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Calladine,
Alexander Peter
A.P. Calladine
Son of Philip Harley Calladine (1898-1977), and Muriel Emma Cottam (1898-1970).
Married ((03?).1964, Derby district, Derbyshire) Norah A. Heath; ... children (two daughters, two sons?).		 07.10.1922
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
03.1997
Derby district, Derbyshire
T/2nd Lt. 06.10.1944
T/Lt. 06.04.1945 (reld > 07.1946)
Played cricket (Combined Universities, 1943; Central Derbyshire League, 1958).
(01.1945) - (04.1945) RM Holding Commando
(07.1945) - (07.1946) 42nd RM Commando (from 1945/46? 42nd Commando RM (Light))
Commercial manager of the mining division of George Fletcher & Company, Limited (1960s).
Camp,
Frederick George Edward William
F.G.E.W. Camp (Photo courtesy of Mr Bob Camp)
Son of Frederick Camp, and Kate Lewin.
Married (11.04.1936, Plymouth, Devon) Kathleen Kennelly; three sons.

Service record AVAILABLE upon request.

Service record AVAILABLE upon request.
12.04.1907
Limehouse, Stepney district, London
-
06.11.1979
Truro district, Cornwall
[Ford Park Cemetery
Plymouth, Devon]
Lt. 26.09.1940
A/Capt. 08.02.1941-16.08.1943,
22.09.1944-22.05.1945
Capt. 18.04.1946 (retd 12.04.1952)
A/Maj. 16.08.1943-22.09.1944,
23.05.1945-27.12.1947
Butcher.
11.06.1924 - 15.09.1940 served in the ranks for 15 years, 167 days
(12.1940) - (04.1944) Transport Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 1 (from 16.08.1943 Officer Commanding)
20.04.1944 - 22.09.1944 [Officer Commanding?], HMS Squid II (Camp "C") (landing craft squadron staff, Westcliff Hall Hotel, Hythe)
(10.1944) - (04.1945) Company Commander, Cumberland Rooms (No. 2 Company), RM Technical Training Depot
23.05.1945 - (04.1946) Motor Transport School, RM Training Group Wales
... - ... ...
Campbell,
Robin Hasluck
 R.H. Campbell  
Son of Tom Hinton Campbell, of 194 Colecherne Court, London SW.
Married (04.11.1919) Thyrza Virginia Weston, daughter of Edward Weston, of Blue Hill, Maine, USA.
 19.09.1894
Southport, Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
16.07.1964
Stirling, Scotland (formerly of Newton of Doune, Perthshire, Scotland)
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.10.1912
... ...
Lt.Col. 01.09.1938
T/Col. 24.05.1939-07.09.1939
Bt. Col. 31.12.1941
Col. 2nd Comdt. 01.06.1942, seniority 01.09.1941
A/Col. Comdt. 15.07.1940-23.03.1942,
12.02.1943-02.10.1943
Col. Comdt. 03.10.1943
T/Brig. 15.07.1940-23.03.1942,
12.02.1943-04.08.1944
A/Maj.Gen. 24.03.1942-13.01.1943
Maj.Gen. 05.08.1944 (retd 01.10.1946)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [investiture 09.04.1943]
Military Cross MC 26.07.1918

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an enemy attack he filled a gap in the line. He stopped stragglers from other units, and finally formed a defensive flank with the unit on his right, under heavy machine-gun fire. Next morning he led his company forward in a successful counterattack, and consolidated his position under heavy artillery fire.
Education: Radley College (1908-1911).
01.10.1912     commissioned, RM
... - ... ...
01.11.1939 - 14.07.1940 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), RM
15.07.1940 - 23.03.1942 Commander, 102nd RM Brigade
24.03.1942 - 11.02.1943 General Officer Commanding, RM Division
12.02.1943 - 14.07.1943 Commandant, Depot RM, Deal
05.08.1943 - 30.09.1943 Commandant, Depot RM, Lympstone
01.10.1943 - 05.08.1944 also: Marine ADC to the King
01.10.1943 - 24.11.1944 Commander, HQ RM Training Groups (Dalditch)
25.11.1944 - 29.09.1946 Major-General in charge of Administration, Headquarters Staff RM (RM Office)
Carless,
George Procter
 G.P. Carless (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Colgan)
Son (with one brother) of George Proctor Carless (1852-), and Lucy Janet Taylor (1863-).
Married ((09?).1931, Tavistock district, Devon) Isabella Dorothy Ingram (13.01.1907 - 10.1998).
18.01.1904
Maidenhead, Berkshire
-
29.03.1996
Windsor and Maidenhead district, Berkshire
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1922
A/Ll. 31.08.1925
Prob. Lt. 01.10.1925
Lt. ?, seniority 01.10.1925
Capt. 01.10.1934
A/Maj. 01.09.1941
Bt. Maj. 31.12.1943
Maj. 01.10.1945
Lt.Col. 30.06.1948
local Col. 08.05.1950-01.07.1953
Commander of the Order of the British Empire OBE 04.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946
... - ... ...
26.01.1927 - 11.01.1928 12th RM Battalion
... - ... ...
10.09.1936 - 13.10.1936 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)
14.10.1936 - 28.09.1939 Instructor of Small Arms, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]
17.11.1939 - 11.04.1940 Portsmouth Division RM
12.04.1940 - 12.05.1940 HMS Valentine (V class destroyer)
01.06.1940 - 04.06.1940 Portsmouth Division RM
05.06.1940 - 06.10.1943 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship):
27.07.1941 - 01.10.1941 Squadron RM Officer (SRMO)
11.07.1942 - 26.08.1942 Squadron RM Officer (SRMO)
21.09.1942 - 16.10.1942 Squadron RM Officer (SRMO)
15.11.1942 - 13.09.1943 Squadron RM Officer (SRMO)
07.10.1943 - 16.10.1943 Portsmouth Division RM
17.10.1943 - 21.10.1943 Chatham Division RM
22.10.1943 - 30.11.1946 Brigade Major, Chatham Division RM
... - ... ...
Carter,
John Loftus
J.L. Carter
Son (with one brother) of Alexander John Carter (1884-).
 Married; one son, one daughter.		 24.05.1916
-
03.2000
Ashford, Kent
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.01.1935
Lt. 21.05.1937
A/Capt. 10.07.1940-22.10.1941
Capt. 23.10.1941
A/Maj. 08.12.1943-25.02.1946,
17.02.1947-31.12.1947
Maj. 30.06.1950
local Lt.Col. 28.10.1957
Lt.Col. 31.12.1957
Col. 31.12.1961 (retd 1965)
Education: Clifton College (05.1930-09.1933; Dakyns' House); Joint Services Staff College.
... - ... ...
14.07.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship)
10.07.1940 - 01.09.1941 HMS Erebus (Erebus class monitor)
02.09.1941 - (12.)1943 Military Instructor, Military Instructors Wing, RM Military School (Thurlestone)
08.12.1943 - (06.)1944 US Marine Corps Staff School (graduate) [HMS Saker]
1944 - (10.)1944 Portsmouth Division RM
03.11.1944 - (10.1945) General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Training), "G" Branch, Headquarters Staff RM (RM Office)
? - (04.)1946 HQ Commando Group RM
1946 - 1949 42 RM Commando
... - ... ...
1953 - 1955 Fleet RM Officer, East Indies
... - ... ...
1957 - 1958 Chief Staff Officer to Major-General RM
1958 - (1962) Military Secretary to Commandant-General RM
09.11.1964 - 01.07.1965 also RM ADC to HM the Queen
Associate Secretary, Federation of British Carpet Manufacturers, 1965 (Secretary, 1966). Joint Secretary, National Joint Committee for the Carpet Industry, 1967. Secretary, British Carpets Export Association, 1972.
Cartwright,
Thomas Desmond
T.D. Cartwright
Younger son of Maj. Alfred Leonard Cartwright (1870-1939), Durham Light Infantry, and Helen Marie Thompson.		 01.02.1916
Eton, Oxfordshire
-
24.05.1941
(MPK) [age 25]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, panel 58, column 2]
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1934
Lt. 20.02.1937
Capt. 27.12.1939
(11.)1934 - (02.)1935 Depot RM, Deal
(03.)1935 - (05.)1936 Portsmouth Division RM
(06.)1936 - (02.)1937 Depot RM, Deal
24.04.1937 - (03.)1938 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
1938 - (06.)1938 Portsmouth Division RM
04.07.1938 - (09.)1938 Physical and Recreational Training course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(10.1938)     no appointment listed
22.10.1938 - (05.)1939 HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (Portsmouth)
(06.)1939 - (03.)1940 Portsmouth Division RM
07.03.1940 - 18.05.1940 HMS Effingham (cruiser; Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet) [ship wrecked 18.05.1940]
(06.1940)     no appointment listed
1940 - (08.)1940 Portsmouth Division RM
19.08.1940 - 24.05.1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
[missing, presumed killed when HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
Cartwright-Taylor,
[Sir] Malcolm Cartwright
M.C. Cartwright-Taylor (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x166414) M.C. Cartwright-Taylor (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x180740)
M.C. Cartwright-Taylor (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x180741)
  		29.10.1911
-
05.11.1969
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1930
A/Lt. 30.08.1933-31.08.1933
Lt. 01.09.1933
Capt. 09.02.1938
A/Maj. 01.10.1943-22.06.1945,
13.08.1945-(01.1946)
A/Lt.Col. 23.06.1945-12.08.1945
... ...
Lt.Gen. 19.02.1962
Gen. 19.02.1964 (retd 22.03.1965)
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath KCB 1963 ?
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 1961 ?
... - ... ...
28.08.1939 - (10.)1941 HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser)
24.11.1941 - (10.)1943 Adjutant, Depot RM, Lympstone
(12.)1943 - (04.)1944 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), HQ RM Training Groups (Dalditch)
1944 - (06.)1944 attached, HQ RM Training Groups (Dalditch)
1944 - (10.)1944 Portsmouth Division RM
1944 - (07.)1945 Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter-Master General (DAA&QMG), HQ 117th RM Infantry Brigade
20.08.1945 - (04.1946) General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Staff Duties), "G" Branch, Headquarters Staff RM (RM Office)
... - ... ...
Cary,
Francis Charles George
F.C.G. Cary
 		 21.09.1901
Gravesend, Kent
-
03.05.1982
Whitchurch, Tavistock district, Devon
T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942
T/Lt. 15.11.1942
25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division
1942 - (08.)1942 2nd Battalion, 102nd RM Brigade
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) RM Training Group Devon
Catling *,
Alfred [Frank]
 A. Catling
Son of ... Catlin, and ... Pope.
 *In Navy records shown as Catling, officially Catlin.
 		 27.06.1913
Salisbury, Wiltshire
-
02.1986
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/2nd Lt. 06.02.1942
T/Lt. 06.08.1942
A/T/Capt. 27.04.1943
T/Capt. 02.09.1945
A/T/Maj. 01.06.1945
1942 - (04.)1942 Portsmouth Division RM
(06.)1942 - (10.)1942 20th (Training) Battalion RM (104th (Training) RM Brigade)
(12.)1942 - (04.)1943 RM Infantry (Training) Centre
(06.)1943 - (10.1945) Staff Captain, RM Training Group Towyn (later: Wales) (Gibraltar Camp, Llanegryn, Towyn)
? - (04.1946) Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quarter Master General (DAA&QMG), HQ Commando Group RM
Caulfeild,
St George Frederick Gordon
 St.G.F.G. Caulfeild (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Colgan)
20.03.1881
Cunninghill
-
26.11.1973
2nd Lt. RMA 01.09.1898
Lt. RMA 01.07.1899
Capt. RMA 01.09.1909
Maj. RMA (from 22.06.1923 RM) 30.01.1917
T/Lt.Col. 05.08.1918-13.04.1919
Lt.Col. 14.07.1928 (retd 12.05.1930)
Col (retd) 12.05.1930 (recalled for service 12.02.1940) (reverted to retd 11.10.1945)
T/Col. 23.02.1940
Mention in Despatches MID 07.08.1918 Mesopotamia & Persian Gulf
Education: Bradfield College (09.1893-07.1898); Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; RN College, Greenwich.
... - ... ...
26.01.1927 - 23.10.1927 12th RM Battalion
... - ... ...
12.02.1940 - 14.08.1945 Admiralty [HMS President]
12.02.1940 - 07.03.1944 additional; for duty with Naval Intelligence Division outside Admiralty
08.03.1944 - 14.08.1945 additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence (Security) (ADNI(S))
15.08.1945 - 10.10.1945 Chatham Division RM (not to join; for release under Class A)
Cawley-Way,
Joseph Harold
J.H. Cawley-Way (Photo courtesy of Mr Terence Maton)
Son of Henry Cawley Way (1867-
1948), and Francis Elizabeth Ruffin
Blake (1866-1956).
Married (11.05.1932, St Mary's,
Walmer, Eastry district, Kent) Mary
Edith Birdwood (10.08.1903 -
12.1985), eldest daughter of Lt.Col.
G.T. Birdwood, IMS, of The Beach,
Walmer; two daughters.

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20.10.1901
Arreton Manor,
Newport, Isle of
Wight
-
18.06.1986
Millom district,
Cumbria
2nd Lt. 01.01.1919
Lt. 01.01.1922
Capt. 01.01.1930
Maj. 06.10.1939
Bt. Lt.Col. 31.12.1942
A/Lt.Col. 21.07.1941-29.06.1946
Lt.Col. 30.06.1946 (retd 02.08.1950)
01.06.1920 - (01.1921) HMS Commonwealth (battleship)
? - (04.)1922 RM Depot Deal
10.05.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Ramillies (battleship)
21.07.1924 - (02.)1927 HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
1927 - (07.)1927 Portsmouth Division RM
(12.)1927 - (07.)1928 RM Depot Deal
16.11.1928 - (05.)1932 seconded
09.12.1929 - 27.04.1932 ADC to the Governor of Bombay
(07.)1932 - (09.)1932 Chatham Division RM
06.09.1932 - (08.)1935 HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
03.09.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS President IV (base defences, Mediterranean)
1936 - (10.)1936 Chatham Division RM
08.10.1936 - (08.)1938 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (and for training duties in the port)
31.08.1938 - 21.08.1939 HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
22.08.1939 - 09.10.1939 Chatham Division RM
10.10.1939 - 09.02.1941 RM Reserve Depot Exton
10.02.1941 - 31.05.1941 Plymouth Division RM
01.06.1941 - 09.01.1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
10.01.1944 - 04.02.1944 Chatham Division RM
05.02.1944 - 01.09.1944 Commanding Officer, 19th RM Battalion [HMS Proserpine]
02.09.1944 - 19.10.1944 Portsmouth Division RM (additional)
20.10.1944 - 03.11.1944 Chatham Division RM (not to join)
04.11.1944 - 12.05.1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional)
13.05.1945 - 08.06.1945 Chatham Division RM (not to join)
09.06.1945 - 02.02.1947 Portsmouth Division RM
03.02.1947 - 04.06.1950 staff of Major General RM Portsmouth
05.06.1950 - 01.08.1950 RM Barracks Eastney
Chadwick,
John
J. Chadwick (Photo courtesy of Mr Dan Chadwick) J. Chadwick (Photo courtesy of Mr Dan Chadwick)
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of John Chadwick (1873-1935), and Mabel Gertrude Oldfield (1877-1956).
Married (02.11.1935, St Thomas's, Rhyl, Clwyd, North Wales) Gwendoline Mary Handley (09.08.1911 - 21.12.1985), daughter of Arthur Handley (1885-1945), and Mary Ann Jackson (1885-1955); one daughter, two sons.		 09.05.1914
Stretford, Manchester
-
15.07.1960
Macclesfield, Cheshire
T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942
T/Lt. 15.11.1942
A/T/Capt. 04.04.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
25.05.1942 - (01.)1945 19th RM Battalion [HMS Proserpine (minesweeper and anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)]
(03.1945)     RN Party 2402 (Rhine crossing)
1945 - (04.)1945 RM Holding Commando
1945 - (07.1945) no appointment listed
1945 - (10.1945) RM Training Group Wales
Chandler,
George Alfred
G.A. Chandler

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03.07.1903
Fratton, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
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29.04.1982
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/Lt. 26.02.1941
A/T/Capt. 20.06.1944 (reld 10.12.1945; granted War Service rank of Capt.)
... - ... ...
12.10.1943 - 27.10.1943 Portsmouth Division RM
28.10.1943 - 14.10.1945 RMTEC (Crete and Iceland Camps, Barmouth), RM Training Group Wales
15.10.1945 - 10.12.1945 Portsmouth Division RM (for release under class "A")
Chater,
Arthur Reginald
A.R. Chater A.R. Chater
A.R. Chater A.R. Chater
A.R. Chater A.R. Chater
Son of Thomas Addison Chater (1858-1919), and Gertrude Lockyer Peel (1864-1940).
Married (02.02.1954, Kensington district, London) Diana Daubeny (22.03.1897 - 04.07.1985), only daughter of Edward Charles Daubeny, and widow of Maj.Gen. Archibald Maxwell Craig.
07.02.1896
Kensington, London
-
03.01.1979
Copford, nr Colchester,Essex
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.10.1913
Lt. 19.09.1914
Capt. 17.09.1917
Brev. Maj. 23.04.1918
local Lt.Col. 13?.04.1930-02.02.1931
Maj. 22.10.1931
Brev. Lt.Col. 21.12.1933?
Lt.Col. 01.03.1939
A/Col. 31.05.1940
A/Brig. 04.07.1940-13.08.1943
Col. 2nd Cdt. (A/Brig.) 05.08.1943
A/Col. Cdt. (T/Brig.) 01.10.1943
A/Maj.Gen. 09.05.1944
Col. Cdt. (T/Brig.) (A/Maj.Gen.) 20.11.1944
Maj.Gen. 01.10.1945 (dispersal 07.04.1948) (retd 22.06.1948)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 04.02.1941 defence of British Somaliland [investiture 18.02.1941]
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order CVO 11.06.1966 HM's birthday 1966
Distinguished Service Order DSO 23.07.1918 *
Commander of the Order of the British Empire OBE 03.06.1931 HM's birthday 1931
Mention in Despatches MID 30.05.1944 services in Middle East

* Was of the greatest assistance in keeping up communication between the various units of the battalion, and carried out his duties in a calm manner, which greatly contributed to the success of the operations. Gave great assistance in the preparation of the plan for the assault.

 Education: Aldenham.
      Entered Royal Marines as 2nd Lt, 1913; served with RM Brigade in Flanders, 1914 (wounded at Antwerp); Gallipoli, 1915 (despatches, French Croix de Guerre); Grand Fleet, 1916-1917; was Adjutant of RM Battalion which landed from HMS Vindictive at Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 (DSO, Bt Major); served in Egyptian Army, 1921-1925, and Sudan Defence Forces, 1925-1931; commanded Sudan Camel Corps, 1927-1930; commanded Military Operations in Kordofan, 1929-1930 (despatches); Senior RM Officer, East Indies Station, 1931-1933; Home Fleet, 1935-1936
04.07.1937 - 1940 commanded Somaliland Camel
Corps
1940     commanded defence of British Somaliland (despatches, CB)
1941 - 12.08.1943 Military Governor and commanding Troops, British Somaliland
13.08.1943 - 02.06.1944 Commandant, Portsmouth Division RM
03.06.1944 - 16.10.1944 seconded to 231st Infantry Brigade in LCT(H)
17.10.1944 - 30.09.1945 Director of Combined Operations, India and SE Asia [HMS Braganza]
20.11.1944 - 01.10.1945 also: Marine ADC to the King
01.10.1945 - 31.03.1946 Major-General General Staff, HQ Staff RM (RM Office)
01.04.1946 - 30.11.1946 Commandant, Chatham Group RM, redesignated:
01.12.1946 - 06.04.1948 Major-General RM, Chatham
One of HM's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, 1949-66 and Harbinger, 13.05.1952-08.02.1966; Colonel Commandant Somaliland Scouts, 08.10.1948-08.10.1958. Member Berkshire County Council, 1955-1961.
Chilcott,
Albert Ernest
A.E. Chilcott (© Imperial War Museum (A 29085))

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14.08.1906
Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
03.01.1981
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
Lt. 28.02.1940
A/Capt. 24.08.1944
A/Maj. 20.03.1945
Capt. 28.02.1948 (retd 14.08.1951; granted War Service rank of Maj.)
... - ... ...
02.1940 - 09.03.1940 Depot RM, Deal
10.03.1940 - 13.05.1944 Home Base Ledger: RM Group MNBDO (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization) (1)
10.03.1940 - (06.)1940 Group HQ
(08.)1940 - (10.)1940 Coast Artillery Brigade
(12.)1940 - 31.07.1943 Second-in-Command, "Devon" Battery, Coast Artillery Brigade
01.08.1943 - 13.05.1944 Battery Commander, "Chatham" Battery, Coast Artillery Brigade
14.05.1944 - 19.03.1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
20.03.1945 - 10.06.1947 HMS Royal Albert (Naval Party 1749, London/Berlin) (for duty with Naval Party 1734 as Fortifications Officer)
... - ... ...
Chiverall,
Richard Sydney
 R.S. Chiverall (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick) R.S. Chiverall (Photo courtesy of Mr Lee Cundick)
 Son of John Frederick Chiverall
(1884-1930), and Louie Winifred H.
Southee (1885-1930) (both killed in a
car accident).
Brother of Maj. John Geoffrey
Chiverall.		 (06?).1922
Camberwell district,
Greater London /
London / Surrey
-
08.09.1943
(KIA) [age 21]
[Salerno War
Cemetery, Italy,
V.D.20]
T/2nd Lt. 07.08.1942
T/Lt. 07.02.1943
39-45 St - -
Italy Star It St - -
British War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: in the USA.
(08.1942?) - (02.)1943 RM Commandos
(06.)1943 - 08.09.1943 40 RM Commando (Salerno) (killed in action)
Clark,
Ralph Edward
R.E. Clark 		20.10.1923 ?
Bristol, Gloucestershire ?
-
17.10.2017 ?
Bath, Somerset ?
T/2nd Lt. 06.10.1944
T/Lt. 06.04.1945 (reld 02.07.1946)
France & Germany Star F&G St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
1944? - (01.)1945 Plymouth Division RM
1945 - (04.)1945 30th RM Battalion
(07.1945)     Reinforcement Holding Unit RM *
1945 - (10.1945) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)
(04.1946)     RM Depot Lympstone
* indexed, but not listed as such
Clayton,
Glyn Campbell Hollingsworth
 G.C.H. Clayton
Son of Henry Reginald Clayton, and Agnes Alice Richardson.

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24.02.1893
Fulham, Greater London, Middlesex
-
18.08.1969
Highbury, London
A/S.Lt. RN
 ?
S.Lt. RN
 ?
Lt. RN
 15.11.1915
Lt.Cdr. RN
 15.11.1923 (retd 25.08.1936; own request)
Cdr. RN (retd)
 25.08.1936
Chief Inspector RMP
 25.08.1936
Superintendent RMP
 25.01.1940
Chief Constable RMP
 01.08.1946
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
 10.06.1954
 HM's birthday 1954
15.01.1906
  
 		 
 		entered RN
06.07.1923
 -
 		(08.)1923
 		HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School) (temporary)
04.10.1923
 -
 		(01.1925)
 		Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & as Squadron Signals & W/T Officer [HMS Chatham (cruiser)]
14.04.1926
 -
 		(05.)1926
 		HMS Yarmouth (cruiser) & for duty in Signal School (Portsmouth)
12.1926
 -
 		(07.1927)
 		Signals Officer, HMS Yarmouth (cruiser) (for W/T duties)
(04.1928)
 -
 		(08.1929)
 		lent to Chilean Navy
(04.1930)

no appointment listed
26.05.1930
 -
 		(02.)1931
 		Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]
30.11.1931
 -
 		(09.1932)
 		Executive Officer, HMS Concord (signal school cruiser, Portsmouth)
07.04.1933
 -
 		(07.1935)
 		Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Rear-Admiral-in-Charge Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]
(02.1936)

no appointment listed
25.08.1936
 -
 		(07.1937)
 		Chief Inspector Royal Marine Police, HM Dockyard Portsmouth
(02.1938)
 -
 		(09.1939)
 		Chief Inspector Royal Marine Police, HM Dockyard Sheerness
25.01.1940
 -
 		(04.1946)
 		Assistant Chief Constable, Royal Marine Police & Admiralty Civil Police, Portsmouth Area HQ
01.08.1946
 -
 		(07.1948)
 		Chief Constable, Royal Marine Police & Admiralty Civil Police (London)
Clayton,
Valentine Gardner
V.G. Clayton

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19.01.1898
Belize
-
29.03.1975
Sherborne, Dorset
2nd Lt. 01.09.1915
Lt. 20.09.1916
Capt. 01.10.1921
Maj. 01.04.1936
A/Lt.Col. 21.07.1941-11.03.1946
Bt. Lt.Col. 30.06.1943 (retd 17.12.1946; granted War Service rank of Lt.Col.)
... - ... ...
21.04.1939 - 01.01.1940 Depot RM Deal
02.01.1940 - 04.09.1940 Plymouth Division RM
05.09.1940 - 15.01.1941 RM Holding Battalion, Deal
16.01.1941 - 23.03.1941 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
24.03.1941 - 31.03.1941 HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
01.04.1941 - 02.12.1941 HMS King George V (King George V class battleship)
03.12.1941 - 29.03.1943 HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship)
30.03.1943 - 19.04.1943 Plymouth Division RM
20.04.1943 - 12.01.1945 Depot RM Deal
13.01.1945 - 16.01.1946 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (additional)
... - ... ...
Codrington,
John Ernest Fleetwood
J.E.F. Codrington
Son of Stewart Codrington (1874-1948), Malay Civil Service, and Ethel Kate Rawlins (1893-1972).
Married (20.12.1951, Accra, Gold Coast) Margaret Hall Hall, daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of Sir Herbert Hall Hall, KCMG (1879-1964), and Lucy Emily Harriette Kennedy (1893-1969); three daughters.
19.06.1919
Syston Court, Keynsham district, Gloucestershire
-
07.07.2010
[Lymington, Hampshire ?]
Prob. T/Midsh. 19.02.1940
T/S.Lt. RNVR 19.06.1940
T/Lt. 21.05.1942, seniority 19.06.1940 (reld 18.051946)
A/T/Capt. 17.03.1943
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George CMG 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 1968: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Bahama Islands
Education: Haileybury College (Bartle Frere House, third term 1932-second term 1937); Trinity College, Cambridge (read medicine) (1937; BA 1940, MA 1946).
1940     joined RNVR
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
19.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Vanity (destroyer) (North Atlantic)
      HMS Enchantress (sloop) (North Atlantic)
(12.1941)     HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
21.05.1942     transferred, RM
1942 - (08.)1942 Chatham Division RM
29.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
01.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)
07.08.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)
? - (01.)1945 3rd Commando Battalion RM
1945 - (07.1945) 42 RM Commando (Burma)
Colonial Administrative Service, 1946: Gold Coast (later Ghana), 1947-1958; Nyasaland, 1958-1964; Financial Secretary, Bahamas, 1964-1970; Bahamas Commissioner in London, 1970-1973, acting High Commissioner, 1973-1974; Financial Secretary, Bermuda, 1974-1977. Retired 1978. Consultant, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1991-1994.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Coke,
John Cuthbert d'Ewes
"Johnny"
J.C.d'E. Coke J.C.d'E. Coke
J.C.d'E. Coke J.C.d'E. Coke
Son of Thomas Fergusson Coke (1887-), and Noel Constantia Hall.
Married ((09?).1971, Chelsea district, London)  Marguerite Jill Paterson, daughter of Richard H. Paterson and Daphne Oppenheimer; two sons.
18.11.1916
Exeter district, Devon
-
04.09.2015
Fordingbridge, Hampshire
2nd Lt. 01.09.1935
Lt. 01.10.1937
A/Capt. 16.02.1940-19.08.1942
Capt. 20.08.1942
A/Maj. 11.03.1941-17.04.1944,
04.09.1946-25.08.1947
Maj. 31.12.1950
local Lt.Col. 15.08.1950-28.05.1951,
02.08.1956-06.11.1956
A/Lt.Col. 16.06.1958-...
Lt.Col. 31.12.1968
A/Col. 30.06.1960
Col. 30.06.1952 (retd 18.03.1966)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 1965 [investiture 20.07.1965]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 14.11.1944 13 vessels destroyed Plymouth area 08.1944 [decoration posted]
(09.1939) - (04.)1940 Portsmouth Division RM (Home Base Ledger)
(05.)1940 - (10.)1940 L & M Group, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
(12.1940)     RM Fortress Unit, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation
(02.1941) - (08.)1941 Commander, Transport Company, L & M Group, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
(10.1941)     Battery Commander, "Sussex" Battery, Coast Artillery Regiment (2), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
(12.1941) - (06.)1942 Landing and Gun Mounting Officer, RM Fortress Unit (2), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
(08.1942)     Commanding Officer, RM Fortress Unit (2), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
(10.1942) - (12.1942) Transport Officer, L & M Group, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
(02.1943) - (04.)1944 Officer Commanding, Headquarters Landing Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2)
20.04.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Mauritius (Fiji class cruiser) (DSC)
28.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Superb (Swiftsure class cruiser)
... - ... ...
(1965)     HQ Portsmouth Group RM (CBE)
25.07.1965 - 18.03.1966 also: RM ADC to HM the Queen
Cole,
Michael Alan
M.A. Cole M.A. Cole (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Adams)
Youngest son (with two brothers) of Harold William Cole, CB, CBE (1884-1959), and Agnes Maude Martin (1886-1962), of Bloomsbury, London.		 02.02.1922
Camberwell district, London
-
20.07.1943
(KIA) [age 21]
[Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, II.F.37]
T/2nd Lt. 22.07.1941
T/Lt. 22.01.1942
Education: Dulwich College (1935-1939; Prefect; Second XV; Tennis VI; in his memory the "M.A. Cole Challenge Cup" for lawn tennis has been founded and is competed annually).
Joined Stephenson, Clark & Associated Coys. Ltd., coal exporters, 1939-06.1941.
06.1941     volunteered for RM
(08.1941) - (12.1941) RM Officer Cadet Training Unit
(02.1942) - 20.07.1943 7th Battalion RM (part of 101st RM Brigade, from early 1942 103rd RM Brigade, from mid-1942 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) 2)
[proceeded overseas 09.1942, and after spending 6 weeks in South Africa, he served in the neighbourhood of Suez and Alexandria until joining the 8th Army for the invasion of Sicily; killed in action leading his platoon in action at Massa Parlato, Sicily]
Collet,
Mark Harold
M.H. Collet

Service record AVAILABLE upon request.
24.02.1897
Jubbulpore, India
-
16.09.1968
Macclesfield, Cheshire
Prob. 2nd Lt. 17.04.1915
Lt. 21.11.1915
Capt. 06.01.1921
Maj. 01.01.1935
A/Lt.Col. 04.01.1940-31.03.1946
Lt.Col. (Paym,) 01.04.1946 (retd 01.05.1951; own request)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946
Military Cross MC 01.01.1919 ?
21.02.1939 - 23.02.1945 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (as Senior Officer RM)
24.02.1945 - 20.03.1945 Plymouth Division RM (additional; temporary)
21.03.1945 - 04.04.1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional; as Officer Commanding, Camp Staff "A")
05.04.19145 - 15.05.1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional; as Officer Commanding, Depot RM Ceylon)
16.05.1945 - 02?.1946 HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) (additional)
27.02.1946 - 30.04.1951 Paymaster, Plymouth Division RM
Collier,
Dudley Arthur
D.A. Collier 		?
-
?
... ...
T/Maj. 27.10.1942
A/T/Lt.Col. 27.07.1942
... - ... ...
Collins,
Ronald
R. Collins (Photo courtesy of Chris Collins)
Married ...; three sons, three daughters.		 24.10.1918
-
(12?).1971
Surrey Northern district, Surrey
2nd Lt. 10.12.1943
Lt. 10.06.1944
A/T/Capt. 29.03.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
28.12.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Connew,
Thomas Francis
T.F. Connew (© Imperial War Museum (A 17699))

Service record AVAILABLE upon request.
14.04.1879
-
30.03.1954
Kingston Lewes district, East Sussex
... ...
Lt. 18.01.1916 (retd 01.11.1922) (recalled 30.10.1939)
A/Capt. 16.02.1940
A/Maj. (retd) 23.08.1941-01.10.1944 (reverted to retd 30.10.1944)
Capt. (retd) 03.09.1945 (War Service rank of Maj. 03.09.1945)
   
... - ... ...
30.10.1939 - 01.10.1944 Instructor of S.L. (Searchlights?), RM Technical Training Depot (Portsmouth Division RM)
02.10.1944 - 29.10.1944 Portsmouth Division RM (not to join)
Corlett,
Albert Edgar
A.E. Corlett (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard J. Corlett)
Son of Albert John Corlett (1866-), and Edith Mary Fell.
Married ((06?).1938, Liverpool South distrct, Lancashire) Helen I. Boswell ((12?).1910 - ); three sons.		 21.10.1911
Douglas, Isle of Man
-
17.02.2000
Douglas, Isle of Man
T/Lt. 17.08.1942
A/T/Capt. 08.05.1945
T/Capt. 04.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Douglas High School (1924-1930); University of Liverpool (1930-1933; B.Eng.).
Central Divisional Engineer with Essex Rivers Catchment Board, 1936-1939. Chief Assistant Engineer with Preston Corporation (River Ribble Navigation), 1939-1942.
(10.1942)     Royal Marine Engineers Battalion (under training, not yet appointed)
(12.1942)     "F" Company, Royal Marine Engineers
(02.1943) - (06.)1943 "H" Company, Royal Marine Engineers
(08.)1943 - (07.1945) "T" Company, Royal Marine Engineers (Mobile Naval Air Field I) [RN Party 1715]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
After the war he returned to Preston and became Chief Engineer until 1959, when he became Harbour Engineer on the Isle of Man.
Cornwall,
Richard Frank
R.F. Cornwall 

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03.04.1902
-
17.05.1967
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.10.1920
Lt. 01.10.1923
Capt. 01.10.1931
Bt. Maj. 30.06.1936
A/Maj. 01.11.1939-09.01.1940,
16.02.1940-03.05.1941
Maj. 09.03.1942
Bt. Lt.Col. 31.12.1942
A/Lt.Col. 04.05.1941-16.12.1943,
11.09.1944-07.02.1945,
17.10.1945-(01.1946)
A/Col. 17.12.1943-10.09.1944,
08.02.1945-16.10.1945
... ...
Maj.Gen. 23.11.1951 (retd 21.12.1954)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.06.1953 Coronation List 1953 [investiture 14.07.1953]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) CBE 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 1951 [investiture 14.11.1951]
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) OBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946
... - ... ...
26.05.1937 - 29.02.1940 Depot RM, Deal (from 01.11.1939-10.01.1940 as military instructor)
01.03.1940 - 06.06.1943 RM Brigade (from 04.05.1941-06.06.1943 as Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion RM)
07.06.1943 - 12.06.1943 HMS President (for duty with Chief of Combined Operations and Combined Operations HQ)
13.06.1943 - 15.09.1943 HMS Saker (for duty with Chief of Combined Operations Representative Washington)
16.09.1943 - 26.09.1943 Chatham Division RM
27.09.1943 - 26.08.1944 HMS Braganza (additional) (from 15.10.1943-26.08.1944 for duty on staff of Supreme Allied Commander SEAC)
27.08.1944 - 03.09.1944 Chatham Division RM
04.09.1944 - 10.09.1944 HQ Staff RM (RM Office)
11.09.1944 - 16.10.1945 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), redesignated 1945: Colonel (Training), "G" Branch, HQ Staff RM (RM Office)
17.10.1945 - 20.11.1945 HMS Rodney (additional)
... - ... ...
Cotton,
Michael James
M.J. Cotton
Son of Clifford Colton and Mildred L. Palmer.
Married (1945) Dorsey Jane Thomas; one daughter.		 22.12.1920
Bromley, London
-
28.03.1981
Haslemere, Surrey
T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942
T/Lt. 15.11.1942
A/T/Capt. 21.11.1942
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) CBE 26.06.1979 HM's birthday 1979: Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, International Military Services Ltd.
Education: School of Architecture; Dept of Civic Design, Liverpool University.
25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division
1942 - (08.)1942 1st Battalion, 101st RM Brigade
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) 42nd RM Commando
ARIBA, MRTPI ; Deputy Chairman, International Military Services Ltd (formerly Millbank Technical Services Ltd), since 1974 (Chief Executive, 1974-80); Assistant Town Planner, Staffordshire County Council, 1949-50; Architect Planner, Stevenage Development Corp., 1950-52; Assistant Town Planner, Federation of Malaya, 1952-54; Architect and Senior Architect, Public Works Department, Singapore, 1954-59 ; Senior Architect, Directorate of Works, WO, 1959-64; Chairman. Joint Post Office/MPBW R&D Group, 1964-66; Chief Architect, Scottish Office, 1966-67; Assistant Director Overseas Services, Ministry of Public Building and Works (MPBW), 1967-69; Director of Defence Services 11, MPBW, later Department of the Environment (DoE), 1969-72 ; Director, Home Estate Management, DoE, 1972-74.
Cox,
David
D. Cox (© Imperial War Museum (A 29344)) 		?
-
?
... ...
T/Lt. 13.05.1943
A/T/Capt 06.04.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 17.10.1944 descent in boom patrol boat [investiture 18.05.1945]
? - (07.1945) Plymouth Division RM, as Second-in-Command, RM Boom Patrol Defence Unit
Coy,
Peter Edward Brazil		   see: RNVR section  
Craig,
Archibald Maxwell
A.M. Craig (© National Portrait Gallery, London NPG x166798) A.M. Craig (© Royal Marines Museum)
05.01.1895
-
23.09.1953
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.10.1912
T/Lt. 06.09.1914
Lt. 1915?, seniority 06.09.1914
Capt. 06.06.1917
T/Maj. 17.12.1918-02.01.1919
Bt. Maj. 01.07.1930
Maj. 15.01.1931
Lt.Col. 01.04.1937
T/Col. 19.04.1939-31.10.1939
A/Col. 2nd Comdt. 01.11.1940-31.05.1942
A/Brig. 05.05.1941-17.09.1941
Col. 2nd Comdt. 01.06.1942
A/Col. Comdt. 01.06.1942-30.09.1943
Col. Comdt. 01.10.1943
T/Brig. 01.06.1942-02.10.1943
Maj.Gen. 03.10.1943 (retd 01.06.1944) (recalled 28.06.1944 in rank of Col. up to 25.11.1944, then from 26.11.1944 Col. Comdt. (T/Brig.)) (reverted to retd 27.10.1945)
Companion of the Order of the Bath CB 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 [investiture 07.03.1944]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire OBE ? ?
... - ... ...
16.12.1924 - 15.12.1925 Adjutant, Depot RM, Deal
... - ... ...
22.12.1937 - 26.01.1938 HMS President
27.01.1938 - 31.05.1940 Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.06.1940 - 15.11.1940 Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President]
16.11.1940 - 04.05.1941 Second-in-Command, Plymouth Division RM
05.05.1941 - 02.10.1941 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Naval Intelligence)
03.10.1941 - 31.05.1942 Second-in-Command, Portsmouth Division RM
01.06.1942 - 31.05.1944 Commandant, Chatham Division RM
28.06.1944 - 31.12.1944 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty, with Control Commission Military Staff (CCMS) HQ (Naval Section))
01.01.1945 - 31.08.1945 HMS President (for duty outside Admiralty, with Control Commission Military Staff (CCMS) HQ (Naval Section))
01.09.1945 - 26.10.1945 Chatham Division RM (not to join; for release in Class "A")
Craig,
Douglas Stirling
D.S. Craig 		27.07.1920
-
06.03.2007
Hampshire
2nd Lt.
 		01.09.1939
Lt.
16.02.1941
...
 		...
Maj.
 		?
...
 -
 		...
 		...
Crawford,
Anthony Davenport
A.D. Crawford 		25.09.1919
-
19.12.1998
Hillingdon, Middlesex
2nd Lt.
 		01.09.1937
A/Lt.
 		28.08.1939-30.09.1939
Lt.
 		01.10.1939
A/Capt.
 		09.09.1942-(01.1946)
Capt.
 		01.10.1947 (retd 17.11.1958)
Mention in Despatches MID
 04.04.1952
 Malaya 07-12.1951
(08.1939)

RM Course, Portsmouth
(08.1942)

Portsmouth Division RM
(02.1943)
 -
 		(08.1943)
 		RM Divisional Artillery
(10.1943)

Plymouth Division RM
20.10.1943
 -
 		 (07.1945)
 		HMS Black Prince (cruiser)
(1951)

45 RM Commando

 

Cross,
William Ernest
"Bert"
W.E. Cross (Photo courtesy of Mr Marius Bekker) W.E. Cross (Photo courtesy of Mr Marius Bekker)
W.E. Cross (Photo courtesy of Mr Marius Bekker) 
Son (with two brothers) of William Henry Cross (1880-1954), and Louisa Marie Dove (1877-1935).
Married (14.08.1930, Deal, Eastry district, Kent) Amelia Cox (21.04.1909 - 06.1992); one daughter, one son.

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Service record AVAILABLE upon request.
12.08.1905
Wandsworth, London
-
15.12.1964
Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire
Mne. 05.02.1923 [Po. 21787]
Cpl. 11.10.1933
Sgt. 03.05.1937
T/Col.Sgt. 13.03.1943
T/Lt. 01.04.1943 (dispersal 31.10.1945) (reld 26.12.1945) (commission terminated 01.11.1950; on appointment to commission in Royal Artillery - Territorial Army)
Army:  
Lt. 01.11.1950, seniority 01.06.1945 [414748]
Capt. 01.07.1952 (Unattached List 18.04.1958) (retd 17.04.1959)

1939-1945 Star

 39|45 St - -
Pacific Star Pac St - & clasp
Italy Star It St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
05.02.1923     joined RM
... - ... ...
12.05.1924 - 11.11.1925 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean)
... - ... ...
02.02.1926 - 14.05.1928 HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (China)
... - ... ...
03.09.1931 - 07.11.1933 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet)
... - ... ...
20.11.1933 - 03.10.1934 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
... - ... ...
21.11.1935 - 16.12.1935 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) [tender to HMS Pembroke]
... - ... ...
23.01.1936 - 04.04.1938 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
... - ... ...
29.07.1939 - 28.08.1942 HMS Durban (cruiser) [tender to HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
... - ... ...
01.04.1943 - 26.04.1943 Portsmouth Division RM
26.04.1943 - 20.10.1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon), from 01.09.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (additional; for landing craft duty):
26.04.1943 - 14.05.1943 HM LCG 19 (landing craft, gun)
14.05.1943 - 15.12.1943 HM LCG 11 (landing craft, gun)
15.12.1943 - ? HM LCG 13 (landing craft, gun)
? - 06.02.1944 HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend) (for major landing craft pool)
06.02.1944 - 13.02.1944 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for course)
13.02.1944 - 13.03.1944 HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole) (for assault gunnery course)
13.03.1944 - 17.04.1944 HM LCG 13 (landing craft, gun)
17.04.1944 - 24.05.1944 HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend) (for major landing craft pool)
24.05.1944 - 18.07.1944 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (for major landing craft pool)
18.07.1944 - 30.09.1944 HM LCG 1 (landing craft, gun)
30.09.1944 - 20.10.1944 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (for major landing craft pool)
21.10.1944 - 11.11.1944 Plymouth Division RM
12.11.1944 - 10.02.1945 RM Training Group Wales (for Landing Craft Gun (Medium) [LCG(M)] training)
11.02.1945 - 25.04.1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (additional; for landing craft duty)
11.02.1945 - 13.03.1945 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (for major landing craft pool)
14.03.1945 - ? LC(M) 115 (landing craft, mechanised)
? - 25.04.1945 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (for major landing craft pool)
26.04.1945 - 02.05.1945 Portsmouth Division RM
03.05.1945 - 28.10.1945 Boat Officer, R.M.E.T.C. (Iceland Camp, Barmouth, from 20.06.1945 Matapan Camp), RM Training Group Wales
29.10.1945 - 26.12.1945 Portsmouth Division RM (additional; for release)
01.11.1950 - 17.04.1959 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery - Territorial Army [exceeded age limit]
Cullum,
Michael
M. Cullum 		?
-
T/2nd Lt.
 		17.03.1941
T/Lt.
 		17.12.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
?
 -
 		(12.1941)
 		RM Division, Reinforcement Depot (Hayling Island)
(08.1942)
 -
 		(06.)1943
 		RM Beach Battalion
1943
 -
 		(08.)1943
 		Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (1) (MNBDO(1))
(10.)1943
 -
 		(12.1943)
 		RM Depot, Deal
(04.1944)
 -
 		(06.1944)
 		Plymouth Division RM
?
 -
 		(07.1945)
 		Liaison Officer, 117th RM Infantry Brigade
07.08.1945

 -

 		(04.1946)

 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Cummins,
Patrick Norman Clinton
P.N.C. Cummins (Photo courtesy of Mr Geoffrey Cummins)
Son (with one sister) of Ernest Norman Travers Cummins (1876-1953), and Margaret Alice Fynes-Clinton (1879-1970).
Married ((09?).1938, Worthing district, Sussex) Margaret Winifred Burrows (07.10.1910 - 07.1987); one son.		 07.12.1910
Dorset
-
13.10.1975
East Aldershot, North East Hampshire
T/2nd Lt. 16.07.1943
A/T/Lt. 08.01.1944
T/Lt. 16.01.1944
A/T/Capt. 26.06.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Education: Marlborough College (09.1924-07.1929).
(08.1943)     Portsmouth Division RM
11.09.1943 -
 		(10.1945)
 		HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Banana grower.
His son writes: "He joined up in 1942, after returning from Brazil, being torpedoed on board Tuscan Star on the way. Served in Forth of Firth, in landing craft training flotilla."
Cunningham,
William
"Bill"
W. Cunningham (Photo courtesy of Mr Terence Maton) W. Cunningham (Photo courtesy of Mr Terence Maton)
W. Cunningham W. Cunningham
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur Gillespie Cunningham (1867-1930), and Evelyn Mary Spencer, of Croydon, Surrey.
Younger brother of G/Capt. John Cunningham, CBE, DSO and 2 Bars, RAF.
Married Daphne ...; one son, one daughter.		 30.07.1920
-
23.02.1989
Whitchurch, Hampshire
T/2nd Lt. 15.08.1940
T/Lt. 15.02.1941
A/T/Capt. 09.09.1941
T/Capt. 24.04.1945
A/T/Maj. 24.01.1945
T/Maj. 14.09.1945 (reld 18.08.1946; medical unfitness; retaining War Service Rank of Lt.Col.)
A/T/Lt.Col.. 14.06.1945-17.09.1945,
09.01.1946-20.02.1946
Capt. RMFVR 01.04.1949, seniority 25.11.1948
Maj. RMFVR 01.03.1950 (reld 06.1960)
Distonguished Service Order DSO 02.11.1943 services in Sicily [investiture 18.04.1944] *
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD ? -
* Pachino Peninsular, 10 July 1943. As "Y" Troop Commander this Officer was responsible for assaulting and capturing the strongpoint 888898. Owing to weather and mechanical breakdowns only a small portion (eight all ranks) of his Troop arrived ashore. Captain Cunningham led these men quickly and accurately to the objective and as his bangalore torpedoes were not with him, he succeeded in cutting the surrounding wire and entering the compound from the rear. He was however unable to silence the position from this angle and led an assault round the flank silencing the position himself with a direct hit through the loophole with a 36 grenade. In doing so he was severely wounded in the arm by a burst of machine gun fire from the position but he remained and mopped up the area killing and capturing many of the enemy. His leadership especially after a painful wound was an inspiration to all. I consider that less resolute action by this Officer would have resulted in considerable heavier casualties to our Troops.		 Underwriter, Lloyd's, 1936-1940 & 1946-1989.
14.05.1940     enlisted RM
14.05.1940 - 1940 RM Reserve Depot
1940 - 10.1940 Portsmouth Division RM
10.1940 - (12.1940) 7th Battalion RM, 103rd RM Brigade
(02.1941) - 11.1942 8th Battalion RM, 103rd RM Brigade (from c. 07.1942 102nd RM Brigade)
 [served some time as an instructor at the RM Cadet Training Unit, subsequently the RM Military School (Thurlestone)]
11.1942 - 10.1943 Troop Commander, 41 RM Commando (UK, Sicily [wounded in left arm; in hospital 07-10.1943])
10.1943 - 22.11.1944 attached, RM Military School (Thurlestone) (from 04.1944 as Adjutant)
23.11.1944 - 20.02.1946 41 RM Commando
23.11.1944 - 17.12.1944 "Q" Troop Commander (acting as Town Major of Middelburg, (Walcheren, the Netherlands) for some period)
17.12.1944 - 06?.1945 "X" Troop Commander
06?.1945 - 14.06.1945 Second-in-Command
14.06.1945 - 17.09.1945 acting Commanding Officer
17.09.1945 - 16.12..1946 Second-in-Command
16.12.1945 - 20.01.1946 acting Commanding Officer
21.02.1946 - 04?.1946 Training Group RM, Wales
04?.1946 - 08.1946 Plymouth Division RM
01.04.1949 - 06.1960 RM Forces Volunteer Reserve (City of London Unit, from 01.03.1950 Second-in-Command, City of London Centre)
Rejoined the firm of Sedgewick Collins and Co Ltd in the City of London in 1946. In 1957 he joined Rose Thomson, Young and Co Ltd and became a member of the Board in 1958. He was Chairman of Rose, Thomson, Young (Underwriting) Ltd from 1981 until August 1988, and was a Director of Young and Simiton (Underwriting) Ltd.
Cutler,
Selwyn Guise
 S.G. Cutler (Photo courtesy of Mr Greg Colgan)


 

 18.09.1898
Crouch End, London
-
07.04.1970
Gosport, Hampshire
Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1916
A/Lt. 26.09.1917
Lt. ?, seniority 26.09.1917
Capt. 15.10.1928
Maj. 01.07.1938 (retd; granted War Service Rank of Lt.Col.)
A/Lt.Col. 11.02.1942-10.10.1942,
03.03.1943-20.11.1947
Mention in Despatches MID 05.07.1940 ?
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26.01.1927 - 21.10.1927 12th RM Battalion
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04.01.1939 - 01.01.1940 RM School of Music
02.01.1940 - 20.02.1940 Depot RM, Deal
21.02.1940 - 12.08.1941 RM Brigade
13.08.1941 - 20.02.1942 RM Division Re-inforcement Depot (RMDD), Hayling Island
21.02.1944 - 13.10.1942 RM Division
14.10.1942 - 02.03.1943 Chatham Division RM
03.03.1943 - 30.08.1944 104th (Training) Brigade RM
31.08.1944 - 19.02.1945 HMS St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch)
20.02.1945 - 21.09.1947 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
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