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1939-1945

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B.E. Caddick to M.G. Clyde

Caddick,
Bernard Ernest
"Doc" / "Tony"
B.E. Caddick (Photo courtesy of Mr David Matthiae)

Son of ... Caddick, and ... Hadley.
Married Ida (née ...).

14.10.1917
Dudley district, Staffordshire / Worcestershire
-
09.1996
Glamorgan

T/S.Lt.	03.07.1942
T/Lt.	03.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

	DSC	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 45
	MID	25.01.1944	crossing Volturno river 43

12.06.1942	-	02.08.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment)
(07.1945)			HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (probably for landing craft duty):
(1943)	-	(1945)	HM LCT 330 (landing craft tank) (Italy, NW Europe)

General practicioner, Barry, Wales.

Cahill,
Bernard Patrick
B.P. Cahill

(03?).1919
Bailieborough district, Ireland
-
12.1996
Camden district, London

T/Lt.

31.01.1940

OON

28.09.1943

liaison officer "Jan van Gelder" [decoration posted]

10.01.1940	-	(06.)1941	HMS Albury (Hunt class minesweeper)
(08.1941)	-	(06.1942)	no appointment listed
(09.1941)			British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS "Jan van Gelder" (minesweeper)
(08.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Hatherleigh (destroyer) (1942 to Greek Navy and renamed "Kanaris") *
27.03.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Nile (RN base, Alxeandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
01.08.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Brigand (tug)
06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ilex (destroyer)
09.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Myrland (minesweeping trawler)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cale,
Nabor Keith
N.K. Cale

Son of Albert Edgar Cale, and Annie E. Davis.
Married ((09?).1939, Worthing district, Sussex) Revis Ruth Davis, of Worthing, Sussex.

(12?).1916
Abergavenny district, Herefordshire / Monmouthshire
-
24.08.1942
(KIA) [age 25]
[Dover (St James's) Cemetery, row A, grave 10]

T/S.Lt.	20.03.1941
T/Lt.	20.03.1942?

MID

20.10.1942

action with E-boats 24.08.42

19.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
02.02.1942	-	24.08.1942	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 9 (motor gun boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]

Callaghan,
Leonard James
"Jim";
Baron (Life Peer) Callaghan of Cardiff, of the City of Cardiff in the County of South Glamorgan (cr. 1987)
L.J. Callaghan

Son of James Callaghan (1877-1921), Chief Petty Officer, RN, and Charlottey Gertrude Cundy (1879-1961).
Married (1938) Audrey Elizabeth Moulton (28.07.1915 - 15.03.2005); one son, two daughters.

27.03.1912
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
26.03.2005
Ringmer, East Sussex

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.04.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.10.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	< 10.1944 (reld 1945/46)

23.04.1987

Hubert H. Humphrey Internat. Award, 1978. Grand Cross, 1st class, Order of Merit of Federal Republic of Germany, 1979.

Education: Elementary and Portsmouth Northern Secondary Schools
Entered Civil Service as a Tax Officer, 1929; Assistant Secretary, Inland Revenue Staff Fed., 1936-1947 (with an interval during the War of 1939-1945, when served in Royal Navy). Joined Labour Party, 1931.

1942			joined RNVR as Ordinary Seaman (East Indies Fleet, Ceylon)
03.08.1944	-	(01.)1945	Personal Services Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

MP (Lab): S Cardiff, 1945-1950; SE Cardiff, 1950-1983; Cardiff S and Penarth, 1983-1987. Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of Transport, 1947-1950; Chairman Committee on Road Safety, 1948-1950; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, 1950-1951; Opposition Spokesman: Transport, 1951-1953; Fuel and Power, 1953-1955; Colonial Affairs, 1956-1961; Shadow Chancellor, 1961-1964; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1964-1967; Home Secretary, 1967-1970; Shadow Home Secretary, 1970-1971; Opposition Spokesman on Employment, 1971-1972; Shadow Foreign Secretary, 1972-1974; Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1974-1976; Minister of Overseas Development, 1975-1976; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1976-1979; Leader, Labour Party, 1976-1980; Leader of the Opposition, 1979-1980. Father, House of Commons, 1983-1987. Delegate to Council of Europe, Strasburg, 1948-1950 and 1954. Member, Labour Party NEC, 1957-1980; Treasurer, Labour Party, 1967-1976, Vice-Chairman 1973, Chairman 1974. Consultant to Police Federation of England and Wales and to Scottish Police Federation, 1955-1964. President: Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea, 1963- (Chairman, 1952-1963); United Kingdom Pilots Association, 1963-1976; Joint President, RIIA, 1983-. Hon. President, International Maritime Pilots Association, 1971-1976. President, University of Wales, Swansea (formerly UC Swansea), 1986-1995 (Hon. Fellow, 1993). Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1959-1967, Hon. Life Fellow, 1967; Hon. Fellow: UC Cardiff, 1978; Portsmouth Polytechnic, 1981; Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, 1991. Hon. LLD: Wales, 1976; Sardar Patel University, India, 1978; Birmingham, 1981; Sussex, 1989; Westminster, 1993; Liverpool, 1996; Hon. PhD Meisei Univ., Tokyo, 1984; DUniv Open, 1996. Hon. Bencher, Inner Temple, 1976. Freeman: City of Portsmouth, 1991; City of Swansea, 1993; Hon. Freeman: City of Cardiff, 1974; City of Sheffield, 1979. Privy Councillor, 1964.
Published: A house divided : the dilemma of Northern Ireland (1973); Time and change (1987; autobiography)
Literature: Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan : a life (1997)

Calley,
Andrew
A. Calley

Married ((12?).1931, West Derby dsitrict, Lancashire) Elsie Green; ... children (one daughter?).

18.10.1909
West Derby dsitrict, Lancashire
-
07.1991
Enfield district, Middlesex

Tel.	? [D/WRX 983]
T/S.Lt.	27.12.1940
T/Lt.	27.03.1941 (reld 26.11.1945)

BEM

11.07.1940

HM's birthday 40 [investiture 06.11.45]

04.1939			joined Royal Naval Volunteer (Wireless) Reserve as a rating
(1940)			HMS Aquamarine (trawler; armed boarding vessel)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
16.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Campion (corvette)
(10.1944)			HMS Rajah (escort carrier) *
(01.1945)			HMS Battler (escort carrier) *
02.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Callieu,
Charles Donald
C.D. Callieu

Son of ... Callieu, and ... Hinson.
Married (03.02.1940, Manchester district, Lancashire) Jenat Turner.

19.12.1911
Edmonton district, Essex
-
09.1991
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent

T/S.Lt.	12.01.1940
T/Lt.	12.01.1941
T/A.Lt.Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944
T/A/Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 01.1945

	OBE	03.07.1945	minesweeping & mine recovery 08.44-02.45
	DSC	03.11.1942	mine disposal [investiture 23.03.43]

03.1940	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Esmeralda (armed yacht) & from ... as Senior Officer, 182nd Auxilliary Minesweeping Flotilla
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Marketing operations manager, later sales director of Shell Chemicals Ltd.

Callow,
William John
W.J. Callow (Photo courtesy of Mr Jeremy Callow)

Son of ... Callow, and Robins.
Married; two sons.

13.11.1921
South Petherton, Yeovil district, Somerset
-
15.01.1976
Fort Victoria, Rhodesia

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	13.11.1942
T/Lt.	24.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

MID	05.09.1944	boarded & captured German I-Boat
MID	13.02.1945	attack on enemy convoy 11.10.44
Atl St	-	-
It St	-	-

12.04.1943	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, MGB 661 (motor gun boat)
(10.1944)			HM MTB 637 (motor torpedo boat)
03.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 659 (motor gun boat)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Cambridge,
John Stephen
J.S. Cambridge (Photo courtesy of Mr Gerry Wright)

(12?).1903 ??
Epping district, Essex ??
-

T/Lt.	09.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1941, < 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

10.11.1942

action against E-boats 10.09.42 [investiture 15.12.42]

05.02.1940	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS St Loman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(02.1941)			HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
20.10.1941	-	(02.)1943	HMS Midge (Coastal Force base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
(09.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM ML 106 (motor launch)
04.1943	-	(06.1943)	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
01.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cameron,
Alexander Lewis
A.L. Cameron

17.12.1914 ??
-
06.1994 ??
Chiltern and South Bucks district, Buckinghamshire ??

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	29.09.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	29.01.1941 (reld 1945/46)

26.09.1940	-	(12.1943)	Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty):
			Bomb Safety Officer, Chatham
02.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lanka (base, Ceylon) (for passive defence duties, Colombo)

Cameron,
John
J. Cameron

?
-

T/Lt.	?
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

	DSC	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune
	MID	16.08.1940	Dunkirk

(06.1940)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 102 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1944)			Staff ANCXF

Cameron,
Ronald Ewen
R.E. Cameron (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Hogarth)

1919
Glasgow, Scotland
-
1992 ?
Lanarkshire, Scotland ?

T/S.Lt.	09.04.1942
T/Lt.	09.10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Education: High School of Glasgow (1932-1936).

17.05.1942	-	(10.)1944	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank (LCTs))
09.10.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)

Campbell,
Alexander McRobie
A.M. Campbell (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

1923
Dalry district, Edinburgh, Scotland
-

Reading, Berkshire

Ord.Sea.	26.05.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	25.05.1943
T/S.Lt.	28.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

09.1942	-	01.1943	HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
10.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Coquette (Algerine class minesweeper)

Campbell,
Donald Charles
D.C. Campbell

Son of Charles Donald Campbell and Elizabeth Campbell, of Hove, Sussex.

(06?).1911
Steyning district, Sussex
-
02.11.1944
off Ostend
(KIA) [age 33]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 2]

T/S.Lt.	14.08.1942
T/Lt.	?

24.02.1944

02.11.1944

First Lieutenant, HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)

Campbell,
Edmund Colin Murray
E.C.M. Campbell

?
-

Prob. T/Lt.

29.07.1940

28.10.1940

(02.1941)

HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)

Campbell,
James
J. Campbell

?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt.	02.08.1940
T/Lt.	02.11.1940

MBE

21.04.1942

Anti-Aircraft Guard Calmore: protection of convoys from air attack [investiture 15.02.44]

09.09.1940	-	(04.)1941	HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
01.04.1941	-	(10.)1941	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 64 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
14.10.1941	-	(12.1942)	HMS Gardenia (corvette)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
19.02.1943	-	(12.)1943	Executive Officer, HMS Primrose (corvette)
10.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	Executive Officer, HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette)

Campbell,
James Duncan
J.D. Campbell

?
-

T/S.Lt.	18.12.1943
T/Lt.	01.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

05.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Ekins (frigate)
31.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Stevenstone (destroyer)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Campbell,
Leveson Granville Robert
"Boffin"
L.G.R. Campbell

(03?).1907
Penzance district, Cornwall
-

T/Lt.	27.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

DSC	10.02.1942	?
DSC	10.11.1942	?
MID	03.03.1942	?

(11.1941)	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 67 (motor gun boat)
(09.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM MGB 76 (motor gun boat)
05.12.1944	-		Officer-in-Charge, M.L.C. Officers' Training Establishment [HMS Dinosaur]

Campion,
Leslie Thompson
L.T. Campion (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter R. Campion, via Mr John Pressagh)

Married ((09?).1944, Hendon district, Middlesex) Doreen Gladys Hardwick (10.06.1922 - 05.1998); one son.

07.09.1921
Willesden district, Middlesex
-
12.03.2010
Worthing Hospitasl (formerly of West Chiltington, West Sussex)

T/A/S.Lt.	13.04.1944
T/S.Lt.	13.10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
S.Lt.	22.05.1957, seniority 11.03.1955
A/Lt.	1958?
Lt.	21.07.1959, seniority 11.03.1958
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	11.03.1966 (retd 07.09.1981)

14.07.1970

13.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
22.05.1957			Permanent RNVR (from 1959 RNR)
11.03.1966			transferred Special Branch RNR

Cannon,
William Charles
W.C. Cannon

Son of ... Cannon, and ... Clements.

07.07.1924
Hertford, Hertfordshire
-
09.12.1983
Wrexham district, Clwyd, Wales

Prob. T/Midsh. (A) *	20.12.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	14.01.1946

* For aeronautical technical duties in the Fleet Air Arm

(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
23.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Nabstock (Mobile Naval Air Base (MONAB) VI, RAAF Schofields)

Capeling,
William Keith
W.K. Capeling

Son of William Frederick Capeling, and Jessie Alice Chantler, of Ashford, Kent.

(12?).1923
Ashford, Kent
-
30.04.1944
[age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Cemetery, New Hampshire, USA, lot 162]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	01.03.1943?
T/S.Lt. (A)	01.03.1944

Education: Ashford Grammar School (1934-1939)

30.06.1943

30.04.1944

732 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA & as accounting base for British navy personnel in the USA)] [died of injuries after an aircraft accident which occurred at Bar Harbour, Maine]

Cappell,
Alistair James
A.J. Cappell (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)

Son of James Leitch Cappell (1877?-1918), and Alice Eleanor Pickop (1889-1950).

15.02.1915
King's Norton district, Warwickshire
-
04.2006
Ealing, London

Seaman	18.09.1940 [JX 220695]
T/S.Lt.	13.11.1941
T/Lt.	13.11.1942 (reld 31.05.1946)

39-45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

18.09.1940			HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
(11.1941)			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
07.04.1942	-	03.12.1943	HMS Rockrose (corvette)
12.1943	-	08.02.1944	passage to UK [for some time at HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayit, Egypt)]
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(05.1945)			HMS Royal James (port party, Boulogne) ?
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
10.07.1945	-	20.04.1946	Duty Operations Officer, HMS Royal Harold (Naval Party 1742 & Flag Officer, Kiel, Germany)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Capper,
Douglas Parodé
D.P. Capper

Son of Henry Douglas, a naval officer, and Louisa Elizabeth Sarah Mary Parodé.
Married 1st; one daughter.
Married 2nd (16.05.1963) Yolande Marjory Elwell-Smith (an artist).

09.07.1898
Sydney, NSW, Australia
-
24.07.1979
[Clstree/Pot?]

T/Lt.	29.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	07.04.1941
T/A/Cdr.	1945?

Education: attended Scottish and English schools and had private tutor

07.04.1941	-	(07.)1945	Naval and Marine Staff, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (served in Cabinet War Room, 1943-1945)
1945	-	1948	British Naval Representative in Japan [HMS Tamar II, then HMS Commonwealth]

Published: On the pilgrims way (1934); The Vikings of Britain (1937); Famous sailing ships of the world (1957); Famous battleships of the world (1959); Moat defensive : a history of the waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961 (1963).
Other books published under pseudonyms. Contributor to various journals and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, mainly on maritime subjects.

Capper,
Ingram Ord
I.O. Capper

Married; ... children (one daughter?).

17.11.1907
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
-
12.07.1986
Colchester, Essex

T/Lt.

09.10.1939 (reld < 04.1946)

09.10.1939	-	(12.1941)	HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
11.1943	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Kilchrenan (patrol vessel)

Competed in shooting (rifle), Olympic Games, Helsinki 1952.

Carbines,
Wilfrid John
W.J. Carbines

Married ((09?).1936, Plymouth district, Devon) Doris L. Perring.

23.12.1909
Devonport district, Devon
-
1981
Plymouth district, Devon

T/A/Paym.S.Lt.	?
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S)	24.05.1944
T/Lt. (S)	01.04.1945

Temporary postman-messenger, 04.1926. Male sorting clerk and telegraphist (postal), Crewe, 05.1929.

15.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for duty in Admiral's Office [of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches])
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Cardale,
Alfred George
A.G. Cardale

Son of William Henry Cardale (1868-1928), and Mabel Ann Cardale (née ...) (1874?-1959), of 4, Berkeley Gardens, London W8.
Married (25.06.1940, Thornbury, Gloucestershire) Mary Blanche Albinia Bennett (04.05.1914 - 17.04.2005), second daughter of Richard Bennett, and ... Gibbs, of Thornbury Park, near Bristol; two sons, one daughter.

02?.11.1905
Bromley district, London
-
(09?).1967
Kingsclere district, Hampshire

T/A/S.Lt.	1944?
T/S.Lt.	18.08.1944

19.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Chamois (fleet minesweeper)
03.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Harris (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Carey,
[Rev. Canon] Ronald Clive Adrian
R.C.A. Carey (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy de la Bédoyère)

Son (with one brother [Lt. Hugh F.G. Carey, Rifle Brigade].and later also one step-brother) of Sq.Ldr. Gordon Vero Carey, RAFVR (1886-1969), indexer and headmaster, and Eila Reynolds (died 1932).
Married; three daughters.

12.1921
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
-

Ord.Sea.	01.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	12.1942
T/S.Lt.	09.04.1943
T/Lt.	09.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

05.12.1944

attack on convoy Channel 13.08.44

01.1942	-	06.1942	HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (left ship a few days after it was torpedoed on 14.06.1942 off Sardinia)
06.1942	-	12.1942	training course
14.12.1942	-	04.1943	HMS Vanoc (destroyer) [actually joined 06.01.1943]
07.06.1943	-	01.10.1945	HMS Onslaught (destroyer) (mentioned in despatches)

Served in the clergy at Birmingham, at Chichester, and at Keighley before becoming Vicar of Illingworth (1955-1959). Left to work at the Religious Broadcasting Department of the BBC (1959-1968), then served at Claygate, at Emley and at Guildford.

Carlow,
George Symington
G.S. Carlow

Brother of El.Lt. William Dean Carlow, RNVR.

1917
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1996
New Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland

T/S.Lt.	01.12.1940
T/Lt.	07.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

08.06.1944

HM's birthday 44

(02.1941)			HMS Worcestershire (armed merchant cruiser) *
24.05.1941	-	31.01.1942	HMS Culver (escort) (torpedoed & sunk by U-105 in East Atlantic)
16.05.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Hesperus (destroyer)
10.01.1945	-	(01.)1945	Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
06.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Defender (destroyer)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Carlow,
William Dean
W.D. Carlow

Brother of Lt. George Symington Carlow, RNVR.

1920
Hillhead district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1982
New Kilpatrick district, Dunbarton, Scotland

T/El.S.Lt.	?
T/El.Lt.	01.03.1944

Education: University of Glasgow (electrical engineering).

20.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Carmichael,
Donald Macaulay
D.M. Carmichael

Son (with three brothers) of Rev. Dugald Carmichael (1874-1944), and Agnes Macmillan MacAulay (1880-1965).
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Dugald Lorne Carmichael, RNVR.
Married 1st ((03?).1942, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire) Esther Mary Vernon-Jones (1912-); one daughter.
Married 2nd (1949) Margaret Parkinson.

22.05.1908
Reay, Caithness, Scotland
-
1996
Thurso, Caithness, Scotland

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	03.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 12.1942, < 02.1943
T/A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer on scientific duties

Education: Miller Academy, Thurso; Edinburgh University; St John's College, Cambridge (MA; 1st Class Philosophy (Edin)).
Lecturer in philosophy, Edinburgh University, 1931. Carnegie Research Fellow, Cambridge.

03.01.1940	-	(06.)1940	HMS Iron Duke (depot ship)
(07.1940)	-	(12.1940)	no appointment listed
(02.1941)	-	(04.)1941	HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa, Orkneys) *
06.1941	-	(04.)1942	HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick)
21.04.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) (for miscellaneous duties)
(08.1943)	-	(12.1943)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) *
01.01.1944	-	(02.)1944	HMS Mercury (signal school, Haslemere)
24.03.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar school)
08.06.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Appointed to Ministry of Civil Aviation, Administrative Class, 16.07.1946. Ministry of Works. General Secretary, D.E.R.E. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Caithness, 1977.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Carmichael,
Dugald Lorne
D.L. Carmichael

Son (with three brothers) of Rev. Dugald Carmichael (1874-1944), and Agnes Macmillan MacAulay (1880-1965).
Brother of Cdr. (Sp.Br.) Donald Macaulay Carmichael, RNVR.
Married ...; one daughter, two sons.

02.10.1914
Reay, Caithness, Scotland
-
31.05.1989
Derby district, Derbyshire (car accident)

T/Sg.Lt.	02.09.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	> 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld 02.03.1946)

Education: MB, ChB (Edinburgh, 1937); DObstRCOG, 1948.

02.09.1940	-	(10.)1940	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.10.1940	-	24.03.1942	HMS Jason (Halcyon class minesweeper)
14.05.1942	-	11.1942	HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
14.11.1942	-	21.12.1943	RN Auxiliary Hospital, Durdham Down, Bristol [HMS Drake] (and for WRNS Sick Quarters, Bristol)
26.12.1943	-	14.05.1945	HMS Campania (escort carrier)
(07.1945)	-	(10.1945)	no appointment listed

General practictioner, Castle Donington, nr Derby (Montford & Carmichael). Assistant Medical Officer & Resident Obstetrics Officer, Hope Hospital, Salford.

Carnie,
Thomas Young
T.Y. Carnie

One of five brothers from Newhaven, Edinburgh.

1922 ?
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

14.10.1941	-	(08.1942)	Duty Officer, HMS Britannia III (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)
10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dartmouth (RN base, Dartmouth)

Carpenter,
Rupert
R. Carpenter (Photo courtesy of Mr Adrian Carpenter)

Married Marjorie Carpenter (née ...) (died 29.06.2005, aged 92); one son, one daughter.

09.06.1909
Northfield, near Birmingham
-
12.1990
Birmingham, Warwickshire

Tel.	? [C/JX 278998]
T/A/S.Lt.	09.07.1943
T/S.Lt.	09.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

39-45 St	?	?
Atl St	?	?
It St	?	& clasp 'air crew'
Fr&G St	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: King's Norton School for Boys
He was a talented violinist as a youngster and, although classically trained, earned his
living during the depressed years of the 1920s and early 30s playing in the silent cinema and dance orchestras He then joined Lloyds Bank, but volunteered for the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war.

			a rating at first and served as radio-telegraphist aboard a converted trawler (mainly around Iceland and Northern waters)
?	-	12.1943	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
21.12.1943	-	12.07.1945	Gunnery Officer, HMS Quantock (destroyer) [Watchkeeping Certificate 01.07.1945]

Went back to the bank, becoming a manager in the 1960's. His chief passion was the violin and he played in local orchestras in the Sutton Coldfield area and in chamber music groups. On retiring from the bank he became Bursar of Lichfield Cathedral School.

Carpenter,
Sydney James
S.J. Carpenter

Son of James William Carpenter, and Dorothy Selina Kent, of Sandown, Isle of Wight.

(03?).1918
Isle of Wight
-
20.10.1941
[age 23]
[Arbroath Western Cemetery, Angus, Scotland, compt. D. North border, grave 11]
[commemorated at Lake War Memorial, Isle of Wight]

T/S.Lt. (A)

Education: King's College, London (1936-1940; BSc, natural science).

20.10.1941

pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
[He took off in a Fairey Swordfish Mk. I (L2825) from Arbroath to practice deck landings and crashed at Hallom Mill, Frickheim on 17th October, to die later of his wounds.]

Carr,
Francis William
F.W. Carr

?
-

T/Lt.

DSC

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 622 (motor torpedo boat)

Carr,
Ronald Alastair
"Bussy"
R.A. Carr

Son of ... Carr, and ... Aikman.

23.11.1919
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
03.1992
Westminster district, London

T/S.Lt.

MID

(08.1942)

HM MGB 80 (motor gun boat)

Carr,
William Edward
"Bill"
W.E. Carr

Son of Frederick Carr, and Florence Race, of Woodley, Cheshire.

(06?).1924
Ashton under Lyne district, Cheshire
-
28.10.1944
(MPK) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 5]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	29.01.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	29.07.1944

(04.1944)			no appointment listed
05.1944	-	(06.)1944	observer, 744 Squadron FAA [HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)]
06.07.1944	-	28.10.1944	observer, 811 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]

Carruthers,
Robert
R. Carruthers

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	30.04.1942

(07.1945)			no appointment listed
29.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Saker (British Naval Mission in the US) (for duty in New York)

Carson,
John
J. Carson (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

?
-

Ord.Sea.	?
T/S.Lt.	28.11.1943
T/Lt.	28.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

09.1942	-	01.1943	HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS President V (accounting base, London) *
(04.1946)			HMS LSE 1 (landing craft repair ship) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Carter,
Frank Leslie
F.L. Carter (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles Carter)

Son of Frederick Gordon Carter, and Jessie Lilian Carter (née Grainger).
Husband of Kathleen May Carter, of Wood Green, Middlesex; one son.

26.03.1914
Edmonton district, Middlesex
-
17.06.1944
(KIA) [age 30]
[Biguglia War Cemetery, 2.B.1]

T/S.Lt.	23.10.1941
T/Lt.	?

			HMS President (training)
1940?			HMS Letitia (armed merchant cruiser)
1941/42?			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
1942	-	?	First Lieutenant, HM ML 231 (motor launch) [HMS Iron Duke ?] (Scapa Flow)
01.02.1943	-	17.06.1944	Commanding Officer, HM ML [from early 1944: HDML] 1301 ([harbour defence] motor launch) (killed in action during the invasion of Elba)

Cartwright,
Eric John
E.J. Cartwright (Photo courtesy of Mr John Cartwright)

Son of James Cartwright, and Rachel Andrews.
Married (04.04.1942, St Mary's Church, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire) A/P/O Constance Catherin "Connie" Parkes, WRNS ((09?).1915 - 05.04.2007), daughter of John Herburt Parkes, and Daisy Love; two sons.

31.07.1920
Stone, nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire
-
24.09.2010
Roma Hospital, Roma, Queensland, Australia

Mot.Mech. 5th cl.	07.05.1940 [P/MX 66695]
Mot.Mech. P/O	31.07.1941
A/Ch.Mot.Mech. 4th cl.	16.05.1942
Ch.Mot.Mech.	16.05.1943
T/A/S.Lt. (E)	10.07.1943
T/S.Lt. (E)	10.07.1944

DSM

28.12.1943

support sinking ship Dutch coast 14.09.43

			apprenticeship as a motor mechanic
			served Coastal Forces at HMS Wasp, HMS Victory, HMS Hornet, HMS Attack, HMS Aggressive, HMS Beehive & HMS Mantis:
07.05.1940			joined RNVR [during the evacuation of Dunkirk was assigned tasks to repair and service many of the private craft that helped bring the English Forces back to England]
10.01.1942	-	14.06.1943	HM MTB 71 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
1943	-	1945	Engineer Officer, 53rd & 30th MTB Flotillas
01.08.1943	-	25.10.1943	HM MTB 356 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
24.07.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(07.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(04.1946)			HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) *

Worked for the Gray Brothers who owned a marine salvage company based in Felixstowe. Migrated to Australia, Jan. 1952. Set up his own business in Roma, Queensland in 1954 selling and servicing agricultural and farm equipment mainly stationary diesel engines, tractors, lighting plants and water pumping equipment. The business was sold in 2003. Alderman to the Roma Town Council, 1967-1970. Was an active member of the Returned Services League up until he moved into the retirement village where he now lives. He still attended the ANZAC Day ceremonies which he has done for more than 52 years.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Cartwright,
Thomas Nelson
"Tom"
T.N. Cartwright

25.04.1905
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
05.1984
Colchester district, Essex

T/A/Lt.Cdr.

DSC	13.04.1943	valuable work in secret operations & as force commander [investiture 13.07.43]
DSC	29.08.1944	Operation Hostile [investiture 03.07.45]
DSC	16.01.1945	coastal actions Italy 08.44 [investiture 03.07.45]
MID	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee
MID	29.02.1944	Operation Hostile

(1942)			Senior Officer, 14th MGB Flotilla
(1943)			HM MGB 316 (motor gun boat)
(1944)			52nd MTB Flotilla
(1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 673 (motor torpedo boat)

Cashford,
Noel
N. Cashford

Son of Albert Cashford, and Hannah Maria Adams.
Married ((09?).1945, Falkenham district, Norfolk) Brenda E. Keeler ((06?).1923 - ), daughter of Walter B. Keeler, and Mabel Youngs; two sons.

01.09.1922
Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
-
15.01.2011

Ord.Sea.	1941
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	18.12.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

MBE

14.05.1946

mine disposal

1941			joined RNVR
			HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
11.07.1943	-	(04.1946)	Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

Published: All mine! : memoirs of a naval bomb and mine disposal officer (2002); BANG : stories of bangs from 1917 to the present day plus other events of interest (2002); All theirs! : explosive ordnance disposal : men who risked their lives to render safe bombs and explosive devices (and booby traps) (2004); Ticking clock! : memoirs of a naval bomb and mine disposal officer (2006).

Castle,
Peter Stirling
P.S. Castle

Youngest son of Lionel Edgar Victor Castle (1884-1950), and Mrs Castle, of Port Isaac, Cornwall.
Married 1st ((09?).1946, Chard district, Devon / Dorset / Somerset; divorced 1950s) Section Officer Kathleen Mary Davenport, WAAF (? - 26.07.2011).
Married 2nd (1958/59?) Patricia Isobel Valerie Welch (23.04.1929 - ).

07.09.1920
-

Prob. T/Midsh.	07.12.1939
T/A/S.Lt.	07.09.1940
T/S.Lt.	07.09.1941
T/Lt.	07.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: Downing College, Cambridge University (BA 1947, MA 1950).

07.12.1939	-	(06.)1940	HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
(07.1940)			no appointment listed
24.07.1940	-	(10.1941)	HMS Dunnottar Castle (armed merchant cruiser)
(02.1942)	-	(04.1942)	no appointment listed
23.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
08.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for motor launches)
03.1943	-	(04.)1944	Commanding Officer, HM ML 281 (motor launch)
(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber)
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HM RML 520 (rescue motor launch) *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Castles,
Henry Gordon
H.G. Castles

Married ((06?).1968, Newcastle-under-Lyme district, Staffordshire) Dorothy E. Bassett.

21.06.1912
India
-
29.12.1977
Madeley Manor, Madeley, Crewe, Staffordshire

T/S.Lt.	06.11.1942
T/A/Lt.	04.1944, seniority 06.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

MBE

Played cricket for Staffordshire (Minor Counties Championship: 1937).

01.02.1943	-	(04.)1944	[First Lieutenant?], HM ML 380 (motor launch)
10.04.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
27.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 309 (motor launch)
(04.1946)			HMS Demetrius (RN Supply & Secretariat School, Witherby, Yorkshire)

Caudle,
Cyril Arthur
C.A. Caudle

Son of ... Caudle, and ... Ashby.
Married ((03?).1950, St Mary Magdalene Church, Debenham, Suffolk) Lilian Maud Ramsey, of Debenham; one daughter, one son.

(09?).1921
Royston district, Oxfordshire
-
21.01.1957
Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital (Anglesea-road Wing), Ipswich, Suffolk

T/A/S.Lt.	08.10.1943
T/S.Lt.	08.04.1944
T/Lt.	01.02.1946
Lt. RN	18.03.1947, seniority 01.02.1946 (emgcy 18.03.1952)
Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy)	18.03.1952 (reld < 04.1955)

(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	no appointment listed
07.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 858 (motor launch)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
18.03.1947			transferred to RN
(07.1948)			HMS Redpole *
(05.1949)			HMS Ausonia *
03.1950	-	(05.)1950	Commanding Officer, HM SDML 3503
11.1950	-	(05.1951)	HMS Tamar
25.02.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Warrior
01.02.1954	-	(01.)1955	HMS Warrior

* indexed, but not listed as such

Caudle,
Derek Westworth

Son of Stanley Caudle (1886-1936), and Gertrude Emmeline Westworth (1883-).
Unmarried.

28.10.1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
27.10.2007
hospital
(formerly of Bupa Care Home, Harts House, Harts Grove, Woodford Green, Essex)

T/S.Lt.	27.11.1942
T/Lt.	01.02.1945

04.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	Navigating Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Solicitor.

Caunter,
John Francis
J.F. Caunter

Married ((09?).1933, Plymouth district, Devon) Lucy D.L. Smith; ... children.

18.04.1901
-
(12?).1983
Newton Abbot district, Devon

T/S.Lt. (E)	20.10.1941
T/Lt. (E)	20.03.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)	> 10.1943, < 12.1943
T/A/Cdr. (E)	> 07.1945, < 04.1946

(12.1941)	-	(04.1942)	no appointment listed
07.05.1942	-	(04.)1943	HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
01.04.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
14.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	Coastal Forces Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			HMIS Cheetah *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Causer,
Malcolm Richard
M.R. Causer

1922 ?
Brazil
-

Ord.Sea.	?
T/A/S.Lt.	10.06.1943
T/S.Lt.	11.12.1943
A/T/Lt.	11.12.1945

	DSO	28.11.1944	human torpedo, sunk Bolzano [investiture 26.02.46]
	MID	1942?	not gazetted; for attempt to sink the Tirpitz 10.42

			served with the human torpedoes ("Chariots"):
1942			Fishing Vessel "Arthur" [participated in first Chariot attempt to sink the Tirpitz 50 miles up Trondheim Fjord in Oct 1942; during rough weather, both chariots were lost from beneath their fishing boat 'Arthur' which subsequently sank; all personnel attempted to make their escape across Sweden]
05.07.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)
22.02.1944	-	06.1944	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto) [21.06.1944 successfully attacked an Italian cruiser Bolzano in the port of La Spezia, but was made PoW after evading capture for several weeks]
(04.1946)			HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cavanagh,
William Anthony
W.A. Cavanagh

?
-
10.12.1941
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]

T/Sg.Lt.

02.09.1940

LRCS, LRCP

30.08.1941

10.12.1941

HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) [sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya]

Cave-Clark,
Gordon Chesney
G.C. Cave-Clark

(03?).1917
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

07.05.1942

26.05.1941

(04.1946)

Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal], redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

Cavey,
William Thomas
W.T. Cavey

09.05.1915
Exeter district, Devon
-
05.2001
Carlisle district, Cumberland

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	18.09.1943
T/Lt.	01.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

18.03.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
01.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Foliot (accommodation camp for personnel on special service, Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth)

Chalmers,
Thomas
T. Chalmers

04.1909
Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
-
07.1986
Albany, Western Australia

T/S.Lt. (E)

13.11.1944

			served in India, UK, Germany (Rhine crossings):
27.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)
(1946?)	-	(1947?)	HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Appledore) (decommissioning of landing craft)

When he got out of the Navy he left the UK and went to East Africa, spending some time in what was then Tanganyika then moving to Kenya where he remained until he
left to join his family in Western Australia in 1975.

Chamberlain,
Norman
N. Chamberlain

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	03.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

09.04.1944

(07.1945)

HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for landing craft duty)

Chandler,
Robert Povah
R.P. Chandler

Son of ... Chandler, and ... Povah.

(06?).1916
Warrington district, Cheshire / Lancashire
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	25.08.1944 (reld 1945/46)

27.03.1944	-	(04.1944)	Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
13.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	LST 416

Chapman,
Hugh
H. Chapman

?
-

Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	28.07.1940
T/El.Lt.	28.01.1943

24.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
02.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hopetoun (landing craft & minesweeping base, Port Edgar)
18.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath) (for landing craft duties)

Chapman,
Harry George
H.G. Chapman

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	30.04.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

?	-	(02.1943)	HMS Pennywort (corvette)
28.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames)

Chapman,
Wilfred Treize Rougier
H.G. Chapman

Married (1934) Zelie Agnes Elizabeth Conde McAlpine (29.12.1910 - 04.2001).

(12?).1902
Wandsworth district, London
-
11.08.1981

Prob. Sg.Lt.	29.10.1928
Sg.Lt.	21.11.1929, seniority 29.10.1928
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	28.10.1934
Sg.Cdr.	30.06.1943 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (retd 19.08.1948)

VRD

24.09.1943

Education: MRCS, LRCP

29.10.1928			joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
23.09.1939	-	(04.1940)	Medical Officer, HMS Aurania (armed merchant cruiser)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
19.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Medical Officer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)

Chappell,
the Rev. Henry Pegg
H.P. Chappell

19.06.1909
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
-
06.1997
Hereford district, Herefordshire
[his ashes were scattered at sea]

Chaplain

27.04.1937 (retd 19.06.1964)

DSC	22.12.1942	Tobruk raid 09.42 [investiture 16.02.43]
MID	14.10.1941	Bismarck sunk
VRD	14.07.1949	-

Education: St Catherines College, Cambridge University (BA 1931, MA 1935); Wells Theological College (1933).
Ordained deacon 1934. Priest 1935. Diocese of London Curate of All Hallows, Barking, London, 1934-1939.

27.04.1937			joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
31.07.1939	-	(10.)1940	HMS Emerald (cruiser)
01.11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Cossack (destroyer) (for flotilla duties)
?	-	(05.)1941	HMS Zulu (destroyer) (DSC & despatches)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
14.01.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1948	-	1963	Senior Chaplain atTynemouth, RNVR, from 1958 RNR

Vicar of Christ Church North Shields directly after the war and rector of Ludlow from '62 till '74. Vicar of Surrey, 1950-1976.

Charlton,
Allan Edward
A.E. Charlton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Cicely Findlay.)

28.11.1908
-
30.10.1973

T/Lt.	02.11.1940 (reld 30.03.1946)
RANVR:
Lt.	31.03.1946, seniority 02.11.1940
Lt.Cdr.	31.12.1950 (retd 28.11.1958)

MID

12.08.1941

destroyed enemy aircraft 08.05.41

Watch Keeping Certificate; confirmed Fighter Directing Officer

			optometrist
(1940?)			HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
30.09.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(05.1941)			HMS Evadne (armed yacht, anti-submarine)
1941/42?			HMS Arran (minesweeping trawler)
20.05.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Hawkins (cruiser)
(01.1945)	-	(02.1945)	HMS Heron (RNAS Yeovilton)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
			demobilized to Australia
31.03.1946	-	28.11.1958	served RANVR as part-time instructor; enlisted at Port Adelaide; short training courses at HMAS Rushcutter, HMAS Cerberus, HMAS Watson, HMAS Warramunga and HMAS Lonsdale

Charter,
Guy Bransby
G.B. Charter (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth Watkins)

Son of Capt. Francis Eglington Charter, MC (1892-1969), and Kathleen Gordon Roberts (1894-1960).
Married ((06?).1952, Bideford district, Devon) Ruth E. Hilton; one son, one daughter.

(09?).1923
Halstead district, Essex / Suffolk
-
03.04.2010
Winchley (formerly of King's Lynn)
[buried at Ottery St Mary, Devon]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) *	01.05.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	1945?, seniority 01.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

* for aeronautical technical duties in the Fleet Air Arm

Education: St Edward's School, Oxford (Christmas term 1936-Christmas term 1941; Macnamara's House). C.Eng., MRAeS.

(06.1944)			no appointment listed
06.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegarion, Washington, DC, USA) (for full flying duties and training)
1945?	-	1946?	served South Afrcica
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Attended de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School, 1946-1949. Liaison Engineer, Teddington Controls Ltd. Sales Administration Manager, then Commercial Manager, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd, Hatfield. Senior Executive, Commercial and Export Services Deparment, Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd.

Chase,
Robert John
R.J. Chase

?
-

T/S.Lt. (E)	1941
T/Lt. (E)	18.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)	> 12.1943, < 04.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

08.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
09.08.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
04.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)

Cherry,
Alex Henry
A.H. Cherry

Married Rosilin Holden, daughter of Austrian parents; one son.

11.06.1901 *
New York City, NY, USA
-
03.1987 **
Mount Vernon, Westchester district, New York, USA

* death registration gives as year 1905, but 1930 US Census seems to confirm 1901
** according to "Passport not required" 02.04.1987 in Florida

T/Lt.	19.07.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944
T/A/Cdr.	< 04.1946 (reld 26.01.1947)

OBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

Investments broker from New York.

			HMS Malaya (battleship)
			HMS Nimrod (training establishment, Campbeltown)
27.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Reading (destroyer)
			HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
			HMS Caldwell (destroyer)
			HMS Whitehall (destroyer)
10.06.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Evadne (armed yacht, anti-submarine)
17.01.1944	-	(04.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Riou (frigate)
28.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Wren (sloop)
			HMS Braithwaite
			Admiralty [HMS President]
			Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(1945?)			HMS Royal Katherine (port party, Wilhelmshaven & base of Flag Officer West Germany) [OBE]
(1945?}			RN Liaison Officer in Task Group 2 under Cdr. Herbert S. Stone Jr. at US Naval Advanced Base in Bremen
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Companion of the New York Commandery Naval Order of the United States and the Order's past Historian General.
Published: Yankee RN : being the story of a Wall Street Banker who volunteered for active duty in the Royal Navy before America came into the war (1951).
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).

Cheshire,
Nicholas
N. Cheshire

Son of Francis Augustus Cheshire.
Married (29.08.1932) Hon. Isobel Gray Addison (born 1907), daughter of 1st Viscount Sir Christopher Addison.
Lived 1947 at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

c. 1910 ?
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

25.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

1943?	-	1944?	HMS President
(10.1944)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Bellatrix (RN base, Murmansk, Russia) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Chesney,
[Rev.] Peter Sutherland
P.S. Chesney

Married 1st (07.1947) Margaret K.L. Hume; six children.
Married 2nd Janet Chesney.

07.02.1926
Yorkshire
-
10.1984
Hampshire

T/Midsh.	02.03.1945
T/A/S.Lt.	07.11.1945
T/S.Lt.	07.05.1946

Education: MA

09.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Jamaica (cruiser)
03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Mullion Cove (repair ship)

Became a Minister in The United Reform Church (Welwyn Garden City Free Church, 1968-1971?), later Moderator.

Cheswright *,
Frederick Philip
F.P. Cheswright (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Hall)

Only son of Frederick G. Cheeswright, and Elsie W. Weedon.
Married (03.01.1942, Northumberland Central district) Florence Patricia Trevelyan, youngest daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan, of Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland; one son, one daughter.
* Name also found as: Cheeswright.

28.05.1917
St Marylebone district, London
-
28.08.1946
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire

T/S.Lt.	15.03.1940
T/Lt.	26.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

11.06.1940	-	(02.)1943	HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
02.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Norfolk (cruiser)
29.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Child,
Douglas Walter
"Tiger"
D.W. Child (Photo courtesy of Mr Willem Douglas van Gemert)

Son of Walter Eli Child (1871-1924), and Sarah Louise Spicer (1871-1948).
Married ((03?).1930, Eastry district, Kent) Nora Edith Cranwell (21.01.1905 - 08.1991); one son.

23.12.1902
Deal, Eastry district, Kent
-
09.06.1978
hospital, Hastings and Rother district, Sussex (formerly of Bexhill-on-Sea)

T/Lt.	08.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1943, <12.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	> 07.1945, < 04.1946, seniority 08.12.1939
T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	< 04.1946

OBE	10.06.1948	HM's birthday 48 [decoration presented]
MID	05.01.1943	for enterprise and devotion to duty (while in intelligence)
MID	10.04.1945	for distinguished service with the 21st Army Group (while in intelligence)

Merchant Navy officer. Developed a highly successful business that offered "Yacht Holidays" on the Dutch canals to tourists.

25.11.1936			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
1939			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
1939	-	1940	navigator aboard an armed trawler
1940	-	05.1940	intelligence officer at Rotterdam, the Netherlands [The car in which Child and Dutch naval officers travelled on a return trip from Hook of Holland to The Hague was ambushed by German parachutists, during which he was severely wounded, finally resulting in losing a leg. He was hospitalized at The Hague, initially 'hidden' as a Dutchman, but discovered by the Germans by late August 1940. In Nov. 1940 transferred to a Gestapo prison, he was eventually considered to have diplomatic immunity, being released via Spain in May 1941 (?).]
(06.1941)	-	(12.1942)	no appointment listed
14.01.1943	-	(04.)1945	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [In charge of "Anna House" where a new British-Dutch intelligence service [Bureau Inlichtingen] was formed & trained to replace the badly penetrated old organization (Englandspiel).]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)	-	(07.1946)	Staff Officer (Security) to Commander-in-Chief, Germany [HMS Royal Albert] (Minden) [In April 1946 he inspected himself Allied POW camp 2226 that held German POWs, concluding that conditions were deplorable there as well]

Literature: J. Lennox Kerr and Wilfred Granville, The R.N.V.R. : a record of achievement (1957), p. 225-228.

Chivers,
Jack Victor
J.V. Chivers (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

14.10.1912
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
09.1994
Torbay district, Devon

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	23.08.1941

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
29.08.1940	-	(10.1940)	HMS Seaborn
...	-	...	...
01.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS X 216

Christelis,
Constantine
C. Christelis

Son of Christos and Eleni Christelis, of Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa.

1920 ?
-
17.11.1941
[age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]

T/S.Lt. (A)

13.12.1941

01.08.1942

HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

Christopher,
Henry Shaw Mordaunt
A.H. Cherry

Son of Charles Mordaunt d'Aquilar Christopher and Corinne O.E. Christopher, of Westminster, London.

1919 ?
-
17.11.1941
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 60, column 2]

Seaman	?
T/S.Lt.	04.10.1940

DSM

06.09.1940

Molde Fjord

(04.1940)			served on a trawler (Norway)
21.11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Pytchley (destroyer)
			submarine course
			British Naval Liaison Officer, [Free] French Ship "Rubis" (submarine)
			Dutch submarine
?	-	17.11.1941	HMS P 38 (submarine)

Christopherson,
David Clifford
D.C. Christopherson

Son of ... Christopherson, and ... Valentine.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

19.04.1912
Woolwich district, London
-
04.1994
Colchester district, Essex

T/S.Lt.	05.03.1940
T/Lt.	12.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

25.11.1941

attacks on U-boats 03.08.41 [investiture 30.06.42]

05.03.1940	-	(05.)1940	HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull)
(06.1940)	-	(07.1940)	no appointment listed
31.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	First Lieutenant, HMS Loch Oskaig (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
13.11.1940	-	(02.)1942	First Lieutenant, HMS Hydrangea (corvette) (DSC)
07.02.1942	-	(06.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Anemone (corvette)
01.11.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Loch Achray (frigate)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Chute,
Donald Turner
D.T. Chute

Son of ... Chute, and ... Turner.
Married (08.1947) Kathleen Rockliffe; ... children (three sons, two daughters?).

05.1921
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
04.09.2010
Alexandra Hospital, Redditch

T/S.Lt. (A)	07.11.1942
T/Lt. (A)	07.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC	31.07.1945	Operation Iceberg [decoration posted]
MID	20.11.1945	operations Far East 07-08.45
VRD	?	& two clasps

09.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, 1836 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)] [lost at sea 16.05.1945, being rescued by USS Bluefish on her 8th war patrol]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Clackson,
Norman Hursley
N.H. Clackson

Last residence: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.

06.12.1903
Edmonton district, Essex / Middlesex
-
04.07.1993
Edmonton district, Essex / Middlesex

T/Lt.	19.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	11.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

17.03.1937			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
19.12.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Rosawa
(12.1941)			HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) *
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	Naval Intelligence Divison, Admiralty [HMS President] *

Advertising manager.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Clapp,
Reginald Stanley
R.S. Clapp (Photo courtesy of Mr David Matthiae)

Son of ... Clapp, and ... Hammett.

30.09.1917
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
18.11.1999
Sturmer, Haverhill, Essex

T/A/Lt.

07.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll):
(1945?)			"D" LCT Squadron staff

Clarabut,
David Stewart
D.S. Clarabut

Son of Maj.Gen. Reginald Blaxland Clarabut, CB, Indian Army, and Mary S. Gill.
Brother of Cdr. Guy Stewart Chetwode Clarabut, DSO, DSC, RN.
Married (1950) Deirdre Coleman; four daughters, one son.

12.09.1923
Murree, India
-
06.01.2009
High Halstow
[age 85]

T/S.Lt. (A)	05.02.1944
T/A/Lt. (A)	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

25.07.1944

Operations Veritas & Ridge (air strikes on German shipping off Norway 04.44) [investiture 07.11.44]

Education: Cheltenham College

			HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishmet, Forton Barracks, Gosport)
			flying training, Kingston, Ont.
(04.1944)			pilot, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
02.08.1944	-	(10.1944)	pilot, 714 Squadron FAA [HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire)]
			flying instructor in 714, 736 and 708 squadrons
(01.1945)			HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Rattray, Aberdeenshire) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Claremont,
Stanley Stopford *
S.S. Claremont (Photo courtesy of Vyvyan Lord)

Only child of Capt. Edward McDougall Stopford Claremont (1847-1935), and Dorothy Griffiths.
Grandson of Gen. Edward Stopford Claremont, CB.
Married (1947, London) Margaret Isabel Young (died 1992), daughter of Sir Cyril Roe muston Young; two sons, one daughter.

* in the Navy Lists just one first name (Stanley) mentioned for the period 1938-1946, so S. Claremont; used a hyphenated last name later in life: S. Stopford-Claremont

29.11.1917
Roehampton, Greater London
-
02.12.1989
Redhill, Surrey

Prob. S.Lt.	01.09.1939
S.Lt.	24.04.1940, seniority 01.09.1939
Lt.	29.11.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.	11.03.1946?
Lt. RN	21.02.1947, seniority 29.11.1941
Lt.Cdr. RN	29.11.1949 (emgcy 27.01.1952)
Lt.Cdr. RCN	02.1952?, seniority 29.11.1949 (retd < 01.1957)

39-45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Bur St	-	& Pacific clasp
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

28.09.1938			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Suppelementary Reserve (RNVSR) [attached to London Division RNVR]
01.09.1939			mobilized Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) (unattached list)
06.11.1939	-	(12.1941)	HMS Icarus (destroyer)
28.12.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Rapid (destroyer)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
11.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HM LST 62 (landing ship, tank)
21.02.1947			transferred to the Royal Navy (RN)
12.1947	-	(05.1949)	HMS Barbrook II (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
23.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Resource (repair ship) (for miscellaneous services)
02.1952?			transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)
14.02.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMCS Cornwallis (RCN training establishment, Halifax, NS)
08.02.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMCS Scotian (RCN base & reserve division, Halifax, NS)

Clark,
Dudley George
D.G. Clark (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony Clark)

Married (1943, Stornoway) Millicent McLeod.
Lived in Bedford Park Chiswick.

14.01.1910
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
11.1998
Ealing district, London

T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	14.01.1940
T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	< 10.1944
T/A/Cdr. (S)	< 01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

OBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

25.08.1939	-	(12.1941)	HMS Mentor (RN base, Stornoway)
			may have served on aircraft carriers
19.04.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore)
01.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lanka III, later HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon)

ACA. Worked as a shipping broker in the Baltic Exchange.

Clark,
Gordon
G. Clark, 28 June 1941 (Photo courtesy of Mr Jonathan Clark)

Married (28.06.1941, Cardiff) Dianne G. Duncan; three sons, one daughter.

17.04.1908
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
08.11.1993
Camden, London

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	28.07.1940
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	28.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	15.02.1945 (reld 15.02.1946)

Education: Clare College, Cambridge University (graduated 1931).

27.07.1940	-	(07.1945)	Bomb Safety Officer, Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs, Admiralty [HMS President], renamed medio 1941/42: Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining (for duty outside Admiralty)
1940	-	03.1943	Bomb Safety Officer, Cardiff
03.1943	-	03.1945	Bomb Safety Officer, West London (Ace of Spades Garage)
03.1945?	-	15.02.1946	Divisional Officer, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

Pre- & post-war Electrical Engineer at BTH (Electrical Power Plant and equipment manufacturers).

Clark,
Harry Christopher
H.C. Clark

?
-

T/S.Lt.

21.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

22.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Puffin (sloop)
01.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Loch Katrine (frigate)

Clark,
[Sir] Robert Anthony
"Bob"
R.A. Clark

Younger son of John Clark, and Gladys Dyer.
Married (1949) Andolyn Marjorie Lewis; two sons, one daughter.

06.01.1924
Finchley, North London
-
03.01.2013
Godalming, Surrey

T/S.Lt.

	Kt	1976	?
	DSC	19.12.1944	special operations in enemy occupied territory [investiture 22.06.45]

Education: Highgate School; King's College, Cambridge.

Partner with Slaughter and May, Solicitors, 1953-1961; Director: Alfred McAlpine plc (formerly Marchwiel plc), 1957-1996; Hill Samuel Bank Ltd, merchant bankers (formerly Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers Ltd, then Hill Samuel & Co. Ltd), 1961-1991 (Chm., 1974-1987); Bank of England, 1976-1985; Eagle Star Holdings Ltd, 1976-1987; BL, subseq. Rover Gp plc, 1977-1988; Shell Transport and Trading Co., plc, 1982-1994; SmithKline Beecham plc, 1987-1995 (Vice-Chm.); Vodafone Group plc (formerly Racal Telecom PLC), 1988-; Chairman: Hill Samuel Gp plc, 1980-1988 (Chief Exec., 1976-1980); IMI plc, 1981-1989; Marley plc, 1985-1989; Lambert Fenchurch Gp (formerly Lowndes Lambert Group Hldgs) plc, 1995- (Dep. Chm., 1992-1995); Dep. Chm., TSB Gp, 1989-1991 (Dir, 1987-1991). Chairman: Industrial Development Adv. Bd, 1973-1980; Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, 1979-1986; Council, Charing Cross and Westminster Med. Sch., 1982-1996; Dir, ENO, 1983-1987. Hon. DSc Cranfield Inst. of Technol., 1982. Chairman, since 1992, and Director, since 1991, Mirror Group plc (formerly Mirror Group Newspapers plc); Chairman, Rauscher Pierce & Clark, since 1992.

Clark,
Sydney Herbert
S.H. Clark

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	30.01.1944 (reld 1945/46)

24.02.1944	-	02.11.1944	HM Trawler Colsay (sunk by a German human torpedo off Ostend)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Clarke,
Denis Maurice
R. Clarke

Son of Sam and Amy Clarke.
Married ...; .two sons.

08.10.1916
-
03.11.2003
Eastbourne district, Sussex

Seaman	? [P/JX 212305]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	19.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.09.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

Furniture salesman.

(09.1940)			HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
?	-	27.04.1941	HMS Wryneck (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft in Gulf of Nauplia)
(01.1942)	-	02.1942	HMS Pegaus (catapult trials and maintenance ship)
02.1942	-	(10.1942)	HMS Gambia (cruiser)
(10.1943)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)
05.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq)
23.07.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Adria (base ship, Persian Gulf)
17.03.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq)
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

Director of a watch importing company.

Clarke,
Frederic James
F.J. Clarke (Photo courtesy of Mrs Janet Eaton)
Son (with four brothers and five sisters) of Harry Elias Clark (1866-1947), and Emily Jane Watts (1867-1947).
Married (05.11.1926, Christchurch Cathedral, Montréal, Canada) Eva Jane Dickson (24.12.1889 - 23.04.1974), daughter (with three sisters and three brothers) of William Edward Dickson (1855-1922), and Emma Jane Kellogg (1858-1945), of Montréal, Québec, Canada; four daughters, two sons.

27.10.1897
Leyton, Essex
-
07.05.1976
Harwich Hospital, Harwich, Essex

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	09.08.1942

* Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, has not received any training of an executive nature, but has undergone a short course at the RN College, Greenwich

(08.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed
14.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
15.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Valluru (RN Air Station, Tambaran, Madras, India)

His daughter Mrs Joan Clarke Mansfield provided the following career summary: "When Freddie entered the RNVR in 1942, it was as a Special Branch Officer. He was sent on a short course at the RN college at Greenwich, after which he anticipated liaison duties with the Free French navy, on the basis of his abilities in French. Instead he was sent on a course to HMS VOLCANO, on mines, booby traps and anti-personnel bombs. After station duties at HMS BELFAST and HMS CAROLINE he was assigned in June 1943 as Executive Officer on Naval Party 842A for combined operations with the Sicily landings and was ordered by the Commander to take down his green stripe (Special Branch). By August he was a casualty with a broken leg – he had fallen down a broken sewer in Catania (and had lost his watch at the same time). He was taken to hospital in Alexandria (Egypt) for treatment and recovery. Three months later he was appointed to join HMS WOOLWICH, a destroyer depot ship with the Eastern Fleet, as Executive Officer, in spite of having had no training for seagoing service. In June 1944 he was appointed to HMS SPRINGTIDE, a mine destructor vessel, as an Executive Officer. At this posting, he received a reprimand from the Commodore (D) for failing to obey berthing instructions. A letter from him to his Commanding Officer pointed out that he was in no way qualified to take command of a ship, and he was soon relieved as First Lieutenant. He was now Temporary Lieutenant Clarke. The situation took a toll on him and he was put on brief sick leave. By January 1945 Freddie is posted as to shore duties with HMS TANA at RNAS KATUKURUNDA in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where he acts as Sports Officer, while requesting early release to get back to his family and employment in the UK. He then is reported as at HMS VALLURU, Madras, India. He was finally released from the RNVR on January 4th 1946."

Clarke,
George Puleston
G.P. Clarke
Son of ... Clarke, and ... Andrews.
Married Kathleen "Betty" ....; five sons.

01.02.1918
Devonport, Devon
-
06.12.2006
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

27.01.1941 (reld 02.02.1947)

05.10.1939	-	13.03.1940	HMS Hiniesta (armed patrol yacht) (out of Bristol, Channel patrol)
28.03.1940	-	30.10.1940	HMS Sayonara (armed patrol yacht) (out of Gibraltar, Mediterranean patrol)
			temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements:
27.01.1941	-	19.02.1941	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
20.02.1941	-	27.01.1943	HMS Prince Charles (landing ship, infantry) (Scapa Flow, commando raids Norway & Dieppe)
28.01.1943	-	09.06.1943	no appointment listed
10.06.1943	-	14.06.1943	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
15.06.1943	-	15.02.1944	HMS Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Dartmouth)
16.02.1944	-	13.08.1945	HMS Tasajera (landing ship, tank) (took part in Normandy landings 06.1944)
14.08.1945	-	19.12.1945	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
20.12.1945	-	20.05.1946	HMS Princess Iris (landing ship, carrier) (mainly used for supplies for troops, Antwerp)
21.05.1946	-	18.09.1946	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool)
19.09.1946	-	02.02.1947	foreign service & resettlement leave

Clarke,
Lawrence Hardcastle
L.H. Clarke

17.05.1908
-
13.01.2001
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

T/S.Lt.	25.09.1941
T/Lt.	25.12.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

28.10.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS Coronation (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal))
(04.1942)	-	(12.1942)	HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) *
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
02.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Tiree (minesweeping trawler)
04.06.1943	-	12.1943?	Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Hotham (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
02.12.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Ness (frigate)
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Clarke,
Raymond
R. Clarke

Son of Herbert Clarke, and Constance Hilda Mitchell, of Lenton Sands, Nottingham.

(09?).1923
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
-
30.03.1943
(air crash) [age 19]
[Newport (Island) Cemetery, Rhode Island, NY, USA, Navy Sec. Plots 172-177. Grave 13]

T/Midsh. (A)

30.03.1943

pilot, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]

Clarke,
Richard Henry
R.H. Clarke

Son of ... Clarke, and ... Smith.

29.01.1923
Risbridge district, Cambridgeshire / Essex / Suffolk
-
16.05.1969
West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
(killed by lightning)

T/S.Lt.	29.07.1943
T/Lt.	29.07.1945

29.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Truant (submarine)
(04.1946)			HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon) *

Company Director, John Laing Construction.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Clarke,
Thomas Graves
"Tommy"
T.G. Clarke

Home town: (1943) New Forest, Hampshire.

19.08.1911
Allerton, Liverpool
-
14.02.1969
Antigua

T/S.Lt.	12.04.1940
T/Lt.	12.04.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	05.1945? (reld > 04.1946)

	DSC	05.10.1943	Operation Retribution (operations in the Mediterranean 04-05.43)
	MID	03.01.1941	?

24.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Harvester (destroyer)
25.05.1942	-	(05.1943)	HMS Tartar (destroyer)
05.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Bleasdale (destroyer)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Accomplished racing driver, competing at Le Mans pre- & post-war.

Clarkson,
Ronald Henry
R.H. Clarkson

26.05.1894
Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)

28.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

indicated as SS* = employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, has not received any training of an executive nature, but has undergone a short course at the RN College, Greenwich
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Clarkson,
Victor Frank William
V.F.W. Clarkson

Son of ... Clarkson, and ... Sawyer.

(03?).1918
Romford district, Essex
-

T/Lt.

DSC

(1942)

(03.1943)

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 24 (motor torpedo boat)

Claxton,
Thomas Llewellyn
T.L. Claxton

Married 1st Evelyn Flora Graystone (lived at Lowestoft, Suffolk; divorced twice, finally 1956); two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd ...

24.05.1909
Mutford district, Suffolk
-
06.1995
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	19.08.1943
T/A/Lt.	19.08.1945 (reld 1953)

Working for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Lowestoft, Suffolk in Nov. 1938.

			served as a rating on minesweepers out of Lowestoft, then Atlantic convoys out of Liverpool
25.03.1944	-	(04.1946)	Unexploded Bomb Disposal Department, from medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Torpedoes and Mining Department, from 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) *

* was blown up on a mine in 1943, which injured him badly (including being blind for the rest of his life); was treated for some 10 years at the McIndoe Surgical Centre at East Grinstead, before being invalided out in 1953

Clayden,
Anthony Richard
A.R. Clayden

Son of Harold William and Florence Hilda Clayden, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.

1919 ?
-
14.12.1942
[age 23]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 4.F.22]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)	21.10.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)	1941, seniority 21.10.1940

13.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
21.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekeheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
?	-	14.12.1942	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekeheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)

Married; ... children (one daughter?).

17.04.1911
Barnet district, Greater London / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
02.1996
Deben district, Suffolk

T/S.Lt.	28.09.1939
T/Lt.	11.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

	DSC	29.08.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 22.06.45]
	MID	30.05.1944	coastal forces action 24.10.43

28.09.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Conqueror (battleship) (under construction)
11.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
19.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
25.01.1943	-	(01.)1945	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 652 (motor torpedo boat) [initially at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Clayton,
Arthur Harold
A.H. Clayton

?
-

T/Lt.

	DSC
	MID

(1944)

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 677 (motor torpedo boat)

Cleaver,
Richard Edward Lionel
R.E.L. Cleaver

Son of William Edward Cleaver, barrister, and Jessie Maud Cleaver, of Penang and Winchester.
Married (17.09.1949, St Mark's Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Lois Martin E. Elliott (09.05.1919 - 12.2000), youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs J.R. Elliott, of Long Beach, California, USA.

04.05.1911
West Derby, Lancashire
-
09.2000
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire

T/A/S.Lt.	18.12.1942
T/S.Lt.	18.06.1943 (transferred to the reserve 12.02.1945)
T/A/Lt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944

(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(04.1943)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) * [left UK 15.07.1943]
18.03.1943	-	(12.1943)	British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek escort destroyer "Themistocles"
08.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(01.1945)			HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Clelland,
Peter Frank
P.F. Clelland

Son of ... Clelland, and .. Bonham.

(09?).1920
Richmond district, Surrey
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	31.07.1942
T/Lt. (A)	31.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

01.06.1943	-	(10.1944)	pilot, 819 Squadron FAA
(07.1945)			HMS Battler (escort carrier) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Clelland,
Robert
R. Clelland

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	19.06.1943

25.02.1944	-	(06.1944)	HMS Pennywort (corvette)
15.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Spartiate (base depot ship, Glasgow)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Clipstone,
William Moxom
R. Clelland

?
-

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	26.06.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	< 07.1945

(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Clively *,
Edward Turner
E.T. Clively (Photo courtesy of Mr Dave Haddow)

* In the Navy List incorrectly listed as: E.T. Cliveley
Married ((09?).1931, Hampstead district, Middlesex) Editha G. Bates.

01.06.1886
Taganrog, Russia
-
(03?).1966
Bath district, Somerset

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	07.03.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

39-45 St	?	?
It St	?	?
Def M	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?

Merchant.

WW I			served in the Middlesex Regiment (Army Number G-100570)
(10.1944)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Bellatrix *
(03.1945)			Assistant Officer-in-Charge of Armament Supply Northern Russia **

* indexed, but not listed as such
** recommended by Senior British Naval Officer, Northern Russia (R.Adm. H.J. Egerton) to serve on an Allied Control Commission

Clouston,
Harold Thomas Stewart
H.T.S. Clouston

Son of Joseph Storer Clouston (1870-1944), and Winifred Clouston.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Erlend Richard Storer Clouston, RN.

c. 1907
-

T/Lt.	31.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	10.05.1943?
T/Cdr.	31.01.1945 (reld 1946)

MID

23.03.1943

convoy to N Russia 11.42

Education: Wadham College, Oxford University (BA).

30.11.1936			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
(04.1940)			HMS King Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
04.09.1940	-	14.10.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Stamp (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (ship mined in the Channel & lost)
23.10.1940	-	20.02.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Mariato (auxiliary anti-submarine warfare trawler)
10.05.1943	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Mallow (corvette)
07.09.1943	-	10.01.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Campion (corvette)
09.07.1944	-	28.12.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Newark (destroyer)
31.01.1945	-	06.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Newark (destroyer)
15.06.1945	-	12.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Carnarvon Bay (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Clyde,
Maurice Gerrard
M.G. Clyde

Son of William Thomas Clyde (1896-1963), and Phylis Amy Booker (1898-1969).

13.04.1921
Nagpur, India
-
24.09.1942
(MPK) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 1]

T/Midsh. (A)	29.07.1940
T/A/S.Lt. (A)	20.01.1941
T/S.Lt. (A)	13.04.1942

(10.1940)			no appointment listed
14.10.1940	-	(12.1940)	HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
(02.1941)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(04.1941)			HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester, Hampshire) *
25.05.1941	-	28.10.1941	pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)]
29.10.1941	-	24.09.1942	pilot, 700 Squadron FAA [HMS Sheffield (cruiser)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)

* indexed, but not listed as such

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