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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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C.H.F. D'Albiac to J.J. Dymoke-Byrne

D'Albiac,
Christopher Hugh Francis
C.H.F. D'Albiac
Son of Richard Henry D'Albiac, and Kathleen Renee Simpson.
Married Pamela Mary ... (09?).1922
Sevenoaks district, Kent
-
18.11.1959
Skidstrup, Denmark Administration (formerly of Brooke nr Newport, Isle of Wight)
[Rheindahlen Military Cemetery, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany]

T/A/S.Lt. ?

T/S.Lt. 10.06.1943

T/Lt. 08.1945, seniority 10.12.1944

Lt. RN 1947?, seniority 10.12.1944 (emgcy 26.11.1951)

Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy) 10.12.1952 (removed from emgcy on transfer to RAF 19.03.1956)

RAF:

F/Lt. ?

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1936-1940; 1st X1 cricket 1939).

... - ... ...

? - (10.1945) HMS Essington

... - ... ...

? - 18.11.1959 killed whilst flying in Meteor T Mk 7, WL424 of the APS Sylt which he abandoned at 250 ft when the canopy was jettisoned, having been briefed that this would be done if the aircraft needed to be abandoned, but in this case it was in preparation for a forced landing following a R/T failure.

Daler,
Ove Kamillo
O.K. Daler 16.10.1908
Stokke, Norway
-
08.11.1986
Petterø, Thorød, Nøtterøy pr. Tønsberg, Norway

Prob. T/Lt.
16.06.1941

T/Lt.
01.1942, seniority 16.06.1941 (reld 15.05.1942)

DSC
-
minelaying Dover 1943

16.06.1941
-
26.07.1941
RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

03.08.1941
-
31.08.1941
gunnery course, Chatham

08.09.1941
-
01.05.1942
HMS Sherwood (destroyer)

15.05.1942

transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy

(1943)

HM ML 213 (motor launch) (52nd ML Flotilla)

SOK 15-24.5.1942 (from RNR); DD "Draug" 24-25.5.1942; SOK 25.5.1942; 4 ML Flotilla 25.5.1942-18.11.1943; DD "Lincoln" 14.12.1943-8.2.1944; DD "Sleipner" 16.2-10.3.1944; MID Admiralty 13.3-1.5.1944; SOK 1.5-1.8.1944; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Syrian" 1.8.1944-29.9.1945; SOK 18.10.1945; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Sidmouth" 16.11.1945-7.12.1946.

Davidson,
Arthur
A. Davidson
Of Blackpool, Lancashire. 14.07.1914
Stanley, Durham
-
25.11.1942
(died of wounds)
[Deli Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, 3.E.10]

? ? [LTL/X 166069]

Prob. T/Skpr. 20.08.1940 [TS 718]

T/Skpr. 02.09.1941, seniority 20.08.1940

DSC 16.03.1943 Operation Torch (landings in N Africa, 11.1942); attacked 10.11.1942 Italian submarine Emo, which was scuttled afterwards [award presented to next-of-kin]

11.10.1939 enrolled RNR

20.08.1940 - 25.11.1942 HMS Lord Nuffield (trawler) [tender to HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan), from 01.07.1941 to HMS Antrim (trawler base, Belfast)] (additional; as 3rd Skipper)

Davidson,
Alexander Frederick Sidney
A.F.S. Davidson
Only son of E.A. Davidson, and ... Pitt, of Oakstead, Radlett.
Married (17.07.1943, Aldenham Church, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Margaret Eleanor Owen, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs A. Lowe Owen, of Santa Cruz, Tenerife. (12?).1919
Barnet district, Hertfordshire
-
died 1960s ??

Prob. Midsh. 01.12.1937

A/S.Lt. 11.01.1940

S.Lt. 04.10.1940

Lt. 11.07.1942 (retd 01.07.1950)

RD 08.02.1950 -

12.04.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Lormont (defensively-equipped merchant ship)

(02.1941) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

02.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Broke (destroyer)

01.03.1942 - (08.1942) French Ship "Mistral" (torpedo boat)

12.01.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Kite (sloop) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)

(10.)1944 - (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(04.1946) no appointment listed

Davies,
Hugh John
H.J. Davies ?
-
?

T/Lt. (E) 06.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

(10.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed

20.04.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Lancaster (Town class destroyer)

06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Moray Firth (maintenance ship)

Davies,
John Ramsbottom
"Jack"
J.R. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr John B. Davies)
Son of Job Davies (1874-1921?), and Annie Ramsbottom (1876-1962?).
Married (31.08.1931, South Shields district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear) Edith Mary Hutchinson. 01.12.1902
Rochdale, Lancashire
-
22.07.1986
Cumberland

S.Lt. 29.05.1925

Lt. 29.05.1927

Lt.Cdr. 29.05.1935 (retd 29.01.1937; own request)

A/Cdr. (retd) < 08.1943 (reverted to retd 1945)

OBE 08.06.1943 Inshore Squadron supporting 8th Army advance [investiture 28.09.1943]

MID 06.07.1943 for gallantry in rescue work during a heavy air-raid on Tripoli harbour 03.1943

RD 15.10.1943 -

Master Mariner, Merchant Navy (1936 Commanded SS Langley Ridge which was lost carrying coal off Cape Breton Island, Canada; 1938 Nautical Surveyor).

(1925) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)

23.11.1925 - (05.1926) HMS L 16 (submarine) (Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest]

(1932) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (at the time of the loss of the submarine HMS M2 which was carrying out trials as an aircraft-carrying submarine 26.01.1932)

03.09.1932 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport), then (same day) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for HMS H 50 (submarine))

(04.1940) no appointment listed

31.08.1940 - (10.1940) acting Sea Transport Officer-in-Charge, Port Sudan [under Sea Transport Department, Ministry of Shipping]

01.02.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) [probably involved in the refloating of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant in Alexandria harbour after an attack by Italian frogmen]

(08.1943) no appointment listed

05.10.1943 - (07.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with Ministry of War Transport)

Senior Nautical Surveyor, Board of Trade, 1945. Nautical Adviser to the Government of India, 1950-1956.

Davies,
Stanley Ewart
S.E. Davies

Son (with three brothers and two sisters) of William Edward Davies (1867-), and Margaret Elizabeth Davies (1866-).
Married ((12?).1930, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Mary Elizabeth Burge; four sons, one daughter. (06?).1906
Newport, Monmouthshire
-
12.11.1960
Manor Park Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol (formerly of Redland, Bristol)

T/Lt. 23.10.1939

T/A/Lt.Cdr. 03.1943

T/A/Cdr. 07.1945

DSC 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 [investiture 10.02.1942]

DSC 09.05.1944 Operation SMI 23 (minesweeping Orkney & Shetlands 1944) [decoration posted]

DSC 21.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [decoration posted]

MID 06.06.1944 minesweeping Humber area 28.01.1944

MID 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.1944

Gained his Master's Certificate with Messrs James Brothers before serving with the British India Steam Navigation Company for ten years. He then worked with the Bristol Aeroplane Company for three years during which he became a voluntary instructor attached to HMS Flying Fox, the tender for Severn Division RNR.

17.03.1937 - 10.1939 Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached Severn Division RNVR]

23.10.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)

? - 28.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Manx Prince

09.12.1940 - (08.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS War Duke (minesweeping trawler) (DSC) *

24.09.1943 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 211 [from ... 1944: 2211] (British Yard minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 159th Minesweeping Flotilla (Bar & Second Bar to DSC, despatches twice)

06.1945 - 01.1946 HMS Braganza (RN base, Trincomalee) (for miscellaneous services: as Commander Minesweeping, Trincomalee)

15.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel serving at Keppel Harbour, Singapore)

Served with the Port of Bristol Authority where he commanded several dredgers working out of Avonmouth. He was also Deputy Dock Master but ill health forced his early retirement.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Davies,
Thomas Edward
T.E. Davies 1908 ?
-
09.04.1942
(KIA) [age 34]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

Lt.
02.12.1933

Lt.Cdr.
1939/40?

OBE
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 1940

(1940)

HMT Northern Gift

02.11.1940
-
09.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (corvette) (sunk)

Davies,
Thomas Eta
T.E. Davies ?
-

T/Lt.
09.12.1939

13.12.1942
-
(04.1944)
for duties with sea transport officers, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Sultan

Davies,
Vaughan Ninian Startin
V.N.S. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Gordon MacIntosh)
Son (with three brothers) of Capt. Edward Vaughan Davies, DSO, OBE, CMC (1882-1945), and Ruth Jenkins (1883?-1967).
Married Joan Frances Gwendoline "Gwen" MacIntosh, of Levens, Westmoreland; two children.
Lived at Wallasey. (06?).1917
Haverfordwest district, Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-
24.01.1942
(MPK) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]

Prob. Midsh. 01.10.1935

Midsh. 1937?, seniority 01.10.1935

A/S.Lt. 07.02.1938

S.Lt. 11.01.1940

Lt. 18.11.1940

DSC 28.04.1942 operations in Mediterranean [presented to next-of-kin]

Headstone in memory of V.N.S. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Owen Vaughan)

24.03.1937 HMS Rodney (battleship)

(1940) HMS Cossack (destroyer)

07.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Aurora (cruiser)

(10.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

29.08.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]

? - 24.01.1942 pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
Edward Albert George
"Ted"
E.A.G. Davis

Son (with six sisters and one brother) of William George Davis (1859-), and Alice Batten (1872-).
Married ((03?).1938, Liverpool South district, Lancashire) Leonora Proctor (31.07.1912 - ). 24.12.1908
Camberwell, London
-
28.01.1984
West Parley, Ferndown, Poole district, Dorset

Prob. S.Lt. 06.11.1933

S.Lt. 11.03.1935, seniority 06.11.1933

Lt. 26.11.1935

A/Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1941

Lt.Cdr. 07.1943, seniority 26.11.1942

A/Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Cdr. 31.12.1946 (retd 01.07.1950)

DSO 24.03.1942 commanded 12 successful operations to the enemy controlled coasts of Holland and North Brittany [investiture 12.05.1942]

DSO 15.08.1944 special operations at sea [investiture 24.10.1944]

RD ? -

CdeG 05.1943 ?

Joined Cunard White Star Line as a Junior 3rd Officer, 07.02.1938.

04.05.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet) (to complete 9 months' training)

26.09.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Cape Sable (special service vessel)

(12.1940) - (06.1941) HMS Cape Sable (special service vessel) *

(08.1941) no appointment listed

18.09.1941 - (12.)1941 French Ship "Gustave-Denis"

01.12.1941 - 03.05.1943 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for NID(C))

04.05.1943 - (10.1945) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (and for liaison with Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD))

12.1941 - (1944?) Senior Officer & Principal Operations Commander, 15th MGB Flotilla & in charge of Deputy Director of Operations Division (Irregular)'s main training and operational base at Dartmouth (based at RN College, Dartmouth)

Joined the Marconi Marine Company in 1959 as marine superintendent in which capacity he acted as the company's adviser on navigational problems as related to electronic aids, has been appointed assistant general manager. In October 1962, he was appointed management executive and in 1964 became assistant to the general manager.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
Penrose Owen
P.O. Davis
Son of James Herbert and Louise Ann Davis, of Dunster.
Married ((06?).1918, Wareham district, Dorset) Marie Henrietta Oldfield. 01.02.1896
Dunster, Somerset
-
07.10.1946
Poplar, Stepney district, London (formerly of Swanage, Dorsetshire)

Prob. Midsh. 01.07.1914

A/S.Lt. (10.1916)

S.Lt. 01.02.1917

A/Lt. (01.1919)

Lt. 01.02.1919 (demobilized > 06.1919, < 07.1919)

Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1927

Cdr. 30.06.1935

A/Capt. 10.10.1943?

Capt. 31.12.1943 (reverted to retd 26.09.1945)

RD ? -

11.1914 - (04.1915) HMS Celtic

14.03.1916 - (10.1916) HMS Avoca

06.07.1917 - 13.08.1917 HMS Bergamot

19.07.1918 - (02.)1919 HMS Colleen (receiving ship, Queenstown) (for special service)

(03.1919) - (06.1919) no appointment listed

11.1939 - 12.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Discovery II

01.01.1941 - (10).1941 Naval Berthing Officer, Tilbury [HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)]

06.11.1941 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Empire Pintail (Ministry of War Transport)

10.10.1943 - (02.)1944 [Commanding Officer?], HMS Thane (escort carrier)

01.03.1944 - (07.1945) Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Dawson,
James Crosbie
J.C. Dawson (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)
Son of Edmund Arthur Dawson, and Marion Crosbie. 24.03.1901
Manchester, Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
1960s? *

* shown in 1965 Retired List, no longer in 1967 edition

Prob. S.Lt. 07.12.1927

S.Lt. 22.01.1929, seniority 07.12.1927

Lt. 29.12.1929

Lt.Cdr. 29.12.1937 (retd 24.03.1946; age)

Cdr. (retd) 24.03.1946?

DSC 13.02.1945 sinking of U-boat 08.1944 [decoration handed]

RD 05.1942 -

Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate's Certificate 14.09.1922; First Mate's Certificate 23.07.1924; Master's Certificate late 1920s?).

28.09.1939 - (01.)1942 HMS Ranpura (armed merchant cruiser) (in lieu of specialist Gunnery Officer)

15.01.1942 - 23.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Buttercup (Flower class corvette)

15.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia) (for miscellaneous duties)

25.06.1943 - 06.04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Findhorn (River class frigate) (DSC) *

09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)

(04.1946) HMS Zanzibar (Colony class frigate) **

Captain of the Queen Mary (Cunard Line), 30.03.1960-25.05.1960.
* (07.1945) still shown as such, but next list (10.1945) shows a successor in command from 06.04.1945
** indexed, but not listed as such

De Courcy,
Benjamin John Maxwell
B.J.M. De Courcy
Son of Thomas Matthew De Courcy (1875?-1943) & Sarah Gamble "Saidie" Maxwell (1869-1948).
Married ((06?).1927, Wandsworth district, London) Rosalie Isabel Foster (15.12.1888 - (09?).1983). 10.12.1903
Woodford, West Ham district, Essex
-
11.1988
Chichester district, Sussex

T/Lt. 21.04.1942

T/A/Lt.Cdr. 24.01.1944? (reld < 04.1946)

MID 13.03.1945 Operation Neptune (Normandy), Sword & Juno Beaches 06-09.1944

CdeG ? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

21.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)

(08.1942) - (02.1944) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) *

24.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs) (for Sea Transport)

(06.1944) HMS Odyssey (Naval Parties accounting base)

(10.1945) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Delf,
Allen
A. Delf (Photo courtesy of Mr James Arber)
26.01.1903
Sotterley, Wangford district, Suffolk
-
08.1973
Lowestoft, Lothingland district, Suffolk

Skpr.
23.05.1934 [WS 2646]

Ch.Skpr.
30.06.1943

A/Skpr.Lt.
03.07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

Skpr.Lt.
30.06.1950 (retd 27.01.1953)

RD
01.08.1952
-

23.08.1939
-
(12.1941)
Boom Defence Depot, Malaya [HMS Sultan]

01.02.1943
-
03.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Imelda (auxiliary boom defence trawler)

(10.1944)

HMS William Hannam (trawler) *

05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Barfoss (boom defence vessel)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Delforge,
Julien Auguste
J.A. Delforge (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)

Married ((03?).1943, Liverpool) Suzanne G.E.G. Dandin.
27.12.1908
Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium
-
1990
Belgium

T/Lt. 14.07.1941

6 Belgian decorations

39|45 St - -

Atl St - & clasp France & Germany

It St - -

WM 39|45 - -

MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945

1 foreign decoration

Second officer on training ship sv Mercator.

14.07.1941 - 12.1941? RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

12.1941? - 01.1942? HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training at gunnery & signals courses)

01.1942? - 01.02.1942 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for training at Asdic course)

02.02.1942 - 14.10.1944 Gunnery & Asdic Officer, HMS Godetia (Flower class corvette)

15.10.1944 - 01.06.1945 Naval Party 1701 (Zeebrugge, Belgium) [HMS Odyssey]

02.06.1945 - 06.11.1945 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naval Party 1701 (Zeebrugge, Belgium) [HMS Odyssey]

06.11.1945 - ? Maintenance Commander, HMS Royal Edmund II (RN Section Belge Depot, Ostend)

Post-war commissioned in the Belgian Navy, from which he retired in 1965 as a Captain. Had been Commandant of the Maritime Command Ostend.

Dennis,
Ralph Deacon
R.D. Dennis
Son of Henry Haywood Dennis, and Una Mary D'Elboux (1874-1947).
Married (23.03.1940) Josephine Sharman; two daughters.
26.01.1912
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
13.04.1988
Dover district, Kent

Prob. T/S.Lt.
29.01.1940

T/S.Lt.
1940?, seniority 29.01.1940 (reld 1941)

may have served at HMS Turquoise and at HMS Velia (Dunkirk)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

30.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for Anti-Submarine Striking Force convoy duties)

Depoorter,
George Félix Léon
G.F.L. Depoorter (Photo courtesy of Mr George Depoorter Jr.)
Son of Félix Julianus Constantinus Depoorter, a civil servant of the Dienst Bruggen en Wegen ("Bridges and Roads Department"), and Angeline Cath. Ferd. Dams.
Married (28.09.1937) Godeliva Decoster; ... children (one son?).
20.02.1908
Ekeren, Belgium
-

Prob. T/Lt. 26.01.1942

T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 26.01.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

Education: Koninklijk Atheneum, Antwerp.
Breveted as deck officer in the Belgian Merchant Navy, 1927, starting his career aboard ss Kambove, followed by several other vessels of the Lloyd Royale Belge (later known as Compagnie Maritime Belge). Promoted to 2nd Mate in July 1935, he came ashore in 1936 as Assistant Shipping Commissioner at Ostend and as Shipping Commissioner at Nieuwpoort in 1939. In this last capacity he was able to bring a substantial part of the Belgian fishery fleet into safety in the UK.

gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth),

(02.1942) - (04.1942) no appointment listed

(06.1942) - (07.1945) Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Emma (landing ship, infantry) (Dieppe, North Africa, Sicily, Normandy) *

Post-war commissioned in the Belgian Navy, from which he retired in 1965 as a Captain. Had been Commandant of the Naval Base at Banana, Belgian Congo, 1954-1960.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Deveson,
Francis Samuel
F.S. Deveson
Married ((06?).1935, Rochford district, Essex) Vera Frances D. Pells (05.06.1910 - 06.1999); ... children (one son?). 06.03.1906
Romford district, Essex
-
(03?).1983
Norwich district, Norfolk

Midsh. 01.09.1923

A/S.Lt. 06.03.1927

S.Lt. 16.03.1929

Lt. 03.07.1932
04.10.1932, seniority 03.04.1932 * (retd 27.08.1937)

A/Lt.Cdr. 1941?

Lt.Cdr. (retd) 13.04.1942

RD 1942? -

* Promotion for specially good service. In recognition of his outstanding abilities as an officer during his training with the fleet.
Entered the RNR while a cadet with the Royal Mali Steamship Company which he joined from the Training Ship Worcester.

17.09.1923 - 25.11.1923 HMS King George V (battleship)

26.11.1923 - 1923? HMS Glorious (cruiser)

14.09.1931 - 11.1931 HMS L 21 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

26.11.1931 - (07.)1932 HMS L 18 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

25.04.1936 - 1936 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)

(12.1939) - (07.)1940 no appointment listed [on blockship SS Moyle under Lt.Cdr. R.H.D. Lane to Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo]

06.07.1940 - (06.)1944 1st Lieutenant, then from about mid-1941 Commanding Officer, French Ship "L'Incomprise"

25.09.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Misoa (landing ship, tank)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

17.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HM LST 3002 (landing ship, tank)

Devlin,
John Norman
J.N. Devlin
Son of ... Devlin, and ... Norman. 17.01.1919
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
24.04.2003
Clarke, Virginia, USA

T/S.Lt. 15.04.1940

T/Lt. 01.06.1942

Lt. RN ?, seniority 01.06.1941

Lt.Cdr. RN 01.06.1949 (retd 17.01.1964)

MBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 1963 [investiture 30.10.1963]

DSC 11.05.1943 sinking of enemy ships 11/12.1942 [investiture 09.11.1943]

(1934) sailed as a Cadet in Alan Villiers' training ship "Joseph Conrad"

(1939) Fourth Officer, SS Port Bowen (steamer)

... - ... ...

(12.1941) no appointment listed

15.01.1942 - (02.)1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)

(04.1942) - (12.1942) HMS P 211 (submarine) * (DSC)

28.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Safari (submarine)

16.05.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Safari (submarine)

(12.1943) HMS Safari (submarine) *

15.12.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Safari (submarine)

04.03.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Sealion (submarine)

(06.1944) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) *

20.07.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Uproar (submarine)

01.08.1945 transferred, RN

01.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Theseus (submarine)

... - ... ....

16.09.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Thorough (submarine)

(1963) DGNPS (MBE)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickie,
John Wilfred Harper Fullerton
J.W.H.F. Dickie
From Nottingham.
?
-
2002 still alive

T/Midsh.
?

T/A/S.Lt.
?

T/S.Lt.
02.01.1945, seniority 18.11.1944

T/Lt.
05.12.1946, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RN
?, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RNZN
07.07.1951, seniority 18.11.1946 [13695]

Lt.Cdr. RNZN
18.11.1954

Cdr. RNZN
? (retd < 02.1969?)

OBE
01.01.1973
New Year 1973

1939
-
1942
HMS Conway (mercantile marine services)

20.02.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Wild Goose (sloop)

(07.1945)

HMS Opossum (sloop) *

02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Welcome (minesweeper)

1946?
-
07.07.1951
served on an Extended Service Commission, RN

29.04.1949
-
(05.1950
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

07.07.1951

transferred to RNZN

25.10.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMNZS Maori

02.01.1956
-
(01.1956)
HMS Vernon (miscellaneous duties)

16.02.1961
-
(02.1963)
Director of Undersurface Warfare, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Wakefield]

President of the Conway Club, 2000-2002.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickson,
Alexander Forrest
"Alec" / "Forrest"
A.F. Dickson
Son of a merchant marine captain. Married (1947) Norma Houston; three sons, two daughters.

23.06.1920
Edinburgh
-
01.10.2005
Kenmore

Midsh.
24.10.1938

A/S.Lt.
23.06.1940

S.Lt.
23.06.1941

Lt.
01.08.1942

Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1950 (retd 01.07.1958)

OBE
31.12.1979
New Year 1980

MID
18.04.1944
Operation Canned (destruction of enemy tankers 02.1944)

RD
08.02.1950
?

Education: George Watson's School, Edinburgh

MS Kemmendine (belonging to the Patrick Henderson Line - one of the last passenger steam ships that sailed from Glasgow to Rangoon)

24.10.1938

joined RNR

03.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Keppel (destroyer) *

23.06.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Keppel (destroyer) (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russian convoys [PQ17])

01.11.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Relentless (destroyer) (Africa) (was involved in a successful attack and sinking against some U-boat supply ships)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Anthony (destroyer) ** [was First Lieutenant, then CO]

Returned to the merchant marine, before joining Shell Marine Division. In 1970, Dickson joined the board of Shell Marine and later became head of Marine Operational Services for Shell International. Retired mid-1980s to Kenmore, in Perthshire.
Published: Seafaring, a chosen profession (1995)
* (02.1941) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Dines,
Ernest
E. Dines 1887/88 ?
-
16.01.1946
Lowestoft harbour
(accident)
[age 58]

A/T/Boom Skpr.
14.09.1942

T/Boom Skpr.
?, seniority 15.09.1942

15.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Twinkling Star (admiralty steel drifter)

(07.1945)

Boom Defence Depot, Rosyth *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dinwoodie,
John
J. Dinwoodie (Photo courtesy of Mr Robbie Dinwoodie) 1908
Leith North district, Scotland
-
1993
Leith district, Scotland

Skpr. 30.08.1939 [WS 2971]

A/Skpr.Lt. > 08.1941, < 10.1941 [acting rank]

A/Skpr.Lt. 13.09.1943 [permanent rank] (demobilized > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Lt. (PS) 13.08.1946 (retd 02.01.1953; age)

DSC 08.12.1942 Russian convoy PQ18 09.1942 [investiture 16.02.1943]

MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

(12.1939) no appointment listed

21.12.1939 - 21.03.1941 HMS T.R. Ferrens (minesweeping trawler)
[for the last weeks/months possibly as Commanding Officer]

(06.1941) HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth) *

(08.1941) no appointment listed

02.08.1941 - (10.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Francolin (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)

(12.1941) no appointment listed

15.12.1941 - (02.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Shika (minesweeping trawler)

(04.1942) no appointment listed

20.05.1942 - 06.10.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 90 (motor minesweeper) (DSC)

01.12.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Argo (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)

03.06.1943 - 01.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1010 (motor minesweeper) (despatches)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Ditcham,
Anthony Greville Fox
"Tony"
A.G.F. Ditcham (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)

Younger son of Vivian Ashley Ditcham (1896-1957), and Irene M. Robinson, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire.
Engaged (& married?) (1956) Janet Mary Bateman, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.W. Bateman, of Roundabouts, Pulborough, Sussex.
Married ((09?).1982, Rotherham district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Anne Hilton.

(09?).1922
Edmonton district, Oxfordshire
-
10.2019 still alive in Shropshire

T/Midsh. 06.05.1940

T/A/S.Lt. 25.07.1942

T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943

T/Lt. 25.01.1945 (reld > 10.1945, > 04.1946)

DSC 21.04.1942 action with E-boats 19.02.1942

? - 11.05.1940 HMS Worcester (RNR training ship)

11.05.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (as Flagship of the battlecruiser Squadron, Scapa Flow: Arctic, Norwegian Sea, North Sea, Atlantic) (as Flagship of Force H, Gibraltar) (Mediterranean, Atlantic)

(02.1941) no appointment listed

03.1941 - 06.1942 HMS Holderness (destroyer) (North Sea & Channel convoys) (DSC)

(08.1942) HMS Holderness (destroyer) *

14.09.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Reading (destroyer) (North Sea)

(04.1943) - (06.1943) HMS Scorpion (destroyer) *

01.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (Atlantic, Arctic convoys [torpedoed Scharnhorst]) *

(04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed

12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (anti-E-boat and U-boat patrols in Channel; return to Scapa Flow and Arctic)

07.1945 - (10.1945) Second Lieutenant & Close-range Weapons Officer, HMS Finisterre (destroyer) (Far East; organised Ship’s Company race meeting in Shanghai with 30 horses borrowed from Chinese Army on borrowed race course)

Cambridge & London Universities, 1946-1948. Overseas Civil Service Nigeria, 1948-1961. Industry – UK, 1961-1982 (retired; reading history, writing memoirs, sailing offshore 8 metre (sold 1992)). Unpaid stable lad exercising race horses in training since 1987.
Published: A home on the rolling main : a naval memoir, 1940-1946 (2013)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dixon,
Jesse
J. Dixon
From Milford Haven. ?
-

T/Lt. 21.09.1939

T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1941, < 04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945

22.03.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minesweeper)

(04.)1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minesweeper)

(12.1943) no appointment listed

11.01.1944 - 16.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Nyemetski (minesweeping trawler) (despatches)

Dobbie,
William Mitchell
W.M. Dobbie (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)
Married (1959, Ardrossan and Saltcoats district, Scotland) Nora Thorp (née Cussen) (21.09.1906 - 06.02.1982). 29.03.1904
Kinning Park district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1990
Paisley district, Scotland

T/S.Lt. 19.10.1939

T/Lt. 21.10.1940

T/Lt.Cdr. 24.08.1943 (reld 14.03.1946)

MID 30.01.1945 towing Mulberries & rescue work

Served Merchant Navy (apprentice 1920; Second Mate 23.10.1924).

24.12.1939 - (04.)1941 HMS Marauder (Brigand class tug)

01.04.1941 - (01.)1942 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)

23.01.1942 - (03.)1944 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)

31.03.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs):

(06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Growler (rescue tug) (despatches)

15.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)

Dobson,
George William
G.W. Dobson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Hilary Ambrose)

From Harpenden.

24.02.1905
Liverpool
-
20.11.1971
West Cheshire district

Midsh.
23.11.1923

A/S.Lt.
01.11.1926

S.Lt.
12.01.1929

Lt.
02.01.1930

Lt.Cdr.
02.01.1938 (mobilized 06.09.1939)

Cdr.
30.06.1943 (reld 27.04.1946)

Capt.
30.06.1950 (retd 24.02.1960)

OBE
10.06.1961
HM's birthday 1961: Master, t.s. "Devonshire", Bibby Line, Ltd., Liverpool [investiture 24.10.1961]

MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 1945: leading the first supply ships into the Mulberry Harbours in Normandy

RD
1943
-

30.03.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

06.09.1939
-
11.1940
HMS Montclare (armed merchant cruiser)

01.01.1941
-
05.1941
HMS Prinses Josephine Charlotte [also: HMS Princess J. Charlotte] (landing ship infantry (small))

21.05.1941
-
18.10.1943
Commanding Officer, French Ship La Capricieuse (minesweeper)

01.01.1944
-
08.1945
Commodore of Coastal Convoys, HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)

Served in the Merchant Navy, registration No. 1057850. First ship "Mercedes de Larrinaga" belonging to the Larrinaga Steamship Co. Then serving the Bibby Line, 02.1931-31.07.1965 (retired due to ill-health). Promoted Master, 04.1949. His last ship was "Leicestershire".

Dodwell,
Oswald Thomas
"Ossie"
O.T. Dodwell (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)

Son (with three brothers) of Charles John Deane Dodwell (1858-1918), and Margaret Edgar (1868-1903).
Married (11.12.1934, St Francis Xavier's (Francisci Xavarii), Liverpool, Lancashire) Alice Walsh (14.04.1903 -(09?).1981), daughter (with five brothers and two sisters) of James Walsh (1869-), and Alice Connor (1871-). 07.11.1902
Stoneycroft, Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
(09?).1967
Wallasey district, Cheshire

Prob. T/S.Lt. RNVR 22.11.1940

T/Lt. 09.1941, seniority 22.02.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

Served Merchant Navy.

27.01.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS St Loman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

(10.1943) - (01.1945) no appointment listed

10.01.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)

12.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]

Douglas,
George
E. Dines
Son of William and Kaluda Douglas.
Half-brother of Lt. Ian George Alistair Douglas, RN. 06.03.1915
-
18.11.2008
Canada

T/S.Lt. 22.02.1940

Prob. T/Lt. 18.07.1940

T/Lt. 1941, seniority 18.07.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr. 22.03.1943? (reld < 04.1946)

DFC 06.06.1943 air attacks enemy shipping 02-05.1943 [investiture 19.10.1943]

22.02.1940 - 04.1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull)

22.04.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Examination Service)

(02.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(10.1941) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *

(12.1941) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *

30.01.1942 - (02.)1943 [Commanding Officer?], 823 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]

22.03.1943 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, 823 Squadron FAA

01.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)

06.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

15.02.1945 - (07.1945) Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)

Commodore, Indian Navy (Chief of Naval Aviation). Retired 1966.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Douglas,
Ian George Alistair
E. Dines
Son of William and Elsie Douglas.
Half-brother of Lt.Cdr. George Douglas, RNR. 1927 ?
-
12.10.1954
Lossiemouth

T/Midsh. 04.05.1945

A/S.Lt. RN 1947?

S.Lt. RN 29.11.1947 (emgcy 02.06.1949)

A/Lt. RN (emgcy) ?

Lt. RN 01.09.1952, seniority 13.10.1951

(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed

(07.1948) HMS Pincher (Algerine class minesweeper) *

20.01.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)

01.09.1952 short service commission in the Executive Branch of the RN

(05.1953) no appointment listed

(07.1954) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dowding,
John Charles Keith
J.C.K. Dowding 01.11.1891
-
13.02.1965

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
08.05.1916

Lt.
08.05.1918

Lt.Cdr.
08.05.1926

Cdr.
30.06.1933

Capt.
31.12.1940 (retd 01.11.1946; removed from retd 29.11.1954)

Cdre. 2nd cl.
02.04.1941

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
1945?

CBE
13.10.1942
Russian convoy PQ17 07.1942

DSO
16.08.1940
Dunkirk

MID
13.03.1945
assault Normandy 06-11.1944

OCwn
01.02.1949
liberation of Belgium

RD
?
?

1914
-
1919
served 4 years in sailing ships; in 10th Cruiser Squadron and 2nd in Command of Destroyers, Home Station and Mediterranean, until 1919

1919

joined Orient Line; 1919; Staff Commander, 1936

(03.1938)

Officer-in-Charge, Sea Training for Boys, British Sailors' Society (Limehouse, London)

05.09.1939
-
(06.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Mona's Isle (auxiliary armed boarding vessel) [called up for active service]

(02.1941)

HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

02.04.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet}:

(07.1942)

Commodore of Convoy PQ17 to Archangel

(06.1944)

Staff Flag Officer Assault Area [HMS Odyssey ?]

(10.1944)

Principal Sea Transport Officer, Expeditionary Force

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Principal Sea Transport Officer, British Army of Occupied Germany [Sea Transport Department, Admiralty]

01.09.1945
-
01.11.1946
also: RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Down,
Jack Charles Edwin
J.C.E. Down (Photo courtesy of Bob Down)
Son of Charles Percy Allan Down (1877-1946), and Maud Elizabeth West (1879?-1961).
Married (29.08.1939, Worthing district, Sussex) Evelyn Beatrice "Evie" Campbell (12.06.1917 - 07.1990); one daughter, two sons. 19.03.1913
Pulborough, Thakeham district, Sussex
-
12.1990
Worthing district, West Sussex

Prob. T/S.Lt. 29.01.1940

T/S.Lt. 06.1940, seniority 29.01.1940

T/Lt. 29.01.1941

T/A/Lt.Cdr. 08.08.1945? (dispersal 20.12.1945) (reld 04.03.1946)

(03.1940) - (04.1940) no appointment listed

(05.1940) - (07.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

23.07.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Cathay (armed merchant cruiser)

31.12.1941 - 13.01.1942 short anti-submarine course [HMS Nimrod (training establishment, Campbeltown)]

15.01.1942 - (10.)1943 First Lieutenant, later Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette)

(12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed

07.02.1944 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS St Adrian (armed yacht)

10.12.1944 - 24.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Pennywort (corvette)

08.08.1945 - 14.11.1945
Assistant Senior Officer Assault Group & Assistant King's Harbour Master Bangkok in Naval Parties 2472 and 2480

* indexed, but not listed as such

Down,
Robert William
R.W. Down (Photo courtesy of Terry Down)
Son (with five sisters and two brothers) of Samuel Down (1878-1936), and Agnes Elizabeth Longley (1878-1947).
Married ((12?).1923, Thanet district, Kent) Florence Maud Titterrell (09.12.1904 - 12.04.1983), daughter (with six brothers) of Walter Ernest Titterrell (1879-1929), and Rose Elizabeth (Priscilla) Lewis (1878-1915); four sons.

29.04.1903
Ramsgate, Thanet district, Kent
-
14.08.1973
Lowestoft, Lothingland district, Suffolk

A/T/Skpr. 01.02.1943 [T.S. 1337]

T/Skpr. 22.03.1943, seniority 01.02.1943 (dispersal 21.11.1945) (reld 16.01.1946)

16.01.1940 - 31.01.1943 served as Seaman & 2nd Hand, R.N.H.O.:

HMS Playmates (minesweeping trawler)

(10.1941) HMS Stella Canopus (minesweeping trawler)

01.02.1943 - 11.03.1943 HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service central depot, Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft) (for disposal)

12.03.1943 - 19.09.1944 HMS Stora (auxiliary anti-submarine whaler) (additional; as 2nd Skipper) [tender to HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland), from 24.06.1944 to HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)]

20.09.1944 - 31.10.1945 HMS Cypress (minesweeping trawler) (additional; as 2nd Skipper) [tender to HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth), from 23.01.1945 to HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan), from 01.09.1945 to HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]

01.11.1945 - 21.11.1945 HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service central depot, Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft) (for disposal)

Pre-war fisherman & post-war a trawler skipper out of Lowestoft.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Downham,
John Kenneth Shaw
J.K.S Downham
Son (with two brothers) of Philip George Downham (1877-1949), estate agent, ans Ethel Watson Sargeant (1877-1947).
Married 1st (29.03.1934, Parish Church, Merton) Evelyn Mansfield (12.05.1914 - (06?).1970), daughter of Stanley Herbert Mansfield (1886-1960), auctioneer, and Ellen Bollen (1888-); one son, one daughter. Evelyn Downham remarried ((12?).1950) James Egan.
Married 2nd ((12?).1948, Surrey North Eastern district) Jean McEwan Martin (née Scott) (14.07.1911 - 08.10.1964).
Married 3rd ((12?).1964, North Eastern Surrey district) Dorothy E.L. Godfrey. 20.05.1909
Croydon, Surrey
-
20.08.1967
Kingston upon Thames district, London SW20

Midsh. 01.05.1926 (reld 1928?)

T/S.Lt. 29.01.1940

T/Lt. 29.04.1940

A/T/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon (invasion of the South of France 08.1944)

Education: HMS Worcestershire (1926).
Estate agent.

(03.1940) - (04.1940) no appointment listed

(05.1940) - (06.)1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

29.07.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Worcestershire (armed merchant cruiser)

(02.1941) - (04.1941) HMS Worcestershire (armed merchant cruiser) **

(06.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

09.06.1941 - (10.)1944 HMS Prins Albert (landing ship, infantry (small))

04.12.1944 - (10.1945) Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (despatches)

* indexed, but not listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such; not in name index but shown under HMS Lady Shirley (auxiliary patrol trawler) in Navy Lists 08.1940 up to 12.1941 with appointment dating from 30.05.1940

Driscoll,
Arthur William
"Hawkeye"
A.W. Driscoll
Son of Denis and Margaret Driscoll.
1904 ?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 36]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 39, column 3]

Prob. S.Lt.
07.11.1927

S.Lt.
30.04.1928, seniority 07.11.1927

Lt.
07.11.1930

Lt.Cdr.
07.11.1938

Master Mariner in the Merchant Navy

05.02.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS L 54 (submarine)

11.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
First Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Duck,
Norman Winder
N.W. Duck
Son of Garnet Woolsey Duck, and Rosalie Benedetta Kough (Harley?), of Fleet, Hampshire.
Married (14.07.1945, Caxton Hall) Second Officer Charlotte Hazel Langton Wilkinson, WRNS, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs Noël Wilkinson, of Woodside, Windsor Forest, Berkshire. 20.04.1903
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
31.05.1970
Priory Nursing Home, Wandsworth district, London SW15

Prob. S.Lt. 02.05.1929

S.Lt. 06.09.1929, seniority 02.05.1929

Lt. 29.11.1931

Lt.Cdr. 29.11.1939

Cdr. 31.12.1943

A/Capt. 1946?

Capt. 31.12.1950 (retd 20.04.1958)

DSC 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942 [decoration posted]

DSC 07.11.1944 sinking enemy submarine U-333 31.07.1944 [decoration posted]

RD 14.07.1944 -

31.01.1931 - (02.1931) HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [to complete 12 months' training]

29.11.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Circassia (armed merchant cruiser)

(02.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

22.03.1941 - 06.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Starwort (corvette)

20.08.1942 - 07.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rockingham (destroyer)

01.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Dominica (frigate)

(06.)1944 - 02.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Starling (sloop) & Senior Officer, 2nd Escort Group

11.09.1944 - 08.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Berkeley Castle (corvette) & Senior Officer, 31st Escort Group

(07.1945) no appointment listed

(04.1946) Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Ceylon [Sea Transport Department]

1945 - 1946 RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dudley,
Harry
H. Dudley
Son (with five sisters and four brothers) of Philip Alfred Dudley (1850-1909), and Elizabeth Caroline Moy (1866-1943).
Married Eva ... (22.12.1903 - ); ... children (one daughter?). 27.07.1901
Fulham, London
-
31.12.1959
Hornsey Central Hospital, Hornsey, Middlesex

Skpr. 01.06.1940 [TS 544]

T/A/Ch.Skpr. 01.01.1944

T/A/Skpr.Lt. > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 10.10.1945)

(08.1940) no appointment listed

10.08.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Hav (auxiliary minesweeper)

(06.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed

15.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Siesta (auxiliary minesweeper)

(08.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed

02.12.1942 - (09.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for BYMSs)

09.1943 - (02.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2069 (British yard minesweeper)

(04.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed

Dunbar,
George Learmouth
G.L. Dunbar
Son of Alexander and Caroline Alberta Clavell Dunbar.
Married ((06?).1919, West Derby district, Lancashire) Catherine Dorothy Bairsto, of Orrell Park, Liverpool.

21.10.1892
Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
01.07.1946
[age 53]
[Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery, section 9, nonconformist, grave 679]

T/S.Lt. 21.08.1915

Prob. Lt. 31.12.1923

Lt. 15.12.1925, seniority 31.12.1923

Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1931

Cdr. 31.12.1935 (retd 21.10.1942)

Capt. (retd) 21.10.1942 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

RD 05.06.1935 -

16.11.1935 - ? HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

07.11.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Ausonia (armed merchant cruiser)

11.1940 - 15.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Somers (ocean boarding vessel) (sunk by Italian submarine Morosini)

18.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties; additional for various services)

(06.1943) no appointment listed

23.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for Naval Control Service)

Dunkley,
James Lewis
J.L. Dunkley (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)

Son (with two sister and three brothers) of William Edward Dunkley (1870-1911), and Annie Maria Green (1871-1948).
Married ...; one daughter. 13.09.1908
Thurlaston Grange, Warwickshire
-
26.09.1994
Clacton on Sea, Essex

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 11.07.1931

Lt. 29.06.1936

A/Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1943

Lt.Cdr. 29.06.1944

Cdr. 19.01.1951

Capt. 31.12.1956 (retd 13.09.1963)

CBE 01.01.1970 New Year 1970: Marine Superintendent, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

OBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946

RD 24.12.1943 -

RD ? 1st clasp

RD 15.11.1963 2nd clasp

Education: Lawrence Sherriff School, Warwickshire; HMS Worcester.

06.10.1939 - 13.04.1941 HMS Rajputana (armed merchant cruiser)
[ship torpedoed and sunk by U-108 (Convoy HX-117) west of Reykjavik, Iceland]

15.08.1941 - 12.11.1942
Navigation Officer, HMS Tynwald (anti-aircraft ship)
[ship sunk by Italian submarine off Bougie]

09.1942 - 1944 Navigation Officer, HMS Carlisle (Carlisle class cruiser)
[ship damaged by German aircraft off Strait of Scarpanto 09.10.1943, used as accommodation ship at Alexandria]

09.04.1944 - 1946 Navigation Officer, HMS Birmingham (Southampton class cruiser) (OBE)

07.12.1961 - 08.12.1962 RNR Naval ADC to The Queen

Captain, SS Canberra, 1964-1965 & 1967. Master of the Honourable Company of the Master Mariners, 1970-1971.

Dunn,
John Oliver
J.O. Dunn ?
-
[1959 still alive]

Lt.
31.12.1924

Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1932

Cdr.
30.06.1936

Capt.
30.06.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
10.08.1942 (retd 1940s)

Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd)
15.12.1948

RD ? -

10.08.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Dutton,
Wilfred Louis Gerard
W.L.G. Dutton

Son (with two brothers) of Philip Cliffe Dutton (1881-1962), and Mary Genevieve Miller (1888-1973).
Married 1st ((12?).1940, Dominican Church, Stone, Staffordshire) Helene Beatrice Collenette (14.10.1913 - 05.07.1971), daughter of William De France Collenette (1878-1951), and Beatrice Collenette (1880-1966); two sons.
Married 2nd (1972) Olive V. Perry, of St Louis, USA, widow of R.Adm. Chester Irwin Steele (1913-1967). 26.10.1913
Stone, Staffordshire
-
16.07.2003
Orlando, Florida, USA

Prob. S.Lt. 01.02.1938

S.Lt. 08.03.1940, seniority 01.02.1938

Lt. 04.11.1940

A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1944, < 04.1944

Lt.Cdr. 04.11.1948 (demobilized 10.04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)

MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941

MID 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad

MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky

MID 30.05.1944 Operation Antidote

MID 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.1944

MID 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946

RD 24.01.1947 -

Served Merchant Navy for 10 years.

(12.1939) no appointment listed

14.01.1940 - (03.)1940 HMS Shower (trawler)

(04.1940) HMS Shower (trawler) *

22.04.1940 - (12.)1940 HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)

18.12.1940 - 07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Nyemetski (trawler)

(08.1941) no appointment listed

16.08.1941 - (02.)1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Poole (Bangor class minesweeper)

01.03.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Speedy (Halcyon class minesweeper)

Worked in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Irish district inspector, 1946, and Western district Inspector, 1954, deputy chief inspector, 1958, and chief inspector of lifeboats, from 1961).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dymoke-Byrne,
James Joseph
"Smokey"

Son of William James Byrne, and Muriel Kathleen Leech.
Married ((12?).1951, Stepney district, London) Edy Berani (née Ninchi) (06.12.1919 - 02.03.1996), of Yugoslav descent. 11.06.1914
Rochford district, Essex
-
01.1970
Hythe, Folkestone district, Kent
[his remains were scattered into the sea by the Royal Navy at Spithead (Portsmouth) 07.1970]

Prob. T/S.Lt. 25.11.1940

T/S.Lt. 28.03.1942, seniority 25.11.1940

T/Lt. 20.03.1942 (reld 02.07.1946)

GM 16.01.1945 for gallantry in rendering safe the first specimen of a German "human torpedo" which ran ashore at Anzio *

MID 09.05.1944 for good services in salvage and repair work at the port of Naples

* Although he had no previous experience in bomb-disposal work, Lieutenant Dymoke-Byrne volunteered for and successfully carried out this hazardous task under direct enemy observation at three miles range and under imminent threat of artillery fire, well knowing that there was the gravest risk that the torpedo might explode, in which case he would have had no chance of escape from a violent death.

(02.1941) Admiralty [HMS President] *

24.03.1941 - (04.)1941 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]

04.05.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

08.06.1941 - 11.1941 HMS Pandora (submarine)

25.11.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Newcastle (cruiser)

03.02.1942 - 06.1942 HMS Oberon (submarine)

27.06.1942 - 29.04.1943 Torpedo Officer, HMS Trooper (submarine)

29.04.1943 - 17.05.1943 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)

01.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)

09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)

01.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)

Managed the pub The Clarendon Inn at Hythe, Kent.
* indexed, but not listed as such

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