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Ward, Basil Chrystie Son of ... Ward, and ... Ward (née Underwood). Married; at least one son.	06.06.1915 Tendring district, Essex - 04.06.1972 St Marylebone district, London	Cadet 01.09.1932 Midsh. 01.05.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1935 S.Lt. 16.03.1936 Lt. 30.08.1938, seniority 16.02.1938 < 04.1940, seniority 01.02.1938 < 04.1944, seniority 01.08.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. 26.05.1944? [acting rank] A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 [appointed rank] Lt.Cdr. 09.02.1946, seniority 01.08.1945 A/Cdr. ? Cdr. 30.06.1951 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 28.07.1958) DSC 01.01.1940 New Year 1940 [investiture 07.05.1940] DSC 28.12.1943 services in Dover Command [award posted] MID 31.03.1942 attack battlecruiser Nore 12.02.1942 MID 01.01.1945 New Year 1945	27.08.1932 - 28.03.1935 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet & Africa) 29.03.1935 - 25.09.1935 HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 26.09.1935 - 15.11.1936 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] & promotion course, Portsmouth 16.11.1936 - 22.12.1936 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 23.12.1936 - 09.04.1937 third hand, HMS Stoke (minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 10.04.1937 - 08.09.1939 third hand, HMS Duncan (flotilla leader) (China) 09.09.1939 - 13.08.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Woolston (destroyer) 14.08.1941 - 15.12.1942 HMS Mackay (destroyer) 16.12.1942 - 12.01.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 243 (motor torpedo boat) (24th MTB Flotilla) 13.01.1943 - 03.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 25 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)], also: (08.)1943 - (10.)1943 Senior Officer, 5th MTB Flotilla (10.)1943 - 03.01.1944 Senior Officer, HM MTBs Dover 04.01.1944 - 25.05.1944 HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Holeyhead) 26.05.1944 - 11.12.1944 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTBs and MLs) 12.12.1944 - 28.10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Croome (destroyer) 29.10.1945 - 28.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Belvoir (destroyer) (04.1946) no appointment listed 21.06.1946 - 22.05.1949 HMS Royal Albert (RN base, Berlin/Hamburg) 23.05.1949 - 12.01.1950 HMS President (Admiralty) 13.01.1950 - 10.01.1951 HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 11.01.1951 - 01.04.1953? HMS President (Admiralty) 02.04.1953 - 30.01.1955? Commanding Officer, HMS St Austell Bay (frigate) 31.01.1955 - 17.03.1957? HMS President (Admiralty) (for miscellaneous services) 18.03.1957 - 28.07.1958? HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)
Ward, George Story Son (with one sister) of James Ward (1888-), and Mary Jane Sinclair (1888-). Married ((12?).1936, Plymouth district, Devonshire) Evelyn D. Gale ((03?).1914 - 11.05.2011), daughter (with tow sisters) of Frederick Thomas James Gale (1885-1965), and Lily Martha Sharp (1885-1982); one son, one daughter.	17.01.1910 Carlisle, Cumberland - 12.09.2002 Mendip, Somerset	S.Lt. 01.12.1932 Lt. 01.12.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1943 (retd 17.01.1955; age)	... - ... ... 28.10.1938 - (05.)1939 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (06.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 09.10.1939 - (12.1943) High Angle Gunnery Range, Wembury [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 17.01.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Manatee (landing craft base, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight) 20.11.1944 - (07.)1946 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (10.1946)     no appointment listed 02.12.1946 - (04.1947) Naval Provost Marshal, London [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Ward, Sir Melvill Willis; Baronet, of Wilbraham Place (1914) Second son (with one brother) of Col. Sir Edward Willis Duncan Ward, 1st Bt (1853-1928), and Florence Caroline Simons (1859?-1934). Succeeded brother, 1930. Married 1st ((12?).1907, Westminster district, London; marriage dissolved 1944) Alice Sophia Cobbett (?-1962), daughter of William Cobbett. Married 2nd ((09?).1944, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Helene Glorney Guggenheim (died 1962), daughter of Isaac Guggenheim. Married 3rd ((12?).1965, Westminster district, London) Mrs Margaret Mary Risley, widow of Capt. Ralph Risley, USN (author of House of Healing, 1962).	25.05.1885 Woolwich district, London - 29.08.1973 Rockport, Massachusetts, USA	A/S.Lt. 30.07.1904 S.Lt. 25.11.1905, seniority 30.07.1904 (retd 19.10.1906) Lt. (emgcy) 07.08.1914 Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 30.07.1915 DSC 20.02.1919 Palestine 1917 MID 14.09.1918 Dardanelles 01.1918 BWM 14|20 - - VM -	15.01.1900     entered RN 1914 - 1919 Rejoined Royal Navy on outbreak of war; posted as Lieutenant to Royal Naval College, Keyham; Commissioned HMS Raglan, 3rd June, 1915; proceeded to Mediterranean; served during operations at Gallipoli, including evacuation of Helles; 1st Lieutenant HMS Raglan; operations in Gulf of Smyrna; operations in connection with Salonica Force; took part in fight with Breslau and Goeben; was in command of HMS Raglan during most of the fight, in consequence of Captain Viscount Broome being injured. When the HMS Raglan was sunk by a torpedo off Gallipoli, swam ashore, a distance of three-quarters of a mile, although wounded in the leg. Appointed Lieut. -Commander; 1st Lieutenant HMS Arrogant, Dover 23.08.1939 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, St Budeaux) (04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
Ward, Peter Ronald	27.01.1910 [Alverstoke district, Hampshire ?] - 15.02.1997 Winchester, Hampshire	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 01.01.1931 Lt. 01.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1940 A/Cdr. 06.1945? Cdr. 30.06.1947 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 27.01.1960)	30.04.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 15.03.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies) (04.1930) no appointment listed 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.09.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (09.1932) no appointment listed 05.09.1932     joined submarine service 29.12.1932 - (06.)1933 for duty with "M" Group of submarines in reserve at Portsmouth [HMS L 14, L 17, L 25 & L 8] [tenders to HMS Pigmy] 01.09.1933 - (11.1934) HMS L 19 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Mackay] 02.01.1935 - 06.11.1936 First Lieutenant, HMS L 23 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia, from 10.06.1936 HMS Titania] 06.11.1936 - 12.04.1937 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China)  (as spare First Lieutenant for submarines) 12.04.1937 - (10.1938) First Lieutenant, HMS Phoenix (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 24.04.1939 - 13.07.1939 submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course [HMS Dolphin] 13.07.1939 - 09.1939 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (6th Submarine Flotilla) (spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 09.1939 - 26.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 26.01.1940 - 16.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 16.04.1940 - 09.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Oberon (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 09.05.1940 - 17.08.1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 17.08.1940 - 07.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Usk (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin, from 12.12.1940 to HMS Medway] 07.03.1941 - 22.04.1941 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines)  1941 - 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ursula (submarine) 22.04.1941 - 08.08.1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) 08.08.1941 - 20.08.1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Rothesay) (as Staff Officer (Operations) and for duty with submarines) 20.08.1942 - 09.1943 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanoc (destroyer) 17.04.1945 - 06.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) 06.1945 - (10.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Attacker (escort carrier) 21.02.1946 - (04.1947) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 12.01.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) (borne for duty in HMS Royalist) 05.02.1949 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Tintagel Castle (corvette) (05.1950) no appointment listed 04.1952 - (07.)1954 Executive Officer, HMS Howard (RN depot, Ottawa, Ont., Canada) 08.11.1954 - (01.1956) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1957) no appointment listed 04.02.1957 - (01.1959) Staff Officer (Logistics), Naval Forces Central Europe, NATO (Fontainebleau, France)
Ward, Samuel	14.06.1882 - 12.05.1952 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Boatsw. 03.04.1915 (retd) Cd.Boatsw. (retd) 04.03.1942 Lt. (retd) 25.09.1945	01.12.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
Wardle, Harry   Married (1944) Edna (née...); one son.	26.10.1918 - 01.09.2007	Boy 2nd cl. 12.02.1935 A/Gnr. (T) 15.11.1943 Gnr. (T) 1944?, seniority 15.11.1943 Lt. 1949, seniority 08.08.1946 Lt.Cdr. 08.08.1954 (retd 29.10.1958) Lt.Cdr. RNR 27.10.1959, seniority 26.03.1955 (reverted to RN retd 26.10.1968) RD 12.08.1966 -	Education: school, Liverpool (...-1932) Co-op errand boy until made redundant on his 16th birthday. 12.02.1935     HMS Ganges 1935 - 1936 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet Plymouth and Gibraltar) 1936 - 1937 HMS Leander (cruiser) (Spanish Patrol (Spanish Civil War) 1937 - 1937 HMS Witch (destroyer) (Irish Patrol, Southern Ireland) 1937 - 1939 HMS Adventure (minelayer) (China Station general service (in Shanghai during Japanese bombing of city)) 1939 - 1939 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (educational training; candidate for rating pilot in Fleet Air Arm) 1939 - 1939 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (training in torpedoes and electrical work; rating pilot scheme cancelled with war likely) 1939 - 1940 HMS Griffin (destroyer) (1st Flotilla; operated in North Sea, Norwegian campaign and evacuation from France; then from 1940 Mediterranean: Battles of Taranto, Matapan, Tobruk, Malta, Greece and Crete; then 1942 Eastern Fleet: General service in Indian Ocean; based at Trincomalee and later Mombasa; back in the Mediterranean for June 1942 convoy only) 1943 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (qualified as Torpedo Officer) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 03.02.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Inconstant (destroyer) (Russian convoy escort duties based at Gourock on the Clyde; then D-Day escorting invasion fleet; member of anti-submarine group escorting convoys or hunting U-boats in Channel waters; based at Gladstone Dock, Liverpool) 1945 - 1946 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) & HMS Deepwater (completion of diving training) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 25.10.1946 - 04.1948 Officer-in-Charge of the Plymouth Diving School [HMS Defiance (torpedo and electrical school, Devonport)] (1947 HMS Deepwater, RN diving school - time out to qualify in deep diving) 11.04.1948 - (05.)1950 HMS Reclaim, deep diving vessel (Senior Diving Officer under Cdr Bill Shelford (CO and Superintendent of Diving).; set new world deep diving record of 535 feet (PO Wilfred Bollard)) 1950 Navigating Officer, HMS Mediator (fleet tug) 1951 - 1951 HMS Reclaim (deep diving vessel) (First Lieutenant during search for sunken submarine HMS Affray, lost with all hands) 17.12.1951 - 1954 Senior Diving Officer of the principal RN Diving School [HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth)] (qualified in Clearance Diving) 18.01.1954 - (01.)1956 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (Fleet Clearance Diving Officer for the Far East Station covering Singapore, Malaya and Hong Kong) 1956 - 1958 HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth) (Deputy Superintendent of Diving)  27.10.1959 - 26.10.1968 Royal Naval Reserve (Unattached List (Solent Division)) Successful second career in civil engineering and commercial diving. Published: Forecastle to quarterdeck (1994); Dive navy (2002)
Wareham, Paul	09.12.1923 - 23.11.1976 Kensington, London	Midsh. 01.05.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1943 S.Lt. 16.04.1943 Lt. 16.12.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1952 (retd 01.09.1962; own request)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.09.1937-...; Blake House; Admiralty No. 1864). (06.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed (12.1941)     HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) * (02.1942)     no appointment listed 02.03.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (02.1943) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 15.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) (08.1943) - (02.1944) HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) * 03.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Whelp (W class destroyer) 25.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Nerissa (N class destroyer) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Waring, Alfred Noel Son of Alfred John and Katherine Waring. Husband of Edna Blanche Waring, of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire.	20.11.1902 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - 17.07.1942 [age 39] [Hawarden Cemetery, 4G.16]	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1923 S.Lt. 18.12.1924, seniority 15.03.1924 Lt. 15.03.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1934 (retd 13.08.1935; own request)	(08.1923)     no appointment listed 18.12.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Velox (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 20.03.1926 - (05.)1926 pilots' course, RAF Base, Leuchars 19.11.1926 - 06.1927 pilot, No. 444 Flight FAA [HMS Vindictive (cruiser)] (China) 06.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 24.02.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 24.06.1931 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Caterham (twin-screw minesweeper) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dryad] 20.07.1933 - (07.1934) HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 01.03.1939 - (08.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Saltburn (twin-screw minesweeper; signal and navigation schools' sloop) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 12.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn) 21.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney) 20.02.1942 - 17.07.1942 HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (air crash)
Warne, Robert Spencer Son of E.S. Warne, London. Married (1925) Dorothy Hadwen Wheelwright (died 1976); three sons.	26.06.1903 Kensington district, London - 15.08.1990 Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex	... ... Cdr. 31.12.1936 Capt. 31.12.1941 R.Adm. 07.07.1951 (retd 15.04.1955) CB 01.01.1953 New Year 1953 [investiture 10.02.1953] CB 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 [investiture 29.07.1947]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 1925     joined submarine Branch ... - ... ... (04.1940)     HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) * 17.11.1940 - (12.1941) Staff Officer (Operations) to Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 10.01.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) 29.04.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) & as Captain (S) 3rd Submarine Flotilla (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 1951 - 1953 Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel, Admiralty 1953 - 1955 Flag Officer, Germany and Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission * indexed, but not listed as such
Warner, Gerald Harman Son of Charles Edward Warner (1865-1937), and Ethel Constantina Catherine Cornfoot (c. 1868-?). Married 1st Vere Chamberlain. Married 2nd Catharine Beatrice Sharp.	15.01.1893 Tonbridge district, Kent - 08.04.1979 Tonbridge district, Kent	Lt. 15.03.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1924 Cdr. 30.06.1929 Capt. 31.12.1936 (retd 02.01.1946) DSC 17.07.1919 HMS Dublin Comdn 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland	15.01.1906     entered RN 18.11.1918 - (01.1919) Flag Lieutenant to Sir Charles Madden [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (1919)     HMS Dublin (destroyer) 15.05.1922 - (01.)1925 Flag Lieutenant / Lieutenant-Commander to Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean & Assistant Fleet (S) Officer [HMS Iron Duke (battleship), later HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 23.06.1925 - (07.1927) staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 03.01.1928 - (06.1928) Executive Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (America and West Indies) (08.1929)     no appointment listed 05.12.1929 - (10.1930) Maintenance Commander, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (and for Physical and Recreational Training duties) 13.01.1931 - (01.)1932 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.04.1932 - (01.1934) Executive Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 13.09.1935 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) (02.1937) - (07.1937) no appointment listed 18.01.1938 - (10.1938) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 23.01.1939 - (02.)1939 tactical investigation, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 27.02.1939 - 20.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Tartar (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 21.09.1940 - (02.)1941 Director of Operations (Foreign), Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.08.1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM Signal School, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Mercury] 22.12.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Britannia & in charge of Royal Naval College, Eaton, Chester 05.07.1945 - 02.01.1946 also: Naval ADC to the King (04.1946)     HMS President * * indexed, but not listed as such
Warrand, Selwyn John Power Married; one son, one daughter.	06.02.1904 Kensington, London - 24.05.1941 (MPK) [age 37] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]	Midsh. 15.01.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1924 S.Lt. 07.01.1926, seniority 30.11.1924 Lt. 30.06.1926 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1934 A/Cdr. > 02.1941, < 04.1941	24.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Marlborough (battleship) 25.09.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 20.04.1926 - (05.1926) HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (02.1927)     no appointment listed 27.04.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Vansittart (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1929 - (08.)1929 long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 05.09.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 26.07.1930 - (09.1932) Navigating Officer, HMS Veronica (sloop) (New Zealand) 03.05.1933 - (06.)1933 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (temporary) 14.11.1933 - (01.)1934 Navigating Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Portsmouth) 02.02.1934 - (02.)1937 Navigating Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (07.1937)     no appointment listed 11.1937 - (02.)1938 Navigating Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (06.1938) no appointment listed 28.07.1938 - (09.1939) Navigating Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) 13.03.1940 - 24.05.1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [missing, presumed killed when HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Warren, George Henry Son of Samuel and Jessica Warren, husband of Ruby Warren.	25.03.1891 Poplar, London - 29.06.1947 [age 56] [Portsdown (Christ Church) Churchyard, Hampshire, E.R.1]	Gnr. 07.06.1917 Cd.Gnr. 07.06.1927 Lt. 30.06.1931 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1939 (retd 25.03.1941) MBE 02.01.1939 New Year 1939	01.07.1918 - (01.1919) HMS Torpedo Boat No. 14 (small torpedo boat, old destroyer type) 01.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Calypso (light cruiser) (for DF & I duty) 08.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for DF&I duties) 09.11.1926 - (08.1929) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) (for DF&I duties) [ship commissioned at 08.12.1927] 08.01.1930 - (04.)1930 HMS Kennet (fishery protection gunboat (trawler)) (10.1930) short course of instruction 14.10.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for DF duties) (01.1932) no appointment listed 20.04.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Mist (drifter) (Home Fleet) 16.02.1933 - (05.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS Dee (fishery protection gunboat (trawler)) 19.05.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS St Martin (tug) (Portsmouth) (07.1935) no appointment listed 13.01.1936 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Moy (trawler) (Mediterranean) 24.05.1937 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS St Fagan (tug) (Portsmouth) [sunk at Dunkirk after bomber attack] 05.11.1940 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Tedworth (minesweeper; RN deep diving vessel) * 07.1943 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Tedworth (minesweeper; RN deep diving vessel) * ? - 29.06.1947 HMS Resource (repair ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) * (02.1943) - (06.1943) indexed, but not listed as such
Warren, Guy Langton   Son of Frederic and Margaret Warren, of Liverpool. Married (15.06.1915, St George Hanover Square district, London) Kathleen May Peel, daughter of late Col. H.H. Peel, CBE; one son, one daughter.	13.02.1888 - 11.01.1961 Keyford, Yeovil, Somerset	... ... Lt. 30.06.1910 Cdr. 30.06.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1924 Capt. 30.06.1931 Cdre. 2nd cl. 28.04.1941 R.Adm. 08.07.1941 (retd 09?.07.1941) (dispersed 06.10.1947) (reverted to retd 09.01.1948) CB 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 1947 [investiture 04.11.1947] LM 08.10.1946 as Chief of Navy Sub-Section of Allied Commission Italy	15.01.1903     entered RN ... - ... ... 15.04.1919 - 04.09.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Verulam ... - ... ... 15.09.1938 - 19.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) & in charge of Boys' Training Establishment 22.06.1940 - 27.04.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (heavy cruiser) 15.01.1941 - 08.07.1941 also: Naval ADC to the King 28.04.1941 - 11.09.1941 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) (additional) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 12.09.1941 - 09.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Hollywood Hotel, Largs)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 10.12.1941 - 23.03.1943 Senior Officer Assault Ships & Craft [HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Hollywood Hotel, Largs)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 24.03.1943 - 18.08.1943 Senior Officer Assault Ships & Craft [HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs & RN Barracks and landing craft base, Port Glasgow)] (as R.Adm.) 19.08.1943 - 16.12.1943 Senior Officer Unallocated Landing Ships (SOLSU) [HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs & RN Barracks and landing craft base, Port Glasgow)] (as R.Adm.) 17.12.1943 - 01.10.1944 Flag Officer Unallocated Landing Ships (FOLSU) [HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs & RN Barracks and landing craft base, Port Glasgow)] (as R.Adm.) 02.10.1944 - 04.01.1945 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) 05.01.1945 - 18.01.1945 HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) (additional; as Senior British Naval Officer Rome on staff of FOTALI & for duty with Allied Control Commission) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 19.01.1945 - 18.02.1945 HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) (additional; as Senior British Naval Officer Rome on staff of FOTALI for liaison with Italians in Rome & for duty with Naval Sub Commission) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 19.02.1945 - 01.03.1946 Head of Naval Sub-Commission of the Allied Commission & as Senior British Naval Officer, Rome [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)] (as R.Adm.) (CB, LM) 01.03.1946 - 06.10.1947 Flag Officer Liaison, Italy & Head of Naval Sub-Commission of the Allied Commission & as Senior British Naval Officer, Rome [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)]
Warren, John Russell de Meza Son of Amos Henry Warren (1874-1943), and Lily Vaughan Russell (1876-1918). Married ((09?).1936, Bromley district, Kent) Barbara Joan Simmons (29.01.1910 - 11.1996), of Ashstead, Surrey; one daughter.	(03?.)1907 Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire - 16.04.1941 (KIA} [age 34] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]	Midsh. (E) 15.09.1926 S.Lt. (E) 18.02.1929, seniority 01.11.1928 A/Lt. (E) 07.08.1930 Lt. (E) 30.01.1931, seniority 01.04.1930 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.04.1938 MID 05.08.1941 sank Italian convoy escorts 16.04.1941	Education: Grammar School, Stamford (1921-1925). 15.09.1926 - (04.)1930 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 12.08.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 24.09.1931 - (09.1932) advanced course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.09.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) 01.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) 13.09.1935 - (07.)1937 staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 14.09.1937 - (09.1939) an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1940) no appointment listed (02.1941) no appointment listed 1941 - 16.04.1941 HMS Mohawk (destroyer) (torpedoed by Italian destroyer Tarigo & sunk by RN in central Mediterranean)
Washbourn, John Ernle Son of Henry Everley Arthur Washbourn (1875-1947), and Sydney Laing Sutherland (1877-1940), of Nelson, NZ. Brother of R.Adm. Richard Everley Washbourn, CB, DSO, OBE, RN. Married (20.09.1952, Devonport, Auckland) Marjorie Edith Finlay Gow (23.07.1920 - 31.01.2013); one daughter.	26.11.1918 Collingwood, Nelson, New Zealand - 22.10.2008 Auckland, New Zealand	Cadet 01.01.1937 Midsh. 01.01.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1940 S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 01.10.1939 Lt. 16.08.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1958 (retd < 02.1968) OBE 13.06.1959 HM's birthday 1959	Education: Nelson College, New Zealand (1928-1936); RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1937  - 31.12.1937 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) (under the Dominion Scheme) from New Zealand 01.01.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Amphion (cruiser) (Portsmouth) 08.02.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1940 - (04.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 04.09.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Danae (cruiser) (02.1941) - (08.1942) HMS Danae (cruiser) * 02.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for landing craft, infantry (large)) 18.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations training establishment, Troon) (for landing craft, infantry (large)) 1943 - (08.)1943 HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) 15.09.1943 - (04.1946) HMNZS Gambia (light cruiser) 11.1947     transferred RNZN 01.11.1947 - (05.)1949 HMNZS Philomel 10.08.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMNZS Pukaki 10.01.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Tui (07.1954)     no appointment listed (04.1955)     HMNZS Ngapona (RNZN Reserve Division, Auckland) * (01.1956)     lent to RN 17.04.1956 - (01.1957) HMNZS Royalist 07.08.1958 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Endeavour 20.06.1960 - (02.)1963 Drafting Commander, HMNZS Philomel 12.06.1963 - (02.1964) HMNZS Wakefield (for duty on staff of SEATO Military Planning Office, Bangkok) * indexed, but not listed as such Businessman (silk importer).
Washbourn, Richard Everley "Wash" Son of H.E.A. Washbourn, Nelson, NZ. Brother of Cdr. John Ernle Washbourn, OBE, RN. Married (1943) June Herapath, daughter of L.M. Herapath, Auckland, NZ; one son, one daughter.	14.02.1910 Sumner, Christchurch New Zealand - 08.08.1988 Onekaka, Nelson, New Zealand	Midsh. 01.01.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1931 S.Lt. 22.08.1932, seniority 01.01.1931 Lt. 19.06.1933, seniority 01.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1940 Cdr. 30.06.1944 Capt. 30.06.1950 R.Adm. 07.07.1959 (retd 15.11.1962) CB 31.12.1960 New Year 1961 [investiture 14.02.1961] DSO 23.02.1940 Battle of the River Plate 13.12.1939 * [decoration presented] OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MID 15.12.1942 action U-boat 06.1942 * Who, when early in the action several splinters struck the gun director tower, at once killing three men and wounding two others inside the tower, though wounded on the head by a splinter which half stunned him and killed the man behind him, continued to control the main armament with the utmost coolness.  He set a magnificent example to the rest of the Director Tower crew, who all stood to their posts and made light of the incident.  Thus the primary control kept working and secured throughout the action a high rate of hits on the enemy.	Education: Nelson College, New Zealand; RN College, Dartmouth. 1927     entered Royal Navy by Special Entry (under the Dominion Scheme) from New Zealand 1928     HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship & turret drill ship, Devonport) 05.02.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 30.04.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 1932 - 1932 promotion course, Portsmouth (09.1932)     no appointment listed 15.11.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet) 03.08.1933 - (02.)1936 HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) (08.1936)     no appointment listed 24.09.1936 - 03.01.1937 qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent 01.11.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 27.01.1939 - 1942 Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Achilles (cruiser) (06.1942)     on passage SS Waiwera (ship sunk) 29.07.1942 - 02.1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 02.1943 - (06.)1943 Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 23.08.1943 - (04.)1944 Gunnery Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) (06.1944)     HMNZS Gambia (cruiser) * (10.)1944 - (04.)1946 Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Gunnery Establishment, Teddington [under Naval Ordnance Department] 01.10.1946 - (07.)1948 Executive Officer, HMNZS Bellona (cruiser) 05.06.1948 - 1950 Commander/Captain Superintendent HMNZ Dockyard, Devonport, Auckland & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland [HMNZS Philomel] (05.1950)     no appointment listed 1950 - 1953 Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.1953 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman (minelayer) 30.09.1953 - (04.)1955 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Ranpura] (01.1956)     no appointment listed 26.03.1956 - 03.05.1958 Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1959)     no appointment listed 1959 - 1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Tiger (cruiser) 29.10.1959 - (01.)1960 Admiralty [HMS President] (for temporary duty with Second Sea Lord) 09.02.1960 - 1962 Director-General Weapons, Admiralty [HMS President] 1963 - (03.)1965 First Naval Member & Chief of Naval Staff, RNZN Literature: obituary in: The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004, p. 30-33). * indexed, but not listed as such
Washington, Basil George Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of Francis Palmer Washington (1843-1919), and Martha Eva Travers (1847-1924).	06.08.1877 Bedford, Bedfordshire - 25.08.1940 (MPK) [age 63] [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]	Midsh. 15.02.1895 A/S.Lt. 15.08.1898 S.Lt. 29.04.1899, seniority 15.08.1898 Lt. 31.12.1900 Cdr. 31.12.1913 Capt. 30.06.1919 R.Adm. 06.04.1931 (retd 07.04.1931) V.Adm. (retd) 01.01.1936 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 24.08.1939 CMG 27.05.1919 for valuable services as Senior Naval Officer, Caspian, during the latter part of 1918 [investiture 20.02.1920] DSO 11.11.1919 for distinguished services in command of "Windsor Castle" in action off Fort Alexandrovsk on the 21st May, 1919 [investiture 20.02.1920] MID 24.01.1919 Their Lordships' appreciation expressed for the zeal and energy displayed by him in the performance of duties in the Caspian under the most difficult conditions	15.01.1892 - 14.07.1894 HMS Britannia 15.07.1894 - 24.09.1894 HMS Victory 25.09.1894 - 30.09.1896 HMS Edgar 01.10.1896 - 07.10.1896 HMS Victory 08.10.1896 - 14.11.1897 HMS Blenheim 15.11.1897 - 15.08.1898 HMS Volage 08.1898? - 21.04.1899 promotion courses 18.05.1899 - 31.12.1900 HMS Pomone 31.12.1900 - 13.01.1901 HMS Pomone (additional; temporary) 01.02.1901 - 03.01.1902 HMS Magdala 22.05.1902 - 24.06.1903 HMS Mars 25.06.1903 - 08.09.1904 HMS Duke of Wellington (from 14.07.1904 HMS Kesfrid? (in command) (lent)) 09.09.1904 - 27.03.1905 HMS Implacable 28.03.1905 - 02.10.1905 HMS Ariel [tender to HMS Vulcan] 02.10.1905 - 29.07.1906 Commanding Officer, HMS Seal 30.07.1906 - 12.1908 Commanding Officer, HMS Banshee [tender to HMS Vulcan] 09.02.1909 - 26.03.1909 HMS President (for war course) 27.03.1909 - 18.01.1910 HMS Victory (for RN Barracks) 18.01.1910 - 19.03.1910 HMS Edgar (additional) 19.03.1910 - 29.03.1912 Commanding Officer, HMS Bramble 19.07.1912 - 03.1913 HMS Niobe 11.04.1913 - 31.12.1913 Commanding Officer, HMS Spanker [tender to HMS Halcyon] 31.12.1913 - 23.11.1914 HMS Powerful 24.11.1914 - 10.02.1916 HMS Bacchante 07.03.1916 - 13.07.1917 Admiralty [HMS President] (Admiralty War Staff Mobilisation Division, as 2nd Grade War Staff Officer) 14.07.1917 - 23.10.1917 HMS Euryalus (as Flag Commander to R.Adm. Gaunt) 23.10.1917 - 06.1918 HMS Northbrook (as Flag Commander, from 14.03.1918 as Flag Captain) 06.1918 - 12.1918 Commanding Officer, HMS Dufferin & as Flag Captain 14.12.1918 - (1919) HMS Theseus II (for Naval Expedition in Caspian) [HMS Windsor Castle] 23.02.1920 - 15.03.1920 HMS President (additional; for special service inside Admiralty) 15.03.1920 - 31.03.1922 HMS President (additional; as Naval Assistant to Fourth Sea Lord) 10.05.1922 - 01.05.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (light cruiser) 19.08.1924 - 31.08.1924 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional) 01.09.1924 - 01.09.1926 Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 11.10.1926 - 18.03.1927 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich 25.03.1927 - 13.05.1929 Captain-in-Charge of Naval Establishments, Simonstown [HMS Flora (gunboat; depot ship at Simonstown) 01.07.1929 - 02.08.1929 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 03.08.1929 - 15.09.1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) (10.1930)     no appointment listed (02.1931)     no appointment listed 20.02.1931 - 09.03.1931 HMS Victory (additional; for HMS Hood) 10.03.1931 - 27.04.1931 HMS Hood (in command on commissioning for trials) 17.02.1931 - 06.04.1931 also: Naval ADC to the King 24.08.1939 - 04.07.1940 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (additional; for convoy duties) 05.07.1940 - 25.08.1940 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for convoy duties) (missing, presumed killed while on passage steamship Harpalyce as Commodore of Convoy HX.65A, when the ship was torpedoed & sunk by U-124)
Watch, Harold Stanley Parsons	05.05.1903 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 15.02.1981 Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire	... ... Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1933 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1940 (retd 05.05.1953) A/Capt. (S) < 07.1945 OBE 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [investiture 09.03.1943]	... - ... ... 1939 - 1946 Secretary to V.Adm. / Adm. A.U. Willis in his different positions: 12.04.1939 - (02.)1941 Secretary to Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta), later HMS Warspite (battleship)] 08.1941 - (12.1941) Admiral's Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS Edinburgh Castle (depot ship)] 26.02.1942 - (02.)1943 Secretary to Vice-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command, Eastern Fleet [HMS Resolution (battleship)] (OBE) 03.1943 - (08.)1943 Secretary to Flag Officer Commanding Force H [HMS Nelson (battleship)] (10.1943)     no appointment listed 14.10.1943 - (12.1943) Admiral's Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] 08.03.1944 - 1946 Secretary to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Waterhouse, John Valentine	14.02.1911 Bucklow, Cheshire / Lancashire - 18.03.1984 Plymouth, Devon	Lt. 01.02.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1941 A/Cdr. < 08.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1944 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 10.06.1961) DSO 05.01.1943 ramming & sinking U-boat Western Approaches 14.10.1942 [investiture 28.09.1943] OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 1950: Antarctic cruise MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 NorWC 29.12.1942 services with Norwegian corvette flotilla	... - ... ... 12.10.1937 - (04.1940) HMS Arethusa (cruiser) (02.1941) HMS Latona (minelayer) * 09.12.1941 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Viscount (destroyer) (08.1943) HMS Egret (sloop) * 07.10.1943 - (12.1943) Training Commander, HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS) ? - (04.1944) HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS) 15.05.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Rochester (sloop) 09.02.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Katrine (frigate) 14.11.1945 - (04.1946) Japanese Movements Control, HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) 15.01.1948 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Sparrow (sloop) 14.07.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Waters, David Watkin Son of Lt. William Waters, RN, and Jessie Rhena Whitemore. Married ((09?).1946, Chicester district, Sussex) Hope Pritchard (22.01.1912 - 13.06.2009), widow of his brother Lt.Cdr. William Erskine Waters, DFC, RN (1910-1943), and daughter of William Ambrose Pritchard (1876-1941), and Amy Ada Frieda Bertha von Laer (1887-1915).	02.08.1911 St Germans, Cornwall - 28.11.2012 Christchurch, New Zealand	RAF:   (T) F/O 20.01.1935 (T) F/Lt. 01.07.1938 RN:   Cadet 01.05.1929 Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 01.01.1933 Lt. 01.10.1934 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1942 (retd 16.12.1950)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake Term, 1925-1928). 27.04.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.04.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1932 - 08.01.1933 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.01.1933 - (06.)1933 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.10.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Achilles (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 20.01.1935 - (07.1935) pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars [attached to RAF] 30.01.1936 - (01.)1937 pilot, S/R Squadron 821 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF] 18.01.1937 - (10.)1938 pilot, TSR Squadron 813 FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF] 21.12.1938 - (02.)1939 Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station, Gosport [attached to RAF] 27.02.1939 - (05.1939) pilot, TSR Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) [attached to RAF] (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 15.04.1940 - 13.08.1940 pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] (shot down in his aircraft and captured) 13.08.1940 - 1945 POW in German captivity 26.02.1946 - (05.1950) Historical Section, Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] Curator of navigation and astronomy & (deputy) director, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Published: The art of navigation in Elizabethan and early Stuart times (1958); The rutters of the sea : the sailing directions of Pierre Garcie : a study of the first English and French printed sailing directions, with facsimile reproductions (1967); The sea or mariner’s astrolabe (1966); The Saluki in history, art, and sport (with Hope Waters; 1969); The Iberian bases of the English art of navigation in the sixteenth century. In: Revista da Universidade de Coimbra (Vol. XXIV, 1970); The Elizabethan navy and the Armada of Spain (1975); Science and the techniques of navigation in the Renaissance (1976); English maritime books printed before 1801 : relating to ships, their construction and their operation at sea : including articles in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (with Thomas R. Adams; 1995); numerous articles.
Waters, Reginald Kitto	18.07.1904 Helston, Cornwall - 13.02.1972 Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey	... ... Paym.Lt. 12.10.1926 Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 12.10.1934 (retd 22.04.1937) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 01.01.1962 New Year 1962	... - ... ... 08.1930 - (01.)1932 Secretary to Chief Staff Officer of the Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) 20.07.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief Plymouth) 05.09.1933 - (07.1935) RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] (and as Assistant Port Librarian) (02.1936) no appointment listed (02.1937) no appointment listed (02.1941) - (07.1945) no appointment listed Senior Chief Executive Officer, Foreign Office.
Waters, William Erskine "Rick" Son of Lt. William Waters, RN, and Jessie Rhena Whitemore. Married (08.12.1934, London) Hope Pritchard (22.01.1912 - 13.06.2009), daughter of William Ambrose Pritchard (1876-1941), and Amy Ada Frieda Bertha von Laer (1887-1915); one daughter, one son. Hope Waters remarried (1946) her brother-in-law Lt.Cdr. David Watkin Waters, RN.	07.02.1910 St Germans district, Cornwall - 13.01.1943 [age 32] [Mombasa (Mbaraki) Cemetery, Kenya, Prot. Gen. Sec. grave 397]	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 16.01.1931 Lt. 16.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1940 DFC 08.04.1941 ? [investiture 09.08.1941] MID 21.10.1941 Operation EF	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 15.09.1923     entered RN ... - ... ... 24.05.1939 - 05.09.1940 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex) 06.09.1940 - 30.09.1940 812 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)] 01.10.1940 - 11.1941 Commanding Officer, 812 Squadron FAA [initially HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (DFC) [involved in minelaying and bombing operations in coastal areas of Holland, Belgium and France from RAF North Coates, Detling, Thorney Island and St Eval, as part of RAF Coastal Command, from 03.1941involved in Malta Convoys to Gibraltar, HMS Argus, 30.07.1941 led strike against German port of Petsamo, took part in further Malta convoys HMS Furious and HMS Ark Royal] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 24.01.1942 - 13.01.1943 HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) (despatches) [drowned whilst swimming by HMS Illustrious]
Watkins, Geoffrey Robert Sladen Son of Robert Arundel Watkins and Mary Etheldred Sladen. Married (17.11.1909) Phillis Mabel, daughter of Mortimer Rooke, The Ivy, Chippenham, Wilts; one son, three daughters.	31.07.1885 Chippenham district, Wiltshire - 30.07.1950 Brockenhurst, Hampshire	... ... Lt. 01.04.1908 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1916 Cdr. 31.12.1920 Capt. 31.12.1928 (retd 06.01.1940) R.Adm. (retd) 06.01.1940 (reverted to retd 18.07.1940) (reverted to retd 10.04.1942) (diespersed 15.11.1945) (reverted to retd 17.01.1946) DSO 22.06.1917 ? DSO 19.12.1917 * MID WW I ? * when in command of HM S/M E45 by torpedoing German Submarine UC 62	Education: HMS Britannia; air pilotage certificate. 15.01.1901     entered RN       served for 19 years in the Submarine Service       served in submarines during European War, for the greater part in submarine minelayers (despatches, DSO and bar) 1927 - 1929 attached to the Air Ministry 1930 - 1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Champion 1931 - 1933 Senior Officer, Fifth Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, 1934 - 1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion 1934 - 1936 Senior Officer, 2nd Submarine Flotilla, Home Fleet, 01.09.1936 - 28.04.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Cardiff & as Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, the Nore 29.04.1938 - 05.05.1938 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 06.05.1938 - 10.1939 Chief Staff Officer to Rear Admiral-in-Charge, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) 01.08.1939 - 05.01.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 24.12.1939 - 31.01.1940 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 01.02.1940 - 18.07.1940 British Naval Liaison Officer to French Naval Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty for liaison duties with French Navy)] (as Capt.) 27.07.1940 - 23.12.1940 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool) (temporary) 21.08.1941 - 09.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (as Capt.) 14.09.1942 - 14.01.1943 HMS President (for duty outside Admiralty as British Naval Liaison Officer with French Prisoner of War (POW) Camps) (as Capt.) 15.01.1943 - (12?.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Vindictive (fleet repair ship, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (as Capt.) (12?.)1943 - 13.02.1944 HMS President (additional; for passage to UK & disposal) 14.02.1944 - 29.02.1944 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (additional) 01.03.1944 - 15.11.1945 Deputy Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando] Younger Brother of Trinity House.
Watkins, Hubert James	09.01.1913 Chester, Cheshire - 16.12.2000 Chester and Ellesmere Port, Cheshire	Prob. S.Lt. 10.06.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.03.1939 Lt. ?, seniority 09.01.1937 Lt.Cdr. 09.01.1945 (retd 09.01.1958)	10.06.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Eskimo (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 11.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Alresford (minesweeper) 16.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Whitshed (destroyer) 10.06.1941 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer) 14.12.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Troubridge (destroyer) 03.1944 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 02.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) 23.09.1947 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Chameleon (minesweeper) 05.09.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Resource (repair ship) (for miscellaneous services) ? - (05.1953) Staff Officer, Ulster Division RNVR & Commanding Officer, HMS Kilmorey (ex-MMS 1034) 25.04.1955 - (01.1957) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (miscellaneous duties)
Watkins, John Kingdon Younger son of Dr John Grandisson Watkins (1882-1967), and Esme Kathleen G. Dawe (1881-1978), of Sidmouth, Devon. Married (27.07.1946, Dedham, Colchester district, Essex) Third Officer Lettice Marjorie Hellaby, WRNS (26.04.1918 - 10.2003), elder daughter (with one sister) of Richard Sydney Hellaby (1887-1971), and Ruth Hollingsworth (1880-1945), of Dedham, Essex; one son, two daughters.	24.02.1913 Taunton, Somerset - 13.05.1970 St Marylebone district, London (formerly of Caston, Nr Attleborough, Norfolk)	Paym.Cadet 01.09.1930 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1931 Paym.S.Lt. 01.06.1933 Paym.Lt. 01.06.1935 Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.06.1942 A/Paym.Cdr. = A/Cdr. (S) 01.01.1944? Cdr. (S) 31.12.1947 Capt. (S) 31.12.1956 R.Adm. 07.01.1965 (retd 20.09.1967) CB 01.01.1967 New Year 1967 [investiture 07.02.1967] OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 MID 09.05.1944 establishment port Naples	Education: Epsom College. 1930     entered RN (played rugby for the Navy (caps 12 v Army 1933-36, 38-39 v RAF1933-35, 38-39), England, etc.) ... - ... ... 15.09.1939 - (12.1941) RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] (for duty with Special Entry Cadets) 03.02.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Howe (battleship) 18.08.1943 - (01.)1945 Base Supply Officer, Naples Area [HMS Hannibal, later HMS Byrsa] (OBE, despatches) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 15.10.1945 - 21.06.1948 Plans Division (Q), Admiralty [HMS President]       Naval Staff College, 1948-1951; HMS Forth, 1951-1953; HMS Ark Royal, 1954-1956; Deputy Director, Naval War College, 1957-1959; Director Standing Group, NATO, 1959-1961; Secretary, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 1961-1964, also Director Defence Operations Staff, 1963-1964; Rear-Admiral (Personnel), Naval Air Command, 1964-1967 (CB) Director: Metallurgical Plantmakers Federation; British Metalworking Plant Makers' Association; Ironmaking & Steelmaking Plant Contractors' Association.
Watling, Kenneth Maxwell	(06?).1914 West Derby district, Lancashire - 07.11.1964 Calabar, Nigeria (formerly of Weymouth, Dorset) [served in Nigerian Navy; found drowned after a naval patrol against smugglers at the Calabar river near the Cameroon border]	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 08.08.1938 S.Lt. RNR 16.06.1939, seniority 08.08.1938 Prob. S.Lt. 10.06.1939 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.03.1939 Lt. 01.01.1942, seniority 09.03.1938 Lt.Cdr. 29.05.1946, seniority 09.03.1946 (retd 09.04.1959)	(08.1939) - (09.1939) short course of instruction 20.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 04.07.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Caradoc (cruiser) 03.05.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Skate (destroyer) (02.1943) - (06.)1943 no appointment listed 12.07.1943 - (12.1943) RN Air Station Katakarunda [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon] (for torpedo duties) (04.1944) HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) * (06.1944) HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) * 15.03.1945 - (07.1945) Torpedo Officer, HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship) 25.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (07.1948) no appointment listed 01.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Indefatigable (05.1953) HMS Ranpura * 20.07.1954 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Annet Royal Nigerian Navy, (07.1961)-(02.1963). * indexed, but not listed as such
Watson, Alan George Married Dolores (née ...) (died 08.02.2008).	27.05.1922 London - 25.02.2008 [Milland ?]	Cadet 01.01.1941 Midsh. 01.09.1941 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1943 S.Lt. 1943, seniority 01.08.1942 Lt. 01.01.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1952 Cdr. 31.12.1955 Capt. 31.12.1963 R.Adm. 07.07.1972 (retd 28.01.1977) CB 1975 ?	01.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 23.11.1942 - (02.)1943 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]  (06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Duke of York (battleship) * 04.10.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Erne 12.10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Swift (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 23.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Rajah (escort carrier) (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 1974 - 1977 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Chairman: Church of England Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Clubs, 1979-; Church of England Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Housing Association, 1979-. * indexed, but not listed as such
Watson, Arthur Oliver Son of the Rev. Arthur Herbert Watson, vicar of Long Preston, Leeds, and Louisa Caroline Yorke.	03.09.1902 Hexham, Northumberland - 18.03.1992 Sutton, Surrey	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922 S.Lt. ? Lt. 30.08.1924 Lt.Cdr. 30.08.1932 (retd 03.09.1947) A/Cdr. < 04.1946 Cdr. (retd) 03.09.1947 RAF: (T) F/O 04.01.1927 OBE 07.07.1942 sinking of Dunedin 24.11.1941	03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.04.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Walker (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 09.01.1926 - (05.1926) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 04.01.1927 - (07.1927) pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon [attached to RAF] 21.12.1927 - (08.1929) pilot, No. 440 Flight FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)] (China) [attached to RAF] (04.1930) no appointment listed [attached to RAF] 08.06.1930 - (09.1932) pilot, No. 447 Flight FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 08.03.1933 returned to naval duty 18.04.1933 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.09.1934 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Fame (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 01.01.1936 - (07.)1937 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 17.08.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) 07.07.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 09.01.1940 - 24.11.1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (torpedoed & sunk, South Atlantic) 29.06.1942 - (02.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) 10.03.1943 - (04.1946) Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Watson, Bertram Chalmers   Son of Charles Watson, Slateford & Edinburgh. Married (03.02.1915) Isabel, daughter of John Buist, Broughty Ferry; one son, two daughters.	20.03.1887 [Edinburgh?] - 22.07.1976 [Hambledon, Portsmouth ?]	A/S.Lt. 15.08.1906 S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 15.08.1906 Lt. 15.05.1908 Cdr. 30.06.1918 Capt. 31.12.1925 R.Adm. 23.07.1936 (retd 04.05.1940) V.Adm. (retd) 04.05.1940 (reverted to retd 16.03.1943 & 12.07.1943) (dispersed 21.08.1945) (reverted to retd 28.10.1945) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 03.03.1942 CB 09.06.1938 HM's birthday 1938 DSO 04.06.1917 services in the prosecution of the war MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940	Education: Merchiston; Temple Grove 15.01.1902     joined RN 1904     Midshipman, HMS Caesar 1905     HMS Bulwark, Mediterranean 1914 - 1918 in Harwich Force as Navigating Officer throughout European War 09.01.1918 - (01.1919) Navigating Officer, HMS Curacoa (light cruiser) 15.10.1921 - (08.)1923 Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (sloop) 1923     instructor, HMS Thunderer 31.03.1924 - 14.04.1924 Admiralty [HMS President] 14.04.1924 - (01.1925) Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1926)     no appointment listed 30.07.1926 - (07.1927) RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.05.1928 - 1930 Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Broke, accommodated in HMS Venomous] (Mediterranean) 21.04.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 22.07.1932 - 1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 24.08.1933 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.1934 - (02.)1936 Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (02.1937)     no appointment listed 13.04.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty) 13.09.1937 - (10.)1938 HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty) 15.12.1938 - 31.12.1939 Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 10.01.1940 - 17.01.1940 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 18.01.1940 - 03.02.1942 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow), from 01.04.1940 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)] 04.02.1942 - 02.03.1942 HMS President (additional; for disposal) 03.03.1942 - 01.03.1943 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool); addtional, for Liverpool Convoy Pool] (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR) 02.03.1943 - 15.03.1943 HMS President (additional; for disposal) 03.05.1943 - 06.06.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty on Engineers Selection Board, Scottish Region) 07.06.1943 - 11.07.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty on Engineer Cadets Selection Board, Edinburgh Area) 26.10.1943 - 06.08.1945 Flag Officer Commanding Iceland (C) [HMS Baldur] (as R.Adm.) 07.08.1945 - 21.08.1945 HMS President (additional; for disposal) (as R.Adm.)
Watson, Edward John   Married Gabrielle Elizabeth Emily ... (? - 17.12.2016); ... children.	04.03.1918 - 10.11.1992 Weston super Mare district, Somerset	Midsh. (E) 01.09.1943 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1945 S.Lt. (E) 1945?, seniority 01.08.1944 ... ... Cdr. (E) 30.06.1960 (retd)	... - ... ... (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Queen * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Watson, Fischer Burges Eldest son of late R.Adm. Burges Watson, RN, and Marie Thérèse Fischer, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Married 1st (29.12.1909, St Marks, St George Hanover Square district, London W) Sybil Mona Caroline Holden (died 1926), only daughter of late Major Harry Holden of Bramcote Hills, Notts.; three daughters. Married 2nd (10.07.1931) Mabel Harford Underwood, 3rd daughter of late Captain P.C. Underwood, RN.	03.09.1884 Langport, Southampton, Hampshire - 14.08.1960 Chichester	Cadet 15.05.1899 Midsh. 15.10.1900 S.Lt. 15.12.1903 Lt. 31.08.1905 Lt.Cdr. 31.08.1913 Cdr. 31.12.1914 Capt. 31.12.1921 Cdre. 2nd cl. 17.04.1932 R.Adm. 30.09.1933 (retd 17.09.1935; own request) (reactivated 05.09.1939) (reverted to retd 15.08.1942) (reactivated 16.11.1942) (dispersed 31.07.1945) (reverted to retd 26.09.1945) CBE 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily 07.1943) [investiture 10.10.1944] DSO 04.06.1917 ? DSO 01.08.1944 Operation Shingle (Anzio 01.1944) [investiture 10.10.1944] MID 23.07.1918 for distinguished services in the night of 22-23.04.1918 at Zeebrugge/Ostend MID 17.11.1942 for outstanding devotion to duty during three years arduous service as Commodore of Ocean Convoys 1939-1942 MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno 09.1943) LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) Letter on Vellum (30.06.1915; for the sinking of German torpedo boat destroyers, 17.10.1914)	Education: Private school (Ashdown House, Forest Row); HMS Britannia. 15.05.1899     entered RN 31.12.1914 - 04.1917 Commanding Officer, HMS Loyal 04.1917 - 16.09.1918 Commanding Officer, HMS Tempest 16.09.1918 - 18.03.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Shakespeare (flotilla leader) 19.03.1919 - 17.06.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Velox 18.06.1919 - 27.03.1920 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special service in Admiralty) 28.04.1920 - 30.01.1922 Assistant to Chief of Staff and Maintenance Captain, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 16.10.1922 - 03.1923? technical course 05.03.1923 - (08.1923) senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich 09.04.1924 - 09.04.1926 Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 09.08.1926 - 01.10.1926 technical course 05.11.1926 - (04.)1928 Chief Staff Officer to Rear Admiral-in-Charge Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)] (05.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 18.06.1928 - (04.)1930 Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 26.05.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) & Flag Captain, Atlantic Fleet (01.1932)     no appointment listed 17.04.1932 - 05.1935 Commodore/Rear-Admiral Commanding New Zealand Station [HMS Diomede (cruiser), from 26.02.1932 HMS Dunedin (cruiser)] & First Naval Member, New Zealand Navy Board (07.1935)     no appointment listed 05.09.1939 - 18.06.1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; with rank of Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR) 19.06.1940 - 21.10.1940 on staff of Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional)] (temporary; with rank of R.Adm.) 06.1940     aboard HMS Beagle (destroyer) (in charge of a demolition party for French ports) 06.1940? - 10.1940? liaison to French Navy 22.10.1940 - 14.08.1942 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for Liverpool Convoy Pool; with rank of Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR)]       staff Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 16.11.1942 - 14.04.1943 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for service with Chief of Combined Operations outside Combined Operations HQ & in command of 1st LST Squadron; with rank of Capt.) 15.04.1943 - 06.05.1944 Senior Officer, Landing Ship Tank Squadron, Mediterranean [HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Djedjelli, Algiers)] (with rank of Capt.) ** 07.05.1944 - 31.08.1944 Senior Naval Officer, Selsey [HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (additional)] (with rank of Capt.) 01.09.1944 - 09.09.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) 10.09.1944 - 31.07.1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Harwich [HMS Badger] * indexed, but not listed as such ** indexed as "Combined Operations HQ", but not listed as such
Watson, John Dudley Son of Leonard John and Norah Watson, of Sea View, Isle of Wight.	14.03.1909 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 08.06.1940 (KIA) [age 31] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 1, panel 2]	Midsh. 01.01.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1929 S.Lt. 16.01.1930 Lt. 01.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1940	09.12.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.02.1930 - 11.08.1930 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.08.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, Portsmouth 01.03.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Bridgewater (sloop) China) (01.1934) no appointment listed 13.04.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (Devonport) 01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Curlew (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 01.09.1936 - (02.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS Vidette (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 03.05.1937 - (07.1937) observers' course [HMS Excellent] 04.01.1938 - 08.06.1940 acting observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) * indexed, but not listed as such
Watts, William Harold	09.10.1914 - 14.01.1997 Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight	T/Instr.Lt. 28.04.1937 Instr.Lt.Cdr. 28.04.1943 A/Instr.Cdr. 02.12.1944? Instr.Cdr. 31.12.1948 Instr.Capt. 30.06.1958 (retd 06.11.1969) CBE 14.06.1969 HM's birthday 1969 OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946	Education: B.Eng. 28.04.1937 - (07.1937) insctructional entry course for Instructor Officers, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.01.1938 - (02.)1938 RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 02.05.1938 - (06.)1938 Instructor Lieutenant (Meteorological), HMS Rodney (battleship) 04.12.1938 - (09.)1939 Instructor Lieutenant (Meteorological), HMS Rodney (battleship) 02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 26.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) [service on Crete and evacuated from Sphakia aboard HMS Napier, 05.1941] 27.10.1941 - (10.)1943 Royal Naval Air Station, Hatston, Orkney [HMS Sparrowhawk] 09.11.1943 - 12.1944 Fleet Meteorological Officer, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka] 02.12.1944 - 1945 Fleet Meteorological Officer, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Howe] (04.1946) no appointment listed 01.06.1946 - 1948 Fleet Education Officer and Fleet Meteorological Officer, HMS Sheffield, Flagship of V Adm Sir William George Tennant, Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station (07.1948) no appointment listed 1948 - 1949 HMS Dryad (05.1950) no appointment listed 07.01.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS Excellent 1955 RN College Greenwich 02.01.1956 - 1958 acting Instructor Captain, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire) 1958 - 1960 Naval Education Service, Admiralty 02.05.1960 - (02.)1963 HMS Collingwood (Naval Electrical School, Fareham, Hampshire) 1963 - 1966 Instructor Officer and Port Librarian [HMS Victory, Portsmouth Command] 1966 Aide de Camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II 13.08.1966 - (02.)1969 Director of Studies and Dean of the College, RN College, Greenwich
Wauchope, Colin Son of Edward and Mary Alice Wauchope of Loughton. Husband of Elina Mary Lingen Wauchope, of Churt, Surrey.	10.11.1900 - 26.05.1945 [age 44] [Loughton (St John the Baptist) Churchyard, Eastern Part]	... ... Lt. 15.06.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1929 Cdr. 31.12.1934 Capt. 31.12.1942 CBE 13.04.1943 supplies to 8th Army 10.1942-01.1943 [investiture 07.03.1944] DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 07.03.1944]	09.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 15.08.1938 - (04.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) (02.1941) Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization RM * 10.1941 - (06.)1943 Senior Naval Officer, Tripolitania [& Inshore Squadron] [HMS Nile] 07.1943 - (04.)1944 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Tunisia [HMS Hasdrubal] (04.1944) no appointment listed 18.05.1944 - 26.05.1945 HMS Activity (escort carrier) (died of illness) * indexed, but not listed as such
Waymouth, Gilbert Ridley    Second of three children (with one brother and one sister) of William Charles Waymouth, FRIBA (1872-1967), architect, and Winifred Theodora Mather (1875-1943), of Hornsey and Barnet. Married (10.08.1926, Christ Church, Barnet, Hertfordshire) Gweneth Lilian Rice (14.02.1901 - 14.01.1987), daughter (with two sisters) of Lt.Col. Brinsley Alexander McHenry Rice, DSO (1876-1940), and Olive Wilbraham Taylor (1875-1965), of Duncan, B.C.; three sons, one daughter.	03.05.1901 Barnet, Hertfordshire - 29.01.1975 Hindhead, South West Surrey	Midsh. 15.09.1917 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1920 S.Lt. 15.05.1921 Lt. 15.06.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1930 Cdr. 31.12.1936 Capt. 31.12.1942 (retd 08.01.1952) CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 [investiture 09.12.1947] MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon (invasion S France 08.1944)	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 1917     went to sea ... - ... ... ... - ... HMS Nelson (1927-1929), HMS Barham (1929-1930), HMS Victory (1930-1931), staff course (1931-1932), HMS Dolphin (1932), HMS Victory (1932-1935), HMS Nelson (1935-1936), HMS Victory (1936-1938) 01.11.1938 - 02.09.1940 HMS Leith (Grimsby class sloop; escort vessel) (New Zealand) (despatches) 03.09.1940 - 16.02.1941 for signal duties on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 17.02.1941 - (12.)1942 Staff Signal Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 31.12.1942 - (12.)1943 Deputy Director of Signal Department ("Y" and Shore D/F), Admiralty [HMS President] (and for duty with Naval Intelligence Division) 01.12.1943 - 05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (D class cruiser) (despatches) 05.1945 - (07.1946) Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy), later HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (CBE) 18.04.1947 - (04.1949) Director of Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (also Naval Member, British Joint Communications Board) (05.1950)     no appointment listed 12.01.1951 - (05.1951) Commanding Officer, HMS Bellerophon & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth

 

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