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Baldwin,
Charles Edward
Son of Catherine M. Baldwin, of Stamshaw,
Portsmouth.
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30.06.1900
Portsmouth, Hampshire
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03.02.1940
(KIA) [age 40]
[Edinburgh (Seafield) Cemetery, Scotland, sec. P, joint grave 711] |
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Chief Petty Officer |
? [J56017] |
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DSM |
23.12.1939 |
stripping
enemy magnetic mines Shoeburyness 23.11.1939 [investiture at HMS Vernon 19.12.1939] |
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HMS Vernon
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[Helped Ouvry, Lewis and Vearncombe render
safe first Type A magnetic mine and Glenny and Vearncombe render safe second
Type A magnetic mine at Shoeburyness 25 Nov 39. ] |
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03.02.1940 |
HMS Firefly
(drifter)
[Killed along with course of 14 RNVR Sub Lieutenants
on board drifter while recovering loose British moored mines in Forth early
1940.] |
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Bartlett,
Alexander Smith
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12.08.1909
Urray, Marybank, Scotland
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06.08.1996
Dingwall, Scotland |
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T/A/Leading Stoker |
? [P/KX 130667] |
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BEM |
11.06.1946 |
wind
up Far East |
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HMS
Troubridge (destroyer) |
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Barton,
William Henry
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Corporal RM |
? [CH/X 103750] |
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MID |
04.09.1945 |
for service with 21st Army Group
02-04.1945 |
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served at
Sicily (Italy) & Normandy/NW Europe |
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Bengough,
Ronald Leslie
Son of ... Bengouh, and ... Hill. |
(03?).1921
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
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T/A/Petty Officer |
? [C/JX 153471] |
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DSM |
24.04.1945 |
war
patrols Far East 02-12.1944 |
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(12.1944) |
HMS
Tantivity (submarine) |
| 1946? |
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HMS
Artemis (submarine) |
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Bennett,
Archibald Justin
Son (with two brother and one sister) of George Bennett (1866-1930), and Rose
Earley (1871-1954).
Married 1st ((09?).1921, Wokingham district, Berkshire) Rose Allen (09.1898 -
05.07.1947), daughter of Thomas Allen (1869-), and Emma Rose (1874-1954); one
daughter.
Married 2nd ((09?).1948, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Kathleen Marjory Joan
Drewitt (09.09.1919 - (06?).1983), daughter of Sidney Drewitt (1894-1958), and
Ada Kate Glenister (1898-1978).
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28.09.1898
Henley district, Oxfordshire [also found:
Reading, Berkshire]
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07.08.1963
Eton district, Buckinghamshire |
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Boy II |
19.01.1914 |
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Boy I |
13.07.1914 |
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Ordinary Seaman |
13.04.1916 |
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Able Seaman |
26.10.1916 |
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Leading Seaman |
01.11.1918 |
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A/Petty Officer |
01.12.1924 |
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Petty Officer |
01.12.1925 |
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Chief Petty Officer |
? [P/J 29240] |
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BEM |
01.07.1941 |
HM's birthday 1941 [investiture 19.05.1942] |
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19.01.1914 |
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13.07.1914 |
HMS Impregnable |
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14.07.1914 |
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30.07.1914 |
HMS Endymion |
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31.07.1914 |
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11.10.1914 |
HMS Victory I |
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12.10.1914 |
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20.03.1919 |
HMS Emperor
of India |
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21.03.1919 |
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24.03.1919 |
HMS Iron
Duke |
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25.03.1919 |
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26.04.1919 |
HMS
Victory I |
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27.04.1919 |
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17.09.1919 |
HMS Fox
(Haldon) |
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18.09.1919 |
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03.05.1920 |
HMS Victory
I |
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04.05.1920 |
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23.09.1920 |
HMS Vernon |
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24.09.1920 |
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16.10.1922 |
HMS
Diligence (Speedy) |
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17.10.1922 |
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20.11.1922 |
HMS
Victory I |
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21.11.1922 |
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30.09.1923 |
HMS
Diligence Tourmaline |
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01.10.1923 |
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28.11.1923 |
HMS Victory
II? |
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29.11.1923 |
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31.03.1924 |
HMS Victory
I |
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01.04.1924 |
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04.01.1925 |
HMS Vernon |
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05.01.1925 |
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29.11.1926 |
HMS Lucia |
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30.11.1926 |
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HMS Vernon |
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(1941) |
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HMS Pyramus
(minesweeper & anti-submarine base, Orkney) |
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Benson,
Thomas Henry
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?
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Able Seaman |
? [P/SSX 19817] |
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MID |
23.12.1939 |
attacked
by enemy aircraft |
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| (12.1939) |
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HMS Mohawk
(destroyer) |
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Bernard,
Frederick Charles
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?
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Chief Petty Officer |
? [C/JX 154044] |
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DSM |
05.10.1943 |
9 official sweeps Sicily Channel & air attack [decoration
posted] |
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MID |
08.09.1942 |
Operation MG1 (Italian attack on Malta convoy
22.03.1942) |
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(1942) |
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HMS Legion
(destroyer) (despatches) |
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HMS
Bicester (destroyer) (DSM) |
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Bertenshaw,
John
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17.09.1880
Chorlton district, Lancashire
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Capt. MN
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? [discharge
number 774595]
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medals
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MID
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25.08.1942
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Operation
Ironclad (assault and capture of Diego Suarez 05/07.05.1942)
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World
War I
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served in the RNR as a Transportation Officer
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(1942)
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Captain, SS
Franconia
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possibly
Captain of SS Scythia, late 1942
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Served for over 40 years with the Cunard Line.
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Bisset,
[Sir] James
Gordon Partridge
Son of James Smith Bisset, Blairgowrie,
Perthshire, and Ellen Butler, Liverpool.
Married (1913) May
Hodgson, London; no children.
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15.07.1883
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28.03.1967
Fairfield, MidLavant, Chichester, Sussex
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Lt. RNR
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16.05.1916
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Lt.Cdr. RNR
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16.05.1922
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Cdr. RNR
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31.12.1926 (retd 15.07.1933)
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Capt. RNR (retd)
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15.07.1933
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Education: Liverpool
Went to sea as apprentice in sailing ship, 1898;
joined Cunard Line as Junior Officer, 1907.
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served
in RNR and was in command of destroyer for over three years
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Appointed
to first Cunard command, ss Aurania, in Canadian trade, 1929.
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Commanding Officer, RMS Queen Mary
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Commanding Officer, RMS Queen
Elizabeth
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Commodore of Cunard White Star Co. Ltd,
Liverpool, 1944-1947;
commanded ss Queen Elizabeth on her maiden voyage, 1946. Hon.
LLD Cambridge, 1947.
Published: Lifeboat Efficiency, 1920; Ship Ahoy, 1926; Sail Ho!, 1958;
Tramps and Ladies, 1959; Commodore, 1960.
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Blomfield,
Geoffrey Lucas
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12.01.1918
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02.2001
Yeovil district, Somerset
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Sick Berth Attendant
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? [P/MX 56762]
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MID |
23.12.1939 |
attacked
by enemy aircraft |
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MID |
28.06.1940 |
2nd
Battle of Narvik |
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HMS Mohawk
(destroyer) (despatches) |
| (04.1940) |
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HMS Cossack
(destroyer) (despatches) |
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Bloxsome,
Robert Charles
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23.01.1898
West Drayton, Uxbridge district, Middlesex
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(09?).1951
Canterbury district, Kent |
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Chief Petty Officer |
? [C/J 28834] |
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DSM |
24.04.1940 |
stripping
enemy mines |
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Boyle,
Thomas
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02.07.1909
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Petty Officer |
? [C/JX 139471] |
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DSM |
30.03.1943 |
distinguished services [investiture 20.07.1943] |
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DSM |
21.11.1944 |
various actions over 2 years [investiture
16.02.1945] |
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MID |
30.05.1944 |
action off Dieppe 28.03.1944 |
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HM MGB 318
(motor gun boat) (DSM) |
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(1944) |
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HM MTB 614
(motor torpedo boat) (despatches) |
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(1944) |
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HMS Grey
Wolf (minesweeping gun boat) (Bar to DSM) |
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Bracken,
Patrick [Thomas]
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Liverpool
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Able Seaman
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? [D/JX 284252]
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MID |
11.01.1944 |
action
Keliba & Cap Bon 04.1943 |
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HM MTB 637
(motor torpedo boat) (despatches) |
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Bradburn,
Francis John
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20.04.1912 ??
Wigan district, Greater Manchester /
Lancashire ??
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03.2005 ??
Plymouth district, Devon ??
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Leading Seaman
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? [C/JX 130657]
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DSM |
25.11.1941 |
anti-submarine
patrols |
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HMS
Wanderer (destroyer) (DSM) |
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Bradshaw,
William Harold
Married ...; ... children (one son?). |
01.02.1920
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11.02.2006
Great Yarmouth district, Norfolk |
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Leading Telegraphist |
? [C/SSX 23589] |
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DSM |
25.08.1942 |
Operation Ironclad (assault & capture of Diego
Suarez 05-07.05.1942) [decoration posted] |
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Combined
Operations Bombardment Units party detached for the capture of Diego
Suarez (Madagascar) [MV
Winchester Castle (HQ ship for 29th Independent Infantry Brigade)] (DSM) |
His son writes: "My father joined the Royal Navy
in 1937. His first ship was HMS Bedouin. He left her and was sent to the USA to
serve aboard the USS Phillips, re-named HMS Lancaster, one of the 50 ships that
the USA sold to the UK. After that he went into Combined Operations, took part
in the Lofoten Isles and Vaagso Raids in Norway. Later to Madagascar and
Operation Ironclad, after that via India to Burma. Captured then escaped.
Hospitalised back to the UK but en route was declared fit (!) and took part in
the Anzio landings. After the war was posted to RN D/F station at Daniels Head,
Bermuda. After that was discharged and joined ACSWS (Admiralty Civilian Shore
Wireless Service) which was part of what we now know as GCHQ. Retired in the
1980’s and passed away 11 February 2006. I obtained his amateur call sign G4SKS
and every year from 2007 onwards, I operate the callsign from 1st Feb (birthday)
until 11th Feb (his death)." |
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Geoffrey Sanders in "Soldier, sailor" (1947)
on the capture of Diego Suarez (Madagascar): "On the 7th May [1942] orders were
received for one Forward Observation Officer (FOO) party and one Royal Artillery
Observation Post (O.P.) party to establish an O.P. for observation on Orangea
and also to capture a supposed coastal defence battery on the Cape, should it
exist. Knight, with Telegraphists
Bradshaw and Shaw, armed with captured
carbines and Mills grenades, formed the FOO party. Captain Dibden was in charge
of the other O.P. party, whose weapons were a bren gun, two tommy guns and
rifles. The two parties numbered twelve and they were given three bren carriers
by 19th Battery. The journey was very hard going. The parties found that a track
marked on the map was more or less fictitious, and when they came to the jungle,
the rate of advance was approximately two miles per hour. Eventually they
emerged from the jungle, only to encounter very bad rocks. The first carrier
promptly shed a track. The second jammed its Bendix drive, and the third, trying
to pull the others out, lost a track, too. A message was sent to the Commander
Royal Artillery (CRA) saying the parties were temporarily immobile. The answer
came back telling them to push on, on foot if they could not repair their
vehicles. The distance was about fifteen miles, and the idea of walking had
little appeal. Dibden started mending the carriers while Knight and
Bradshaw
considered ways and means of going by boat.
Bradshaw
thought he could see one still on the sloop engaged the previous day and offered
to swim out, but Knight dissuaded him because of sharks.
Bradshaw
next tried to find a native canoe. He returned ten minutes later, having
discovered an Admiral's barge, and he brought with him three Frenchmen belonging
to the sloop. One was the Surgeon Lieutenant who, when asked how the battle had
gone with him, said the sloop had originally been bombed without effect, then
torpedo bombed −still no damage− and then machine-gunned from the air. This has
killed quite a number, about thirty, he thought. The Field gunners had hit her
twice and killed twenty men, but what had finished her, he said, was a cruiser
in Courrier Bay using aircraft spotting. The "cruiser", of course, was
[destroyer] Laforey and the "aeroplane" Marsh's and Knight's parties. The
barge was well stocked with wine, chocolate, cigarettes, ham, etc. and was
eventually floated by the Commandos −the O.P. parties could not move her. Dibden
then got a message to return home, so the FOO party set off on foot with the
prisoners. The going was hard, the distance was long and they got in about 1
a.m. The carriers turned up next morning, all on the road again." |
Brocklehurst,
Clifford Ralph
Son of ... Brocklehurst, and ... Kniveton.
Married ((03?).1940, Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Edna W.
Brookes. |
10.02.1915
Rotherham district, West Riding of
Yorkshire
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(12?).1979
Taunton district, Somerset
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Stoker Petty Officer |
? [C/KX 82835] |
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DSM |
14.06.1945 |
HM's birthday 1945 [decoration posted] |
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HMS
Lamerton (destroyer) (DSM) |
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Broomfield,
Clarence Haisley
Married 1st ((09?).1928, Portsmouth district,
Hampshire) Lilian M. Paine.
Married 2nd ((06?).1950, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Doris H.W. Donohue. |
17.11.1904
New Forest district, Hampshire
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(06.).1979
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
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Chief Petty Officer |
? [P/J 103228] |
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DSM |
31.03.1942 |
attack on German battlecruisers 12.02.1942 |
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HMS
Whitshed (destroyer) (DSM) |
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Buchanan,
Campbell Howard
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07.04.1920
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29.01.1943
[Bourail
New Zealand War Cemetery, New Caledonia, 8.20] |
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T/A/Leading Signalman RNZNVR |
? [O/7366] |
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MID |
01.06.1943 |
action Japanese submarine Guadalcanal 29.01.1943
[posthumously] |
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NavCr |
29.06.1943 |
action Japanese submarine Guadalcanal 29.01.1943
[posthumously] |
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29.01.1943 |
HMNZS Kiwi
(minesweeping trawler) (despatches, US Navy Cross) |
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Budge,
William Henry Gordon
Son of Edgar G. Budge, and Emma B. Goodman. |
29.04.1912
Devonport district, Devon
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19.10.1999
Hawkwell, Hockley, Essex |
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Supply Petty Officer |
? [D/MX 49034] |
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Cd. Stores Offr. |
12.02.1947 |
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Senior Cd. Stores Offr. |
01.04.1954 |
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Supply Lt. (Special Duties List) |
01.04.1954 |
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Supply Lt.Cdr. (Special Duties List) |
01.10.1958 (retd 29.04.1962) |
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DSM |
08.04.1941 |
sinking Italian submarine Berillo 02.10.1940
[investiture 24.03.1942] |
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(10.1940) |
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HMS Hasty
(destroyer) (DSM) |
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16.03.1948 |
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(05.1949) |
HMS
Heron (RN Air Station. Yeovilton, Somerset) |
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(05.1950) |
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HMS
Heron (RN Air Station. Yeovilton, Somerset) * |
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06.1951 |
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(05.1953) |
HMS
Falcon (RN Air station, Hal Far, Malta) |
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18.11.1953 |
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(01.1956) |
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] |
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(01.1957) |
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HMS
Caledonia (RN apprentice training establishment, Rosyth) * |
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(01.1959) |
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HMS
Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) * |
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(07.1961) |
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Mersey Division RNVR * |
Higher Executive Officer.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Burns,
Robert
Married; ... children.
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18.12.1902
Saint Gills, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Yeoman of Signals |
? [D/J 87873] |
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DSM |
08.06.1944 |
HM's
birthday 1944: for Arctic convoy duties [investiture 31.10.1944] |
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| (1944) |
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HMS Eaglet
(RN base, Liverpool) (DSM) |
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Butters,
Edward
Son of ... Butters, and ... Kewell.
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09.10.1914
Cuckfield district, (West) Sussex
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03.1990
Scarborough district, Yorkshire
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Leading Seaman |
? [P/JX 135423] |
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Petty Officer |
? |
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MID |
11.09.1940 |
courage
in recent engagements |
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| (1940) |
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HMS Decoy
(destroyer) (despatches) |
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Bye,
Eric William
Son of ... Bye, and ... Bloomfield.
Married ((09?).1934, Winchester district, Hampshire) Mary Maud Florence King
((09?).1913 - ), daughter of ... King, and ... Reeves; one son, three daughters. |
03.05.1912
Woodgreen, Edmonton district, Middlesex
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11.1999
East Dorset district, Dorset |
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Acting Leading Seaman |
? [P/JX 130437] |
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Chief Petty Officer |
? |
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DSM |
26.09.1940 |
Norway
04-06.1940 [investiture 13.03.1941] |
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| (1940) |
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HMS Aurora
(cruiser) (DSM) |
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gunnery
instructor, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) |
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