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Wadman, Ronald Sidney John "Ron"	? - 06.2005 still alive	Cadet (E) 01.01.1938 Midsh. (E) 01.01.1939 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.09.1940 S.Lt. (E) 16.08.1941 A/Lt. (E) < 08.1942 Lt. (E) 10.1942, seniority 16.07.1941 Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.07.1949 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1953 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 03.10.1958)	01.01.1939 - (09.)1939 engineering course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.09.1939 - (02.1941) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 28.04.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines * 04.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth) 18.07.1949 - (05.)1950 staff, Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 04.10.1950 - (05.1953) HMCS Shearwater (RCN Air Station, Shearwater) 07.09.1953 - (04.1955) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) ** * indexed, but not listed as such ** (01.1956) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Wagstaff, Noel John Married (14.03.1942) Leila Mary Cadell (26.01.1921 - 20.06.2000).	1909 - 20.07.1973	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S/Lt. 16.09.1930 Lt. 16.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1940 Cdr. 31.12.1944 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960)	30.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.09.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) (04.1930) no appointment listed 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]  31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 04.12.1933 - (01.1934) qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 27.05.1935 - (02.)1936 Signal Officer, HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 29.09.1936 - (10.1938) Port Wireless Telegraphy Officer for V/S and W/T duties on staff of Vice-Admiral Malta and for charge of Naval W/T and Signal Stations [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (02.1939) no appointment listed 21.03.1939 - (09.)1939 Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.11.1939 - 03.1940 HMS Cochrane (additional for various services) 26.03.1940 - (02.1941) Signal School (Experimental), Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.04.1942 20.04.1942 (02.1943) - - (02.1943) (08.1942) HMS Lanka (RN base, Ceylon) for duty with Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet  for miscellaneous duties 03.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Warspite (battleship) 29.07.1943 - (04.)1944 Fleet RDF Officer, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Ceylon)] * 06.11.1944 - (04.1946) Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] ** 07.08.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Tralaig 24.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) 09.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Osiris 14.12.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Apollo (01.1956) HMS President *** transferred to the General List 07.01.1960 - 07.07.1960 Naval ADC to the Queen * (06.1944) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** (04.1946) also indicated: "And for duty with Naval Intelligence Division" *** indexed, but not listed as such
Wake-Walker, Cedric Collingwood Son of Adm. Sir Frederic William Wake-Walker and Muriel Elsie Hughes. Married, (20.04.1949) Margaret Iona Letitia Maclean; one son, two daughters.	1923 - 01.2006 still alive	Midsh. 01.01.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1942 S.Lt. 16.12.1942 Lt. 01.12.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1952 (retd 1963/64?) MID 29.06.1951 Korea	(02.1941) HMS King George V (battleship) * (08.1942) - (08.)1943 promotion course, Portsmouth 11.10.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Undine (destroyer) (07.1948) no appointment listed 17.01.1950 - (05.1950) Flag Lieutenant, 5th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Belfast (cruiser)] (Far East) (1951) Staff Flag Officer 2, Far Eastern Station 01.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Mercury (training establishment, nr Petersfield) 14.06.1954 - (01.1956) Flag Lieutenant & Staff Communications Officer  to Flag Officer Gibraltar [HMS Rooke] (07.1961) - (02.1963) HMS Mercury (training establishment, nr Petersfield) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wake-Walker, Christopher Baldwin Hughes Son of Adm. Sir Frederic William Wake-Walker and Muriel Elsie Hughes. Married (10.02.1944) Lady Anne Spencer (3rd Officer WRNS), daughter of Captain Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer and Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton; three sons, two daughters.	16.05.1920 - 05.04.1998 Ipswich, Suffolk	Midsh. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 16.12.1939 Lt. 01.08.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1953 Capt. 30.06.1961 (retd 24.12.1968)	01.01.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Southampton (cruiser) 09.11.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (East Indies) 18.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 11.03.1942 - (10.1943) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (12.1943) no appointment listed 25.01.1944 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Volage (destroyer) 1944 - 1945 qualified in signals 26.05.1945 - (07.)1945 staff, HMS Mercury (HM Signal School, nr Petersfield) 1945 - 01.1946 Signals Communications Officer, HMS Onslow (destroyer) (17th Destroyer Flotilla) 01.1946 - 1947 Signals Communications Officer, HMS Solebay (destroyer) (5th Destroyer Flotilla) 29.01.1947 - 1948 Signals Communications Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Nore & Staff of Sgnal School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (07.1948) no appointment listed 27.11.1948 - (05.)1950 Signals Communications Officer, New Zealand Squadron [HMNZS Bellona] (lent to RNZN) 1950 - 1952 Signals Communications Officer to Flag Officer Second-in-Command Mediterranean 18.02.1953 - 1954 Fleet Communications Officer, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 03.01.1955 - (04.)1955 joint services staff course, Joint Services Staff College [HMS President] 03.10.1955 - 1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Surprise 1959 - 1961 Commander, RN College, Greenwich (07.1961)     no appointment listed 02.07.1962 - 1964 Naval Attaché, Paris [HMS President] 1964 - 1966 Captain F.17, Dartmouth Training Squadron [HMS Tenby & HMS Eastbourne] 10.10.1966 - 23.12.1968 Director of Naval Signals, Navy Department Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Suffolk, 15.12.1983.
Wake-Walker, Sir William Frederic   Son of Frederic George Arthur Wake­Walker, solicitor, and Mary Eleanor Forster. Married (19.01.1916) Muriel Elsie, daughter of Sir Collingwood Hughes, 10th Bt (born 1890); two sons (Capt. Christopher B.H. Wake-Walker & Lt.Cdr. Cedric C. Wake-Walker), two daughters.	24.03.1888 Watford, Herts. - 24.09.1945 London [East Bergholt Cemetery, row H, grave 7]	Cadet 01.1903 Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 09.04.1908, seniority 15.07.1907 Lt. 19.06.1909, seniority 15.07.1908 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1916 Cdr. 30.06.1920 Capt. 31.12.1927 R.Adm. 10.01.1939 V.Adm. 06.04.1942 Adm. 08.05.1945 KCB 01.01.1943 New Year 43 CB 07.07.1940 evacuation of Dunkirk 05/06.40 CBE 14.10.1941 destruction of German battleship Bismarck OBE 1919 ? - Nte 20.12.1940 Name brough to notice: operations in the field 03-06.40	Education: Haileybury (1900-1902); HMS Britannia 01.1903 Naval Cadet HMS Invincible (battlecruiser) 1912 qualified in torpedo 1914 - 1918 served European War: 11.07.1916 - (01.1919) Torpedo Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) ? - ? Royal Navy Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.08.1922 - 1924 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.12.1924 - (01.)1925 Tactical Section, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.12.1925 - (07.)1927 Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) (04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 17.05.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Castor (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 25.07.1930 - (01.)1932 Deputy Director of the Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.09.1932 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 15.10.1935 - (07.)1937 Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.01.1938 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet) (02.1939) no appointment listed 13.03.1939 - (04.)1939 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed (09.1939) Rear-Admiral Commanding 12th Cruiser Squadron (Northern Patrol) 28.10.1939 - 05.1940 Rear-Admiral (Minelaying), Admiralty [HMS President] (successfully co-ordinated technical measures dealing with German magnetic mine) 29.05.1940 - 06.1940 under the title "Rear-Admiral, Dover" commander of sea-going ships and vessels off the Belgian coast & Dunkirk (operation "Dynamo"; loss of the flagship, flotilla leader HMS Keith) 06.1940 - (08.)1940 Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Minelaying Squadron 1940 - 12.1940 Rear-Admiral Commanding Force K (Malta) [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)] 15.12.1940 24.01.1941 21.05.1941 07.1941 08.1941 - - - - 02.1942 27.05.1941 07.1941 09.1941 Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Norfolk (cruiser)] actually assumed command action against German battleship Bismarck Polar Sea service, among others: strike at enemy's coastal traffic in the Far North [HMS Devonshire] securing of the first experimental escort convoy "Dervish" 22.05.1942 - (07.)1945 A Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: Third Sea Lord and Controller [HMS President] (responsible for landing craft development) 24.09.1945 died only a few hours after accepting the appointment as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
Waldegrave, Hon. John Montagu Granville Son of the Hon. Montagu Waldegrave (afterwards 5th Baron Radstock) (1867-1953) and the Hon. Mrs. Waldegrave (Constance Marion Brodie) (died 1936), of Chelsea, London. Married (29.06.1940) Lady Hersey Margaret Boyle (11.07.1914-1993), daughter of Capt. Patrick James Boyle, RN, 8th Earl of Glasgow; two daughters.	29.08.1905 - 18.02.1944 (KIA) [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 81. column 1]	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 Lt. 15.05.1928 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1936 Cdr. 08.05.1942 DSC 23.12.1939 succesful actions against enemy submarines	29.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.04.1926 - (10.1926) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.1927) promotion course, Portsmouth 15.01.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (temporary) 09.1929 - (04.1930) First Lieutenant, HMS Gannet (river gunboat) (China) 09.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Bee (gunboat) (China) (01.1932) no appointment listed 30.03.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 29.03.1934 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Hastings (sloop) 06.02.1936 - (02.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Gnat (river gunboat) (China) (06.1938) - (08.1938) no appointment listed 18.08.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS Vindictive (cruiser) 03.10.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Puffin (sloop) 31.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties) 27.05.1942 - (08.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.09.1943 - 18.02.1944 Executive Officer, HMS Penelope (cruiser) (torpedoed off Anzio)
Walker, Frederic John "Johnnie" Son of late Capt. Frederic Murray Walker, RN. Married (1919) Jessica Eileen Ryder Stobart; three sons, one daughter.	03.06.1896 Plymouth - 09.07.1944 (cerebral thrombosis) Naval Hospital, Seaforth [buried at sea]	S.Lt. 01.01.1916 Lt. 15.08.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 30.06.1942 06.1944?, seniority 30.06.1940? CB 14.09.1943 destruction of 2 U-boats, Western Approaches 24.06.43 DSO 06.01.1942 defending convoy 3 U-boats sunk DSO 30.07.1942 Murmansk convoys DSO 22.02.1944 destruction U-boat, Western Approaches, 06.11.43 DSO 13.06.1944 6 U-boats sunk in 10 days MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 MID 20.06.1944 U-boat probably sunk, Western Approaches MID 01.08.1944 destruction U473, Western Approaches, 06.05.44	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1909-1914; King's Medal) 15.06.1909 entered RN 06.1914 - 06.1916 HMS Ajax (batleship) 06.1916 - ? HMS Mermaid (sloop) (Dover) 15.08.1916 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, HMS Sarpedon (destroyer) 1919? Watch-Keeping Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) 15.03.1923 - (05.)1926 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 08.1926 - (07.1927) Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet) 31.12.1927 - (06.)1928 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) & as Fleet anti-Submarine Officer, Atlantic Fleet 18.08.1928 - (10.)1930 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) [since 04.1930?: HMS Warspite (battleship)] (Mediterranean) (and for Fleet anti-submarine duties) 12.12.1930 - (02.)1931 Anti-Submarine Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 17.07.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 08.08.1932 - (09.1932) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed (06?.)1933 - 09.11.1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) 10.11.1933 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Falmouth (sloop) (China) (02.1936) no appointment listed 25.07.1936 - (02.)1937 Executive Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1937 - (09.1939) Commander Experimental Department, Anti-Submarine Establishment (Portland) [HMS Osprey] 25.01.1940 - 09.1941 Staff Officer (Operations) & (Anti-Submarine) to the Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)] 09.1941 - 07.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Stork (sloop) & Senior Officer, 36th Escort Group (08.1942) no appointment listed 09.1942 - (02.)1943 Captain (D), Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 21.03.1943 - 07.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Starling (sloop) & Senior Officer, 2nd Support Group Literature: D.E.G. Wemyss, Walker's Group in the Western Approaches (1948); Terence Robertson, Walker, RN : the story of Captain Frederic John Walker CB, DSO and three Bars, RN  (1956); Alan Burn, Frederic John Walker RN and the Battle of the Atlantic (1993) [also published as: The fighting Captain]
Walker, [Sir] Harold Thomas Coulthard "Hookey" Younger son of late Lt­Gen. Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker, KCB, KCMG, DSO, and late Lady Walker (Harriet Edith Coulthard). Married (1931) Olive Marjory, younger daughter of Major J.A. Berners, Woolverstone Park, Ipswich; one son, one daughter.	18.03.1891 Plymstock, Devon - 25.12.1975 Woking, Surrey	Midsh. 1908 S.Lt. 30.05.1911 Lt. 30.04.1913 Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1921 Cdr. 30.06.1926 Capt. 31.12.1931 Cdre. 2nd cl. 15.04.1940?, till 1940 R.Adm. 08.07.1941 V.Adm. 12.12.1944 (retd 10.09.1947) Adm. (retd) 02.09.1948 KCB 01.01.1946 New Year 46 CB 01.01.1944 New Year 44 MID 18.09.1945 services East Indies Station 44-45	Education: St Christopher's, Bath; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 1914 - 1918 served European War: HMS Bellerophon & HMS Vindictive (Zeebrugge raid, 1918) (wounded, lost a hand, despatches twice) 21.09.1918 - (01.1919) HMS President (miscellaneous services) (05.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Mantis (Archangel River Expedition) 08.02.1922 - (08.1923) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 15.04.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Canterbury (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.01.1925 - (05.)1926 Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 19.08.1926 - 26.08.1926 Admiralty [HMS President] 26.08.1926 - (07.)1927 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.11.1927 - (08.1929) Executive Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 28.02.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, HMS Ganges (base/training establishment, Harwich/Shotley) 10.02.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser) (Chatham) 13.03.1933 - (06.)1933 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.10.1933 - (01.)1934 course, Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 19.04.1934 - (02.)1936 Flag Captain, HMAS Canberra (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron 10.08.1936 - (02.)1938 Deputy Director Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.05.1938 - 30.01.1939 Flag Captain, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) 31.01.1939 - 25.03.1940 Flag Captain, HMS Barham (battleship) & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron (Mediterranean) 15.04.1940 - (02.)1941 Commodore RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 27.08.1941 - 12.09.1941 President of the second Board of Enquiry into the loss of HMS Hood, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.11.1941 - 1943 Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 01.05.1944 - (06.)1944 Rear-Admiral Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Londo