrier)
27.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Magicienne (minesweeper)
02.1948
-
(05.1950)
HMS Resource (for ships in the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth)
06.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Rooke (RN base, Gibraltar)
Stevens,
[Sir] John Felgate
J.F. Stevens

Only surviving son of late Henry Marshall Stevens, Droveway Corner, Hove.
Married (1928) Edith Mary Gilkes (died 09.04.2008, aged 105), only daughter of J. Harry Gilkes, JP, Wychcote, Patcham, Sussex; one son, two daughters.

01.06.1900
Brighton district, Sussex
-
10.12.1989

Haslemere, Surrey
Midsh. 01.11.1918
S.Lt. 15.01.1921
Lt. 15.02.1922
Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1930
Cdr. 31.12.1933
Capt. 30.06.1940
R.Adm. 08.07.1949
V.Adm. 04.12.1952 (retd 29.02.1956)

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

KBE 01.01.1955 New Year 55 [investiture 06.12.55]

Companion of the Order of the Bath

CB 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 51 [investiture 08.07.52]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 24.07.1945 Coastal Foces operations Mediterranean 43-45 [investiture 30.10.45]
Mention in Despatches MID 14.12.1943 HMS Cleopatra damaged Mediterranean 16.07.43
1922     King's College, Cambridge
1924     specialised in Navigation
1930     Staff College
.. - ... ...
25.05.1937 - (04.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship)
30.09.1940 - (10.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President]
14.10.1940 - 08.02.1941 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.02.1941 - 26.12.1941 Deputy Director, from ... Director of Operations (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]
26.12.1941 - 08.1942 Deputy Director of Operations Division (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]
08.1942 - 28.07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Cleopatra (light cruiser)
(10.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) *
06.1944 - (01.)1945 Captain Commandng Coastal Forces, Mediterranean [HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)]
(07.1945)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
10.01.1946 - 1947 Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President]
1948 - 1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
1949 - 1950 Director of Naval Training, Admiralty [HMS President]
1950 - 1952 Chief of Staff to Head of British Joint Services Mission, Washington [HMS Saker]
1952 - 1953 Flag Officer, Home Fleet Training Squadron
1953 - 1955 Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
Stevens,
John Samuel
J.S. Stevens J.S. Stevens
 
1915/1917 ??
-
died between 12.1991 and 12.1998
...
...
Lt.
16.10.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1945
Cdr.
30.06.1952
Capt.
31.12.1957 (retd 02.05.1967)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
04.05.1943
2 supply ships sunk Eastern Mediterranean 09.42 &tc. [investiture 01.02.44]
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.09.1943
8 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 01.02.44]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
04.02.1941
sinking Italian submarine 15.12.40 [investiture 10.03.42]
...
-
...
...
17.12.1938
-
(04.)1940
HMS Triumph (submarine)
08.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Thunderbolt (submarine)
05.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
27.02.1942
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS P 46 (submarine), 1943 renamed: HMS Unruffled (submarine)
11.01.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
11.09.1944
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Turpin (submarine)
...
-
...
...
Stevens-Guille,
George Frederick
G.F. Stevens-Guille
Married (14.09.1927) Betty Wayman-Dixon.

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09.12.1898
Cirencester
-
(12?).1966
Bideford district
...
...
Cdr.
31.12.1931
Capt.
31.12.1939 (retd 08.01.1949)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
01.01.1940
New Year 40 [investiture 05.03.40]
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.06.1940
Dunkirk [investiture 06.08.40]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
03.06.1931
HM's birthday 31
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
planning amphibious operations Sicily & Southern France
08.1914
 
 
entered RN
...
-
...
...
03.01.1938
-
03.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Bittern (escort vessel) & Senior Officer, 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla (Portland)
12.03.1940
-
05.1940
flotilla staff, 21st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Duncan (flotilla leader)]
16.05.1940
-
27.07.1940
HMS Codrington (destroyer) (Dunkirk) [sunk at Dover by German aircraft]
02.08.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for command of Destroyer Flotilla)
02.02.1942
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser)
25.09.1942
-
11.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser)
14.12.1943
-
05.1945
Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers & Taranto), from 01.08.1944 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Bougie, Algeria)]
(07.1945)
 
 
HMS Hannibal (RN bae, Taranto) *
25.06.1946
-
02.02.1948
Commanding Officer, HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
(07.1948)
 
 
no appointment listed
10.07.1948
-
08.01.1949
also: Naval ADC to the King
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
Alexander William
A.W. Stewart
± 1915 *
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1991 ?

* perhaps:
1914
Partick district, Glasgow City, Scotland
Cadet
01.09.1933
Midsh.
01.09.1934
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1937
S.Lt.
16.11.1937, seniority 01.11.1936
A/Lt.
16.10.1938
Lt.
01.11.1943, seniority 01.08.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.
11.10.1943
A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944 [quasi-permanent rank]
Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1946 (retd 19.11.1946)
RAF:
 
(T) F/O
02.01.1938
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE
24.04.1940
*

* For gallantry and resource in making a forced descent rather than abandon his aircraft, when his observer's parachute had fouled and so risking his life to save another, when he could easily have saved himself.

01.09.1933
-
18.08.1934
special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
19.08.1934
-
(02.)1936
HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
02.05.1936
-
(08.)1936
HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Australia)
31.12.1936
-
04.04.1937
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
05.04.1937
-
(07.1937)
promotion course, Portsmouth
02.01.1938
-
(10.)1938
pliots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School (Leuchars) [attached to RAF]
30.11.1938
 -
09.05.1940
pilot, TSR Squadron 810 FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [arrached to RAF]
[ditched his Swordfish after a bombing raid to Sildvik, but was rescued]
16.06.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
30.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
pilot, 780 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(08.1942)


no appointment listed
18.01.1943
-
10.1943
HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
11.10.1943
-
(04.1944)
Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(06.1944)


no appointment listed
(10.1944)
-
(01.1945)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
02.1945
-
(07.1945)
No. 13 Elementary Flying Training Station (St Eugene, Ontario) [HMS Seaborn]
22.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
Office of the Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
David Douglas
D.D. Stewart
?
New Zealand
-
Cadet 1941
Midsh. 01.05.1942
A/S.Lt. 01.01.1944
S.Lt. 1944, seniority 01.07.1943
Lt. 01.03.1945 (retd < 05.1949) (removed from the Retired List on entry into the RNZN 11.12.1950)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNZN 01.03.1953 (retd < 07.1961)
1941     special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme)
23.07.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Valiant (battleship)
12.09.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Raider (destroyer)
(06.1944)     HMS Nelson (battleship) *
21.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Walpole (destroyer)
20.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)
09.1945 - (04.)1947 HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
11.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Wave
29.03.1951 - (01.1957) HMNZS Philomel
(01.1959)     HMNZS Wakefield *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart,
Walter Augustus
W.A. Stewart  
Married (02.02.1939, London) Mrs E.C. Wright.
15.09.1906
India
-
07.02.1999
Winchester, Hampshire
Midsh. (E)
15.09.1924
A/S.Lt. (E)
01.01.1927
S.Lt. (E)
16.09.1927
Lt. (E)
16.11.1929
Lt.Cdr. (E)
16.11.1937
Cdr. (E)
31.12.1941
Capt. (E)
30.06.1953 (retd 07.01.1961)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
31.12.1960
New Year 61 [investiture 21.02.61]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1946
New Year 46
18.09.1924
-
(06.)1928
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
03.09.1928
-
(04.)1930
HMS Adventure (minelayer) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.05.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS York (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
14.12.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) & for duty with submarines
(09.1932)
 
 
no appointment listed
24.09.1932
-
(01.)1934
HMS L 54 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
27.02.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) & for duty with submarines
01.02.1935
-
(07.1937)
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) & for duty with submarines
(02.1938)
 
 
no appointment listed
15.02.1938
-
(06.)1938
Executive Officer, Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, West Drayton, Middlesex (under Engineering-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
23.07.1938
-
(02.1941)
a Second Assistant, Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake]
26.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
01.04.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC)
(06.1943)


no appointment listed
14.07.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship)
(04.1946)


HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] *
03.06.1948
-
(05.1950)
a First Assistant to Manager Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
21.07.1952
-
(05.)1953
Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous duties)
15.07.1953
-
(01.)1956
an Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty, Bath [HMS President]
18.06.1956
-
(01.1957)
Staff Engineer Officer on staff of Flag Officer (Flotillas) Mediterranean [HMS Manxman]
30.09.1958
- 1961 Fleet Engineer Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] & for duty with 5th Submarine Squadron
07.07.1960
-
07.01.1961
also: Naval ADC to the Queen
MIMarE, MIMechE, MRINA
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stewart-Killick,
Frank Stewart
see: Müller,
Frank Stewart
 
Stirling,
John Buchanan Philip
J.B.P. Stirling  
Son of V.Adm. Anselm John Buchanan Stirling, CB (1875-1936), and Margaret Hamilton-Grierson (1882?-1965).
Married 1st (05.12.1939) Cecil Margaret, only daughter of Lt.Col. Thomas Winter Sheppard Graham, of Rednock, Perthshire (divorced 1946).
Married 2nd (16.02.1948) Mary Kathleen Poole, daughter of John H. Bevan, of Waverton, Sydney, NSW; one son.
18.07.1910
St George district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
died between 08.1977 and 08.1983 ??
Cadet
01.09.1927
Midsh.
01.05.1928
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1930
S.Lt.
01.01.1931
Lt.
01.03.1933
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1941 (retd 18.07.1955)
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
27.08.1927
-
(06.)1928
HMS Benbow (battleship) (Atlantic)
25.06.1928
-
(08.)1930
HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
25.09.1930
-
(02.)1931
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
17.11.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.03.1932
-
(08.)1934
HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa)
(11.1934)
 
 
no appointment listed
25.01.1935
-
(02.)1935
First Lieutenant, HMS Dart (fishery protection gunboat) [tender to HMS Harebell]
15.04.1935
-
(07.)1935
long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
18.12.1935
-
(08.)1938
HMS Scarborough (escort vessel) (America and West Indies Station)
12.09.1938
-
(10.1938)
first class ship course in navigation, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
18.02.1939
-
(04.)1940
Navigating Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser)
(10.1940)
 
 
HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) *
30.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
Navigating Officer, HMS Manchester (cruiser)
12.10.1941
-
(08.)1942
Navigating Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser)
25.10.1942
-
(06.)1944
Navigating Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
03.11.1944
-
(01.)1945
Navigating Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship)
03.1945
-
(07.1945)
Navigating Officer, HMS Nigeria (cruiser)
07.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
21.08.1947
-
(05.1950)
HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous duties)
27.11.1952
-
(05.)1955
Queen's Harbour Master & Deputy Superintendent, HM Dockyard Simonstown [HMS Afrikander]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stocker,
John Charles Alfred
J.C.A. Stocker

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03.11.1906
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
19.03.1977
Seaman
? [M37020]
Wt.Eng.
01.10.1936
Cd.Eng.
01.10.1945
Lt. (E)
24.06.1953 (retd 03.11.1956)
...
-
...
...
30.09.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Valiant (battleship)
(08.1942)
 
 
no appointment listed
18.08.1942
-
(01.)1945
Chief Engineer, HMS Puffin (sloop)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
...
-
...
...
Stocker,
Thomas Wathen
"Tom"
T.W. Stocker  
Younger son of Eng.R.Adm. Percy Stocker, OBE, and Phillis Wathen.
Married (1955) Anne Field, younger daughter of the late Norman Field, of Warkworth, Northumberland; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
29.07.1920
Alverstoke, Hampshire
-
(03?).1979
North Dorset district
Midsh.
01.01.1938
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1940
S.Lt.
16.02.1940
Lt.
16.06.1941
Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1949
Cdr.
31.12.1955
Capt.
31.12.1961 (retd 07.01.1971)
Cdre.
13.11.1968
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1942
New Year 42
Mention in Despatches MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
01.01.1938
-
(09.1939)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
24.04.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Fernie (destroyer)
01.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Blackmore (destroyer)
?
-
30.03.1944
HMS Laforey (destroyer) (torpedoed & sunk by U-223 off north coast of Sicily)
14.06.1944
-
(01.)1945
RN College, Eaton, Chester [HMS Britannia] (for duty with special entry cadets)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Hesperus (destroyer) *
01.10.1947
-
(07.)1948
HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
23.08.1948
-
09.1949
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Kaniere (frigate)
01.1950
-
02.1951
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Hawea (frigate)
(05.1953)
 
 
no appointment listed
13.06.1953
-
(07.1954)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]
07.04.1955
-
(04.)1955
Commanding Officer, HMS Wrangler (anti-submarine frigate)
11.07.1955
-
(01.)1956
HMS Birmingham (light cruiser)
12.10.1956
 
 
Commanding Officer, HMS Ariadne (minelayer)
(01.1957)
 
 
no appointment listed
07.02.1958
-
15.05.1958
courses
16.05.1958
-
20.12.1958
Commanding Officer, HMS Jutland (destroyer)
21.12.1958
-
(07.1961)
Executive Officer, The Britannia RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth]
01.05.1962
- (02.1964)
RN Liaison Officer to Australia, British Defence, Liaison Staff, Department of Defence, Canberra
?
-
(02.)1968
Director of Naval Equipment, Ship Department, Navy Department
17.11.1968
-
(02.1969)
Commodore Amphibious Forces [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stoddart,
Henry Norman
H.N. Stoddart

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23.12.1890
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Paym.Lt.
21.11.1913? (retd 20.10.1920; own request)
Paym.Lt.Cdr. (retd)
21.11.1921
A/Paym.Cdr. = A/Cdr. (S)
> 02.1941, < 12.1941
15.07.1908


entered RN
25.07.1940
-
(04.1946)
Secretary to Naval Assistant (Foreign) to Second Sea Lord (NA(F)2SL), medio 1941/42 renamed: Principal British Naval Liaison Officer (PNLO), Admiralty [HMS President]
Stokes,
Graham Henry
G.H. Stokes G.H. Stokes [UNCONFIRMED]
Son of late Graham Stokes and Mrs Esther F. Magniac, The Glen, Buckland Brewer, Bideford.
Married (1941) Wendy, daughter of late William Brice, Mockbeggar, Higham, Kent; one son, one daughter.
08.09.1902
Greenwich, Greater London
-
22.08.1969
Buckland Brewer, Bideford, N. Devon
A/S.Lt.
15.09.1922
S.Lt.
17.03.1924, seniority 30.05.1923
Lt.
30.05.1925
Lt.Cdr.
30.05.1933
Cdr.
30.06.1938
Capt.
30.06.1942
R.Adm.
08.01.1952 (retd 08.09.1954)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
26.05.1942
action with Italian cruisers 12.12.41 [investiture 07.07.42]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
14.10.1941
sinking of the Bismarck [investiture 07.07.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
1919


went to sea as Naval Cadet
03.01.1923
-
(08.1923)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.08.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.04.1926
-
(05.)1926
HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (additional; for duty in submarines)
08.12.1926
-
(02.)1927
HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Devonport) (additional; for duty in submarines)
14.02.1927

-

(06.1928)
First Lieutenant, HMS L 56 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
30.03.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
17.01.1930
-
(04.)1930
First Lieutenant, HMS L 27 (submarine)
30.05.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
29.09.1931
-
(06.)1933
HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) (China)
01.11.1933
-
(02.)1935
Commanding Officer. HMS Tempest (destroyer) (Nore)
07.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
(02.1936)


short course of instruction
27.03.1936
-
(06.)1938
Commanding Officer, HMS Griffin (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(08.1938)


no appointment listed
12.09.1938
-
(08.)1939
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.09.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Mackay (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
01.05.1940
-
10.06.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Matabele (destroyer)
25.10.1940
-
03.02.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Sikh (destroyer)
(Mediterranean)
[operations against German Battleship Bismarck (DSC) & also when leading a division of 4 destroyers in a night action resulting in destruction of Italian Cruisers Alberto di Guissano and AlberiCommanding Officer, Da Barbiano (CB)]
21.05.1942
-
(08.)1942
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
16.09.1942
-
(04.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
16.06.1944
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Colossus (aircraft carrier)
26.07.1944
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Colossus (aircraft carrier)
17.01.1947
-
(07.1948)
Commanding Officer & Flag Captain, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station Donibristle, Fife) & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer, Flying Training
(05.1949)
 
 
HMS Merlin (RN Air Station Donibristle, Fife) **
10.12.1949
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
07.07.1951
-
08.01.1952
also: Naval ADC to the King
06.1952
-
1954
Senior British Naval Officer and Flag Officer (Liaison) Middle East [HMS Osiris]
(07.1954)
 
 
no appointment listed
* starting date given as 21.05.1940, which is obviously impossible, so it possibly is 21.05.1942
** indexed, but not listed as such
Stopford,
Frederick Victor
"Fred"
F.V. Stopford
Younger son of late R.Adm. Hon. Walter George Stopford (1855-1918), and Florence Mary Baker (died 1950).
Married (10.04.1924) Mary Guise, daughter of late Captain F.C.U. Vernon­ Wentworth; three sons, one daughter.

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06.07.1900
Weymouth, Dorset
-
19.01.1982
Yelverton, Devon
...
...
Cdr. (E)
31.12.1932
Capt. (E)
30.06.1943
R.Adm. (E)
02.02.1950 (retd 18.08.1952)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1952
New Year 52 [investiture 12.03.52]
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth
 
04.09.1916
 
 
entered RN
1916
-
1918
served European War
...
-
...
...
09.01.1939
-
(12.1941)
Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.05.1942
-
(10.)1943
HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
(12.1943)
-
(06.1944)
no appointment listed
14.06.1944
-
02.01.1945
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
03.01.1945
-
(04.)1946
Staff Engineer Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
06.11.1946
-
05.11.1948
Captain-in-Charge, RN Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth & Commanding Officer, HMS Thunderer
13.02.1950
-
(05.1950)
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
15.11.1948
-
07.01.1950
also: Naval ADC to the King
Storrs,
Robert Francis
R.F. Storrs
Son of late Lt.Col. R. Storrs, RAMC, Lion House, Teddington.
Married (1934) Olivia Hope White (died 27.02.2008, aged 97), daughter of Lt.Col. H.S. White, London; one son, two daughters.
14.07.1906
Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
23.08.1968
Halse, Taunton, Somerset
...
...
Lt. (E)
01.07.1929
Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.07.1937
Cdr. (E)
31.12.1941
Capt. (E)
31.12.1950
R.Adm.
07.01.1958 (General List) (retd 1960?)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
01.01.1960
New Year 60
Education: Newton College, Devon; Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.
1920


joined RN
...
-
...
...
09.01.1939
-
(10.1940)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (to assist Engineer Captain & for duty with submarines)
30.01.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Foxhound (destroyer)
23.02.1942
-
(07.1945)
in charge of Torpedo Tube Factory & Torpedo Tube Design Office, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
28.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
...
-
...
...
1958
-
1960
Chief Staff Officer (Technical) and Command Engineer Officer, Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
Stovin-Bradford,
Frederick
F. Stovin-Bradford
F. Stovin-Bradford
F. Stovin-Bradford
F. Stovin-Bradford
Son of ... Stovin-Bradford, and ... Phillips.
From Battle, Sussex.

19.06.1919
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
23.09.1974
Australia
Midsh. (A)
21.11.1938
A/S.Lt. (A)
19.06.1940?
S.Lt. (A)
05.11.1940, seniority 19.06.1940
Lt. (A)
01.02.1942
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
< 08.1944
Lt.
< 07.1945, antedated 01.02.1940
Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1948
Cdr.
31.12.1950
Capt.
31.12.1955 (retd 30.07.1965)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1966
New Year 66 [decoration presented]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
14.01.1941
torpedo attack El Gazala 23.08.40 [investiture 25.11.41]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
29.06.1951
Korea [investiture 14.11.51]
Mention in Despatches MID
05.12.1944
passage convoys JW59 & RA59A
21.11.1938
-
(02.)1939
HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training)
13.02.1939
-
(04.)1939
observers' course [HMS Excellent]
15.05.1939
-
(08.)1939
observers' course [HMS Excellent (training establishment, Portsmouth)]
21.10.1939
-
(02.)1941
824 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)]
17.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous duties)
05.07.1942
-
(08.)1943
Commanding Officer, (?) 700 Squadron FAA [HMS King George V (battleship)]
14.09.1943
-
(08.)1944
Lt.Cdr. Operations, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
25.09.1944
-
(10.1944)
Fleet Air Arm Liaison Officer, Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.07.1945
-
(09.1945?)
Commanding Officer, 825 Squadron FAA
28.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, 735 Squadron FAA [HMS Ringtail]
05.02.1948
-
(07.1948)
812 Squadron FAA
25.03.1949
-
(05.1949)
HMS Theseus
19.10.1949
-
(05.)1950
HMS Theseus
29.09.1950
-
12.01.1951
Commanding Officer, 17th Carrier Air Group [HMS Theseus]
10.03.1952
-
(05.1953)
Executive Officer, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose)
01.07.1954
-
(07.1954)
Staff Officer (Air), HMS Glory
(04.1955)
 
 
HMS Albion *
30.07.1955
-
(01.)1956
Staff of Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Albion]
31.07.1956
-
(01.1957)
Commanding Officer, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Brawdy)
31.07.1958
-
25.09.1960
Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, East Australia Area, Sydney [HMAS Kuttabul] [lent to RAN]
(07.1961)


HMS President *
18.06.1962
-
(02.1964)
Chief of Staff to Flag Officer Air (Home) [HMS Daedalus]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Strawbridge,
Harry Thomas
H.T. Strawbridge

From Bearsden, Scotland.
Married May Marshall Strawbridge (divorced 1933).

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18.01.1891
Chard, Somerset
-
18.12.1981
Seaman
? [238180]
A/Mate
?
Mate
13.10.1916
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
15.09.1920, seniority 13.09.1919
19.05.1922, seniority 13.10.1918
Lt.Cdr.
13.10.1926 (retd 18.05.1935; own request)
Cdr. (retd)
18.05.1935
A/Capt. (retd)
> 08.1943, < 10.1943
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
20.06.1918
-
(01.1919)
Mate (G), HMS Lancaster (cruiser)
20.03.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Crocus (sloop) (East Indies)
05.04.1926
-
(05.)1926
First Lieutenant, HMS Verbena (sloop) (Africa)
23.10.1926
-
(06.1928)
First Lieutenant, HMS Dahlia (sloop) (Mediterranean)
(08.1929)


no appointment listed
01.11.1929
-
(02.1931)
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
(01.1932)


no appointment listed
01.02.1932
-
(06.1933)
Commanding Officer, HMS Scarab (gunboat) (China)
(01.1934)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1934)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.08.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
(01.1934)


no appointment listed
01.04.1935
-
(08.1942)
Recruiting Officer, Glasgow (under Director of Naval Recruiting)
29.01.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Adria (base ship, Persian Gulf)
01.1944
-
(10.1944)
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Hornung [HMS Gombroon (RN base, Hormuz, Persian Gulf)]
(01.1945)
-
(07.1945)
no appointment listed
01.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
Naval Officer-in-Charge Naples [HMS St Angelo]
Street,
Mark Ralph
M.R. Street

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03.11.1885
Millbrook, Hampshire
-
30.01.1962
Seaman
? [215062]
Gnr. (T)
23.06.1916
Cd.Gnr. (T)
03.04.1926 (retd 03.11.1935)
Lt. (retd)
03.11.1935 (reactivated 07.11.1939)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)
10.11.1944 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
01.08.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Ross (twin screw minesweeper)
18.08.1924
-
(05.)1926
HMS Serapis (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.11.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.01.1928
-
(08.1930)
HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
22.01.1931
-
(01.)1934
HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (Rosyth) (for maintenance reserve destroyers)
12.04.1934
-
(11.)1934
HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for destroyers in reserve)
06.11.1934
-
(07.)1935
HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (Rosyth)
07.11.1939
-
(12.1941)
HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Port Edgar)
(08.1942)


HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) *
14.08.1942
-
(08.)1943
Torpedo Officer, HMS Flora II (Coastal Forces base, Invergordon)
21.09.1943
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stroud,
John Alan
J.A. Stroud
?
-
died between 08.1989 and 12.1991 ??
Cadet
01.01.1944
Midsh.
01.09.1944
...
...
Lt.
01.11.1947 (retd 02.08.1955)
Cdr. RNR
? (retd 01.04.1976)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD
?
-
01.09.1944
-
19.12.1944
HMS Suffolk (cruiser)
20.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
(04.1946)


HMS Cambrian (destroyer) *
...
-
...
...
1957


joined London Division RNR
1965
-
1969
Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire
* indexed, but not listed as such
Strutt,
Hon. Arthur Charles
A.C. Strutt
2nd son of 3rd Baron Rayleigh and Evelyn, daughter of J.M. Balfour of Whittingehame, and Blanche,
daughter of 2nd Marquis of Salisbury.
Married (1934) Hon. Mrs Cyril Ward.

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02.10.1878
-
10.02.1973
London
Lt.
1900
Cdr.
13.06.1913
Capt.
30.06.1917
R.Adm.
28.02.1929 (retd 01.03.1929; own request)
V.Adm. (retd)
30.09.1933 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR
05.07.1940
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
04.06.1928
HM's birthday 28
Letter of Praise LoP
1944?
Operation Neptune
Education: HMS Britannia
15.07.1892
 
 
entered RN
1916
-
1918
served as Master of the Fleet in HMS Queen Elizabeth under the Flag of Earl Beatty
(01.1919)
 

 
HMS Enchantress (Admiralty yacht)
03.1923
-
(08.)1923
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
15.11.1923
-
29.11.1923
Admiralty [HMS President]
30.11.1923
-
(01.)1925
Director of Navigation, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.04.1926
-
(05.)1926
senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth
25.07.1926
-
(07.1927)
Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(04.1928)
-
(06.1928)
no appointment listed
08.04.1928
-
(06.1928)
also: Naval ADC to the King
05.07.1940
-
01.02.1943
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
01.02.1943
-
1945
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Stuart,
Charles McDonald
C.M. Stuart
Married; .. children (one son?).
17.01.1920
-
20.01.1983
Fulham district, London
Cadet
01.01.1939
Midsh.
01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.
01.12.1940?
S.Lt.
1941, seniority 01.12.1940
Lt.
16.10.1942
Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1950 (retd 17.01.1971)
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
20.07.1951
liaison services on French ships George Leygues & Montcalm 02-12.43 [decoration posted]
01.01.1939
-
(09.1939)
special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
22.09.1941
-
(02.)1943
HMS Durban (cruiser)
04.02.1943
-
(08.)1943
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
French Ship Montcalm *
(04.1944)


no appointment listed
(06.1944)
-
(10.1944)
HMS Pelican (SAN base, Walvis Bay, Simonstown) *
(01.1945)
 
 
HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay) *
27.04.1945
-
(06.)1945
HMS Falmouth (sloop)
19.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Falmouth (sloop)
16.12.1946
-
(10.1947)
HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
24.06.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS Nepal (destroyer)
(05.1950)
 
 
HMS Nepal (destroer) *
(05.1953)
 
 
no appointment listed
04.07.1953
-
(07.)1954
HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
(04.1955)
 
 
HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) *
(01.1956)
-
(01.1957)
Staff Officer, Tay Division RNVR [HMS Cressy (Dundee)]
(01.1959)
 
 
HMS Diligence (Reserve Fleet & base, Hythe, nr Southampton) *
(07.1961)
 
 
HMS Phoenicia (RN base, Manoel Island, Malta) *
(02.1963)
-
(02.1964)
Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty *
(02.1968)
-
(02.1969)
HMS Warrior (RN Unit, Eastbury Park, Northwood) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Stuart,
Geoffrey Claude Edwards
"Geoff"
G.C.E. Stuart
Son of James Arthur Penrhyn Stuart and Norah Stuart, of Alverstoke, Hampshire. Married Isobel Newbold (died 14.04.1944).
1921 ?
-
14.04.1944

(died at home whilst on leave) [age 23]
[Speen (St. Mary) Church- yard, Berkshire, N.3.58]
Cadet
01.09.1938
Midsh.
01.09.1939
S.Lt.
> 02.1941
Lt.
04.1942, seniority 01.01.1942
01.09.1938
-
31.08.1939
special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.09.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
06.09.1940
-
(10.)1940
HMS Watchman (destroyer)
09.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
29.11.1941
-
(02.)1943
HMS Parthian (submarine)
01.04.1943
-
(06.)1943
First Lieutenant, HMS P 555 (submarine)
21.06.1943
-
(12.1943)
First Lieutenant, HMS Storm (submarine)
28.01.1944
-
14.04.1944
First Lieutenant, HMS Taku (submarine)
Stuart-Menteth,
Henry Alexander
"Alex"
H.A. Stuart-Menteth
Son of Walter Erskine Stuart-Menteth (1877-1956), and Violet Grace Lafone (?-1970).
Married (1952) Penelope Giles, daughter of Digby Giles, of Toorak, South Australia; two sons, one daughter.

26.08.1912
Merstham, Surrey
-
14.05.2000
Edinburgh, Scotland
Cadet
01.01.1930
Midsh.
01.09.1930
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1933
S.Lt.
16.05.1933
Lt.
16.12.1934
Lt.Cdr.
16.12.1942
Cdr.
31.12.1948 (retd 01.09.1958)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
11.09.1945
destruction U-boat Western Approaches 30.04.45 & probable one [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1926-1930).
07.01.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.04.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
05.01.1933
-
20.08.1933
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
21.08.1933
-
(01.)1934
promotion course, Portsmouth
26.05.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
17.06.1935
-
(07.)1935
HMS Elgin (twin screw minesweeper) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
06.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
31.08.1936
-
(02.)1939
HMS Defender (destroyer) (China)
(04.1939)
 
 
no appointment listed
(00.1939)
 
 
no appointment listed
28.08.1939
-
10.04.1940
HMS Hunter (destroyer) (sunk in collision at Narvik; wounded, POW in German hands, but liberated when the town of Narvik was retaken by Allied forces)
04.1940
-
12.1940
no appointment listed: recovery at hospitals in the UK
03.12.1940
-
(06.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Somali (destroyer) (Lofoten Islands raid & capturing Enigma-related cryptographic material)
12.1941
-
03.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Berkeley (destroyer) (Çhannel dah' of Scharnhorst & Gneisenau)
23.03.1942
-
07.10.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Aldenham (destroyer) (Mediterranean & Aegean)
21.12.1943
-
(06.)1944
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for minor landing craft) (training landing craft officers)
09.1944
-
15.11.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Havelock (destroyer) (British coastal waters)
15.11.1944
-
(04.1945)
Executive Officer, HMS Havelock (destroyer)
13.02.1946
-
(04.)1946
Staff Officer (Operations), 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Birmingham (cruiser)]
04.09.1946
-
(04.)1947
Staff Officer (Operations), 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Superb (cruiser)]
15.10.1947
-
(07.1948)
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(05.1949)
 
 
no appointment listed
1949
 
 
lent to RAN (?)
14.12.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Terror (for miscellaneous duties)
27.05.1952
-
(05.1953)
Commanding Officer, HMS St James (destroyer)
1953?
-
1954?
Commanding Officer, HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
05.03.1954
-
(01.)1956
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
30.07.1956
-
(01.1957)
Admiralty Liaison Officer for Merchant Navy, Glasgow [HMS President]
Ran the Corps of Commissionaires for nearly 20 years.
Stubbs,
Peter William Furneaux
P.W.F. Stubbs
Son of Philip Stanley Fewston Stubbs (1881-1948), and Marjorie Furneaux.
Brother of Cdr. (L) Richard Furneaux Stubbs, RN, Maj. Antony Furneaux Stubbs & Lt. James Furneaux Stubbs.
07.07.1910
Lymington district, Hampshire
-
14.07.1965
New Forest district, Hampshire
Cadet
01.09.1927
Midsh.
01.05.1928
A/S.Lt.
01.09.1930
S.Lt.
01.05.1931
Lt.
01.07.1933
Lt.Cdr.
01.07.1941 (retd 01.03.1949; medically unfit)
A/Cdr.
23.02.1943? till < 04.1944
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
16.03.1943
Operation Torch [decoration posted]
01.09.1927
-
(04.)1930
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
25.09.1930
-
(02.)1931
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
29.12.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 1st Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean)
17.05.1933
-
(07.)1934
Third Officer, later First Lieutenant, HMS Salmon [renamed HMS Sable] (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
03.07.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(07.1935)
 
 
no appointment listed
(02.1936)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.06.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS Adventure (large minelayer) (China)
(06.1938)
-
 (08.1938)
no appointment listed
10.09.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Walker (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
01.11.1938
-
(04.1940)
First Lieutenant, HMS Juno (destroyer)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
24.02.1941
-
14.05.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Vesper (destroyer)
10.07.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
23.02.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Quebec (Combined Operations training establishment, Inveraray)
04.1943
-
09.1943
Principal Beach Master, "N" RN Beach Commando
20.03.1944
-
(06.)1944
on staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
11.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS King George V (battleship)
11.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
Executive Officer, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire)
01.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire)
Chairman, New Forest Rural District Council, 1965.
Stubbs,
Richard Furneaux
R.F. Stubbs
Son of Philip Stanley Fewston Stubbs (1881-1948), and Marjorie Furneaux.
Brother of Cdr. Peter William Furneaux Stubbs, RN
, Maj. Antony Furneaux Stubbs & Lt. James Furneaux Stubbs.
Married Theodora E.P.B. Rutledge (born 1915); two daughters.
(06?).1912
Lymington district, Hampshire
-
died between 08.1983 and 08.1989 ?
Cadet
01.05.1929
Midsh.
01.01.1930
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1932
S.Lt.
16.01.1933
Lt.
16.03.1935
Lt.Cdr.
16.03.1943
Lt.Cdr. (L)
25.09.1946, seniority 16.03.1943
Cdr. (L)
31.12.1948 (retd 22.09.1953)
27.04.1929
-
(08.)1929
HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
17.12.1929
-
(08.)1930
HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
01.10.1930
-
(02.1931)
HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
(01.1932)
 
 
HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) *
01.05.1932
-
08.01.1933
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
09.01.1933
-
(06.)1933
promotion course, Portsmouth
01.09.1933
-
(07.1935)
HMS Hastings (sloop) (Red Sea)
07.02.1936
-
(02.)1938
First Lieutenant, HMS Robin (river gunboat) (China)
05.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
14.12.1938
-
(04.)1939
First Lieutenant, HMS Woolston (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
01.06.1939
-
(09.1939)
First Lieutenant, HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
03.07.1940
-
(12.1941)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
06.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Uganda (cruiser)
15.01.1943
-
(12.1943)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Spartan (cruiser)
25.02.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
(01.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
25.09.1946
 
 
transferred to Electrical Branch
06.1947
-
(07.1948)
Fleet Electrical Officer, America and West Indies Station [HMS Sheffield (cruiser)]
21.02.1949
-
(05.1950)
on staff of Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
19.03.1951
-
(05.)1953
HMS Collingwood (training establishment for radar and electrical ratings, Fareham, nr Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
Studholme,
John Wyndham
J.W. Studholme
?
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Lt.
15.11.1925
Lt.Cdr.
15.11.1933
Cdr.
31.12.1940 (retd)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
28.06.1940
submarine actions against the enemy [investiture 03.09.40]
Mention in Despatches MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
...
-
...
...
07.02.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Seawolf (submarine)
18.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Ambrose (submarine base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines)
...
-
...
...
(1945)
-
(1945)
HMS Dido (cruiser)
...
-
...
...
Sumner,
Richard Clement
R.C. Sumner (Taken from the HMS Laforey website: http://www.dana-nield.com/dnn/Default.aspx?tabid=74)
Son of Richard Sumner, and ... Jackson, of Sunderland. Married; ... children.
(06?).1915
Sunderland district, Durham / Tyne and Wear

-
1995
Brampton, Ont., Canada
Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR
19.11.1939
T/S.Lt. (E)
20.09.1940, seniority 19.11.1939
T/Lt. (E)
11.04.1941, seniority 20.09.1940 (reld 1946?)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
13.04.1943
air attack Bone 11.12.42 [decoration posted]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
-
Africa Star Afr St
-
-
Italy Satr It St
-
-
British War Medal 1939-1945 BWM 39|45
-
-
Education: Sunderland Junior Technical College (BSc (Eng))
Employed in the Borough Engineers Office, Sunderland up till 1939.
1939


joined RNVR
(04.1940)


HMNZS Leander (cruiser) (lent to RNZN) *
20.09.1940


transferred to RN
(09.1940?)


HMS Resolution (battleship)
05.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
25.11.1941
-
30.03.1944
HMS Laforey (destroyer) (sunk off Palermo, Italy)
(04.1944)


no appointment listed
05.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Blackmore (escort destroyer)
27.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
Engineer Overseers Staff, Scotland District (Glasgow) [Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]] **
* indexed, but not listed as such
** (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Surtees,
Villiers Nicholas
V.N. Surtees

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(06?).1899
Fulham, Greater London
-
died between 05.1953 and 07.1959
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
15.08.1921
Lt.Cdr.
15.08.1929
Cdr.
30.06.1936
Capt.
30.06.1943 (retd 08.07.1952)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
07.06.1940
Dunkirk 40 [investiture 25.02.41]
Distinguished Service Order DSO
19.06.1945
Operation Hotbed (N Russian convoy 02.45) [investiture 24.03.48]
16.11.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Worcester (torpedo-boat destroyer)
(01.1925)


no appointment listed
10.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies / China)
26.09.1928
-
(10.1930)
First Lieutenant, HMS Petersfield (twin screw minesweeper) (China)
(02.1931)


no appointment listed
08.06.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
19.07.1933
-
(07.)1935
HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
17.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
Staff Officer (Operations), Base Defences, Mediterranean [HMS President IV]
17.09.1936
-
(02.)1937
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
16.02.1937
-
(02.)1939
Executive Officer, HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness)
21.03.1939
-
(09.1939)
Training Commander, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
01.03.1940
-
04.06.1940
HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) (in command while under construction)
04.06.1940
-
(08.)1942
Executive Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
15.12.1942
-
(08.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
09.1943
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
07.1944
-
05.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Nairana (escort carrier)
14.05.1945
-
01.07.1945
HMS Flycatcher (HQ for MONAB organisation, Ludham, Norfolk) (for MONABs)
01.07.1945
-
01.1946 ?
Commanding Officer, HMS Nabcatcher (mobile naval air base (MONAB) VIII)
(04.1946)


HMS Return (RN base, Tokyo) *
(07.1948)


no appointment listed
06.01.1949
-
(05.1950)
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Plymouth [HMS Drake]
21.09.1950
-
(05.1953)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sutherland,
Leslie
L. Sutherland
?
-
21.01.1940
(missing presumed killed)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]
[commemorated at Burgh and Parish of Nairn war memorial]
Paym.Cadet
01.01.1934
Paym.Midsh.
01.01.1935
A/Paym.S.Lt.
01.01.1937
Paym.S.Lt.
1937?, seniority 01.10.1936
Paym.Lt.
01.10.1938
01.09.1934
-
(02.)1936
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
15.09.1936
-
(04.)1939
HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (Mediterranean & China)
28.07.1939
-
21.01.1940
Captain's Secretary, HMS Exmouth (destroyer) (ship was mined in the North Sea)
Suthers,
Sydney Hal

"Jim"
S.H. Suthers
Son of ... Suthers, and ... Brockhurst.
Married (1948) Patricia Myrtle Heath (03.10.1923-07.2003); three daughters, one son.

18.12.1918
Medway district, Kent
-
22.02.2007
Shropshire
Midsh. (A)
16.01.1939
A/S.Lt. (A)
?
S.Lt. (A)
14.03.1940
Lt. (A)
01.03.1941
A/LT.Cdr. (A)
12.06.1944?
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1950
Cdr.
30.06.1954 (retd 18.12.1968)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
30.09.1941
sinking Italian destroyers Red Sea [investiture 25.05.43]
Distinguished Flying Cross DFC
04.05.1954
Malaya [investiture 20.07.54]
16.01.1939
-
(04.)1939
HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training)
(08.1939)
-
(04.1940)
Fleet Air Arm
07.1940


gained his pilot's wings
01.09.1940
-
(10.)1940
pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
06.10.1940
-
01.1941
HMS Nile II (RN Air Station, Alexandria, Egypt)
05.01.1941
-
09.1942
824 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (RN base, Liverpool)] (operations in Red Sea, Indian Ocean, South Atlantic and Mediterranean)
(02.1943)
-
(06.1943)
HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
23.06.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
29.01.1944
-
(04.)1944
pilot, 798 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus [RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
12.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous services)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
...
-
...
...
29.11.1949
-
28.10.1952
Commanding Officer, 705 Squadron FAA
(1954)


848 RN Air Squadron (Helos)
Sutton,
Alan William Frank
"Alfie"
A.W.F. Sutton A.W.F. Sutton

21.05.1912
-
06.11.2008
...
...
Lt.
01.10.1935
Lt.Cdr.
01.01.1943
A/Cdr.
30.12.1943?
Cdr.
30.06.1948
Capt.
31.12.1955 (retd 01.02.1965)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE
01.01.1965
New Year 65 [investiture 02.03.65]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
20.05.1941
attack Taranto 11.11.40 [investiture 17.02.42]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
08.01.1942
withdrawal from Crete [investiture 17.02.42]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41
Mention in Despatches MID
14.01.1941
attack Calato 04.09.40
1930
 
 
special entry cadet



HMS Erebus, HMS Renown, HMS Repulse, HMS Basilisk
1937
 
 
specializing as naval observer



823 Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious] & 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustriuos]
05.02.1940
-
(02.1941)
observer, 819 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
11.1941
-
(08.1942)
instructional staff, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
01.1943
-
(10.)1943
observer, HMS Ravager (escort carrier)
(12.1943)
 
 
no appointment listed
30.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Staff Officer (Air), HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
01.1946
-
(04.1946)
Executive Officer, HMS Nabcatcher (Mobile Naval Air Base VIII, Hong Kong)
...
-
...
...
Literature: Richard Pike, Seven seas, nine lives : a Royal Navy officer's story of valour : Captain A.W.F. Sutton, CBE, DSC (2006)
Sutton,
John Gilbert
J.G. Sutton

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13.01.1892
-
01.03.1982
Weymouth district
...
...
Lt.
15.09.1914
Lt.Cdr.
15.09.1922
Cdr.
20.06.1928 (retd 1932/1933)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
23.05.1944
Operation Avalanche [investiture 06.03.45)
15.09.1904
 
 
entered RN
...
-
...
...
11.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Mollusc (armed yacht)
06.09.1940
-
24.08.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Weston (sloop)
07.10.1942
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM LST 10 (landing ship, tank) [HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)]
04.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM LST 319 (landing ship, tank)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Swabey,
[Sir] George Thomas Carlisle Parker
G.T.C.P. Swabey
Son of late Thomas Swabey, and Eliza Prickett, of Woodcote, Woburn Sand.
Married (1920) Lois Mary Elsa. daughter of late Samuel Forde Ridley; one son (and one killed in action), one daughter.

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22.01.1881
Woodcote, Woburn Sands
-
09.02.1952
[Eartham, Chicester ?]
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.06.1900
Lt.
15.07.1901
Cdr.
1913
Capt.
30.06.1918
Cdre. 2nd cl.
18.06.1926?
R.Adm.
06.10.1928 (retd 07.10.1929)
V.Adm. (retd)
16.01.1935
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR
05.07.1940? (reverted to retd 1945)

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

KBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46 [investiture 28.01.47]

Companion of the Order of the Bath

CB
03.06.1930
HM's birthday 30
Distinguished Service Order DSO
14.03.1916
Gallipoli
Mention in Despatches MID
12.07.1916
Gallipoli
Letter of Praise LoP
1944?
Operation Neptune
Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
28.05.1946
?
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (five firsts; Ryder Memorial Prize)
15.01.1895


entered RN, specialized in Gunnery
03.1909
-
03.1911
staff Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet (for gunnery duties)
08.1911
-
07.1913
First and Gunnery Officer, HMS Zealandia
08.1913


Flag Commander to R.Adm. Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron
1915
-
1916
Naval Observation Officer (Dardanelles) (despatches, DSO, Legion of Honour)
?
-
(01.)1919
Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
?
-
(07.1919)
Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (dreadnought)
25.05.1921
-
(08.)1923
Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.10.1924
-
(05.)1926
Captain of College, Royal Naval College, Greenwich & for Junior Officers' War Course [HMS President]
18.06.1926
-
09.1929
Commodore in Command of New Zealand Station [HMS Diomede (cruiser), later HMS Dunedin (cruiser)] & First Naval Member Royal New Zealand Naval Board
03.08.1929
-
06.10.1929
also: Naval ADC to the King
05.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commodore of Convoys [HMS EagletII]
03.02.1942
-
03.10.1944
Flag Officer-in-Charge, Portland [HMS Boscawen]
10.01.1945
-
(07.)1945
Naval Officer­in­Charge, Leith [HMS Claverhouse]
Swinley,
Roland Frith Balfour
R.F.B. Swinley

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09.12.1895
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973
Cdr.
31.12.1930 (retd < 07.1948)
A/Capt.
31.01.1944?
Capt. (retd)
?
15.09.1908
 
 
entered RN
(09.1931)


Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari
(10.1932)


Commanding Officer, HMS Basilisk
11.07.1939
-
(08.1939)
Commanding Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
02.02.1942
-
(08.1942)
staff, Rear-Admiral Coastal Forces [HMS Attack]
01.09.1942
-
(08.1943)
Training Commander, Coastal Forces [HMS Bee] (Weymouth)
09.1943
-
(12.1943)
Staff Officer Training & Operations, Naval Officer-in-Charge Inveraray [HMS Quebec]
31.01.1944
-
(1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Mastodon
Syfret,
Sir Edward Neville
E.N. Syfret E.N. Syfret
E.N. Syfret
E.N. Syfret
E.N. Syfret
E.N. Syfret
E.N. Syfret  
Second of five children of Edward Ridge Syfret, a surgeon, and ... Jones, of Cape Town, SA.
Married ((03?).1913, Westminster district, London) Hildegarde Warner (10.10.1885 - (03?).1976); one son (Lt. Edward Herbert Vyvyan Syfret, RNVR), one daughter.

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20.06.1889
near Cape Town, South Africa
-
10.12.1972

Highgate, London
A/S.Lt.
30.11.1908
S.Lt.
16.09.1909, seniority 30.11.1908
Lt.
18.10.1910, seniority 30.11.1909
Lt.Cdr.
30.11.1917
Cdr.
30.06.1922
Capt.
30.06.1929
R.Adm.
05.01.1940
A/V.Adm.
10.01.1942?
V.Adm.
21.06.1943
Adm.
01.02.1946 (retd 1948?)
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath GCB
01.01.1948
New Year 48 [investiture 02.1948]
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB
08.09.1942
Operation Pedestal [investiture 22.09.42]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
25.11.1941
Operations Style & substance (Gibraltar-Malta convoy, 21.07-04.08.41) [investiture 14.07.42]
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
18.12.1945
wind up Europe 45 [investiture 22.02.46]
Mention in Despatches MID
25.08.1942
Operation Ironclad
Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) LM
07.09.1943
N African campaign
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
17.05.1918
?
Education: Diocesan College, SA; HMS Britannia; RN College Dartmouth (Chief Cadet Capatain)
15.05.1904


entered RN; specialized in gunnery
1914
-
1918
gunnery officer, light cruisers HMS Aurora, HMS Centaur & HMS Curacoa
16.09.1924
-
(01.1925)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
23.07.1926
-
(07.1927)
Fleet Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Warspite (battleship)]
19.08.1929
-
(02.1931)
Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.10.1931
-
(01.1932)
Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
19.07.1932
-
(01.1934)
Commanding Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (China Station)
31.08.1934
-
(07.1935)
Commanding Officer, Naval Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake]
31.12.1935
-
(07.1937)
Deputy Director of Plans, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.01.1938
-
(06.1938)
Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)
15.08.1938
-
(08.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
23.11.1939
-
(02.)1941
Naval Secretary to First Sea Lord
06.1941
-
?
Flag Officer Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron
10.01.1942
-
(02.1943)
Flag Officer Commanding Force H [HMS Malaya, later HMS Nelson] (commanded occupying force Madagascar 1942)
07.06.1943
-
(07.)1945
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice-Chief of Naval Staff
24.11.1945
-
07.01.1948
Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson]
Sykes,
Edward Walker
E.W. Sykes
Son of Alfred Edward Sykes, and Sarah Ellen Watkinson.
27.10.1913
Halifax, Yorkshire - West Riding / West Yorkshire
-
07.07.1997
RAF:
 
(A) P/O (prob)
29.06.1936
P/O
04.05.1937
RN:
 
S.Lt. (A)
04.05.1937
Lt. (A)
04.01.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
04.11.1943 [acting rank]
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
01.11.1945 [appointed rank]
Lt.Cdr.
04.01.1947 (retd 27.10.1958)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
23.10.1945
Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa 03-05.45) [decoration posted]
(1933)
 
 
aircraft apprentice [earned his aviators' certificate #11186 on 29.03.1933 at the Liverpool & District Aero Club]
29.06.1936
-
25.07.1938
commissioned, Royal Air Force (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
25.07.1938
 
 
commissioned, RN (Air Branch)
(08.1938)
 
 
short course of instruction
(10.1938)
 
 
short course of instruction
02.12.1938
-
26.01.1939
Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory]
27.01.1939
-
(02.)1941
700 Squadron FAA [HMNZS Achilles (cruiser)]
10.09.1941
-
(02.)1943
pilot, 778 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
(06.1943)
 
 
HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
05.07.1943
-
(10.)1943
HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
04.11.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
25.01.1944
-
(07.)1945
Chief Deck Landing Control Officer (DCLO), HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
15.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Gannet
20.03.1947
-
(05.)1949
on staff of Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
16.08.1949
-
(05.1950)
Commander (Flying), HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton)
23.09.1952
-
(05.)1953
HMS Albion
16.09.1953
-
(01.1956)
HMS President (for miscellaneous duties)
(01.1957)
 
 
HMS Unicorn *
Sykes,
John Humphrey Charlesworth
J.H.C. Sykes

20.05.1919
Kensington, London
-
01.11.2007
S.Lt. (A)
20.05.1940
Lt. (A)
14.09.1942
Lt.Cdr.
14.09.1950 (retd 29.07.1958)
07.1936
-
11.1940
flying training
08.07.1940
-
15.09.1940
64 Squadron RAF (Kenley)
11.1940
-
02.1943
operational flying duties, Mediterranean & India area
11.1940
-
(02.)1941
pliot, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
16.07.1941
-
(08.1942)
pilot, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon]
02.1943
-
01.1944
no appointment listed: for passage to UK, FS leave & AGO's course
01.01.1944
-
(07.)1945
passage to India & Station Air Gunnery Officer, HMS Garuda (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Coimbatore, India)
(02??).1945
-
10.1945
South Africa (gunnery & air gunnery officer duties)
10.1945
-
08.1946
FS leave, staff duties & in charge of 17th Air Gunnery Officers' course
 

HMS St Vincent



HMS Frobisher



HMS Collingwood



HMS Centaur
...
-
...
...
Symonds-Tayler,
[Sir] Richard Victor
R.V. Symonds-Tayler
Son of late Lt­Col Richard Herbert Tayler Symonds­ Tayler, Hereford.
Married (1925) Letitia Mary, daughter of late E.J. Gunner, IW; one son, one daughter.

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27.10.1897
Hereford
-
18.02.1971
[Worplesdon, Surrey ?]
A/S.Lt.
?
S.Lt.
15.05.1917
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
15.08.1918
Lt.Cdr.
15.08.1926
Cdr.
30.06.1931
Capt.
31.12.1936
Cdre. 2nd cl.
01.02.1945
R.Adm.
02.01.1946
V.Adm.
20.03.1949 (retd 15.01.1952)
Adm. (retd)
27.01.1953
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE
01.01.1951
New Year 51 [investiture 14.11.51]
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB
10.06.1948
HM's birthday 48 [investiture 01.03.49]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
16.08.1915
landing Gallipoli 25-26.04.15
Knight Commander of the Brazilian Order of Naval Merit (inauguration president of Brazil 51)
Education: Hereford Cathedral School; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; RN Staff College (1928);  Imperial Defence College (1938)
09.1910


joined RN as cadet
1914
-
1918
served European War
1914
-
1915
HMS Agamemnon
24.10.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
01.09.1925
-
(07.1927)
HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
20.05.1929
-
(02.)1931
British Naval Mission to Greece
24.08.1931
-
(09.1932)
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.09.1933
-
(02.1936)
Executive Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [ship 24.02.1934 commissioned]
21.09.1936
-
(02.1937)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)]
(07.1937)


no appointment listed
18.01.1938
-
(10.1938)
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College (London) [HMS Presdient]
02.01.1939
-
(08.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel)
18.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
1940


Commanding Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser)
02.12.1940
-
(01.1941)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
01.03.1941
-
14.07.1941
Admiralty [HMS President]
14.07.1941
-
(08.)1942
Director of Training and Staff Duties, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.12.1942
-
10.12.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS London (cruiser) (East Indies)
01.02.1945
-
1946
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
12.03.1946
-
1947
Chief of Staff to Naval Representative of British Chiefs of Staff, Military Staff Committee, United Nations [HMS Saker]
1947
-
1948
Flag Officer commanding First Cruiser Squadron
1949
-
1951
Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station [HMS Superb]
Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd, 1952-1958.
Syms,
Dudley Lester
D.L. Syms

23.04.1922
Tientsin, Northern China
-
25.04.1988
Droxford district, Hampshire
Midsh.
01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.
01.05.1942
S.Lt.
10.10.1942, seniority 01.08.1941
A/Lt.
?
Lt.
16.08.1943, seniority 16.03.1943
?, seniority 16.09.1942
Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1950
Cdr.
31.12.1956 (retd 01.08.1970; own request)
Mention in Despatches MID
07.11.1944
sinking U223 Mediterranean 30.03.44
Mention in Despatches MID
13.02.1945
Quarnarolo Channel 01.11.44
Mention in Despatches MID
29.06.1951
Korea
01.09.1940
-
12.06.1941
HMAS Australia
13.06.1941
-
25.06.1941
HMAS Penguin
01.05.1942
-
(02.1943)
promotion course, Portsmouth
16.02.1943
-
07.1944
HMS Tumult (destroyer)
(11.1944)


HMS Wheatland (destroyer)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


signalling course
(05.1950)


HMS President *
(1951)


HMS Cardigan Bay (frigate) (Korea)
(05.1953)


HMS Dryad *
14.06.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMS Bulwark
27.03.1961
-
(02.1963)
Officer-in-Charge, RN Wireless Telegraphy Station and as Resident Naval Officer, Mauritius (Vacoas, Mauritius) [initially borne on HMS Afrikander, later from 19.03.1962 independent as HMS Mauritius]
09.10.1967
-
(02.1969)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rooke & as Staff Officer Strike & Reconnaissance (SORS), Gibraltar
* indexed, but not listed as such
Syms,
Henry Charles
H.C. Syms
20.03.1906
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
09.2003
Ashtead district, Surrey
Wt.Electr.
25.11.1936
Cd.Electr.
01.10.1942
A/Electr.Lt.
09.06.1945?
Electr.Lt.
01.05.1946, seniority 27.01.1940
Lt.Cdr. (L)
27.01.1948 (retd 20.03.1956)
1926


joined RN
01.01.1937
-
(04.1939)
HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (China)
(08.1939)


no appointment listed
12.1939
-
(08.1942)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
(02.1943)


no appointment listed
01.03.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
09.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Marlborough (training establishment, Eastbourne)
14.02.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
(05.1950)


no appointment listed
(05.1953)


no appointment listed
(01.1956)


no appointment listed
President of the Dorking RN Association. AMIEE.
Syms,
James Antony
J.A. Syms
Son of ... Syms, and ... Barrett.
08.09.1921
Totnes district, Devon
-
28.03.2001
Hadlow, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent
Cadet
01.01.1939
Midsh.
01.09.1939
S.Lt.
16.04.1941
Lt.
01.06.1942
Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1950
Cdr.
30.06.1953 (retd 15.05.1965)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee [investiture 06.03.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
01.01.1939
-
31.08.1939
cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
04.12.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Manchester (cruiser)
23.07.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Foresight (destroyer)
25.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Quorn (destroyer)
04.06.1942
-
(08.)1942
French Ship Carentan (late Chasseur 5)
06.10.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Loyal (destroyer)
01.1944
-
(10.1944)
First Lieutenant, HMS Whaddon (destroyer)
27.02.1945
-
(07.)1945
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 754 (motor torpedo boat)
08.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5015 (motor torpedo boat)
11.1947
-
(05.)1949
HMS Ben Lomond
12.07.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Chevron
24.04.1952
-
(05.1953)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 1029 (motor torpedo boat)
26.04.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
(01.1957)
 
 
HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington) *
21.01.1957
-
(01.1959)
Assistant Operations Officer,Plans and Training, Shipping, Allied Command Atlantic Headquarters (Norfolk, Va., USA)
31.05.1961
-
(02.)1963
Maintenance Commander, Central Staff, Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia]
23.09.1963
-
(02.1964)
Trade and Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Trust Company Executive.
Published
: Kent Country Churches (3 volumes; 1984-1989); East Sussex Country Churches (1994); Storm at Old Romney : a novel about Old Romney Church (1996)
 
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