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Wadman, Ronald Sidney John "Ron" Son of ... Wadman, and ... Newnham.	(12?).1920 West Derby district, Lancashire - 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) - (10.1944) 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).	20.12.1909 - 20.07.1973 Gosport district, Hampshire	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
Wainwright, Rupert Charles Purchas Son of late Lt.Cdr. Oswald Johnson Wainwright (1881-1918), and Sybil Purchas (1888-?). Married ((09?).1937, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Patricia Mary Helen Blackwood (died 24.06.2009), daughter of late Col. F.H. Blackwood, DSO and Mrs Blackwood; two sons, two daughters.	16.10.1913 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 15.08.1991 South Warwickshire district, Warwickshire	Cadet 01.01.1931 Midsh. 01.09.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1934 S.Lt. 16.05.1934 Lt. 16.12.1935 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1949 Capt. 30.06.1955 Cdre. 03.12.1962 R.Adm. 07.01.1965 (retd 1967) CB 11.06.1966 HM's birthday 66 [investiture 25.10.66] DSC 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 21.11.44]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 1927     entered RN 10.01.1931 - (02.)1931 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 31.10.1931 - 1933 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (5th Cruiser Squadron, China) 29.03.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 04.01.1934 - 12.08.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 13.08.1934 - (02.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth 07.05.1935 - (08.)1936 HMAS Acasta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 01.10.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet) 30.09.1937 - (08.)1938 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (10.1938)     no appointment listed 19.10.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (08.1939)     no appointment listed 11.12.1939 - (02.)1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) 17.06.1941 - (02.)1943 Gunnery Officer, HMS Scylla (cruiser) (06.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 11.11.1943 - (10.)1944 Squadron Gunnery Officer, HMS Jamaica (cruiser) 28.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 03.1948 - (05.)1949 Gunnery Officer, HMS Forth & on staff of Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet (05.1950)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 09.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Actaeon ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Tintagel Castle ? - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Zephyr 15.03.1954 - (04.1955) Assistant Director (G), Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1956)     no appointment listed 09.08.1956 - (01.)1957 Captain, HMS Cambridge (RN gunnery range, Wembury) 19.06.1958 - 1960 Commanding Officer, HMS Afrikander (RN base, Youngsfield, Wynberg, South Africa) & as Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station 02.08.1960 - 1962 Director Naval Recruiting 03.12.1962 - 1964 Commodore Naval Drafting [HMS President] 07.07.1964 - 07.01.1965 also: Naval ADC to the Queen 1965 - 1967 Vice Naval Deputy to Supreme Allied Commander Europe Served with Redditch Development Corporation, 1968-77. Member Council, Missions to Seamen. Member: Stratford-on-Avon DC, 1973-86 (Vice-Chairman, 1983-84; Chairman, 1984-85); Associate District Councils, 1976-83. Vice-President, Stratford-upon-Avon Society. Member, Waste Management Advisory Council, 1978-81. Published: two prize essays in the Journal of the Royal Uniterd Services Institution.
Wake-Walker, Cedric Collingwood Son of Adm. Sir  William Frederic Wake-Walker and Muriel Elsie Hughes. Married, (20.04.1949) Margaret Iona Letitia Maclean; one son, two daughters.	23.08.1923 Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 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 William Frederic 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) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 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 [investiture 02.02.43] CB 07.07.1940 evacuation of Dunkirk 05/06.40 [investiture 09.08.41] CBE 14.10.1941 destruction of German battleship Bismarck [investiture 30.06.42] OBE 1919 ? - Nte 20.12.1940 Name brough to notice: operations in the field 03-06.40	Education: Haileybury (1900-1902); HMS Britannia 15.01.1903 entered RN 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, the 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 [investiture 05.03.40]	29.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 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) 01.04.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Windsor (destroyer) 14.01.1942 - 01.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Punjabi (destroyer) 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 [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 06.01.1942 defending convoy 3 U-boats sunk [investiture 03.11.42] DSO 30.07.1942 Murmansk convoys [investiture 03.11.42] DSO 22.02.1944 destruction U-boat, Western Approaches, 06.11.43 [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 13.06.1944 6 U-boats sunk in 10 days [presented to next-of-kin] 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) 15.05.1909 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 Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, 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 [investiture 26.02.46] CB 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 18.04.44] MID 18.09.1945 services East Indies Station 44-45	Education: St Christopher's, Bath; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 15.09.1903     entered RN 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 London] 04.12.1944 - (09.1945) Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, East Indies Station [HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Nelson] (accepted the Japanese surrender of the Penang area) 15.03.1946 - 17.06.1947 Vice-Admiral Commanding British Naval Forces in Germany & Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission [HMS Royal Albert]
Walker, Horace	17.03.1885 - 14.11.1955 Orpington, Kent	S.Lt. ? Lt. 31.12.1906 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1914 (retd 01.06.1927; own request) Cdr. (retd) 01.06.1927	15.01.1900     entered RN 17.04.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Mindful (destroyer) (08.1923) Coast Guard * 13.11.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Devonport) (for destroyers in reserve) 01.1926 - (05.1926) HMS Douglas (dlotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (additional; for destroyers in reserve) 27.12.1939 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham) (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) - (12.1943) HMAS Cerberus (RAN training establishment/base, Williamstown, Vict.) * 08.03.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Archer (escort carrier) (07.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Walkey, Howarth Seymour Son of Samuel Walkey, Dawlish. Devon. Married (1923) Marjory Edith Awdry Burnard; one son.	13.05.1900 St Germans district, Cornwall - 20.08.1970 [Chippenham, Wiltshire ?]	Midsh. 01.05.1917 A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.04.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1929 (retd 13.02.1943) A/Cdr. (retd) 01.05.1940? Cdr. (retd) 13.02.1943 A/Capt. (retd) < 07.1948 Capt. (retd) 19.03.1947 R.Adm. (retd) 03.03.1956 (reverted to retd 1959) CBE 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 56 [investiture 24.07.56]	Education: RN Colleges, Osbourne & Dartmouth  1913 joined RN 07.05.1917 - (01.)1919 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 15.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Conquest (light cruiser) 25.09.1924 - (05.1926) qualifying for gunnery, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Excellent] served in West Indies, Mediterranean  and Far East: 09.06.1927 - (07.1927) Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 19.02.1928 - (08.1929) Gunnery Officer, HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (and for Gunnery duties in flotilla) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) no appointment listed 15.05.1930 - (02.)1931 Gunnery Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) (and as Fleet Gunnery Officer) (America & West Indies) 16.05.1931 - (01.)1932 Gunnery Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (and as Fleet Gunnery Officer) 05.08.1932 - (09.1932) Gunnery Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor) (Devonport) 26.05.1933 - (07.)1935 Gunnery Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 1935 joined Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty 12.12.1935 - (02.1936) Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 10.1936 - (10.1938) Ordnance Assistant, Armament Supply Department, Admiralty 03.10.1938 - (04.)1940 Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich Area 01.05.1940 - (02.1941) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich Area 01.04.1942 - (12.1943) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, South Wales Area 03.04.1944 - (07.1945) Assistant to Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.03.1947 - (07.1948) Deputy Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (G), Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.04.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President [Naval Ordnance Department?] 23.02.1953 - (01.1956) Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 1956 - 1958 Vice-President, Naval Ordnance Board 1958 - 1959 President, Naval Ordnance Board
Wallace, John Henry From Hove, Sussex.	c. 1910 ? - died between 08.1991 and 12.1997	Cadet 01.01.1927 Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. 16.09.1930 Lt. 01.10.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1940 (retd c. 1954) DSC 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid) [investiture 02.09.43] MID 13.06.1944 sinking U-boat Mediterranean 28.02.44 CdeG ? liaison services FS Richelieu	15.01.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.08.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.01.1930 - 10.08.1930 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.08.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, Portsmouth 13.04.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 03.02.1933 - (07.)1934 HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (China) 17.12.1934 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Delight (destroyer) (China) (02.1936)     no appointment listed 30.12.1936 - (07.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Crusader (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 10.08.1937 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Encounter (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (02.1941)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) * 21.08.1941 - 09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Calpe (destroyer) 09.1942 - 03.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Penylan (destroyer) (sunk by E-boat in English Channel) 25.01.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Anthony (destroyer) (1944?)     British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship Richelieu (10.1944)     no appointment listed  ? - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 20.12.1947 - (05.1950) Naval Provost Marshal on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (05.1953)     HMNZS Philomel * indexed, but not listed as such
Waller, John William Ashley Son of John Ashley Waller, JP, Beenham Court, Kingsclere, Hants, and Margaret Priscilla Lavinia Waller. Married (1918) Adye Campbell Russell, Melbourne; one son, one daughter.	17.01.1892 Kingsclere, Hants - 09.01.1975 [San Cristobal, Menorca, Spain ?]	Midsh. 1909 S.Lt. 1912 Lt. 28.02.1913 Lt.Cdr. 28.02.1921 Cdr. 31.12.1926 Capt. 30.06.1934 R.Adm. 08.07.1943 (retd 03.05.1947?; reverted to retd 14.07.1948) V.Adm. (retd) 03.05.1947 CB 01.01.1946 New Year 46 [investiture 26.03.46] LM 15.10.1946 ?	Education: Naval Colleges; Staff College (1928) 15.06.1904     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served in Grand Fleet: HMS King Edward VII HMS Royal Oak 28.10.1918 - (01.1919) Torpedo Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) 1918 qualified in torpedoes 25.04.1923 - (08.1923) Torpedo Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) 15.12.1924 - (05.1926) Torpedo Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Africa) (and as Fleet Torpedo Officer, Africa Station) 29.03.1927 - 05.04.1927 Admiralty [HMS President] 05.04.1927 - (07.1927) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.01.1929 - (08.1929) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (04.1930) no appointment listed 26.05.1930 - (01.)1932 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.08.1932 - (09.)1932 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 08.10.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 14.11.1934 - (02.)1936 Chief of Intelligence Staff Far East [HMS Kent (cruiser)] (China) (accomodated in HMS Tamar) (02.1937) no appointment listed 10.05.1937 - (07.)1937 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.08.1937 - 07.07.1940 lent to RAN: 09.10.1937 - 16.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMAS Sydney (cruiser) 16.11.1939 - 07.07.1940 Commodore, London Depot, RAN 09.12.1940 - (02.)1941 Chief Staff Officer to First Sea Lord [HMS President] 1941 - 1942 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord [HMS President] 12.01.1943 - 08.07.1943 Naval ADC to the King 03.1942 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) & (1942) Flag Captain, Force H 1944 - 1945 Red Sea and Suez Canal Area 12.06.1944 - 1946 British Admiralty Maintenance and Supply Representative, Washington, USA [HMS Saker] (on Lend Lease and Administration) (04.1946) no appointment listed 01.05.1946 - (10.)1947 Naval Adviser to Netherlands Ministry of Marine
Waller, Wilfred Neville	± 1917 ? - 02.07.1948	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 16.07.1938 Lt. 1940?, seniority 16.10.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 09.1943 ? Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1947 Cmdn 29.08.1944 flying accident [Bar?] Harbour 29.04.44	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1935 - 31.08.1935 cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 07.01.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 09.09.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 11.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Maori (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 03.07.1939 - (08.1939) pilots' course, No. 7 Flying Training School, Peterborough (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 01.08.1940 - (12.1941) pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Cornwall] (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) no appointment listed 22.02.1943 - (06.)1943 pilot, HMS Heron 28.06.1943 - 09.1943 835 Squadron [HMS Chaser] 09.1943 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, 835 Squadron [HMS Chaser] 01.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, 732 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker] 14.12.1944 - 01.12.1945 1850 Squadron FAA [HMS Vengeance] 02.12.1945 - 05.1946 Commanding Officer, 1850 Squadron FAA [HMS Vengeance] 05.1946 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, 806 Squadron FAA
Walmsley, Eric Norman Married 1st Florence "Lu" Suttor, of Sydney (died 1963); one son. Married 2nd (1965) Constance Martin (died 2000).	28.04.1909 Wimbledon, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey - 10.02.2005 Hampshire	A/S.Lt. RNR 28.04.1930 S.Lt. RNR 18.09.1931 Lt. RNR 28.04.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 09.04.1937, seniority 28.04.1933 Lt. 1938?, seniority 28.04.1933 Lt.Cdr. 28.04.1941 (retd 28.04.1954) A/Cdr. > 05.1950, < 05.1953 DSC 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [investiture 27.07.45] DSC 05.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst 12.43 [investiture 27.07.45]	Education: HMS Worcester, the Thames nautical training college at Greenhithe Went to sea as an apprentice with Elders and Fyffes, 1925. After obtaining his master's certificate, he joined the Orient Line on the mail and passenger run to Australia. 12.04.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.01.1938 - (08.)1938 anti-submarine course [HMS Osprey] 10.08.1938 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Douglas (destroyer) 06.1940 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Vidette (destroyer) 27.10.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Icarus (destroyer) 24.05.1943 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Saumarez (destroyer) 05.02.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Matchless (destroyer) 29.08.1944 - (10.1944) RN Barracks & LCMB, Port Glasgow [HMS Monck] (1944?) Commanding Officer, HMS Gabbard (destoyer) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed post-war serving in the Second Sea Lord's Office & the Naval Intelligence Department: 01.06.1948 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) [07.1948 indicated as Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty] 13.02.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) First Officer, then Master, at Overseas Tankship, the marine arm of Caltex, 1954-1958. Marine superintendent for a fleet of 28 ships, 1958. Next he was loaned to American Overseas Petroleum, where he helped pioneer the offshore drilling industry, advising TexaCommanding Officer, and Standard Oil on drilling locations and oil rigs. Walmsley was a member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners and the Institute of Navigation, and a Younger Brother of Trinity House.
Walter *, Keith McNeil Son of Alexander McNeil Walter. Married (1930) Frances Henriette, FSA Scot., eldest daughter and senior co­heir of Sir Edward Taswell Campbell of Airds Bay, 1st Bt, MP (died 1945); two sons, two daughters. * changed surname from Walter to Campbell-Walter by deed poll of 19.03.1952	31.08.1904 - 24.04.1976 Hampstead district	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 30.09.1925 Lt. 30.09.1927 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1938 A/Capt. 18.11.1943? Capt. 31.12.1945 Cdre. 17.09.1953 R.Adm. 07.01.1955 (retd 07.07.1958) CB 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 57 [investiture 16.07.57] MID 04.05.1943 Operation Torch LM 28.05.1946 ?	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 15.09.1922 - (01.1925) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth 24.07.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 26.11.1928 - (08.)1929 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.12.1929 - (08.)1930 qualifying for signal duties, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 19.12.1930 - (06.1933) Signals Officer, HMNZS Diomede (cruiser), from 11.05.1933 HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) & as Squadron Signals and Wireless Telegraphy Officer, New Zealand Station (01.1934)     no appointment listed 23.04.1934 - (02.1936) Squadron Signals Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship), later HMS Valiant (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 12.01.1937 - (07.)1937 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 21.12.1937 - (02.)1939 Fleet Signals Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 30.03.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for tactical school) 25.08.1939 - (04.)1940 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.06.1940 - (09.1940?) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) * 08.09.1940 - (12.1941) Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * 12.05.1942 - (06.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser) 08.1943 - 17.11.1943 British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC [HMS Saker] 18.11.1943 - (07.1945) Staff Communication Officer & Director of Radio Equipment (Wireless), British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC [HMS Saker] (04.1946)     HMS President ** (07.1948)     no appointment listed 10.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Fierce & as Captain 2nd Minesweeping Flotilla (05.1950)     no appointment listed (05.1953)     HMS President ** 17.09.1953 - (07.1954) Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield & Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Amercia and West Indies Station 07.07.1954  - 07.01.1955 also: Naval ADC to the Queen 02.03.1955 - 1958 Flag Officer, Germany, and Commander Allied  Naval Forces Northern Area, Central Europe & Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission [HMS Royal Prince (parent ship, Germany), based at Cologne] * (02.1941) listed under both HMS Hood and Signal Department ** indexed, but not listed as such
Walter, Philip Norman Son of Capt. Philip Walter, RN, and Eleanor Walter; and grand­son of John Walter III, of The Times. Married (1946) Sylvia (died 1976), daughter of J.C.M. Ogilvie­Forbes, Boyndlie, Aberdeenshire; one son.	12.12.1898 Malta? - 21.01.1984 Berkshire	S.Lt. 15.11.1917 Lt. 15.11.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 30.06.1940 (retd 06.06.1948; invalided) DSO 26.09.1940 Norway 04-06.40 [investiture 15.03.41] MID 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines LegH ? capture of Narvik [presented] CdeG ? capture of Narvik [presented]	Education: West Downs School, Winchester (1907); RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 08.1914     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served European War (Dardanelles and North Sea) 15.01.1919 - (01.1919) HMS President (for Cambridge University) 02.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Valiant (battleship) 03.12.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Durban (cruiser) (China) (05.1926) no appointment listed 31.07.1926 - (07.)1927 First Lieutenant, HMS Spey (fishery protection gunboat) 21.11.1927 - (08.)1929 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties) 31.10.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Sutton (twin-screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla) 01.08.1930 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (China) 10.04.1933 - 30.07.1933 HMS President (for Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty) 31.07.1933 - (01.)1934 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.01.1934 - (11.1934) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.02.1935 - (02.)1937 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff and Director of Naval Intelligence, Navy Office, Melbourne [HMAS Cerberus] 10.05.1937 - (07.)1937 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.07.1937 - (06.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) & in command of 'Vernon' Flotilla (Portsmouth) 28.07.1938 - 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer) 01.02.1940 - (04.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Faulknor (destroyer) (04.1940) - (06.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer) (Norway) (02.1941) HMS Neptune * (12.1941)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 1942 commanded Inshore Squadron, N Africa (wounded, PoW) (08.1942) - (10.1943) no appointment listed (12.1943) Combined Operations Headquarters (for naval tactics, training & staff duties) (04.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed: 1944 Assistant Chief of Staff to Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief 20.11.1945 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, HMS St. George (RN barracks, Gosport, Hants) Commandant, Corps of Commissionaires, 1950-1960. Director of The Times, 1958-1964. * indexed, but not listed as such
Walters, Jack Dalrymple	13.12.1897 Reigate, Surrey - (03?).1981 Stevenage district	A/Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.05.1919 (retd 16.07.1920; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1927 A/Cdr. (retd) 25.08.1941? (reverted to retd 1945/46) Cdr. (retd) ?	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 09.1910     entered RN 1914 - 1915 HMS Doris (Mediterranean) 1916 - 1917 HMS Valiant (North Sea) 1917 - 1918 HMS Lobelia (Mediterranean) 1918 HMS Calypso (Baltic) 15.01.1919 - (01.1919) HMS President (for Cambridge University) 1920 HMS Tring (English Channel) 25.08.1941 (08.1942) (08.1943) - - - (12.1943) (06.1943) (10.1943) HMS Eaglet (Western Approaches Command):  Duty Commander  Staff Officer (Escorts) (2) 20.01.1944 - (07.1945) Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge Naples Area [HMS Byrsa]
Walters, John William Townshend Son of William Bernard Walters and Lilian Martha Walters (née Hartridge). Married (1949) Margaret Sarah Patricia Jeffkins; two sons, one daughter.	23.04.1926 Guildford, Surrey - 07.05.2008 Liphook, Hampshire	Cadet 01.01.1944 Paym. Midsh. = Midsh. (S) 01.09.1944 S.Lt. (S) ? Lt. (S) 01.01.1948 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.01.1956 Cdr. (S) 31.12.1962 Capt. (S) 1970s R.Adm. 07.01.1981 (retd 1984) CB 1984 ?	Education: John Fisher School, Purley, Surrey; jssc (1967) 01.01.1944 - 31.08.1944 special entry cadet (for accountant duties) 01.09.1944 - 1946 HMS King George V (battleship) (04.1946) HMS Perseus * 14.10.1946 - (05.)1949 Captain's Secretary, HMS London 09.12.1949 - 1951 Secretary to Chief Staff Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) 11.1951 - (05.)1953 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (for duty in Admiral's office) (07.)1954 - (01.1957) Office of Vice Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President] 08.09.1957 - (01.)1959 Squadron Supply Officer, 8th Destroyer Squadron & 3rd Frigate Squadron [HMS Cheviot] 11.12.1959 - 1962 Legal Adviser and FNIO on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] 07.08.1962 - (02.)1964 Secretary to Flag Officer Middle East [HMS Sheba] 1964 - 1966 Secretary to Naval Secretary 16.12.1967 - (02.)1969 Supply Officer, HMS Albion 1969 - 1972 Secretary to Chief of Fleet Support 1972 - 1975 Chief Naval Judge Advocate 1975 - 1978 Captain Naval Drafting 1978 - 1980 Director Naval Administrative Planning 1980 - 1981 Defence Delegegate, UN Law of the Sea Conference 1981 - 1984 Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel and Logistics) Called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1956. Chairman, Industrial Tribunals, Southampton, since 1987 (London Central, 1984-1987); Deputy Chairman, Data Protection Tribunal, since 1985. * indexed, but not listed as such
Walton, Eric William Kevin Son of Murray Walton, a missionary, and Myra Hebbert. Married Ruth Yule; one son, three daughters.	15.05.1918 Kobe, Japan - 13.04.2009	Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR 23.10.1939 T/S.Lt. (E) 1941, seniority 23.10.1939 T/Lt. (E) 23.04.1942 DSC 27.04.1943 convoy JW51B 12.42 [investiture 23.11.43] AM * 08.06.1948 rescue crevasse 24.08.46 [investiture 20.07.48] MID 18.04.1944 anti-U-boat operations Western Approaches 10-11.43 Cmdn 12.05.1953 rescue crevasse 01.01.52 PolM 17.07.1953 Marguerite Bay 46-47 [investiture 20.10.53] * entitled by Royal Warrant of 1971 to the George Cross (GC), but he chose to retain the AM. Recommendation reads: "At about 12 noon on 24th August, 1946, while on a sledging journey, a member of the Survey fell through a badly-bridged crevasse and disappeared. Major Tonkin had fallen some 40 feet and was jammed in a narrow .part'of the crevasse. Ropes were lowered to him and he managed to get loops round his forearms, but no higher, and it was found impossible to pull him out as he was jammed in the ice. Lieutenant Walton volunteered to be lowered in the crevasse to free Major Tonkin by chipping. As an ice axe could not be used in the constricted space of the crevasse, the spike was sawn off and used as a hand tool. Lieutenant Walton was lowered down a wider part of the crevasse and worked his way along until he reached and succeeded in freeing Major Tonkin, who was eventually pulled to the surface, after having been three hours down the crevasse. During that time Lieutenant Walton was lowered down to him on five separate occasions, remaining down for considerable periods on each occasion. His persistence was most commendable, and it was due solely to his efforts that Major Tonkin was finally rescued.	Education: Monkton Combe School; City and Guilds College of Engineering, Imperial College, London (graduated 1939; civil engineering) (04.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * [assisting with the commissioning of new ships at Tyneside] (02.1941)     HMS Rodney (battleship) * 06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Rodney (battleship) 04.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Onslow (destroyer) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 15.03.1943 - 11.1943 HMS Duncan (destroyer) 29.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Petard (destroyer) 09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) 07.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Relentless (destroyer) (04.1946)     HMS President * (07.1948)     HMS President * Member, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. Published: Two years in the Antarctic (1955) ; joint author of Portrait of Antarctica (1983) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wanklyn, Malcolm David   3rd son (of 6 children) of late William Lumb Wanklyn (1872-1932), egineer, and of Mrs Marjorie Josephine (Rawson) Wanklyn (1885-), Flat, 159, Chatsworth Court, W8. Married (05.05.1938) Elspeth Kinloch (born 1912), 2nd daughter of James Kinloch; one son (Lt.Cdr. Ian David Kinloch Wanklyn, who married Penelope Malins, eldest daughter of Capt. Charles Wickham Malins, DSO, DSC, RN).	28.06.1911 The Hermitage, Alipore, India - 14.04.1942 off North Africa in Gulf of Tripoli (KIA) [age 30] [Portsmouith Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]	Cadet 01.05.1928? Midsh. 01.05.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1931 S.Lt. 01.01.1932 Lt. 01.02.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1941 VC 16.12.1941 war patrols Mediterranean 05-10.41 * [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 02.09.1941 war patrols 01-05.41 [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 25.08.1942 sinking Italian small AMM St Bon [presented to next-of-kin] DSO 25.08.1942 sinking U-boat & trawler Mediterranean 03.42 [presented to next-of-kin] * On 24 May 1941 in the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, Lieutenant commander Wanklyn , commanding HM Submarine Upholder, torpedoed a troopship which was with a strongly protected convoy. The troopship sank and Upholder then endured a strong counter-attack in which 37 deoth charges were dropped in 20 minutes, before she got clear. By the end of 1941 Lieutenant-Commander Wanklyn had sunk nearly 140,000 tons of enemy shipping, including a destroyer and troop-ships, tankers, supply and store ships.	Education: Parkfield preparatory school in Haywards Heath, Sussex; RN College, Dartmouth (1925-1928) 1925 entered RN 01.09.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 23.04.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 24.09.1931 - 04.04.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.04.1932 - (09.)1932 promotion course, Portsmouth 1932 joined submarines 15.02.1933 - (05.)1933 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (temporary) 08.05.1933 - (06.)1933 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 19.08.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Oberon (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] 19.10.1934 - (07.1935) HMS L 56 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 01.01.1936 - (02.1936) First Lieutenant, HMS H 50 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania] 28.01.1937 - (08.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Shark (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops] (10.1938) no appointment listed 30.11.1938 - (04.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Porpoise (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia] 29.07.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 02.08.1939 - (09.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Otway (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 05.02.1940 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 32 (submarine) 08.08.1940 - 14.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Upholder (submarine) (Mediterranean) Literature: J. Allaway, Hero of the Upholder : the story of Lt.Cdr. M.D. Wanklyn, VD, DSO (1991)
Warburton-Lee, Bernard Armitage Warburton [initially known as: Lee, B.A.W.] Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Henry Warburton-Lee. Married Elizabeth Warburton-Lee, of Cringletie, Peeblesshire; one son.	13.09.1895 Broad Oak, Gwynedd - 10.04.1940 (KIA) [age 44] Narvik, Norway [Ballangen New Cemetery, Ballangen, Nordland, Norway, British Plot IV.B.9]	Lt. 15.01.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.01.1925 Cdr. 30.06.1930 Capt. 30.06.1936 VC 07.06.1940 Battle of Narvik 10.04.40 * [presented to next-of-kin] NorWC 19.10.1942 Battle of Narvik 10.04.40 [presented to next-of-kin] MID 11.12.1918 service in Grand Fleet destroyers * For gallantry, enterprise and daring in command of the force engaged in the First Battle of Narvik, on 10th April, 1940. On being ordered to carry out an attack on Narvik, Captain Warburton-Lee learned that the enemy was holding the place in much greater force than had been thought. He signalled to the Admiralty that six German destroyers and one submarine were there, that the channel might be mined, and that he intended to attack at dawn. The Admiralty replied that he alone could judge whether to attack, and that whatever decision he made would have full support. Captain Warburton-Lee led his flotilla of five destroyers up the fjord in heavy snow-storms, arriving off Narvik just after daybreak. He took the enemy completely by surprise and made three successful attacks on warships and merchantmen in the harbour. As the flotilla withdrew, five enemy destroyers of superior gunpower were encountered and engaged. The Captain was mortally wounded by a shell which hit the bridge of H.M.S. Hardy. His last signal was "Continue to engage the enemy".	15.05.1908     entered RN 16.04.1918 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, HMS Wrestler (destroyer) (08.1923) no appointment listed 28.11.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Tuscan (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.03.1926 - (04.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 09.04.1928 - (04.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (08.1930) - (10.1930) no appointment listed 13.01.1931 - (01.1932) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (09.1932) no appointment listed 07.04.1933 - (07.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Bryony (sloop) (Mediterranean) (08.1934)     no appointment listed 10.1934 - (11.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Decoy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 17.12.1934 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.02.1938 - (04.)1939 Flag Captain, HMS Effingham (cruiser) & as Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet 28.07.1939 - 10.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Hardy (destroyer, flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, from [08.1939?] 2nd Destroyer Flotilla

 

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