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N.A. Wodehouse   to   T.C.T. Wynne

Wodehouse, Norman Atherton Son of Reverend Frederick Armine Wodehouse (1842-1921) and Alice Elizabeth Juliana Powys (died 1934). Married (22.10.1923) Theodosia Frances Boyle (born 24.06.1890), daughter of Cdr. Edward Louis Dalrymple Boyle and Theodosia Isabella Ogilvie, and widow of Douglas William Swire, Captain Shropshire Yeomanry; two sons.	18.05.1887 Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire - 04.07.1941 a/b SS Robert L. Holt (sunk by German submarines) (KIA) [Liverpool Naval Memorial]	A/S.Lt. 30.07.1906 S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 30.07.1906 Lt. 18.07.1908, seniority 30.07.1907 Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1915 Cdr. 30.06.1919 Capt. 30.06.1926 R.Adm. 02.06.1937 (retd 08.05.1940) V.Adm. (retd) 08.05.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR ? CB 02.01.1939 New Year 39 Order of Striped Tiger of China (1919) Royal Humane Society Silver Medal (1915)	Education: Royal Naval School, Lee­on­the­Solent; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defence College 15.01.1902     entered RN 1904 Midshipman, HMS Caesar, Atlantic Fleet 1905 Midshipman, HMS Bulwark, Mediterranean 1913 Gunnery Officer, HMS Warrior 1914 - 1918 served European War 30.08.1915 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) 1919 - 1922 Staff Commander on staff of Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Hawkins (light cruiser)] 16.02.1922 - (08.1923) an Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS PResident] 01.07.1924 - (05.1926) Executive Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 14.03.1927 - (07.1927) senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich 17.12.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1931 - (02.01931 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.12.1931 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 1935 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 07.05.1935 - (07.)1935 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 30.08.1935 - (07.1937) Flag Captain, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 19.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS President (for miscellaneous or special services) 18.02.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS President (for miscellaneous or special services) 18.10.1938 - (02.)1939 Head of British Military Mission to Portugal [HMS President[ (04.1939) no appointment listed 05.1939 - (09.1939) Rear-Admiral-in-Charge & Admiral-Superintendent  HM Dockyard Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant] 03.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) (02.1941) HMS President * 1941? - 04.07.1941 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet] * indexed, but not listed as such
Wodehouse, Philip George Son (with two sisters and one brother)of Rev. Philip John Wodehouse (1836-1917) and Marion Bryan Wallas (1852-1922). Married 1st (25.10.1915; marriage dissolved 1928) Beaujolois Theresa Constance Ridout (23.08.1889 - 12.1986), daughter of Arthur George Ridout (1852-1939), and Beaujolois Mabel Fanshawe (1859-1940); two daughters. Married 2nd (06.1928) Alice Margaret Rowe (27.01.1901 - 02.1997), daughter of William Rowe.	22.11.1883 Barnstaple, Devon - 04.04.1973 Barnstaple, Devon	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1903? S.Lt. 24.09.1904, seniority 15.09.1903 Lt. 01.04.1906 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1918 (retd 26.11.1929; own request) Capt. (retd) 26.11.1929 (reactivated 18.09.1939) (reverted to retd 1946?) DSO 17.05.1918 Mediterranean ItCrwn 21.06.1918 ?	15.01.1899     entered RN (1915)     Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Gallipoli 04.1915) 22.09.1916 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Northesk (torpedo-boat destroyer) 22.01.1923 - (01.)1925 Mobilisation Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.04.1925 - (05.)1926 [Commanding Officer ?,] ML 291 (motor launch) 12.1926 - (02.)1927 [Commanding Officer?], HMS Carysfort (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 20.05.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (for destroyers in reserve) (12.1927) - (07.1928) no appointment listed (06.1929) - (08.1929) no appointment listed 18.09.1939 - (10.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (depot ship, Devonport) 08.10.1941 - 06.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 24.08.1942 - 12.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tynwald (anti-aircraft ship) (sunk by Italian submarine off Bougie) (12.1942) - (06.1943) not indexed, so probably reverted to the retired list, but again reactivated: 02.07.1943 - 02.10.1944 Senior Officer, Thames Local Defence Flotilla [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)] 02.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Wolfe, Geoffrey Max Only son of Sidney Wolfe, and the late Mrs Wolfe, of Hove, Sussex. Married (07.10.1946, Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Dorothy Josephine Davson, only daughter of George Charles Wolseley Davson (?-1979), and Pauline Elsie Dimes (1888-1981), of London SW15; three sons.	(09?).1911 Brentford district, Middlesex - 23.08.2007 Wooburn Common, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire	T/Instr.Lt. 23.10.1939 T/A/Instr.Lt.Cdr. > 06.1943, < 08.1943 T/Instr.Lt.Cdr. 23.10.1945	Education: BA. (04.1940)     short course of instruction 30.06.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Barham (battleship) (for meteorological duties) 16.03.1942 - (06.)1944 Naval Meteorological Branch, Admiralty [HMS President] (10.144)     Naval Meteorological Branch, Admiralty [HMS President] * 08.11.1944 - (04.1946) Squadron Meteorological Officer, 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier)]
Wonnacott, William Ernest Son of Ernest William Wonnacott (1883-1949), and Susannah Hadassah Sarah Carpenter (1887/88-1922). Married (1937) Katie May Prideaux (20.04.1912-11.1999), from Cornwall; one daughter, one son.	15.02.1912 Devonport district, Devon - (06?).1971 Plymouth district, Hampshire	A/Wt.Shipwr. 30.11.1939 Wt.Shipwr. ?, seniority 30.11.1939 A/Cd.Shipwr. 18.06.1945 Sen.Cd.Shipwr. 01.10.1948 Shipwr.Lt. (Special Duties List) 01.01.1957 Shipwr.Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1959 (retd 15.02.1962)	1926/27? entered RN as Apprentice Shipwright 1939? - 1940? HMS Codrington (destroyer) 07.02.1940 - 16.06.1942 HMS Hermione (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-205 south of Crete] 17.06.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for duty with Naval Officer-in-Charge, Tripoli) (12.1943) no appointment listed 07.03.1944 - (06.1944) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)  * (04.1946) HMS Landswell (Mobile Landing Craft Advanced Base 1, Cochin) * 01.10.1946 - (07.)1948 HM Dockyard, Portland [HMS Osprey] 19.10.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) 01.07.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Howe (battleship) (for miscellaneous duties) 12.02.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) ? - (04.)1955 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.05.1955 - (01.1957) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] ? - (01.1959) HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) ? - (07.1961) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wood, George Edward Cameron Son of Edward and Julia Cameron Wood; husband of Cecily Delamere Wood, of Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.	10.07.1900 Bucklow district, Cheshire - 05.11.1940 (KIA) [age 40] [Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 34, column 1]	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1918 A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.10.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1928	15.07.1916     entered RN (01.1919) HMS Scorpion (destroyer) * 12.05.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer) 25.10.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1926) no appointment listed 03.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (China) 12.10.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic) 03.09.1929 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS Wallflower (sloop) (Africa) 17.04.1930 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Delphinium (sloop) (Africa) 01.01.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Centurion (target vessel) 28.08.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 09.11.1936 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.05.1937 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) 09.1940 - 05.11.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wood, Gordon Graham Son of ... Wood, and ... Milne.	21.12.1911 Chertsey district, Surrey - 03.1995 Chichester, West Sussex	T/Lt. (E) 10.06.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 20.02.1943? (reld > 04.1946)	24.01.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 08.04.1942 - (02.)1943 Engineer Officer, 16th MTB Flotilla [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA)] 20.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (10.1943) - (10.1944) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) * 30.10.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) 20.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) * indexed, but not listed as such
Woodford, Reginald "Reg"	19.08.1901 Newport, Isle of Wight - 03.12.1974 East Cosham, Portsmouth, Hampshire	Gnr. 01.07.1930 Cd.Gnr. 01.10.1939 Lt. 10.01.1945 (retd 19.08.1951) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 10.01.1953 MVO 01.01.1955 New Year 55 [investiture 22.02.55]	... - ... ... 13.02.1939 - (05.)1939 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser, Portsmouth) 03.05.1939 - (08.1942) RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] (02.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) * 21.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Nelson (battleship) 22.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon (D) (base for port parties (Naval Parties 1571-1574), Dartmouth) ... - ... ...
Woodhall, Eric Langton Son of Gerald Frederick and Hilda Sabina Fluester Woodhall.	16.12.1899 Paddington, London - 21.06.1940 (KIA) [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 15.06.1918 A/Lt. ? Lt. 27.10.1922, seniority 15.12.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1929 A/Cdr. 12.11.1939? DSO 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines [investiture 06.02.40] MVO 08.08.1932 ?	15.06.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Glorious (cruiser) (European War) 1920 HMS Centurion (Black Sea) 17.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Walrus (torpedo-boat destroyer) (01.1925) Pylmouth Division, Royal Marines 22.06.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Colombo (cruiser) (North America & West Indies) 05.06.1929 - (08.)1929 First Lieutenant, HMS Woolston (destroyer) (Mediteranean) 08.1929 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1932 - 1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Tiverton (twin screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla) 20.07.1933 - 1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Acasta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1936) no appointment listed 1936 Royal Naval Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 27.08.1936 - (10.1938) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for duty with Petty Officers' courses) 31.07.1939 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Eclipse (destroyer) 12.11.1939 - 21.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Howe (armed merchant cruiser)
Woodhouse, [Sir] Charles Henry Lawrence Son of Rev. A.P. Woodhouse and F.D. Woodhouse. Married (1928) Barbara Margaret, daughter of Dr H.M. Brownfield, Petersfield; three daughters. Residence: (1947) Cossington, Petersfield, Hants.	09.07.1893 East Retford district, Nottinghamshire - 23.09.1978 [Warlingham, Surrey ?]	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.03.1914 Lt. 15.04.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1927 Capt. 31.12.1934 R.Adm. 08.01.1944 V.Adm. 21.01.1948 (retd 15.08.1950) Adm. (retd) 26.01.1952 KCB 09.06.1949 HM birthday 49 [investiture 13.07.50] CB 23.12.1939 action with Admiral Graf Spee 13.12.39 Commander, Order of Merit (Chile) 06.09.1940 Concepcion earthquake 24.01.39 [award handed]  Silver Medal of Concepcion (Chile) 1939? Concepcion earthquake 24.01.39 [award handed]	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.05.1906     entered RN 16.12.1918 - (01.1919) 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS St Vincent (battleship) 04.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.08.1924 - (05.1926) Gunnery Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.01.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 14.01.1930 - (10.1930) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.01.1931 - (09.1932) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral, 2nd Battle Squadron & Squadron Gunnery Officer [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 01.02.1933 - (01.1934) Executive Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 23.02.1935 - (02.1937) Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.05.1937 - (07.1937) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.10.1937 - 22.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) (Battle of the River Plate 13 Dec 1939) 10.06.1940 - 01.10.1940 served at Admiralty [HMS President] 01.10.1940 - (02.)1942 Director of Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.04.1942 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Howe (battleship) 08.07.1943 - 08.01.1944 also: Naval ADC to the King 13.03.1944 - (07.1945) Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.1946 - (04.1946) Rear-Admiral, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Implacable] 04.1948 - 04.1950 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Norfolk, later HMS Mauritius] (05.1950)     no appointment listed
Woodrooffe, Thomas Borries Ralph "Tommy" Eldest son (with one brother) of George Borries Woodrooffe, MB, BC (Cantab) (1868-1923), and Elizabeth McFarlan "Bessie" Jameson (1872?-1941). Married (10.03.1927, Brompton Oratory, Kensington district, London) Ida Helen Duncan (05.12.1900 - (03?).1981), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Ian Duncan, of Wellington, New Zealand; one daughter.	24.01.1899 South Africa - 25.03.1978 Kensington, London W8	Midsh. 01.09.1917 A/S.Lt. 19.01.1919 S.Lt. ? A/Lt. 15.04.1921 Lt. 15.04.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1929 03?.1933, seniority 15.07.1929 (retd 21.04.1933; under Order in Council of 12.10.1925) A/Cdr. (retd) > 10.1944, < 01.1945	Education: St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa; Clifton College (Dakyn's House; 09.1916-01.1917; 5z-5y; XV). 15.02.1917     entered RN 18.07.1917 - (05.)1919 Midshipman, HMS Resolution (Grand Fleet) 12.05.1919 - (08.)1920 HMS Scarab (river gunboat) 08.10.1920 - (01.1921) course of instruction at Cambridge University [HMS President] (04.1922)     short course of instruction 11.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Philomel (light cruiser) (New Zealand Division) 16.06.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand Division) (02.1927)     New Zealand Division * 20.04.1927 - (04.)1930 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.06.1930 - 09.1932 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] [played cricket RN XI 1930-1932] 02.09.1932 - 01.1933 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 07.01.1933 - 03?.1933 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Pembroke) [sentenced by a naval court-martial to dismissal from his position, forfeiture of three months' seniority and being severely reprimanded for absenting himself without leave for a week in February 1933] Worked as commentator for the BBC, 1936-1939. 23.09.1939 - 02.1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 21.02.1940 - 06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Coventry City (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 17.10.1940 - 02.1944 Press Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with staff of Press Division at Ministry of Information) 02.1944 - 31.01.1946 Department of the Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President] Published: Naval odyssey (1936; the voyage of a cruiser to the Mediterranean in 1921); River of golden sand (1936); Best stories of the navy (ed.; 1941); Best stories of the sea (ed.; 1945); In good company (1947; an account of the author's wartime experiences as a Naval Observer); Moanalua (1950; sketches of life in a wardroom on the New Zealand Station); The enterprise of England : an account of her emergence as an oceanic power (1958); The battle of the Atlantic (1965). * indexed, but not listed as such
Woods, Charles Humphrey de Meuron Son of Ernest Woods. Married (10.04.1920) Grace Marion Collier at Beckenham Parish Church.	24.08.1894 - 29.05.1960 Kitale, Kenya	Midsh. 15.05.1907 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1914 S.Lt. 15.11.1914 A/Lt. 15.06.1916 Lt. 27.02.1918, seniority 15.05.1916 (retd 02.10.1920; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1924 Cdr. (retd) 24.08.1934 (reverted to retd 18.07.1942; medically unfit)	15.05.1907     entered RN 15.01.1912 HMS Indefatigable 10.10.1918 - (01.1919) First Lieutenant, HMS Vanity (destroyer) 27.02.1924 applied for Master Certificate BOT (granted 19.03.1924) 04.10.1939 04.10.1939 07.07.1940 - - - 06.1942 07.07.1940 06.1942 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) additional for duty with CCB [= Contraband Control Board?] Malta additional for staff Vice-Admiral Malta 19.06.1942 - 17.07.1942 arrived Kenya for medical board & appointment terminated (neurasthenia)
Woods, Derek Ashfield Son of ... Woods, and ... Jacks. From Churt, Surrey.	19.08.1923 Croydon district, Greater London / Kent, Surrey - 07.2004 Whyke, Chichester	Midsh. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 16.10.1942 Lt. 16.07.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1952 (General List 01.01.1957)  (retd > 01.1957, < 07.1959) DSC 01.08.1944 destruction U473 Western Approaches 06.05.44 [award posted] MID 13.06.1944 2nd Support Group, 6 U-boats sunk in 10 days	24.08.1942 - (08.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth 14.01.1943 - (08.1943) HMS Aberdeen (sloop) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.12.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Wild Goose (sloop) 16.04.1945 - (07.1945) [CO?] HMS St Bride's Bay (frigate) (04.1946) no appointment listed (07.1948)   no appointment listed 13.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Sea Eagle (05.1953) HMNZS Philomel II 26.07.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Grenville
Woods, [Sir] Wilfrid John Wentworth Son of late Sir Wilfrid Woods, KCMG, KBE, and late Ethel Maud Woods (née Palmer). Married 1st (1930) Murray Auriol Ruth Inglis (died 1956); one daughter (one son deceased). Married 2nd (1957) Joan Bridget Constance Eden.	19.02.1906 - 01.01.1975 Burley, Hampshire	Midsh. 1924 S/Lt. 1926 Lt. 1928 Lt.Cdr. 1936 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 30.06.1945 R.Adm. 07.01.1955 V.Adm. 1958 Adm. 1960 (retd 1965) GBE 1963; KCB 1960 (CB 1957); DSO 1942; Bar to DSO 1942; DL.	Education: Seabrook Lodge, Hythe, Kent; Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth 1927 joined Submarines 1935 First Command, HMS Seahorse (submarine) 1936 HMS Nelson 1939 RN Staff College 1939 Staff of 6th S/M Flotilla, Home Waters 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph (submarine) (Mediterranean) (DSO and Bar, Order of White Eagle of Yugo­Slavia) 1942 Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 22.02.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (Normandy) 27.07.1944 - (10.1944) Staff of 3rd S/M Flotilla, Home Waters [HMS Forth] 1945 - 11.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Forth & Captain (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla 1947 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer S/M's 1948 Admiralty, as Director of Torpedo, Anti­Submarine and Mine Warfare 1951 idc 1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Indomitable 1953 Chief of Staff to Comander-in-Chief Mediterranean as Cdre 1st Class 07.12.1955 - 11.1957 Flag Officer (Submarines) 1958 - 1960 Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic 1960 - 1962 Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet, and NATO Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic Area 1963 - 1965 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel 1962 - 1965 also: Principal Naval ADC to the Queen Commodore RN Sailing Association, 1963-1966. Member, Committee of Management, RNLI, 1966, Chairman, 1968-1972; President, Sea Cadet Corps Sports Council, 1966; Chairman, Foudroyant Trust, 1967. DL Hants 1971. Knight Commander, Order of King George the First of Greece, 1963.
Woodward, Edwin Hopcraft	05.11.1905 Oxford, Berkshire - 01.1985 Portsmouth, Hampshire	Seaman ? [J100412] A/Gnr. 01.10.1936 Gnr. ?, seniority 01.10.1936 (retd < 07.1948) A/Cd.Gnr. 18.06.1945 A/Lt. ?	(07.1937) - (07.1937) no appointment listed 29.08.1937 - (04.1940 HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) [lent to New Zealand government] 15.11.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Latona (minelayer) (08.1942) no appointment listed 24.11.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Queen Charlotte (anti-aircraft range, Ainsdale on Sea, Southport, Lancs) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Woodward, Edward Arthur "Teddy"   Only son of Mr & Mrs E.A. Woodward, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Married (26.10.1933) Betty Hart, only daughter of Mr & Mrs V. Anwyl Hart, of Northern Transvaal, South Africa. Later relationship with Barbara "Lott" Myers (who changed name by deed poll to Woodward) (died 24.09.2007); no children.	18.12.1910 Buenos Aires, Argentina - 27.05.1997 Adelaide, South Australia	Cadet 01.05.1928 Midsh. 01.01.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1931 S.Lt. 16.11.1931 Lt. 16.08.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1941 Cdr. 30.06.1944 (retd 02.04.1946) DSO 07.04.1942 12 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 07.07.42] DSO 21.07.1942 sunk U-331 12.01.42 &tc. [investiture 07.12.43] DSO 04.05.1943 sinking 11000 tons of shipping Eastern Mediterranean [investiture 07.12.43]	Education: Dorset schools; HMS Britannia (1923-1928). 01.05.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.03.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.04.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (09.1932)     no appointment listed 03.05.1933 - (06.)1933 HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 09.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Rover (submarine) (Mediterranean) 22.03.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Regulus (submarine) (China) (02.1936)     no appointment listed 21.12.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) (06.1938)     no appointment listed 13.07.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Triumph (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) (and for duty with submarines) 1940 - 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 28 (training submarine) * 14.09.1940 - 08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Unbeaten (submarine) (10th Submarine Flotilla, Malta) [02.1942 on sick leave] 1942 - 1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tactician (submarine) 04.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) [at some point in charge of the 'perisher' submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course] (04.1946) HMS Cyclops ** Joined Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, being involved in development work on the German Type XVIIIB U-boat. Later represented Vickers in Pakistan. Skippered a charter yacht in the Meditereanean (being involved in dubious practices), before emigrating to Australia. KSJ. FINucE. * (02.1941) indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Woollerton, Robert Collet	31.03.1890 Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - 02.12.1949	A/S.Lt. 15.11.1909 S.Lt. 02.11.1910, seniority 15.11.1909 Lt. 05.12.1911, seniority 15.02.1911 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1924 (retd 23.05.1936) Capt. (retd) 23.05.1936 OBE 04.06.1934 HM's birthday 34	15.05.1906   entered RN ... - ... ... 02.02.1928 - (08.1929) Executive Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) (04.1930) no appointment listed 15.05.1930 - (02.)1931 Executive Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) 19.10.1931 - (01.)1932 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS President] (09.1932) no appointment listed 11.10.1932 - (07.1935) Commander Superintendent of Contract-Built Ships (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1936) no appointment listed 22.05.1939 - (04.1946) an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ornance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Woolley, Herbert George Arthur Elder son of Lt.Col. (Quartermaster) Henry Woolley, and Harriet Woolley, of The Woodlands, Dersingham, Norfolk. Married (1926, Paris, France) Marion Clare Ruddy, younger daughter of T. Ruddy, of Brentwood Park, Los Angeles, California, USA.	13.02.1896 Chalton, Woolwich district, London - 07.1976 Washington, DC, USA	Assistant Clerk 01.1914 A/Paym.S.Lt. 15.07.1917 Paym.S.Lt. 04.11.1921, seniority 15.04.1917 Paym.Lt. ?, seniority 15.04.1919 Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) (emgcy) 15.04.1927 (emgcy 11.1928) (reverted to emgcy > 07.1945, < 04.1946) A/Paym.Cdr. = A/Cdr. (S) (emgcy) < 12.1941 T/Paym.Capt. (emgcy) from > 04.1940 to < 12.1941 DSC 05.1919 for distinguished services in the Gallipoli Pensinsula, and afterwards as senior Secretary's Clerk to the Vice Admiral, Dover Patrol - Ntce 28.08.1918 name brought to notice: rendered good service in attending wounded and during the transportation of wounded at sea, Ostend, 09/10.05.1918 LM 17.09.1946 adviser to US Service Departments on Combined Operations questions	15.01.1914     entered RN 1914     on staff of R.Adm. De Robeck, Commanding 9th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Amphitrite] (Dardanelles)       Secretary's Clerk to R.Adm. Douglas Nicholson [HMS Hibernia] 02.1918     senior Secretary's Clerk to V.Adm. Roger Keyes in Dover Patrol 07.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Valiant (battleship) 19.08.1924     course for accounting officers wishing to qualify for the duties of secretaries to flag officers, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.01.1925 - (01.)1925 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 01.05.1925 - 01.06.1925 Admiralty [HMS President] 01.06.1925 - 16.05.1927 Secretary to Naval Secretary to First Sea Lord [HMS President] 16.05.1927 - 11.1928 Secretary to Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Curacoa (cruiser), later HMS Vindictive (cruiser)] Resigned from the Royal Navy in order to take up residence in California, USA. 29.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for service at Bermuda) 24.08.1940 - (12.1941) Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) (08.1942) - (07.1945) no appointment listed: seconded to US Service Departments as adivser on Combined Operations Post-war at  World Bank.
Wootten, Patrick William Wootten	09.03.1901 Epsom district, Surrey - 15.11.1979 Badgworth Court, near Axbridge, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset	Midsh. 15.08.1917 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.01.1921 Lt. 15.12.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1930 Cdr. 31.12.1937 A/Capt. 10.1943?, till 12.1943 Capt. 30.06.1945 (retd 11.12.1948)	06.09.1917 - (01.1919) HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) 10.02.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (North Ameica and West Indies) 20.03.1926 - (05.1926) pilot's course, RAF Base, Gosport (07.1927) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * (08.1929) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [attached to RAF] * 27.12.1929 - (10.1930) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 13.01.1931 - (02.1931) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.01.1932 - (01.1934) Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 01.1935 - (07.)1935 Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Carlisle (cruiser)] 25.11.1935 - (02.)1938 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean) 08.06.1938 - (10.1938) Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.05.1939 - (04.)1940 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.11.1940 (02.1941) (08.1942) (10.1943) - - (10.)1943 (08.1943) HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) in command while under construction Executive Officer CO 10.1943 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Speaker (escort carrier) 08.12.1943 - (07.1945) Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946) no appointment listed 07.07.1946 - (07.1948) Naval Attaché, Washington * indexed, but not listed as such
Wormell, Paul Howard	17.03.1911 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 01.06.1997 Oxford, Oxfordshire	Midsh. 01.01.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1931 S.Lt. 22.08.1932, seniority 01.11.1931 Lt. 01.11.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1941 (retd 01.05.1955; own request) MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45	19.03.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 06.01.1930 - (04.)1930 HMS Heliotrope (sloop) (America and West Indies) 02.09.1930 - (10.)1930 HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.12.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.04.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.09.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 03.1935 - (07.)1935 acting observer, RAF Station, Halfar [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 31.08.1935 - (02.)1937 observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (07.1937) no appointment listed 03.01.1938 - (10.)1938 observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 29.12.1938 - (02.)1939 observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 06.03.1939 - (02.1941) observer, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Cornwall (cruiser)] 04.03.1942 - (06.1944) instructional staff, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) 02.10.1944 - (07.1945) Operations Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier) 08.10.1945 - (04.1946) observer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 28.07.1947 - (07.1948) Naval Air Organisation and Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 04.07.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Mercury II 16.06.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) ? - (04.1955) Naval Weather Service Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Wraith, John Somerton "Johnny" Only son of Col. Ernest Arnold Wraith, CBE, DSO, and Gwendolen O'Connell-Jones, of Esher. Married (27.06.1942) Elizabeth Adey (04.03.1914-?), widow of Lt. J.E. Moore, RN, of Alverstoke, Hampshire, eldest daughter of Harold Stephen Adey (1875-1950) and Frances Mary Adey (1885?-1965), of Harpsden, Henley-on-Thames.	(06?).1913 Derby district, Derbyshire - 17.10.1943 (MPK) [age 30] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Cadet 01.09.1930 Midsh. 01.05.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 01.06.1934 Lt. 01.06.1937 DSO 07.04.1942 17 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 12.05.42] DSC 12.11.1940 good service in recent patrols [investiture 12.05.42] MID 20.07.1943 3 patrols Mediterranean	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1928-1930). 06.09.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 25.07.1931 - (06.)1933 HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 28.09.1933 - 08.09.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.04.1934 - (11.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.12.1934 - (02.)1935 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 31.05.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Phoenix (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] 03.09.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS L 27 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 07.08.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Sunfish (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 05.06.1939 - (08.1939) HMS H 43 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 07.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 20.06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Cachalot (minelaying submarine) 05.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) & for duty with submarines 14.06.1941 - 06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Upright (submarine) 18.06.1942 - 17.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Trooper (submarine) (chariot attack on Palermo 01.1943; mined East of Leros)
Wreford, William Frederick Carew Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of John Frederick Wreford, BA (1859-1932), and Marion Gertrude Johnston (1869-1956). Married ((09?).1938, Barnstaple district, Devon) Dorothy Maud Warburton (25.06.1908 - 03.1986); one son, one daughter (twins).	18.05.1905 Tawstock, Barnstaple district, Devon - 27.06.1981 Surrey South Eastern district	Midsh. 01.05.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925 S.Lt. 16.07.1927, seniority 30.04.1926 Lt. 30.01.1928 Lt.Cdr. 30.01.1936 (retd 18.05.1948) A/Cdr. 01.04.1940? Cdr. (retd) 18.05.1948 A/Capt. (retd) < 05.1953 Capt. (retd) > 05.1953 CBE 01.01.1965 New Year 65 Def M - - WM 39|45 - - Cor M 53 - -	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (15.01.1919-...). ? - 14.05.1923 HMS Thunderer (training cruiser) 02.07.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Warspite (battleship) 03.11.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.01.1926 - 30.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.01.1927 - (07.)1927 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 20.10.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 24.06.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.02.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 24.09.1931 - (09.)1932 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent 01.10.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 04.08.1933 - (01.)1934 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 14.05.1934 - (08.)1934 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) (temporarily) 16.08.1934 - (07.1935) Gunnery Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 01.01.1936 - (02.)1937 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance (on probation) (directly under the Chief of Naval Ordnance), Naval Ordnance Deparment, Admiralty 01.04.1937 - 31.03.1940 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield Area (under the Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) 01.04.1940 - 05.1942 Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, South Wales Area (under the Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) 05.1942 - 25.09.1943 a Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham Area (under the Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) 26.09.1943 - (04.1946) an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (10.1947) - (07.1948) Ordnance Assistant, Armament Supply Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1949) - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous and special services) ? - (05.1953) Indian Navy
Wright, Alfred Wordsworth	? -	Lt.Cdr. 06.02.1937 (retd)	18.12.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
Wright, David Kent	1925 ? Johannesburg, South Africa ? -	Cadet 01.09.1942 Midsh. 01.05.1943 S.Lt. 1945?, seniority 01.08.1944 Lt. 16.04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1954 (retd 25.04.1960) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Bur St - & clasp Pacific Def M - - WM 39|45 - - Nav GSM - & clasps Malaya / Near East Kor M - - UN SM - & clasp Korea	01.05.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (10.1944)     HMS Renown (battlecruiser) * (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed 24.09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Saga (submarine) 13.01.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Teredo 18.03.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall) (05.1950)     no appointment listed (05.1951)     HMS Terror * (05.1953)     no appointment listed (07.1954) - (04.1955) HMS Mull of Galloway * (01.1956)     no appointment listed (01.1957)     HMS Reggio * (01.1959) - (01.1960) HMS Sanderling * * indexed, but not listed as such
Wright, Dudley Eric	26.12.1901 Portsmouth - 23.09.1980 Grimsby district, Lincolnshire	Seaman ? [J92143] ? A/Gnr. (T) 01.10.1931 Gnr. (T) > 09.1932, seniority 01.10.1931 Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.04.1941 Lt. 18.10.1949 (retd 26.12.1951) MID 01.01.1940 New Year 40 MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.40	29.12.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Voyager (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 04.05.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 16.05.1935 - 11.09.1936 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) 11.09.1936 - (07.1937) Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) 01.12.1937 - (04.1939) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 02.05.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Belfast (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 19.01.1940 - (05.1940) HMS Malcolm (destoyer) (02.1941) no appointment listed 05.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Sandhurst (depot ship) 07.03.1943 - (06.1944) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) 21.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) (04.1946) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) * 15.12.1947 - (07.)1948 HMS Mull of Kintyre (motor craft) 09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Graemsay (minesweeping trawler) * indexed, but not listed as such
Wright, Francis Ernest	10.01.1888 - 20.11.1966	A/S.Lt. 30.04.1908? S.Lt. 21.12.1908, seniority 30.04.1908 Lt. 27.03.1911 Lt.Cdr. 27.03.1919 (retd 30.10.1929; own request) Cdr. (retd) 30.10.1929	15.09.1904     entered RN 09.03.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Tarpon (torpdeo-boat destroyer) 10.02.1922 - (08.1923) Commanding Officer, HMS Romola (torpdeo-boat destroyer) 11.03.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Violent (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 16.02.1926 - (07.1927) Assistant to Captain-in-Charge & Executive Officer, HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (08.1929) no appointment listed 22.08.1939 - (02.1940) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties) 06.02.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) 27.02.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Cressy (RN base, Dundee)
Wright, Frederick George "Fred" / "Jimmy" Son of William Wright, a naval orderly at Royal Naval Hospital in Haslar, and Edith Lucy Wright (née Bolden). Married 1st (12.1934) Florence Kate Birch; one daughter. Married 2nd (10.09.1948); Elizabeth Robertson (née Henderson); one daughter.	15.08.1909 Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire - 12.12.1980 Exeter, Devon	Boy 2nd cl. 20.01.1925 Boy 1st cl. 1926? Ord.Sea. 12.11.1926? AB Sea. 15.05.1928? A/Ldg.Sea. 25.06.1932? Ldg.Sea. 07.1935 Gnr. 01.04.1937 A/Lt. 18.05.1941 Lt. 12.1941, seniority 01.01.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1947 (retd 15.08.1954) MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	20.01.1925 - 21.04.1926 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 30.04.1926 - 11.11.1926 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) 12.11.1926 - 19.07.1927 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; sea going gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) 20.07.1927 - 14.08.1927 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 14.08.1927 - 14.05.1928 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.05.1928 - 21.07.1928 HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Chatham) 01.08.1928 - 04.10.1928 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.10.1928 - 02.1930 HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 26.02.1930 - 03.1930 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 31.03.1930 - 11.1930 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 21.11.1930 - 05.1931 HMS Concord (cruiser; signa school cruiser, Portsmouth) 11.05.1931 - 05.1932 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 10.05.1932 - 06.1932 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 25.06.1932 - 21.07.1934 HMS Fowey (sloop) (East Indies Station) 02.11.1934 - 01.1935 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 18.01.1935 - 06.1937 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 19.06.1937 - 29.09.1938 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton Barracks, Gosport) 30.09.1938 - 27.10.1938 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 28.10.1938 - 31.03.1939 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton Barracks, Gosport) 01.04.1939 - 06.10.1940 HMS Deptford (sloop) 07.10.1940 - 18.05.1941 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 09.06.1941 - 07.1941 HMS Blyth (Bangor class minesweeper) 16.08.1941 - 28.07.1942 HMS Selkirk (Hunt class minesweeper) 29.07.1942 - 11.1943 First Lieutenant & Gunnery Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) 08.12.1943 - 03.1945 Gunnery Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) 14.03.1945 - 09.1945 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory) 28.09.1945 - 01.1946 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.02.1946 - 19.05.1948 Gunnery Officer, HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 15.06.1948 - 06.1949 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance sdhip) 01.07.1949 - 06.1950 HMS Howe (battleship) (for miscellaneous duties) 01.07.1950 - 08.1950 HMS Orion (cruiser) 30.08.1950 - 10.1951 HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier) 08.10.1951 - 15.08.1954 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (initially shown under "miscellaneous duties" while on staff, later as in command of RN Range, Wembury)
Wright, Frederick Henry	? - 24.07.1978	A/Lt. 04.01.1942 Lt. 25.05.1943, seniority 16.02.1940 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1946 ?, seniority 16.02.1948 (retd < 04.1955)	(08.1942) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) * 22.07.1942 - (01.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) 24.01.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) 24.12.1943 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Mounsey (frigate) 31.01.1945 - (04.1946) First Lieutenant, HMS Savage (destroyer) 10.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wilts.) 02.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 06.12.1952 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMAS Barwon & as Commanding Officer, Reserve Ships, Melbourne * indexed, but not listed as such
Wright, Frederick Henry	? -	A/Gnr. 01.01.1939 Gnr. ?, seniority 01.01.1939	(02.1939) - (04.1939) short course of instruction 24.04.1939 - (08.1939) Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 27.08.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Aberdeen (sloop) (08.1942) - (12.1943) no appointment listed (04.1944) - (04.1946) HMS Inglis (frigate) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Wright, Frederick John	? - 12.06.2000	Chief Petty Officer ? [C/J 108620] T/A/Gnr. (T) 20..09.1943 T/Gnr. (T) ?, seniority 20.09.1943 DSM 01.01.1944 New Year 44: HMS Kelvin [investiture 29.02.44] MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45	(1943) Chief Petty Officer, HMS Kelvin (destroyer) (10.1943) no appointment listed 15.11.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Javelin (destroyer)
Wright, John Piachaud From Uppingam, Rutland.	05.11.1902 Skipton district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 05.04.1980 Weymouth district	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922 S.Lt. 1922 Lt. 15.06.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1932 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 30.06.1940 (retd 07.01.1950) OBE 10.06.1954 Dep.Asst.Dir, MoD DSO 07.06.1940 1st Battle of Narvik [investiture 21.10.41] DSO 31.03.1942 attack battlecruisers Nore 12.02.42 [investiture 07.07.42] MID 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian (air strikes on Palembang 24/29.01.45	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 05.10.1925 - (05.1926) observers' course [HMS Excellent] 03.05.1927 - (07.)1927 naval observers' air pilotage and meteorology course, RAF Base, Calshot 17.12.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) (04.1930) no appointment listed 10.07.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (01.1934) no appointment listed 05.07.1934 - (02.)1936 School of Naval Co-operation, Lee-on-Solent 25.08.1936 - 18.02.1938 Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.02.1938 - (08.)1938 Air Personnel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.08.1938 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Hostile (destroyer) 07.1940 - (02.1941) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St Angelo] (1942) HMS Mackay (destroyer) 06.07.1942 - (06.1944) Director Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.06.1945 - (07.1945) Chief Staff Officer, 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Formidable] (04.1946) Admiralty [HMS President] * 1940s? - 1940s? HMS Guardian (British Pacific Fleet) 09.06.1948 - (07.1948) Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Theseus (aircraft carrier)] Deputy Assistant Director, Ministry of Defence. * indexed, but not listed as such
Wright, [Sir] Royston Hollis Son of Thomas Henry and Lydia Maude Wright. Married (22.12.1945, Chapel, RN College, Greenwich, Kent) 2nd Officer Betty Lilian Gladstone, WRNS (26.10.1910-01.01.1988), daughter of Mrs N.V. Gladstone, and widow of Lieutenant (E) John Esmond Ackery, DSC, RN; no children.	29.09.1908 Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey - 18.07.1977 Downton, Wiltshire	Naval Cadet 1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 1931, seniority 01.03.1930 Lt. 01.06.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1939 Cdr. 31.12.1940 Capt. 31.12.1946 R.Adm. 07.01.1956 V.Adm. 31.01.1959 Adm. 26.01.1962 GBE 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 64 [investiture 15.07.64] KCB 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 61 [investiture 13.07.61] CB 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58 [investiture 15.07.58] DSC 01.01.1941 New Year 41 [investiture 25.02.41] DSC 04.04.1944 Aegean operations mined & sunk 22.10.43 [award posted] MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily, 07.43) MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44 ? ? 29.01.1946 Greek Aristeon Andrias (Gold Medal for Valour): rescue HMHS Adrias 22.10.44 [award presented]	Education: Haileybury College, Hertford (1922-1926) 07.02.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) (04.1930)     no appointment listed 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.12.1931 - (09.)1932 HMS Wryneck (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 13.12.1932 - (02.)1935 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) 30.04.1935 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Escort (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 15.04.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 27.04.1939 - 02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Beagle (destroyer) 11.11.1941 - 03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Derwent (destroyer) 24.03.1943 - 22.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 18.03.1944 - (07.1945) staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.04.1946 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore) 01.1948 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Wakeful 06.03.1950 - 1951 Director of Manning Department (under Department of Personal Services), Admiralty [HMS President] 1952 Imperial Defence College (05.1953)     no appointment listed 07.09.1953 - (07.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph 31.01.1955 - 01.1956 Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 01.1956 - 14.02.1958 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President] 15.04.1958 - (01.)1959 Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet [HMS Birmingham] 03.12.1959 - 14.09.1961 Flag Officer, Scotland [HMS Cochrane (RN barracks, Donibristle)] 28.09.1961 - (02.)1964 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel 1964 - 1965 Chief of Naval Personnel and Second Sea Lord, Ministry of Defence
Wyatt, [Sir] Arthur Guy Norris Son of late Arthur Norris Wyatt and May (née Reynolds). Married (1922) Anne Christine, daughter of late Hon. James Hogue, Sydney, NSW; no children.	08.03.1893 Whitegate, Cheshire - 09.11.1981 [Woodbridge, Tasmania, Austr. ?]	Lt. 30.09.1915 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1929 Capt. 30.06.1936 A/R.Adm. 01.05.1945? R.Adm. 05.07.1945 V.Adm. 22.10.1948 (retd 1948) KBE 09.06.1949 HM's birthday 49 [investiture 12.07.49] CB 01.01.1948 New Year 48 [investiture 10.02.48] MID 01.01.1945 New Year 45	Education: Stubbington; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 15.01.1906 joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War, commanded HMTBD Beagle, 1918 1918 joined Royal Naval Surveying Service 20.11.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Melisande (yacht) surveys in Home Waters, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, West Indies, Mediterranean, East Indies, Persian Gulf and Labrador: 13.03.1922 - (08.1923) Executive Officer, HMS Kellett (surveying vessel) 17.12.1923 - (01.1925) Executive Officer, HMS Herald (surveying vessel) (05.1926) no appointment listed 08.02.1927 - (08.)1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Beaufort (surveying vessel) 07.10.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Ormonde (surveying vessel) 15.10.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Fitzroy (surveying vessel) 12.06.1932 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Challenger (surveying vessel) 28.03.1935 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Flinders (surveying vessel) 19.09.1935 - (02.1936) Superintendent of Chart Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.02.1937 - (09.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Endeavour (surveying ship) 20.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 29.07.1940 - (02.1941) Assistant Hydrographer (2) of the Navy, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.06.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Challenger (surveying ship) (South East Asia and SW Pacific) (despatches) 01.05.1945 - (05.)1950 Hydrographer of the Navy, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * (02.1937) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Wyatt, Peter Joseph Son of Col. Francis Joseph Caldwell Wyatt, and ... Tate. Married 1st (03.04.1937, Malta) Christine Mary Clayton (29.04.1910-), daughter of John Clayton, Clerk in Holy Orders. Married 2nd; ... children (one daughter?).	07.08.1914 Medway district, Kent - 21.01.1997 Dartmouth, Torbay district, Devon	Cadet 01.01.1932 Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 07.04.1936, seniority 01.05.1935 Lt. 01.10.1936 ?, seniority 01.04.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1944 Cdr. 31.12.1947 Capt. 30.06.1954 (retd 31.08.1963) CBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 [investiture 16.07.63] DSC 23.03.1943 convoy JW51B coastal escort 31.12.42 [investiture 09.11.43] MID 14.09.1943 destruction U-boat Western Approaches 05.43 &tc.	21.01.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 15.06.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 03.01.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Boreas (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 09.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Hostile (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 04.04.1938 - (08.)1938 long navigation course [HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)] 13.09.1938 - (04.1940) Navigating Officer, HMS Grimsby (escort vessel) (China) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 29.08.1941 - (02.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Onslow (destroyer) (05.)1943 - 1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Offa (destroyer) * 07.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 25.09.1944 - (04.)1946 Navigating Officer, HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier) (07.1948) - (05.1949) Admiralty [HMS President] ** (05.1950)     no appointment listed 15.03.1953 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Plucky (minesweeper) (07.1954)     Admiralty [HMS President] ** (04.1955)     Admiralty [HMS President] ** 01.10.1955 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Harrier (RN School of Aircraft Direction and Meteorology, Kete, Pembrokeshire) 26.04.1958 - 10.1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Cardigan Bay (frigate) & Captain (F) 3rd Frigate Squadron 09.05.1960 - (07.)1961 Director of Manning, Manpower Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.10.1961 - (02.1963) Commanding Officer, HMS Dryad and in charge of Navigation and Direction School, Portsmouth * (06.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Wykeham-Martin, Maurice Fairfax Son of ... Wykeham-Martin, and ... Perry.	(06?).1912 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 14.07.1940 (MPK) [age 27] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]	Midsh. 01.01.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1933 S.Lt. 16.01.1934 Lt. 16.01.1936 DSC 23.12.1939 sinking a U-boat & torpedoing a cruiser, North Sea 13.12.39 [investiture 06.02.40]	14.05.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 04.05.1933 - 07.01.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.01.1934 - (07.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.12.1934 - (02.)1935 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 13.04.1935 - (07.1935) HMS L 54 (submarine) 15.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS L 53 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 22.10.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Grampus (submarine) (and for duty Class I with submarines) 05.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Osiris (submarine) (China) 01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Douglas (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 04.1938 - 14.07.1940 First Lieutenant & Torpedo Officer, HMS Salmon (submarine) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined off the coast of Norway)
Wylam, Arthur Thomas Son (with one sister) of John Wylam (1864-1907), and Caroline Elizabeth Smale (1867-1942). Married ((12?).1934, Devonport district, Devon) Dorothy May Fox (16.08.1902 - 03.1996); two sons, one daughter.	25.06.1896 Tamar, Devonport, Devon - 13.09.1975 Hythe hospital, New Forest district, Hampshire	Boy 2nd class 15.09.1913 [J26912] Boy 1st class 14.11.1913 Ordinary Seaman 25.06.1914 Able Seaman 01.01.1915 Leading Seaman 01.07.1918 Petty Officer 01.05.1920 Chief Petty Officer ? (retd 1936) Wt. Recruiter = Cd. Recruiter 15.08.1942 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - JubM 1935 - LSGCM 13.08.1929 -	Education: RN Hospital School, Greenwich (1908). Was refused to join RN on medical grounds. Worked at Devonport Dockyard (as a messenger). 15.09.1913     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) 29.03.1914     HMS Carnarvon (cruiser) 16.08.1915     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) [28.10.1915 Seaman Gunner] 16.05.1916     HMS Carysfort (cruiser) 20.11.1917     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) [30.04.1918 Gunlayer II] 13.08.1918     HMS Orion (dreadnought) 01.04.1920     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) 27.04.1920     HMS Satyr (destroyer) [tender to HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)] 07.08.1920     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) [29.09.1921 Gunner's Mate] 02.01.1922     HMS Voyager (destroyer [tender to HMS Columbine (Rosyth)] 06.06.1924     HMS Vivid I (Devonport) (possibly as instructor) 19.02.1927     HMS Volunteer (destroyer) [tender to HMS Egmont II (Malta)] 1936 - 1958 on staff of Royal Navy Recruiting Officer, Newcastle [in Navy List no appointment shown] Chairman of the Hythe Golden Age Club, a position he held until June 1975.
Wyldbore-Smith, Hugh Deane Eldest son of late Capt Hugh Francis Wyldbore Wyldbore-Smith, RN. Married (05.05.1937) Rachel Caroline Lucy Orlebar (08.08.1906-1999), daughter of the Rev Edward Yard Orlebar, of Crawley Park, nr Bletchley, Buckinghamshire; two sons.	15.02.1907 Portsmouth - 24.05.1941 (MPK) [age 34] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]	Cadet 15.09.1920 [= 1923?] Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.05.1927 S.Lt. 16.08.1928, seniority 01.11.1927 Lt. 01.12.1928 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1936 A/Cdr. ?	15.05.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediteranean) 28.04.1927 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.1928 - (06.)1928 promotion course, Portsmouth 15.08.1928 - (10.)1930 HMS Viscount (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 06.12.1930 - (02.)1931 signals course, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 17.12.1931 - (09.1932) Signals Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) & for Signals and W/T duties  in flotilla (China) (01.1934) no appointment listed 20.04.1934 - (02.)1936 Signal School (Experimental), Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.03.1936 - (06.)1938 Signals Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & Fleet Signals and W/T Officer, East Indies (10.1938) no appointment listed 12.12.1938 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Doon (trawler, fishery protection) 28.08.1939 - (04.)1940 Flag Lieutenant-Commander & Squadron Signal & Wireless Telegraphy Officer to Rear/Vice-Admiral Commanding Aircraft Carriers [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] 08.1940 - (02.)1941 Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Rear-Admiral Commanding Aircraft Carriers [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] (and for Squadron Signal & Wireless Telegraphy duties) ? - 24.05.1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (missing, presumed killed when ship was sunk by German battleship Bismarck in North Atlantic)
Wynne, Trethowan Campbell Trevredyn Only child of Sir Trevredyn Rasleigh Wynne, KCSI, KCIE, VD (1853-1942), and Winifred Conduitt (1877?-1951).	30.11.1897 Nagpur, India - 29.05.1980 nursing home, Hove, East Sussex	Midsh. 02.08.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.11.1916 Lt. 15.02.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1933 (retd 30.11.1947) A/Capt. 02.04.1943? DSC 03.02.1942 Battle of Cape Matapan [decoration posted] MID 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete LM 28.05.1946 ?	01.1911     entered RN ? - 01.01.1915 HMS Formidable (ship sunk) 18.01.1915 - 15.01.1917 HMAS Australia [lent to RAN]       HMS Ure (torpedo-boat destroyer)       HMS Redoubt (torpedo-boat destroyer) ? - (01.1919) Admiralty [HMS President] 18.12.1922 - (08.1923) Navigating Officer, HMS Cornflower (sloop) 08.11.1924 - (01.)1925 Navigating Officer, HMS Newark (twin-screw minesweeper) 01.09.1925 - (07.)1927 Navigating Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.10.1927 - (06.1928) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.02.1929 - (02.)1931 Navigating Officer, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.02.1931 - (01.)1932 British Naval Mission to Greece 14.03.1932 - 11.1932 Navigating Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser)& as Squadron Navigating Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) 11.1932 - (06.1933) Navigating Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 21.01.1934 - (08.)1934 staff course, Staff College, Camberley [HMS President] 16.08.1934 - (11.1934) Navigating Officer, HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht, Portsmouth) (02.1935)     no appointment listed 23.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Navigating Officer, HMS Amphion (cruiser) (while under construction at Portsmouth) 23.09.1935 - 1935 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth] (for tactical course) 07.12.1935 - (07.1937) Executive & Navigating Officer, HMS Amphion (cruiser) & as Fleet Navigating Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), Africa Station (02.1938) - (06.1938) no appointment listed 23.05.1938 - 1938 HMS Victory(RN base, Portsmouth) (for course) 04.07.1938 - 29.05.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Orion (light cruiser) 29.05.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Orion (light cruiser) (08.1942) - (02.)1943 Staff Officer (Intelligence) to Captain-in-Charge, Jamaica [HMS Morgan] [date of appointment shown as: 30.06.1941] 02.04.1943 - (01.)1945 Staff Officer (Intelligence) on staff of British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA [HMS Saker] 01.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer Inshore Squadrons [HMS Byrsa] 01.11.1945 - (04.)1947 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

 

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