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Dace, Cyril Jack Son of Isaac Dace, and Margaret E. Waterson.	19.08.1916 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 10.09.1991 Saffron Walden, Uttlesford district, Essex	T/S.Lt. 26.09.1943 T/Lt. 01.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946) QPM 13.06.1970 HM's birthday 70	(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) * [possibly for service with Landing Craft Infantry (Small)] Commander, Metropolitan Police. * indexed, but not listed as such
Daglish, Alasdair Grant Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of George Grant Daglish (1866-1954), and Lucie Elizabeth Macdonald (1876-1959). Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. George Heaton Daglish, RNVR. Married ((03?).1952, Southport district, Lancashire) Dorothy Edge (née Atkinson) (1925? - ); three sons.	05.09.1919 West Derby district, Lancashire - 06.1989 Sefton district, North Merseyside	Midsh. 05.10.1937 A/S.Lt. 05.09.1939 S.Lt. 05.09.1940 Lt. 05.02.1942 (reld 29.05.1946)	05.10.1937     commissioned, RNVR (Mersey Division) 24.11.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 17.06.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (10.1941) - (08.1943) HMS Birmingham (Southampton class cruiser) * 31.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser) 12.01.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 19.03.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Battler (Archer class escort carrier) * indexed, but not listed as such
Daglish, George Heaton Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of George Grant Daglish (1866-1954), and Lucie Elizabeth Macdonald (1876-1959). Brother of Lt. Alasdair Grant Daglish, RNVR. Married Margaret "Peggy" Tucker (01.11.1915 - 21.11.2004); two daughters.	03.06.1914 - 11.2004 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada	T/Sg.Lt. 17.02.1941 T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 25.05.1946)	MB, ChB (Liverpool), 1946. MRCS (England), LRCP (London), 1940. 17.02.1941 - (12.)1941 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Pembroke] 16.12.1941 - (06.)1943 HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake] 05.06.1943 - (09.)1943 HMS Eskimo (Tribal class destroyer) 29.09.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Marne (M class destroyer) 30.09.1944 - (01.)1945 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 19.02.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Bermuda (Fiji class cruiser) Emigrated to Canada, 1954 (at Hermitage, Newfoundland, then 1955 for 11 years at Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, finally settling in Manitoba in 1966).
Dale, Albert Edward	? - ?	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 24.09.1943 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.03.1944 (reld 11.06.1946) * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	18.11.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Triphibian II (training establishment, Uniacke Barracks, Harrogate) (04.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed 03.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) (for duty with rescue tugs) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Dale, Geoffrey Alan	22.09.1923 Leyton, London - 26.12.1988 Canterbury	T/Midsh. ? T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 T/Lt. 01.03.1946	06.06.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HM MGB 8 (motor gun boat) 15.05.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 731 (motor torpedo boat) (04.1946) HMS Vernon (training establishment, Brighton) Trained as a teacher and taught history for many years at schools in Dover.
Dale, Geoffrey Raymond From Sydney, Australia. Married 1st ((06?).1944, Lowestoft, Lothingland district) Third Officer Barbara Gilks, WRNS;  one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1972, Australia).	29.09.1917 Concord, Sydney, NSW, Australia - 1976	T/S.Lt. 12.02.1942 T/Lt. 12.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 04.05.1943 action with E-boats 08.03.43 [investiture 09.11.43] MID 02.05.1944 4 E-boats damaged 14.02.44	(1943) served Motor Gun Boats (MGBs) 20.04.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (initially for 7th MGB Flotilla, later for 5th MGB Flotilla) (03.1943)     HM MGB 20 (motor gun boat) 06.1943 - (08.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 125 (motor gun boat) 24.01.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.) (02.1944)     HM MTB 443 (motor torpedo boat) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed After the war he returned to Australia and worked and returned to the advertising industry as a copywriter eventually as agency copywriter director/ manager of several firms.
Daly, Dermot Alexius Married Kay ...; one son, one daughter.	17.07.1916 Ilford, Romford district, Essex - 26.07.1994 Stoke on Trent district, Staffordshire	T/Sg.Lt. 29.11.1940	Education: National University of Ireland, Dublin (MB, BCh, BAO 1940); BSc, MD ... - ... ... 21.12.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Westminster (W class destroyer) ? - ? HMS Newcastle (Southampton class cruiser) ... - ... ... General practitioner, Stoke on Trent, 1949-1979.
Daly, George Roderick * * Also known as: Daly, Jorge Rodrigo.	16.02.1903 Puenta Arenas, Chile - 17.03.1969	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 01.01.1944 T/S.Lt. (A) 01.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	Played rugby. Racing driver.       joined RNVR from Argentina (02.1944)     HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) * (04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * 25.08.1944 - (04.1946) naval photographer, HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dalziel, John Calvin Married (1941) Betty Bain; one son.	04.1911 - 16.04.1983 Edinburgh, Scotland	T/S.Lt. 28.08.1941 T/Lt. 28.11.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (dismissed HM Service by sentence of a court-martial 13.12.1944)	26.09.1941 - 12.1944 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) ARCM. Organist of the Central Hall. Music master at Tynecastle Secondary School.
Dalziel, William George	? -	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 14.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 06.07.1943 action in enemy coastal waters 30.04.43 [decoration posted]	(04.1943)     Navigating Officer, HM MTB 630 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth)] (DSC) 04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches) 01.10.1943 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 632 (motor torpedo boat) 07.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 771 (motor torpedo boat) 02.07.1945 - (07.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 790 (motor torpedo boat) 17.12.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2006 (British yard minesweeper)
Dampier, [Rev.] Robert Cecil Walter Elder son (with one brother) of V.Adm. Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG, RN (1868-1950), and Barbara Constance Anne Giffard (1883-1966), of Bentworth, Droxford, Hampshire. Brother of Lt.Cdr. Denis John Dampier, RN.	29.04.1919 Dover district - 10.1999 South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire	T/S.Lt. 21.08.1941 T/Lt. 21.02.1944	Education: Stowe School; Pembroke College, Cambridge (matriculation year 1937). (12.1941)     no appointment listed 12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Queenborough (destroyer) (04.1946)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) * Joined the clergy post-war. Vicar of St Stephen's, Lewisham (05.1961), Tettenhall Wood (12.1966), Coven (06.1982).
Danby, Geoffrey Allison "Geoff" Son (with two brothers) of Christopher Robert Danby (1897-1969), and May Allison (1902-1972), of Lupsett, Wakefield.	01.03.1922 Scarborough district, Yorkshire - 18.12.1943 Crail, Fife, Scotland [age 21] [Wakefield Cemetery, Yorkshire, section C, grave 147]	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 20.12.1942 T/S.Lt. (A) 20.06.1943	22.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (additional; for full flying duties and training) 07.07.1943 - 18.12.1943 pilot, 770 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] [Flew AL915 Vought-Sikorsky Chesapeake on a training mission when he experienced trouble with his aircraft. He managed to parachute out of the aircraft and landed in the North Sea, 1.5 miles off Crail, Scotland. While he managed to swim to shore, he suffered hypothermia from the water temperature and died before help arrived. It is thought he tried to rescue the the other crew member LAC H. McEntee before he swam to shore.]
Danby, John Francis Son of ... Danby, and ... Ramsay. Married ((12?).1937, Lanchester district, Durham) Gertrude Grimshaw.	18.10.1911 Durham district, Durham - 21.12.1972 Bangor district, Anglesey	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 26.06.1942 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 26.09.1942 (reld 09.05.1946) * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	13.07.1942 - (07.)1945 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (10.1945)     no appointment listed
Danckwerts, Michael John Son of V.Adm. Victor Hilary Danckwerts, RN (1890-1944), and Joyce Middleton.	29.01.1924 Emsworth, Havant district, Hampshire - 28.11.1997 Kemsing, Tunbridge Wells district, Kent	T/S.Lt. (A) 01.03.1944 T/Lt. (A) 01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)	16.08.1944 - (07.1945) Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (apparently serving in Canada) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Danckwerts, [Prof.] Peter Victor   Eldest son (with two brothers and two sisters)  of V.Adm. Victor Hilary Danckwerts, CMG, RN (1890-1944), and Joyce Middleton. Married (1960) Mrs. Lavinia Anne Harrison, daughter of Brig.Gen. & Mrs. D.A. Macfarlane.	14.10.1916 Emsworth, Hampshire - 25.10.1984 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 28.07.1940 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) < 02.1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.10.1941 (reld 20.05.1946) GC 20.12.1940 parachute mines disposal, London 08.40 [investiture 27.05.41] MBE 29.12.1942 mine disposal 07.42 [investiture 16.03.45]	Education: Winchester College; Balliol College, Oxford University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BA (chemistry) Oxon, 1938; SM (Chemical Engineering Practice), MIT, 1948; MA Cantab 1948. Held a post in the small chemical company of Fullers Earth Union Ltd, Redhill, 1939-1940. 1940 - 1946 RNVR: 27.07.1940 - (12.1941) Unexploded Bombs Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) 1940     operating with the Port of London Authority winter 1941 - 1942 operating at Tyneside  04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) 10.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Stag (RN base, port Said) 24.01.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, then Taranto) 07.1943     wounded during the invasion of Sicily while tripping over a landmine (02.1944)     no appointment listed (04.1944) - (07.1945) Experiments and Developments Branch, Combined Operations HQ Commonwealth Fund Fellow, MIT, 1946-48; Demonstrator and Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University, 1948-54; Deputy Director of Research and Development, Industrial Group, UK Atomic Energy Authority, 1954-56; Professor of Chemical Engineering Science, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1956-59. Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1959-1977, then Emeritus. Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1959-77, then Emeritus. MIChemE 1955 (President, 1965-66); Hon. FIChemE. Fellow, Royal Society, 1969. Hon. DTech Bradford, 1978; Hon. DSc: Loughborough, 1981; Bath, 1983. Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1964; Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering, USA, 1978. Literature: Peter Varey, Life on the edge : Peter Danckwerts GC MBE FRS : brave, shy, brilliant (2012).
Dancy, Percival Royston [St Benedict] Son of Harry Dancy (?-1951), and Henrietta "Hettie" Theabold (?-1951). Married 1st ((03?).1928, Fulham district, London) Elaine Marjorie Pace (04.06.1898 - ), daughter of Edward Thomas Pace. Married 2nd ((03?).1944, Chelsea district, London) Brenda Langley Smithers (20.04.1912-20.01.1997), daughter of Langley Smithers (1884-1955), and Mabel Lily Bishop (1879-1968); two daughters, one son.	07.12.1902 Streatham, Wandsworth district, London - (12?).1955 Thanet district, Kent	Prob. T/S.Lt. 27.10.1939 T/Lt. 25.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 28.04.1942? (reld 23.03.1944; medically unfit)	Area manager (petroleum). (11.1939)     no appointment listed 25.11.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) 01.07.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Providence (auxiliary patrol base, Ramsgate) (06.1941)     HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) * 17.06.1941 - (10.1941) HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft) (12.1941) - (02.1942) no appointment listed 07.03.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) 28.04.1942 - (12.1942) Senior Naval Liaison Officer, RAF Station, Turnhouse [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)] 06.01.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Wildfire III (Combined Operations base, Sheerness) (10.1943)     no appointment listed 17.11.1943 - (12.1943) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent] (02.1944)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Daniel, Percy Richard Son (with four siblings) of Edward Sydney Daniel (1877-1927), and Elizabeth Roper (1880-1974). Married 1st ((09?).1936, Kidderminster district, Worcestershire) Dorothy M. Lawley (27.09.1913 - 02.1993); two children. Married 2nd ((03?).1951, Hereford district, Herefordshire) Betty G. Russell (11.12.1923 - 09.09.2003); one child.	04.09.1908 Droitwich district, Worecestershire - 10.04.1979 Sandwell district, West Midlands (formerly of Llandrindod Wells, Powys)	T/A/S.Lt. 30.04.1943 T/S.Lt. 30.10.1943 T/Lt. 01.08.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 20.07.1945]	Traveller footwear. (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 09.09.1943 - (01.)1945 HM MMS 1003 (motor minesweeper) (DSC) 01.03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Paragon (minesweepers base, Hartlepool) 10.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Wiay (Isles class trawler)
Daniel, Peter Geoffrey Younger son (with one brother) of Lt.Col. Hubert Owen Daniel (1892-1955), and Margery Thomas, VAD. Brother of Lt. William Anthony Daniel, RN. Married ((09?).1951, Liverpool South district, Lancashire; divorced 1974) Helen L. Cockrell ((03?).1925 - 2014); one son, two daughters.	06.11.1924 St George Hanover district, London - 30.11.2015 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Berwickshire, Scotland	T/A/S.Lt. (S) 27.09.1944 T/S.Lt. (S) 27.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946) Arc St 15.07.2013 -	Education: St Paul's, London; King William's College, Isle of Man. ? - ? HMS Chaser (Archer class escort carrier) 07.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Venerable (Colossus class aircraft carrier) (04.1946)     HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship) * Landscape architect. * indexed, but not listed as such
Daniels, Spencer Gordon Culham Son of ... Daniels, and ... Culham. Married; ... children.	08.07.1916 Tonbridge district, Kent / Sussex - 03.1984 Tunbridge Wells district, Kent	T/A/S.Lt. (E) 19.06.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements 19.06.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Maplin (fighter catapult ship) 12.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Thane (escort carrier)
Darby, John David "Jack" Son of William Elliott Darby (1884-), and Millicent Darby. Twin brother of Lt. William Darby, RNVR. Married Iris Margaret Mason, of Sheerness, Kent, daughter of A.G. Mason; one daughter.	21.09.1915 - 24.06.1944 [age 28] [Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France, I.K.5]	T/S.Lt. 05.06.1942 T/Lt. 05.06.1943	Education: Dulwich College (1926-1935). Employed by Whitehall Securities Corporation.       He joined the RNVR before the war and was trained in HMS President. On mobilisation he was posted to Chatham for a course in minesweeping and then to Sheerness where he served in a minesweeper, which was sunk by bombing and he was rescued after two hours in the water. Having declined a previous recommendation, he eventually took a commission. (08.1942)     no appointment listed 14.09.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot, Sheerness) 14.10.1942 - (06.)1943 HM MMS 209 (motor minesweeper) 14.07.1943 - (01.)1944 HM MMS 115 (motor minesweeper) 14.01.1944 - 24.06.1944 HM MMS 8 (motor minesweeper)
Darby, Robert Keith From Stourbridge. Married (25.09.1954, Stafford) Annabel Forrester Bostock (born 1932).	30.10.1920 - 02.1996 Wolverhampton district, West Midlands	T/S.Lt. 24.07.1942 T/Lt. 24.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 11.06.1946 wind up Far East	(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) * (1945) HM LCI(L) 266 (landing craft infantry (large)) (04.1946) no appointment listed Ran an engineering business post-war. * indexed, but not listed as such
Darby, William "Bill" Son of William Elliott Darby (1884-), and Millicent Darby. Twin brother of Lt. John David Darby, RNVR. Married (21.12.1940) Mary Winifred Owens; one daughter, three sons.	21.09.1915 - 18.06.1968	T/S.Lt. 20.11.1941 T/Lt. 20.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946) Granted Watch Keeping certificate	Education: Dulwich College (1926-1935); St John's College, Oxford. (02.1942) - (06.)1942 British Naval Liaison Officer, French corvette "Lobelia" * (06?).1942 - 09.1942 British Naval Liaison Officer, French corvette "Cdt Detroyat" * (08.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943)     HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) * (04.1943)     HMS Claverhouse II (minesweeper base, Granton) 02.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Pangbourne (Hunt class minesweeper) 18.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Fort York (Bangor class minesweeper) (02.1944) - (01.)1945 HMS Pangbourne (Hunt class minesweeper) [date of appointment shown as 18.11.1943] (04.1945)     HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS, Canada) * 01.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Michael (Algerine class minesweeper) (04.1946)     no appointment listed Went back to teach Classics at Dulwich College for 26 years before his untimely death at 52 from a massive heart attack. Published: Dulwich discovered (1966); Dulwich, a place in history (1967). * indexed, but not listed as such
Darke, Norman John Horatio	01.08.1915 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 11.2000 Corfu	T/S.Lt. 21.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946) 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? & clasp France &  Germany Def M ? ? WM 39|45 ? ? Cor M ? ? Queen's Police Medal; Police Long Service Medal [EII R]	12.09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Lawson (frigate) Chief Superintendent & Commander, Metropolitan Police.
Darnborough, Frank Gilbert Residence: (1944) Carlshalton Beeches, (from 1953 onwards) Cape Town, South Africa.	09.01.1903 Greenwich, London - 27.08.1998 Cape Town, South Africa	T/Lt. 23.10.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 13.10.1943? (reld < 04.1946) DSC 01.01.1945 New Year 45 OBE 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 68: British subject resident in South Africa MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43	01.04.1938 joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR] 1939 - 1945/46? served in Arctic Convoys (Archangel runs), D-Day, &tc. (in destroyers and minesweepers): 08.11.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Seagull (minesweeper) 09.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Blyth (minesweeper) 13.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Llandudno (minesweeper) 17.07.1944 - (07.1945) Minesweeping Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo training establishment, Brighton)
Darracott, William Roy Son of ... Darracott, and .. Manning. Married Betty Bethell (1925-), daughter of Aubrey Bethell and Lillian Grace Sellers; ... children.	(03?).1921 Dorchester district, Dorset - 25.09.2008 [Bath ?]	T/S.Lt. 11.09.1942 T/Lt. 01.06.1944 DSC 21.11.1944 action west coast Italy 06.44 [decoration posted] DSC 05.12.1944 coastal operations Adriatic & Aegean [decoration posted]	28.05.1943 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat) (07.1945) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) * 27.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Waxwing (RN camp, Townhill, Dunfermline, Fife) * indexed, but not listed as such
Davey, David Murray	? -	T/A/Lt. 27.08.1943	(10.1944)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) * (01.1945)     no appointment listed (03.1945)     British Naval Liaison Officer, "Navarinon" (Greek destroyer) 27.04.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Vernon II (accommodation ship, Portsmouth) *  indexed, but not listed as such
Davey, John Desmond Eldest son of Mrs R.I. Davey, of Cultra, County Down. Brother of Lt.Cdr. P.V.M. Davey, DSC, VRD, RNVR. Married (02.11.1942, Simonstown, Cape Province, South Africa) Mary Christine Wilis, elder daughter of V.Adm. A.U. Willis, CB, DSO, of Heronsgate, Hertfordshire; ... children (one son?).	(12?).1912 Belfast, Ireland - 1984	Prob. S.Lt. 15.09.1936 S.Lt. 17.10.1937 Lt. 18.07.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (demobilized 14.03.1946) Lt.Cdr. 18.07.1948 (retd 13.11.1954) A/Cdr. from > 05.1950, < 05.1951 to > 05.1952, < 05.1953 VRD 21.10.1950 -	30.08.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 16.07.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Ivanhoe (I class destroyer) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 24.10.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Leamington (Town class destroyer) (08.1941)     no appointment listed 04.08.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Express (E class destroyer) 12.04.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 16.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Musketeer (M class destroyer) (04.1945)     no appointment listed [possibly from 05.1945-06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Lancaster (Town class destroyer)] 06.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Balfour (Captain class frigate) 18.07.1948 - (05.1952) Executive Officer, Ulster Division RNVR [HMS Caroline]
Davey, Patrick Vere Mollan Son of Mrs R.I. Davey, of Cultra, County Down. Brother of Lt.Cdr. J.D. Davey, VRD, RNVR.	07.12.1919 Belfast, Ireland - 11.1990 Bury St Edmunds district, Suffolk	Midsh. 25.09.1937 A/S.Lt. 11.01.1940 S.Lt. 07.12.1940 Lt. 01.03.1942 (demobilized > 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1950 (retd 01.05.1962) DSC 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche [decoration posted] VRD 08.05.1951 - VRD 11.12.1962 1st clasp	19.08.1939 - (06.)1941 HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] 07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Thanet (S class destroyer) (02.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed (10.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Springtide (mine destructor vessel) * 18.03.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS LST 72 (landing ship, tank) 26.08.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM LST 430 (landing ship, tank) (DSC) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     HMS Vindictive (fleet repair ship) * 01.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Jervis (J class destroyer)       Ulster Division RNVR [HMS Caroline] * indexed, but not listed as such
Davidson, Edward Arthur	? - ?	T/S.Lt. 09.04.1942 T/Lt. 09.07.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	17.05.1942 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft tank (LCTs))
Davies, Charles Gordon Victor Son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur Charles Davies (1877-1963), a clerk to a salesman with the Meat Commission, and Mary Cramp (1875-1957). Unmarried.	22.06.1904 Stamford Hill, Hackney district, Greater London - 01.12.1997 St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey Northern district, Surrey (formerly of Highlands, Horsell Park, Woking)	Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 06.01.1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.04.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 02.1943, < 04.1943 (reld 01.06.1946) T/A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 07.1945, < 10.1945 MBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [investiture 03.11.42] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Bur St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - LegH ? liberation of France * Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, having not received any training of an executive nature, but has undergone a short course at the RN College, Greenwich	Education: London School of Economics 1921-24 (B.Com.). Pursued a career in banking and finance. (02.1941)     no appointment listed 06.02.1941 - (07.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (from c. 01/02.1943 Staff Officer (Operations) for Flotilla Duties) (MBE) (10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed c. 1955 - c. 1957 Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Board member, Amalgamated Press, 1955.
Davies, Charles Lyndon Livsey Son of Ivor Arthur Davies, and Annie Mary Livsey. Married ((06?).1941, East Glamorgan district, Glamorgan) Mary M. Thomas; two sons, one daughter.	26.05.1913 Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan - 15.08.1998 Glamorgan district, Glamorgan	T/S.Lt. 15.03.1940 T/Lt. 15.03.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945 (reld 30.03.1946) DSC 04.06.1946 attack on submarine 16.01.45 [decoration posted]	02.05.1940 - 04.07.1941 HMS Clarkia (corvette) 06.08.1941 - 17.05.1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Fritillary (corvette) 07.1943 - 02.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Nigella (corvette) 01.09.1944 - 26.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Craggie (frigate) (DSC) Director, Highfield Close Management Limited (residents property management), 1991-1998.
Davies, Claude Mehew From Glandwr, Bryncrug, Towyn, Merioneth.	18.02.1913 - 22.01.1943 (MPK) [age 29] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 2]	Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 06.11.1942	Education: MRCS Eng 1942, LRCP Lond 1942. Qualified 19.01.1942. 06.11.1942 - (12.1942) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (01.1943)     HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow) * 22.01.1943     missing, presumed killed while on passage aboard steamship St Sunniva [ship disappeared without trace whilst serving as rescue ship with transatlantic convoy (it is presumed that her masts and rigging became encrusted with ice and she turned turtle); lost with all hands.] * indexed, but not listed as such
Davies, David Oswald	30.08.1908 - 17.11.1992 Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.12.1943 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	on cypher duties: 26.07.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) 01.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty at Calcutta) * * date of appointment given as 01.04.1944, but more likely to be 01.04.1945
Davies, Eric George Son of ... Davies, and ... Jones. Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).	19.07.1917 Aston district, Warwickshire - 05.12.1976 Meriden district, West Midlands	T/S.Lt. (A) 06.03.1944 (reld > 10.1944, < 04.1946)	(06.1944)     no appointment listed (10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire) * 20.03.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Middle Wallop, Hampshire) (for Mpbile Naval Air Bases), from 01.06.1945 HMS Nabreekie (Mobile Naval Air Base VII, Middle Wallop, then Meeandah, Queensland) * indexed, but not listed as such
Davies, John Edward Hamilton	? ? -	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt.  16.10.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	03.05.1943 - 23.01.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 352 (motor torpedo boat) 24.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services) (03.1944?)     HM MTB 223 (motor torpedo boat) ? 20.02.1945 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 394 (motor torpedo boat) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Davies, Leslie Howard Residence: (1945) Avalon, North Wales.	? -	... ... T/El.Lt. 20.02.1941	Pre-war employed with Denbighshire Education Authority.       degaussing duties at Leith & Kilindini ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)
Davies, Neermol Hughes	see:	RINVR officers' section
Davies, Peter Errington	04.02.1916 - 09.01.1991 Truro, Cornwall	T/S.Lt. 10.04.1941 T/Lt. 10.04.1942 (reld 07.01.1946) DSC 15.05.1945 minesweeping in the Adriatic 08-10.44	01.07.1941 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Wyoming (minesweeping trawler) 11.01.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2053 (British yard minesweeper) (07.1945) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Davies, Richard Vincent	1894 ? - 1971	Army:   2nd Lt. 04.06.1915 Lt. ? (reld) Lt. 12.08.1940 [122191] (reld 14.02.1944; on appointment to RNVR) RNVR:   T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 14.02.1944 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946) * Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature	04.06.1915     commissioned, Welsh Horse - Territorial Force 12.08.1940 - 14.02.1944 (Auxiliary Military) Pioneer Corps 27.04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Allenby (Combined Operations base, Folkestone) 02.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin, Kerala, India)
Davies, Thomas Humphrey Son of Thomas Henry Davies, clerk in holy orders, and Winifred Mary Davies.	14.05.1904 Barton upon Irwell, Eccles, Manchester - 30.12.1995 Trafford, Greater Manchester	Prob. T/S.Lt. 15.11.1940 T/Lt. 15.02.1941 (reld 05.01.1946)	15.11.1940 - 09.01.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 10.01.1941 - 27.02.1942 HMS Glen Avon (anti-aircraft ship) 28.02.1942 - 07.03.1942 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 08.03.1942 - 13.03.1942 HMS Lochinvar (destroyer / minesweeper base, Port Edgar) 14.03.1942 - 25.05.1942 HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper) 26.05.1942 - 11.06.1942 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 12.06.1942 - 01.07.1943 HM BYMS 19 (British yard minesweeper) 01.07.1943 - 10.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 19 (British yard minesweeper) [ship mined and beached off Crotone, Calabria, Italy 19.09.1943] 11.11.1943 - 05.03.1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 06.03.1944 - 19.03.1944 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) 20.03.1944 - 05.01.1946 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
Davis, Arthur Reginald Jack	28.09.1917 Kingston district, Surrey - 1960 ??	Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 29.07.1940 T/Lt. (A) 28.09.1942 Lt. (A) RN 1946?, seniority 28.09.1942 (reld 12.02.1950; placed on emgcy list)	? - 15.11.1940 812 Squadron FAA [taken off in his Fairey Swordfish L9724 G3L from North Coates, the tail hit by Flak in a bombing raid on Barley Airfield, crashed and overturned at Dunkirk; captured] 11.1940 - 1945? prisoner of war in German captivity (04.1946) 816 Squadron FAA * 1946? transferred to RN 04.1947 - (07.1948) observer, 728 Squadron FAA [HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta)] 15.01.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall) * indexed, but not listed as such
Davis, Gordon Seymour Son of ... Davis, and ... Winter. Married; two sons.	03.11.1923 Bristol district, Avon / Gloucestershire - 02.2004 Croydon district, London / Surrey	T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 (reld 1946)	1942     HM ML 538 (motor launch) 20.07.1943 - 12.05.1945 HM ML 212 (motor launch) (07.1945)     HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) * 15.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) (1945/46) ?     HM ML 566 (motor launch) ? (1946)     HM ML 299 (motor launch)
Davis, Harry Donald Married ((06?).1933, Lambeth district, London) Dorothy Frances E.E.Venning (29.07.1911 - 02.1998); one son, one daughter.	16.03.1910 Wandsworth district, London - 16.10.1999 Wells, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset	T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940 T/Lt. 04.01.1941 T/A/Lt. Cdr. > 10.1942, < 12.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 07.09.1958 DSO 05.09.1944 gallantry in landings at Elba 06.1944 [investiture 27.11.1945] OBE 01.01.1966 New Year 1966: Controller, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise MBE 01.01.1953 New Year 1953: Senior Executive Officer, Board of Customs and Excise MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) VRD 30.03.1965 -	Customs & Excise Higher Executive Officer. (12.1940)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 04.01.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) (10.1941) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 31.08.1942 - (10.1945) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary), from c. 01.1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty): (07.1943)     Senior Naval Officer Landings (SNOL) (H) at invasion of Sicily (despatches) (06.1944)     at Elba landings (DSO) * indexed, but not listed as such From handwritten notes found by his grandson he may have served (or was aboard) at [HMS?] Strathmore, HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt), HMT Dunera (troop transport ship), HMS Derbyshire (armed merchant cruiser), HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry) (1944). His grandson further writes: "He was enlisted in RNVR in 1937 and commissioned as sub-lieutenant in September 1940. He was involved in the landings in Sicily, Elba, Anzio, North Africa and South of France."
Davis, John Grenfell Royer Son (with two brothers) of Harold McFarland Davis (1878-1965), and Gladys Mary Hall (1890-1980). Married (29.04.1939, Bicton, Devon) Gladys Mabel Boulton (20.11.1913 - 01.2002), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Harold Henry Boulton (1887-1959), and Margaret Fraser (1890-1957); one son, one daughter.	21.07.1915 Wandsworth district, London - 31.08.1984 Alicante, Spain	T/S.Lt. 20.03.1941 T/A/Lt. 20.03.1942 (reld 20.03.1946)	Journalist. 08.04.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) 13.09.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) 19.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) His daughter writes: "I know my father served on the 'Rangitiki' in 1941 and then on the Arctic convoys. He may have been in PQ17."
Davis, Jonathan Philip	13.09.1924 - 1993	T/Midsh. 11.02.1944 T/A/S.Lt. 13.03.1944 T/S.Lt. 13.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	(04.1944)     no appointment listed 08.05.1944 - (04.1946) HMNZS Achilles (cruiser)
Davis, Laidlaw Andrew Son of Cecil A. Davis, and Hilda Maxwell. Married (05.1972, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Marie A. Roberts; one son, one daughter.	26.11.1922 Keynsham district, Dorset - 05.1997 Chesterfield district, Derbyshire	T/A/S.Lt. 21.05.1943 T/S.Lt. 21.11.1943 T/Lt. 21.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (08.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) * (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Subsequent to leaving the RNVR post-war, he served between 1957 and 1961 in Nigeria during the establishment of the RNN aboard HMNS Nigeria (commissioned in Portsmouth, 1958), the Nigerian Naval Force Survey Vessel Pathfinder (later HMNS Pathfinder) and HMNS Lokoja which was the first warship to sail up the Niger River in over 100 years. * indexed, but not listed as such
Davis, Ronald Ernest	? -	T/S.Lt. 11.07.1940 T/Lt. 11.01.1943 (reld > 04.1946) MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily 07.43)	05.10.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Wolsey (destroyer) 24.11.1941 - (08.1943) HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 01.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Rotherham (flotilla leader) 15.09.1945 - (04.1946) HM Dockyard Singapore (for torpedo duties)
Davis, Thomas Neil Son (with one sister and three half-siblings) of Thomas Davis (1855-), and Norah Kavanagh. Married ((09?).1937, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Mabel Olwen Jenkins (08.08.1913 - (12?).1977); three sons.	18.05.1895 Liverpool. West Derby district, Lancashire - 08.10.1978 Rhostryfan, Caernarvonshire, Wales [buried at sea in English Channel]	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.09.1944 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.08.1945 T/Lt.Cdr. [from 1958 RNR] 10.08.1953 (reld 1960s) AM GC 23.03.1918 explosion Halifax NS 06.12.17 ** 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - WM 39|45 - - CFM - - * Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but who has not received any training of an executive nature ** DATE AND PLACE OF GC ACTION: 06/12/1917 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was 22 years old and serving in the Royal Naval Reserve aboard HMS Highflyer when the French steamer Mont Blanc, carrying high explosives, and the Norwegian steamer Imo collided. Fires broke out on the Mont Blanc and a few minutes later a tremendous explosion took place. The tug Musquash was seen to be on fire forward and there was a danger of her drifting into another ship. The captain of the Highflyer hailed a private tug and asked her captain to take the Musquash in tow, but his crew were unwilling to board the blazing tug, which was brought alongside the Highflyer instead. Thomas Davis and Able Seaman Stones volunteered to board the Musquash, and were transferred to the tug, which by this time had broken adrift; they secured a line from her stern and she was towed into midstream. When this line parted, they passed another line from Musquash to the pumping lighter Lee, which had now arrived. Both men then went forward and succeeded in getting to the ammunition, which was by this time badly scorched; pulling it away from the flames, they threw it overboard. Next they broke open the door of the galley and a cabin, which were both on fire, to enable the Lee to play her hoses into the flames. Both men were awarded the Albert Medal, but only Davis exchanged it for a George Cross.	13.05.1913 - 04.06.1920 served RN, starting as Boy 2nd class, ending as Leading Seaman (01.1945) - (04.1946) Sea Cadet Corps 1940s - 1960s Sea Cadet Corps A granddaughter writes: "In the 16 Navy List he is listed as Temporary Officer holding "Time Only" appointments. He was buried at sea aboard HMS Bulldog with military salute. I have his service records from 1913 - 1920 then he served with The Chinese Maritime Customs until 1924.He rejoined the navy again."
Davis, Walter	20.10.1921 - 04.01.2020	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 11.06.1943 T/S.Lt. (A) 11.12.1943 T/Lt. (A) 01.10.1945 (reld 08.09.1946) DSC 20.11.1945 operations Far East 07-08.45 [decoration posted]	(08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) * 20.12.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) (for full flying duties and training) 01.04.1944 - (07.)1945 pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent), from 08.1944 HMS Implacable (Implacable class aircraft carrier) & for short period in 08.1944 HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] (DSC) (10.1945)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) * 27.01.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Crimond/Rattray, Aberdeenshire) * indexed, but not listed as such
Davis, William Eric "Uncle David" Son of William John and Florence Kate Rachel Davis. Married (1935) Barbara de Riemer (died 1982); one son, two daughters.	27.06.1908 Upton Upon Severn district, Worcestershire - 29.04.1996 Ealing district, London	T/S.Lt. 26.08.1943 T/A/Lt. 07.1944? (reld < 04.1946) MBE 01.01.1969 New Year 69	Education: Bishop's Stortford College; The Queen's College, Oxford (MA). Schoolmaster, 1931-1935; joined BBC as member of Children's Hour, 1935. 1942 - 1946 served RNVR: 1943 - 06.06.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek LST "Lesvos" (wounded in action when ship was wrecked) 09.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) LRAM, ARCM. BBC, 1946-1970; Head of Children's Hour, BBC, 1953-1961; Head of Children's Programmes (Sound), BBC, 1961-1964; Producer, Drama Department, 1964-1970, retired. Published: Various songs, etc including: Lullaby, 1943; Fabulous Beasts, 1948; Little Grey Rabbit Song Book, 1952; poetry: A Single Star, 1973; various speech recordings, including: Black Beauty; Just So Stories; The Wind in the Willows (complete text), 1986. The North-Eastern Advertiser (Scottsdale, Tasmania) of 21 Aug. 1945 reported: " TWO RADIO UNCLES MEET. Two peace-time ''Uncle Davids' of the BBC Children's Hour met in Bari the other day - for the first time. They were Lieut. David Davis, RNVR, who was at Broadcasting House before the war, and Capt. David Gretton, present commander of the Bari Forces Station, who worked on the Midland Regional Staff of the BBC. and who claims to have been the first-ever 'Uncle David' at the BBC. A talented pianist, Lieut. Davie began as an accompanist in the Children's Hour, and was later one of the regular 'Uncles' for about six months. After war started he joined the London Fire Service, and in the late summer of 1942 volunteered for the Navy and completed a spell of minesweeping round the south-coast of England. Commissioned as an executive officer, he became a Liaison Officer with the Royal Hellenic Navy. Later, when bringing back an LST from the USA, the craft beached somewhere off the North African coast and he spent some time in hospital in Algiers. Now Broadcasting Liaison Officer for the Navy in the Eastern Italy theatre he is in close touch with Capt. Gretton. He has recently appeared a number of times at the Bari Station micro- phone, both as accompanist and soloist. "
Davis-Poynter, Peter Lewis Son (with one brother) of Reginald Frank Davis-Poynter (1899-1980), civil servant, and Mary Christina O'Leary (1898-1964). Married (04.1957, Wood Green, Middlesex) Jill W. Baker (1934? - ); two sons, two daughters.	02.08.1925 Fulham district, London - 14.04.2014 Whiteparish, Salisbury, Wiltshire	T/Midsh. 26.11.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 02.02.1945 T/S.Lt. 02.08.1945 (dispersal 25.07.1946) (reld ...1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 17.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Glen Avon (paddle minesweeper) 12.08.1944     joined submarines 20.08.1944 - 19.11.1944 HMS Elfin (base for 6th Submarine Flotilla, Blyth) (for course) 20.11.1944 - 27.05.1945 HMS Ultor (submarine) (as 4th Hand) 28.05.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Sandhurst (immobile destroyer depot ship, Loch Ryan): 01.06.1945 - 24.10.1945 HMS U483 (surrendered U-Boat) (as 3rd Hand) 25.10.1945 - 14.12.1945 HMS U1064 (surrendered U-Boat) (as 3rd Hand) 15.12.1945 - 23.07.1946 HMS Ferret IV (Captain (Submarines) Surrendered U-Boats, Londonderry) 24.07.1946     HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
Davison, Robert Hunter	? -	Prob. Midsh. 23.11.1938 S.Lt. 11.01.1940 06.08.1942, seniority 05.01.1940 Lt. 01.07.1942 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (removed from active list 15.12.1949; own request) DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [decoration posted]	23.11.1938 joined RNVR (Tyne Division) (04.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 30.12.1941 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 464 (motor launch) (from 02.11.1942 at Newhaven) (10.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Dawlings, Richard Maurice Neave Elder son (with two sisters and one brother) of Richard Maurice Neave Dawlings (1864-1944), and Mary Eva Muriel Beven (1887-1977), of Brondesbury, London. Married 1st (02.07.1943, St Andrew's Church, Willesden Green, Willesden district, London NW10) Johanna Tomalin Coutts, of Victoria, British Columbia; one son. Married 2nd (09.1953, Barnet district, Middlesex) Elizabeth B. Lofts (07.03.1929 - ), daughter of John F. Lofts, and Katherine J. Pigg; one daughter, two sons.	13.02.1916 Willesden district, Middelsex - 07.02.1994 Hitchin district, Hertfordshire	T/Paym.S.Lt. 25.08.1939 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 13.02.1941 (reld 30.04.1946) T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1942-(04.1943)	25.08.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) (for duty in office of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Invergordon) 20.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Despatch (cruiser) 02.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Diomede (cruiser) 01.07.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for Naval Control Service) (with rank of T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr.) 25.05.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (10.1945)     no appointment listed
Dawson, George	? -	T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.02.1945 (reld < 04.1946) * Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature	(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Dawson, George Alvin	? - ?	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 17.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	possibly served at some point at HMS Speedy (minesweeper); posted to Malta for Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy, 08.1942) 01.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Weston (sloop) (04.1946) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dawson, Philip Hugh Singleton Son of Joseph Harold Dawson, Vicar of Gressingham, and Lilian Jackson.	04.05.1921 Gressingham, Lunesdale district, Lancashire - 17.05.1974 Manchester district, Lancashire	T/A/S.Lt. 15.04.1943 T/S.Lt. 15.10.1943 T/Lt. 15.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	15.04.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth) 07.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 20.02.1945 - (10.1945) HM LST 239 (landing ship, tank) 11.03.1946 - (04.1946) HM LST 62 (landing ship, tank)
Dawson, Robert Smith Son of ... Dawson, and ... Hanson. Married ...; ... children.	09.01.1923 Whitby, North Yorkshire - 18.10.1990 Normanby, nr Whitby, North Yorkshire	T/A/S.Lt. 18.03.1943 T/S.Lt. 18.09.1943 T/Lt. 01.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(06.1943)     Combined Operations HQ * 08.06.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing barges) * indexed, but not listed as such A grandson writes: "It appears that he served with 20th Flotilla L.B.V.187 or L.B.V.151 LRV squad in 1944.'
Day, Albert Leonard	? -	T/S.Lt. 06.11.1942 T/A/Lt. 06.08.1943 T/Lt. 1945?, seniority 06.08.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	(12.1942)     HMS Good Hope (training establishment, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) * 12.12.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) 04.09.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (10.1944)     HMS Queen of Kent (accommodation ship, for service with Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force) * (01.1945)     HMS Queen of Kent [ship no longer listed in Navy List] (04.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Dragonfly (Combined Operations base, South Hayling Island) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Day, Frank Kershaw Son of George Henry and Emma Day.	14.03.1905 Werneth, Oldham district, Lancashire - 06.07.1981 Bangor district, Gwynedd, Wales	Prob. T/S.Lt. 13.01.1941 T/Lt. 13.04.1941 (reld 05.02.1946)	14.02.1941 - (04.)1941 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (06.1941) - (06.1942) HMS Iron Duke (RN base, Scapa Flow) * (08.1942) - (06.1943) HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland) * (08.1943)     no appointment listed 14.09.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Lizard (Combined Operations (landing craft) base, Shoreham) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 03.09.1945 - (10.1945) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Day, Harry Michael Son of Eric Earle B. Day (1885?-1961), and Elizabeth Maud Skellorn (1881?-).	16.12.1921 Romford district, Essex - 14.02.1945 Oostende, Belgium [age 23] [Oostende New Communal Cemetery, Belgium, plot 9, row 10. grave 14]	T/A/S.Lt. 31.07.1942 T/S.Lt. 31.01.1943 T/Lt. 31.01.1945?	(10.1942)     no appointment listed 16.11.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (02.1943)     HMS Kalan * 18.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport): 18.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HM MTB 248 (motor torpedo boat) ? - ? HM MTB 324 (motor torpedo boat) 05.07.1943 - (10.)1943 HM MTB 255 (motor torpedo boat) (12.1943) - (02.1944) HM MTB 255 (motor torpedo boat) * 24.01.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven): 01.1944? - 14.02.1945 HM MTB 255 (motor torpedo boat) * indexed, but not listed as such
Day, Keith Julyan	13.04.1917 - 05.06.1978 Surrey Mid Eastern district	... ... T/A/Lt. 10.07.1942 DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 [decoration posted] MID 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst	... - ... ... 09.09.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Belfast (cruiser) (DSC, despatches) ... - ... ...
Day, Ronald Walter	20.08.1920 - 15.02.2014 Bruton, Somerset	T/S.Lt. 26.06.1942 T/Lt. 26.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	(08.1942) - (12.1943) no appointment listed (02.1943)     HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) * 03.1943 - 18.07.1943 HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth) 19.07.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth) 25.10.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Tritellia (local defence trawler) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Day, Sydney John Charles	21.12.1915 ? - 24.10.2007 ?	T/S.Lt. 12.06.1941 T/Lt. 12.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - LSGCM - -	15.07.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Whinchat (naval auxiliary boat) 18.05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for staff duties on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 29.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown)
Deacon, John Francis Son of John Deacon, and Alice Peers. Married ...; two sons, two daughters.	01.02.1913 West Derby district, Lancashire - 1981 West Sussex	T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1944 T/S.Lt. 01.03.1945 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 15.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS, Canada) (for miscellaneous duties; to sail back Liberty ships) 16.01.1945 - (07.1945) HM LST 3502 (landing ship, tank) (Singapore / Burma)
Dean, Ian Trent Son of Henry Gordon Dean and Kate D.T. Williams, of Navenby, Lincolnshire.	(03?).1925 Liverpool district, Lancashire - 26.07.1945 (KIA) [age 20] [Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand, 2.L.15]	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 23.07.1944 T/S.Lt. (A) 23.01.1945	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 25.10.1944 - 26.07.1945 pilot, 896 Squadron FAA [HMS Malagas (RN Air Station, Wingfield, nr Cape Town), from 04.1945 HMS Ameer (escort carrier)] (killed in air operations)
Dean, John Ratcliffe Son of Cdr. Percy Thompson Dean (1877-1939), and Mabel Margaret Ratcliffe (1876-1907), of Blackburn, Lancashire. Married 1st ((09?).1931, Blackburn district, Lancashire; divorced 1943) Moyra Eddleston; one son, two daughters. Married 2nd (12.07.1944, Trinidad and Tobago) ...; one daughter.	31.12.1906 Blackburn, Lancashire - 07.1991 Southampton district, Hampshire	Prob. Midsh. 19.10.1925 (reld 1930) T/Lt. 25.11.1939 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	19.10.1925     commissioned, RNVR 30.12.1936     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Mersey Division RNVR) 25.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) 14.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Naiad (light cruiser) 27.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Seahawk (Coastal Forces base, Ardrishaig) (for motor anti-submarine boats) 19.05.1942 - 01.07.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 485 (motor launch) [initially shown as HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)] 02.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) [date of appointment shown as 23.12.1943] 16.10.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Laroc(auxiliary armed yacht) 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Dean, Reginald D'Arcy John	05.10.1916 - 12.1995 Poole district, Dorset	... ... T/Lt. 10.07.1943	... - ... ... 06.11.1942 - (10.1943) HMS Belfast (cruiser) ... - ... ...
Deane, Richard Teesdale	see:	RCNVR officers' section
Dearsley, Arthur Henry Son of Alfred Dearsley (1875-1944), and Lilly Eliza Woolley (1874-1953). Married (24.08.1940, Bromley district, Kent) Isabel Margaret De Vial (25.03.1917 - 03.01.1989), daughter of Alfonso Pedro Gonzalo De Vial (1897-1981), and Ethel Lucie Richards Lee (1888-1948); two sons. Lived at Chistlehurst, Kent, moving to Sutton about 1948.	22.12.1914 Camberwell district, London - 17.11.1991 Sutton, Surrey	Prob. T/S.Lt.. 23.08.1940 T/Lt. 23.08.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (10.1940) - (12.1941) no appointment listed 07.01.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Daedalus II (RN aircraft training establishment, Newcastle under Lyme) 22.02.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 06.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) (for physical and recreational training duties, Flotta Camp) 02.10.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
de Chateleux, Leo Harold Cecil Married ((09?).1938, Strood district, Kent) Mary M. Pennicott; one daughter.	15.01.1906 Uttoxeter district, Derbyshire / Staffordshire - 05.08.1959 Harrow, Greater London	Prob. T/S.Lt. 22.11.1940 T/Lt. 22.02.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 10.1943? (reld > 04.1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove) 06.02.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) 26.10.1943 - (04.1946) on staff of Captain (D), Plymouth [HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Portsmouth)]
de Lange, George David Son (with three siblings) of Abraham Robert de Lange (1881?-1967), and Rebecca Samson (1882?-1965). Married ((03?).1942, St Marylebone district, London) Ethel Pearl Jacobus (09.05.1918 - 14.11.2014); one son, one daughter.	01.11.1917 Christchurch district, Sussex - 04.07.1994 Harrow Weald, Brent district, Middlesex	T/S.Lt. 09.10.1942 T/Lt. 09.10.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) MID 20.02.1945 minesweeping & enemy human torpedo attacks	(12.1942)     no appointment listed 11.01.1943 - 01.1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 138 (motor launch) [HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)] 31.01.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 255 (motor launch) (10.1945)     no appointment listed
De La Riviere, Lewis Dibdin	09.08.1909 Billericay, Essex - 01.04.1986 Mid Warwickshire	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 05.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	(07.1945) HMS Colne (minesweeping trawler) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Deiter, Oswald Birrell Married 1st (16.06.1933, St Mark's, North Audley Street, St George Hanover Square district, London W1; divorced) Ellaline Macey. Married 2nd (30.04.1948, West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ, USA) Mrs Elouise Van Ness; two children.	15.11.1903 Dansville, NY, USA - 20.07.1979 Bergen, New Jersey, USA	T/S.Lt. 24.03.1941 T/Lt. 08.1941, seniority 24.06.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	Osteopath and obstetrician from New York, working in London (UK) 1930s. Aviator's certificate #9422, 03.09.1930 (taken on a Cirrus III at Hanworth Club (NFS). Naturalized British citizen, 19.05.1936. 24.03.1941     joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)       HMS Seahawk (Coastal Forces base, Ardrishaig) 24.06.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine establishment, Campbeltown) (for instructional duties) 29.12.1941 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 115 (motor launch) Returned to USA an settled in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he opened a practice. Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Demaus *, Antony Brian Son of Robert George Sutker Demaus (1868-1942), and Dulcie Minnie Kate Scott (1893-1973). * In wartime Navy Lists also showing with last name Demans.	(03?).1924 Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire - 18.11.2017	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.09.1943 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946) * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	08.09.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Caroline II (Coastal Forces/trawler base, Belfast) (10.1945)     no appointment listed 12.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Valkyrie (RDF training establishment, Regent Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man) 1948? - 1962? Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
de Neumann, James Gerard Archibald Oldest of five children of Joseph Gerard J. de Neumann (1876-1935), and Ethel Isoline Maxwell (1878-1959). Married (07.07.1934, Rochford district, Essex) Doris Mabel Salton (05.07.1909 - 23.05.1970); one son, three daughters.	17.02.1905 Rochford district, Essex - 02.04.1966 Besselsleigh, Abingdon district, Berkshire (motor accident)	Prob. T/S.Lt. 07.06.1940 T/Lt. 07.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)	06.07.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (12.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) * 14.02.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services) 21.09.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (04.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) * 06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 12.1944 - 02.1945 possibly: HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) 25.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) * indexed, but not listed as such
Denny, Moreton Sidney Second son (with one brother) of Sydney William Denny (1886-1960), and May Cutting (1881-1931). Married (29.09.1940, St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, Lothingland district, Suffolk) Eileen Joy Eugenie Murrills (29.03.1912 - 12.09.1995), daughter of Martin Claude Murrills (1878-1958), and Polly Fanny Oxbrow (1881-1976); one son, one daughter.	22.05.1913 Harleston, Depwade district, Norfolk - 08.08.1988 Harleston, Depwade district, Norfolk	Ord.Sea. 30.08.1939 Able Sea. 03.07.1940 T/S.Lt. 10.01.1941 T/Lt. 10.01.1942 (reld 02.1946) DSC 19.10.1943 destruction 2 U-boats [decoration posted]	Education: Kennaway School, Harleston; Bungay Grammar School (1928-1932). Door-to-door salesman for Electrolux. 03.10.1939 - 07.11.1939 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 08.11.1939 - 29.11.1939 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 30.11.1939 - 16.01.1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) 17.01.1940 - 30.04.1940 HMS Basset (anti-submarine warfare trawler) [based at HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen), from 01.04.1940 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)] 01.05.1940 - 30.06.1940 HMS Tourmaline (anti-submarine warfare trawler) [based at HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)] 01.07.1940 - 15.11.1940 HMS Sapphire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) [based at HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)] 16.11.1940 - 31.12.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (02.1941) - (04.1941) no appointment listed 14.05.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Heartsease (corvette) (04.1942)     no appointment listed 01.05.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Lotus (corvette) 19.10.1942 - 11.1943 HMS Jed (frigate) (DSC) [04.11.1943 exposed to a “Snowflake” rocket and sustained a rupture of the left ear drum] 01.12.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for anti-submarine duties) (06.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed (07.1945)     HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dent, Arthur Robert John Son of ... Dent, and ... Herbert. Married Lillian ...	23.01.1917 Newport, Monmouthshire -	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 12.08.1943 T/Lt. 12.08.1945 Lt. RN 01.01.1947, seniority 12.08.1945 (emgcy) Lt.Cdr. RN (emcgy) 12.08.1953 Lt.Cdr. RAN (emgcy) 02.12.1956, seniority 12.08.1953 Lt.Cdr. RAN (SL) (emgcy) 01.01.1957, seniority 12.08.1953	(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Helder (Combined Operations base, Brightlingsea) * 01.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Steepholm (trawler) 13.02.1948 - (07.)1948 HMS Roberts (monitor) 15.11.1948 - (05.1951) HMS Flatholm (minesweeping trawler) 13.10.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Brawdy, Pembrokeshire) 02.06.1954 - 01.12.1956 appointed to RAN (on loan from RN): 02.06.1954 - 15.06.1954 London Depot RAN 16.06.1954 - 18.07.1954 HMAS Lonsdale (for passage to Australia per "Stratheden") 19.07.1954 - 28.10.1956 HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) 29.10.1956 - 01.12.1956 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for foreign service leave) 02.12.1956 - 06.05.1960 for temporary service with RAN: HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dent, Ernest	? -	T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.05.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1945)	(12.1941) HMS President (Admiralty) * (10.1944) HMS President (Admiralty) * (07.1945) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Denton, Eric Charles Son (with two brothers) of Charles Denton (1877-1945), a textile machinery engineer, and Marian Smith (1883-1950). Married (19.07.1941, Kettering, Northamptonshire) Marjorie Ethel Orland (09.10.1915 - 01.12.1990), daughter of Louis Fred Leo Orland (1866-1951), and Mary Jane Ellis (1872-1957); two daughters.	12.11.1918 Kettering, Northamptonshire - 01.05.2001 Winchester, Hampshire	Ord.Sea. 06.1940 T/A/S.Lt. 03.07.1941 T/S.Lt. ?, seniority 03.07.1941 T/Lt. 12.11.1943 (reld 20.05.1946)	Education: Kettering Grammar School. Junior clerk, Kettering Education Office, 02.1934. 06.1940     HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) 23.08.1940 - 03.12.1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] & HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (Scapa Flow) 04.12.1940 - 10.04.1941 HMS Havelock (Havant class destroyer) 11.04.1941 - 04.1941 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 04.1941 - 21.07.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (08.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed: 22.07.1941     HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)       First Lieutenant, HM ML 285 (motor launch)       First Lieutenant, HM ML 273 (motor launch) [escort of small coastal convoys and patrols, initially from Portland then from Milford Haven, from 08.1942 Foewy] 15.10.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for ML Flotillas): [11.1942 Operation Torch in a force attacking the battery at Cap Matifou near Algiers] 12.1942     First Lieutenant, HM ML 338 (motor launch) [coastal convoys and patrols; fitted for minesweeping and escorted landing craft in Operation Husky (Sicily landing) and Salerno landing] (08.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) * 28.10.1943 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 134 (motor launch) [sweeping around Corsica and Sardinia, then as part of the South of France landings] 24.09.1944 - 06.1945 HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) 08.1945 - 01.1946 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory) (for radar navigation course & leave) ** 01.1946 - 05.1946 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) Administrative assistant Staffordshire Education Authority, autumn 1946. Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, 1950. Administrative Assistant Hampshire Education Authority with responsibility for Further Education (included Museums and Libraries), 01.1951. Published: My six wartime years in the Royal Navy (1999). * indexed, but not listed as such ** (07.1945) & (10.1945) no appointments shown in Navy List
Denton, Stanley Mark Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Mark Denton (1874-1958), and Kate Rickson (1878-1967). Married ((09?).1940, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Avis Woodward (12.08.1909 - 21.02.1976), daughter (with three sisters and two brothers) of Thomas James Woodward (1871-1940), and Anne Maria Johns (1872-1944); one son, one daughter (twin).	08.03.1912 Edmonton district, Middlesex - 25.10.1968 Ware district, Hertfordshire	Able Seaman ? [JX 309432] T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 09.10.1942 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 09.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946) * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (12.1942) - (06.1944) HMS Medina (landing craft base, Puckpool Camp, near Ryde, Isle of Wight) * 11.08.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Porcupine (landing craft base, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth) (10.1945)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) * (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve * indexed, but not listed as such
De Piere *, Carlos Maurits Leo Belgian serving with RN. Married Simonne Maus; two sons, two daughters. * In Navy Lists also shown as Depiere, C.M.L.	31.10.1920 Bruges, Belgium - 22.110.2003 Ostend, Belgium	Signalman ? [D/SB/JX 326] T/A/S.Lt. 01.01.1943 T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943 T/Lt. 01.07.1945 (reld 31.01.1946; on transfer to Belgian Navy)	Served as captain of cross-channel mail boat “Princesse Marie-José”. 18.11.1941 - 13.04.1942 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) (for training of Allied seamen) 24.05.1942 - 1942 HM MMS 188 (motor minesweeper) 26.10.1942 - 31.12.1942 passed A.S.B. for RNVR course at HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 06.02.1943 - 05.01.1945 Watch Keeping and Gunnery Officer, HMS Godetia (Flower class corvette) (04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed: 02.1945 - 08?.1945 board officer to Naval Control Service Officer Antwerp [HMS Royal Athelstan (port party, Antwerp)] 14.08.1945 - (10.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MMS 112 (motor minesweeper) Belgian Navy: Fregatkapitein; Commander Naval Base Nieuwpoort 1970-1973; retired 1976.
de Sola, Raphael David Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Clarence Isaac de Sola (1858-1920), and Belle Maud Goldsmith (1875-1965). Married (30.10.1946, Spanish and Portugese Synagogue, London; later annulled) Elizabeth Nedas, daughter of Mr & Mrs Henry Nedas, of London.	15.08.1902 Montreal, Que., Canada - 09.08.1989 London	Prob. T/S.Lt. 21.06.1940 T/Lt. 21.09.1940 (reld < 04.1946)	02.08.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for miscellaneous services) 12.05.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) 11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) 29.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) Stockbroker.
Dewey, Peter John Son of John Herbert James Dewey (1899-), and Ada May Millard (1901-1969). Married (02.08.1948, Surbiton, Surrey Northern district, Surrey) Janet Pryce (03.07.1925 - 18.03.2010), daughter of Cedric Arthur Howes Pryce, and Ethel Bachelor; three daughters.	10.02.1924 Paris, France - 11.08.1991 Claygate, Esher, Surrey	T/Midsh. 04.06.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 T/Lt. 01.03.1946 (reld 10.09.1946)	(08.1943)     no appointment listed 06.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGB's, MTB's, etc.) 11.10.1943 - (10.1945) First Lieutenant, HM ML 202 (motor launch) 03.1946 - (04.1946) HM LST 3041 (landing ship, tank) 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Member of Lloyd's. Member Burma Star Organisation until his death.
Dewhurst, [Sir] Christopher John "Jack"	02.07.1920 Garstang, Lancashire - 01.12.2006	T/Sg.Lt. 04.02.1944	Education: MB, ChB, MRCS, LRCP ? - (07.1945) HMS Flamingo
Dewsbery, John Patrick Married 1st ((06?).1936, Kensington district, London) Josephine L. Hamilton, of Stroud Green, London N4; one daughter. Married 2nd ((09?).1948, Chelsea district, London) Edith Mary A. Goodland; one daughter, two sons, and one son who died at birth.	24.05.1908 Ecclesall Bierlow district, Derbyshire / West Riding of Yorkshire - 16.04.1986 Kensington and Chelsea district, London	RAFO:   P/O (prob) 15.07.1929 P/O 15.07.1930 F/O 15.01.1931 (reld 15.07.1934) RNVR:   Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 29.08.1940 T/Sg.Lt. 1942?, seniority 29.08.1940 T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: MB (Oxford); BM, BCh (1952), MRCP ; medical registration 19.10.1934. Granted gliding certificate "A" (No. 274), London Gliding Club, 31.01.1932. 15.07.1929 - 15.07.1934 commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class AA (ii)) 29.08.1940 - 30.10.1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.10.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital, London.
Dewsbury, David Austin "Peter" Married ((09?).1963, Sutton Coldfield district, Warwickshire) Clara Collins.	04.10.1914 Lichfield, Staffordshire - 08.03.2001 Lichfield, Staffordshire	T/S.Lt. 23.10.1941 T/Lt. 23.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946)	(12.1941)     no appointment listed 10.02.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) 12.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Hastings (sloop) (04.1946)     no appointment listed Sales person.
Dick, Donald Son (with one brother) of Donald Dick (1884-1954), and Elizabeth Turner Penman (1887-1980). Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).	09.05.1915 Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 01.1987 North East Hampshire	T/A/S.Lt. 18.06.1943 T/S.Lt. 18.12.1943 T/A/Lt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 25.05.1946)	(08.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 10.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Windrush (River class frigate) [transferred 1943 to Free French Navy as "La Découverte"] 01.1944 - (04.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for miscellaneous duties):       British Naval Liaison Officer, "La Découverte" (frigate) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Dick, John Mathew Son of Mathew Dick, and Margaret Barr. Married (1930, St Giles district, Scotland) Anne Moir Stewart (1906 - 13.02.1959), daughter of Ralph Hill Stewart, of Edinburgh; one son.	02.08.1899 Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland - 04.02.1981 Newington district, Scotland [Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland]	Lt. 03.03.1924 Lt.Cdr. 03.03.1932 Cdr. 30.06.1935 Capt. 31.12.1940 (retd 29.04.1946) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 1943 CB 01.01.1955 New Year 1955: Solicitor to the Secretary of State for Scotland CBE 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 [investiture 01.05.1945] VRD 01.11.1938 -	Education: Campbeltown Grammar School; Edinburgh Academy. Enrolled as solicitor, 1927 (qualified 1922). 1917     entered RNVR 1917 - 1919 served in Mediterranean and Grand Fleet (despatches 11.12.1918, Order of Crown of Roumania)       qualified for torpedo duties 03.09.1921     East Scottish Division, RNVR 1927 - 1939 Commander, East Scottish Division RNVR (Edinburgh) 1939 - 1945 served Coastal Forces & Admiralty: (12.1939) - (03.)1940 no appointment listed 01.03.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) 15.01.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) 21.02.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) 29.06.1942 - (10.1945) Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves, Admiralty [HMS President] (CBE) 31.10.1943 - 31.10.1945 also: RNVR ADC to the King Solicitor to Secretary of State for Scotland (and in Scotland to Treasury 1947-1965), 1946-1964 (CB).
Dick, Norman John Son (with one sister) of John Speechly Dick (1891-1963), and Florence Elsie Britten (1890-1954). Married ...; ... children (one son?).	15.10.1919 Romford district, Essex - 02.2001 Camden, Kent	T/S.Lt. 06.03.1941 T/Lt. 01.05.1943 (reld 26.03.1946)	(04.1941)     no appointment listed 04.04.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Daneman (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 15.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Walker (W class destroyer) 18.11.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Ceres (Ceres class cruiser) 13.04.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Capetown (Carlisle class cruiser) 14.11.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Imperieuse (stokers' training establishment, Devonport) (10.1945)     no appointment listed 1950s     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Dickens, Cedric David Charles "Ceddy" Son of Philip Charles Dickens (1887-1964), who is a brother of Adm. Gerald Charles Dickens, and Sybil Cunliffe-Owen (1889-1934). Great-grandson of author Charles Dickens. Married (14.01.1948) Elizabeth Mary Blake, daughter of Lt.-Col. Arthur O'Brien ffrench Blake and Laura Iris Walker; one daughter, one son.	24.09.1916 Wandsworth district, London - 11.02.2006 London	Prob. T/S.Lt. 12.04.1940 T/Lt. 24.09.1941	Education; Eton; Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1935, law). Joined British Tabulating Machine company, 1937. 27.04.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Philante (yacht; convoy escort vessel) 25.04.1944 - 10.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Velox (destroyer) 10.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Cleveland (destroyer) Rejoined his firm, which after several mergers became ICL (International Computers Limited) where he became director of communication, retiring in 1976. Published & edited several Charles Dickens related works.
Dickins, John Woolvine Son (with one brother and one sister) of Harold Woolvine Dickins, and Alice Robertson Dunn, of Pinner, Middlesex.	03.03.1924 Chelsea district, London - 16.11.1944 (died; suicide) [age 20] [Haslar RN Cemetery, Hampshire, G.11.5]	T/A/S.Lt. 30.03.1944 T/S.Lt. 30.09.1944	30.03.1944 - 16.11.1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) ? - 16.11.1944 HM LCT 854 (landing craft, tank)
Dickinson, John Parker Son of John German Dickinson, and Katherine Dickinson, of Horwich. Married (01.06.1927, St Michael, Great Lever, Lancashire) Clara Alice Stringfellow; ... children (two sons, two daughters?).	06.08.1902 Horwich, Bolton district, Lancashire - 19.03.1944 (illness) [age 41] [Horwich (Ridgmont) Cemetery, Lancashire, dic. 2, sec. 2, grave E.25]	Prob. T/S.Lt. 19.04.1940 T/Lt. 01.06.1940	(06.1940)     no appointment listed 17.06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Duchess of Fife (paddle minesweeper) 04.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Ophelia (minesweeping trawler) 24.02.1941 - (07.)1942 HMS Sandown (auxiliary minesweeper) 30.07.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Pangbourne (minesweeper) 01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Onyx (minesweeper) 05.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Cato (minesweeper) 27.10.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for anti-submarine duties at Bermuda) 1944 - 19.03.1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
Dickinson, Ronald Fryer Married ((12?).1944, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Pamela M. "Pam" Maddison.	25.09.1916 - 18.02.1985 Whitehaven district, Cumberland	Prob. T/S.Lt. 18.10.1940 T/S.Lt. 12.01.1941 T/Lt. 18.10.1941 (reld < 04.1946) Lt. RNR 27.09.1960, seniority 02.11.1955 Lt.Cdr. RNR 02.11.1963 (retd 25.09.1976) RD 25.01.1972 -	(12.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941) - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) * 25.12.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for ML Flotillas) 16.06.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for 3rd Motor Launch Flotilla) 07.06.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HM ML 387 (motor launch) (02.1944)     no appointment listed 13.03.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 591 (motor launch) 07.09.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HM ML 162 (motor launch) (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     HM RML 549 (rescue motor launch) * 27.09.1960 - 25.09.1976 Permanent RNR * indexed, but not listed as such
Dickinson, Stanley Residence: (1945) Morecombe, Lancashire	? -	... ... T/El.Lt. 01.03.1942	Pre- & post-war employed with J. Williamson & Son, Luno Mills, Lancaster, Electrical Maintenance.       degaussing duties in UK, Alexandria, Suez, Haifa & service with Force 60 (specializing in electrical plant, up to 700 H.P. motors & switchgear) ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
Dickson, George Thomson	17.11.1923 ? - 01.1998 ? Ulverston district, Lancashire ?	T/A/S.Lt. 09.07.1943 T/S.Lt. 09.01.1944 T/Lt. 09.01.1946? (reld 18.05.1946)	(08.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 23.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HM BYMS 284 [from ... 1944: 2284](British yard minesweeper) 11.09.1944 - (10.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MMS 79 (motor minesweeper)
Difford, Ronald Herbert Son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Difford, of Meare, Somersetshire.	(09?).1924 Wells district, Somerset - 01.08.1945 [age 21] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]	T/S.Lt. (A) 15.07.1944	26.06.1944 - (10.1944) pilot, 881 Squadron FAA [HMS Pursuer (escort carrier)] (North Atlantic & Mediterranean) 01.04.1945 - 01.08.1945 pilot, 892 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)
Diggens, Harold Sydney Son of Frank Sydney Diggens (1888-1950), and Ivy Winifred Adams (1890-1957), of Goring-by-Sea, Sussex.	19.10.1920 Lewisham district, London - 05.04.1942 (KIA) [age 21] [Colombo (Kanatte) General Cemetery, Sri Lanka, 6B.M.5]	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 03.02.1941 T/S.Lt. (A) 19.10.1941	03.06.1940     entered RNVR 06.1941 - 01.11.1941 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) 02.11.1941 - (04.)1942 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] 04.1942? - 21.04.1942 pilot, 806 Squadron FAA [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (killed in an air accident)
Dimitriu, H.H. Prince * * also found as Dimitri & Dimitry. In full: Dimitri Alexandrovich Romanov, Prince of Russia	15.08.1901 Gatchina, Russia - 07.07.1980 London	T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.03.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 10.1944 ? Greek DSM 24.06.1947 BNLO with Greek Navy	(02.1941) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) * 07.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) 11.06.1942 - (07.1945) on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Dinnis, the Rev. William Dudley	13.06.1912 - 28.08.1979 Midhurst, Chichester district, West Sussex	T/Chapl. 27.10.1943	Education: Tonbridge School; Pembroke College (BA). ... - ... ... 15.05.1944 - (01.1945) on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)] ... - ... ...
Dishman, George William Donald Son of George Edward Dishman (18941986), and Lornetta Matilda Roskell (1892-1992). Married (29.07.1950, Caldy, Wirral district, Cheshire) Zelda Graham (01.12.1925 - 14.12.1986), daughter of Joseph W. Graham, and Marion Higham; three sons.	03.05.1925 Humberstone, Grimsby district, Lincolnshire - 22.11.2012 Fortrose, Ross-shire, Scotland	T/A/S.Lt. 16.02.1945 T/S.Lt. 20.07.1945 Lt. 23.03.1949, seniority 16.02.1948 Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR 31.08.1965, seniority 23.02.1965 (retd 31.10.1973) RD 01.12.1970 -	Education: University of Liverpool (1950). (04.1945)     no appointment listed 04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) (04.1946)     HMS Lanka II (accounting base, Ceylon) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dixon, Eric John Hopkins "Budge" Son of John Kemp S. Dixon (1879-1958), and Elfrida Hopkins (1884-1940). Married (06.11.1940, Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire) Avice Margaret Harrison ((06?).1921 - ), daughter of Mr & Mrs S. Harrison, of Cloverley, Horbury.	22.09.1915 Horbury, Wakefield district, West Yorkshire - 20.04.1941 off the coast of Tripoli, Libya (MPK) [age 25] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 6]	Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 07.10.1940 MID 02.12.1941 shot down 4 Junkers [posthumously]	Education: Christ Church College, Oxford University. Played cricket, 1937-1939. 29.10.1940 - (12.)1940 acting observer, 827 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] 17.12.1940 - (04.)1941 acting observer, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) ? - 20.04.1941 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (despatches) His obituary in The Times of 1 May 1941 read: "Sub-Lieutenant E.J.H. DIXON, R.N.V.R., who is reported missing, presumed killed on active service, captained Oxford in the last University cricket Match before the war, when, thanks to his shrewd captaincy and a sound innings of 75, Oxford won by 45 runs. In his two previous matches against Cambridge, Dixon had scored 73 and 61. Dixon, who learnt his cricket at St. Edward's School, Oxford, won a big reputation at Oxford as a stonewalling batsman. In 1937 he batted four and a half hours in scoring 82 against Lancashire, and in the following season he delied the Yorkshire bowlers for six hours in scoring 108. In that match, deputizing as captain for J.N. Grover, he declared the Oxford second innings closed after following on in the first innings. After leaving Oxford he played for Northamptonshire, and in his first match for the county he scored 123 in four and a half hours against Somerset. He was the son of Mr. J.K.S. Dixon, of Horbury, Yorks, and he leaves a widow."
Dixon, John Dudley Only child of the Rev. William Dudley Dixon (1886?-1951), and Edith Ann Bone (1884-?). Married 1st (05.06.1943, Banstead Church, Surrey) Gladwys Elinor Lister Wright (1913 - 1984), only daughter of R.G. Wright, I.E.S., of Cookham; one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (14.09.1985, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fittleworth, West Sussex) Rev. Francesca Dorothy Wilson (08.08.1952 - ), only daughter of Roderick Peter Garratt Wilson (1913-1994), and Dorothy Anne Chenevix Trench (1916-).	30.08.1916 Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex - 01.10.1996 Chichester district, Sussex	T/S.Lt. 06.11.1941 T/Lt. 06.11.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? (reld < 04.1946) MBE 01.01.1977 New Year 77: Home Secretary, United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. DSC 25.07.1944 night action with light enemy forces 11.05.44 [investiture 06.03.45] DSC 14.11.1944 German evacuation Le Havre [investiture 06.03.45] DSC 19.06.1945 action against E-boats 07.04.45 [decoration posted]	(12.1941)     no appointment listed 27.06.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 60 (motor gun boat) (6th MGB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] 24.09.1943 - 20.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 450 (motor torpedo boat) 21.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services): (05.1944) - (08.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 450 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 35th MTB Flotilla (DSC & Bar) (04.1945)     Commanding Officer, HM MTB 454 (motor torpedo boat) (2nd Bar to DSC) (07.1945)     HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dixon, John Spencer Married ...; ... children.	01.12.1907 Burnley district, Lancashire / West Riding of Yorkshire - 10.02.1972 Richmond district, North Riding of Yorkshire	Able Sea. 1939/40? T/Paym.S.Lt. 29.01.1942 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 29.04.1942	Solicitor. 17.02.1942 - 14.04.1943 HMS King George V (battleship) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet) 14.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Duke of York (battleship) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet) 28.06.1943 - (07.1945) Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (and for duty with Naval Intelligence Division) (04.1946)     HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dobbie, Arthur Townsend . Son of Alexander and Mary Jane Dobbie. Married ((06?).1934, Newport district, Glamorgan) Bertha Evelyn Legge (14.08.1902 - 07.1987); one daughter.	19.11.1900 St Marylebone, London - 04.1986 Newport district, Glamorgan	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.05.1943 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.06.1943 (reld 30.07.1946) * Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but who has not received any training of an executive nature	30.06.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) (06.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 30.10.1944 - (04.)1945 Fleet Mail Officer, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)] 05.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for miscellaneous services) (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Dobbie, Frederick Robertson Son of Alex H. and Jessie R. Dobbie, of Tranent , East Lothian.	1924 Kelty district, Fife, Scotland - 29.08.1944 [age 20] [Faughanvale (St Canice) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Eglinton, Londonderry, NW Extension]	T/A/S.Lt. (A) ?	? - 29.08.1944 HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) [flying in a Fairey Barracuda II [DP872] which took off from Maydown for East Haven, spun into bog five miles from airfield - Blackhead Moss near Enagh Lough, Waterside, Londonderry; S.Lt. D.H. Oxby RNVR, S.Lt. F.R. Dobbie RNVR and Ldg.Airm. D.A.T. Mew were all killed]
Dobson, Carl Son of Albert Russell Dobson, and Edith Annie Hill, of Hull.	29.05.1910 Sculcoates district, East Yorkshire - 03.02.1940 (KIA) [age 29] [Edinburgh (Seafield) Cemetery, Scotland, sec. P, joint grave 705]	T/S.Lt. ?	? - 03.02.1940 HMS Firefly (minesweeping trawler) (killed at an explosion when the ship tried to sort a loose British mine off Dundee)
Dobson, William Sharpe	07.1916 Pollokshields district, Scotland - 1991 Grantown on Spey district, Scotland	S.Lt. 11.05.1938 Lt. 08.05.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1945 Lt.Cdr. 08.05.1948 Cdr. 31.12.1952 Capt. 31.12.1956 (retd 31.12.1961) VRD ? - VRD ? 1st clasp	Education: Glasgow Academy (1926-1935). 09.10.1939 - 01.1940 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 26.01.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Vimiera (V class destroyer) (North Sea) 01.10.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (additional; for various duties) 19.05.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Halcyon (Halcyon class minesweeper) (North Sea, North Russia) 06.02.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Seaham (Bangor class minesweeper) (West Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean) 23.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS) (for miscellaneous services) 06.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Welfare (Algerine class minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 08.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Acute (Algerine class minesweeper) ... - ... ...
Dockray, John Vernon Only son of Dr John Smalley Dockray (1871-1947), and Florence Marie Humphreys (1871-1961). Married 1st (06.1926, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire) Evelyn Mary Gayton (01.10.1900 - 12.01.1974), daughter of Everitt Hugh Gayton (1857-1932), and Dorothy Evelyn Abbott (1873-1911). Married 2nd ((12?).1945, Samford, Suffolk) Mary Frances Wrinch (03.09.1918 - 13.07.2011), daughter of Sydney Walter Wrinch (1879-1963), and Hilda Adelaide Frances Eades (1897-1983); two daughters.	08.05.1899 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire - 29.12.1948 Stradbroke, Norfolk	T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 11.09.1939 T/A/Sg.Cdr. 21.06.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 10.1945) OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945	Education: St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1922; MA 1925). MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1925. Late house physician County Hospital Hertford. Honorary medical officer Bishop's Stortford Hospital. Coroner County Hertfordshire. Surgeon Royal Mail Lines., 11.09.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Asturias (armed merchant cruiser) (06.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Asturias (armed merchant cruiser) * (02.1943)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth) 21.06.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) 15.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (OBE) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dodd, Arthur William Son of Wiliam Parker Dodd (1895-1968). and Doris Evelyn Walsh (1898-1988). Married ((09?).1947, Basford district, Nottinghamshire) Patricia M. Ludlow.	04.04.1925 Ashton district, Lancashire - 19.11.1994 Ruddington, Basford district, Nottinghamshire	T/Midsh. 17.12.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 04.10.1944 T/S.Lt. 04.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(01.1944)     no appointment listed 31.01.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Walker (W class destroyer) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed 20.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
Dodd, John	? -	Ord.Sea. ? T/S.Lt. 28.11.1943 T/Lt. 28.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	09.1942 - 01.1943 HMS Venomous (destroyer) 24.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Kempthorne (frigate) (04.1946)     HM BYMS 2043 (British yard minesweeper) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dodd, Leonard Hindle	26.03.1916 Birkenhead district, Cheshire -	S.Lt. 28.01.1940 T/A/Lt. 21.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946) PolMC 01.08.1944 good services to Polish Navy	13.03.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Eskimo (destroyer) (02.1941) - (12.1941) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Burza (Polish destroyer) (1942?) perhaps British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Piorun (Polish destroyer) (08.1942?) - (07.1945) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Ślązak (Polish destroyer) [already in that position during the Dieppe operation]
Dodds, Denis George   Son of Herbert Yeaman Dodds (1878-1941), and Violet Katherine Bewick (1884-1928). Married 1st (02.1937, Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland) Muriel Reynolds Smith (15.04.1914 - 19.12.1989); two sons, three daughters. Married 2nd (05.1995, Bristol, Avon) Penelope J. Tuohy (22.10.1943 - ).	25.05.1913 Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland - 16.07.2003 Bristol, Avon	Sea. 12.02.1941 [C/JX 23315] Ldg.Sea. 01.07.1941 T/S.Lt. 24.07.1942 T/A/Lt. 25.05.1943 (dispersal 18.02.1946) (reld 15.04.1946)	Education: Rutherford College, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1926-1931. Articled clerk / solicitor / assistant town clerk, Gateshead, 1931-1941.  02.1941 - 07.1941 enlisted in the ranks [HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) & HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)] 07.1941 - 08.1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) 08.1941 - 04.1942 coxswain, HM HDML 1047 (harbour defence motor launch) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport), then HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton), then HMS Iron Duke (RN base, Scapa Flow) * 04.1942 - 07.1942 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 25.08.1942 - 25.02.1945 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Admiral Commanding Reserves as officer instructor at new training unit, Cardiff University Naval Division) [from 07.02.1943-25.02.1943 instructional course at HMS King Alfred (14 days on loan)] 26.02.1945 - 18.02.1946 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Naval Training Department, for Cardiff University Naval Division training unit) * His son writes: "Sometime between October 1941 and April 1942 seconded from HDML1047 to destroyer for Arctic convoy to/from Murmansk, receiving a head injury."
Doig, John Carr	? -	T/S.Lt. (E) ? T/Lt. (E) 05.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	Temporary Officer serving under T.124X agreements (1942?) HMS California (armed merchant cruiser) 08.05.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Stalker (escort carrier) 21.11.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Ranee (escort carrier)
Dolby, James Taylor Oldest son (with three brothers) of John Thomas and Harriet Dolby. Married ((06?).1943, Keighley district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Gertrude Mary Harper, daughter of a chemistry teacher at the Keighley Boys’ Grammar School; three sons.	25.04.1909 Oxenhope near Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire - 19.10.1975 Bitterne Park, Southampton, Hampshire	T/S.Lt. 15.03.1940 T/Lt. 05.05.1940 (reld 21.01.1946)	Education: Royal College of Art Taught at Bournemouth College of Art before the war, where he developed his love of sailing and the sea. 28.03.1937     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Sussex Division, RNVR) 15.03.1940 - 04.05.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) 05.05.1940 - 19.05.1940 HMS Vernon (training establishment, Portsmouth) 20.05.1940 - 12.01.1941 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne): 06.1940     served at Dunkirk (paddle steamer "Glen Avon") 1940 - 13.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Summer Rose (Admiralty steel drifter) (Lowestoft) (sunk off Sunderland) (10?).1940 - 12.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS June Rose (Admiralty steel drifter) (Lowestoft) 13.01.1941 - 26.01.1941 HMS Orpheus (submarine?) * 27.01.1941 - 09.05.1941 HMS King Emperor (minesweeping trawler) 10.05.1941 - 12.07.1942 HMS Baldur (RN base, Iceland) 13.07.1942 - 29.07.1942 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 30.07.1942 - 15.07.1943 HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) 16.07.1943 - 27.08.1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 28.08.1943 - 30.06.1945 HMS Dartmouth (RN base, Dartmouth) 01.07.1945 - 21.01.1946 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * the submarine Orpheus was sunk in 06.1940, and no other vessel by this name has been found, so this posting seems rather peculiar; Navy List date 31.01.1941 Became head of art at Blackburn College of Art in Lancashire, retiring in 1969.
Dolman, Cyril William Married ((09?).1926, Hammersmith district, London) Mildred Mary Ghosley (born (06?).1903); ... children (one son?).	04.08.1904 Richmond district, Surrey - 29.01.1968 Sutton district, London	T/S.Lt. (E) ? T/Lt. (E) 01.11.1942 (reld 1943?; medically unift due to tuberculosis)	joined RNVR as a stoker 15.06.1942 - 1943? * HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft) * probably medically discharged in 1943; Oct 1944 still shown under HMS Europa (Jan 1945 no longer), but as he's no longer mentioned in the name index, nor in the seniority list, it's very likely he was discharged somewhere in 1943, as his family suggests
Donaldson, John Henry Married; at least one son.	03.03.1913 Leith, Edinburgh - 01.02.1996 Bonnyrigg, Midlothian	T/A/S.Lt. 27.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Fr&G St - - WM 39|45 - -	Served in the Merchant Navy. temporary commission under T.124T (rescue tugs) agreements 27.07.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs) HMS Saucy (rescue tug) 20.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)
Donnelly, Michael	? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 27.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	28.06.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere)
Donnison, John "Jack" Married ...; ... children (one son?).	06.06.1911 - 1989?	T/Sg.Lt. (D) 01.01.1943 (reld 07.06.1946)	LDS. 01.01.1943 - 04.02.1943 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.02.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) 01.09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for R.M.T.B.) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Dooley, John Dixon Son of John Dixon Dooley (1894-), and Anne Louise Walsh (1891-1984). Married ...; ... children (one son?).	18.05.1918 Aston district, Warwickshire - 09.07.1987 Erdington, Birmingham district, West Midlands	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 24.09.1943 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.03.1944 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.03.1946 (reld > 10.1946) Lt. RNR 1958?, seniority 24.12.1953 Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR 16.02.1962, seniority 24.12.1961 (retd 09.04.1976) VRD 01.12.1964 - VRD 22.07.1975 1st clasp * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	(12.1943)     no appointment listed (02.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) * 09.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) 19.11.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Golden Hind II (RN repair base, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW, Australia) 05.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Gould (Chatham Barracks, Ceylon) (for duty with rescue tugs) (10.1946)     no appointment listed (1950s)     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve 1958? - 09.04.1976 Royal Naval Reserve * indexed, but not listed as such
Dooyewaard, Derrick Orme Son (with one brother and one sister) of Johannes Dooyewaard (1887?-1962), manager Shell petroleum company, and Christiana Maud Mills (1894-1984), of Ashtead. Brother of S/Lt. Harry Orme Dooyewaard, RNVR.	25.03.1921 Rochford district, Essex - 12.11.1989 Surrey Mid-Eastern district, Surrey	Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 04.05.1942 T/Lt. (A) 04.11.1944	(08.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed 10.10.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 10.10.1944 - (09.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) Worked for Shell and then BP.
Dooyewaard, Harry Orme Son (with one brother and one sister) of Johannes Dooyewaard (1887?-1962), manager Shell petroleum company, and Christiana Maud Mills (1894-1984), of Ashtead. Brother of Lt. (A) Derrick Orme Dooyewaard, RNVR.	16.10.1919 Rochford district, Essex - 24.04.1944 (KIA) [age 24] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 79.3]	Ord.Sea. 1939? T/A/S.Lt. 03.12.1943	Education: Little Lindens first school in Leatherhead; Dorking School; St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent; Downing College, Cambridge to read Modern Languages.       HMS Cottesmore (destroyer) 1943     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing) (02.1944)     no appointment listed (04.1944)     HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) * ? - 24.04.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethN Roode Zee (tug) (while towing Mulberry Harbour components from Dungeness to Portsmouth torpedoed & sunk by German E-boat S100)
Dorey, Laurence Walter "Laurie" Married (10.09.1947, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Betty Janet "Jan" Jones (04.11.1925 - 11.09.2006); one daughter, two sons.	30.11.1922 Guernsey, Channel Islands - 22.12.2005 St Lawrence, Jersey, Channel Islands	T/A/S.Lt. 23.07.1943 T/S.Lt. 23.01.1944 T/Lt. 23.01.1946 (reld 16.11.1946) DSC 14.08.1945 probable destruction U-boat U-285 15.04.1945 [decoration posted]	Education: Elizabeth College, Guernsey (1934-1941). 18.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) 19.10.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Keats (Captain class frigate) (DSC) 07.05.1945 - 17.07.1945 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 18.07.1945 - 28.02.1946 HMS Ferret IV (Captain Submarines surrendered U-boats, Londonderry) (for duty as German interpreter) 05.04.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) Modern languages teacher.
Dougal, James Paterson	15.09.1920 Eyemouth, Scotland - 25.04.1979 Rhodesia	T/S.Lt. (E) 15.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	07.03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Lancaster Castle (Castle class corvette) 13.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) (for duty with B.M.E.O. [= Base Maintenance Engineer Officer]) (10.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Douglas, Peter John	? -	Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 11.07.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) < 01.1945 A/Cdr. (S) > 01.1945, < 07.1945	... - ... ... 29.11.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) ? - (01.)1945) HMS Macaw (training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland) 12.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Middle Wallop, Hampshire) (for Mobile Naval Air Bases)
Douglas-Boyd, Richard Donald Blackburn "Dickie" Son of William A. Douglas-Boyd, and Edith D. Blackburn.	(03?).1923 Richmond district, Surrey - 17.06.2011 Exeter	T/S.Lt. (A) 30.06.1943 DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa 03-05.45) [decoration posted]	01.01.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)] (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Douglas-Watson, Francis Son of Cdr. Francis Douglas-Watson, RN (1896-1941), and Mary Fedora St Ledger (1899-1977).	1923 Glasgow, Scotland -	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 22.02.1944 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 22.02.1946	(10.1944) - (04.1946) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Doust, William Alexander	27.04.1895 Portsmouth, Hampshire - c. 1987	T/Cdr. 02.09.1939 T/A/Capt. < 07.1945 CBE 11.07.1944 salvage work Italy & Naples [investiture 10.10.44] OBE 14.01.1941 salvage work [investiture 18.02.41] LM 05.11.1946 salvage work in Mediterranean	02.09.1939 - (12.1941) Salvage Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (08.1942) - (02.1943) Deputy Director of Salvage (H), Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945)   no appointment listed (04.1946) no appointment listed Worked in the Far East after the war. Published: The ocean on a plank (1976)
Douthwaite, Harry Married Lily Warren (died 1985); one son, one daughter.	21.05.1907 Manchester, Chorlton district, Lancashire - 02.09.1982 Manchester (died following an operation for lung cancer)	T/A/S.Lt. 26.03.1943 T/S.Lt. 26.09.1943 T/Lt. 1945? (reld < 04.1946)	HMS Arbutus (corvette)       HMS Amazon (destroyer) 30.06.1943 - (04.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS George Adgell (minesweeping trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Dove, Rodney George "Rod" Son of ... Dove, and ... Clarke.	01.09.1921 South London - 30.10.2005	T/S.Lt. ? T/A/Lt. 30.10.1944 DSO 18.04.1944 sinking cruiser Palermo 02.01.43	(01.1943) HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, Malta) (07.1945) no appointment listed
Dow, John Alexander	? -	Prob. Midsh. 04.10.1938 S.Lt. 11.01.1940 Lt. 01.03.1942 (retd 1948/49?)	04.10.1938 joined RNVR (Clyde Division) 21.10.1939 - (06.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Glala (harbour defence motor yacht) (used in the Dunkirk evacuation) 28.08.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Veteran (destroyer) 05.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for flotilla duties as torpedo officer) (04.1946)     HMS Vernon (torpedo and anti-submarine establishment, Brighton) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dowden, Peter John Son of ... Dowden, and ... Hearn.	16.11.1919 Chertsey district, Surrey - 06.2003 Cirencester district, Gloucestershire	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 16.10.1941 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 16.04.1944	03.11.1941 - (01.)1945 Department of the Director of Unexploded Bombs, redesignated c. 1942: Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated c. 1944 Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) winter 1941 - 1942 operating at Tyneside  (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Dowell, Hugh Philip Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Edward Phillip Dowell (1878-1952), and Jane Pritchard (1880-1913). Married (21.04.1941, St Martins The Bullring, Birmingham, Warwickshire) Dorothy Lavinia Wilson (05.08.1920 - 28.05.1985), daughter (with one sister) of William Jacob Wilson (1890-), and Gertrude Annie Keen (1889-); one son, one daughter.	25.08.1910 Bangor, Carnarvon, Wales - 16.07.1977 Newtown district, Powys, Wales	T/A/S.Lt. 11.11.1943 T/S.Lt. 11.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	11.11.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) A grandchild writes: "I have a reference to 29.5.43 HMS Duke of York in a book and I know my grandfather was injured in an explosion on board ship somewhere off the NE coast as he was treated at King Edward 7th Hospital Rivelin Valley, Sheffield."
Dowling, Donald George "Don" Son (with two sisters) of George Frederick Dowling (1873-1959), and Florence Edith Dakin (1874-1956). Married ((06?).1935, Rochford district, Essex) Julia S. Ellesmore-Smith (1908-) (who was previously (1928) married to Norman Arthur Ray); one daughter.	22.05.1909 Camberwell, London, Surrey - 12.1984 Newton Abbott, Devon	T/Lt. 15.05.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 22.11.1943 (reld 24.04.1946) MID 21.12.1943 sinking merchant ships 19.09.43	15.05.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Nirvana 13.01.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) 20.06.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Seahawk (Coastal Forces base, Ardrishaig) (for motor anti-submarine boats) 29.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches) 19.07.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 503 (motor torpedo boat) (1943) - 04.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 606 (motor gun boat) 22.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.) 11.06.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 786 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 72nd MTB Flotilla Member Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
Dowling, John Alfred "Jack" Son of Edwin Dowling (1889-1973), and Lilian Down (1896-1978), of Acton.	16.04.1921 Hammersmith district, London - 13.09.1941 (crash) [age 20] [Acton Cemetery, W.M.71]	Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A) 22.04.1941	30.12.1940 - 04.1941 No. 3 (from 03.1941 No. 5) course of Fleet Air Arm pilots in Kingston & Gananoque, Ontario, Canada (08.1941) - 13.09.1941 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) * [killed in a flying accident along with Naval Airman 2 W. Sands when their Proctor of 755/756 Squadron FAA crashed near Stratford on Avon] * indexed, but not listed as such
Downing, Ronald Charles Thomas Son of ... Downing, and ... Howells. Married ((09?).1938, Chelsea district, London) Edna Laurance Birtwell (31.05.1900 - (06?).1982), daughter of William Gibson Birtwell, and Emma Clegg.	15.09.1911 Llanelly district, Carmarthenshire, Glamorgan - 18.10.1961 Chelsea district, London	Seaman 03.1941 Able Seaman 03.1942? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.1942 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 20.08.1943 (reld 02.1946)	03.1941 - 09.1941 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Torpoint) 09.1941 - 11.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 11.1941 - 1942 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) 1942 - 11.1942 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) 11.05.1943 - 08.1943 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast, Ireland) [starting date perhaps even earlier in 03.1943] 25.08.1943 - 04.1944 HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) 25.04.1944 - 02.1946 HMS Curlew (anti-submarine fixed defence training establishment, Dunoon, Argyll) Journalist for the Daily Mail in London both before and after the war. Ghost writer of Slavomir Rawicz' book "The long walk : the true story of a trek to freedom" (1956).
Downing, Wilfred	? -	T/Lt. 06.10.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 29.11.1944? (reld < 04.1946) MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42	09.03.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Salamander (Halcyon class minesweeper) 16.03.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Ready (Algerine class minesweeper) 29.11.1944 - 23.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Welcome (Algerine class minesweeper)
Doyland, John Richard Son of ... Doyland, and ... Westwood.	18.10.1915 Hackney district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 23.08.1981 Brentwood district, Essex	T/S.Lt. 07.05.1942 T/Lt. 07.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	05.03.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, CT 35 (04.1946) no appointment listed
Draper, Dare Hasting Married ((09?).1972, Redbridge district, Greater London) Bertholina I. Khan.	31.10.1910 - 03.2001 Newham district, London	Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 02.02.1945 T/Sg.Lt. 1945?, seniority 02.02.1945	Education: Trinity College, Dublin (MB, BCh, 1941); BAO Dub 1944. 05.03.1945 - (07.1945) Medical Officer, HMS Rother (frigate) 01.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire)
Draper, Edward Ernest Son of Edward Alexander Draper and Ada Louisa Matilda Hearn, of Wimbledon Chase, Surrey.	07.05.1923 - 18.02.1944 (MPK) [age 20] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, column 1]	T/Midsh. 1942/43? T/A/S.Lt. 1943?	15.03.1943 - 07?.1943 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) * 17.07.1943 - 18.02.1944 HMS Penelope (light cruiser) (ship sunk off Anzio by U-410) * (07.1945) erroneously still listed as such.
Draper, Leslie Lionel Married ((09?).1937, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Marjorie L. Morton.	07.05.1911 Edmonton district, Essex - 04.1989 Exeter district, Devon	T/A/S.Lt. 30.06.1944 T/S.Lt. 30.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 11.11.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven) (for minesweeping force) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Draper, Norman Ernest Son of ... Draper, and ... Robinson.	20.05.1924 Leyton, West Ham district, London - 12.10.2012 Feltham, Middlesex	T/Mdish. 04.03.1943 T/S.Lt. 20.05.1944 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 09.05.1944 Operation Stanley (various clandestine operations in the Mediterranean 43) & escape from Italy [decoration posted] MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)	09.1942     HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham) 28.03.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) 22.04.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Armadillo (Naval Beach Commando School, Glenfinnart): served with G1 RN Commando, attached to Combined Operations (Northern Ireland, Mediterranean and Italy)       Assistant Beachmaster to Senior Naval Officer Landing (S) (Sicily) (despatches)       Assistant Beachmaster to Senior Naval Officer Advanced Landing (E) (Italy) (DSC) 20.05.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) 1945     served with 9th Motor Launch Flotilla, Coastal Forces in Mediterranean 06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) (04.1946)     HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) * Literature: A. Cecil Hampshire, The Beachhead Commandos (London : Kimber, 1983), pages 119-123. * indexed, but not listed as such
Draper, Rowland John Son (with two sisters) of John Henry Draper (1890-1953), and Beatrice May Shipcott (1883-1965). Married (18.01.1944, Constantine, Algeria) Yakout Louisette Ouddah Saci Ben Ali (26.11.1918 - 14.03.2013), daughter (with two sisters) of Saci Ouddah (1891-1918), and Tessadit Serif (?-1943); three sons.	21.02.1917 Bristol district, Gloucestershire - 10.12.1973 Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire (formerly of Newbury, Berkshire)	Ord.Sea. (1941) T/S.Lt. 02.10.1941 T/A/Lt. 02.10.1942 T/Lt. 15.12.1944, seniority 02.10.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	01?.1941 - 02?.1941 HMS Northney (Combined Operations training base, Hayling Island) 03?.1941 - ? HMS Ulster Monarch (Inverary) as Coxswain of MLC's (12.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed 22.04.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank) 05.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for motor landing craft) 12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) Literature: Paul Lund & Harry Ludlam, The war of the landing craft (London : Foulsham, 1976), pages 14-17.
Drayson, Robert Quested "Bob" Son of late Frederick Louis Drayson, and late Elsie Mabel West. Married (1943) Rachel Jenkyns, 2nd daughter of Stephen Spencer Jenkyns; one son, two daughters.	05.06.1919 Ramsgate, Thanet district, Kent - 15.10.2008	Seaman ? T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 01.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 05.01.1943 intercepting escorted raider 14.10.42 [investiture 09.03.43]	Education: Chatham House School; Downing College, Cambridge: 1938-1939, 1946-1947; Historical Tripos, BA 1947, MA 1950.       HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)       HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) 1942? - 1946 served RNVR: Lieutenant in command HM Motor Torpedo Boats 19.06.1942 - 09.1942 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 236 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)] 09.1942 - ? acting Commanding Officer, HM MTB 236 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover), later at Portland] (10.1942)     HMD Cottesmore ? (06.1944) - (01.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 701 (motor torpedo boat) * (07.1945)     no appointment listed Assistant Master and Housemaster, St Lawrence College, 1947-1950; Assistant Master, Felsted School, 1950-1955; Headmaster, Reed's School, Cobham, 1955-1963; Headmaster of Stowe, 1964-1979; Resident Lay Chaplain to Bishop of Norwich, 1979-1984; Lay Reader, 1979. Member: HMC Committee, 1973-1975 (Chairman, Midland Division, 1974-1975); Council, McAlpine Educational Endowments Ltd, 1979-1997; Allied Schools Council, 1980-1994; General Council, S American Missionary Society, 1980-1996 (Chairman Selection Committee, 1980-1995); Scholarship Committee, Independent Schools Travel Association, 1982-; Martyrs' Memorial and Church of England Trust, 1983-1994. Treasurer, Swifts Sports Trust, 1988-. Chairman of Governors, Riddlesworth Hall, 1980-1984; Governor: Parkside, 1958-1963; Beachborough, 1965-1979; Bilton Grange, 1966-1979; Beechwood Park, 1967-1979; Monkton Combe, 1976-1985; Felixstowe College, 1981-1984; Vice President: Reed's School, 1991-; St Lawrence College, 1993- (Governor, 1977-1993). FRSA 1968. * indexed, but not listed as such
Drew, Frank John Son of John and Grace Drew; husband of Alice Drew, of Chingford, Essex.	31.12.1907 Newington, South London - 24.06.1942 Liverpool [age 34] [Liverpool (Anfield) Crematorium, panel 1]	Prob. T/Lt. 13.11.1939 T/Lt. ?, seniority 13.11.1939	29.09.1938 joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR] 13.11.1939 - (02.1941) Naval Control Service, London and Gravesend [HMS Pembroke IV] ? - 24.06.1942 HMS Argonaut (cruiser) (pre-commissioning)
Drower, Irving Frederick Son of Alfred Percy Frederick Drower (1886-1918), and Norah Mary Tracey (1885-1962). Married ((03?).1947, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire) Joyce M. Tiller-Fellows (06.10.1923 - ); two daughters, one son.	18.04.1916 Brentford district, Middlesex - 06.05.1979 Westminster district, London	T/S.Lt. 16.10.1942 T/A/Lt. 16.10.1943 (reld 13.04.1946)	Education: Ealing Priory School. Surveyor and has worked for the London and Lancashire Insurance Company since 1933. 04.12.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) 10.1943 - (03.)1944 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) 15.03.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Elfreda (Catherine class minesweeper) (01.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1945)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties) (10.1945)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) * indexed, but not listed as such
Druce, Kenneth Residence: (1945) Ilford, Essex.	(09?).1919 West Ham district, Essex - 19.06.2007 Purley, Surrey	... ... T/El.Lt. 23.11.1942	Pre-war employed with Davy Paxham & Co., Colchester.       general degaussing duties including Helensburgh & Port Said (specializing in plastic substitutes in submarine cables) ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) Post-war possibly employed with Cable Manufacturer & Research Engineers.
Drummond, David Name of choice for: HRH Shahzada Sultan Hamid Mirza, also known as Prince Hamid Mirza Kadjar.	23.04.1918 Tabriz - 05.05.1988 London [Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey]	Prob. T/S.Lt. 1942 T/S.Lt. 1943, seniority 1942 T/A/Lt. 19.10.1943 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? (reld < 04.1946) 39|45 St ? ? Def M ? ? WM 39|45 ? ? GenSM ? ?	Education: HMS Worcester (Thames Northgood Training College, Greenhithe, Kent) Cadet Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. 1936-1939, employed with Mobil Oil Co, London 1939-1942 and 1945-1957. 01.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Conqueror (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal)) 08.02.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Duke of York (battleship) (1945?) HMS Wild Goose (sloop) (07.1945) no appointment listed Became Heir Apparent of the Imperial House of Qajar on the death of his father, 07.01.1943 and undisputed head on the death of his cousin, 24.09.1975. Employed with the Iranian Oil Consortium 1957-1971 as Assistant Head of Materials at Tehran, Head of Materials & Fields at Abadan, and later at Tehran, and in London with Iranian Oil Services 1971-1979. Published:Memoirs of Prince Hamid Kadjar (1996).
Drummond, Duncan Weir	12.05.1923 Greenock, Renfrewshire - 17.05.1985 Greenock, Renfrewshire	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 12.11.1943 T/Lt. 12.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	07.06.1943 - (10.1943) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 353 (motor torpedo boat) 24.01.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTBs & MLs) 14.11.1944 - 05.1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 781 (motor torpedo boat) 29.09.1945 - (04.1946) HM BYMS 2141 (British Yard minesweeper) Played First Class Cricket, 1951-1961.
Drummond, James Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of George Liddell Drummond (1888-1958), and Catherine Robson Liddell (1886-1967). Married (24.07.1937, The Venerable Bede, Gateshead, Durham) Ethel May Paxton (03.09.1911 - 16.01.1996).	24.08.1911 Gateshead, Co. Durham - 03.01.1988 Aldermaston, Reading, Berkshire	T/Wt.Eng. RNR 11.01.1943 T/Lt. (E) 24.08.1944 (reld > 10.1946)	02.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary), later HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) 07.03.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Sea Serpent (landing craft base, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, Chichester) (for landing craft duties) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 02.03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Hare (Algerine class minesweeper) 07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Rinaldo (Algerine class minesweeper) 19.08.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Resource (fleet repair ship) (officer borne for ships in the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth) * indexed, but not listed as such
Drummond, Stanley Turberville Only son of Roy MacGregor Drummond (1889-1976), and Virginia Joanna Buelens (1893-1992). Married ((12?).1954, Chapel en le Frith dsitrict, Derbyshire) Helen Joy Clayton (31.07.1929 - 05.02.1980), younger daughter of Mr H. Clayton; ... children (one son?).	14.02.1924 Wandsworth district, London - 10.2000 Isle of Wight	T/Midsh. 12.11.1942 T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 T/Lt. 01.03.1946 (reld 08.09.1946)	12.11.1942 - (10.1945) HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 13.05.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) 1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve His son indicates service with HM ML 1245 (motor launch), HM ML 168 (motor launch), HM LCT 7058 (landing craft, tank).
Drury, John Gray Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Arthur Wheatley Drury (1876-1945), and Ida Gertrude Gray (1885-1985). Married ((06?).1951, Cirencester district, Gloucestershire) Hilary Elizabeth Tayler (27.05.1928 - 21.05.1992); thee sons.	18.05.1922 Shipton district, Gloucestershire - 24.05.1994 Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire	T/A/S.Lt. 04.12.1942 T/S.Lt. 04.06.1943 T/Lt. 04.06.1945 (reld 12.04.1946) MID 25.01.1944 Operations Baytown & Ferdy (landings in Italy 09.1943)	Education: Bancroft's School, Woodford Green. (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed (08.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *: (09.1943)     129th LCM (Landing Craft Mechanised) Flotilla (despatches) (10.1945)     HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Drysdale, Adam Steel	02.1922 ? Dennistoun district, Glasgow, Scotland ? - 24.01.2008 ? Kettering, Ohio, USA ?	Prob. T/S.Lt. 20.09.1940 T/Lt. 20.12.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943	(12.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     HMS Speedwell (Halcyon class minesweeper) * (04.1941)     no appointment listed 12.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Rothesay (Bangor class minesweeper) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 25.02.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Bude (Bangor class minesweeper) (12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 24.06.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Lightfoot (Algerine class minesweeper) * indexed, but not listed as such
Du Boulay, Barry Keith Houssemayne Son of Capt. Ernest George Houssemayne Du Boulay, RN (1882-1961), and Olive Keith Welch. Married ((12?).1956, Kensington district, London) Pamela Devereux, née Pollitt.	31.10.1912 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 05.1998 Radnorshire East district, Powys	T/S.Lt. 06.11.1942 T/A/Lt. 06.08.1943 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 (reld 01.06.1946?) CdeG ? ?	Education: Sandhurst Learning about mining in South Africa, then active in gold mining in the Gold Coast. 1939/40? joined RNVR and served in the ranks on destroyers (possibly North Africa) 1942 - ? served as Liaison Officer with the Free French Navy: 1942 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Dumont d'Urville" (frigate) ? - (10.1944) British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Duquesne" (heavy cruiser) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Nabsford (Transportable Aircraft Maintenace Yard No. 1, Archerfield, Queensland) (for station duties) [till 1947 in Australia] Post-war stunt man in the film industry.
du Boulay, Clarence Cornibert	16.02.1904 - 21.10.1994 Penzance district, Cornwall	Lt. GNVF 01.03.1938 Prob. T/S.Lt. 07.09.1940 T/Lt. 07.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)	1938? - 1940 Gambia Naval Volunteer force 07.09.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (10.1944) HMS Euphrates (depot ship, Basra, Iraq) * 12.1944 - (07.1945) Naval Control Service, Kilindini [HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Du Boulay, Hubert Charles Houssemayne "Hugh" Son of Capt. Charles John Houssemayne Du Boulay, RN (1894-1967), and Mary Alice Veronica Morgan (1895-1964). Brother of F/O Roger William Houssemayne Du Boulay, RAFVR. From Bishops Waltham.	30.07.1920 Karenza, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - 17.07.2015	T/S.Lt. 30.07.1941 T/Lt. 26.12.1943 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 21.08.1945 torpedo attack enemy convoy Genua-Venice 03/04.45 [award posted]	Fleet Air Arm 17.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) 10.07.1942 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 71 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] (02.1943) - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, later Commanding Officer, HM MTB 243 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport), later Mediterranean] (10.1944) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) * 31.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 407 (motor torpedo boat) (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Duff, Donald McConnell	(06?).1899 Mohill, Ireland - 31.07.1948 Abbey Sanatorium,  White Abbey, Belfast, Northern Ireland	... ... Paym.Lt.Cdr. 29.04.1937 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1943 (reld 01.12.1945) VD ? -	commissioned, RNVR (Ulster Division) (List II) 25.08.1939 - 26.09.1942 Secretary to Chief Staff Officer on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge Belfast [HMS Caroline] (10.1942) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 28.09.1943 - (01.)1945 RN Auxiliary Hospital Diyatawala, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] (04.1945) - (07.1945) RN Auxiliary Hospital Diyatawala, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] * * indexed, but not listed as such
Duff, Douglas Valder Eldest son of Arthur Joseph Duff, British consul, and Florence Valder. Married 1st Janet (née ...) (died 1960). Married 2nd Eveline Rowston, who had been a major in the Q.A.I.N.N.S. (Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Naval Nursing Service.)	10.07.1901 Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina - 23.09.1978 Weymouth, Dorset	T/Lt. 03.01.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 28.06.1943? (reld 11.1945) MID 23.09.1941 for enterprise and seamanship while serving off the Libyan Coast: brought HM Yacht Eskimo Nell from Derna to Alexandria	Education: Convent of the Visitation in Bridport, Dorset (1906-1914); HMS Conway (1914) Joined the Merchant Navy as a cadet, 1916. Served on the SS Thracia when it was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay, 27.03.1917 (Duff being the sole survivor). Constable in County Galway, Royal Irish Constabulary (Black and Tan), 01.04.1921-02.02.1922. Served Palestine Gendarmerie, British Section (1922-25), transferring to the Palestine Police in 1925 as an inspector and rising to the rank of superintendent [prevented in 1928 on a visit to the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre the assassination of Crown Prince of Italy (1904-1983), who became King Umberto II and last king of Italy on the abdication of his father in 1946; served as ADC to HRH Princess Mary, Viscountess Vascelles during her visit to Jerusalem in 1928] 03.01.1940 - 17.04.1940 HMS Grey Mist (armed yacht) 18.04.1940 - (02.1943) Staff of Admiral Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria), from ... 1941: HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)]: Naval Officer-in-Charge, Derna officer in command of the Western Desert Schooner Flotilla Commanding Officer, HMS Stag (N) 28.06.1943 - (06.1944) Staff Officer Operations (2), HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) ? - 11.1945? Irregular Warfare Department of the Admiralty stationed at Teignmouth * Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (KStJ). Continued writing, broadcasting and television work until his death in 1978. He wrote about 100 books in his lifetime (partly under pseudonyms like Douglas Stanhope & Peter Wickloe), as well as 2 autobiographies. Published: Galillee galopper (1935); Sword for hire : the saga of modern free-companion (1937); Harding's mountain treasure; Poor knight's saddle (1938); On the world's roof; Peril on the amazon (1946); May the winds blow! : an autobiography (1948); The lost admiral (1955); Yarns of a shellback : true tales of the sea (1959); On special service for the Foreign Legion (1960) &tc. &tc. * (07.1945) incorrectly indexed under HMNZS Killegray.
Duff-Jones *, Reginald Charles Married 1st ((12?).1930, Reigate district, Surrey; divorced) Phyllis M. Hall (she remarried (1948) Capt. Hereward Minto Williams, RE, then (1955) Joseph William Ion Miles  (19.03.1909 - 01.1985)). Married 2nd (1948, Sydney, NSW, Australia) Betty Jean Bradshaw. * Initially showing as: Jones, Reginald Charles. From about 1942/43 Duff-Jones.	(09?).1904 Nantwich district, Cheshire - 21.08.1967 Australia	T/S.Lt. 14.09.1939 T/Lt. 1940?, seniority 14.09.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 25.05.1942? (reld < 04.1946)	(12.1939)     no appointment listed 19.12.1939 - (10.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Glen Usk (paddle minesweeper) 11.11.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Skiddaw (paddle minesweeper) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 09.03.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Yeoman (RN base, Thames) 25.05.1942 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Laguna Belle (paddle minesweeper) (02.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Laguna Belle (paddle minesweeper) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Duff-Still, Henry McLean Married ((06?).1920, Brighton district, Sussex) ... Brighton.	27.03.1903 Croydon district, London - 13.08.2001 Maryland, USA	T/Lt. 12.12.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1941, < 12.1941 T/A/Cdr. > 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946) DSO 06.07.1943 led Coastal Forces actions 04-05.43 [investiture 15.02.44] DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted] MID 11.10.1940 off the coast of Norway MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41	18.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Aston Villa (trawler) (1940) HMS Gaul (trawler) [despatches] 17.06.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (02.1941)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 16.03.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches) (1941) HM ML 116 (motor launch) [despatches] 18.05.1942 - 08.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 605 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 17th MGB Flotilla [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)] [DSO] 11.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Stevenstone (destroyer) [DSC] 08.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing) (07.1945) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Duffey, Eric Arthur Gerald Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Léon Marius Félicien Duffey (1886-1966) (of Swiss descent), and Marcelle Alphonsina Julia Van den Bosch (1892-1972) (of Belgian descent). Married 1st ((09?).1947, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Pauline Mary Roberts (06.11.1923 - 22.06.1967); one son, one daughter. Married 2nd ((09?).1967, Huntingdon district, Huntingdonshire) Rita Carol Jones.	02.01.1922 Leicester district, Leicestershire - 10.02.2019 Wadenhoe, Peterborough	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 02.04.1943 T/S.Lt. (A) 02.10.1943 T/Lt. (A) 02.10.1945 (reld 03.05.1946) OBE 02.06.1962 HM's birthday 1962: as East Anglian Regional Officer, Nature Conservancy	Assistant to Keeper (Natural History), Leicester City Museum (1938-1940). 06.1941 - 04.1943 joined Fleet Air Arm and served in the ranks 07.06.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (additional; for full flying duties and training) 20.09.1943 - (10.)1943 pilot, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)] 09.11.1943 - 30.07.1945 pilot, 836 Squadron FAA (parent squadron for MAC-ship flights from Maydown, Northern Ireland [HMS Shrike] & Machrihanish, Argyllshire [HMS Landrail]) (10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed Arachnologist, ecologist and conservationist. Read zoology with botany at Leicester University College, 1947-1950 (BSc; DSc 2016) & Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford University, 1950-1953 (PhD). Regional Officer for East Anglia of the Nature Conservancy, 1952-1962, then head of the Grassland Ecology Team, Conservation Research Section of Monks Wood Experimental Station, 1962-1974. Advisory Officer & Invertebrate Zoologist ITE, 1974-1992. Editor-in-Chief, Biological Conservation, 1974-1999. FRS, 1974. Published five books and numerous papers.
Duffy, [Sir] Albert Edward "Patrick"	17.06.1920 Wigan, Lancashire - Doncaster	T/S.Lt. 31.01.1941 T/Lt. 31.07.1943 Kt 1991 ?	Education: London School of Economics (BSc(Econ.), PhD); Columbia University,  Morningside Heights, New York, USA. (12.1941)     no appointment listed 09.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) 30.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man) (for observer duties) 11.06.1945 - (07.1945) observer, 822 Squadron FAA 25.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) (for observer duties) Lecturer, University of Leeds, 1950-1963, 1967-1970. Visiting Professor: Drew University, Madison, NJ, 1966-1970; American Grad.uate School of International Business, 1982-. Contested (Lab) Tiverton Division of Devon, 1950, 1951, 1955. MP (Lab): Colne Valley Division of Yorks, 1963-1966; Sheffield, Attercliffe, 1970-1992. PPS to Secretary of State for Defence, 1974-1976; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Navy), Ministry of Defence, 1976-1979; opposition spokesman on defence, 1979-1980, 1983-1984. Chairman: PLP Economic and Finance Group, 1965-1966, 1974-1976; Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of Select Committee on Expenditure, 1972-1974; PLP Defence Committee, 1984; Vice-Chairman: PLP Defence Group,  1979-1984; Anglo-Irish Group, 1979-1992. President, N Atlantic Assembly, 1988-1990 (Member 1979-1992; Chairman, Defence Co-op. sub-committee, 1983-1987); Deputy Chairman, Atlantic Council of UK, 1994-. Member: Catholic Club, Doncaster; Irish Society, Doncaster. Hon. DHL Rosary Coll., Illinois, 1993. Published: contributions to Economic History Review, Victorian Studies, Manchester School, Annals of Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Sci., etc.
Dugmore, Eric Royston Son of ... Dugmore, and ... Atherton.	28.06.1912 King's Norton district, Worcestershire - 19.11.1993 Westminster district, London	T/S.Lt. 13.03.1941 T/A/Lt. 13.03.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	(04.1941) - (05.1941) no appointment listed 26.05.1941 - 06.1944 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (actually served at Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park (Hut 4 & Block A, Naval Section, including French naval traffic analysis and Head of NS WT section) 06.1944 - 09.02.1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) 10.02.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Anderson (RN barracks & radio station, Colombo, Ceylon) 1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Duits, William Clifford Son of Charles E. Duits (1883?-1969). Married 1st ((12?).1932, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire) Edith Lilian Bussell ((06?).1908 - (03?).1966); one daughter, one son. Married 2nd ((12?).1967, Westminster district, Middlesex) Marta Henny Bertha Wheeler (01.01.1920 - (09?).1970).	16.01.1909 Holborn district, London / Middlesex - 20.12.1968 Wimbledon, London	T/S.Lt. 07.06.1940 T/Lt. 07.09.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld < 04.1946) OON 28.04.1942 in recognition of services in the cause of the Allies	(07.1940)     no appointment listed (10.1940)     British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS Van Meerlant (minelayer) (12.1940) - (12.1941) no appointment listed (09.1941) - (12.1941) British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS Jan van Brakel (minelayer) 20.08.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for miscellaneous services) (01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed Art dealer, Duits Ltd. (specializing in 17th-century paintings).
Dukinfield, William George Married ((09?).1923, Corwen district, Merionethshire) Kathleen M. Owen.	25.10.1888 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 06.09.1963 Aled district, Denbighshire, Wales	T/Lt. 20.02.1915 Lt. ? (retd) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 06.03.1928, seniority 08.02.1925 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) VD ? -	15.01.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for various services [convoy duties]) 30.06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) (for station duties, A Camp)
Dumbrill, Harold James Married ((06?).1947, Lewisham district, London) Ena C. Harding.	10.01.1910 Lewisham district, London - 04.1986 Weymouth district, Dorset	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 14.11.1943 T/Lt. 14.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	24.08.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Qualicum (Bangor class minesweeper) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Duncan, James Married Margaret ...; ... children (one son?).	? - 05.2013 still alive at Newick, East Sussex	ERA 4 ? [P/UD/X 1495] CERA ? T/S.Lt.  (E) 11.12.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946) DSM 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 21.03.44] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - WM 39|45 - - Arc St - - Rsn Conv M - -	HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (DSM)       HMS Belfast (cruiser) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 06.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Byard (frigate)
Duncan, Paul Eric Aver Son of James Hugh Duncan, and Phemie Pauline Barbier, of Cardiff.	(09?).1914 Cardiff, Glamorgan - 08.11.1942 (MPK) [age 28] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 66, 1]	Prob. Paym.S.Lt. 14.11.1935 Paym.S.Lt. 1936, seniority 14.11.1935 Paym.Lt. 14.11.1937 Lt. 08.09.1940 MID 18.05.1943 Oran harbour 08.11.42 [posthumously]	14.11.1935 joined, Severn Division RNVR (List II) 1936 transferred, London Division RNVR (List II) (04.1940) HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) * 12.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Caradoc (cruiser) ? - 08.11.1942 HMS Walney (escort) (sunk in forcing entry into Oran harbour) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dunn, Alexander Atkinson Son (with one sister) of Alexander Dunn (1893-1964), and Jessie Stevenson (1899-1987). Married Ann Margaret Johnston (12.08.1935 - 21.11.2015); one daughter, two sons.	05.04.1924 Mossend, Bellshill district, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 18.04.2016 Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Balwyn, Victoria, Australia	Prob. T/A/El.S.Lt. 01.05.1944 T/El.S.Lt. 01.11.1944 (dispersal 18.06.1946) (reld 30.07.1946)	Education: Glasgow University (B.Sc., electrical engineering).       HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (06.1944)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) * 23.07.1944 - 14.12.1944 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 15.12.1944 - 31.03.1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (additional) (for passage to Australia & upon arrival for RN Barracks, Sydney, NSW; arrived 03.02.1945 at Brisbane for anti-submarine maintenance duties) 01.04.1945 - 01.1946 HMS Furneaux (RN depot, Brisbane, Australia) (for anti-submarine maintenance duties) 01.1946 - 18.06.1946 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dunn, Frederick John Arden Married ((12?).1939, Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Jean Rhodes; two children.	09.11.1914 Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire - 30.10.1997 Bradway, Sheffield, Yorkshire	T/S.Lt. 19.09.1943 T/Lt. 19.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 11.09.1945 sinking of U-1024 12.04.45 [award personally collected from the Honours and Awards Section at the Admiralty]	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 04.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Loch Glendhu (frigate) (04.1946)     no appointment listed Chartered accountant.
Dunscombe, Mervyn John Morgan Son of Ernest J. Dunscombe, and Edith E. Morgan. Married 1st ((06?).1947, Yeovil district, Somerset) Third Officer Margaret Lynette Broughton, WRNS (20.07.1924 - ), daughter of Arthur F. Broughton, and Gladys L. Connolly; two daughters. Married 2nd Patricia L. Hawkes.	20.08.1925 Bristol district, Gloucestershire - 02.01.1975 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 20.02.1945 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 20.08.1945 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * > 07.1945, < 10.1945 (reld 13.09.1947) * Special Branch officer for scientific duties	(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed 01.10.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Comet (destroyer) (10.1946)     no appointment listed 17.03.1947 - (04.1947) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) Royal Canadian Navy, 1950s-1960s (reaching rank of Lieutenant-Commander (L)).
Dunse, John Married ((09?).1947, Holsworthy district, Devon) Joan Wakeham; ... children.	03.09.1918 Scotland - 27.01.1995 East Stour, Gillingham, North Dorset district	T/S.Lt. 06.09.1940 T/Lt. 01.07.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) OBE 01.01.1973 New Year 1973: Director, Retail Distributors Association DSC 24.03.1942 sinking of U-131 & U--434 12.1941 [investiture 14.07.1942] MID 01.01.1945 New Year 1945	19.09.1940 - (12.1940) Assistant Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (02.1941) - (06.1941) HMS Hesperus (Havant class destroyer) * (08.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed 14.10.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Blankney (Hunt class destroyer) (DSC) 06.06.1942 - (10.)1942 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) * 02.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 06.04.1943 - (10.)1943 Gunnery Officer, HMS Mendip (Hunt class destroyer) 12.11.1943 - (06.)1944 Gunnery Officer, HMS Garth (Hunt class destroyer) (despatches) 03.08.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dunster, Fred Arthur * Son of Fred Arthur Dunster, and Louisa B. Wood. * in Navy List shown as Frederick Arthur Dunster	15.09.1920 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 31.05.1973 Chelmsford district	? ? [JX 300295] T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 04.12.1943 T/Lt. 04.12.1945 (reld 05.1946)	08.1941 joined RNVR 11.10.1943 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 282 (motor minesweeper)
Durban, Jack Douglas Son of ... Durban, and ... Bracher. Married ((03?).1943, Greenwich district, Kent) Sheila Brown; two children.	(03?).1921 Lewisham district, London - 14.11.2015 Clifden House care home, Seaford, East Sussex	T/S.Lt. (A) 18.04.1942 T/Lt. (A) 18.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946) Lt. (A) 23.04.1953, seniority 17.06.1948 Lt.Cdr. (A) 17.06.1956 (reld)	(06.1942) - (10.1942) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) * 21.10.1942 - 03.1943 observer, 796 Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika)] 24.03.1943 - (06.)1944 observer, 816 Squadron FAA (at Machrihanish, from 06.1943 Fearn, then HMS Tracker, then HMS Chaser) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 11.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Ranee (escort carrier) (for observer duties) 02.1945 - (07.1945) on staff of Flag Officer Naval Air Stations Australia [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)] (04.1946)     no appointment listed 23.04.1953     Permanent RNVR (Air Branch) * indexed, but not listed as such
Durdin, Stanley Robert Son (with two brothers) of John Larkins Durdin (1861-1934), and Elizabeth Durdin (1863-1926). Married (26.07.1922, Kensington, London) Winifred Jane Mary Latham (01.08.1894 - 01.1990), daughter (with two sisters) of Thomas Edward Latham (1865-), and Margaret Alice Rainton (1863-1933); one son.	03.01.1900 St Pancras, London - 07.10.1969 Clacton-on-Sea, Colchester, Essex	Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 03.01.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.07.1944 (reld 13.04.1946) * Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature	(02.1944) - (04.1944) no appointment listed       HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall) 06.05.1944 - (04.1945) Assistant Transport Officer, HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Seaman's Mission, Port Melbourne, Australia) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Durno, Leslie Duncan Son of James and Catherine Durno, of Crichie, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.	1920 Kintore district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - 29.01.1945 [age 25] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]	T/A/S.Lt. (A) ? T/S.Lt. (A) 13.07.1943 T/Lt. (A) 01.09.1944 MID 05.09.1944 Operation Lombard & others MID 15.06.1948 Operation Meridian [posthumously]	... - ... ... ? - 29.01.1945 HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
Dussek, Eric Albert Son of Albert Ernest Horatio Dussek, and Ida Jamesina Justice. Married ((09?).1939, Bromley district, London) Ivy M. Wynn; two children.	29.10.1911 Bromley district, London - 06.12.2013 Tonbridge, Kent	Lt. 01.05.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1947	29.01.1937     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached London Division RNVR) 01.05.1939     joined RNVR (Unattached List) 16.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Boadicea (destroyer) 24.09.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, Nova Scotia) 22.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Widgeon  (sloop) 17.04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Mallard (sloop) 02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (04.1946)     RID [?] * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dussek, John Leslie Son of ... Dussek, and .. Whittingham.	10.05.1920 Lewisham district, Kent - 07.10.2005 Kent district, Kent	T/S.Lt. 03.07.1941 T/Lt. 01.08.1943 (reld > 04.1946) MID 22.12.1942 hazardous minesweeping operations Channel 06.42	(12.1941)     HMS Laguna Belle (paddle minesweeper) * 16.01.1942 - 10.09.1943 First Lieutenant, HM MMS 57 (motor minesweeper) [ from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)] 11.04.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 304 (motor minesweeper) (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Dutton, John "Jack" Son of ... Dutton, and ... Orritt. Married ((12?).1936, Southport district, Lancashire) Vera May Easton ((12?).1915 - 08.2000), daughter of ... Easton, and ... Harris; three daughters.	04.09.1912 Southport, Orsmkirk district, Lancashire - 02.1978	Ord.Sea. 06.1940 [MX68202] T/S.Lt. (E) 24.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	Mechanic. 06.1940     joined RNVR 10.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Porcupine II (Combined Operations base, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth) 20.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for miscellaneous duties) (04.1946)     no appointment listed His eldest daughter writes: "Demobbed in Singapore we think 1946-7. We all joined him in Singapore 1947 where he worked for a Johore rubber plantation. During the "uprising" we returned to Southport leaving Dad in Malaya. He went on to work in tin dredging mines in Trengganu then on to Siam as it was then, ending up in Exmouth Gulf Australia in the oil discovery Learmonth, then the Snowy Mountain Scheme. We joined him in 1954 in Perth as "Ten Pound Poms" where he worked until his death in 1978. As executor after my Mums death I discovered photos of naval battles and also a landing map of Normandy. Which leads me to wonder what he was able to accomplish during his naval time. My Mum did tell us he went to Scapa Flow for commando training and she thought he was involved in Dunkirk, but not confirmed. Wounded once in left arm, shrapnel."
Dwyer, Kenneth McIver Son of Henry Samuel Dwyer (1874-1930), and Agnes Isobel McIver (1875-1941), of South Africa.	18.10.1912 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 27.03.1941 buried at sea [age 28] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 50, 1]	Prob. T/El.S.Lt. 04.11.1940 T/El.S.Lt. 1941, seniority 04.11.1940 T/El.Lt. 03.1941?	Education: Glenwood High School, Durban 18.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) 1941 - 27.03.1941 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) [killed while on passage aboard the Anchor Line liner SS Britannia, which was attacked & sunk by the German raider Thor on 25.03.1941; Dwyer was injured and died later of wounds on a life raft]
Dyas, Mortimer Vivian Son of Walter Mortimer Dyas (1871-1914), and Olivia Bessie Josephine Lambert (1875-1914). Married (08.07.1939, St Erconwald's, Catholic Parish church, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey) Ethelreda Gertrude Mary Barraud (08.08.1909 - 25.03.2001), daughter (with two sisters and three daughters) of Mark Bernard Barraud (1876-1958), and Blanche Ethel Newberry (1874-1939); one daughter.	21.11.1907 Dublin South district, Ireland - 18.10.1973 Coombe, New Malden, Surrey	Army:   L/Bdr. ? 2nd Lt. 12.09.1939 [104139] (reld 16.09.1940) RNVR:   Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 16.09.1940 T/Lt. (A) 16.12.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) > 06.1943, < 08.1943 Lt. (A) RN 04.03.1946, seniority 16.12.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) RN 04.03.1946, seniority 1943? Lt.Cdr. (A) RN 16.12.1948 (Emgcy 20.12.1949) (commission terminated 16.01.1962) EM 25.03.1949 -	late Pilot Officer, RAF 12.09.1939 - 16.09.1940 commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] (10.1940)     no appointment listed 10.1940 - (11.)1942 pilot, 774 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 03.11.1942 - (04.)1943 pilot, 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twatt, Orkney)] 10.04.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)] 01.10.1943 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, 727 Squadron FAA [HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar), from 01.11.1944 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (07.1945)     no appointment listed 18.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk) 01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk) (for Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONABs)) 15.05.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) ... - ... ...
Dye, Douglas Robert	22.12.1917 - 1997 Alloa district, Scotland	T/Paym.S.Lt. 24.07.1941 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 22.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)	09.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (in Admiral's Office of Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic) 01.01.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, then Taranto) (for base cypher duties) (04.1944)     HMS Hannibal  (RN base, Taranto) * (06.1944)     no appointment listed 26.09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for duty with Landing Craft Recovery Unit) (04.1946)     HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Dyer, Arnold Ernest Son of Edgar Percy Dyer, and Edith Emily Harding, of Southgate, Middlesex.	01.11.1918 ? - 13.12.1940 (KIA) [age 22] [Tripoli War Cemetery, 7.H.22]	Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 05.08.1940	? - 13.12.1940 pilot, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (lost on an air attack on Tripoli harbour)
Dyke, Tom Elmes * Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Thomas Ears Dyke (1885-1958), and Mabel Elmes Beale (1885-1963). Married ((03?).1941, Yeovil district, Somerset) Olive Catherine Cole (27.01.1919 - 1997); three sons. * also shown with first names as: Thomas Elmes	19.03.1915 Wincanton district, Somerset - 13.01.1981 Milborne Port, Yeovil district, Somerset	T/S.Lt. 01.03.1940 T/Lt. 01.03.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 1946?  (reld 06.05.1946)	Glove manufacturer.  1930s     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (Severn Division) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 08.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Radiant (auxiliary anti-submarine yacht) 03.03.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Pozarica (anti-aircraft ship) (08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Dasher (Archer class escort carrier) 04.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Antwerp (auxiliary escort) (04.1944)     HMS Antwerp (auxiliary escort) * 24.05.1944 - (10.1945) HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) 1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (Solent Division) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dyson, John Henry Robinson	08.01.1900 - (06?).1982 Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire	T/A/S.Lt. 21.06.1943 (appointment terminated 08.08.1944)	temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement: 21.06.1943 - 05.11.1943 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs) 06.11.1943 - 26.03.1944 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, NJ, USA) (for rescue tugs) 27.03.1944 - 08.08.1944 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment) (for rescue tugs)