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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Bruen,
John Martin
"Bill"

Only son of Arthur Thomas Bruen (1873-1957), and Lily Ruttledge (?-1951).
Married (06.02.1945) Marjorie Elaine Margaret Holliss (06.08.1918 - 07.06.1993); one son, one daughter.

10.12.1910
Dublin, Ireland
-
20.04.1967
Birmingham district, Warwickshire

Midsh.	01.01.1929
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1931
S.Lt.	1932?, seniority 16.01.1932
Lt.	16.04.1934
Lt.Cdr.	16.03.1942 (retd 20.12.1955; age)
A/Cdr.	14.08.1943?

DSO	06.07.1943	Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.1942) [investiture 06.04.1943]
DSC	29.07.1941	Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 25.11.1941]
MID	04.05.1943	Operation Torch

15.09.1924			entered RN
20.03.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
04.01.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
30.04.1931	-	03.01.1932	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
04.01.1932	-	(09.1932)	promotion course, Portsmouth
07.01.1933	-	(06.)1933	HMS Comet (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
02.09.1933	-	(02.)1935	HMS Colombo (cruiser) (East Indies)
(07.1935)			no appointment listed [attached to RAF]
(02.1936)			no appointment listed [attached to RAF]
14.06.1936	-	(06.)1938	pilot, Fighter Squadron 802 [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed [attached to RAF]
17.08.1938	-	(10.)1938	pilot, TSR Squadron 822 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
10.1938	-	(04.)1939	pilot, Fighter Squadron 801 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
(08.)1939	-	(04.)1940	Fleet Air Arm
06.1940	-	10.1940	Commanding Officer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]
24.11.1940	-	07.1941	Commanding Officer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
16.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 778 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
1942	-	1942	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
16.03.1942	-	12.1942	Commanding Officer, 800 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier), later HMS Biter (escort carrier)]
02.12.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, 759 Squadron FAA & as Chief Instructor in Fighter School [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)]
24.05.1943	-	(08.)1943	[Executive Officer ?], HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
14.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
(04.1946)			HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) *
14.11.1947	-	(05.1950)	HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
?	-	(04.1955)	Air Equipment and Naval Photography Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Air Ace with 4 destroyed enemy aircraft, 4 shared destroyed, 2 damaged, 2 shared damaged, 1 shared damaged on ground.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Brunton,
Thomas Bennett
"[Old] Joe"

Son of John and Marian Marr Brunton.
Married 1st (1922).... (died 1978); one son.
Married 2nd ((09?).1979, Maidstone district, Kent) Elizabeth Lucia Brunton (26.03.1909 - (06?).1982).
Residences: Lee-on-Solent (1944), Moulsford, nr. Wallingford.

27.08.1896
York, Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
26.06.1987
Moulsford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Midsh. RNR	1915
A/S.Lt.	27.08.1916
A/Lt.	15.09.1918
Lt.	27.11.1918
Lt.Cdr.	27.11.1926 (retd 27.08.1941)
A/Cdr.	< 04.1940
Cdr. (retd)	27.08.1941 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
A/Capt. (retd)	28.08.1944

DSC	04.05.1943	Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 11.1942) [investiture 13.02.1945]
DSC	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.1944) [investiture 13.02.1945]
MID	12.08.1941	Lofoten raid

Went to sea aged 16 (apprentice in barque "Dumfriesshire", which was sunk 28.06.1915 off the Smalls by a U-boat).

02.10.1915	-	1916	served in RNR in destroyers HMS Matchless & HMS Melpone (Harwich Force)
27.08.1916			transferred, RN
1916			HMS Centurion (battleship)
(01.1919)			HMS President (for study at Cambridge University)
?	-	28.07.1920	gunnery, torpedo & navigation courses
29.07.1920			submarine training
(06.1922)			HMS L 22 (submarine)
(07.1922)			HMS H 28 (submarine)
19.04.1923	-	(08.1923)	First Lieutenant, HMS L 22 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]
(03.1924)			HMS H 28 (submarine) (pension for wounds)
(12.1924)			spare crew
(12.1924)	-	(01.)1925	periscope school (short course of instruction)
10.07.1925	-	31.08.1926	Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan]
01.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (in charge of an A gun turret)
16.01.1928	-	(06.1928)	in command of Group "M" of submarines in reserve at Portland [HMS L 14 & HMS L 17]
05.06.1929	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
14.01.1932	-	(05.)1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Swordfish (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] (and for duty with submarines)
(06.1933)			no appointment listed
15.12.1933	-	(11.1934)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties)
22.01.1935	-	(07.)1937	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services: for command of the ketch Tai-Mo-Shan) [from 10.1935 als Secretary of the Royal Naval Sailing Association]
01.10.1937	-	(08.)1939	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse; for command of the ketch Tai-Mo-Shan) [member of the successful RN Sailing Association crew at the Kiel Regatta 07.1939]
14.09.1939	-	(10.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Botlea (Q ship)
19.11.1940	-	26.08.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Beatrix (landing ship infantry (medium)) (Lofoten, Dieppe, Operation Torch (N Africa) [DSC], Sicily) [taken seriously ill; invalided home]
17.01.1944	-	17.01.1944	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (additional)
18.01.1944	-	(2/3?).1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)
(06.1944)			Principal Ferry Control Officer, Force J (Normandy [Bar to DSC])
28.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Mount Stewart (Mobile flotation Unit Base, Teignmouth) & Commanding Officer Designate of Special service establishment to assume control of units engaged on unorthodox offensive warfare

Skippered Hitler's steam yacht "Grille" for a year. Worked for MI6, 1949-1954. Ship's chanler, Gosport. Trials captain for Thornycroft's, Samuel White's and Camper and Nicholson's. Retired to live in Guernsey and finally Spain.
Literature: obituary in: The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004, p. 28-30).

Bryant,
Benajmin
"Ben"

Son of J.F. Bryant, MA, FRGS, ICS (retd).
Married 1st (1929) Marjorie Dagmar Mynors (née Symonds) (died 1965); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (1966) Heather Elizabeth Williams (née Hance) (died 1989).

16.09.1905
Madras, India
-
23.11.1994
Worthing, West Sussex

Midsh.	15.09.1923
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1926
Lt.	15.12.1927
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1935
Cdr.	30.06.1940
A/Capt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944
Capt.	31.12.1944
Cdre. 2nd cl.	1948
R.Adm.	07.07.1954 (retd 01.04.1957)

CB	31.05.1956	HM's birthday 1956 [investiture 10.07.1956]
DSO	23.03.1943	sinking 9 enemy ships 07-10.1942 [investiture 27.07.1943]
DSO	11.05.1943	sinking enemy ships 11-12.1942 [investiture 27.07.1943]
DSO	06.07.1943	6 war patrols [investiture 27.07.1943]
DSC	09.05.1940	successful submarine operations against the enemy [investiture 03.09.1940]
MID	12.05.1942	special service

Education: Oundle; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.05.1919			entered RN
(10.1923)			HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
(07.1925)			HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.04.1926	-	15.01.1927	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
16.01.1927	-	(07.)1927	promotion course, Portsmouth
25.07.1927			entered submarine branch of RN
21.11.1927	-	(06.)1928	HMS L 52 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia]
04.12.1928	-	(04.)1930	First Lieutenant, HMS R 4 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan]
01.08.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
01.12.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China)
05.09.1932	-	(01.)1934	First Lieutenant, HMS Perseus (submarine) (China)
(06.1934)			submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course
27.08.1934	-	14.12.1935	Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
15.12.1935	-	17.01.1936	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)
18.01.1936	-	28.01.1936	passage to Australia per "Orion"
29.01.1936	-	26.01.1938	Intelligence Officer, HMAS Australia (cruiser) [on loan to RAN as Exchange Officer]
27.01.1938	-	02.1938	passage to UK per "Ormonde"
(02.1938)			no appointment listed
11.05.1938	-	30.06.1938	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
01.07.1938	-	02.09.1938	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines)
03.09.1938	-	10.10.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (submarine) [tender to HMS Medway, from 11.10.1939 to HMS Dolphin, from 18.11.1939 to HMS Cyclops, from 27.05.1940 to HMS Maidstone, from 10.09.1940 to HMS Titania, from 10.11.1940 to HMS Elphin, from 01.05.1941 to HMS Dolphin]
14.10.1941	-	26.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS P 211 [1943 renamed: HMS Safari] (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
27.04.1943	-	22.05.1943	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for passage to UK)
23.05.1943	-	13.07.1943	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
14.07.1943	-	15.06.1944	Commander (S), 3rd Submarine Flotilla [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)] *
16.06.1944	-	10.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship)
11.10.1944	-	29.10.1944	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional)
30.10.1944	-	04.02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 7th Submarine Flotilla
05.02.1945	-	25.06.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla
26.06.1945	-	04.06.1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla (British Pacific Fleet)
07.06.1947	-	20.10.1947	HMS Victory II (additional; for passage & foreign service leave)
21.10.1947	-	14.12.1949	Commanding Officer, Submarine School (Fort Blockhouse) & as Captain (S) 5th Submarine Flotilla, and from 08.04.1948-22.08.1948 Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
15.12.1949	-	09.01.1950	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
1950			imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
1951	-	1953	Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
04.1953	-	20.05.1954	Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow & Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean
12.07.1954	-	(01.)1957	Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Training and Manning), Admiralty [HMS President]

Staff Personnel Manager, Rolls Royce Scottish Factories, 1957-68.
Published: One man band : the memoirs of a submarine C.O. (1958; republished as: Submarine command, 1975)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Buchanan-Dunlop,
David Kennedy
D.K. Buchanan-Dunlop

Son (with two brothers) of Col. Archibald Henry BuchananDunlop, OBE (1874-1947), and Mary Agnes Kennedy.
Married ((12?).1945, Westminster district, London) Marguerite Nares, daughter of William Macfarlane; no children.

30.06.1911
Musselburgh, Scotland
-
15.09.1985
[Paris, France ?]

Midsh.	01.05.1929
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1931
S.Lt.	24.11.1932, seniority 16.03.1932
Lt.	16.03.1934
Lt.Cdr.	16.03.1942
A/Cdr.	04.08.1943
Cdr.	30.06.1948
Capt.	30.06.1955 (retd 25.08.1964)

	DSC	11.06.1946	wind up Far East
	MID	25.08.1942	Operation Ironclad

Education: Loretto; RN College, Dartmouth

			served as young officer in submarines in Mediterranean and Far East, then Specialist in Fleet Air Arm:
20.03.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
24.08.1929	-	(04.1930)	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
08.04.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
24.09.1931	-	(01.1932)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
04.04.1932	-	(09.1932)	promotion course, Portsmouth
19.08.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
15.04.1935	-	(07.1935)	HMS Regent (surmarine) (China)
12.10.1936	-	(02.1937)	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
28.06.1937	-	(04.)1939	observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
(07.1939)	-	(04.1940)	Fleet Air Arm
29.11.1940	-	(02.1941)	observer, 812 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
?	-	1941	observer, 831 Squadron FAA
11.10.1941	-	07.09.1942	HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) & from 15.05.1942 Commanding Officer, 827 Naval Air Squadron
11.09.1942	-	(08.1943)	instructional staff, HMS Condor
04.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	Staff Officer (Air), HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
29.10.1945	-	04.02.1946	Admiralty
04.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Naval Air Organisation and Training Division, Admiralty
03.05.1949	-	1952	Assistant Naval Attaché (Air), Paris
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
1954	-	1956	Deputy Director Naval Air Organisation, Naval Staff [HMS President since 28.02.1955]
1957	-	1959	Staff of NATO Defence College, Paris
20.05.1960	-	1962	Naval and Military Attaché, Chile (Santiago, Lima, Quito, Bogotá and Panama)
17.07.1962	-	1964	Captain of College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
07.01.1964	-	07.07.1964	Naval ADC to the Queen
20.02.1964			Commodore President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Buchanan-Wollaston,
John Alexander
"Sandy"
J.A. Buchanan-Wollaston (as a child)

Son (with two brothers) of Hugo John Buchanan Wollaston (1884-1970), and Beryl Maud Wrightson (1894-1984).
Brother of F/O Nigel Richard Buchanan-Wollaston, RAFVR,
Married twice; two daughters, two sons.

07.10.1919
Pinner, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
27.04.1994
Darlington, Harford, Maryland, USA

Midsh.	?
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	16.04.1941
Lt.Cdr.	16.04.1949 (retd)

...	-	...	...
12.06.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Illustrious
...	-	...	...

Buckel,
Kenneth William Seaman
K.W.S. Buckel

Son (with one sister) of William Seaman Buckel (1873-1915), and Mary Emily "Minnie" Jackson (1880-1965).
Married (16.12.1936, Aldershot district, Hampshire) Beatrice G. "Trixie" Bell, daughter of Alexander Bell (1884-1963), and Gladys Helena Birmingham (1892-1974); one son, two daughters.

20.05.1909
Trivandrum, Travancore, India
-
18.01.2007
Cannes, France

...	...
S.Lt.	01.01.1934
Lt.	01.01.1936
Lt.Cdr.	01.01.1944 (retd 20.05.1954)

...	-	...	...
06.12.1937	-	(08.)1938	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
30.09.1938	-	27.10.1938	HMS Venomous (destroyer) (for sea trials)
28.11.1938	-	(02.)1939	Physical and Recreational Training course, Portsmouth
27.02.1939	-	(03.)1940	HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness)
21.03.1940	-	(06.)1941	HMS Resolution (battleship)
29.07.1941	-	(12.1942)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (and as Squadron P & RT Officer, Force H)
(02.1943)	-	(10.1943)	no appointment listed
06.12.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
30.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, HMS City of Edinburgh (landing ship, headquarters ?)
(10.1944)			HMS City of Edinburgh *
(01.1945)	-	(04.1946)	Royal Indian Navy
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Buckeridge,
John Leslie
J.L. Buckeridge

Son of Guy Leslie Buckeridge (1877-1944), and Helen Margaret Lillis (1889-1957).
Married Theadocia Ruth Rosetti (03.09.1914 - 09.1999); two daughters.

25.11.1915
Cork, Ireland
-
09.09.1995
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1933
Midsh.	01.09.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1936
S.Lt.	21.06.1937, seniority 16.07.1936
Lt.	01.02.1938, seniority 16.10.1937
Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1944
Cdr.	31.12.1949 (retd 06.07.1960)

	MBE	14.11.1944	Force G, Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
	MID	10.11.1942	Operation Pedestal

...	-	...	...
07.09.1937	-	(07.)1939	HMS Falmouth (escort vessel) (China)
(08.1939)	-	(08.1941)	no appointment listed
29.09.1941	-	(04.)1942	qualifying for signals duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Mercury]
16.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	Signals Officer, HMS Somali (Tribal class destroyer) (and for flotilla signals and wireless telegraphy duties)
01.08.1942	-	(10.)1942	Signals Officer, HMS Ashanti (Tribal class destroyer) (despatches)
30.10.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Eskimo (Tribal class destroyer)
24.06.1943	-	(10.)1943	Signals Officer, Force "N" [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria)
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed: served with Force "G" during the Normandy landinigs (MBE)
06.08.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
(07.1945)	-	(10.1945)	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *
10.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Buckley,
Frederick Arthur
F.A. Buckley (Photo courtesy of Dominique Henrard)

Son of J.W. Buckley, MICE, Civil Engineer.
Married (02.10.1913, St Margarets, Westminster, London) Eva Sophia Ingeborg Godskesen (1890? - 21.11.1962), of Copenhagen; one son, three daughters.

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04.09.1887
Southport, Lancashire
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31.05.1952
Southwick, nr Fareham, Hampshire

Midsh.	30.05.1904
S.Lt.	30.07.1907
Lt.	30.07.1908
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1916
Cdr.	30.06.1920
Capt.	31.12.1927
R.Adm.	10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939) (reverted to retd 13.05.1946)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	18.09.1939

CB	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
LoP	1944?	Operation Neptune
LegH	?	?
Hkn	26.08.1947	services to Norway
LeoII	01.02.1949	services to Belgium

Education: Stubbington House; HMS Britannia.

15.01.1903			entered RN
			served as Gunnery Officer European War, in HMS Venerable, Belgian Coast and Dardanelles: HMS Emperor of India, Grand Fleet and Black Sea
01.1926	-	(07.)1927	Commander (= Executive Officer), HMS Warspite (battleship; Fleet Flagship, Mediterranean)
13.04.1928	-	1930	Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
11.08.1931	-	1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
09.10.1933	-	14.03.1934	Deputy Director of Training on Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.03.1934	-	11.05.1936	Director of Training on Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.10.1936	-	16.12.1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
18.09.1939	-	09.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
04.10.1943	-	02.1944	Commodore Commanding Combined Operational Bases, Portsmouth Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
02.1944	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Porcupine (landing craft base, Portsmouth) & as Commodore Commanding Landing Craft Bases, Portsmouth Command
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Buckley,
James Brian
"Jimmy"

Son of William Geoffrey and Norah Buckley; husband of Phyllis Annette Ariel Buckley.

23.04.1905
Pendleton, Manchester, Lancashire
-
21.03.1943
(killed while escaping as POW) [age 38]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 3]

Royal Navy:
Midsh.	15.05.1923
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1925
S.Lt.	15.06.1926
Lt.	01.12.1928
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1936
Royal Air Force:
F/O	02.08.1927 [20160]
Fl.Lt.	01.01.1934
Sq.Ldr.	01.01.1938

	DSC	05.07.1940	FAA France & Channel
	MID	04.06.1946	services as POW

Education: RN College, Dartmouth

15.01.1919			entered RN
15.05.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
20.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.01.1926	-	(05.1926)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
03.02.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Harebell (fishery protection cruiser, sloop)
02.08.1927	-	13.09.1932	temporary commission as Flying Officer on attachment for 4 years duty with the RAF:
01.07.1928	-	(04.1930)	No. 463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
01.07.1930	-	13.09.1932	No. 463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
21.09.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies)
27.05.1935	-	(04.1939)	reattached to RAF:
27.05.1935	-	(07.1935)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Fleet Air Arm)
08.1935	-	(07.1937)	802 Fighter Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious] [attached to RAF]
(02.1938)			no appointment listed [attached to RAF]
21.04.1938	-	(06.1938)	Squadron Commander, TSR Squadron 822 [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) [attached to RAF]
28.07.1938	-	(10.1938)	Training Squadron, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory] [attached to RAF]
17.10.1938	-	(04.1939)	Squadron Leader Flying, HQ FAA, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF]
(07.1939)	-	(08.1939)	Fleet Air Arm
01.1940	-	29.05.1940	Commanding Officer, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] [crash-landed 29.05.1940 near Dunkirk in his Fairey Swordfish Vb; captured]
29.05.1940	-	21.03.1943	prisoner of war Stalag Luft III; escaped from Schubin Camp (Poland) to Denmark via Danzig; together with Joergen Thalbitzer Buckley attempted to escape to Sweden, the 2 pilots drowned when their boat sank in the sound between Denmark and Sweden

Buckley,
Peter Noel
P.N. Buckley

Son of Frank Buckley.
Married (03.07.1945, Hooton, West Cheshire) Norah Elizabeth Astley Maberly (28.02.1911 - 12.1999), only daughter of Capt. Charles James Astley Maberly (1881-1955), and Lilian Edith Millican (1879-1932), and widow of Lt.Cdr. Drummond St Clair-Ford (1907-1942); one daughter.

26.12.1909
Blundell Sands, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
21.02.1988
Sway, Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire

Cadet	01.05.1927
Midsh.	01.01.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1930
S.Lt.	01.09.1930
Lt.	01.04.1932
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1940
Cdr.	31.12.1945
Capt.	31.12.1952
R.Adm.	07.07.1962 (retd 05.01.1965)

CB	01.01.1964	New Year 1964 [investiture 25.02.1964]
DSO	21.08.1945	sunk by enemy after 3 hour-fight 06.07.1940 [investiture 28.10.1947]
MID	19.02.1946	services as POW

15.09.1923			entered RN
30.04.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth)
03.05.1928	-	(04.)1930	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
01.05.1930	-	(02.)1931	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
29.12.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)
12.04.1932	-	(01.)1934	HMS Perseus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(07.1934)	-	(11.1934)	no appointment listed
27.12.1934	-	(07.)1035	HMS H 32 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
02.10.1935	-	(02.)1937	HMS Seawolf (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
24.05.1937	-	(02.)1938	HMS L 26 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
25.04.1938	-	(06.)1938	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
06.08.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines)
16.01.1939	-	06.07.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Shark (submarine) [ship damaged by German aircraft off Skudesnes and sunk by surface craft; captured] (DSO)
06.07.1940	-	(04?).1945	prisoner of war in German captivity (despatches)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1946			HMS Ralph
05.02.1947	-	(04.)1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
15.09.1947	-	(05.)1949	Executive Officer, HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire)
08.10.1949	-	(05.1950)	Executive Officer, HMS Glory
1951			RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
26.08.1953	-	(07.)1954	Commanding Officer, HMS Orwell (destroyer) & as Captain (Destroyers), Plymouth
18.11.1954	-	(01.)1957	Captain of the Dockyard, Queen's Harbour Master and Deputy Superintendent, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane]
24.04.1957	-	(01.)1959	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Vanguard]
21.07.1959	-	(07.1961)	Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Phoenicia]
11.07.1962	-	(02.)1964	Director General of Manpower, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB)

Head of Naval History Branch, Ministry of Defence 1968-1975.

Buckley,
Robin Cecil Burton
R.C.B. Buckley (Photo courtesy of Diana Buckley)

Son (with one sister) of Arthur Burton Buckley (1877-1964), and Steuarta Francis Weyerman (1877-1951).
Married ((12?).1942, Hampstead, London) Pauline Enid Lewis Renwick (07.09.1922 - 22.03.1988), second daughter of Mr W.L. Renwick, of St Leonard's House Farm, Nazeing, Essex, and of the late Mrs Renwick, formerly of Southsea; two sons, two daughters.

10.09.1911
Genoa, Italy
-
23.05.1977
Richmond upon Thames district, Greater London

Cadet	01.01.1929
Midsh.	01.09.1929
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1932
S.Lt.	01.05.1932
Lt.	01.12.1933
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1941 (retd 12.1941)

27.01.1942

dismantling Italian explosive torpedo boat Suda Bay, Crete 27.05.1941 [investiture 14.04.1942]

05.01.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.01.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)
31.12.1931	-	21.08.1932	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (shared Ryder Memorial Prize for 1932 for first place in examinations in French)
22.08.1932	-	(01.)1933	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
18.04.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
28.05.1934	-	(02.)1936	HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 19th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean)
(08.1936)	-	(10.1936)	no appointment listed
12.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Echo (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
04.1937			qualified as acting interpreter French
29.04.1937	-	01.08.1937	qualifying for torpedo duties (long torpedo course), RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
02.08.1937	-	(06.)1938	qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon
04.06.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
09.11.1938	-	27.05.1941	Torpedo Officer, HMS York (cruiser) [wounded (completely blinded) when dismantling an Italian torpedo boat in Suda Bay]
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
01.1942			brief stay at St Dunstan's, the charity providing support, rehabilitation and respite care to blind (ex-)service personnel
14.04.1942	-	(04.)1947	Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Bristol, then Portsmouth)

Remained at HMS Vernon, in civil capacity, as Schools Liaison Officer until 1954. Then became appeals officer, later public relations officer at St Dunstan's. President of the European War-Blinded Association.

Buckmaster,
Frederick Henry
F.H. Buckmaster (Photo courtesy of Mrs Frances Macneil)

Son (with one brother) of Frederick Henry Buckmaster (1859-1921), and Adelaide Maud Hambleton (1859-1931), of West Hill Road, London SW18.
Married (12.04.1910, Wandsworth district, London) Margaret Davies Murray (1878-1954), widow of Norcott D'Esterre Harvey (1879-1906), and daughter of Thomas Somerville Murray (1848-1898), and Sarah Flanagin (1855-), of Passage West, Co. Cork; two daughters (Sibyl Margrett Hambleton Buckmaster married Lt. John Roland Olive, RN).

19.11.1883
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
06.04.1947
Overcombe, Weymouth district, Dorset

...	...
Eng.Lt.	01.10.1907
Eng.Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1915
Eng.Cdr.	30.06.1921
Eng.Capt.	30.06.1931
Eng.R.Adm.	28.12.1937 (retd 29.12.1937)

CBE

01.01.1946

New Year 1946 [decoration posted to next-of-kin]

Education: privately & RN Engineering College, Keyham.

1900			joined RN
...	-	...	...
(12.1939)	-	(10.1941)	Admiralty [HMS President] *
(12.)1941	-	(10.)1945	an Engineering Officer with the Principal Emergency Repair Overseer and Staff, Liverpool Area under Department of the Director of Dockyards, Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bucknall,
Roger Creswell
R.C. Bucknall (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Bucknall)

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Henry Cresswell Bucknall (1885-1962), and Christian Robson (1889-1966).
Married ((03?).1945, Westminster district, London) Gilliam Margery Grieves (08.08.1924 - 1991); four children.

11.05.1920
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland
-
24.06.1990
Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland (formerly of Hooke, Beaminster, Dorset)

Cadet	01.09.1938
Midsh.	01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1941
S.Lt.	10.1941, seniority 01.10.1940
Lt.	16.01.1942
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1945, < 04.1946
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1950 (retd 27.09.1958)

01.09.1938	-	08.1939	special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training ship)
04.08.1939	-	(04.)1941	HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser)
05.05.1941	-	(06.)1941	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1941)			no appointment listed
(10.1941)			submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] *
29.11.1941	-	(12.)1942	HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Malta)
03.12.1942	-	27.01.1943	HMS P 34 (U class submarine)
(04.1943)	-	(06.1043)	HMS Ultimatum (U class submarine) *
02.07.1943	-	(10.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Truant (T class submarine)
(12.1943)	-	(01.1944)	HMS Uther (U class submarine) *
18.01.1944	-	(04.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Trusty (T class submarine)
1944	-	(06.)1944	submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
17.07.1944	-	04.02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS H 44 (H class submarine)
05.02.1945	-	09.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Urtica (V class submarine)
04.09.1945	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ultimatum (U class submarine)
03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship, Malta) (for 2nd Submarine Flotilla)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Budgen,
Douglas Adams
D.A. Budgen

Son (with one brother) of Rev. Walter Budgen, MA (1862-1952), and Minnie Louisa Steer (1865--1938), of Eastbourne.
Married (20.12.1923) Audrey Noel Kindersley (25.12.1899 - 11.1988), daughter of Richard Stephen Kindersley (1859-1932), and Mina St Barbe Frampton (1858-1929), of Eton College; two sons, one daughter (deceased). Audrey Budgen remarried (1947) Ian Morten.

16.11.1889
Croydon, Surrey
-
13.01.1947
Misterton, Chard district, Somerset

...	...
Lt.	15.03.1911
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
Cdre. 1st cl.	15.11.1939-15.01.1941
R.Adm.	15.01.1941 (retd 16.01.1941) (reverted to retd 29.06.1944)

01.01.1942

New Year 1942 [investiture 01.12.1942]

Education: Ascham, Eastbourne; HMS Britannia.

15.05.1905			entered service
1914	-	1919	served Great War
...	-	...	...
05.01.1938	-	24.05.1939	Director of Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.05.1939	-	01.10.1939	Director of Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.10.1939	-	14.11.1939	Director of Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.11.1939	-	16.03.1942	HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown), as Captain-in-Charge, Simonstown, from 15.03.1940 as Captain-in-Charge, and Senior Naval Officer, Simonstown, from 15.01.1941 as Flag Officer-in-Charge, Simonstown and Principal Sea Transport Officer for the Union of South Africa (CB)
20.08.1942	-	26.10.1942	HMS President (additional; for disposal)
27.10.1942	-	30.10.1942	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Sea Transport)
31.10.1942	-	19.02.1944	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Naval Assistant to Director of Sea Transport)
20.02.1944	-	28.06.1944	HMS President (additional; for disposal)

Buist,
Malcolm
M. Buist

Son of Col. Frederick Braid Buist.
Married (08.12.1939) Elizabeth Jean 'Eppie' Brooke (10.04.1910-24.09.2008), daughter of Sir Robert Weston Brooke, 2nd Bt. and Margery Jean Geddes; two daughters.

01.04.1913
Roy Bridge, Scotland
-
20.04.1965
Kiltearn district, Scotland

...	...
Lt.	01.06.1936
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1944 (retd 25.11.1953; invalided)

MID	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.1942)
LegH	?	Dieppe raid [decoration posted]
CdeG	?	Dieppe raid [decoration posted]

...	-	...	...
10.07.1939	-	(08.1939)	physical and recreational training course, Portsmouth
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
08.1942			commanded Anglo-French chasseurs flotilla (Dieppe raid)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
16.03.1943	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Rattler, 09.1943 renamed HMS Loyalty (Algerine class minesweeper)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
09.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
06.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Squirrel (Algerine class minesweeper)
11.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Algerine class minesweeper)
...	-	...	....

Bull,
Leonard Hanson
L.H. Bull (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Bull)

Son (with six brothers) of Thomas Bull (1859-1923), and Eleanor Martin (1868-1952).
Brother of Lt. (E) Victor Edward Bull, RN.
Married 1st (01.06.1932, Moullin Memorial Wesleyan Church, Northfields Avenue, London W13) Dorothy Blanche Read (20.03.1910 - 19.03.1968), daughter of Edward Richard Read (1875-1948), and Mary Elizabeth Smith (1873-1948), and sister of Lt. (E) Everard Robert Read, RN; two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd (11.1968, St. Paul's Methodist Church, Gillingham, Kent) Grace Beatrice M. Pemberton (12.05.1902 - 11.1982).

03.08.1903
Folkestone, Elham district, Kent
-
12.03.1981
Bourne district, Lincolnshire

Boy Artificer	09.01.1919 [M34465]
...	...
T/A/Wt.Eng.	27.09.1943
T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng.	1944?, seniority 27.09.1943 (reld 1947?)

LSGCM

09.10.1936

09.01.1919			entered RN
...	-	...	...
1941	-	1943	HMS Burnham (destroyer)
1943	-	1943	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
05.01.1944	-	19.09.1945	HMS Philoctetes (destroyer depot ship, Freetown Sierra Leone)
20.09.1945	-	15.01.1946	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (in hospital recovering from some kind of infection or bug that left him temporarily with only peripheral vision)

Bull,
Victor Edward
V.E. Bull (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Bull)

Son (with six brothers) of Thomas Bull (1859-1923), and Eleanor Martin (1868-1952).
Brother of Wt.Eng. Leonard Hanson Bull, RN.
Married (25.03.1932, St Mary's Church, Gillingham, Kent) Katherine Belinda Flanagan (18.09.1908 -15.02.1984); two daughters.

02.07.1901
Folkestone, Elham district, Kent
-
29.01.1984
Bognor Regis, Chichester district, Sussex

Boy Artificer	03.01.1917 [M24931]
...	...
A/Wt.Eng.	01.04.1933
Wt.Eng.	1933?, seniority 01.04.1933
Cd.Eng. = Sen.Cd.Eng.	01.04.1943 (retd 02.07.1951)
Lt. (E)	02.07.1951

DSC

21.03.1944

torpedoed by Japanese forces 07.1943 [investiture 18.04.1944]

03.01.1917			entered RN
...	-	...	...
14.06.1933	-	(03.)1935	HMS Terror (base ship, Singapore)
(07.1935)	-	(02.1936)	no appointment listed
27.04.1936	-	(08.)1936	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
(10.1936)			no appointment listed
(01.1937)	-	(02.1937)	short course of instruction
30.04.1937	-	03.1944	HMNZS Leander (cruiser) (DSC)
(06.1944)	-	(04.1945)	no appointment listed
06.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Kalugu (RN Air Station, Cochin, India)
22.01.1947	-	(05.)1949	HMS Franklin (Halcyon class minesweeper; survey ship)
20.09.1949	-	(05.)1950	HMS Berry Head (repair ship)
01.07.1950	-	(05.)1951	HMS Minerva (Reserve Fleet, Sheerness)

Bulley,
Frank Samuel
F.S. Bulley

Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Joseph Richard Bulley (1861-1926), and Annie Cookson (1864-1919).
Married 1st ((06?).1926, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Christina Lightfoot ((12?).1905 - (06?).1966); two sons.
Married 2nd ((12?).1969, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Ethel Florence Jerams ((03?).1922 - ), widow of Cecil G.J. Hadnett.

21.09.1904
Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Durham
-
24.01.1979
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Boy 2nd cl.	16.01.1920 [P/J 96734]
...	...
T/Gnr.	09.03.1942 (reld 13.11.1945)

16.03.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Queen Charlotte (anti-aircraft range, Ainsdale on Sea, Southport, Lancashire)
(02.1944)	-	(04.1945)	HMS Emperor (escort carrier) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bulley,
Hugh Cecil Edmund
H.C.E. Bulley

Son (with one sister) of John Ivo Bulley (1881-1956), and Margaret Rosamira Morgan-Brown (1887-1984), of St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey.
Married 1st ((09?).1956, Chelsea district, London; divorced) Jean Miller, daughter of Lynden Roberts Miller, and Lady Beatrix Patricia de la Poer Beresford; three daughters.
Married 2nd Christiane ...

14.08.1924
Farnham district, Kent
-
06.01.2020

Midsh.	01.01.1942
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1943
S.Lt.	14.02.1944, seniority 01.08.1943
Lt.	01.03.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.03.1953 (retd 12.03.1955; medically unfit)

LegH

2018

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.05.1938-16.12.1941; Admiralty No. 1920); BSc, MEd, MA.

(02.1942)	-	(04.1942)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
14.04.1942	-	06.1942	HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) [attached for about one month to HMS Cocker, while the ship was in dock]
26.06.1942	-	09.1942	HMS Eridge (Hunt class destroyer)
09.1942	-	15.09.1942	HMS Javelin (J class destroyer)
23.10.1942	-	02.07.1943	HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser)
(08.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed: HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for courses)
20.01.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Nith (River class frigate)
10?.1944	-	01.1945?	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for courses)
23.01.1945	-	10.05.1946	HMS Tyrian (T class destroyer)
12.06.1946	-	(07.1946)	HMS Gravelines (destroyer)
...	-	...	...

In 1963, he studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and began his career as a painter. In 1964, he was elected to the Art Workers’ Guild.
Published: A boy at sea (2005).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Bulteel,
Tom Oliver
T.O. Bulteel

Son (with one brother and one sister) of John George Bulteel (1856-), and Mary Sophia Strickland-Constable, of Old Windsor, Berkshire.

01.02.1899 *
Old Windsor, Berkshire
-
26.02.1943
(illness) [age 44]
[Lyness RN Cemetery, Orkney, plot H, north border, grave 1]

* other source gives 30.01.1899

...	...
S.Lt.	15.03.1918
Lt.	15.03.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1933
Capt.	30.06.1938

14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp North Africa 1942-43
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	04.05.1943	Operation Torch [posthumously]
Cor M	-	-

01.1912			entered RN
...	-	...	...
24.05.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
12.04.1941	-	29.10.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
15.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
20.01.1942	-	26.02.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (despatches)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Bunbury,
Charles Henry
C.H. Bunbury

Son (with one sister) of Henry William Lisbrian Bunbury (1876-1950), and Helen Marjorie Miles (?-1928).
Married (25.07.1953, Camberley, Surrey North Western district, Surrey) Norah Alice May Bredon; one daughter, two sons.

25.04.1926
Woking, Guildford district, Surrey
-

Sothwold, Suffolk

Midsh.	?
...	...
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1945
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1955 (retd 16.12.1955; own request)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 174).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Bundle,
Ronald Brian Wodsworth
R.B.W. Bundle

07.09.1924
-
15.02.1997

...	...
S.Lt.	01.04.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	? (retd)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

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

Burch,
Ronald James
R.J. Burch

09.06.1907
-
01.08.1940
(KIA) [age 33]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]

Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	?, seniority 01.11.1928
Lt.	01.02.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.02.1938

	DSO	28.06.1940	*
	KW	21.10.1941	as liaison officer ORP Wilk

* In recognition of daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty's Submarines against the enemy.

15.09.1925			entered RN
15.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
11.12.1927	-	(06.1928)	HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)
03.01.1929	-	(08.)1929	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
12.08.1929	-	(04.)1930	promotion course, Portsmouth
01.11.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Regulus (submarine) (initially: and on commissioning, and for duty with submarines, and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract Built Ships)
30.12.1931	-	(06.)1933	First Lieutenant, HMS H 34 (submarine)
01.09.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Pigmy (special service vessel; for reserve group of submarines) (Portsmouth) (temporary)
13.02.1934	-	(07.1934)	First Lieutenant, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Portland)
02.04.1935	-	(02.1936)	First Lieutenant, HMS Parthian (submarine) (China)
04.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	Submarine Commanding Officers' Course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
17.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (for submarines)
16.07.1937	-	(08.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Salmon (submarine) (Mediterranean)
(10.1938)			no appointment listed
12.1938	-	(09.)1939	HMS President (for 9 months study in Esthonia)
23.11.1939	-	03.02.1940?	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Wilk (Polish submarine)
(04.1940)			HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Rosyth) *
(06.1940)	-	01.08.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Narwhal (submarine) [ship lost off Norway] **

* indexed, but not listed as such
** possibly already from Apr 1940 on [or earlier]; the Apr 1940 Navy List is showing Lt. C.S. Green as senior officer, but he was probably (as shown earlier) the First Lieutenant

Burd,
Oliver
"Dick"
O. Burd (Photo courtesy of Mr Geoffrey Burd)

Younger son (with one brother and one sister) of the Rt. Rev. Walter Burd (1888-1939), and Elizabeth Millington (?-1937).

01.01.1924
Saskatchewan, Canada ?
-
08.11.1948
(died in a hut fire on an Antarctic expedition, Hope Bay, Grahams Land, Antarctica) (formerly of Scalby, Scarborough)

Cadet	01.05.1942
Midsh.	01.01.1943
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1944
S.Lt.	01.08.1945, seniority 01.12.1943
Lt.	12.02.1946, seniority 01.03.1945

Pol M

17.07.1953

posthumously

01.05.1942			special entry cadet
(08.1942)	-	(04.1944)	no appointment listed [probably served at HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship) during this period]
04.05.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Icarus (I class destroyer)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
02.1945	-	(10.)1945	HMS Relentless (R class destroyer)
25.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)
(07.1946)			no appointment listed
04.07.1946	-	(10.1946)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)

Served from 10.1946 as Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) meteorologist in Antarctic expeditions (Argentine Islands & Hope Bay) (Polar Medal). Cape Burd at Antarctica is named in honour of him.

Burdett,
John Head
J.H. Burdett

Son of John Head Burdett (1856-1917), and Adelaide Victoria Stanley Leatham (1858-1936).
Married (18.09.1914, Christ Church, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Dorothy Clarice Fisher (05.12.1877 - 14.01.1963); one son.

05.02.1884
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
-
02.07.1958

Sg.	06.11.1908
Staff Sg. = Sg.Lt.Cdr.	06.11.1916 ?, seniority 06.11.1914
Sg.Cdr.	06.11.1920
Sg.Capt.	30.06.1933 (retd 05.02.1941)

MID

12.07.1916

Gallipoli campaign

Education: Bristol Grammar School; St Mary's Medical School (Paddington); MRCS, LRCP 1908.

...	-	...	...
19.06.1937	-	(12.1940)	Royal Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(02.1941)			no appointment listed

Burfield,
John Blackmore

Son of ... Burfield, and ... Glenny.
Married ((12?).1942, Uckfield district, Hampshire) Priscilla M. Kelsey; three daughters.

31.05.1917
Uckfield district, Hampshire
-
13.11.1998
Chichester district, Sussex

Cadet	01.01.1935
Midsh.	01.01.1936
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1937
S.Lt.	21.02.1939, seniority 01.03.1938
Lt.	02.1940, seniority 01.07.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1947
Cdr.	30.06.1952 (retd 03.01.1959)

MVO	18.03.1952	services funeral King George VI [investiture 02.04.1952]
DSC	03.02.1942	Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 06.04.1943]
DSC	14.08.1945	probable destruction 2 U-boats 03/04.1945 [decoration posted]
MID	08.04.1941	sinking Italian submarine Berillo 10.1940
MID	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

01.01.1935	-	12.1935	direct entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1936	-	08.1936	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
25.08.1936	-	(10.1937)	HMS Danae (cruiser) (China)
01.01.1938	-	(03.)1938	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
02.05.1938	-	(12.1938)	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
21.01.1939	-	06.04.1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Havock (H class destroyer) (ship wrecked, aground near Kelibia & destroyed by Italian submarine) (DSC, despatches twice)
(06.1942)	-	(12.1942)	no appointment listed while being POW in Italian captivity
06.01.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
27.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Faulknor (F class destroyer)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
12.11.1944	-	(10.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Byron (Captain class frigate) (Bar to DSC)
29.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
...	-	...	...

Burge,
Charles Ralph Ormsby
C.R.O. Burge

Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Henry Ormsby Burge (1864-1950), and Emma Lottie Hiller (1879-1952).
Brother of Maj. Desmond Featherstonhaugh Burge, RM, and S/Lt. (E) Brian Ormsby Burge, RNVR.
Married 1st ((12?).1920, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire; divorced 1949) Bertha Marie Louise Katherine Cunningham, MBE, widow of James Michael Cunningham; no children.
Married 2nd (1950) Gertrude Richarda Seelt, MD, daughter of A.M. Seelt; one son.

21.02.1898
St John's Wood, London
-
09.06.1970
Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
[Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia]

Midsh.	02.08.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.11.1916
S.Lt.	15.07.1917
Lt. (E)	15.01.1919
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.01.1927
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1930
Capt. (E)	31.12.1941 (retd 15.11.1948)

	DSO	14.10.1941	Bismarck action 05.1941 [investiture 09.05.1944]
	MID	01.07.1941	HM birthday 1941

...	-	...	...
21.03.1939	-	(06.)1940	HMS Howe (King George V class battleship)
12.07.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship) (from 24.09.1941 Staff Engineer Officer, Force H) (DSO, despatches)
(02.1942)			no appointment listed
16.02.1942	-	(04.)1944	HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
07.1944	-	(07.)1945	Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant] (and for duty with Vice-Admiral, Gibraltar)
17.09.1945	-	(10.1945)	Engineer Officer-in-Charge, Mechanical Training Establishment [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
(04.1946)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
...	-	...	...
29.01.1948	-	15.11.1948	Naval ADC to the King

MIMechE.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Burges,
Richard Ynyr
R.Y. Burges

Middle son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Ynyr Richard Patrick Burges (1866-1905), and Frederica Florence Elizabeth Gillett (?-1957).
Married 1st (27.07.1940) Beryl Joan Wells (14.05.1907 - 29.01.1962), daughter of Cdr. Harry Lionel Wells, RN; two daughters.
Married 2nd (08.06.1967) Margaret Valerie Alethe Lyon-Burke (30.03.1915 - 04.04.1984), daughter of Capt. Alfred Herbert Lyon.

21.08.1901
Kensington district, London
-
17.04.1979
West Sussex (formerly of Bosham, Chicester)

...	...
S.Lt.	15.09.1921
Lt.	15.09.1923 (retd 17.12.1930)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.09.1931
Cdr. (retd)	21.08.1941 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

15.05.1915			entered RN
(1918)			HMS Warspite (battleship)
19.04.1922	-	1922	HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)
15.08.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Resolution (battleship)
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(12.1941)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
31.07.1944	-	(10.1944)	[Commanding Officer?], HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton)
(01.1945)			HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton) *
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	[Commanding Officer?], HMS Safeguard (base for defensively equipped merchant ships, Calmore, Southampton)

FCIA, FSVA.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Burgess,
Peter Geoffrey
P.G. Burgess (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)

Youngest son (with four brothers and one sister) of Prof. Arthur Henry Burgess, DL, FRCS (1874-1948), and Elspeth Robinson (died 1941), of Ashlea, Cheadle, Cheshire.
Married (15.04.1944, Bovey Tracey) Third Officer Phyllis "Phil" Walker Hewitt *, WRNS, younger daughter of Sg.R.Adm. David Walker Hewitt, CB, CMG, MD, BCh, FRCS.

* She remarried (1977) Lt.Col. Archibald John Murray, Black Watch.

14.04.1909
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
25.02.1972
London City

Prob. Sg.Lt. RNVR	01.03.1934
Sg.Lt. RNVR	03.04.1935, seniority 01.03.1934
Sg.Lt.	16.10.1936 24.03.1937, seniority 16.10.1935
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1941
A/Sg.Cdr.	16.10.1947
Sg.Cdr.	30.06.1950
Sg.Capt.	30.06.1959 (retd 14.01.1966)

MVO

13.06.1957

HM's birthday 1957 [investiture 23.07.1957]

Education: Oxford University; Manchester University; BM, BCh, MRCS, LRCP.
Assistant director of the David Lewis Epileptic Colony.

01.03.1934			joined RNVR (Mersey Division)
16.10.1936			transferred, RN
02.01.1937	-	(02.)1937	HMS Abingdon (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)
04.04.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS Lowestoft (escort vessel) (China)
01.1938	-	(02.)1938	HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) (China)
12.05.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Tarantula (river gunboat) (China)
(08.1939)	-	(09.1939)	no appointment listed
15.12.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
09.1941	-	(08.)1942	HMS Diomede (training ship)
07.09.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Tracker (escort carrier)
02.09.1943	-	(10.)1943	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
04.11.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Duke (training establishment, Great Malvern, Worcestershire)
29.04.1945	-	(10.1947)	HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
30.08.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine establishment, Portsmouth)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
18.05.1953	-	(01.)1957	HMS Britannia (Royal yacht)
30.03.1957	-	(01.1959)	staff, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth]
12.06.1961	-	(07.)1961	Fleet Medical Officer to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS President] & as Medical Adviser to Commander-in-Chief EASTLANT (NATO)
16.10.1961	-	(02.1964)	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

Burghard,
Geoffrey Frederic *

Son of Alfred Williams Burghard, commercial treveller, and Edith Elsie Burghard. Married (1931) Constance Louise Sheppard (died 1981); one son, two daughters (of which one died aged 5 in 1935).

* During his naval service registered in the Navy List as "Geoffrey Frederick"

15.10.1900
Bexley Heath, Dartford, Kent
-
07.05.1981
Limpsfield, Surrey

Cadet	1913?
Midsh.	1917
A/S.Lt.	15.11.1918
S/Lt.	1919
A/Lt.	1921
Lt.	14.01.1922, seniority 15.08.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1935
Capt.	31.12.1942
Cdre. 2nd cl.	08.1948
R.Adm.	08.01.1952 (retd 15.02.1955)

CB	01.01.1954	New Year 1954
DSO	11.06.1946	wind up Far East
MID	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (Chief Cadet Captain)

09.01.1917			entered RN
17.12.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Canada (battleship)
			HMS President (for study at Cambridge University; electrical science course)
01.10.1924	-	(01.1925)	qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
16.08.1926	-	(07.1927)	Assistant Fleet W/T Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
27.06.1929	-	(02.1931)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental))
07.07.1931	-	(01.1932)	Signal Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
01.12.1932	-	(01.1934)	Fleet W/T Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]
16.04.1935	-	(02.1936)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental))
12.01.1937	-	(07.1937)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
31.12.1937	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Fury (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
11.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School (Experimental)), renamed:
(08.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) Executive Officer since (08.1942?)
29.04.1943	-	20.01.1944	Deputy Director (R) Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
21.01.1944	-	(06.1944)	Deputy Director (R) Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.09.1944	-	(08.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Troubridge (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 24th Destroyer Flotilla
(04.1946)			HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) *
1947?	-	1948?	Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser; experimental ship)
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
08.1948	-	(05.1950)	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror]
07.07.1951	-	08.01.1952	Naval ADC to the King
01.01.1952	-	1955	Deputy Controller, Electronics, Ministry of Supply [HMS President (for miscellaneous services)]

MIEE, 1956-1961. Joined International Computers and Tabulators Ltd (ICT). Retired (1961?) to grow black currants. Chairman, Committee for Common Standards for Electronic Parts, 1963-1965 (resulting in the Burghard report, 1967)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Burkitt,
Julian Francis Hassard
J.F.H. Burkitt

Married (01.12.1950, Kensington district, London) Alison F. Landers; two sons, three daughters.

13.06.1925
-
16.05.2016
Stradbally, Co Waterford, Ireland

Midsh.	?
...	...
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1945 (commission terminated 07.03.1946)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.05.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 47).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Burmester,
Sir Rudolf Miles

3rd son of F.G. Burmester, MA.
Married (20.03.1907, Portsmouth) Margery Gladys (died 1952), daughter of Admiral Rodney
Lloyd, CB; one son, one daughter.

11.11.1875
Kingston, Surrey
-
27.12.1956
London SW1

Midsh.	15.08.1890
S.Lt.	14.09.1894
Lt.	01.04.1897
Cdr.	30.06.1907
Capt.	30.06.1914
Cdre. 2nd cl.	1917? till 1919
R.Adm.	26.09.1924
V.Adm.	02.08.1929
Adm.	30.09.1933 (retd 10.10.1933; own request in order to facilitate the promotion of younger officers)

KBE	01.01.1934	New year 1934
CB	01.04.1919	services during the war
CMG	01.01.1916	Gallipoli 04.1915-01.1916
Comdn	14.03.1916	Gallipoli 04.1915-01.1916

15.07.1888			entered RN
1902	-	1903	served HMS Highflyer (medal and Somaliland clasp)
01.07.1913			War Staff Officer
1915	-	1916	HMS Euryalus, Dardanelles
12.08.1917	-	(01.)1919	Chief of Staff, Mediterranean [HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta)]
1919			Director of Naval Signals, Admiralty
01.11.1920	-	01.04.1922	Chief of Staff, Portsmouth Command & Commanding Officer, HMS Victory
04.04.1923	-	02.09.1924	Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
1923	-	1924	ADC to the King
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
18.12.1926	-	1928	Director of Mobilisation Department, Admiralty
27.12.1928	-	02.1931	Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Calcutta] [assumed command 14.02.1929]
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
1940			recalled to active service
04.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
03.02.1942	-	08.02.1944	Flag Officer-in-Charge, Cardiff [HMS Lucifer]

Burnell-Nugent,
Anthony Frank
A.F. Burnell-Nugent

Son of Brig. Frank Henry [Burnell-]Nugent (1880-1942), and Ellen Mary Coke Burnell.
Married ((06?).1941, St Germans district, Cornwall) Gian Mary Alexander (20.02.1919 - 10.2002); two sons, one daughter (a grandson is Adm. Sir James Burnell-Nugent).

09.07.1906
Winchester, Hampshire
-
21.08.1976
Darlington, North Riding of Yorkshire

Midsh.	15.05.1924
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1926
S.Lt.	30.04.1927
Lt.	30.01.1929
Lt.Cdr.	30.01.1937
Cdr.	30.06.1942 (retd 16.08.1945)

DSC	23.12.1939	successful actions against enemy submarines
MID	16.08.1940	Dunkirk
MHb	03.10.1931	rescue of survivors of the Dutch schooner Hedwig near Hong Kong 02.12.1930 *

* for Lt. A.F. Burnell-Nugent + 12 other ranks

15.01.1920			entered RN
15.05.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.03.1926	-	(05.)1926	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
30.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.1928	-	(04.)1930	HMS Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
23.07.1930	-	(06.)1933	HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
30.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	First Lieutenant, HMS Stronghold (destroyer)
28.09.1934	-	(02.)1936	First Lieutenant, HMS Fortune (destroyer) (Home Fleet) [ship commissioned 08.05.1935] (in charge while under construction; and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-built Ships)
16.03.1936	-	(02.)1938	HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
29.04.1938	-	(08.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
08.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	Commanding Officer, HMS Kingfisher (patrol vessel, fishery protection)
09.01.1939	-	11.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer)
21.11.1939	-	01.06.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Havant (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk)
01.09.1940	-	01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Wryneck (W class destroyer)
08.01.1941	-	02.05.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Jersey (destroyer) (mined & sunk off La Valletta, Malta)
01.07.1941	-	09.1942	Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.09.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Racehorse (destroyer)
05.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, S Afr)
07.1943	-	(12.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Racehorse (destroyer)
29.02.1944	-	(06.1944)	Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Burnett,
Alan Colquhoun
A.C. Burnett

Married 1st ((06?).1930, Kensington district, London; marriage dissolved 06.12.1937) Joanna Law-Smith (1912? - 2002) [she re-married four times: (1938) Lt.Cdr. Archibald Boyd Russell, RN, (1954) Frederick Charles John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar (1908-1962) [Capt. KOSB], (1967) Charles John Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, 9th Baron Wharton (1908-1969) [F/Lt. RAFVR], and (1971) Bruce Yorke], only daughter of Walter Henry Law-Smith, and Joanna Pauline Lydia Nitschke (1874-1952), of Adelaide, South Australia; one daughter.
Married 2nd ((12?).1938, Fulham district, London) Malvine Turkel (02.09.1910 - 11.1998); ... children (one son?).

12.08.1903
Romford district, Essex
-
03.01.1996
Kensington and Chelsea district, London

Paym.Midsh.	15.01.1922
Paym.S.Lt.	15.10.1923
Paym.Lt.	15.10.1925
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1933
Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S)	30.06.1940 (retd 12.08.1953) (reverted to retd 10.02.1954)
A/Capt. (S)	15.09.1951

OBE

05.06.1952

HM's birthday 1952 [investiture 22.07.1952]

...	-	...	...
26.08.1937	-	(09.)1939	Divisional Officer for Accountant Branch ratings, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]
26.10.1939	-	(12.1941)	HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
10.04.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
02.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.03.1946	-	06.1947	HMS Nigeria (cruiser) & from ... also Fleet (S) Officer, South Atlantic
13.10.1947	-	(05.1949)	HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)
19.01.1950	-	(05.)1951	HMS Vanguard (battleship)
15.09.1951	-	(05.1953)	HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint)

Burnett,
James Arbouin
J.A. Burnett

Younger son (with one brother) of Herbert Burnett (1857-1947), and Ethel Maud Crowther Smith (1871-), of La Collette, Guernsey.
Married 1st (30.09.1939, St George's Church, Jesmon, Newcastle-on-Tyne) Margaret Patience "Paddy" Wasteneys Smith (1916-), elder daughter of Mr & Mrs R. Wasteneys Smith, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Married 2nd ((03?).1953, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Ella Nora Heaton.

16.10.1909
-
11.2005
Hitchin and Stevenage district, Hertfordshire

...	...
S.Lt.	16.07.1930
Lt.	01.02.1932
Lt.Cdr.	01.02.1940 (retd 16.10.1954)

DSC	28.06.1940	2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 06.08.1940]
DSC	15.08.1944	destruction U845 03.1944 [investiture 18.07.1945]
MID	21.10.1941	ship damaged by enemy aircraft 03.09.1941

15.05.1923			entered RN
...	-	...	...
28.10.1937	-	(04.)1940	Executive Officer, HMS Eskimo (destroyer) (DSC)
04.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
01.10.1940	-	(02.)1941	Commanding Officer, French Ship "La Flore"
21.07.1941	-	(09.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (despatches)
30.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding, Seventh Cruiser Squadron [HMS Ajax (cruiser)]
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
04.08.1942	-	21.05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) (Bar to DSC)
26.06.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
18.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Erne (sloop)
(04.1946)			HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Burnett,
Montague Keith
M.K. Burnett

06.03.1911
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
18.03.1983
Blyth district, Suffolk

A/Gnr.	01.10.1937
Gnr.	1938?, seniority 01.10.1937
A/Lt.	18.05.1941
Lt.	12.1941, seniority 02.04.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 [acting rank]
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1945 [appointed rank]
Lt.Cdr.	02.04.1947 (retd 15.08.1955)

	MBE	09.05.1955	HM's birthday 1955 [investiture 08.11.1955]
	MID	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 1944

(02.1938)			no appointment listed
14.03.1938	-	(05.)1939	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
13.06.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Sheldrake (sloop)
12.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper)
14.04.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Jamaica (cruiser) (despatches)
(06.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
18.07.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
01.01.1945	-	(01.)1945	HMS Campania (escort carrier)
04.1945	-	(04.1946)	EDO [= Engineering Duty Officer?], HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier)
23.06.1947	-	(07.)1948	a Naval Assistant to the Director of Navigation and Direction, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.08.1948	-	(05.)1950	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Implacable]
20.09.1950	-	(05.1951)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
08.12.1952	-	08.1955	on staff of Flag Officer Air (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (MBE)

Burnett,
Philip Whitworth
"Egg"
P.W. Burnett

Son of Henry Ridley Burnett. Married (1947) Molly, daughter of H.M. Trouncer, and widow of Brig. H.C. Partridge, DSO; one son, two daughters.

10.09.1908
Barrow-in- Furness, Cumbria, Lancashire
-
10.06.1996
Camborne- Redruth, Cornwall

Midsh.	15.09.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1929
S.Lt.	22.03.1930, seniority 16.07.1929
Lt.	16.12.1930
Lt.Cdr.	16.12.1938
Cdr.	31.12.1940
Capt.	30.06.1945
R.Adm.	07.01.1955 (retd 07.01.1958)

CB	01.01.1957	New Year 1957
DSO	15.05.1945	3 actions against U-boats 02.1945
DSC	09.05.1944	en fst use acc tpdo 09.1943
DSC	18.07.1944	sinking U744 06.03.1944
MID	09.08.1940	attack on enemy light forces 18.05.1940
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 1941

Education: Preparatory School, Seascale; RN College, Dartmouth

15.05.1922			entered RN
01.11.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies, temp. attached to China Station)
03.01.1929	-	12.08.1929	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich
12.08.1929	-	04.1930	promotion course, Portsmouth
23.04.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
06.1931	-	(01.1932)	HMS Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
1932	-	1933	Specialist anti-submarine course, RN College, Greenwich
25.08.1933	-	(01.)1934	staff, Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey]
23.10.1934	-	(07.1935)	anti-submarine duties, HMS Decoy (destroyer), 8th Flotilla, China
09.10.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for anti-submarine school)
09.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for anti-submarine school)
12.01.1939	-	(04.1940)	First Lieutenant, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (and for anti-submarine duties)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
27.06.1942	-	(08.1942)	British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker II]
15.09.1942	-	(02.)1943	Commander [= Executive Officer], Anti- Submarine Establishment, Dunoon HMS Osprey]
1943	-	1945	Western Approaches Escort Groups (HMCS Gatineau, HMCS St Catherines, HMS Braithwaite, HMS Helmsdale):
03.06.1943	-	(06.1944)	Escort Group Commander, C.2 Group [HMCS Avalon III (base Argentia, Newfoundland)]
03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Anti-U-Boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.09.1945	-	1947	Assistant Director of Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division (A/S) [HMS President]
1947	-	1949	Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Singapore
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
26.01.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Saker (British joint services mission, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous services)
03.05.1955	-	1957	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

Burnett,
Sir Robert Lindsay
"Bob"
R.L. Burnett

Fourth son of J.A. Burnett, of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.
Married (12.07.1915) Ethel Constance Shaw, daughter of R.H. Shaw.

22.07.1887
Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
-
02.07.1959
Craigweil, Bognor Regis, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	15.09.1907?
S.Lt.	11.04.1908, seniority 15.09.1907
Lt.	01.04.1910
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1918
Cdr.	31.12.1923
Capt.	31.12.1930
Cdre. 2nd cl.	01.03.1939?
A/R.Adm.	1940
R.Adm.	15.01.1941
V.Adm.	09.12.1943
Adm.	15.09.1946 (retd 01.05.1950; own request to facilitate the promotion of junior officers)

GBE	02.01.1950	New Year 1950 [investiture 14.03.1950]
KCB	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945 [investiture 15.10.1946]
CB	01.12.1942	Operation EV convoy PQ18 [investiture 22.06.1943]
KBE	05.01.1944	sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 19.04.1944]
OBE	03.06.1925	HM's birthday
DSO	16.03.1943	N Russian convoy action 31.12.1942 [investiture 22.06.1943]
Suv	11.04.1944	services to USSR [award posted]
Geo I	15.04.1947	?
OON	31.01.1950	services to the Netherlands Marine establishment S Atlantic

LLD (Aberdeen Univ.), 1944; CStJ 1945.

Education: Bedford School; Eastmans, Southsea.

15.01.1903			entered RN
1904	-	1907	China Station
1908	-	1910	Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleet
1910			cruiser HMS Essex on voyage to South America to mark centenary of Argentine Republic
1911	-	1914	specialised in Physical Training & Instructor, Physical Training Schools, Harwich, Shotley and Plymouth
1914	-	1918	commanded Destroyers in Grand Fleet
01.06.1918	-	(01.1919)	Assistant to Superintendent of School of Physical Training, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.08.1922	-	17.07.1923	Admiralty [HMS President]
17.07.1923	-	(01.)1925	Assistant Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President]
15.07.1925	-	(07.1927)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wallflower (sloop) (Africa)
(04.1928)	-	(06.1928)	no appointment listed
28.12.1928	-	(08.1930)	Commander, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
12.01.1931	-	(02.)1931	Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
14.03.1931	-	04.1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 8th Destroyer Flotilla (China)
04.1933	-	(06.)1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) )on detached service)
14.08.1933	-	(07.)1935	Director of Physical Training and Sports, RN [HMS Victory]
07.12.1935	-	(02.)1939	Flag Captain, HMS Amphion (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Africa Station
01.03.1939	-	14.11.1940	Commodore, RN Barracks Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
25.06.1940	-	15.01.1941	also: Naval ADC to the King
30.11.1940	-	04.03.1942	Rear-Admiral (Minelayers) Port ZA [HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer), later HMS Menestheus (auxiliary minelayer)] (Loch Alsh)
05.03.1942	-	11.01.1943	Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Tyne]
12.01.1943	-	30.05.1943	Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Belfast]
31.05.1943	-	22.06.1943	Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Belfast] & as Rear-Admiral Second-in-Command, Home Fleet (temporary)
23.06.1943	-	02.03.1944	Rear-Admiral/Vice-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Belfast]
01.05.1944	-	19.07.1946	Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS Afrikander]
01.12.1947	-	16.03.1950	Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

Chairman, White Fish Authority, 1950-1954.

Burns,
William
W. Burns

1919 ?
-
15.11.1965

A/S.Lt.	22.07.1940
S.Lt.	> 02.1941
Lt.	01.06.1941
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1949 (retd 16.11.1952; medically unfit)

(02.1941)	-		submarine course *
10.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS P 615 (submarine)
01.12.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Templar (submarine
29.11.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Diomede (cruiser)
14.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(07.1945)			torpedo course
28.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Defiance III (training ship, Devonport)
05.12.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMAS Kuttabul (depot, Garden Island, Sydney, NSW) (for miscellaneous services)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Burridge,
Kenelm Oswald Lancelot

31.10.1922
St Julians, Malta
-

Canada

Cadet	01.01.1940
Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	1942?, seniority 01.10.1941
Lt.	01.05.1943 (Emgcy List 1946)

	MID	15.08.1944	escape from enemy POW camp
	MID	18.11.1945	war patrols Far East 11.1944-08.1945

...	-	...	...
26.06.1942	-	21.04.1943	HMS P 228 [renamed HMS Splendid] (S class submarine) (ship damaged by German surface craft off Corsica & scuttled)
21.04.1943	-	1943	POW in German captivity (escaped)
22.12.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines)
14.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Sea Rover (S class submarine)
21.02.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Spark (S class submarine)
02.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)

Anthropologist. Burridge entered Exeter College, Oxford, that year, and completed his B.A. in 1948, a diploma in Social Anthropology, the following year, and later his B.Litt. (1950) and M.A. (1952) in Anthropology. He then obtained a Ph.D. in that field from Australian National University in 1954. Burridge has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Malaya (where he was a research fellow at the University of Malaya), Australia, New Hebrides, and India. He held teaching posts in anthropology and ethnology at Baghdad University and Oxford before joining UBC as professor of anthropology in 1968. His main interests during his career were anthropological history and theory, religion, myth, museology, and missiology. Until his retirement in 1988, Burridge also served as visiting lecturer or professor at the University of Western Australia, Princeton University, and International Christian University in Tokyo. He received Killam, Guggenheim, and Canada Council fellowships, and was named honorary life fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and the Royal Society of Canada.

Burrough,
Sir Harold Martin

Son of Rev. Charles Burrough, MA.
Married (10.12.1914) Nellie Wills Outhit (died 1972), Halifax, Nova Scotia; two sons, three daughters.

04.07.1888
Easton Bishop, Herefordshire
-
22.10.1977
Moorhouse Nursing Home, Hindhead, Surrey

Midsh.	1904
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.10.1909, seniority 30.05.1909
Lt.Cdr.	30.05.1917
Cdr.	31.12.1921
Capt.	30.06.1928
R.Adm.	01.08.1939
V.Adm.	30.10.1942
A/Adm.	19.01.1945
Adm.	25.09.1945 (retd 03.02.1949)

GCB	01.01.1949	New Year 1949
KCB	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 1944
CB	08.06.1939	HM's birthday 1939
KBE	08.09.1942	Operation Pedestal
DSO	03.04.1942	Operation Archery
DSO	20.04.1943	Operation Torch
DSM	19.01.1943	N African campaign
LM	15.10.1946	01-07.1945
OON	20.05.1947	for services to Holland, and in particular for work connected with the clearance of ports and water-ways
LegH	1949	services to French navy

Education: St Edward's Oxford; HMS Britannia.

15.05.1903			entered RN
1904			went to sea as a Midshipman
			Gunnery Officer, HMS Southampton (Battle of Jutland)
21.11.1918	-	(01.1919)	Gunnery Officer, HMAS Australia [under Australian Government]
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
22.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
09.07.1928	-	24.12.1928	Admiralty
24.12.1928	-	(08.1929)	Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.03.1930	-	(04.1930)	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
24.10.1930	-	(01.)1932	Flag Captain HMS London (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean)
21.07.1932	-	(01.1934)	staff, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.04.1935	-	(02.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet)
17.06.1937	-	(07.1937)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
20.09.1937	-	(10.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
20.12.1938	-	09.01.1939	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admirallty)
10.01.1939	-	07.1940	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
22.02.1939	-	(08.)1939	also: Naval ADC to the King
10.09.1940	-	17.08.1942	Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Kenya, from 01.01.1942: HMS Nigeria] (commanded the naval element of the Vaagso raid, 1941; Malta convoy operation "Pedestal", 08.1942)
18.08.1942	-	29.06.1943	HMS President (additional; for special and miscellaneous services):
18.08.1942	-	13.10.1942	Rear-Admiral Expeditionary Force
14.10.1942	-	31.10.1942	Flag Officer, Force "E"
01.11.1942	-	08.11.1942	Naval Commander, Eastern Task Force (Operation Torch)
09.11.1942	-	09.12.1942	Flag Officer, Inshore Squadron
10.12.1942	-	26.01.1943	with Deputy Naval Commander Expeditionary Force & as Vice-Admiral "B"
27.01.1943	-	04.03.1943	Flag Officer Commanding, Force "H" (temporary)
09.03.1943	-	08.04.1943	for duty inside Admiralty with Chief of Combined Operations inside Combined Operations HQ
09.04.1943	-	14.06.1943	Vice-Admiral Commanding [Force "B"?]
15.06.1943	-	29.06.1943	[with Newfoundland Base?]
30.06.1943	-	09.09.1943	HMS Excellent II (additional; for special service as Vice-Admiral, Force "B")
10.09.1943	-	13.01.1945	Flag Officer Commanding, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant]
19.01.1945	-	15.03.1946	Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Expeditionary Force (renamed mid-1945 British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany) [HMS Royal Henry]
24.04.1946	-	23.11.1948	Commander-in-Chief, The Nore [HMS Pembroke]

Burrows,
George Reginald Bertram
G.R.B. Burrows [UNCONFIRMED] (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Bennett)

07.05.1903
East Stonehouse district, Devon
-
14.05.1977
Wisbech district, Norfolk

T/A/Wt. Writer Offr. = T/Cd. Writer Offr.

31.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

10.07.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)
10.06.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)

Burrows,
Henry Montagu
J.E.S. Bush

Elder son of Rev. Montagu John Burrows (1853-1927), sometime of Ceylon, and Lydia de Vos (1859-1927), and nephew of the Bishop of Chichester (Rt Rev Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (1858-1929)).
Married (04.01.1939, St Clement Danes, Westminster district, London) Harriet Elizabeth Vaizey (06.09.1906 - 20.05.1984), of 18, Seymour Street, London W, only daughter of Ker George Russell Vaizey (1867-1936), and Frederica Baines (1873-1909), of Star Stile, Halstead, Essex; one son, one daughter.
Residence: (1939) Bindons, Lewes, Sussex.

24.03.1899
Ceylon
-
16.08.1979
Long Crendon, nr Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Midsh.	15.10.1914 ?, seniority 02.08.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1917
S.Lt.	15.03.1918
A/Lt.	15.03.1920
Lt.	15.03.1925 (retd 10.11.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	14.03.1928 (reactivated 23.08.1939) (reverted to retd 01.05.1944)
Cdr. (retd)	08.05.1946
RAF:
F/O	14.07.1923
(Hon) F/Lt.	23.06.1924 (reld 28.09.1925)

CB	01.01.1964	New Year 1964
CBE	02.01.1956	New Year 1956
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-
MID	04.05.1943	for bravery in action against enemy aircraft & under fire Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 08.11.1942)
RHSBr	1920	Constantinople, Bosphorus 02.07.1920 [case No. 45576]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (01.1912-08.1914).

08.1914	-	07.10.1914	sick (24.09.1914 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke], 21.11.1914-29.01.1915 admitted Haulbowline Hospital with acute rheumatism)
07.10.1914	-	05.12.1917	HMS Benbow (battleship) (Battle of Jutland 05/06.1916)
05.12.1917	-	16.08.1918	HMS Verbena (sloop)
16.08.1918	-	01.09.1918	HMS Gloucester (light cruiser)
01.09.1918	-	31.01.1919	HMS Weymouth (light cruiser)
31.01.1919	-	27.08.1919	Admiralty [HMS President] (for courses at Cambridge University)
27.08.1919	-	12.09.1920	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
12.09.1920	-	27.12.1920	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for gunnery course for rank of Lt. & from 10.01.1921-22.01.1921 for Torpedo Countermeasures Course in HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth))
27.12.1920	-	10.01.1921	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
10.01.1921	-	22.01.1921	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for Torpedo Countermeasures Course in HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth))
22.01.1921	-	06.03.1921	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
06.03.1921	-	23.08.1922	HMS Watchman (torpedo-boat destroyer)
26.08.1922	-	10.11.1922	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
14.07.1923	-	28.09.1925	commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
14.07.1923	-	06.1924	No. 2 Flying Training School (Duxford)
14.07.1924	-	09.1924	No. 19 Squadron RAF (Duxford)
09.1924	-	10.1924	Armament and Gunnery School, RAF Eastchurch
01.1925	-	08.1925	No 1 (Fighter) Squadron RAF (Iraq)
28.09.1938	-	29.09.1938	mobilised for a day during the Munich crisis (RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke])
23.08.1939	-	29.12.1941	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (commanded motor boat "Golden Lily" at the Dunkirk evacuation 06.1940)
29.12.1941	-	19.04.1942	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
19.04.1942	-	29.04.1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (despatches)

Appointed a Clerk in the House of Lords, 16.11.1925 (interrupted by war service 1939-1944). Principal Clerk of Public Bills, 1950-1959 (CBE). ReadingClerk and Clerk of the Journals, 1959-1961. Clerk-Assistant of the Parliaments, House of Lords, 1961-1963, retired (CB). Trustee, Attlee Memorial Foundation, 1969.

Burton,
Arthur
A. Burton (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard J. Taylor)

19.05.1889
Atherstone, Warwickshire
-
26.10.1976

Seaman	? [234040]
...	...
Cd.Gnr.	13.07.1927 (retd 19.05.1939)
Lt. (retd)	19.05.1939 (reactivated 15.08.1939) (for dispersal 18.07.1945) (reverted to retd 12.09.1945)

DSM	17.05.1918	Mediterranean
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
DefM	-	-
BWM 39\|45	-	-

12.01.1918			commissioned RN
...	-	...	...
15.08.1939	-	25.08.1939	HMS President (additional; for duty with the Admiral Superintendent Contract-Built Ships at Sunderland)
26.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
20.08.1941	-	09.1943	HMS Iron Duke (RN base ship, Scapa Flow)
06.09.1943			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for 'island duties')
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
09.11.1943	-	07.07.1945	HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) (as armament stores depot officer)

Bush,
Eric Wheler
E.W. Bush

Younger son of late Rev. Herbert Wheler Bush (1861-1927), Chaplain to the Forces, and Edith Cornelia Cardew (1865?-1934).
Married (20.05.1938, Holy Trinity Church, Cannes) Mollie Noël Watts (25.12.1905 - 09.2000), only child of Col. Brian Watts, DSO, RAMC (1872-1948), and Lily Thomassen; two sons.

12.08.1899
Simla, India
-
17.06.1985
Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Midsh.	02.08.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.07.1917
S.Lt.	15.03.1918
Lt.	15.03.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1928
Cdr.	30.06.1933
Capt.	30.06.1939 (retd 10.07.1948)

DSO	16.08.1940	Dunkirk 06.1940 [investiture 01.04.1941]
DSO	08.09.1942	Malta convoy 22.03.1942 [investiture 26.03.1946]
DSO	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 16.03.1946]
DSC	14.03.1916	Gallipoli 04.1915
Comdn	16.08.1915	Gallipoli 04.1915
Comdn	14.03.1916	Gallipoli 04.1915
MID	10.07.1945	operations Arakan coast 11.1944-03.1945
MID	20.11.1945	assault Rangoon 05.1945
LoA	1940?	air attacks Aux. Patrol Dover

* For services performed under shell fire on the beaches and in steamboats off the beaches.

Education: Stoke House, Stoke Poges; RN Colleges, Osborne (10.05.1912-...) & Dartmouth (...-01.08.1914).

05.1912			entered RN
01.08.1914	-	03.1916	Midshipman, HMS Bacchante (present at Battle of Heligoland Bight, 28 August 1914; took part in defence of Suez Canal Jan-Mar 1915; served at Gallipoli, 1915)
03.1916			Midshipman, HMS Revenge (served in North Sea, present at Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916)
15.01.1919	-	(01.1919)	HMS President (for Cambridge University)
1921	-	1924	served in East Indies and East Africa:
27.01.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Colombo (light cruiser) [01.1924 qualified as interpreter in Hindustani]
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
05.01.1925	-	31.08.1926	HMS Thunderer (battleship, Reserve Fleet) (additional; for duty with special entry cadets)
01.09.1926	-	1926	HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship) (additional; for duty with special entry cadets)
17.12.1926	-	(06.)1928	First Lieutenant, HMS Veteran (destroyer) (China)
11.12.1928	-	(08.)1929	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
21.10.1929	-	(10.1930)	HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties)
13.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.02.1932	-	(06.)1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Ladybird (river gunboat) (China)
07.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Cornflower (sloop) (China)
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
13.08.1934	-	12.10.1934	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth
15.10.1934	-	10.09.1936	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
27.10.1936	-	(04.)1939	Executive Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
10.05.1939	-	(07.)1939	Executive Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies)
31.08.1939	-	22.10.1939	HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
23.10.1939	-	01.11.1939	HMS President (additional; for special service inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 1 month)
02.11.1939	-	28.01.1940	Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer-in-Charge, Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional)]
29.01.1940	-	30.08.1940	Captain Auxiliary Patrol, Dover Command [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional)]
31.08.1940	-	17.03.1941	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (temporary)
31.03.1941	-	19.09.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Euryalus (cruiser) & from 27.05.1943 as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral Force "V" (Mediterranean) (took part in Malta Convoys, 1942, and Battle of Sirte, 1942)
01.11.1943	-	10.07.1944	HMS Odyssey (additional; as Senior Officer Assault Group (SOAG) S3 [HMS Goathland] (Normandy, France)]
11.07.1944	-	20.09.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship)
21.09.1944	-	1945?	HMS Victory IV (additional; whilst unemployed)
1945?	-	1945	Chief of Staff, Naval Force 'W', South East Asia Command
11.1945	-	17.04.1948	Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (boys' training establishment, Shotley, Suffolk)

Secretary Sea Cadet Council, 1948-59. Gen. Manager, Red Ensign Club, Stepney, 1959-64. School Liaison BritishIndia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, 1965-71.
Publiished: How to become a Naval Officer (Special Entry) (1935); Bless our ship (1958); The flowers of the sea (editor) (1962); How to become a Naval Officer (Cadet Entry) (1963); Salute the soldier (editor) (1966); Gallipoli (1975).

Bush,
John Edward Scott
J.E.S. Bush

Son of Robert Edwin Bush (1855-1939), and Margery Scott.
Married Patricia Mary Marriott, of Rugby, Warwickshire.

02.04.1909
Bristol, Gloucestershire
-
23.05.1941
(KIA) [age 32]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 41, 1]

Midsh.	01.09.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1931
S.Lt.	13.04.1932, seniority 01.12.1930
Lt.	01.04.1933
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1941

MID

08.01.1942

withdrawal from Crete

Education: Clifton College (1922-1927).

01.09.1928	-	17.05.1929	Midshipman, HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
17.05.1929	-	(08.1929)	Midshipman, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.03.1930	-	(04.1930)	Midshipman, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
17.08.1931	-	(01.1932)	promotion course, Portsmouth
07.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Walker (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
18.10.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Brazen (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(07.1935)	-	(02.1937)	no appointment listed
10.05.1937	-	(10.1938)	HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
(02.1939)			no appointment listed
15.03.1939	-	23.05.1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Kipling (destroyer)

Bush,
[Sir] John Fitzroy Duyland
J.F.D. Bush

Son of late Fitzroy Bush, Beach, Glos.
Married (1938) Ruth Kennedy Horsey; three sons, two daughters.

01.11.1914
-
10.05.2013

Cadet	01.01.1933
Midsh.	01.01.1934
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1936
S.Lt.	04.10.1937, seniority 01.03.1936
Lt.	01.04.1937 > 02.1941, seniority 01.04.1936
A/Lt.Cdr.	1942/43?
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1944
Cdr.	31.12.1946
A/Capt.	?
Capt.	30.06.1952
R.Adm.	07.01.1961
V.Adm.	26.11.1963
Adm.	20.08.1968 (retd 04.04.1970)

GCB	01.01.1970	New Year 1970
KCB	12.06.1965	HM's birthday 1965
CB	01.01.1963	New Year 1963
DSC	05.08.1941	sinking Italian convoy escorts 16.01.1941
DSC	08.01.1942	withdrawal from Crete
DSC	04.04.1944	Aegean operations 09-11.1943
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944

Education: Clifton College

01.01.1933			joined RN
27.11.1934	-	(02.1936)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
04.01.1937	-	(07.)1937	promotion course, Portsmouth
11.08.1937	-	(08.)1938	HMS Stronghold (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
07.09.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
06.12.1938	-	(02.1941)	HMS Nubian (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
02.02.1942	-	1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Belvoir (destroyer)
02.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	Gunnery & Torpedo Officer, HMS Excalibur
1944	-	(01.1945?)	Commanding Officer, HMS Zephyr (destroyer)
19.01.1945	-	(04.)1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Chevron (destroyer)
02.06.1947	-	(07.)1948	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
1949			Armed Forces Staff College, USA
22.04.1950	-	(05.)1950	Commanding Officer, HMS Sluys
1950	-	1951	Commanding Officer, HMS Cadiz
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
11.05.1953	-	(04.)1955	Secretary to the Joint Planning Staff
08.11.1955	-	(01.)1956	Commanding Officer, HMS Undine (frigate) & Captain (F) 6th Frigate Squadron
1957	-	1959	Commodore, RN Barracks, Chatham
1959	-	1960	Director of Plans, Admiralty
05.04.1961	-	1962	Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] & Commander, South-Eastern Mediterranean, NATO
31.01.1963	-	1965	Commander, British Navy Staff and Naval Attache, Washington DC, USA & UK National Liaison Representative to SACLANT [HMS Saker]
1965	-	1967	Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Ministry of Defence
10.1967	-	27.02.1970	Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet, and Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO))

Rear-Admiral of the UK, 1976-1979. Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty, 1979-1984.
Director, Gordon A. Friesen International Inc., Washington, DC, 1970-1973. Admiral, Texas (USA) Navy. Governor, Clifton College, 1973- (Chairman Council, 1978-1981; President, 1982-1987). President, Old Cliftonians Society, 1967-1969; Vice-President, Eighth Army Veterans Association, 1984-. Member, East Hants District Council, 1974-1976.

Bush,
Philip Robert Whittington
P.R.W. Bush

17.02.1925
-
30.10.1993

Midsh.	?
...	...
S.Lt. (E)	16.12.1943
...	...
Lt.Cdr. (E)	16.12.1953 (retd)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.09.1938-1942; Admiralty No. 3).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Buss,
Stuart Austen
S.A. Buss

Son of George and Clare Evelyn Buss.
Husband of Sylvia Storrs Buss, of Baslow, Derbyshire; ... children (one son?).

26.03.1900
Littlebourne, Bridge district, Kent
-
13.11.1943
(KIA) [age 43]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 78, column 1]

Lt.	15.08.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1930
Cdr.	31.12.1940

MVO	11.08.1935	?
DSC	01.01.1944	New Year 1944 [investiture next-of-kin 13.06.1944]
MID	04.04.1944	Aegean operations bombed & sunk 13.11.1943

Education: Hailebury College (Bartle Frere, 1914-1918)

14.06.1918			entered RN
29.01.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS K 22 (submarine)
30.12.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)
31.12.1926	-	(06.1928)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
19.06.1929	-	(08.)1929	HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Chatham)
15.08.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Wallace (flotilla leader 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Atlantic Fleet)
15.09.1931	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
03.02.1933	-	(11.1934)	Commanding Officer, HMS Verity (destroyer) (China)
(02.1935)	-	(07.1935)	no appointment listed
09.01.1936	-	(07.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Foxhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
10.01.1938	-	(02.)1938	HMS Ambrose (depot ship; accommodation ship) (Rosyth)
15.03.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training duties)
31.07.1939	-	28.01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Electra (destroyer)
28.02.1941	-	14.01.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Punjabi (destroyer)
28.02.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
01.1943	-	13.11.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Dulverton (destroyer) (killed in action when sunk by German aircraft in Aegean)

Bussey,
Ernest Frank
E.F. Bussey

Son of Ernest Bussey (1883-1961), baker, and Edith Newman (1883-1937).
Married ((09?).1930, Fulham, London) Ena Nora Adams (07.04.1907 - 10.2000); one daughter.

06.04.1904
East Harling, Thetford, Norfolk
-
21.08.1983
Copnor, Portsmouth

...	...
A/Wt. Cook	17.08.1941
Wt. Cook = Wt. Cookery Offr.	1942?, seniority 17.08.1941
A/Cd. Cookery Offr.	17.08.1945
Cd. Cookery Offr.	01.04.1948
Sen. Cd. Cookery Offr.	11.09.1950 (retd 06.04.1954; age)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
LSGCM	16.10.1939	-

Baker. MCHI.

17.10.1924			joined RN as Assistant Cook [Po/M.38543]
...	-	...	...
06.01.1939			HMS Ramillies (Royal Sovereign class battleship)
(10.1941)	-	(04.)1942	no appointment listed
08.04.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Scotia (signals training establishment, Doonfoot, Ayr)
27.02.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
10.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship)
(04.1945)	-	(10.1945)	HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship) *
(04.1946)			HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship) *
10.04.1946			HMS King George V (King George V class battleship)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Butler-Bowdon,
Maurice Erdeswick
M.E. Butler-Bowdon

Married Anne Butler-Bowdon (1914-1999).

04.07.1910
-
14.06.1984
Chichester, Sussex

Midsh.	01.05.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1930
S.Lt.	16.05.1931
Lt.	16.07.1933
Lt.Cdr.	16.07.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1944
Capt.	31.12.1948 (retd 17.01.1958)

OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944

15.01.1924			entered RN
20.03.1929	-	(04.1930)	Midshipman, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
25.09.1930	-	(02.1931)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich
29.12.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
04.05.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)
19.11.1934	-	(07.1937)	Navigating Officer, HMS Wellington (sloop) (New Zealand)
17.01.1938	-	(02.1938)	First Class Ship Course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
19.03.1938	-	(04.1939)	HMS Dryad (HM Navigation School, Portsmouth)
05.06.1939	-	23.05.1941	Navigating Officer, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (sunk)
01.09.1941	-	(12.1943)	Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
01.07.1944	-	(04.1946)	staff, Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
30.06.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
15.01.1954	-	(01.1956)	Director of Navigation and Direction, Admiralty [HMS President]

Butt,
Ronald Day
R.D. Butt

Only son of Cdr. Francis Day Butt, RN, and Beryl Nicholas "Pippa" England, of Godalming.
Married (10.05.1947, Surrey South Western district) Joan Margaret St Clair-Morford, daughter of Maj.Gen. & Mrs A.C. St Clair-Morford, CBE, MC, RM, of Worplesdon.

03.08.1923
-
30.03.1995
Chichester district, Sussex

Midsh.	01.01.1941
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1942
S.Lt.	1943?, seniority 01.08.1942
Lt.	16.01.1944
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1952
Cdr.	31.12.1957
Capt.	31.12.1964 (retd 21.04.1975)

	CBE	01.01.1951	New Year 1951
	MID	08.12.1942	loss of ship 04.1942

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1937-12.1940).

01.01.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Neptune (cruiser)
24.08.1942	-	(12.1943)	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
10.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Javelin (destroyer)
23.08.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Corinthian (ocean boarding vessel)
(07.1945)			HMS Armada (destroyer) *
(04.1946)			HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Haverfordwest) *
05.1947	-	(07.1948)	Navigating/Directing Officer, HMS Nereide
21.02.1949	-	(05.)1950	HMS Mounts Bay
(05.1950)			HMS Dryad *
02.04.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Birmingham
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
14.12.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMS Gambia
(01.1957)			HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment, Portsdown) *
(01?).1958	-	?	Commanding Officer, HMS Chichester
(01.1959)			no appointment listed
14.03.1960	-	(07.1961)	Seaman Section, Personnel Panel, Manpower Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.08.1962	-	(02.1964)	Executive Officer, HMS Drake (parent ship, Devonport)
1965	-	1967	Commanding Officer, HMS Arethusa (frigate)
15.09.1967	-	(02.1969)	Commanding Officer, HMS Dryad (RN naval navigation and direction school, Southwick, nr Fareham, Hampshire)
27.04.1970	-	(08.1971)	Commanding Officer, HMS Blake (guided missile cruiser)
07.07.1973?	-	07.01.1974	also: RN ADC to the Queen

FBIM.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Butter,
Patrick
P. Butter

Son of A. Butter, banker.
Married (02.04.1921, Chapel Royal, Brighton) Svana Bull.

04.10.1889
Boatland, Perth, N.B., Canada
-
24.01.1949
Hammersmith district
(stomach cancer)

Cadet	15.05.1904
Midsh.	15.09.1905
S.Lt.	30.12.1908
Lt.	22.06.1911
Lt.Cdr.	22.06.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1924 (retd 14.10.1935)
Capt. (retd)	14.10.1935 (re-activated 17.05.1941) (dispersed 05.12.1945) (reld 30.01.1946) (reverted to red 31.01.1946)

14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	-
VM	-	-
JubM	1935	-

15.05.1904	-	15.09.1905	HMS Britannia (training ship)
15.09.1905	-	20.08.1907	HMS Hindustan (battleship)
20.08.1907	-	18.09.1907	HMS Hampshire (cruiser) (1st Cruiser Squadron)
18.09.1907	-	27.12.1918	HMS Glory (battleship) (Mediterranean)
17.06.1909	-	10.04.1910	HMS Express (torpedo-boat destroyer) (manoeuvres)
11.04.1910	-	01.05.1912	HMS Foam (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Orestes]
05.1912	-	20.04.1914	HMS Black Prince (cruiser) (3rd Cruiser Squadron)
05.05.1914	-	1915?	HMS Louis (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport), later HMS Dido (light cruiser)]
05.12.1915	-	30.01.1916	First Lieutenant, HMS Chelmer (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender at HMS Blenheim (cruiser)]
30.01.1916	-	14.03.1916	First Lieutenant, HMS Foxhound (torpedo-boat destroyer)
14.03.1916	-	15.08.1917	Commanding Officer, HMS TB 18 (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blenheim (cruiser)]
15.11.1917	-	1917	HMS Violent (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship)]
1917	-	07.01.1919	Commanding Officer, HMS Norseman (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship)]
27.01.1919	-	28.11.1919	Commanding Officer, HMS Ursa (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat destroyers depot ship), from 01.10.1919 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)]
28.11.1919	-	1919/20?	HMS Tyrian (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] (for duty with Captain Superintendent TBDS [7?])
1919/20?	-	1921?	Commanding Officer, HMS Tyrian (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)]
05.08.1921	-	13.11.1921	Commanding Officer, HMS Tourmaline (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender HMS Dido (light cruiser)] & for charge of group of Torpedo-Boat Destroyers in Reserve
13.11.1921	-	1922?	HMS Excellent (trawler & training establishment, Portsmouth) (additional; for observers' course)
10.07.1922	-	18.07.1922	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months)
18.07.1922	-	01.12.1922	probationary observer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
01.12.1922	-	15.12.1923	[probationary] observer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (additional) [qualified as Observer 15.12.1922]
15.12.1923	-	22.02.1924	observer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (additional)
22.02.1924	-	20.01.1925	HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and for observer duties)
02.02.1925	-	01.09.1925	HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (for observer duties) (temporary)
23.03.1925	-	01.09.1925	lent to HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) for HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (for observer duties during period of trials)
01.09.1925	-	01.09.1926	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) (for observer duties) (on re-commissioning)
19.01.1926	-	20.04.1926	lent on pilotage course at Calshot
01.09.1926	-	01.03.1927	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months)
18.10.1926	-	24.12.1926	Senior Officers' Technical Course (part 2) [HMS Victory]
01.03.1927	-	12.11.1927	Executive Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China)
12.11.1927	-	25.06.1928	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time, not exceeding 6 months) ??
25.06.1928	-	30.08.1928	Senior Officers' Technical Course (part 2) [HMS Victory]
30.08.1928	-	09.1928	Executive Officer, HMS Calliope (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
09.1928	-	01.1929	Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
01.1929	-	14.05.1929	Executive Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
14.05.1929	-	12.1929	Executive Officer, HMS Shakespeare (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
12.1929	-	19.03.1930	Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
12.04.1930	-	10.1931	HMS Magnolia (sloop) (China) (initially additional, then in command )
10.1931?	-	10.1932?	for unemployed time ?
17.10.1932	-	01.1933	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for technical course)
20.01.1933	-	01.1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Canterbury (cruiser) [tender to HMS Cambrian (cruiser)] (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
15.01.1934	-	08.04.1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) [tender to HMS Cardiff (cruiser)] (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
02.02.1939	-	05.1939?	Assistant Commandant, RAFVR Town [Centre?] (as Honoray Flight Lieutenant RAFVR, dated 23.02.1939)
late 1939			at liberty to engage in some kind of National Service as there was no suitable naval appointment available
1940	-	1941	employment with Fairmile Marine (boat builders)
17.05.1941	-	31.01.1946	no appointment listed:
17.05.1941	-	?	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty on Selection Board for "Y" Entry) ([Crowe??] Naval Centre)
?	-	1946?	HMS President (additional; NTT)

Butterworth,
William Shorrocks
"Peter"
W.S. Butterworth

Married Janet Brown, actress.

04.02.1919
Bramhall, Cheshire
-
16.01.1979
Coventry, Warwickshire
(heart attack)

A/S.Lt. (A)	04.07.1938
S.Lt. (A)	04.11.1939
Lt. (A)	28.03.1942, seniority 04.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

19.03.1946

for good services while prisoner of war

04.07.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport)
10.10.1938	-	(02.)1939	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
13.03.1939	-	(08.1939)	pilots' course at No. 23 Flying Training School, Rochester
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
01.04.1940	-	21.06.1940	pilot, 826 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)] * [attack on De Kooy air base, Den Helder, The Netherlands; shot down over Texel; captured]
21.06.1940	-	1945	prisoner of war (thee escape attempts)

* (02.1941) still listed as such
Post-war career as an actor, mainly known for his parts in the "Carry On" films.

Buttle,
Walter Edward Alexander
"Alec"
W.E.A. Buttle (Photo courtesy of Mrs Stella McCrickard)

Married Emily Kathleen Bell; one daughter.

29.07.1903
Southwark, London
-
01.03.1984
Haywards Heath, West Sussex

Seaman	? [J93808]
T/A/Boatsw.	21.08.1943
T/Boatsw. = T/Cd.Boatsw. *	1945/46?, seniority 21.08.1943 (retd 29.07.1953)

* change in title 05.04.1949

			Able Seaman, HMS Cairo
27.09.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Duke of Wellington (landing ship infantry (hand-hoisting)) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Brigand (tug) **
14.02.1948	-	25.11.1954	on loan to RAN:
14.02.1948	-	24.02.1948	HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to Australia by RAF plane)
25.02.1948	-	28.07.1949	HMA LST 3017 (landing ship, tank), 10.12.1948 renamed: HMAS Tarakan
07.1949	-	08.01.1951	HMAS Lonsdale (naval depot, Port Melbourne) (for duty as Naval Provost Marshal)
09.01.1951	-	23.09.1951	HMAS Labuan (temporarily)
24.09.1951	-	09.04.1952	HMAS Leeuwin (on paying off HMAS Labuan)
10.04.1952	-	07.1952	HMAS Koala (temporarily)
07.1952	-	01.1953	HMAS Leeuwin (naval depot, Freemantle)
01.1953	-	06.1953	HMAS Karangi (lent; for passage)
06.1953	-	04.01.1954	HMAS Lonsdale
05.01.1954	-	07.1954	HMAS Platypus
03.07.1954	-	25.11.1954	HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to UK & foreign service leave)

* RAN service record has rather different details: ***
09.1943-04.1944	HMS Valkyrie II (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) as Training Officer (Gunnery) for New Entry signalmen & telegraphists
04.1944-03.1945	HMS Royal Harold (Naval Officer-in-Charge, Kiel) for duty in German dockyards Kiel for repairs etc. to ships
04.1945-02.1947	hospital (17 months, following fractured leg in Germany)
?-?	HMS Ariel (electrical training establishment) as Lieutenant of Camp, general duties, discipline, maintenance, etc.

** indexed, but not listed as such
*** as HMS Royal Harold was not commissioned before May 1945 and service at HMS Duke of Wellington is left out, we must assume these details are incorrectly dated; not shown under HMS Ariel in Navy Lists of Apr 1947 & Oct 1947; his daughter doesn't recall any of these postings, however

Button,
Herbert James Brown
H.J.B. Button (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Mother's maiden name: Button.
Married ((03?).1940, Hastings district, Sussex) Florence Mary Nunn (died c. 2006 Australia), of Hastings, Sussex; no children. She remarried ((03?).1948, Hastings district, Sussex) Thomas Wilson (which marriage produced two children).

(06?).1915
Blything district, Suffolk
-
27.11.1942
(died of illness) [age 27]
[Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, 3.C.2]

A/Petty Officer	? [P/JX 135049]
A/Boatsw. (A/S)	17.03.1941

	DSM	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 07.10.1941]
	MID	13.04.1943	Operation Torch (North African landings 11.1942) [posthumously]

(1940)			HMS Antelope (destroyer) (DSM)
17.03.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)
			HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
01.04.1942	-	(10.)1942	HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
1942	-	27.11.1942	HMS Venomous (destroyer) (saved many survivors of the sinking of HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship), only to die himself a few weeks later from exertion) (despatches)

Button,
Maurice Jack
M.J. Button

Son of ... Button, and ... Davis.
Married ...; ... children.

(06?).1924
Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire
-
10.01.2012
Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent

Cadet	01.01.1942
Midsh. (E)	01.09.1942
A/S/Lt. (E)	01.05.1944
S/Lt. (E)	23.10.1944, seniority 01.10.1943
A/Lt. (E)	01.02.1945
Lt. (E)	25.06.1946, seniority 01.04.1945
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.04.1953
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1957
Capt. (E)	31.12.1965 (retd 07.01.1975)

(02.1942)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed
31.12.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Kent (cruiser)
(06.1944)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
01.01.1946	-	(04.)1947	HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
...	-	...	....
27.02.1967	-	(02.)1969	Officer-in-Charge, Naval Air Technical Evaluation Centre [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
27.11.1969	-	(08.1971)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (RN Junior Training Establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk)
...	-	...	....

Buxton,
Gerard St John Roden
G.St.J.R. Buxton

Younger son of Capt. R.H.V. Buxton, CBE, RN, and Mrs Buxton, of Romsey, Hampshire.
Married (16.12.1954, Holy Trinity, Brompton) Judith Averill Campbell, eldest daughter of the Hon. Angus Campbell, CBE, and Mrs Campbell, of Nantwich, Cheshire; two daughters, one son.

28.09.1927
London
-
25.02.2008
[Kinghorn, by Kirkcaldy, Fife?]

Midsh.	01.01.1945
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	16.05.1957 (retd)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Drake House; 01.05.1941-1944; Admiralty No. 299).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			HMS Anson *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Buzzard,
[Sir] Anthony Wass;
2nd Baronet (1929)

Elder son of Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Bt, KCVO (1871-1945), and May Bliss (1875-1951).
Succeeded father, 17.12.1945.
Married (02.04.1932) Margaret Elfreda Knapp (16.04.1905 - 07.1989), only daughter of late Sir Arthur Rowland Knapp, KCIE, CSI, CBE (1870-1954), and Florence Annie Moore (1872-1964); two sons, one daughter.

28.04.1902
Derbyshire
-
10.03.1972
West Clandon, Surrey

Midsh.	1916?
S.Lt.	30.08.1922
Lt.	30.09.1923
Lt.Cdr.	30.09.1931
Cdr.	30.06.1935
Capt.	31.12.1941
R.Adm.	08.01.1951 (retd 1954)

CB	01.01.1953	New Year 1953 [investiture 10.02.1953]
DSO	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 12.05.1942]
OBE	14.10.1941	sinking of the Bismarck [investiture 12.05.1942]
MID	29.04.1941	Operation Grog (bombardment of Genoa 06.02.1941) (good services directing)

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.01.1916			joined RN
1919			HMS Iron Duke
...	-	...	...
10.01.1940	-	09.04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Gurkha (destroyer) (sunk) (DSO)
29.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	Staff Officer (Plans), Force H [HMS Renown] (OBE, despatches)
07.1941	-	(12.1941)	Executive Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship)
03.02.1942	-	(06.)1944	Assistant Director, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] and member of Joint Planning Committee, War Cabinet
01.11.1944	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Glory (aircraft carrier) (British Pacific Fleet operations against Japanese)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...
03.01.1948	-	(05.1949)	Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
04.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Superb
31.08.1951	-	01.07.1954	Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB)

With International Department, British Council of Churches. Founder member of Institute of Strategic Studies; founder member of Council of Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament; Chairman of British Council of Churches Committee on Middle East 1967.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Byas,
Cyril William
C.W. Byas

23.06.1902
Richmond, Surrey
-
19.06.1958

A/S.Lt.	15.01.1922
S.Lt.	15.08.1923, seniority 15.09.1922
Lt.	15.04.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1932
Cdr.	31.12.1936
A/Capt.	> 08.1942, < 02.1943
Capt.	30.06.1943 (retd 31.12.1950)
RAF:
(T) F/O	27.04.1925
(T) F/Lt.	01.01.1933
(T) Sq.Ldr.	09.08.1937, seniority 01.07.1935
(T) W/Cdr.	01.09.1938

	CBE	01.01.1951	New Year 1951
	MID	08.12.1942	loss of ship 04.1942

15.01.1916			entered RN
29.07.1923	-	(08.1923)	submarine course, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
27.04.1925	-	16.11.1925	? [attached to RAF]
16.11.1925	-	(05.)1926	pilot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
1926	-	13.12.1926	? [attached to RAF]
13.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Victory (for Fleet Air Arm; miscellaneous flights) [attached to RAF]
08.04.1929	-	(08.)1929	Flight Commander, No. 402 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]
16.08.1929	-	14.08.1931	Flight Commander, No. 402 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]
24.11.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
21.06.1933	-	(01.)1934	Squadron Commander, Fighter Squadron 802, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]
12.1934	-	04.05.1937	Squadron Commander, Fighter Squadron 803, FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF]
(07.1937)			no appointment listed
09.08.1937	-	(04.)1939	Air Staff Duties at HQ Coastal Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] [attached to RAF]
24.05.1939	-	(04.1940)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
?	-	05.04.1942	Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (sunk by Japanese aircraft off Ceylon; wounded in action)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
29.09.1942	-	08.05.1943	Assistant Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
08.05.1943	-	(07.1945)	Director of Naval Air Organisation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.02.1946	-	10.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier)
07.1947	-	(08.)1948	HMS President
15.12.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services): DCNR(A) & DQDP [= Deputy Chief of Naval Recruiting (Air) ?? & ... ??]

Byfield,
John Bertram Sidney Houghton
J.B.S.H. Byfield

25.09.1927
-
13.05.2007

...	...
Midsh. (E)	01.09.1945
...	...
Lt. (E)	01.01.1949 (retd 02.10.1951; incapacity)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

01.01.1945			direct entry cadet
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Byrne,
Edward Francis
E.F. Byrne

Son of George Edward C. Byrne, and Alice Werring.
Married; ... children (one son?).

11.02.1920
Tavistock district, Conrwall / Devon
-
03.02.1980
Plymouth district, Hampshire

Gnr.	01.07.1942
A/Cd.Gnr.	18.06.1945
Sen.Cd.Gnr.	01.04.1949
Lt.	24.03.1947
Lt.Cdr.	24.03.1955 (retd 1959/60?)

(1942)			Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO)
24.05.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Cotswold (destroyer)
(07.1945)			HMS Cotswold (destroyer) *
01.12.1945	-	(04.)1947	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
08.08.1947	-	(07.1948)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
28.03.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)
16.06.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Venus (frigate)
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
10.08.1954	-	(04.)1955	First Lieutenant, HMS Samsonia (rescue tug)
17.10.1955	-	(01.)1957	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
13.11.1957	-	(01.1959)	First Lieutenant, HMS Chaser (ex-LST 3029; landing ship, tank)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Byrne,
Robin Henry Edwin
R.H.E. Byrne

Only son of Ernest and Betty Byrne.
Married Nola ...; one son, two daughters.

03.12.1926
-
05.01.2016
Australia

Midsh.	01.05.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1955 (retd)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.09.1940-1944; Admiralty No. 238).

...	-	...	...
15.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Berwick
...	-	...	...

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