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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Bloodworth,
William Snow
W.S. Bloodworth

Married 1st (25.12.1902, Wandsworth district, London) Mary Ann Elizabeth Page (1883? - (09?).1943).
Married 2nd ((09?).1944) Phyllis Wrangham (01.03.1894 - ), daughter of Joseph Crickmore Wrangham (1861-1943), and Edith Annie Hughes.

22.01.1881
Northampton
-
31.12.1952
Thanet district, Kent

Wt.Tel.	27.03.1912
Cd.Tel.	27.03.1922
Tel.Lt.	24.11.1929 (retd 22.01.1931)
Tel.Lt.Cdr. (retd)	24.11.1937

MBE

17.07.1919

for valuable services in the Flagship of the 1st Battle Squadron

24.04.1912			entered RN
16.06.1914			HMS Marlborough
?	-	(01.1919)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
16.04.1922	-	(08.1923)	Assistant to Fleet W/T Officer, Atlantic Fleet (for experimental work) [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
15.08.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
30.08.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.08.1927	-	(08.)1929	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
11.12.1929	-	(08.1930)	HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties; Port W/T Officer and for instruction of W/T ratings)
23.03.1939	-	14.01.1945	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
15.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bloomer,
Stuart Garland

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edward Bloomer (1879-1925), and Jessie Evelyn "Evie" Watson (1888-1973).
Married (1960, Hong Kong) ...; one daughter, one son.

22.11.1918
Coventry, Warwickshire
-
10.11.2001
Haywards Heath, West Sussex

Cadet	01.09.1936
Midsh.	01.05.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1939
S.Lt.	01.03.1940, seniority 01.03.1939
Lt.	01.09.1940
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1948 (retd 22.11.1963; age)

MID

11.11.1941

Greek withdrawal 04.1941

01.09.1936	-	30.04.1937	special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
1937			HMS Resolution
1938			HMS Escort & HMS Southampton
1939			HMS Excellent
01.05.1939	-	(09.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
23.09.1939	-	(02.)1943	HMS Flamingo (Black Swan class sloop) (despatches)
20.03.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank (LCTs)):
			LCT 355 & LCT 533
(08.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed (probably "on the books" of HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)]
31.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
03.10.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Warrior (Colossus class light fleet aircraft carrier)
07.11.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire)
24.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Triumph (Colossus class light fleet aircraft carrier)
1947			Staff Admiral Air (obtained civil aviator's certificate No. 23457 taken on a Tiger Moth at RN Air Station Gosport 29.09.1947)
1948			HMS Vernon
1950			HMS Peacock and HMS Cygnet Staff F5
1952			HMS Osprey
1954	-	1956	Commanding Officer, HMS Undaunted
1956			Naval Party 2237
1957			HMS Seahawk TTU
1960			HMS Tamar

Blowers,
Denys Laundy

31.03.1911
-
15.02.2003

Paym.Midsh.	01.01.1930
Paym.S.Lt.	01.10.1931
Paym.Lt.	01.10.1933
Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S)	01.10.1941 (retd 31.03.1956; age)

...	-	...	...
29.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
...	-	...	...

Bluett,
Charles Cecil Miller

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Charles William Bluett (1879-1952), and Lilias Jane Bidwell (née Dunbar) (1880-1951).
Married (1942, Hillcrest, Natal, South Africa) Margaret Elizabeth McFie (08.09.1919 - 22.01.1993); one daughter.

31.10.1915
Kordia, India
-
15.11.1989
Titchfield, Fareham, South East Hampshire

Cadet (E)	01.01.1933
Midsh. (E)	01.09.1933
S.Lt. (E)	01.09.1936
Lt. (E)	16.07.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. (E)	1946?
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.07.1946
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1951 (retd 31.10.1965)

...	-	...	...
01.1938	-	(07.)1939	HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
(08.1939)	-	(09.1939)	no appointment listed
20.11.1939	-	(05.)1940	HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)
07.05.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship)
01.01.1942	-	(12.)1942	HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
17.12.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq)
08.1943	-	(04.)1945	HMS Redoubt (R class destroyer)
(07.1945)	-	(10.1945)	no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Jutland *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Blundell,
Edward Alan
"Ted"
E.A. Blundell (Photo courtesy of Sue Farran)

Son of Frank and Florence Blundell.
Married ((09?).1946, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Elizabeth Carol Cockayne ((03?).1920 - ); one daughter, one son.

11.12.1907
St Margarets, Brentford district, Middlesex
-
05.02.1988
Prinsted, Emsworth, South East Hampshire district, Hampshire

Midsh.	15.09.1926
S.Lt.	01.12.1928
Lt.	01.12.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1938
Cdr.	30.06.1944
Capt.	31.12.1949 (retd 01.04.1959)

OBE

18.01.1944

dissolution of Force H [investiture 18.04.1944]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

...	-	...	...
13.09.1939	-	(06.)1942	Torpedo Officer, HMS Nigeria (Fiji class cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, 10th Cruiser Squadron
31.07.1942	-	(12.1943)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
01.1944	-	(06.)1944	Torpedo Officer, HMS Howe (King George V class battleship)
24.07.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Mining Department)
(01.1945)	-	(10.1945)	no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Blundell,
George Collett
G.C. Blundell (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Frost)

25.05.1904
Kensington, Greater London
-
19.10.1997
Banbury, Oxfordshire

Midsh.	15.05.1922
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	30.06.1926
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1934
A/Cdr.	< 02.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1942
Capt.	31.12.1947 (retd 07.01.1957)

CBE	01.01.1957	New Year 1957 [investiture 26.02.1957]
OBE	08.04.1941	HMS Kent torpedoed 17.09.1940 [investiture 14.04.1942]
MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 1945

15.01.1918			entered RN
15.05.1922	-	1924	HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.03.1926	-	(06.1928)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) (additional)
03.01.1929	-	(04.)1930	qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
(08.1930)	-	(02.1931)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) *
22.09.1931	-	(07.)1934	Torpedo Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
(08.1934)	-	(11.1934)	no appointment listed
18.12.1934	-	(08.)1936	Torpedo Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (and for duty with submarines)
21.10.1936	-	(07.)1937	Torpedo Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (while under construction also for duty with Commander-Superintendent of Contract-built Ships)
01.12.1937	-	01.1941	Torpedo Officer & First Lieutenant, HMS Kent (cruiser) & 1938-1939 also Fleet Torpedo Officer, China Station (China, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean & UK)
04.02.1941	-	11.1943	Torpedo Officer & First Lieutenant, from 10.07.1942 Executive Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet & Mediterranean)
13.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.02.1946	-	(10.1947)	Executive Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Brighton, then Portsmouth)
06.1948	-	(05.1949)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rifleman
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
24.06.1952	-	(01.1956)	Director of Naval Recruiting, Admiralty [HMS President]

Executive in industry, 1957-1969. President of Leamington Spa Branch, Royal Navy Association, 1970-1984 (Life Vice-President 1984).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Blunt,
David Enderby

10.09.1891
St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
-
25.04.1971

Midsh.	1909
S.Lt.	15.05.1912
Lt.	15.05.1914 (retd 26.03.1919)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.05.1922
Cdr. (retd)	10.09.1931

...	-	...	...
16.01.1937	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Kenya)
01.09.1939	-	(06.)1943	also: Senior British Naval Officer, Kilindini (Kenya)
01.09.1939	-	(12.)1940	HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden)
02.12.1940	-	(04.)1941	Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(06.1941)	-	(10.1941)	no appointment listed
15.10.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Largs)
28.03.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS President III (accounting base)
(08.1943)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Blunt,
Richard Mark
R.M. Blunt

Son of Hugh Roper Blunt (1874-1931),and Agnes Sara Gray (?-1948).
Married 1st (23.08.1952; divorced 1963) Adrien Seldon Truss, daughter of Leslie Seldon Truss; one daughter.
Married 2nd (18.09.1965) Patricia Eileen Lee, daughter of Walter Stanley Lee; one son, one daughter.

25.04.1924
New Zealand
-
2009
Karrinyup, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cadet	01.09.1942
Midsh.	01.05.1943
A/S.Lt.	1944?
S.Lt.	06.02.1946, seniority 01.04.1944
Lt.	01.01.1947, seniority 16.11.1945 (reld 29.03.1949)

Education: Wanganui Collegiate (1938-1942).

01.09.1942			special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme)
			saw action during invasions of Sicily, Italy & Normandy and in the Atlantic & submarines:
01.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Rodney (battleship)
(10.1944)			HMS Nubian (destroyer) *
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
21.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
27.01.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Affray (submarine)

Buyer, Hawker Aircraft UK. Navigation Instructor, London School of Air Navigation. Flight Planner, Freddie Laker's Hunting Clan Aviation, London Airport. Writer of Teach Yourself Books on their 1900 series of computers, ICT London. Training Manager, ICT London. Training Manager, ICT Sydney. District Supervisor Golden Fleece Petroleum Perth, W.A.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Blyth,
Geoffrey Frytche
G.F. Blyth

Son (with two sisters) of Herbert Russell Blyth (1862-1918), and Evelyn Anburey Fraser Parker (1870-1944).
Married 1st ((12?).1933, Sheppey district, Kent) Euphemia Margaret McCorkindale (1887 - 30.04.1935), widow of Frederick Vasey Adams, and daughter of Dougald McCorkindale (1830-1903), and Mary Elizabeth Busby (1850-1909); one daughter (Elsie Nira [Francis] "Cesca" Blyth, who married Lt. (S) Adrian Leslie Sharpe, RNVR).
Married 2nd (04.1937, English Martyrs, Streatham Hill, Wandsworth district, London) Margaret Adela Verne (05.10.1904 - 02.07.2004), daughter of John Lewis Wurm (1867-1936), and Ethel Maude Hackney (1872-1948); five children, of which one son and one daughter survived infancy.
Married 3rd Josephine Doris Hickey (1906 - 25.12.1982), widow of Capt. William Wylie (1881-1950).

31.05.1900
Barrackpore, India
-
02.09.1985
St Austell, Cornwall

Midsh.	01.05.1917
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1919
S.Lt.	15.09.1919
Lt. (E)	15.03.1921
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.03.1929
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1936 (retd 31.05.1950)
A/Capt. (E)	13.10.1941

15.01.1914			entered RN

30.06.1939	-	12.10.1941	a First Assistant to the Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Sultan]
13.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Sultan]
03.01.1942	-	(10.)1944	Chief Engineer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
01.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	Deputy Principal Production Officer
(04.1946)			an Engineer Inspector under Chief Inspector of Gun Mountings
...	-	...	...

Bockett-Pugh,
Ian Hamilton
I.H. Bockett-Pugh (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Bockett-Pugh)

Son of Edward Harding Bockett-Pugh (1872-1945), and Irene Paul (1872-...).
Married (17.09.1929) Nancy Lucas (1910-1972); three daughters, one son.
Residence: (1944) Yelverton.

30.08.1900
Harwich
-
03.07.1982
Torbay district

A/S.Lt.	15.05.1921
S.Lt.	15.08.1923, seniority 15.05.1921
Lt.	28.02.1924, seniority 15.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1931
Cdr.	30.06.1938 (retd 30.07.1949; medically unfit)
A/Capt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944

DSO	14.04.1942	convoy escort & destruction of U-boat 01-02.1942 [investiture 08.12.1942]
DSO	13.04.1943	Operation Torch & destruction U-boat [investiture 11.05.1943]
DSO	29.08.1944	Operation Neptune [investiture 27.11.1945]
MID	01.09.1942	Operation Harpoon

1920			ADC to Capt. Best [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]
(08.1923)			short course of instruction
15.08.1923	-	(01.1925)	HMS Venetia (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(05.1926)			no appointment listed
10.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China)
19.12.1927	-	(08.)1929	HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
20.10.1929	-	(02.)1931	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
17.12.1931	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) (China)
25.07.1934	-	(02.)1936	Executive Officer, HMS Guardian (net layer)
11.05.1936	-	(06.)1938	HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
29.08.1938	-	(10.)1938	Executive Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
20.12.1938	-	(02.)1939	in charge, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) (reduced to special complement)
(04.1939)			HMS Adventure (large minelayer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) *
19.04.1939	-	(08.1939)	Staff Officer (1) to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station & Residential Naval Officer, Freetown [HMS Neptune (cruiser)]
12.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	Executive Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
26.10.1940	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Wellington (sloop)
02.1941	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer)
03.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed: Senior Officer, Ferry Service (Operation Neptune, Normandy)
15.08.1944	-	(10.)1944	Captain, Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
10.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Philoctetes (depot ship, Freetown) & as Captain (D) Freetown
(04.1946)			HMS Foliot IV *
08.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	Commanding Officer, HMS Camperdown (destroyer)
(05.1949)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boddam-Whetham,
Edye Kington
E.K. Boddam-Whetham

Son of late John Whetham and Adelaide Harriett Matilda BoddamWhetham of Kirklington Hall, Notts. Married (1915) Elizabeth Margaret, widow of Gordon Ayers.

04.02.1887
Kirklington Hall, Nottinghamshire
-
27.03.1944
[age 57]
[Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery, 1.D.5]

A/S.Lt.	15.04.1906?
S.Lt.	22.04.1907, seniority 15.04.1906
Lt.	15.07.1908
Lt.Cdr.	15.07.1914
Cdr.	31.12.1920
Capt.	30.06.1928
R.Adm.	01.08.1939 (retd 02.08.1939)
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	07.09.1939

CBE	08.12.1942	Russian convoy PQ18 09.1942
DSO	14.09.1917	*
MID	22.06.1917	?
MID	17.11.1942	**

* For his services in command of a destroyer in the action with .enemy destroyers off the Belgian coa,st on the 5th June, 1917. He handled his ship well in the face of superior forces and under the fire of the shore batteries.
** For outstanding devotion to duty during three years arduous service as Commodore of Ocean Convoy.

Education: Sandroyd; HMS Britannia

15.09.1901			entered RN
1914	-	1919	served European War (DSO for services in command of a destroyer off the Belgian coast, June 1917)
01.09.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Swallow (destroyer)
(01.1925)			Air Ministry
15.01.1926	-	(07.1927)	Commanding Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer) (China)
27.07.1929	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (gunboat) & Senior Officer, West River (China)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
07.06.1932	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet)
06.10.1934	-	(02.1936)	Commanding Officer, HMS Malabar (RN Barracks, Bermuda) (and in charge of HM Naval Establishments, Bermuda)
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
17.05.1937	-	(07.1939)	Captain of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
10.01.1939	-	01.08.1939	Naval ADC to the King
07.09.1939	-	27.03.1944	Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Boddie,
Alfred Charles
A.C. Boddie

27.01.1891
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
10.12.1958

Seaman	? [237523]
Gnr.	01.10.1917
Cd.Gnr.	22.06.1927
Lt.	22.06.1939 (retd 27.01.1941)

30.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Stag (destroyer)
24.10.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Benbow (battleship) (for instructional duties) (Mediterranean)
06.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices)
18.06.1929	-	(02.1931)	HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)
15.09.1931	-	(01.1932)	HMS Lupin (sloop)
29.04.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Mist (drifter)
18.02.1933	-	(07.1935)	HMS Danae (cruiser) *
16.03.1936	-	(02.1937)	HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
08.03.1937	-	(02.1938)	HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
24.05.1938	-	(06.1938)	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
(06.1938)	-	(02.1939)	HMS Cochrane (depot ship) & for HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
24.02.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Syringa (trawler)
05.01.1940	-	(04.1940)	HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon)
08.04.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
12.1941	-	(10.1943)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
23.11.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Manatee (landing craft base, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight)
11.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Glendower (training establishment Pwllheli, North Wales)

* (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Boddie,
George Hugh
G.H. Boddie

28.11.1886
Portsmouth, Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
27.09.1964
Hampshire

Seaman	? [218693]
A/Mate	15.02.1915
Mate	27.03.1916, seniority 15.02.1915
A/Lt.	15.01.1918
Lt.	07.03.1919, seniority 15.01.1918 02.08.1921, seniority 15.11.1917 (retd 01.12.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.11.1925 (reverted to retd 1941/42)

DSC

05.10.1918

* For extreme efficiency in extinguishing fires and reorganising ship after the action. He rendered great assistance in bringing the ship safely into harbour when the comdg. officer was wounded (22-23.04.1918, Adriatic)

(01.1919)			HMS Hercules (battleship) *
15.02.1940	-	(02.1941)	Assistant Boom Officer, Portland [HMS Boscawen]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boddie,
Ronald Gowan
R.G. Boddie

Son of R.Adm. (E) Ronald Charles Boddie, CVO, DSO, RN, and Janet F.M. Gowan.

30.10.1922
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear
-
28.05.2013
Waterlooville, Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh. (E)	01.05.1940
S.Lt. (E)	16.04.1942
A/Lt. (E)	?
Lt. (E)	16.10.1943
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.10.1951
Cdr. (EngM)	31.12.1957 (retd 01.11.1969; own request)

08.05.1940	-	(08.1943)	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham
31.08.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Spartan (cruiser)
20.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) (lent to RNZN)
19.09.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vanguard
15.01.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
22.10.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS Chevron
12.1960	-	(02.1963)	Department of the Director-General, Aircraft, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.10.1966	-	(02.1969)	Project Planning Officer, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Boddie,
Sydney Leonard Cecil
S.L.C. Boddie

09.09.1896
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
14.05.1979
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Seaman	? [M4789]
Wt.Eng.	01.07.1927
Cd.Eng.	01.07.1937 (retd 09.09.1946)
A/Lt. (E)	< 04.1944, still 04.1946
Lt. (E) (retd)	09.09.1946

OON

12.05.1942

withdrawal from Holland 1940

20.09.1927	-	(08.1929)	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
05.11.1929	-	(09.1932)	HMS Dragon (cruiser)
16.11.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Sardonyx (destroyer)
26.06.1934	-	(02.1936)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
13.07.1936	-	(06.1938)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed
14.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (for minesweepers in reserve)
12.12.1938	-	(10.1943)	HMS Verity (destroyer)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
01.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Escapade (destroyer)

Boddy,
John Gouldthorpe
J.G. Boddy (Photo courtesy of Rory Hammond)

Younger son of Eng.Cdr. Robert Henry Gouldthorpe Boddy, RN (1880-1930), and Elizabeth Grace R. Hill (1888-1969) (remarried 1935 John Russell Cooper), of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeenshire.
Brother of Capt. (E) Robert Rowland-Hill Boddy, CBE, RN.
Married (12.07.1941, St Peter's, Meavy, Tavistorck district, Devon) Dorothy Patricia Maxwell ((06?).1920 -), eldest daughter (with one sister and two brothers) of Sg.R.Adm. Joseph Archibald Maxwell, CB, CVO, CBE, FRCS (1890-1980), and Dorothy Anna Perkin (1891-1979). Patricia Boddy remarried (1947) Lt.Cdr. Edward Henry Graham Stokes, RN.

17.06.1919
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
14.05.1942
(MPK) [age 22]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1]

Cadet (E)	01.09.1936
Midsh. (E)	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt. (E)	01.01.1939
S.Lt. (E)	14.11.1939, seniority 16.09.1939
A/Lt. (E)	> 02.1941, < 12.1941
Lt. (E)	02.1942, seniority 01.03.1941

AM
GC

20.10.1942
1972

Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942 *[posthumously; presented to next-of-kin]

* Lieutenant (E) John Gouldthorpe Boddy, Royal Navy, whose ship was heavily attacked by enemy aircraft. Lieutenant Boddy was within a few feet of one bomb when it fell: he was badly shaken by the explosion. About ten minutes later he was seen to raise himself on his hands and knees. There were fires now burning round him, and the way was blocked by debris. Cries were heard from the Stokers' mess-deck below, and Lieutenant Boddy asked a rating to help him rescue the men below. He was last seen crawling towards the hatch to try to save them. This devotion cost him his life.

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1936	-	31.12.1936	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	HMS Ramillies (battleship)
01.05.1937	-	(10.1940)	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
?	-	14.05.1942	HMS Trinidad (cruiser) [ship mortally damaged by German aircraft in Barentsz Sea]

Boddy,
Robert Rowland Hill
R.R.H. Boddy

Eldest son of Eng.Cdr. Robert Henry Gouldthorpe Boddy, RN (1880-1930), and Elizabeth Grace R. Hill (1888-1969) (remarried 1935 John Russell Cooper), of Banchory-Devenick, Aberdeenshire.
Brother of Lt. (E) John Goldthourpe Boddy, AM, RN.
Married (04.05.1940, St Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London) Marcia Joan Heywood, elder daughter of Capt. & Mrs. Marcus Beresford Heywood, DSO, MVO, of Prior's Gate, Longframlington, Northumberland; ... children (two sons?).

20.09.1913
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.09.2002
Gloucester district, Gloucestershire

Cadet (E)	?
Midsh. (E)	?
A/S.Lt. (E)	?
S.Lt. (E)	?
A/Lt. (E)	?
Lt. (E)	16.11.1936
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.11.1944
Cdr. (E)	?
Capt. (E)	30.06.1958 (retd)

CBE

11.06.1966

HM's birthday 1966

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.



30.05.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Rodney (battleship)
12.06.1942	-	(06.)1944	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.10.1944	-	(04.1946)	Resident Assistant at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Crayford to Gun Mounting Overseer at Woolwich under the Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Boddy,
Roland Lindsay
R.L. Boddy

Married; one son, four daughters.

23.08.1913
Richmond, Surrey
-
01.10.1995
Lochailort,
Inverness-shire

Cadet	01.01.1931
Midsh.	01.09.1931
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1934
S.Lt.	01.11.1934
Lt.	01.11.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1945 (retd 24.08.1955; own request)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (c. 1926-1930)

01.01.1931	-	02.10.1931	naval cadet
03.10.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS York (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
05.04.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
02.05.1934	-	06.01.1935	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.01.1935	-	(07.)1935	promotion course, Portsmouth
17.09.1935	-	(07.)1937	HMS Londonderry (escort vessel) (East Indies)
01.11.1937	-	(06.)1938	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for motor torpedo boats)
27.06.1938	-	(08.)1939	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 8 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
(09.1939)			no appointment listed
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
01.10.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 28 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
06.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)
30.06.1942	-	18.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
04.1943	-	10.1943	no appointment listed
02.10.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer)
14.02.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer)
12.06.1945	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer)
23.10.1945	-	(10.1947)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services, later for RN Barracks, Devonport)
02.02.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS London (cruiser)
01.11.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) (for miscellaneous duties)
20.03.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall)
19.05.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland)
?	-	(04.)1955	staff officer, Tay Division RNVR (Dundee)

After his retirement from the navy he had a forestry business for a few years, skippered some pretty smart luxury yachts around the Mediterranean and Adriatic, his old wartime stamping grounds, before developing a small landscaping business in Kinlochmoidart for many years.

Bodell,
George Williams
G.W. Bodell (Photo courtesy of Kerry Bulow)

Married (09.1925, Cannes, France) June Rankine McCance (died 05.05.1933 whilst on passage from Jamaica to the UK).

23.07.1878
Kilkinamurray, Ireland
-
02.12.1971
Turramurra, Warramee, NSW, Australia

Asst.Eng.	01.07.1901
Eng.Lt.	01.08.1905
Eng.Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1913
Eng.Cdr.	01.11.1918
Eng.Capt.	31.12.1927 (retd 23.07.1933)
Eng.R.Adm. (retd)	22.05.1934

BSM

15.10.1946

for meritorious achievement as wartime director of Naval Engineering in Wellington, New Zealand *

* The citation said Rear-Admiral Bodell "was personally responsible for the construction, alteration, and repair of varied United States warships utilizing New Zealand ports during the critical period."

20.06.1901			entered RN
03.1907			HMS Research
04.02.1908			HMS Dreadnought
24.03.1909			HMS Dreadnought
01.09.1913			Engineer Officer, HMS Tartar (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Hecla]
			Engineer Officer, HMS Mandate (torpedo-boat destroyer)
06.1917	-	(01.1919)	Assistant to the Chief Engineer for Gun Mountings, HM Dockyard Malta
10.1921	-	(08.1923)	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (temporarily)
07.02.1924	-	1926	Chief Engineer, HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(05.1926)			no appointment listed
24.06.1926	-	(08.)1929	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.09.1929	-	01.1932	Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Bermuda & for general duties [HMS Malabar]
21.04.1932	-	23.07.1933	an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1941)	-	(07.1946)	Director of Naval Engineering, Navy Office, Wellington, New Zealand (Bronze Star Medal)

Bodilly,
Ralph Burland

25.11.1884
Paul, Newlyn, Penzance district, Cornwall
-
24.06.1961
Penzance, Cornwall

Lt.	31.12.1906
Cdr. (retd)	11.11.1918

...	-	...	...
(12.1944)			on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)]
...	-	...	...

Boissier,
Martin Scobell
M.S. Boissier

14.05.1926
-

Midsh.	?
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1945
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	16.04.1955 (retd 10.02.1958)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 173).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Serapis (S class destroyer) *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boiston,
William Rochester
W.R. Boiston (Photo courtesy of Mrs Carolyn Boiston Wheeler)

Son of John Anthony Boiston (1861-1890), and Annie Wright (1862-1918).
Married (26.12.1912, Parish Church, Killingworth, Northumberland) Edith Bradford (22.09.1884 - 08.06.1969), daughter of William Bradford (1850-1921), and Elizabeth Tait (1849-1927), of Gillingham, Kent, England; one son [P/O John Rochester Boston, RAFVR], two daughters.

30.10.1887
Boosbeck, Skelton, Guisborough, York district, Yorkshire
-
24.10.1945
[age 57]
[Halifax (Fort Massey) Cemetery, section E, grave 93]

A/ERA IV	18.11.1909 [M1369]
ERA IV	24.01.1911
ERA III	17.11.1912
Art.Eng.	18.11.1915
Cd.Eng.	18.11.1925
Lt. (E)	21.01.1932 (retd 30.10.1937)
Lt.Cdr. (E) (retd)	07.1941, seniority 22.02.1940
A/Cdr. (E) (retd)	> 06.1944, < 07.1945

MBE	11.05.1937	HM's Coronation 1937
DSM	21.10.1914	engagement off Heliogland 28.08.1914 *
MID	06.09.1914	Heligoland

* Engine Room Artificer, 3rd class, O.N. M.1369, who showed great ability and coolness in taking charge of the after boiler room during the action, when an explosion blew in the after funnel and a shell carried away pipes and seriously damaged the main steam pipe.

18.11.1909	-	28.01.1910	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
29.01.1910	-	14.03.1910	HMS Tyne (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
15.03.1910	-	28.02.1911	HMS St George (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
01.03.1911	-	25.04.1911	HMS Actaeon (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)
26.04.1911	-	16.05.1911	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
17.05.1911	-	08.09.1913	HMS Blonde (cruiser)
09.09.1913	-	26.09.1913	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
27.09.1913	-	31.12.1913	HMS Afridi (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Hecla (depot ship, Chatham)]
01.01.1914	-	16.01.1914	HMS Afridi (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
17.01.1914	-	14.04.1914	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
15.04.1914	-	09.03.1915	HMS Laurel (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
10.03.1915	-	22.06.1915	HMS Pembroke II (accounting base [?], Chatham)
23.06.1915	-	18.11.1915	HMS Laurel (torpedo boat destroyer) [HMS Dido (depot ship for torpedo boat destroyers)]
03.1916			HMS Cleopatra (corvette, harbour service, Devonport)
06.02.1918	-	12.1918	HMS Beagle (destroyer)
12.1919	-	04.1921	HMS Centurian
04.1921	-	12.1921	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
21.11.1921	-	22.10.1922	HMS Royal Oak (battleship)
22.10.1922	-	07.04.1926	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) [officially from 03.10.1922]
08.1926	-	01.1927	HMNZS Diomede (cruiser)
01.1927	-	05.1928	HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) [officially from 07.04.1926]
28.10.1928	-	30.10.1930	HMS Tempest (destroyer) (Nore Command) [officially from 22.10.1928]
11.1930	-	08.1931	HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) [officially from 10.1930]
08.1931	-	10.1931	HMS Veteran (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
15.02.1932	-	10.1934	HMS Anthony (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
23.11.1934	-	08.1935	Mechanical Training Establishment, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
10.08.1935	-	10.1937	HMS Marshal Soult (monitor; turret drill ship) (Reserve Fleet)
10.12.1937	-	06.1940	HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet)
06.1940	-	10.1943	Mechanical Training Establishment, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
01.10.1943	-	24.10.1945	Commanding Officer, Mechanical Training Establishment, RCN Barracks, Halifax, NS [HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS)]

Boldero,
John Christian
J.C. Boldero (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Ammundsen)

Married Emily (née ...) (1906-02.1990).

27.12.1899
-
13.03.1984
Weymouth, Dorset

S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.04.1920 (retd 01.10.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.04.1928
Cdr. (retd)	08.05.1946

	DSC	19.11.1919	Kronstadt 18.08.1919 *
	DSC	02.07.1946	POW after fall of Hong Kong

* For distinguished services as second-in-command of HM Coastal Motor Boat No. 31 in the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919, when the Bolshevik battleship "Andrei Pervozanni" was torpedoed by the boat in which he was serving under a very heavy fire.

09.1912			entered RN
(08.1919)			First Lieutenant, HM Coastal Motor Boat No. 31
(04.1940)			HMS Scorpion (river gunboat) *
12.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat) [based at HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)]
24.06.1941	-	12.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) (ship sunk by Japanese aircraft at Hong Kong [captured])
12.1941	-	1945	prisoner of war in Japanese captivity

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolitho,
William Archibald Alverne
W.A.A. Bolitho

Fourth son of Capt. Edward Alverne Bolitho, RN (1842-1908), and Catherine Johns Bolitho (1858?-1922).
Brother of Maj. Richard John Bedford Bolitho, Royal Corps of Signals.
Married (23.09.1924, Plympton, Devon) Mary Louisa "May" Coryton (07.10.1893 - 05.03.1970), daughter of Capt. WIlliam Coryton, JP. DL (1847-1919), and Evelyn Annie Parker (1858-1948); one son, three daughters.

11.03.1892
Penzance, Cornwall
-
11.12.1966
Axminster Hospital, Devon

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1922 (retd 0.10.1928)
Cdr. (retd)	11.03.1932

15.09.1904			entered RN
...	-	...	....
01.03.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS President III (accounting base for personnel serving of Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS))
23.02.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
01.10.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Tana II (transit camp, English Port, Kilindini, Kenya)
01.02.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
11.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolster,
John Lander
J.L. Bolster

Son (with two brothers) of Capt. Thomas Charles Carpenter Bolster, DSO, RN (1885-1955), and Marguerita Maud Elizabeth Dick-Lauder (1883-1949), of Crouchers, Apuldram, Chichester.
Brother of T/Lt. David Charles Bolster, RNVR, and Maj. George Richard Stair Bolster, RA.

10.06.1919
Weymouth district, Dorset
-
11.04.1943
(MPK) [age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

Cadet	01.09.1936
Midsh.	01.01.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1939
S.Lt.	01.03.1939
Lt.	16.01.1941

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.1933-07.1936; Admiralty No. 1259).

01.09.1936	-	31.12.1936	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1937	-	31.05.1937	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.06.1937	-	(12.1938)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.01.1939	-	(07.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
31.07.1939	-	(12.1940)	HMS Witch (destroyer)
16.01.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Witch (destroyer)
(10.1941)			HMS Witch (destroyer) *
(02.1942)	-	(04.1942)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(06.1942)	-	(12.1942)	no appointment listed
(1942?)			British Naval Liaison Officer on Greek destroyer "Vasilissa Olga"
29.11.1942	-	11.04.1943	HMS Beverley (destroyer) (torpedoed and sunk by U-188 in western Atlantic)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bolster,
Thomas Charles Carpenter
T.C.C. Bolster

Son (with one brother and one sister)of Thomas Bolster (1843-1910), Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, Royal Navy, and Charlotte H. Laura C. Carpenter.
Married (06.01.1914) Marguerita Maud Elizabeth Dick-Lauder (01.03.1883 - 11.02.1949), daughter of John Edward Arthur Dick-Lauder (1848-1913), and Rosa Caldecott (?-1932); three sons: T/Lt. David Charles Bolster, RNVR, Maj. George Richard Stair Bolster, RA, and Lt. John Lander Bolster, RN.

17.08.1885
Stoke Damerel district, Devon
-
19.08.1955
near Chichester

...	...
Cdr.	31.12.1919
Capt. (retd)	01.10.1931 (reverted to retd > 01.1945, < 07.1945)

	DSO	23.05.1917	for taking his destroyer into a mined area to rescue survivors from a hospital ship and a patrol boat
	MID	WW I	?

15.01.1901			entered RN
04.1910			qualified as German interpreter
WW I			served in destroyers (despatches)
			commanded 7th Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)
1926			Senior Officer of the flotilla employed in Irish Waters
			Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence), Chatham
1930			Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester & Senior Officer of the flotilla attached to Portsmouth Torpedo School
14.12.1939	-	(08.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Oracle (armed yacht)
(10.1941)			no appointment listed
01.12.1941	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (catapult ship)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
29.03.1944	-	(01.)1945	Resident Naval Officer, Littlehampton [HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]

Bolt,
Arthur Seymour

Son of Charles W. Bolt, Alverstoke, Hants.
Married (1933) Evelyn Mary June, daughter of Robert Ellis, Wakefield, Yorks; four daughters.

26.11.1907
Devonport district, Devon
-
25.03.1994
Dartmouth, Kingsbridge district, Devon

Midsh.	15.09.1925
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1928
S.Lt.	01.07.1928
Lt.	01.08.1929
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1937
Cdr.	31.12.1941
A/Capt.	1944?
Capt.	30.06.1947
R.Adm.	07.07.1956 (retd 10.08.1960)

CB	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 1958 [investiture 15.07.1958]
DSO	29.06.1951	Korea [investiture 07.11.1951]
DSC	08.03.1940	hazardous air operations [investiture 02.04.1940]
DSC	29.07.1941	Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 07.07.1942]

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne; RN College, Dartmouth.

15.05.1921			joined Royal Navy
15.01.1925	-	(02.)1927	HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
15.04.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
05.01.1928	-	(06.1928)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
19.03.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Durban (cruiser)
10.10.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Curlew (cruiser)
1931			qualified as an aircrew observer
05.12.1931	-	(01.)1934	HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
02.09.1934	-	(11.)1934	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) (for 823 Squadron FAA)
15.12.1934	-	(02.)1935	observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
12.07.1935	-	(07.1937)	School of Naval Co-Operation, Lee-on-Solent [lent to RAF]
1937?	-	1938	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
10.01.1938	-	(04.1939)	observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
06.1939	-	04.1940	Commanding Officer, 812 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
1940	-	1941	service with No 1 ‘General Reconnaissance Unit’ RAF, magnetic minesweeping with Vickers Wellington bombers, UK and Egypt:
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
22.07.1940	-	1942	observer, 700 Squadron, FAA [= staff observer to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean], HMS Warspite (battleship) (Battle of Cape Matapan, 1941)
07.04.1942	-	(04.1944)	staff, Naval Air Division [01.02.1943 renamed: Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division], Admiralty [HMS President]
28.06.1944	-	01.10.1944	Admiralty [HMS President]
01.10.1944	-	(1946)	Deputy Director of Naval Air Radio, Admiralty [HMS President] *
1946	-	1947	Second-in-Command of HMS Belfast
1947	-	1949	Commanding Officer, HMS Vulture, Royal Naval Air Station, St Merryn, Cornwall
17.10.1949	-	1951	Commanding Officer, HMS Theseus (Korean War)
13.06.1951	-	(05.)1953	Director of Naval Air Warfare, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.05.1954	-	(01.)1956	Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
1956			Member of Maritime Air Committee
1957	-	1960	Deputy Controller of Military Aircraft, Ministry of Supply

* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Bolt,
Charles Roy William
E.E. Gibson

(12?).1903
Thanet district, Kent
-
24.11.1941
[age 37/38?]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]

Midsh. (E)	15.09.1922
S.Lt. (E)	15.12.1924
Lt. (E)	15.06.1927
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.06.1935
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1939

15.09.1922	-	(05.)1926	engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
01.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (additional)
06.07.1927	-	(06.1928)	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
05.03.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.04.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
21.06.1932	-	(05).1933	HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(06.1933)			no appointment listed
07.11.1933	-	(02.)1936	HMS Esk (destroyer) (Home Fleet) [ship 02.10.1934 commissioned]
15.04.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
03.01.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for mechanical training establishment)
20.01.1940	-	24.11.1941	HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]

Bolt,
Geoffrey Peter Langston
G.P.L. Bolt

Eldest son of Lt.Col. Richard Bolt, late 14th Hussars, and Mrs R.A. Bolt.
Married 1st (08.03.1941, Dalmeny Church; marriage dissolved) Margaret Elmslie Brebner, daughter of Maj. & Mrs R.F. Brebner, of The Leuchold, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh; two sons. Margaret Bolt remarried (16.10.1953) Richard Ashley Hall.
Married 2nd (31.07.1950, Surrey) Daphne Moira Howard, daughter of Maj. S.W. Howard, DSO, and Mrs Howard, of Norney Wood Cottage, Eashing, Godalming; two daughters, one son.

31.10.1916
-
03.11.1995
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

Midsh. (A)	04.07.1938
A/S.Lt. (A)	31.10.1938
S.Lt. (A)	31.10.1939 (reld 1940)
T/S.Lt. (A) RNVR	31.03.1941
Lt. (A)	19.01.1942
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	> 01.1945, < 07.1945
Lt.Cdr.	19.01.1950 (retd 14.07.1958)

04.07.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport)
10.10.1938	-	(05.)1939	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
10.07.1939			HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)
(08.1939)	-	(09.1939)	Fleet Air Arm
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
04.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
20.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	instructional staff, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
20.03.1943	-	(12.)1943	HMS Battler (escort carrier)
12.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Battler (escort carrier)
30.04.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.1945	-	(04.1946)	Squadron Air Gunnery Officer, 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier)]
01.07.1947	-	(05.1949)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
11.03.1950	-	(05.)1951	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
10.12.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Triumph (light fleet carrier)
(1953)			Lt.Cdr. Operations, HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
12.10.1953	-	(04.)1955	RN Tactical School, Woolwich [HMS President]
19.12.1955	-	(01.1957)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Bolton,
John Adams
"Jack"
J.A. Bolton

Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Andrew Adams Bolton (1864-1932), and Margaret Hyslop (1865-1946).
Married (05.02.1921, Parish Church, Kensington) Violet Nina Murray (05.04.1892 - 18.12.1961), daughter (with one sister and six half-siblings) of John Murray (1835-1903), and (Amy) Emily Jane Rule (1861-1928); one daughter, one son.

05.04.1891
Blaby, Leicestershire
-
15.04.1963
Clatterbridge General Hospital, Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire (formerly of Meols Hoylake, Cheshire)

T/Eng.S.Lt.	17.11.1917, seniority 26.11.1917
T/Eng.Lt.	12.06.1918 (demobilized 01.12.1919)
Eng.Lt. (Spec.Res.)	20.04.1920, seniority 12.06.1918
Eng.Lt.Cdr. (Spec.Res.)	12.06.1926 (removed form Spec.Res. List 05.04.1936; age) (replaced on Spec. Res. List 17.05.1940, with original seniority)
A/Eng.Cdr. (Spec.Res.)	18.12.1940-26.02.1941, 19.03.1941
Eng.Cdr. (Spec.Res.)	03.09.1945
A/Eng.Capt. (Spec.Res.)	31.08.1945 (dispersal 01.04.1946) (reld 27.05.1946; granted War Service rank of Eng.Capt.)

Education: Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester; Leicester Technical School; Barrow-in-Furness Technical School.
Appointed at Messrs. Vickers Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.

17.11.1917	-	04.01.1918	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (supplementary; 01.12.1917 for course of instruction in duties of an Engineer Officer; 10.12.1917 for turbine course; 15.12.1917 for oil fuel course; 28.12.1917 for internal combustion engineering course)
05.01.1918	-	21.11.1919	HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (till 29.04.1918 additional)
20.04.1920			Special Reserve of Engineer Officers
17.09.1921			HMS Conqueror (battleship) (additional; for 14 days' training)
18.11.1923			HMS Fisgard (depôt for training of Artificer Apprentices) [tender to HMS Victory] (additional; for 14 days' training)
04.06.1940	-	18.03.1941	HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) (additional; as Assistant to Engineer Officer on staff of Vice-Admiral Commanding Orkneys & Shetlands)
19.03.1941	-	30.08.1945	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty under Department of the Director of Dockyards as Assistant Emergency Repair Overseer (Engineering), Tyne Area [based at HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)]
31.08.1945	-	01.04.1946	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty under Department of the Director of Dockyards as Principal Emergency Repair Overseer (Engineering), Tyne Area [based at HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)]

Bond,
George Alexander
G.A. Bond

16.02.1904
Cranbrook, Kent
-
23.01.1997
Barnstaple district, Devon

Seaman	? [J98148]
A/Gnr.	01.10.1933
Gnr.	1934?, seniority 01.10.1933
Cd.Gnr.	01.04.1942
Lt.	06.09.1947 (retd 16.02.1954; age)

(01.1934)	-	(03.1934)	short course of instruction
12.03.1934	-	(10.1935)	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
27.01.1936	-	(02.)1938	HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
(06.1938)			no appointment listed
13.06.1938	-	(04.)1940	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
29.05.1940	-	(08.1942)	HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
02.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
30.10.1944	-	(04.)1946	HMS Nelson (battleship)
01.07.1946	-	(04.)1947	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
24.09.1947	-	(07.1948)	an Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
14.10.1949	-	(05.)1950	Commanding Officer, HM LCT (8) 4041
15.06.1950	-	(05.1953)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

Bond,
William Luard

07.01.1902
-
03.08.1974

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1931 (retd 1945?)
A/Cdr.	< 10.1944
Cdr. (retd)	1945?
A/Capt. (retd)	07.1955
Capt. (retd)	? (reverted to retd 08.01.1959)

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bone,
Howard Francis

Son (with two sisters) of Eng.R.Adm. Howard Bone, CB (1869-1955), and Annie Stewart Wyatt (1874-1955).
Married (02.04.1932, Southsea) Heather Maud Marion Fletcher (12.10.1906 - 14.12.1987), daughter of Walter John Fletcher (1848-1935), and Ethel Heather Caroline Parnell (1874-1956); one daughter.

20.10.1908
Chatham, Kent
-
12.08.1981
[Combe Hay, nr. Bath, Avon ?]

Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	01.07.1929
Lt.	01.12.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1938
Cdr.	30.06.1941
Capt.	30.06.1947 (retd 17.05.1957)

CBE	13.06.1957	HM's birthday 1957 [decoration posted]
DSO	13.11.1940	good service in recent patrols [investiture 15.07.1941]
DSO	23.09.1941	patrols 06-07.1941 [investiture 17.02.1942]
DSC	20.12.1940	sinking Italian submarine [investiture 15.07.1941]
DSC	17.01.1942	patrols 08-11.1941 [investiture 17.02.1942]

Education: Felsted; RN College, Dartmouth.

15.05.1922			entered RN
15.01.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (China)
03.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.08.1929	-	(04.)1930	promotion course, Portsmouth
30.08.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS L 20 (submarine) (for duty with Group "D" submarines (in reserve at Portsmouth)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
20.01.1932	-	(09.1932)	First Lieutenant, HMS H 24 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
03.04.1933	-	(01.1934)	First Lieutenant, HMS H 48 (submarine) (Portland)
26.04.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)
15.09.1935	-	(02.1936)	First Lieutenant, HMS Regent (submarine) (China)
04.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
17.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (6th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines)
25.07.1937	-	(08.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla)
15.10.1938	-	(02.)1940	HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
06.03.1940	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tigris (submarine) (DSO and Bar, DSC and Bar)
19.01.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
(02.1944)	-	(04.1944)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
20.04.1944	-	(06.)1944	Executive Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
19.08.1944	-	(10.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship)
30.01.1946	-	(10.1946)	Executive Officer, HMS Howe (battleship)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
16.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (depot ship)
18.08.1952	-	1954	Deputy Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.09.1954	-	1957	Captain-in-Charge, Simonstown & Captain Superintendent Simonstown Dockyard [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)] (CBE)
07.01.1956	-	17.05.1957	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bonham-Carter,
[Sir] Christopher Douglas

03.11.1907
-
03.06.1975

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	17.10.1937
Cdr.	30.06.1942
Capt.	30.06.1948
R.Adm.	08.07.1957 (retd 10.06.1959)

GCVO	?	?
KCVO	1968	?
CB	1959	?

...	-	...	...
			served War of 1939-1945 (despatches, 1943)
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

Bonham-Carter,
Sir Stuart Sumner
S.S. Bonham-Carter

Younger son of late Lothian George BonhamCarter, Buriton House, Petersfield, and Emily Maud, daughter of Rev. J.M. Sumner.
Married (1933) Eve, widow of Brig. C.R. Lloyd, Indian Army, and daughter of late Donald Shaw; one daughter.

09.07.1889
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
05.09.1972
Petersfield, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.	30.09.1908
S.Lt.	14.04.1909, seniority 30.09.1908
Lt.	01.04.1911
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1919
Cdr.	30.06.1921
Capt.	31.12.1927
Cdre. 2nd cl.	01.07.1937
R.Adm.	10.01.1939
V.Adm.	15.06.1942 (retd 31.12.1943)
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	01.05.1944 (reverted to retd 01.09.1945)

KCB	01.01.1943	New Year 1943
CB	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
CVO	21.11.1934	visit HRH the Duke of Gloucester to Australia & New Zealand
DSO	23.07.1918	Zeebrugge raid

15.01.1904			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War (despatches, DSO, Legion of Honour (08.1918), French Croix de Guerre, with Palm, Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour (17.01.1919), Belgian Croix de Guerre (02.09.1921)); commanded HMS Intrepid at Zeebrugge; 16.05.1918 noted for early promotion
06.02.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Shark (destroyer)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
06.01.1925	-	(07.1927)	staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
27.12.1928	-	(02.1931)	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station & Flag Captain, HMS Calcutta (cruiser)
12.10.1931	-	(01.1932)	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
14.03.1932	-	(01.)1934	Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
18.07.1934	-	(02.1937)	Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron & Flag Captain, HMS Sussex (cruiser)
01.07.1937	-	(02.)1939	Commodore Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(04.1939)			no appointment listed
01.05.1939	-	27.09.1939	Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty [HMS President]
28.09.1939	-	30.10.1939	HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave)
15.11.1939	-	31.12.1939	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
01.01.1940	-	23.12.1941	Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Seaborn]
13.01.1942	-	04.10.1942	Rear-Admiral / Vice-Admiral Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Manchester (cruiser), later HMS Edinburgh (cruiser)]
26.10.1942	-	30.11.1942	HMS President (additional; for disposal)
01.12.1942	-	18.05.1943	Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
26.05.1943	-	22.08.1943	HMS President (additional; for full pay service leave)
23.08.1943	-	30.04.1944	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
01.05.1944	-	31.08.1945	Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for Liverpool Convoy Pool)]

Played cricket (First Class) for the Royal Navy, 1925-1926.

Booker,
Alfred Maurice
A.M. Booker

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Alfred William Albert Booker (1883-1929), and Emily Skingsley (1886-1974).

21.12.1906
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
29.08.1968
Liverpool North district, Lancashire

Gnr.	01.04.1937
Lt.	04.09.1943
Lt.Cdr.	01.01.1948 (retd 21.12.1951)

MBE

06.10.1942

Operation MG1 (Italian attack on Malta convoy 23.03.1942)

30.06.1937	-	(02.)1941	HMS Weston (escort vessel)
07.09.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Aurora (light cruiser)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.)1943	-	(08.)1943	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
22.09.1943	-	(01.)1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Leith (sloop)
01.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Solebay (destroyer)
06.01.1947	-	(07.)1948	RN Camp, Belmont Park [HMS Victory]
20.10.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS Bluejacket (RN Nominal Depot Ship, Bombay, India)

Booth,
Charles Antony Lynell

24.06.1887
-
20.10.1973

...	...
Eng.Lt.Cdr.	22.04.1919 (Special Reserve)
Eng.Cdr. (retd)	?

...

Booth,
George Robin Burlingham
G.R.B. Booth

07.04.1927
-
30.05.1987

...	...
Midsh.	01.09.1945
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	? (retd)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Boothby,
John Oswald
J.T. Borrett

Son of John Willie Boothby, and Alice Drury.
Married 1st (16.05.1925, Portsmouth) Elsie May Elmes
Married 2nd (1939, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Mary Helen Kelly.
Married 3rd (28.03.1945) Florence Margaret Loan.

20.12.1903
New Sleaford, Lincolnshire
-
?
Australia ?

RN:
A/Mate	01.12.1924 [J102611]
Mate	22.02.1926, seniority 01.12.1925 (removed from list 05.1928)
RCN [?]:
T/Lt.	1940?, seniority 15.09.1939
RAF:
(A) P/O (prob)	24.06.1942 [123342]
P/O (prob)	27.09.1942 (reld 13.05.1943; ill-health)

01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	Mates courses for rank of Lieutenant
(02.1927)	-	(07.1927)	no appointment listed
05.09.1927	-	05.1928	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
Lived in New York and California in the US, then Montreal & Halifax in Canada., returning to the UK c. 1942.
09.1939	-	06.1940	based in Halifax
(02.1941)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed *
24.06.1942	-	13.05.1943	commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]

Chief Officer, Merchant Navy (1945, residing in Glasgow).
* indexed as RN, but shown in the seniority list under RCN; retained in the name index after Dec 41 (without appointment), but no longer shown in the seniority lists

Borrett,
Jack Tuthill

21.07.1894
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
15.10.1969
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	30.12.1914
Lt.	30.06.1916
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1924
Cdr.	31.12.1930
Capt.	30.06.1938 (retd 08.07.1947)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	23.10.1945

OBE

11.06.1919

for valuable services in Torpedo Boat Destroyers throughout the War

15.05.1907			entered RN
...	-	...	...
09.11.1938	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Auckland (escort vessel) (Africa)
05.12.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
18.04.1941	-	23.12.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser)
(02.1943)			Combined Operations HQ *
17.06.1943	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Caroline II (trawler base, Belfast)
23.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commodore-in-Charge, Sheerness & as Commodore Superintendent of HM Dockyard, Sheerness [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)]
08.01.1947	-	08.07.1947	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Borrett,
Simon
S. Borrett (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Wilkinson)

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Claude Armit Borrett (1871-1926), and Isabelle Marquerite Matthey (1868-1961).
Married (02.06.1931, Newbury district, Berkshire) Frances Isobel Rayner (07.06.1904 - 12.1997); ... children.

28.07.1904
St Marylebone, London
-
01.02.1992
Hawks Nest, Wattisfield, Suffolk

Midsh.	15.05.1922
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	30.03.1925
Lt.	30.08.1926
Lt.Cdr.	30.08.1934
Cdr.	30.06.1942 (retd 28.07.1954; age)

MID

29.07.1941

Battle of Cape Matapan

...	-	...	...
(02.1939)	-	(03.1939)	short course of instruction
13.03.1939	-	(04.)1939	Training Squadron Fleet Air Arm, RAF Station Gosport [HMS Victory]
24.04.1939	-	(06.1939)	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
(07.1939)	-	(04.1940)	Fleet Air Arm
25.04.1940	-	(12.)1941	HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (and as Flight Deck Officer) (despatches)
12.1941	-	(08.)1942	HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
03.08.1942	-	31.01.1943	Air Co-operation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1943	-	(06.)1944	Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.09.1944	-	(04.)1947	HMS Venerable (Colossus class aircraft carrier):
(01.1945)	-	(04.1945)	no specific position shown
(07.1945)			Squadron Air Officer, 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron
(10.1945)			no specific position shown
(04.1946)			Commander (Flying)
(07.1946)	-	(04.)1947	Commander (Air)
11.07.1947	-	(10.1947)	Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
...	-	...	...

Boswell,
Frederick Thomas
F.T. Boswell

13.08.1898
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
02.09.1981
Oxford district, Oxfordshire

Clerk	15.01.1916
Midsh.	01.09.1917
S.Lt.	15.01.1919
Lt.	15.08.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1928 (retd 13.08.1941)
A/Cdr.	> 02.1937, < 07.1937
Cdr. (retd)	12.08.1941
A/Capt. (retd)	30.11.1940?

15.01.1916			entered RN
...	-	...	...
04.10.1939	-	29.11.1940	an Assistant to Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
30.11.1940	-	06.11.1944	Inspector of Naval Ordnance, South Wales Area (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President])
06.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (detached for special duties)

Boswell,
Lennox Albert Knox
L.A.K. Boswell

3rd son of William Albert Boswell and Florence Helen Rotch; married 1942, Diana de Lacy Bacon; three sons (and one daughter deceased).

18.05.1898
Billericay, Essex
-
19.04.1975
[Holts, Bosham, Chichester, W. Sussex ?]

Cadet	08.1914
Midsh.	?
S.Lt.	15.09.1917
Lt.	15.10.1918
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1926
Cdr.	30.06.1933
Capt.	31.12.1940 (retd 07.01.1950)

	DSO	01.01.1940	New Year 1940
	MID	25.06.1940	Norwegian coast

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

08.1914	-	1915	Cadet and Midshipman, HMS Irresistible (Belgian Coast and Dardanelles)
1915	-	1919	Midshipman and Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Flagship of Admiral Sir D. Beatty; surrender of High Sea Fleet, November 1918)
15.01.1919	-	?	HMS President (for study at Trinity College, Cambridge (First Trinity VIII Henley))
1923			qualified in Gunnery
25.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.1926	-	(07.1927)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
07.12.1928	-	(04.1930)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) (for Gunnery duties with 1st Submarine Flotilla)
16.09.1930	-	(09.1932)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron)
07.08.1933	-	01.1935	Commander (G), HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
15.01.1935	-	(07.1935)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.01.1936	-	(07.)1937	Fleet Gunnery Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), later: HMS Rodney (battleship)]
24.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	course, Air Force Staff College, Andover [HMS President]
20.01.1939	-	01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Pelican (escort vessel)
01.1941	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Valorous (destroyer)
1941	-	1941	Ordnance Board
11.07.1941	-	1943	Deputy Director, Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (Hedgehog and VT Fuse Trials)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
10.03.1943	-	07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Dasher (aircraft carrier)
07.1943	-	05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Biter (aircraft carrier)
15.07.1944	-	1945	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Western Mediterranean and British Naval Liaison Officer, Algiers [HMS Hannibal]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
1945	-	1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station Halesworth)
02.04.1946	-	1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Kenya (America and West Indies Station)
1948	-	1949	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, The Nore
08.07.1949	-	07.01.1950	Naval ADC to the King

Fruit farmer since 1950.

Botley,
Thomas William
T.W. Botley

03.07.1901
Biggleswade district, Bedhordshire / Hertfordshire
-
11.03.1974
Shrewsbury district, Shropshire

Midsh.	01.05.1918
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt.	15.12.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1931
A/Cdr.	23.08.1939?

OBE	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945 [investiture 27.11.1945]
LoP	1944?	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
LM	28.05.1946	for distinguished service to the Allied Cause throughout the war

15.01.1915			entered RN
(1919)			HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	15.04.1943	Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
16.04.1943	-	(10.)1943	Assistant Director of Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (OBE)
(12.1943?)	-	(06.)1944	Staff Officer Minesweeping on staff of Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force (letter of praise, Legion d'Honneur)
07.08.1944	-	(01.1945)	Training Commander, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper base, Granton)

Bott,
Albert Humphrey
A.H. Bott

Son (with one brother) of George William Bott (1876-1922), and Victoria Maria Moore (1884-1976).
Married (03.08.1938, St Mary, West Horsley, Surrey) Bonna Lisbeth Pearse (25.09.1917 - 30.11.1984); four children.

30.11.1909
Gillingham, Kent
-
12.03.1986
Lee on Solent, Hampshire

Engine Room Artificer (ERA) Apprentice	31.12.1924 [M 38806]
...	...
ERA 3rd cl.	01.07.1933
A/S.Lt. (E)	01.07.1934
S.Lt. (E)	02.11.1935, seniority 01.07.1934
Lt. (E)	01.09.1936
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.09.1943
A/Cdr. (E)	08.11.1944
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1947 (retd 21.02.1955; own request)

31.12.1924			entered RN
...	-	...	...
27.09.1934	-	(08.)1935	course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Drake]
06.09.1935	-	(08.)1936	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
09.10.1936	-	(10.)1938	HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
06.10.1938	-	(08.)1939	pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon
(09.)1939	-	(04.)1940	Fleet Air Arm
29.04.1940	-	(12.)1940	HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
09.12.1940	-	(08.)1940	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for technical duties)
(10.1942)	-	(12.1942)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
14.12.1942	-	(10.)1943	HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (for air engineering duties)
25.10.1943	-	(10.)1944	Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
05.11.1944	-	(10.1946)	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
03.03.1947	-	(04.1947)	Air Engineering Officer, HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Boucher,
Maitland Walter Sabine
M.W.S. Boucher

Son of late Walter Ellis Boucher (1859-1930), and Mary Lily Sabine Pasley (1860-1937), of Belgrave Road, London SW1.
Married (27.01.1912, Parish Church, Alverstoke, Hampshire) Vera Hasler Helby(08.04.1888 - 31.12.1970), daughter of Commander Edward Capel Hasler Helby, RN, of Alverstoke, Hants; one son (Capt. J. Boucher, RA, killed on active service, 19 October 1945), one daughter.

19.12.1888
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
-
10.05.1963
White Waltham, near Maidenhead, Berkshire

Midsh.	30.06.1905
S.Lt.	30.08.1908
Lt.	30.11.1909
Lt.Cdr.	30.11.1917
Cdr.	30.08.1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
Cdre. 2nd cl.	02.05.1939-04.12.1940
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	22.09.1943-05.07.1945
R.Adm.	15.01.1941 (retd 16.01.1941) (reverted to retd 05.04.1941) (dispersed 05.07.1945) (reverted to retd 31.08.1945)

DSO

1919

Education: Stubbington House School.

15.01.1904			entered RN as a Cadet
			served European War (wounded), North Sea, Eastern Mediterranean and N. Atlantic; Minesweeping, 1919 (DSO, despatches)
1923	-	1924	Operations Division of Admiralty
1925			qualified as Air Pilot (flying till 1943)
1929	-	(02.)1931	Directorate of Training, Air Ministry
31.12.1931	-	(09.)1932	Commanding Officer, HMS Champion (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser) (Portsmouth)
06.12.1932	-	(01.)1934	Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.05.1935	-	(07.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers (Home Fleet)
01.01.1938	-	15.01.1939	Director of Air Matériel, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.01.1939	-	(02.)1939	Tactical Investigation, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.03.1939	-	09.02.1941	on loan to RAN:
03.03.1939	-	16.03.1939	London Depot RAN
17.03.1939	-	23.04.1939	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per "Comorin")
02.05.1939	-	27.08.1939	Second Naval Member of the Australian Naval Board of Administration [HMAS Cerberus (additional; for duty at Navy Office)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)
28.08.1939	-	02.10.1939	Acting First Naval Member of the Australian Naval Board of Administration (= Chief of Australian Naval Staff during outbreak of war) [HMAS Cerberus (additional; for duty at Navy Office)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)
03.10.1939	-	04.12.1940	Second Naval Member of the Australian Naval Board of Administration [HMAS Cerberus (additional; for duty at Navy Office)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)
25.06.1940	-	15.01.1941	also: Naval ADC to the King
05.12.1940	-	09.02.1941	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per "Sydney Star")
10.02.1941	-	16.03.1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; as President of the Selection Board No. II.A)
17.03.1941	-	04.04.1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; as President of the Selection Board No. II)
05.04.1941	-	05.05.1941	lent to RAN for balance of foreign service leave
06.05.1941	-	21.09.1943	no appointment listed: joined Air Transport Auxiliary as a ferry pilot
22.09.1943	-	05.07.1945	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for Liverpool Convoy Pool] (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR) (commanded many Arctic and other Convoys including that which led to the sinking of the German Battle Cruiser Scharnhorst)

Younger Brother of Trinity House; AFRAeS. Nautical Assessor to Court of Appeal, House of Lords, 1947-1953, and to Admiralty Court of Appeal, 1949-1958; Managing Director of Trenean Estates Ltd.

Boucher,
Sidney
"Sam"
S. Boucher

Second son of Mr & Mrs F.C. Boucher, The Vines, Rochester.
Married (1923) Phyllis Ellershaw, eldest daughter of Brig.Gen. & Mrs. W. Ellershaw, of Wymering, Cosham, Hampshire.

17.09.1899
Rochester, Kent
-
04.08.1963
Wadhurst, Sussex

Midsh.	04.1915?
S.Lt.	15.06.1918
Lt.	15.06.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1934
Capt.	30.06.1942 (retd 07.07.1951)

	CBE	11.06.1946	wind up Far East [investiture 28.10.1946]
	MID	01.01.1943	New Year 1943

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (09.1912-09.1914) & Dartmouth (09.1914-04.1915).
Played First Class Cricket for Kent & Royal Navy, 1922-1929. Navy Cricket Captain and former Secretary & Team Selector of the RN and RM Football Association.

09.1912			entered RN
04.1915	-	(01.1919)	HMS Colossus (Grand Fleet; Battle of Jutland)
12.06.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Champion (light cruiser) (temporarily)
23.08.1924	-	(01.1925)	qualified for physical & recreational training duties, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
09.03.1926	-	(05.)1926	HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for Physical and Recreational Training duties)
10.08.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for Physical and Recreational Training duties)
01.07.1927	-	1929	on staff of RN College, Dartmouth (and for Physical and Recreational Training duties) [HMS Britannia]
29.04.1929	-	30.12.1929	HMS Vindictive (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical and Recreational Training Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet)
31.12.1929	-	(04.)1930	HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical and Recreational Training Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet)
07.04.1930	-	(09.1932)	Fleet Physical and Recreational Training Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
16.01.1933	-	(07.)1934	First Lieutenant-Commander, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid, later HMS Drake]
(08.1934)			no appointment listed
27.08.1934	-	(08.)1936	Maintenance Commander & Physical & Recreational Training Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
30.08.1936	-	15.08.1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Lowestoft (escort vessel) (China)
(10.1938)			no appointment listed
10.01.1939	-	(09.1939)	Assistant Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1940)			Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
10.06.1940	-	(10.1940)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous duties)
14.01.1941	-	31.07.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) (despatches)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
01.09.1942	-	(10.)1944	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for flotilla duties)
10.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Tyne] (CBE)
?	-	(04.1946)	Flag Captain, HMS Tyne & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, British Pacific Fleet
01.1947	-	(05.1950)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties) (as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet Portsmouth till 14.01.1948)
1950?	-	1951	Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.01.1951	-	07.07.1951	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bouette,
Emil James Louis
E.J.L. Bouette

Son (with one sister and three brothers [and four half-siblings]) of Ernest Louis Bouette (1881-1964), and Ada Henrietta Ovett (1878-).
Married 1st ((06?).1927, Richmond district, Surrey) Louise C. Hill (1891? - (12?).1962); ... children.
Married 2nd ((12?).1967, St Pancras district, London) Rosa Betty Sims (29.11.1908 - 01.1998).

04.10.1902
Brixton, Lambeth district, London
-
03.04.1983
Hillingdon district, London

Boy 2nd cl.	1918? [J88763]
...	...
T/A/Boatsw. (A/S)	09.09.1940
T/Boatsw. (A/S)	1941?, seniority 09.09.1940
T/A/Cd.Boatsw. (A/S) = Sen.Cd.Boatsw.	18.06.1945 (retd 12.11.1945)

09.09.1940	-	(04.)1941	HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown)
07.04.1941	-	(12.1942)	HMS Seahawk (Coastal Forces base, Ardrishaig)
01.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Kelantan (minesweeper & anti-submarine maintenance and instruction ship, Woolwich)
10.03.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for miscellaneous services)

Boulding,
Basil Edward
B.E. Boulding (Photo courtesy of Mr David Boulding)

Son (with one brother) of Edward Boulding (1882-1960), and Florence Bertha Rose (1879-1950).
Married (1940, Dundee, Scotland) Ernesta Fyfe Boyd (19.11.1916 - 04.12.1987); three sons.

17.09.1914
Bonnington, Kent
-
10.03.1984
Bonnington, Kent

...	...
S.Lt.	01.01.1936
Lt.	01.08.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1943, < 06.1943 [temporary rank]
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945 [appointed rank]
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1945 (retd 10.03.1958)

	DSC	24.03.1942	action against submarines 11.1941 & 01.1942 [investiture 07.07.1942]
	MID	25.06.1940	Norwegian coast

...	-	...	...
22.11.1938	-	(08.)1940	pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (despatches)
02.09.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
04.11.1940	-	(08.)1941	pilot, 788 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
26.08.1941	-	(04.)1942	pilot, 812 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier), from 09.1941 HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) [ship torpedoed & sunk 13.11.1941], from 16.11.1941 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)] (DSC)
13.05.1942	-	(08.)1943	786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (and for instructional duties)
10.08.1943	-	11.1943	Commanding Officer, 822 Squadron FAA
18.11.1943	-	27.11.1943	HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
28.11.1943	-	(04.)1944	Wing Leader, 21st Naval Torpedo Bomber Reconnaissance Wing [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
05.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Ranee (escort carrier)
24.01.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
04.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
...	-	...	...

Boulnois,
Philip William Hubert
P.W.H. Boulnois

05.05.1918
-
16.03.1971

...	...
Lt.	16.05.1940
Lt.Cdr.	16.05.1948 (retd 29.01.1958)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	submarine course
...	-	...	...

Bourne,
Geoffrey
"Geoff"
G. Bourne (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Bourne)

Son of Ray Bourne, and Emily Marion Davidson
Married (04.07.1945) Betty Helen Bourne, of Fremantle, Western Australia; two sons, one daughter.

18.05.1923
Headington district, Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire
-
28.08.1990
Fremantle, Western Australia

Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	01.06.1942
Lt.	16.12.1943
Lt.Cdr.	16.12.1951 (retd 20.07.1959)

MID

03.04.1945

actions against enemy shipping 12.1944/01.1945

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Malaya (battleship)
07.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Malaya (battleship)
01.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
12.11.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Windsor (destroyer)
(06.1943)	-	(08.)1943	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
27.08.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS H 33 (submarine)
02.10.1943	-	(07.)1945	HMS Terrapin (submarine) (despatches)
189.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Thorough (submarine)
25.08.1947	-	(07.)1948	HMS Truncheon (submarine)
11.10.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Alderney (submarine)
24.04.1950	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Scorcher (submarine)
01.02.1953	-	(01.)1955	Commanding Officer, HMS Anchorite (submarine)
21.01.1955	-	(01.1957)	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire)
1957	-	?	Commanding Officer, HMS Tiptoe (submarine)
(01.1959)			no appointment listed

Emigrated to Australia, 09.1959.

Bousfield,
Henry Hugh
H.H. Bousfield

Married (10.04.1930) ...

30.11.1889
-
06.11.1947

...	...
Lt.	30.06.1910
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1918
Cdr.	30.06.1924
Capt.	30.06.1931
R.Adm.	08.07.1941 (retd 09.07.1941) (dispersed 22.03.1946) (reverted to retd 06.06.1946; medically unfit)

15.09.1904			entered RN
...	-	...	...
17.01.1938	-	12.04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Manchester (Southampton class cruiser) & from 20.11.1939 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding 18th Cruiser Squadron
13.04.1940	-	28.04.1940	HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
29.04.1940	-	06.07.1944	Chief of Intelligence Staff (COIS) to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (additional), later HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship), later HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy)] (as Capt.)
15.01.1941	-	08.07.1941	also: Naval ADC to the King
07.07.1944	-	01.1945	Commanding Officer Inshore Squadrons [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (additional)]
(04.1945)			no appointment listed
01.07.1945	-	22.03.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) & from 10.07.1945 as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover (as Capt.)

Boutwood,
John Wilfrid
J.W. Boutwood

Married (05.09.1935, Westminster district, Middlesex) Lavender Dickinson, of Hawksfold, Fernhurst, Sussex; ... children (one son, one daughter?).

31.03.1899
Hastings district, Sussex
-
02.08.1993
Chichester district, Sussex

Midsh.	01.09.1917
S.Lt.	15.01.1919
Lt.	15.02.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.02.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1934
A/Capt.	10.02.1941?
Capt.	31.12.1941 (retd 08.01.1951)

	DSO	07.12.1943	Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.1943) [investiture 03.07.1945]
	MID	23.05.1944	Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.1943)

15.02.1917			special entry cadet, RN College, Keyham
1917			Midshipman, HMS Inflexible (battlecruiser)
08.02.1919			HMS Monarch (battleship)
17.04.1921			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for gunnery course for rank of Lt.)
30.09.1921			HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)
04.1922	-	(08.)1923	HMS Campbell (flotilla leader)
23.09.1923	-	(01.)1925	qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
06.1925	-	(05.)1926	Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
11.08.1926	-	(02.)1927	Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
06.1927	-	(07.)1927	Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
19.08.1927	-	(08.1929)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Cambrian (cruiser)
12.02.1930	-	(01.)1932	Flotilla Gunnery Officer, 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Keith (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean)
07.06.1932	-	(09.)1932	Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
01.10.1932	-	(08.)1934	senior & gunnery Lt.Cdr., HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)
(11.1934)			no appointment listed
15.01.1935	-	20.01.1937	an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1937)			no appointment listed
08.04.1937	-	(08.)1938	Executive Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies & Nore)
10.1938	-	(04.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitley (escort vessel) (Home Fleet)
26.06.1939	-	(10.1940)	Executive Officer, HMS Iron Duke (training ship, Portsmouth)
10.02.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commandant, Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
13.06.1942	-	02.10.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (light cruiser) [ship sunk in accident when the liner "Queen Mary" rammed this escorting cruiser 20 miles NW of Bloody Foreland, off the coast of Donegal]
12.12.1942	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Fantome (Algerine class minesweeper) (DSO)
05.07.1943	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Fly (Algerine class minesweeper) (despatches)
09.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria / Taranto, Italy) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
01.07.1944	-	01.1945	Captain (Minesweepers), Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)]
16.04.1945	-	18.03.1947	Deputy Director of Manning, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.04.1947	-	(05.1949)	on staff of Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland [HMS Cochrane]
(05.1950)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
07.03.1950			senior officers' war course
?	-	08.01.1951	also: Naval ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bovell,
Henry Cecil
H.C. Bovell

Son of Sir Henry A. Bovell, KC. Married (1923) Beatrice Gertrude Laila Springman (died 27.01.1952); one daughter.

04.01.1893
West Indies, Barbados
-
31.03.1963
[Warminster, Wilts. ?]

Midsh.	1910
S.Lt.	1913
Lt.	30.09.1914
Lt.Cdr.	30.09.1922
Cdr.	30.06.1928
Capt.	31.12.1934
Cdre. 1st cl.	14.05.1943?
R.Adm.	08.01.1944 (retd 1947)
V.Adm. (retd)	13.07.1948

CB	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946
CBE	14.10.1941	Bismarck action
DSO	10.11.1942	Operation Pedestal

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth

15.09.1905			entered RN
1910			Midshipman, HMS Lord Nelson
1917			specialized in gunnery
03.05.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Vampire (destroyer) (for flotilla duties)
01.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Douglas (flotilla leader) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer and Staff Officer (Operations) on Staff of Commodore (D) Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas) (Atlantic Fleet)
20.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.07.1928	-	24.12.1928	Admiralty [HMS President]
24.12.1928	-	(04.1930)	Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.01.1931	-	(02.1931)	course at Staff College, Camberley [HMS President]
31.12.1931	-	(01.1934)	Commander, HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
08.04.1935	-	(07.1935)	Imperial Defence Course
02.03.1936	-	(02.1938)	Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.05.1938	-	(06.1938)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
17.12.1938	-	(08.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vindictive (cruiser)
07.10.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
15.10.1940	-	(08.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
14.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	Second-in-Command Naval Air Stations & Commodore, Naval Air Stations (North) [HMS Merlin]
08.07.1943	-	08.01.1944	also: Naval ADC to the King
15.04.1944	-	1947	Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Rosyth

Bowden,
Deryck Godfrey
D.G. Bowden

08.09.1926
-
18.05.1948

Midsh.	01.01.1944
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1945
S.Lt.	16.03.1946, seniority 16.10.1945
Lt.	01.12.1947

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.05.1940-1944; Admiralty No. 215a).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Blackmore *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bowden,
Ian Rodney
I.R. Bowden

02.01.1925
-
05.06.2004

Midsh.	?
...	...
Lt.	16.06.1945
...	...
Capt.	30.06.1967 (retd)

LVO

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.09.1938-1942; Admiralty No. 1).

...	-	...	...
23.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Zambesi
...	-	...	...

Bowell,
Kenneth Arthur
K.A. Bowell (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

(06?).1915
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
07.09.2012
Budleigh Salterton, Devon

Instr.Lt.Cdr.	29.09.1943
...	...
Instr.Capt.	? (retd 21.04.1970?)

Education: St Catherine's College, Oxford (BA).

(08.1944)			Cochrane course, Final Selection Board, Upper Yardmen & Upper Yardmen (Air), HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
...	-	...	...

Bowen,
Anthony Cooper
A.C. Bowen

16.12.1924
-
03.03.2011

Midsh.	?
...	...
S.Lt.	16.02.1944
Lt.	16.11.1945
Lt.Cdr..	16.11.1953 (retd 09.11.1959)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.09.1938-1942; Admiralty No. 2).

...	-	...	...
27.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Cardigan Bay
...	-	...	...

Bowen,
Gerald Percival

03.12.1889
-
05.09.1974

...	...
Cdr.	31.12.1923 (retd)
Capt. (retd)	14.12.1935

OBE

...	-	...	...
20.07.1943	-	(07.1945)	Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Bower,
George Alan FitzGerald
G.A.F. Bower

06.11.1925
-
02.05.1995

Midsh.	?
...	...
S.Lt.	16.12.1944
...	...
Capt.	31.12.1966 (retd)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.05.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 85).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Jamaica *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bowerman,
Harold Godfrey

10.06.1904
Hitchin, Bedfordshire
-
03.01.1971
Battle district, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	02.03.1925, seniority 30.04.1925
Lt.	30.01.1927
Lt.Cdr.	30.01.1935 (retd 10.06.1949; age)
A/Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Cdr. (retd)	10.06.1949

DSC	27.01.1942	destruction enemy submarine 11.09.1941
MID	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940
MID	13.07.1943	action with E-boats 14.04.1943

15.01.1918			entered RN
01.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
17.02.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS K 26 (submarine) (Mediterranean)
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
02.12.1929	-	(04.1930)	HMS Ardent (destroyer) (and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract-Built Ships)
09.06.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China)
(01.1932)	-	(09.1932)	no appointment listed
17.07.1933	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine)
03.01.1935	-	(02.1936)	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.10.1936	-	(02.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rover (submarine) (China)
(04.1939)	-	(08.1939)	no appointment listed
(09.1939)	-	10.09.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Oxley (submarine) (sunk SW of Stavanger, Norway)
21.11.1939	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer)
20.11.1940	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (destroyer)
			Commanding Officer, HMS Leamington (destroyer)
08.1942	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (destroyer)
05.03.1945	-	(04.1946)	Naval Provost Marshal, Sydney [HMS Golden Hind]

Bowers,
Charles Philip
M.M. Bright

Elder son of Charles Chorlton Bowers (1886-), and Phillis Mary Newey (1888-), of Solihull, Warwickshire.
Married ((06?).1945, Chatham district, Kent) Mary Keogh West ((03?).1924 - ), daughter of Cdr. Harold West, RN, and Mary Kathleen Keogh; ... children (one son?).

04.08.1921
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
26.12.1994
Isle of Wight

Cadet	01.09.1939
Midsh.	01.05.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1942
S.Lt.	1942?, seniority 01.04.1941
Lt.	01.09.1942
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1950 (retd 04.08.1966)

	MBE	01.01.1963	New Year 1963 [investiture 19.02.1963]
	MID	29.08.1944	war patrols

01.09.1939	-	30.04.1940	special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth
01.05.1940	-	(10.1941)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
05.01.1942	-	(04.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(06.1942)			promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] *
15.07.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
01.09.1942	-	30.09.1944	HMS P 314, renamed: HMS Tactician (submarine) (despatches)
01.10.1944	-	15.11.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Tactician (submarine)
(01.1945)			HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, 3rd Submarine Flotilla, Holy Loch) *
01.02.1945	-	(07.)1945	[First Lieutenant?], HMS Tuna (submarine)
14.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Satyr (submarine)
...	-	...	...
(1963)			HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (MBE)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bowers,
Henry William Sell
H.W.S. Bowers (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)

30.06.1886
-
16.10.1968
Hendon district, London

Lt.	30.06.1936 (retd)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	?

01.12.1939	-	(10.1940)	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
...	-	...	...

Bowes-Lyon,
Ronald George
R.G. Bowes-Lyon

Youngest son of late Hon. Francis BowesLyon, JP, DL, and Lady Anne Lindsay, daughter of 25th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. Married 1st (1925) Mary Claire Russell (marriage dissolved); no children. Married 2nd, (1947) Mrs Cecilia French.

22.06.1893
Haltwhistle, Northumberland
-
17.04.1960
[London ?]

...	....
Lt.	15.03.1916
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1924
Cdr.	30.06.1929
Capt.	30.06.1936 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946) (left service 1947)

	MVO	1925	?
	MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944

Education: Summerfields, Oxford; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.05.1906			entered RN
1914	-	1919	served European War (despatches)
01.08.1918	-	(01.1919)	Navigating Officer, HMS Talisman (destroyer) (Killingholm?)
1923	-	1925	Equerry to Prince George
22.08.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (temporary)
04.04.1927	-	(08.1929)	Navigating Officer, HMS Centaur (Cruiser) & Squadron Navigating Officer, Atantic. Fleet Destroyer Flotillas
15.08.1929	-	(09.1932)	Navigating Officer, HM Yacht Victoria and Albert
21.09.1932	-	(01.1934)	Navigating Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & Fleet Navigating Officer, East Indies Station
30.04.1935	-	(02.1936)	Commander, HMS Leander (cruiser)
20.11.1936	-	(02.1939)	Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Malta [HMS St. Angelo]
(04.1939)	-	(07.1939)	no appointment listed
31.07.1939	-	(04.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser)
15.10.1940	-	(02.1941)	Director of Navigation, Navigation Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
12.08.1942	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Adventure (minelayer)
12.01.1944	-	(07.)1945	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding, West Africa [HMS Eland]
02.01.1945	-	05.07.1945	also: Naval ADC to the King
06.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Director of Welfare Services Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Bowyer-Smyth,
Sir Philip Weyland;
14th Baronet, of Hill Hall, Co. Essex (cr. 1661) (since 1927)

Son of late Clement Weyland BowyerSmijth (1851-1910), brother of 13th Bt, and Edith Maude Gray (died 1938), daughter of W. Gray, Sydney, NSW.
Succeeded uncle, 04.08.1927.
Married 1st (22.06.1922) Margaret Joan (died 1976), OBE 1952, TD (marriage dissolved 1951), only daughter of late S.
McCallMcCowan, Sydney; no children.
Married 2nd (1951) Veronica Mary, 2nd daughter of Capt. C. W. Bower, DSC, RN retd, Fordwich, Kent; one son, one daughter.

04.02.1894
Moss Vale, NSW, Australia
-
29.11.1978
London

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	09.12.1914, seniority 15.07.1914
Lt.	15.08.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1923
Cdr.	30.06.1929
Capt.	30.06.1937 (retd 05.07.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	25.11.1944?

MID

03.02.1942

Battle of Cape Matapan

15.01.1907			entered RN
1914	-	1915	HMS Superb
1915	-	1917	HMS Marlborough
28.08.1917	-	(01.1919)	HMS King George V (battleship) (Grand Fleet)
14.02.1919			enlisted RAN
01.05.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental))
14.11.1923	-	(01.1925)	Squadron W/T Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] (Atlantic Fleet)
14.04.1926	-	(07.1927)	Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
01.03.1930	-	(01.1932)	Executive Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
21.05.1932	-	(01.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Fowey (sloop) (East Indies Station)
15.11.1934	-	(02.1937)	staff, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
10.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (seaplane carrier) (Portsmouth)
1934	-	1945	served World War II (wounded, despatches):
23.01.1939	-	1940	Naval Attaché, Rome & Durazzo [HMS President]
12.04.1940	-	25.04.1940	London Depot RAN
26.04.1940	-	05.06.1940	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per "Strathmore") [lent to RAN]
06.06.1940	-	31.08.1941	Flag Captain, HMAS Perth (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron
01.09.1941	-	03.11.1941	HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to UK per "Empire Star") & London Depot RAN (additional; for reversion to RN)
04.11.1941	-	26.04.1942	Deputy Director Signal Department (M), Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
04.08.1942	-	(10.1943)	Deputy Director Signal Department (M), Admiralty & for duty with Deputy Controller, Bath [HMS President]
29.10.1943	-	(04.1944)	Director of Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commodore East Africa [HMS Tana]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
02.01.1946	-	05.07.1946	Naval ADC to the King

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