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Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) Officers
1939-1945

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Daler, O.K.
to
Dymoke-Byrne, J.J.

O.K. Daler to J.J. Dymoke-Byrne

Daler,
Ove Kamillo
16.10.1908
Norway
-
?

Prob. T/Lt.
16.06.1941

T/Lt.
01.1942, seniority 16.06.1941 (reld 15.05.1942)

DSC
-
minelaying Dover 43

16.06.1941
-
26.07.1941
RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

03.08.1941
-
31.08.1941
gunnery course, Chatham

08.09.1941
-
01.05.1942
HMS Sherwood (destroyer)

15.05.1942

transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy

(1943)

HM ML 213 (motor launch) (52nd ML Flotilla)

SOK 15-24.5.1942 (from RNR); DD "Draug" 24-25.5.1942; SOK 25.5.1942; 4 ML Flotilla 25.5.1942-18.11.1943; DD "Lincoln" 14.12.1943-8.2.1944; DD "Sleipner" 16.2-10.3.1944; MID Admiralty 13.3-1.5.1944; SOK 1.5-1.8.1944; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Syrian" 1.8.1944-29.9.1945; SOK 18.10.1945; Commanding Officer, M/Sw "Sidmouth" 16.11.1945-7.12.1946.

Davidson,
Arthur
A. Davidson ?
-
25.11.1942
[Deli Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria, 3.E.10]

T/Skpr.
20.08.1940 [TS 718]

DSC
16.03.1943
Operation Torch (landings in N Africa, 11.42); attacked 10.11.42 Italian submarine Emo, which was scuttled afterwards [award presented to next-of-kin]

20.08.1940
-
25.11.1942
HMS Lord Nuffield (trawler)

Davidson,
Alexander Frederick Sidney
A.F.S. Davidson
Only son of E.A. Davidson, and ... Pitt, of Oakstead, Radlett.
Married (17.07.1943, Aldenham Church, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Margaret Eleanor Owen, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs A. Lowe Owen, of Santa Cruz, Tenerife. (12?).1919
Barnet district, Hertfordshire
-
died 1960s ??

Prob. Midsh. 01.12.1937

A/S.Lt. 11.01.1940

S.Lt. 04.10.1940

Lt. 11.07.1942 (retd 01.07.1950)

RD 08.02.1950 -

12.04.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Lormont (defensively-equipped merchant ship)

(02.1941) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

02.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Broke (destroyer)

01.03.1942 - (08.1942) French Ship "Mistral" (torpedo boat)

12.01.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Kite (sloop) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer)

(10.)1944 - (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(04.1946) no appointment listed

Davies,
John Ramsbottom
"Jack"
J.R. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr John B. Davies)
Son of Job Davies (1874-1921?), and Annie Ramsbottom (1876-1962?).
Married (31.08.1931, South Shields district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear) Edith Mary Hutchinson. 01.12.1902
Rochdale, Lancashire
-
22.07.1986
Cumberland

S.Lt. 29.05.1925

Lt. 29.05.1927

Lt.Cdr. 29.05.1935 (retd 29.01.1937; own request)

A/Cdr. (retd) < 08.1943 (reverted to retd 1945)

OBE 08.06.1943 Inshore Squadron supporting 8th Army advance [investiture 28.09.43]

MID 06.07.1943 for gallantry in rescue work during a heavy air-raid on Tripoli harbour 03.43

RD 15.10.1943 -

Master Mariner, Merchant Navy (1936 Commanded SS Langley Ridge which was lost carrying coal off Cape Breton Island, Canada; 1938 Nautical Surveyor).

(1925) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)

23.11.1925 - (05.1926) HMS L 16 (submarine) (Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest]

(1932) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (at the time of the loss of the submarine HMS M2 which was carrying out trials as an aircraft-carrying submarine 26.01.1932)

03.09.1932 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport), then (same day) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for HMS H 50 (submarine))

(04.1940) no appointment listed

31.08.1940 - (10.1940) acting Sea Transport Officer-in-Charge, Port Sudan [under Sea Transport Department, Ministry of Shipping]

01.02.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) [probably involved in the refloating of HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant in Alexandria harbour after an attack by Italian frogmen]

(08.1943) no appointment listed

05.10.1943 - (07.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with Ministry of War Transport)

Senior Nautical Surveyor, Board of Trade, 1945. Nautical Adviser to the Government of India, 1950-1956.

Davies,
Thomas Edward
T.E. Davies 1908 ?
-
09.04.1942
(KIA) [age 34]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

Lt.
02.12.1933

Lt.Cdr.
1939/40?

OBE
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 40

(1940)

HMT Northern Gift

02.11.1940
-
09.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (corvette) (sunk)

Davies,
Thomas Eta
T.E. Davies ?
-

T/Lt.
09.12.1939

13.12.1942
-
(04.1944)
for duties with sea transport officers, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Sultan

Davies,
Vaughan Ninian Startin
V.N.S. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Gordon MacIntosh)
Son (with three brothers) of Capt. Edward Vaughan Davies, DSO, OBE, CMC (1882-1945), and Ruth Jenkins (1883?-1967).
Married Joan Frances Gwendoline "Gwen" MacIntosh, of Levens, Westmoreland; two children.
Lived at Wallasey. (06?).1917
Haverfordwest district, Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-
24.01.1942
(MPK) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]

Prob. Midsh. 01.10.1935

Midsh. 1937?, seniority 01.10.1935

A/S.Lt. 07.02.1938

S.Lt. 11.01.1940

Lt. 18.11.1940

DSC 28.04.1942 operations in Mediterranean [presented to next-of-kin]

Headstone in memory of V.N.S. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Owen Vaughan)

24.03.1937 HMS Rodney (battleship)

(1940) HMS Cossack (destroyer)

07.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Aurora (cruiser)

(10.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

29.08.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]

? - 24.01.1942 pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
Edward Albert George
"Ted"
E.A. Davis 24.12.1908
Camberwell, London
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973

Prob. S.Lt.
06.11.1933

S.Lt.
1934, seniority 06.11.1933

Lt.
26.11.1935

A/Lt.Cdr.
< 06.1943

Lt.Cdr.
1943?, seniority 26.11.1942

A/Cdr.
< 07.1945

Cdr.
31.12.1946

DSO
24.03.1942
commanded 12 successful operations to the enemy controlled coasts of Holland and North Brittany [investiture 12.05.42]

DSO
15.08.1944
special operations at sea [investiture 24.10.44]

RD
?
-

CdeG
05.1943
?

04.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet) (to complete 9 months' training)

26.09.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Cape Sable (special service vessel)

(02.1941)

HMS Cape Sable (special service vessel) *

18.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
French Ship "Gustave-Denis"

04.05.1943
-
(07.1945)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (and for liaison with ISLD)

(1943?)
-
(1944?)
Senior Officer & Principal Operations Commander, 15th MGB Flotilla & in charge of Deputy Director of Operations Division (Irregular)'s main training and operational base at Dartmouth (based at RN College, Dartmouth)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
Penrose Owen
P.O. Davis
Son of James Herbert and Louise Ann Davis, of Dunster. 1896
[01.03.1896 baptism]
-

Lt.
?

Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1927

Cdr.
30.06.1935

A/Capt.
10.10.1943?

Capt.
31.12.1943 (reld 1945/46)

RD
?
?

11.1939
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Discovery II

06.11.1941
-
(08.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Empire Pintail (Ministry of War Transport)

10.10.1943
-
(12.1943)
[Commanding Officer?], HMS Thane (escort carrier)

01.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Delf,
Allen
A. Delf (Photo courtesy of Mr James Arber)
26.01.1903
Wangford district, Suffolk
-
08.1973
Lowestoft, Lothingland district, Suffolk

Skpr.
23.05.1934 [WS 2646]

Ch.Skpr.
30.06.1943

A/Skpr.Lt.
03.07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

Skpr.Lt.
30.06.1950 (retd 27.01.1953)

RD
01.08.1952
-

23.08.1939
-
(12.1941)
Boom Defence Depot, Malaya [HMS Sultan]

01.02.1943
-
03.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Imelda (auxiliary boom defence trawler)

(10.1944)

HMS William Hannam (trawler) *

05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Barfoss (boom defence vessel)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dennis,
Ralph Deacon
R.D. Dennis
Son of Henry Haywood Dennis, and Una Mary D'Elboux (1874-1947).
Married (23.03.1940) Josephine Sharman; two daughters.
26.01.1912
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
13.04.1988
Dover district, Kent

Prob. TS./Lt.
29.01.1940

T/S.Lt.
1940?, seniority 29.01.1940 (reld 1941)

may have served at HMS Turquoise and at HMS Velia (Dunkirk)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

30.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for Anti-Submarine Striking Force convoy duties)

Depoorter,
George Félix Léon
G.F.L. Depoorter (Photo courtesy of Mr George Depoorter Jr.)
Son of Félix Julianus Constantinus Depoorter, a civil servant of the Dienst Bruggen en Wegen ("Bridges and Roads Department"), and Angeline Cath. Ferd. Dams.
Married (28.09.1937) Godeliva Decoster; ... children (one son?).
20.02.1908
Ekeren, Belgium
-

Prob. T/Lt. 26.01.1942

T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 26.01.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

Education: Koninklijk Atheneum, Antwerp.
Breveted as deck officer in the Belgian Merchant Navy, 1927, starting his career aboard ss Kambove, followed by several other vessels of the Lloyd Royale Belge (later known as Compagnie Maritime Belge). Promoted to 2nd Mate in July 1935, he came ashore in 1936 as Assistant Shipping Commissioner at Ostend and as Shipping Commissioner at Nieuwpoort in 1939. In this last capacity he was able to bring a substantial part of the Belgian fishery fleet into safety in the UK.

gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth),

(02.1942) - (04.1942) no appointment listed

(06.1942) - (07.1945) Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Emma (landing ship, infantry) (Dieppe, North Africa, Sicily, Normandy) *

Post-war commissioned in the Belgian Navy, from which he retired in 1965 as a Captain. Had been Commandant of the Naval Base at Banana, Belgian Congo, 1954-1960.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Deveson,
Francis Samuel
F.S. Deveson
Married ((06?).1935, Rochford district, Essex) Vera Frances D. Pells (05.06.1910 - 06.1999); ... children (one son?). 06.03.1906
Romford district, Essex
-
(03?).1983
Norwich district, Norfolk

Midsh. 01.09.1923

A/S.Lt. 06.03.1927

S.Lt. 16.03.1929

Lt. 03.07.1932
04.10.1932, seniority 03.04.1932 * (retd 27.08.1937)

A/Lt.Cdr. 1941?

Lt.Cdr. (retd) 13.04.1942

RD 1942? -

* Promotion for specially good service. In recognition of his outstanding abilities as an officer during his training with the fleet.
Entered the RNR while a cadet with the Royal Mali Steamship Company which he joined from the Training Ship Worcester.

17.09.1923 - 25.11.1923 HMS King George V (battleship)

26.11.1923 - 1923? HMS Glorious (cruiser)

14.09.1931 - 11.1931 HMS L 21 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

26.11.1931 - (07.)1932 HMS L 18 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

25.04.1936 - 1936 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)

(12.1939) - (07.)1940 no appointment listed [on blockship SS Moyle under Lt.Cdr. R.H.D. Lane to Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo]

06.07.1940 - (06.)1944 1st Lieutenant, then from about mid-1941 Commanding Officer, French Ship "L'Incomprise"

25.09.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Misoa (landing ship, tank)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

17.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commandng Officer, HM LST 3002 (landing ship, tank)

Devlin,
John Norman
J.N. Devlin
Son of ... Devlin, and ... Norman. 17.01.1919
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
24.04.2003
Clarke, Virginia, USA

T/S.Lt. 15.04.1940

T/Lt. 01.06.1942

Lt. RN ?, seniority 01.06.1941

Lt.Cdr. RN 01.06.1949 (retd 17.01.1964)

MBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 [investiture 30.10.63]

DSC 11.05.1943 sinking of enemy ships 11/12.42 [investiture 09.11.43]

(1934) sailed as a Cadet in Alan Villiers' training ship "Joseph Conrad"

(1939) Fourth Officer, SS Port Bowen (steamer)

... - ... ...

(12.1941) no appointment listed

15.01.1942 - (02.)1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)

(04.1942) - (12.1942) HMS P 211 (submarine) * (DSC)

28.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Safari (submarine)

16.05.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Safari (submarine)

(12.1943) HMS Safari (submarine) *

15.12.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Safari (submarine)

04.03.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Sealion (submarine)

(06.1944) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) *

20.07.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Uproar (submarine)

01.08.1945 transferred, RN

01.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Theseus (submarine)

... - ... ....

16.09.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Thorough (submarine)

(1963) DGNPS (MBE)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickie,
John Wilfred Harper Fullerton
J.W.H.F. Dickie
From Nottingham.
?
-
2002 still alive

T/Midsh.
?

T/A/S.Lt.
?

T/S.Lt.
02.01.1945, seniority 18.11.1944

T/Lt.
05.12.1946, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RN
?, seniority 18.11.1946

Lt. RNZN
07.07.1951, seniority 18.11.1946 [13695]

Lt.Cdr. RNZN
18.11.1954

Cdr. RNZN
? (retd < 02.1969?)

OBE
01.01.1973
New Year 73

1939
-
1942
HMS Conway (mercantile marine services)

20.02.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Wild Goose (sloop)

(07.1945)

HMS Opossum (sloop) *

02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Welcome (minesweeper)

1946?
-
07.07.1951
served on an Extended Service Commission, RN

29.04.1949
-
(05.1950
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

07.07.1951

transferred to RNZN

25.10.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMNZS Maori

02.01.1956
-
(01.1956)
HMS Vernon (miscellaneous duties)

16.02.1961
-
(02.1963)
Director of Undersurface Warfare, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Wakefield]

President of the Conway Club, 2000-2002.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dickson,
Alexander Forrest
"Alec" / "Forrest"
A.F. Dickson
Son of a merchant marine captain. Married (1947) Norma Houston; three sons, two daughters.

23.06.1920
Edinburgh
-
01.10.2005
Kenmore

Midsh.
24.10.1938

A/S.Lt.
23.06.1940

S.Lt.
23.06.1941

Lt.
01.08.1942

Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1950 (retd 01.07.1958)

OBE
31.12.1979
New Year 80

MID
18.04.1944
Operation Canned (destruction of enemy tankers 02.44)

RD
08.02.1950
?

Education: George Watson's School, Edinburgh

MS Kemmendine (belonging to the Patrick Henderson Line - one of the last passenger steam ships that sailed from Glasgow to Rangoon)

24.10.1938

joined RNR

03.02.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Keppel (destroyer) *

23.06.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Keppel (destroyer) (Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russian convoys [PQ17])

01.11.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Relentless (destroyer) (Africa) (was involved in a successful attack and sinking against some U-boat supply ships)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Anthony (destroyer) ** [was First Lieutenant, then CO]

Returned to the merchant marine, before joining Shell Marine Division. In 1970, Dickson joined the board of Shell Marine and later became head of Marine Operational Services for Shell International. Retired mid-1980s to Kenmore, in Perthshire.
Published: Seafaring, a chosen profession (1995)
* (02.1941) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** indexed, but not listed as such

Dines,
Ernest
E. Dines 1887/88 ?
-
16.01.1946
Lowestoft harbour
(accident)
[age 58]

A/T/Boom Skpr.
14.09.1942

T/Boom Skpr.
?, seniority 15.09.1942

15.09.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Twinkling Star (admiralty steel drifter)

(07.1945)

Boom Defence Depot, Rosyth *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Ditcham,
Anthony Greville Fox
A.G.F. Ditcham (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)
Younger son of Vivian Ashley Ditcham (1896-1957), and Irene M. Robinson, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire.
Engaged (& married?) (1956) Janet Mary Bateman, daughter of Mr & Mrs R.W. Bateman, of Roundabouts, Pulborough, Sussex.
Married ((09?).1982, Rotherham district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Anne Hilton.

(09?).1922
Edmonton district, Oxfordshire
-

T/Midsh. 06.05.1940

T/A/S.Lt. 25.07.1942

T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943

T/Lt. 25.01.1945 (reld 1946)

DSC 21.04.1942 action with E-boats 19.02.42

? - 11.05.1940 HMS Worcester (RNR training ship)

11.05.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (as Flagship of the battlecruiser Squadron, Scapa Flow: Arctic, Norwegian Sea, North Sea, Atlantic) (as Flagship of Force H, Gibraltar) (Mediterranean, Atlantic)

03.1941 - 06.1942 HMS Holderness (destroyer) (North Sea & Channel convoys)

14.09.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Reading (destroyer) (North Sea)

(04.1943) - (06.1943) HMS Scorpion (destroyer) *

01.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (Atlantic, Arctic convoys [torpedoed Scharnhorst]) *

(04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed

12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (anti-E-boat and U-boat patrols in Channel; return to Scapa Flow and Arctic)

1945 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Finisterre (destroyer) (Far East; organised Ship’s Company race meeting in Shanghai with 30 horses borrowed from Chinese Army on borrowed race course)

Cambridge & London Universities, 1946-1948. Overseas Civil Service Nigeria, 1948-1961. Industry – UK, 1961-1982 (retired; reading history, writing memoirs, sailing offshore 8 metre (sold 1992)). Unpaid stable lad exercising race horses in training since 1987.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dixon,
Jesse
J. Dixon
From Milford Haven. ?
-

T/Lt. 21.09.1939

T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1941, < 04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday

22.03.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minesweeper)

(04.)1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minsweeper)

(12.1943) no appointment listed

11.01.1944 - 16.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Nyemetski (minesweeping trawler) (despatches)

Dobson,
George William
G.W. Dobson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Hilary Ambrose)

From Harpenden.

24.02.1905
Liverpool
-
20.11.1971
West Cheshire district

Midsh.
23.11.1923

A/S.Lt.
01.11.1926

S.Lt.
12.01.1929

Lt.
02.01.1930

Lt.Cdr.
02.01.1938 (mobilized 06.09.1939)

Cdr.
30.06.1943 (reld 27.04.1946)

Capt.
30.06.1950 (retd 24.02.1960)

OBE
10.06.1961
HM's birthday 61: Master, t.s. "Devonshire", Bibby Line, Ltd., Liverpool [investiture 24.10.61]

MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45: leading the first supply ships into the Mulberry Harbours in Normandy

RD
1943
-

30.03.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

06.09.1939
-
11.1940
HMS Montclare (armed merchant cruiser)

01.01.1941
-
05.1941
HMS Prinses Josephine Charlotte [also: HMS Princess J. Charlotte] (landing ship infantry (small))

21.05.1941
-
18.10.1943
Commanding Officer, French Ship La Capricieuse (minesweeper)

01.01.1944
-
08.1945
Commodore of Coastal Convoys, HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)

Served in the Merchant Navy, registration No. 1057850. First ship "Mercedes de Larrinaga" belonging to the Larrinaga Steamship Co. Then serving the Bibby Line, 02.1931-31.07.1965 (retired due to ill-health). Promoted Master, 04.1949. His last ship was "Leicestershire".

Dodwell,
Oswald Thomas
"Ossie"
O.T. Dodwell (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)

Son of Charles John Deane Dodwell (1858-1918), and Margaret Edgar (1868-1903).
Married (11.12.1934, St Francis Xavier's (Francisci Xavarii), Liverpool, Lancashire) Alice Walsh (1903-1981). 07.11.1902
Stoneycroft, Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
(09?).1967
Wallasey district, Cheshire

... ...

T/Lt. RNVR ?

T/Lt. 09.1941, seniority 22.02.1941

... - ... ...

27.01.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS St Loman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

(10.1943) - (01.1945) no appointment listed

10.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)

12.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]

Douglas,
George
E. Dines
Son of William and Kaluda Douglas.
Half-brother of Lt. Ian George Alistair Douglas, RN. 06.03.1915
-
18.11.2008
Canada

T/S.Lt. 22.02.1940

Prob. T/Lt. 18.07.1940

T/Lt. 1941, seniority 18.07.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr. 22.03.1943? (reld < 04.1946)

DFC 06.06.1943 air attacks enemy shipping 02-05.43 [investiture 19.10.43]

22.02.1940 - 04.1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull)

22.04.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Examination Service)

(02.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *

(10.1941) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *

(12.1941) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *

30.01.1942 - (02.)1943 [Commanding Officer?], 823 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]

22.03.1943 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, 823 Squadron FAA

01.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)

06.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

15.02.1945 - (07.1945) Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)

Commodore, Indian Navy (Chief of Naval Aviation). Retired 1966.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Douglas,
Ian George Alistair
E. Dines
Son of William and Elsie Douglas.
Half-brother of Lt.Cdr. George Douglas, RNR. 1927 ?
-
12.10.1954
Lossiemouth

T/Midsh. 04.05.1945

A/S.Lt. RN 1947?

S.Lt. RN 29.11.1947 (emgcy 02.06.1949)

A/Lt. RN (emgcy) ?

Lt. RN 01.09.1952, seniority 13.10.1951

(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed

(07.1948) HMS Pincher (Algerine class minesweeper) *

20.01.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)

01.09.1952 short service commission in the Executive Branch of the RN

(05.1953) no appointment listed

(07.1954) no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dowding,
John Charles Keith
J.C.K. Dowding 01.11.1891
-
13.02.1965

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
08.05.1916

Lt.
08.05.1918

Lt.Cdr.
08.05.1926

Cdr.
30.06.1933

Capt.
31.12.1940 (retd 01.11.1946; removed from retd 29.11.1954)

Cdre. 2nd cl.
02.04.1941

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
1945?

CBE
13.10.1942
Russian convoy PQ17 07.42

DSO
16.08.1940
Dunkirk

MID
13.03.1945
assault Normandy 06-11.44

OCwn
01.02.1949
liberation of Belgium

RD
?
?

1914
-
1919
served 4 years in sailing ships; in 10th Cruiser Squadron and 2nd in Command of Destroyers, Home Station and Mediterranean, until 1919

1919

joined Orient Line; 1919; Staff Commander, 1936

(03.1938)

Officer-in-Charge, Sea Training for Boys, British Sailors' Society (Limehouse, London)

05.09.1939
-
(06.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Mona's Isle (auxiliary armed boarding vessel) [called up for active service]

(02.1941)

HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *

02.04.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet}:

(07.1942)

Commodore of Convoy PQ17 to Archangel

(06.1944)

Staff Flag Officer Assault Area [HMS Odyssey ?]

(10.1944)

Principal Sea Transport Officer, Expeditionary Force

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
Principal Sea Transport Officer, British Army of Occupied Germany [Sea Transport Department, Admiralty]

01.09.1945
-
01.11.1946
RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Down,
Jack Charles Edwin
J.C.E. Down 19.03.1913
-
12.1990
Worthing, West Sussex

Prob. T/S.Lt.
29.01.1940

T/S.Lt.
?, seniority 29.01.1940

T/Lt.
29.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

23.07.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Cathay (armed merchant cruiser)

15.01.1942
-
(10.1943)
First Lieutenant, later Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette)

10.12.1944
-
?
HMS Pennywort (corvette)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Down,
Robert William
J.C.E. Down ?
-
?

T/Skpr. 01.01.1943 [T.S. 1337] (reld < 04.1946)

? - ? HMS Playmates (minesweeping trawler)

? - ? HMS Stella Canopus (minesweeping trawler)

(06.1943) HMS Stora *

20.09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Cypress (minesweeping trawler)

Pre- & post-war a trawler skipper out of Lowestoft.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Driscoll,
Arthur William
"Hawkeye"
A.W. Driscoll
Son of Denis and Margaret Driscoll.
1904 ?
-
05.11.1940
(KIA) [age 36]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 39, column 3]

Prob. S.Lt.
07.11.1927

S.Lt.
30.04.1928, seniority 07.11.1927

Lt.
07.11.1930

Lt.Cdr.
07.11.1938

Master Mariner in the Merchant Navy

05.02.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS L 54 (submarine)

11.09.1939
-
05.11.1940
First Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)

Duck,
Norman Winder
N.W. Duck
Son of Garnet Woolsey Duck, and Rosalie Benedetta Kough (Harley?), of Fleet, Hampshire.
Married (14.07.1945, Caxton Hall) Second Officer Charlotte Hazel Langton Wilkinson, WRNS, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs Noël Wilkinson, of Woodside, Windsor Forest, Berkshire. 20.04.1903
St Marylebone, Greater London
-
31.05.1970
Priory Nursing Home, Wandsworth district, London SW15

Prob. S.Lt. 02.05.1929

S.Lt. 06.09.1929, seniority 02.05.1929

Lt. 29.11.1931

Lt.Cdr. 29.11.1939

Cdr. 31.12.1943

A/Capt. 1946?

Capt. 31.12.1950 (retd 20.04.1958)

DSC 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.42 [decoration posted]

DSC 07.11.1944 sinking enemy submarine U-333 31.07.44 [decoration posted]

RD 14.07.1944 -

31.01.1931 - (02.1931) HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [to complete 12 months' training]

29.11.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Circassia (armed merchant cruiser)

(02.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

22.03.1941 - 06.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Starwort (corvette)

20.08.1942 - 07.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rockingham (destroyer)

01.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Dominica (frigate)

(06.)1944 - 02.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Starling (sloop) & Senior Officer, 2nd Escort Group

11.09.1944 - 08.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Berkeley Castle (corvette) & Senior Officer, 31st Escort Group

(07.1945) no appointment listed

(04.1946) Divisional Sea Transport Officer, Ceylon [Sea Transport Department]

1945 - 1946 RNR ADC to the King

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dunbar,
George Learmouth
G.L. Dunbar
Son of Alexander and Caroline Alberta Clavell Dunbar.
Married ((06?).1919, West Derby district, Lancashire) Catherine Dorothy Bairsto, of Orrell Park, Liverpool.

21.10.1892
Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
01.07.1946
[age 53]
[Liverpool (Kirkdale) Cemetery, section 9, nonconformist, grave 679]

T/S.Lt. 21.08.1915

Prob. Lt. 31.12.1923

Lt. 15.12.1925, seniority 31.12.1923

Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1931

Cdr. 31.12.1935 (retd 21.10.1942)

Capt. (retd) 21.10.1942 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

RD 05.06.1935 -

16.11.1935 - ? HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

07.11.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Ausonia (armed merchant cruiser)

11.1940 - 15.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Somers (ocean boarding vessel) (sunk by Italian submarine Morosini)

18.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties; additional for various services)

(06.1943) no appointment listed

23.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for Naval Control Service)

Dunn,
John Oliver
J.O. Dunn ?
-
[1959 still alive]

Lt.
31.12.1924

Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1932

Cdr.
30.06.1936

Capt.
30.06.1942

A/Cdre. 2nd cl.
10.08.1942 (retd 1940s)

Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd)
15.12.1948

RD ? -

10.08.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Dutton,
Wilfred Louis Gerard
W.L.G. Dutton (12?).1913
Stone, Staffordshire
-
died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ?

S.Lt.
01.02.1938

Lt.
04.11.1940

A/Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1944?

Lt.Cdr.
04.11.1948 (retd 01.07.1950)

MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41

MID
25.08.1942
Operation Ironclad

MID
21.12.1943
Operation Husky

MID
30.05.1944
Operation Antidote

MID
03.04.1945
minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.44

MID
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46

RD
< 12.1948
?

(04.1940)

HMS Shower (trawler) *

18.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Nyemetski (trawler)

16.08.1941
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Poole (Bangor class minesweeper)

01.03.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Speedy (Halcyon class minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dymoke-Byrne,
James Joseph
"Smokey"
J.J. Dymoke-Byrne (Photo courtesy of Mr Martin Barth)
Son of William James Byrne, and Muriel Kathleen Leech.
Married ((12?).1951, Stepney district, London) Edy Berani (née Ninchi) (06.12.1919 - 02.03.1996), of Yugoslav descent. 11.06.1914
Rochford district, Essex
-
01.1970
Hythe, Folkestone district, Kent
[his remains were scattered into the sea by the Royal Navy at Spithead (Portsmouth)07.1970]

Prob. T/S.Lt. 25.11.1940

T/S.Lt. 28.03.1942, seniority 25.11.1940

T/Lt. 20.03.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

GM 16.01.1945 for gallantry in rendering safe the first specimen of a German "human torpedo" which ran ashore at Anzio *

MID 09.05.1944 for good services in salvage and repair work at the port of Naples

* Although he had no previous experience in bomb-disposal work, Lieutenant Dymoke-Byrne volunteered for and successfully carried out this hazardous task under direct enemy observation at three miles range and under imminent threat of artillery fire, well knowing that there was the gravest risk that the torpedo might explode, in which case he would have had no chance of escape from a violent death.

(02.1941) Admiralty [HMS President] *

08.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Pandora (submarine)

27.06.1942 - 29.04.1943 HMS Trooper (submarine)

29.04.1943 - 17.05.1943 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)

09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)

01.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)

Managed the pub The Clarendon Inn at Hythe, Kent.
* indexed, but not listed as such

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