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1939-1945

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Haskett-Smith,
Alastair [Carlos]
A. Haskett-Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)
(12?).1917
Wandsworth district, London
-
25.02.1944
[age 26]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 92, column 3]
Prob. T/S.Lt. 23.08.1940
T/Lt. 01.02.1942
Education: Wimbledon College.
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
? - (10.1940) HMS Seaborn
... - ... ...
01.02.1943 - 25.02.1944 HMS Mahratta (destroyer)
Haskey,
Thomas Douglas
T.D. Haskey
Son of Thomas William Haskey (1889-1941), and Beatrice May Hands (1898-1980).
Married 1st ((12?).1941, Sutton Coldfield district, Warwickshire) Joyce Ethel Nicholls (07.09.1921 - 05.06.1955), daughter of Leonard Nicholls (1892-1946), and Ethel Maud Taylor (1891-1963); two daughters.

Married 2nd ((09?).1956, Stourbridge district, Worcestershire) Elsie Smith (1926 - 2010); two sons..
16.05.1920
Aston district, Warwickshire
-
1999
Kirkwall district, Orkney, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 29.07.1940
T/S.Lt. (A) 16.05.1941
T/Lt. (A) 01.11.1942 (reld > 10.1945, <04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) > 02.1944-(04.)1944 [for a short period only]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 22.11.1940 attack on U-boat 14.09.40 [investiture 18.07.45]
13.08.1940 - (12.)1940 acting observer, 821 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)] (DSC)
19.12.1940 - (02.)1941 acting observer, 821 X Flight FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
03.1941 - (10.)1941 acting observer, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
]
19.11.1941 - 06.02.1942 acting observer, 884 Squadron  [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
07.02.1942 - (08.)1942 observer, 884 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset), from 23.07.1942 HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)]
14.09.1942 - (10.)1942 observer, 866 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
(12.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed
(06.1943) - (04.1944) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
31.05.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (for observer duties)
24.03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Vindex (escort carrier) (for observer duties)
18.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Gadwall (RN Air Station, Sydenham, Belfast) (for observer duties)
Haslam,
Fraser James

F.J. Haslam
Son of James Haslam, and Edith Annie Haslam (née Cowlishaw), of Crocken Hill, Kent.
Brother of Lt. I.A. Haslam, RNVR.
(12?).1921
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
21.12.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
29.08.1942
?
-
21.12.1943
French Ship Chasseur 5 [renamed Carentan] (ship foundered off Anvil Point)
Haslam,
Ian Alfred

I.A. Haslam
Son of James Haslam, and Edith Annie Haslam (née Cowlishaw), of Crocken Hill, Kent.
Brother of S.Lt. F.J. Haslam, RNVR.
(03?).1919
Belper district, Derbyshire
-
24.06.2008
[Alveston?]
T/S.Lt.
30.10.1941
T/Lt.
12.02.1944 (reld 14.05.1946)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed



possibly served at HMS Southdown (escort destroyer) at some point
Haslett,
Colin William Horner

C.W.H. Haslett (Photo courtesy of Mr Darren Martin)
Son of James Ross Haslett and Ethel Margaret Haslett, of Greenisland, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
1921 ?
-
19.08.1942
(KIA) [age 21]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 1]
Prob. Midsh.
30.08.1939
Midsh.
1940, seniority 30.08.1939
A/S.Lt.
08.05.1941
Education: Sedbergh School, Sedbergh, Cumbria (1936-1939).
?
-
(04.)1940
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
10.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa Flow)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.12.1941
-
19.08.1942
HMS Quebec (Combined Operations training centre, Inverary) (killed in action by a sniper during Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe))
Hassall,
Harold

H. Hassall
Son of Harold Hassall, a clockmaker, and Mary Hannah Hassall, a schoolteacher.
Married twice; one son, one daughter (1st marriage)and one son (2nd marriage).

03.02.1916
Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester
-
20.10.2009
Crewe, Sandbach, Cheshire
T/Sg.Lt. 01.09.1941 (reld 28.03.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 11.06.1988 HM's birthday 1988: for services to the community in Cheshire
MB, ChB 1940. LCRP 1940. MRCS 1940. FRCS 1949.
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
(12.1941) - (04.1942) HMS Wheatland (Hunt class destroyer) *
(05.1942)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
28.05.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
30.10.1942 - (12.)1942 Royal Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
31.12.1942 - (01.)1945 RN Auxiliary Hospital, Idsworth
06.03.1945 - (10.1945) HM Dockyard, Ceylon (for RN Yard, Trincomalee) [HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hatfield,
John Prosper
J.P. Hatfield (Photo courtesy of Mr Terence Maton)
24.06.1922
-
09.2006
Camden district, Greater London
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 07.02.1943
T/Lt. 07.02.1945
(1940)     Honorary Officer Cadet RM
... - ... ...
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Hattersley-Smith,
Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Hattersley-Smith
Son of Wilfrid Percy A. Hattersley-Smith (1886-), and Ethel M. Willcocks.
22.04.1923
Kensington district, London
-
21.07.2012
T/S.Lt. 10.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Joined the Navy in 1942 and served as an Ordinary Seaman on two North Atlantic convoys. Commissioned as a sub-lieutenant RNVR he took part in three Russian convoys and was on a gunboat off the Normandy beaches on D-Day. He took part in seven operations off northern Norway in Scorpion before serving as a watchkeeper in Emperor, looking out for kamikaze pilots in the Indian Ocean and was present at the relief of Singapore.
... - ... ...
01.02.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Scorpion (destroyer)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
19.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Emperor (escort carrier)
Hatton,
William Douglas

W.D. Hatton
From Rugby.
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
18.08.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
< 06.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE
26.06.1945
disposing ammunition torpedoed "Thane" 23.03.45 *
* For gallantry, skill and devotion to duty in disposing of damaged ammunition in the magazines of one of H.M. Ships after she had been torpedoed.
(1945?)


HMS President [possibly Bomb Safety Officer at Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
12.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
Haughie,
William Pratt
W.P. Haughie
Son of John Haughie, employee of Harland & Wolff, and Margaret Pattison Haughie, of Glasgow.
Married (04.01.1943) Mary Granger ..., of Glasgow.
1917
Glasgow, Scotland
-
27.03.1943
(KIA) [age 25]
[Ardrossan Cemetery, Ayrshire, Scotland, section D, Mid. West Division, joint grave 125]
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 12.02.1942
Education: Govan High School, Govan, Glasgow.
Served his engineering apprenticeship with a city firm. At the end of his apprenticeship he joined the Merchant Navy and was for two years with the Royal Mail Line.
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
10.04.1942 - 27.03.1943 HMS Dasher (Archer class escort carrier) [ship destroyed through internal explosion in Firth of Clyde]
Haughton,
Wilfred John
W.J. Haughton (Photo courtesy of Chris Haughton)
Son of Dr. John Welby Haughton (1866-1950), and Florence Maud Aubrey Shoubridge (1868-1944).
Married 1st (07.07.1934, Willesden Green, Middlesex) Estelle Josephine Seton (20.05.1909 - 10.06.1971), daughter of George Augustus Seton (1877-1965), and Edith Anne Austin (1879-1969); two sons.
Married 2nd (22.04.1972, Honiton district, Devon) Hilda Mary Minter (née Calder) (11,05,1908 - 18.08.1998).
03.02.1907
Tanaiche, Falmouth district, Cornwall
-
26.01.1982
North Newton, Bridgwater, Sedgemoor district, Somerset
Prob. T/S.Lt. 20.09.1940
T/Lt. 20.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 28.07.1944? (reld > 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 09.05.1944 minesweeping Western Desert Sweep [decoration posted]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 13.06.1944 Operation Antidote (minesweeping Gallta to Sousse, Tunisia 05.1943) [decoration posted]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - & clasp France and Germany
Africa Star Afr St   & clasp North Africa 1942-43
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: Blundell's School, Tiverton (09.1916-12.1922); HMS Conway.
Farmer.
(12.1940)     no appointment listed
10.01.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Plinlimmon (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship)
14.05.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for various services)
14.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Boston (Bangor class minesweeper) (DSC and Bar)
28.07.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehaven (Bangor class minesweeper)
Hawker,
Derek Charles
D.C. Hawker
Son of Reginald J. Hawker, and Florence E. Olliver.
Married; ... children.
13.05.1917
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
02.1989
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
T/S.Lt.
15.03.1940
T/Lt.
13.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
06.08.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Curacoa (cruiser)
12.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Philoctetes (destroyer depot ship, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for flotilla gunnery duties)
04.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
26.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
Hawker,
Ronald Edward
R.E. Hawker
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edmund Edgar Hawker (1890-1967), paperhanger and painter, and Ruby Ellen Blakeley (1896-1975).
Married (21.11.1939, Southend on Sea district, Essex) Agnes May Scott "Ciss" Little ((12?).1914 - 11.03.2012); three sons.
14.09.1915
Rochford district, Essex
-
05.10.1981
Hove, Brighton district, East Sussex
Prob. T/S.Lt. 02.02.1940
T/S.Lt. 11.03.1940
T/Lt. 02.02.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 [investiture 22.06.1945]
Mention in Despatches MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943
 1930s     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
(03.1940)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) *
27.03.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
07.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Epping (minesweeper base, Harwich)
03.1941 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Avola (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (DSC, despatches)
19.08.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2058 (British yard minesweeper)
 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hawker,
Ronald Victor
R.V. Hawker
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Albert Harcourt Hawker (1894-1966), and Emily Elizabeth Chandler (1895-1983).
Married (13.08.1949, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Jessie Mabel Hale (22.08.1922 - 01.09.2002), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Edward Joseph Hale (1885-1963), and Grace Mary Reed (1887-1951); two sons.
16.05.1926
East Ham, Essex
-
21.05.2001
Chelmsford, Essex
T/Midsh. 16.03.1945
T/A/S.Lt. 16.11.1945
T/S.Lt. 16.05.1946
(04.1945)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) *
28.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Ravager (Archer class escort carrier)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
27.05.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Blencathra (Hunt class destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hawkes,
Albert William Bryan
A.W.B. Hawkes A.W.B. Hawkes
A.W.B. Hawkes
Son of Albert W. Hawkes, and Florence E. Nicholls.
Married (22.11.1942, Gosport district, Hampshire) Beryl Maureen "Berry" Sprules (02.11.1922 - 18.11.2007), daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of Percy George Sprules (1876-1941), and Annie Helen Blackmore (1883-1972). two daughters, one son.
16.06.1918
Great Baddow, Chelmsford district, Essex
-
19.07.1996
Norwich, Norfolk
T/S.Lt. 22.05.1941
T/Lt. 16.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
14.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
25.01.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 247 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
08.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 256 (motor torpedo boat)
16.10.1943 - 23.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 257 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)
24.01.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 257 (motor torpedo boat)
25.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches, etc.)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Hawkins,
John Sefton Spencer
J.S.S. Hawkins
Son of Alfred Cyril Spencer Hawkins, and Beryl Sefton Spencer.
Married (09.08.1947) Audrey Diana Bligh (born 1924), daughter of Algernon Stewart Bligh and Dora Joan Lovelace; two sons.
(12?).1922
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
04.06.1943
T/Lt.
04.06.1945
Mention in Despatches MID
02.01.1945
minesweeper & merchant ships sunk 09-10.44
19.04.1943
-
23.01.1944
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 232 (motor torpedo boat) [based at HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
24.01.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
(09.1944)
-
(10.1944)
HM MTB 232 (motor torpedo boat)
12.11.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 387 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hawkins,
Robert Stanley Power
"Jack"
R.S.P. Hawkins
Son of Robert Hawkins, and Mary Power.
Married; one son, one daughter.
03.1912
Eccles, nr Manchester, Prescot district, Lancashire
-
23.01.1960
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 12.03.1940
T/Sg.Lt. 31.03.1941, seniority 12.03.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 31.05.1946, seniority 12.03.1946
Sg.Lt.Cdr. RN 03.07.1946, seniority 12.03.1945
A/Interim Sg.Cdr. RN 12.03.1951
Sg.Cdr. RN 31.12.1954
Education: MB, ChB Manch 1937.
26.03.1940 - (02.)1941 RN Sick Quarters Shotley [HMS Ganges]
16.10.1941 - 17.02.1942 HMS Arrow (destroyer)
(10.1944)     RN Auxiliary Hospital, Alexandria [HMS Nile] *
29.11.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Hopetoun (landing craft and minesweeper base, Port Edgar)
28.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
03.07.1946     transferred to RN
16.05.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)
17.01.1950 - (05.1951) HMS Theseus (aircraft carrier)
17.11.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)
09.02.1954 - (07.1954) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
1954? - (04.)1955 HM Dockyard, Sheerness
01.11.1955 - (01.)1956 HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
15.05.1956 - (01.)1957 HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
02.12.1957 - (01.)1959 HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
23.10.1959 - 23.01.1960 Fleet Medical Officer on staff of Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Bellerophon]
Hawley,
Frank
F. Hawley
?
-
T/S.Lt. 20.03.1941
T/Lt. 01.01.1943 (reld 28.04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945
Mention in Despatches MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East
      Watch Keeping Certificate; confirmed Fighter Directing Officer, having also been qualified as a Night Fighter Directing Officer:
05.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Ambuscade (destroyer)
06.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) (from late 1944 as Fighter Directing Officer) (despatches)
Published: Wartime experiences : a naval memoir (privately printed).
Hawthornthwaite *,
Roy
R. Hawthornthwaite
Son of ... Hawthornthwaite, and ... Taylor.
* In Navy List shown with last name Hawthornwaite.
29.04.1915
Rochdale district, Lancashire
-
04.2005
North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire
T/S.Lt. 12.06.1941
T/Lt. 12.06.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 05.12.1944 air attacks on ship
(08.1941)     no appointment listed
18.09.1941 - 14.09.1942 HMS Deodar (Tree class trawler)
(10.1942) - (06.1943) HMS Deodar (Tree class trawler) *
14.07.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for B.A.M. 100 Class)
31.08.1943 - (08.)1944 HMS Pique (Catherine class minesweeper)
05.08.1944 - 01.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Salamander (Halcyon class minesweeper) (despatches)
02.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Seaborn (Naval Air Station, Dartmouth, NS, Canada) (for miscellaneous duties)
01.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Michael (Algerine class minesweeper)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hay,
Charles Dick Edgcumbe
C.D.E. Hay (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Nobbs)
Only child of Charles Herbert Philpott Hay (1879-1940), and Florence Ethel "Ruth" Hay (1882?-1949), of Woking, Surrey, formerly of Hong Kong.
Married (20.06.1934, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, Westminster district, London) Mary Margaret Stabb, eldest daughter of Sir Newton John Stabb (1868-1931), of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and of Ethel Mary Townsend, of Saxmundham, Suffolk; ... children (three daughters, one son?).
08.01.1908
Yokohama, Japan
-
23.09.1946
Fulham district, London
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.07.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.01.1945
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
04.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
08.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)
Hayes,
Francis Mason
"Frank"
F.M. Hayes (Photo courtesy of Mr Eric Dietrich-Berryman)
Son of Frank Anderson Hayes, mechanical engineer, and Effe Knox Huntington, of Middleton, New Jersey, USA.
Married (1936) Georgette Anderson; one son.
14.09.1912
Pelham Manor, New York, USA
-
26.09.1942
(MPK)
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 66.1]
[named on memorial in Greenwich]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 17.10.1941
Education: Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, USA; Yale University; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1933; nine terms-); Guy's Hospital, London; MRCS, LRCP.
Surgeon at Guys Hopsital. Resident surgeon in charge of Miller General Hospital in Greenwich.
17.10.1941     volunteered as a US citizen to serve in the RNVR:
      RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
10.11.1941 - 26.09.1942 HMS Veteran (destroyer) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-404 in North Atlantic]
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Hayes,
Francis Nicholas Lage
"Frank"
F.N.L. Hayes
Married ((09?).1946, Wandsworth district, London) Frances M. Hodges; ... children (one daughter?).
05.11.1912
-
19.06.2003
Barton, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940
T/Lt. 04.10.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
15.10.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Strathellia (local defence trawler)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
19.01.1942 - (02.)1942 HMS Dunlin (auxiliary yacht)
12.02.1942 - 14.07.1942 [Commanding Officer?], HMS Sondra (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(08.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
10.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Sorsra (anti-submarine warfare whaler)
14.07.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Springtide (mine destructor vessel)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
27.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Seaham (Bangor class minesweeper)
Hayes,
John Laurance
J.L. Hayes
Son of ... Hayes, and ... Fuller.

24.06.1920
St George in the East district, London / Middlesex
-
20.02.1980
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 13.08.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.02.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) > 01.1945, < 07.1945
Chevalier, Order of Oranje-Nassau (The Netherlands) OON 07.01.1947 for service aboard Hr.Ms. K XIV

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

(10.1943)     no appointment listed
(12.1943) - (10.1944) HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Floitlla, Dundee) *
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. K XIV (Dutch submarine)
      British Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Zwaardvisch (Dutch submarine)
12.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for various services)
(07.1945)     HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Principal lecturer and head of history at Christ Church College, Canterbury, 1965-1980.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hayhurst,
Frederick Cooper
F.C. Hayhurst (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley Lindsay) F.C. Hayhurst
F.C. Hayhurst F.C. Hayhurst
Son of Edmund Arthur Hayhurst (1889-1970), railway clerk, and Susan Marian Cooper (1886-1967).
14.07.1917
Manchester, Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
09.04.2013

Clevedon, Somerset
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 30.06.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.07.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 11.04.1945 (reld 10.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 14.07.1950 (retd 23.12.1958)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -

* Special Branch officer for meteorological duties

Education: Manchester Grammar School (1928-1935).
Custom & Excise Officer.
18.03.1940     joined & served in the ranks, RNVR [JX 18511]
31.04.1940 - 23.06.1941 HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)
(08.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed
03.09.1941 - 22.09.1941 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)
22.09.1941 - 02.10.1941 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for "time only")
20.10.1941 - 13.10.1943 HMS Albatross (repair ship) (up till 20.12.1941 for "time only")
23.11.1943 - 11.04.1945 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
11.04.1945 - 30.09.1946 Senior Meteorological Officer, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire)
(10.1946)     no appointment listed
Hayman,
Eric Frank
E.F. Hayman
?
-

[possibly born:
(09?).1911
Newton Abbot, Devon]
T/S.Lt.
07.01.1940
T/Lt.
01.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Polish Military Cross

PolMC
08.12.1942
services with the Polish Navy
07.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Kiloran (armed yacht)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
(1942?)


British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Piorun (Polish destroyer)
10.01.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Flowerdown (radio station, Flowerdown, near Winchester)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hayward,
Alan James
A.J. Hayward
Son of James Benjamin Hayward (1893-1956), and Florence Parks (1891-).
Married (09.1946, Wandsworth district, London) Betty Joan Mayhew Hannay (22.04.1920 - ), daughter of Hubert Arthur Hannay (1888-1963), and Mabel Ann M. Povey (1885-1983); one son.
11.10.1917
Wandsworth district, London
-
03.1973
St Marylebone district, London
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 06.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: LDS RCS Eng (13.03.1942).
(10.1942)     HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) *
15.09.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
06.04.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
1944 - (04.)1944 RM Training Group Dalditch
02.05.1944 - (06.)1944 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
23.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hayward,
Charles Hembry
C.H. Hayward
(03.)1884
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
01.12.1961
Tiverton district, Devon
[age 77]
(cremated Torquay)
T/Lt.
20.04.1940
T/Lt. (E)
1942?, seniority 20.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)
< 12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE
01.01.1946
New Year 46 [award presented]
Gold Cross of the Order of George I (Greece) GeoI
04.03.1947

for distinguished services to Greek shipping while serving as Port Engineer Officer in Trinidad since the outbreak of war [award posted]

06.11.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
01.04.1942
-
(10.1944)
HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad) (for miscellaneous services)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
Hayward,
Charles Henry
C.H. Hayward
?
-
died between 07.1965 and 08.1967 ?
Prob. S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
19.12.1938
S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
1939, seniority 19.12.1938
Lt. (Sp.Br.)
05.1940, seniority 10.11.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
21.06.1944?
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
10.11.1947 (retd 03.04.1959)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
31.03.1952
-
19.12.1938


joined RNVR (Sussex Division, List II)
13.09.1939
-
(02.)1941
Meteorological Officer, HMS York (cruiser)
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
21.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
Meteorological Officer, HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
Hayward,
Joseph Herbert
"Hay"
J.H. Hayward
Son of Joseph Hayward, stationer, and Emily Berryman.
Married Eunice ...
27.10.1904
Fulham district, London
-
12.10.1984
Weobley, Herefordshire (late of Brading, Isle of Wight)
T/S.Lt. 23.10.1942
T/Lt. 23.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
11.11.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Carlisle (cruiser)
26.10.1943 - (12.1943) British Naval Liaison Officer, Greek corvette "Sakhtouris"
(02.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
27.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hayward,
William Arthur
W.A. Hayward
03.10.1911
Chattaris, Cambridgeshire
-

T/S.Lt. (E)
01.11.1943
T/Lt. (E)
01.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
(04.1946)


HMS Fishguard (escort) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Haywood,
George Charles
G.C. Haywood
?
-
T/Sg.Lt. 06.06.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945 (reld 24.02.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
Croux de Guerre (France) CdeG ? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
Education: St Mary's Hosptial. MRCS, LRCP Lond (28.07.1939), MB, BS Lond (1946).
06.06.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) (for miscellaneous duties)
(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) *
09.08.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Skate (R class destroyer)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
06.01.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship)
09.05.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
21.02.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Nith (River class frigate)
03.01.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven)
(10.1945)     HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hazell,
Martin Downing

M.D. Hazell (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Logan)
Son (with three sisters) of Henry Downing Hazell (1883-), and Muriel Kate Wilkinson (1888-).
Married ...; two sons.
21.01.1920
Newport district, Monmouthshire
-
11.10.1980
Wandsworth, London
T/S.Lt. 28.08.1941
T/Lt. 28.02.1944
(10.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed
15.01.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Eglinton (Hunt class destroyer)
(06.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Eglinton (Hunt class destroyer) *
29.02.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Whelp (W class destroyer)
03.04.1944 - (04.)1946 HMS Whelp (W class destroyer) (from 01?.1946 in command while in reserve)
04.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Resource (borne for ships in the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth) [date of appointment shown as 29.02.1944]
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Civil engineer.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hazelwood,
Alfred
A. Hazelwood
Son of Fred Hazelwood, and Beatrice Woodford.
Married ((06?).1939, Bolton district, Lancashire) Ellen Gallwey (11.08.1913 - 02.1997); one daughter, three sons.
30.04.1913
Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
07.12.1961
Bradshaw, nr Bolton, Horwich district, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 30.04.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.04.1943 (reld 19.05.1946)

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

He matriculated at Doncaster Grammar School, held a Studentship for two years at the Bird Room of the British Museum (Natural History), and in the early thirties became Assistant at the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery. He relinquished this post in 1935 to be Assistant Curator at the Chadwick Museum, Bolton.
26.05.1942 - 07.02.1944 HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick, Shetlands):
04.06.1943 - 07.02.1944 Passive Defence Officer
(02.1944) - (04.1944) no appointment listed
09.05.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Ramillies (battleship)
08.09.1944 - 17.01.1946 HMS Striker (escort carrier):
08.09.1944 - 31.10.1945 Fighter Direction Officer
31.10.1945 - 17.01.1946 Signals Officer and Fighter Direction Officer
Appointed Curator to the Bolton Museums and Art Gallery in 1957 by unanimous vote, without the vacancy having been advertised, he was subsequently responsible for considerable improvements such as the complete reorganisation of the Art Gallery, the establishment of a Cotton Machinery Museum at Tonge Moor and the taking over of Smithshills Hall. He joined the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1940 and was President in 1958. He became a member of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1935, and in June 1959 he was invited to join the Rarity Records Committee of British Birds. In 1961 he was elected President of the North Western Museums, and for years he was on the Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee.
Hazzard,
Christopher Edward
C.E. Hazzard
Son of William Hazzard (1886-1966), and Rose A. Lee (1885-1952).
Married ((09?).1957, Meriden district, Warwickshire) Patricia McGovern; two sons.
19.11.1917
Whitehaven district, Cumbria
-

25.05.1995
Frizington, Whitehaven district, Cumbria
T/A/S.Lt. 20.01.1944
T/S.Lt. 20.07.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Police constable, Metropolitan Police, 22.03.1937-11.05.1946.
20.01.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
(06.1944)     HM LCT 1138 (landing craft, tank)
Head,
Derek d'Esterre
D. d'E. Head
Elder son of Cdr. John Studdert Head, RN (1897-1983), and Ruth Eleanor Moore (1899-1982).
Married ((03?).1949, Hove district, Sussex) Anne P. Thomas, only daughter of F.L. Thomas, and Mrs Thomas, of Hove; three children.

10.01.1925
Sliema, Malta
-
28.10.2010
Hove, Sussex
T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) * 31.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.12.1947, seniority 10.01.1945
Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?, seniority 10.07.1947
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1955
Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 30.12.1960
Capt. (Sp.Br.) 30.06.1965 (retd 30.06.1970)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD

12.01.1959

-
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 25.02.1969 1st clasp

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

Education: Wellesley College, New Zealand (1935-1937); Bromsgrove School (01.1939-1942; Elmhurst House).
1942     enlisted RNVR
1943? - 1944? served MTBs (raids on occupied Channel ports, screen for D-Day landings)
(06.1944)     HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) *
25.09.1944 - (02.)1945 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for RN Film Section)
05.03.1945 - (04.)1945 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (took part in the assault on an island held by the Japanese and subsequently in their surrender on 02.09.1945)
(1945?)     British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS Tromp (light cruiser)
 24.12.1947 - 30.06.1970 Permanent RNVR [later RNR] (Sussex Division) (List II)
ARIBA (1954), then FRIBA. Worked in the Brighton Borough Surveyor's Department. Partner in Brighton architectural practice Overton Partners, 1963. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), East Sussex, 1993.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Head,
Francis Joseph
F.J. Head
(12?).1921
-

06.02.1945
[age 23]
(motor-cycle accident)
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.07.1942 action 6 E-boats, Nore 21.04.1942
Mention in Despatches MID 11.06.1942 HM birthday 1942
(1942)


First Lieutenant, HM MGB ... (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive, Felixstowe]
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 414 (motor torpedo boat)
Hearder,
John Douglas Sleep
J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder) J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder)
J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder) J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder)
J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder) J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder)
J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder) J.D.S. Hearder (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Hearder)
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Douglas William Hearder (1880-1967), and Dorothy Hilda Dandridge (?-1959), of Mannamead, Plymouth.
Brother of Lt. (S) Ivan Barry Hearder, RN.
Married 1st ((03?),1931, East Preston district, Sussex; divorced) Elsie Vivienne Emily Westley-George (04.05.1907 - 19.09.1978); one son.

Married 2nd ((12?).1939, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Beatrice Nelson (née Wright); twin sons (died in infancy).
Married 3rd (05.07.1949) Margaret Muir; one son, one daughter.
03.10.1913
Bromley, Kent
-

07.07.2000
Sydney, NSW, Australia
T/S.Lt. 10.10.1939
T/Lt. 06.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 08.03.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.1944 [decoration presented]
14.12.1936     enrolled Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached Tyne Division RNVR)
10.10.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Lady Blanche (armed yacht)
08.07.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS St Zeno (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
26.09.1940 - (12.1940) HMS May II (anti-submarine warfare trawler?)
(02.1941)     HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
03.03.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)
(08.1941) - (02.1942) HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan) *
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
06.1942 - (06.)1943 Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves (for pre-entry training) [HMS President I]
25.07.1943 - 28.12.1943 Commanding Officer, HM ML 148 (motor launch)
29.12.1943 - 06.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 250 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 19th Motor Launch Flotilla
(01.1945)     HM ML 250 (motor launch) *
05.02.1945 - (04.)1945 Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) [in charge of a photographic unit for the British Pacific Fleet]
Remained in Sydney, Australia, setting up his own studio as a photographer in 1949.
* indexed, but not listed as such
The Sydney Morning Herald 08.08.2000. Obituaries:  John Hearder, DSC Photographer 1913 - 2000
For many years, the photography showcase outside his studio near the original Theatre Royal in Castlereagh Street was a favourite among passing city pedestrians. It always displayed the latest glamour girl, celebrity, beautiful bride or man of the moment. John Hearder, who has died at 86, was renowned for his black-and-white glamour photography, with its dramatic lighting and individual style that so attracted a celebrity clientele in postwar Sydney. But he had other lives - as a decorated wartime naval commander, yachtsman and entrepreneur. Born in Bromley, Kent, the eldest of three children from a seafaring family, young Hearder left school at 15, having been a frequent truant while he ran his first enterprise, taking tourists sailing in his dinghy. One of Hearder's first full-time jobs was as a salesman for Fullers Chocolates. His personal flair attracted the attention of the company hierarchy in London and he was quickly promoted to manage a number of stores. However, sailing remained Hearder's passion and he saved enough money to buy a yacht large enough to fulfil his childhood dream to circumnavigate the globe. Then World War II intervened. Hearder cut short his voyage in the Caribbean, sold the boat and returned to London with his crew to join the war effort. Already Hearder was a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Navy appointed him to command a flotilla of 150-foot gunboats that served as minesweepers and escorts for merchant shipping. Hearder rarely spoke about the dark side of the war, but he is known to have lost at least two gunboats, one blown up by a mine in the English Channel and another divebombed by a Stuka in the Mediterranean. After that attack, he and his surviving crew jumped ship and floated for several days before they were rescued. Hearder received many military honours, including the Distinguished Service Cross, for commanding minesweepers in late 1944 that cleared the Scheldt Estuary in the Netherlands to reopen the port of Antwerp. Amateur photography had been a longtime interest and towards the end of the war, Hearder was put in charge of the Royal Navy's photographic unit in the Pacific. He was one of the first people to enter Changi prison and capture the haunting images on film as Allied POWs were liberated. He was also on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay for the signing of the peace treaty with the Japanese. After R&R in Sydney Hearder was to board a ship at Garden Island for England. But he had a change of heart and was demobilised in Sydney after a leading glamour photographer, John Lee, offered him the job of running his city studio. Hearder never returned to England. He worked for several studios before establishing his own, John Hearder Photography, in 1949. Around this time he met Margaret Muir, a 17-year-old who became his model, and, soon after, his wife. Hearder was divorced from his first wife, whom he had married when he was 18. The mainstays of Hearder's photographic business were glamour portraits and weddings. His reputation grew and he accumulated a clientele of celebrities, including local radio stars Jack Davey and Margo Lee. He also won photographic assignments with the Australian Ballet, the Australian Opera, the Phillip Street Theatre, the Theatre Royal, the Tivoli Theatre and the touring Old Vic Shakespeare Company. Stars photographed at the height of their careers by Hearder included Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Russell, Sir Robert Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev. Throughout this period, he exhibited extensively his glamour portraits and nudes and lectured to camera clubs. When the Sydney Opera House opened, Hearder produced a black-and-white photographic mural for the opera War and Peace that, at the time, was probably the largest ever made. One of his favourite overseas assignments was to photograph the Taj Mahal by moonlight, which resulted in an India Collection, exhibited throughout Australia. Hearder was deeply involved in Sydney yachting. He raced on the harbour and his business interests included developing the Cammeray marina. When he retired in 1976, Hearder turned to pottery. It became his new great interest in a studio built at his Central Coast home. He is survived by Margaret, his wife of 51 years, their children Tony and Susie, and a son, Michael, from his first marriage. (
Tony Hearder)
Heather,
Charles James Hersee
"Jim"
C.J.H. Heather (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler) C.J.H. Heather (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)
Son of ... Heather, and ... Watson.
31.10.1916
Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
-
(03?).1977
Yeovil district, Somerset
T/A/S.Lt. 12.02.1943
T/S.Lt. 12.08.1943
T/Lt. 12.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(04.1943) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
(1944/45?)     HM LCT ... (landing craft, tank) ("O" LCT Squadron)
Heather,
Geoffrey [Paul]
G. Heather
Son of Paym.Capt. Paul Heather, and Helen Mary ..., of Chichester.
05.03.1913
Malta
-
14.01.1969
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
Ord.Sea. ?
T/S.Lt. 21.08.1941
T/A/Lt. 28.08.1942 (reld 16.05.1945; medically unfit)

King Haakon VII Liberty Medal (Norway)

Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison service on Norwegian ships
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
(12.1941) - (10.1942) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Clyde) *
(12.1942) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
12.1941 - 24.09.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer on Norwegian corvettes Potentilla then Eglantine
Solicitor (senior partner in the firm of Biscoe-Smith, Heather & Bellinger), Portsmouth (submitted 1935). Sometime Councillor, Chichester. Spent 22 years as Legal Aid Officer at Portsmouth Naval Barracks.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Heather,
St John Hewitt
see: RINVR officers' section  
Hebblethwaite,
Norman
N. Hebblethwaite
(12?).1914 ?
Bucklow district, Cheshire ?
-
1996 ?

Cheshire ?
T/S.Lt.
17.06.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *



322nd LCT(R) Flotilla 
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hebdon,
William Herbert
W.H. Hebdon
Son of Herbert H. Hebdon, and Jennie Gill.
Married ((03?).1946, Romford district, Essex) Iris Lily Doreen Brown (27.01.1925 - ), daughter of ... Brown, and ... Barratt; one son, one daughter.
30.11.1919
Lewisham, London
-
10.10.1992

Swindon district, Wiltshire (formerly of Lechlade, Gloucestershire)
T/S.Lt. 05.02.1942
T/Lt. 05.08.1944 (reld 03.06.1946)
General farm assistant, Lower Watchbury Farm, Barford, Warwickshire.
(04.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
15.06.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats)
(02.1943)     no appointment listed
18.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
19.07.1943 - (02.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 319 (motor gun boat)
13.03.1944 - (04.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 675 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Hedgecock,
Ronald William
R.W. Hedgecock
Son of Charles J. Hedgecock, and Caroline L. Shorley.
Married (1948, Kenya) G.E. Cooper; two daughters.
02.10.1918
Strood district, Kent
-
30.05.1985

Chatham district, Kent
T/S.Lt. 27.02.1941
T/Lt. 27.08.1943 (reld 10.04.1946)
(04.1941)     no appointment listed
25.04.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Barrymore (Bar class boom defence vessel)
02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (for boom defence duties)
08.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Rooke (Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth) *
07.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (for boom defence duties)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
A daughter writes: "We understand that he was on HMS Barndale at some point, presumably whilst at HMS Tana (Mombasa) and was thought to be acting in charge of it. We also have his Atlantic Star medal which implies he was on Convoy duty at some point. My mother once mentioned that he was at Tobruk but we have no further link to this."
* (04.1944) & (06.1944) in name index of Navy List under HMS Tana, but not showing base listing
Hedges,
Gilbert Percy
"Gilly" / "Gil"
G.P. Hedges
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Percy Thomas Hedges (1866-1940), and Edith Mary Sowerby (1871-1943).
Married (12.11.1941) Margaret Joan "Dene" Anderson (07.12.1920 - 29.10.1998), daughter of George Henry Anderson and Margaret Halliday; one son, one daughter.

02.10.1917
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
-
2000

Auckland, New Zealand
T/S.Lt. 20.11.1939
T/Lt. 27.04.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) (commission terminated 20.08.1953)
Instr.Lt. RN 07.09.1953, seniority 24.10.1949
Instr.Lt.Cdr. RN 24.10.1957 (Emgcy 21.08.1958)
(12.1939)     no appointment listed
(02.1940)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
10.02.1940 - 25.05.1940 HMS Transeas (blockship)
26.05.1940 - 16.06.1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
17.06.1940 - 10.03.1941 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
11.03.1941 - 25.03.1943 HMS Asphodel (Flower class corvette)
26.03.1943 - 30.05.1943 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS) (for miscellaneous services)
31.05.1943 - 07.09.1943 HMS Dittany (modified Flower class corvette)
08.09.1943 - 15.09.1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
16.09.1943 - (10.)1945 HMS Berkeley Castle (Castle class corvette)
07.09.1953 - 21.08.1958 short service commission, RN:
07.09.1953 - 14.12.1955 HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton)
01.1956 - 24.07.1958 HMS Raleigh (stokers' training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall)
Teacher. Emigrated to New Zealand 1966.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Heenan,
Robert Lawrence
R.L. Heenan
Son of Richard Hammersley Heenan (1847-1920), and Ada Drummond (1864-1932).
Married ((09?).1934, Westminster district, London) Anne Keightley Goodwin (née Moulsdale) (06.02.1908 - 19.06.1991); one son, one daughter.
12.09.1904
Wilmslow, Bucklow district, Cheshire
-
(12?).1974

Truro district, Cornwall
S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.06.1939
Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.11.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 04.1944, < 06.1944

* Special Branch officer for meteorological duties

(12.1939) - (04.1940) no appointment listed
(05.1940)     HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester) *
06.05.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
09.07.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
02.08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(04.)1941 - (06.)1941 Officer Commanding, Meteorological Section, Royal Marine Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (1)
18.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(02.1942)     Naval Meteorological Branch, Admiralty [HMS President] *
27.02.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
18.05.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)
26.10.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)
06.11.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henderson,
Derek Malcolm
D.M. Henderson
Son (with one brother) of Peter Macniven Henderson, woollen merchant, and Rhoda Charlotte Henderson, of Bradfield, Yorkshire, later of Westminster, London.
24.03.1909
Paris, France
-
02.01.1945
Toussus- le-Noble, France (airplane crash) [age 35]
[St. Germain-en-Laye  New Communal Cemetery, Yvelines, France, grave 6]
T/S.Lt. 20.11.1942
T/A/Lt. 20.08.1943
T/Lt. 30.10.1944, seniority 20.08.1943
Education: Glenalmond College (1919-1927); Trinity College, Cambridge (Pensioner; 01.10.1927-1930; BA).
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ACA).
16.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Thames Local Defence Flotilla)
(04.)1943 - (06.)1943 Flag Lieutenant to Deputy Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (Adm. Sir Bertram H. Ramsay, KCB, DSO) [HMS President]
(08.1943)     HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
21.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Vanessa (V class destroyer)
25.01.1944 - (02.)1944 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
16.04.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Valorous (V class destroyer)
11.1944 - 02.01.1945 Flag Lieutenant to Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (Adm. Sir Bertram H. Ramsay, KCB, KBE, MVO) [HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties)]
Henderson,
Donald Murray Jaffrey
D.M.J. Henderson
Son of ... Henderson, and ... Rowbotham.
Married (1957, Cathcart district, Glasgow, Scotland) Dorian Blane Paterson (1934 - 07.01.2019), daughter of ... Paterson, and ... McCall; two daughters, one son.
27.05.1926
Pollokshields district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
29.09.2018
Mearns House Care Home, Glasgow, Scotland
T/Midsh. 25.05.1945
T/A/S.Lt. 27.11.1945 (reld 01.1947)
Education: Merchiston Castle School, Colinton, Edinburgh (1939-1944; junior prefect; won full colours in the Shooting 8 and half colours in the First XV).
12.1943     volunteered for RNVR (mobilized summer of 1944)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) * (HM MTB 519?)
23.01.1946 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 481 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1946) - (10.1946) no appointment listed
Joined the firm of W. B. Henderson Ltd., becoming the ninth generation of the family to be an engineers' files manufacturer and tools merchant at Whitecraigs, later Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire (Chairman from 1957). Member of the Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow. Ranked among the top 50 amateur golfers in the country in 1954.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henderson,
George Henry Eugene
D.M.J. Henderson
Son of ... Henderson, and ... File.
19.10.1920
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
T/S.Lt.
02.10.1942
T/A/Lt.
02.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
1942?
 
 
HMS Firedrake (destroyer)
01.07.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
?
-
(04.1946)
HMS Golden Hind (RN depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henderson,
George Otto Thompson Dawson
G.O.T.D. Henderson
Residence: (1945) Hull, Yorkshire, later Bonny Rigg, Midlothian.
04.05.1908
-
05.1989
Plymouth district, Devon
T/Lt.
20.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
22.02.1945? (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

01.01.1945

New Year 45 [investiture 13.11.45]
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-
Atlantic Star Atl St
-
& clasp France & Germany
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-
20.10.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Foray (trawler?)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
08.07.1941
-
(02.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Daneman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
06.03.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Lord Middleton (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 
25.03.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Sky (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 
22.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
in charge of Sea Transport and Naval Control Service, West Africa [HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)]
Marine biologist prior to WW2 and returned to that profession post-war.
Henderson,
Ian Bernard Henry
I.B.H. Henderson
Only son of Arthur Henry Henderson (1869?-1936), of Lloyd's Royal Exchange, London, and Ethel Rose Davis, later of Bracknell, Berkshire.
Married (13.10.1934, Totnes district, Devon) Norah Clennell Cochran (30.03.1912 - 14.12.2007), of Dousland, Devon; one son, one daughter. Norah Henderson remarried (1949) Cdr. Robert Thory Gardiner, RN.
13.05.1911
Amersham district, Buckinghamshire
-

28.03.1942
(KIA) [age 31]
[Escoublac-la-Baule War Cemetery, Loire-Atlantique, France, 2.A.20]
T/S.Lt. 10.06.1940
T/A/Lt. 03.05.1941
Mention in Despatches MID 22.01.1946 St. Nazaire raid 28.03.1942
Education: Uppingham School (09.1925-04.1930); Exeter College, Oxford.
Lloyd's deputy underwriter,
08.12.1937     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached London Division RNVR)
29.06.1940 - 11.1940 HMS Daneman (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
29.11.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Indian Star (auxiliary anti-submarine trawler)
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
11.10.1941 - 28.03.1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William):
11.10.1941? - 28.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HM ML 306 (motor launch)
Henderson,
Ian Sidney Campbell
I.S.C. Henderson I.S.C. Henderson
I.S.C. Henderson I.S.C. Henderson
Son (with two brothers) of Reginald Guy Hannam Henderson (1881-1939), and Islay Edith Campbell (1883-1961).
Married (26.09.1940, Bradfield, Harwich district, Essex) Patricia Joyce Muers (17.03.1920 - 04.1989); two sons, one daughter.
15.08.1916
Alverstoke, Hampshire
-

26.06.1954
The Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich, London (formerly of Thursley, nr Godalming, Surrey)
T/Paym.S.Lt. 06.11.1939
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 15.08.1941 (reld 04.06.1946)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1930-1933).
Clerk. Obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 15574) taken on a Moth-Cirrus 11 75 h.p. at Yapton Aero Club on 20.11.1937.
08.12.1937     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division RNVR]
28.12.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)
06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
10.11.1940 - (12.1942) HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay)
(02.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
08.1943 - (04.)1946 HMS Korongo (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Nairobi, Kenya)
An underwriting member of Lloyd's since 1946 and a well-known yachtsman who was a committee member of Lloyd's Yacht Club.
Henderson,
John Blake
J.B. Henderson
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
04.12.1942
(1942)


Navigator, HM SGB 9 (steam gun boat)
(1943)


Commanding Officer, HM SGB ... (steam gun boat)
Henderson,
Walter
J.B. Henderson
?
-
T/S.Lt.
10.07.1941
T/Lt.
10.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
06.08.1941
-
(12.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Amalfi (armed yacht)
12.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 105 (motor minesweeper)
22.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1058 (motor minesweeper)
(06.1945)


possibly HMS Seaborn ([accounting?) base, Halifax, NS)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Hendrie,
Ian
I. Hendrie
Son of George Thom Hendrie and Charlotte Hendrie, of Dumfries.
1911 ?
-
22.11.1943
(KIA) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
08.07.1943
?
-
22.11.1943
HMS Hebe (minesweeper) [ship mined in Adriatic]
Hendry,
Donald Graeme
D.G. Hendry
09.08.1917
Maryhill district, Glasgow, Scotland
-
1996
Edinburgh, Scotland
Prob. S.Lt. 07.11.1938
S.Lt. 07.11.1939
Lt. 07.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
? - 17.09.1939 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (ship torpedoed and sunk by U-29 west of Ireland)
(12.)1939 - (02.)1940 no appointment listed
08.02.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Saltburn (Hunt class minesweeper)
14.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)
20.01.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
01.08.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick) (for motor launches)
10.06.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs)  (for RN Barracks and Landing Craft Mobile Base, Port Glasgow)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Hendry,
Walter George
W.G. Hendry
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E) 07.09.1942
T/Lt. (E) 07.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
(12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
01.03.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Djedjelli, Algeria)
01.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Messina)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henegan,
James Joseph Louis
J.J.L. Henegan
Son of Robert Louis Henegan (1887-1974), and Alice Amelia Carson (1889-1965).
Married (15.03.1941, Hounslow) Marjorie Elsie Portsmouth (14.07.1918 - 11.03.1985); ... children (one daughter?).
19.03.1918
Tottenham
-
23.08.2008
[Market Way, Portsmouth?]
T/Paym.S.Lt.
04.10.1940
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)
01.04.1942
Lt. (S) RN
11.01.1947, seniority 19.03.1942
Lt.Cdr. (S) RN
19.03.1950
Cdr. (S) RN
31.12.1956 (retd)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
01.01.1968
New Year 68 [investiture 20.02.68]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
01.01.1944

New Year 44 [investiture 21.03.44]

17.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth)
18.03.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Blyth (Bangor class minesweeper)
10.10.1942
-
(08.)1943
HMS Rhyl (Bangor class minesweeper)
01.12.1943
-
(01.)1945
HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) (for duty at Grimsby base)
30.06.1945
-
(05.1945)
HMS Smiter (escort carrier)
07.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
Captain's Secretary, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
11.01.1947
 
 
transferred RN
...
-
...
...
(1967)


HMS Collingwood
Henley,
Maurice William
"Bill"
M.W. Henley
Son of William T.H. Henley, and ... Trapp.
Married Hazel ....; one daughter, two sons.
(06?).1923
Lewisham district, London
-
11.06.2011
London
T/S.Lt. (A) 25.09.1943
Lt. (A) RN 25.09.1945
Lt.Cdr. RN 25.09.1953 (retd)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

20.03.1945

destruction U-boat North Russia 12.44 [decoration presented]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 13.06.1957 Suez operations [investiture 13.11.57]
01.11.1943 - (01.)1945 pilot, 813 Squadron FAA [HMS Campania (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
(1957)     893 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle]
Hennessy,
David Christopher John
D.C.J. Hennessy
Son of Daniel Hennessy, and Elizabeth Kidney.
27.12.1912
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
(03?).1970
Liverpool district, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 12.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
? - 11.08.1942 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (sunk)
01.01.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)
11.1944 - (07.1945) on staff of Vice-Admiral Malta & Flag Officer Central Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
Henry,
Jack Matthew
J.M. Henry
Married ((12?).1945, Gosport district, Hampshire) Helen M. Davies.
23.08.1920
-
05.11.2005
Chichester district, Sussex
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 22.04.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 23.08.1941
T/Lt. (A) 22.10.1943
A/Lt. RN 10?.1945, seniority 22.10.1942
Lt. RN 02.10.1946, seniority 22.10.1942
Lt.Cdr. RN 22.10.1950
Cdr. RN 31.12.1953
Capt. RN 30.06.1962 (retd 1971?)
(08.1941)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
(10.1941)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
17.11.1941 - (12.)1941 pilot, 754 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
31.12.1941 - 31.01.1942 pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys), from 01.02.1942 HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier), later HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
12.1943 - (10.1944) pilot, 785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
(01.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
01.09.1945 - (10.1945) pilot, 813 Squadron FAA
* indexed, but not listed as such
Henton,
Ronald Geoffrey
"Ronnie"
R.G. Henton
Son of ... Henton, and ... Taylor.
12.09.1917
Wandsworth, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
06.1999

Yeovil district, Somerset
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
13.12.1942
Lt.
06.01.1953
Lt.Cdr.
06.01.1961
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
30.08.1966, seniority 06.01.1961 (retd 12.09.1977)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD

?

?
Education: King's College, London (BA); FRGS.



RN Air Station, Ceylon [HMS Bherunda ?] (observer in Barracudas and went to the Caribbean and Sri Lanka)
11.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
observer, HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, USA) (for miscellaneous services)
Schoolmaster, Oakham from 1946 on.
Heppard,
Geoffrey L'Estrange

G.L. Heppard
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Frank L'Estrange Heppard (1878-1947), and Fanny Eastwood (1881-1915).
Married 1st ((12?).1946, Scarborough district, North Riding of Yorkshire) Violet Mary Lotherington (22.01.1907 - 28.04.1952), daughter of Edward Bertie Lotherington (1880-1934), and Violet Annie Etty Walker (1875-1951)..
Married 2nd Mona Lucy Brockman (16.07.1916 - 11.11.2003), daughter of Karl Brockman, and Lucy Agnes Ludford (1894-)..
26.01.1909
Blackburn, Lancashire
-
03.03.1985
Wakefield, Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 18.12.1942
T/S.Lt. 18.06.1943
T/Lt. 18.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(02.1943) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
18.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
(04.1946)     HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hepplestone,
Colin

W.D. Hatton
Married ((06?).1936, Manchester South district, Lancashire) Elsie Frederica H. Colclough (11.10.1912 - (12?).1982), daughter of Francis Caesar Christopher Colclough, and Florence Hope; one daughter, one son.
12.05.1911
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
02.04.1972
hospital, Manchester district, Lancashire (formerly of Gatley, Cheshire)
T/S.Lt. 26.06.1942
T/Lt. 26.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
(08.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
27.10.1942 - (10.)1943 First Lieutenant, HM MMS 3 (motor minesweeper)
23.11.1943 - early 1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Farne (minesweeping trawler)
(04.1946)     Commanding Officer, HMS Calvay (minesweeping trawler) (15th Minesweeping Flotilla) * (MBE)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Herbert,
John Selwyn
J.S. Herbert
Married ...; ... children.
24.05.1924
Hammersmith, London
-
27.09.2013
Cote d'Azur, France
T/Midsh. 14.05.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 24.11.1943
T/S.Lt. 24.05.1944
T/A/Lt. > 07.1945, < 10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
17.07.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Grenville (destroyer)
(10.1945)     HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Port Melbourne, Australia) *
(04.1946)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) *
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Journalist, PR director and writer.
Published: The Port of London (1947).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Herbert,
John Wallace
J.W. Herbert (© Imperial War Museum (A 23052))
1921 ?
-
2017 ?
T/S.Lt. (A) 29.06.1942
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 14.08.1945 Aegean operations, relief of Greece [investiture 13.11.1945]
Mention in Despatches MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon [881 Squadron FAA]
... - ... ...
14.02.1942 - (04.1944) pilot, 896 Squadron FAA [HMS Pursuer (Archer class escort carrier)]
... - ... ...
Herbert-Burns,
Jack
J. Herbert-Burns
Son of ... Herbert-Burns, and ... Brosse.
18.12.1912
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
(12?).1978
Weymouth district
T/Sg.Lt.
10.01.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld 05.03.1946)
MB, BS, MRCS, LRCP
(04.1940)


RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] *
(02.1941)


no appointment listed
16.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Khedive (escort carrier)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Herbert-Smith,
Roger Mostyn
R.M. Herbert-Smith
Son of ... Herbert-Smith, and ... Wildy.
13.10.1917
St Marylebone district, Greater London / London
-
29.12.1997
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/S.Lt.
10.1940, seniority 12.04.1940
T/Lt.
05.1942, seniority 01.03.1942
Lt. RN
01.08.1945, seniority 01.03.1941
Lt.Cdr. RN
01.03.1949 (retd > 02.1964, < 02.1968)
21.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Calcutta (cruiser)
02.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
27.12.1943
-
(10.1944)
Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
22.05.1945
-
(04.1946)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Diadem (cruiser)
01.08.1945
 
 
transferred from RNVR to RN
29.05.1947
-
(05.)1949
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
15.07.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)
12.01.1953
-
(07.1954)
HMS Euryalus (cruiser)
24.01.1955
-
(01.1957)
HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment, Portsdown)
(01.1959)
 
 
HMS President *
10.10.1960
-
(02.1964)
Officer-in-Charge, Book Writing Section (BWS, later renamed IPS), HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Herd,
George William
G.W. Herd
?
-
T/S.Lt.
07.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal RHSBr
-
rescue survivor MTB Adriatic 17.04.45
[ (04.1945)


Navigating Officer, HM MTB 697 (motor torpedo boat) ?]
06.1945
-
(07.1945)
HM MGB 658 (motor gun boat)
12.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Gregale
Heron,
Roger Crawford
R.C. Heron
Married ((03?).1940, New Forest district, Hampshire) Mrs Primrose Lacy (née Russell-Roberts).
29.03.1909
Gower district, Glamorgan
-
05.09.1982
Haywards Heath district
Prob. T/S.Lt.
05.01.1940
T/Lt.
05.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 (reld 12.04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 41
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
20.03.1940
-
(04.)1940
HMS Agate (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
06.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)
(1941)


HMS Lincolnshire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (despatches)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Valeta (trawler) *
07.09.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead)
23.11.1944
-
(10.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Dumbarton Castle (corvette) (despatches)
Hewerdine,
Walter Leonard Peatfield
W.L.P. Hewerdine
Son of ... Hewerdine, and ... Peatfield.
(09?).1917
Leek district, Staffordshire
-
21.06.1943
(died)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]
Sg.Lt.
?
03.1943
-
05.1943
Medical Officer, HMS Tumult (destroyer)
Hewitt,
Frank Lambert
"Tubby"
F.L. Hewitt
?
-
T/S.Lt.
?
Mention in Despatches MID


(03.1943)


HM MGB 333 (motor gun boat)
(1943)


First Lieutenant, MTB ... (motor torpedo boat)
Hewlett,
Henry Reynardson
H.R. Hewlett
Married Molly (née ...).
(03?).1916
Hendon, Middlesex
-
20.08.2007
Brockenhurst, Hampshire
[aged 91]
Prob. Midsh.
26.11.1934
A/S.Lt.
03.10.1936
S.Lt.
03.10.1937
Lt.
03.04.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.
< 10.1944 [acting rank]
Lt. RN
01.08.1945, seniority 03.04.1938
A/Lt.Cdr. RN
01.11.1945 [appointed rank]
Lt.Cdr. RN
03.04.1946
Cdr. RN
31.12.1950
Capt. RN
31.12.1956 (retd 29.04.1966)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE
01.01.1966
New Year 66 [investiture 22.02.66]
Mention in Despatches MID
21.08.1945
Arakan coast 03-04.45
26.11.1934


joined RNVR (London Division)
02.10.1938
-
(02.)1939
HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (China) (for training)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
14.05.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer)
15.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS London (cruiser)
(03.1945)
-
(04.1945)
on staff of Naval Force Commander Burma
24.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Paladin (destroyer)
01.08.1945
 
 
transferred to RN
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Cygnet (sloop) *
(07.1948)
 
 
no appointment listed
07.10.1948
-
(05.1950)
on staff of Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Terror]
02.1951
-
(05.1953)
HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous services)
(04.1955)
 
 
HMS Welcome (Algerine class minesweeper) *
(01.1956)
 
 
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
(01.1957)
 
 
HMS President (Admiralty) *
05.07.1957
-
(01.1959)
Senior Naval Member, UK, SLS, New Zealand [HMS Terror]
23.03.1960
-
(07.1961)
Commanding Officer, HMS Yarmouth & Captain (F) 6th Frigate Squadron
12.06.1962
-
(02.1963)
Director, RN Tactical School (Woolwich) [HMS President]
16.12.1963
-
(02.1964)
Director of Manning, Manning Division, Manpower Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Hibbs,
Gordon
G. Hibbs
06.01.1916
-
06.1989
Salisbury district, Wiltshire
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
21.04.1940
T/Lt.
23.02.1941 (reld 17.04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

22.12.1942

hazardous minesweeping operations Channel 06.42 [investiture 23.03.43]
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
21.06.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Springdale (repair ship)
29.05.1941
-
(12.1941)
First Lieutenant, HMS Liberia (minesweeping trawler)
16.01.1942
-
10.09.1943
Commanding Officer, HM MMS 57 (motor minesweeper) [from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]
14.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Gillstone (minesweeping trawlers)
Hichens,
Robert Peverell
"Hitch"

R.P. Hichens (© Photo: Peter Scott, "The battle of the narrow seas") © Photo: Peter Scott, "The battle of the narrow seas"


Son (with one sister) of Dr. Peverell Smythe Hichens (1870-1930), and Constance Sawbridge Downes (1870-1933).
Married (07.04.1931, St Gluvias Church, Penryn, Falmouth district, Cornwall) Catherine Gilbert Enys (28.12.1902 - 03.1990), daughter (with one (?) brother and one (?) sister) of Enys Henry "Harry" Enys (1861-1939), and Sarah Louise "Sadie" Duffus (1868?-1952), of Brodrennick, Cornwall; two sons.

02.03.1909
Northampton, Northamptonshire
-

13.04.1943
(KIA) [age 34]
[Felixstowe New Cemetery, block B, section K, grave 38]
T/Lt. 12.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 09.1941

Distinguished Service Order

DSO  14.07.1942 action with E-boats 21.04.42 [investiture 22.09.42]

Distinguished Service Order

DSO  08.09.1942 successful attack on enemy tanker 14.07.42

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk [investiture 20.05.41]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 10.02.1942 attack on E-boats, 1 sunk 19.11.41 [MGB 64] [investiture 14.04.42]

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 10.11.1942 action with enemy convoy 14.09.42 [investiture 15.12.42]
Mention in Despatches MID 03.03.1942 action with E-boats 19.12.41 [MGBs 65 & 67]
Mention in Despatches MID 29.09.1942 ?
Mention in Despatches MID 22.06.1943 coastal actions 12.04.43 [MGB 112] [posthumously]
Education: preparatory school near Northampton; Marlbourouh College (09.1922-07.1927; B3 Star House, House Prefect); Magdalen College, Oxford (10.1927-1930; BA 1930)
Solicitor. Winner of 24 Hour Grand Prix, Le Mans 1937.
03.12.1936     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to Sussex Division RNVR]
12.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Halcyon (minesweeper)
08.04.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Niger (minesweeper) (DSC)
06.10.1940 - 03.11.1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)
06.10.1940 - 03.11.1940 for training in MASBs
04.11.1940 - 17.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 16 (motor anti-submarine boat)
18.11.1940 - 22.12.1940 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 18 (motor anti-submarine boat)
23.12.1940 - 01.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 14 (motor anti-submarine boat)
01.1941 - 11.03.1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
01.1941 - 11.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 64 (motor anti-submarine boat)
12.03.1941 - 06.1942 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] & from 25.08.1941 Senior Officer, 6th MGB Flotilla (DSO and Bar, Bar to DSC, Second Bar to DSC, despatches thrice):
12.03.1941 - 06.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 64 (motor gun boat)
06.1942 - 13.04.1943 Senior Officer, 8th MGB Flotilla [HMS Britannia III (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth), redesignated 12.1942 HMS Dartmouth II]:
06.1942 - 13.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 77 (motor gun boat)
Published: We fought them in gunboats (1944).
Literature: Hichens. In: Roger Hutchins and Richard Sheppard, The undone years : Magdalen College roll of honour 1939-1947 and roll of service 1939-1945 and Vietnam (2004), p. 154-167. Anthony Hichens, Gunboat command : the life of 'Hitch' Lieutenant Commander Robert Hichens, DSO*, DSC** RNVR, 1909-1943 (2007)
Hickley,
James Henry
J.H. Hickley
Son (with one brother) of Claude Hickley (1893-1947), and Abigail Glastonbury (1895-1984), of Wakefield, Yorkshire.
(12?).1920
Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
24.02.1943
[age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]
T/A/S.Lt. 11.09.1941
T/S.Lt. 30.09.1941
(10.1941) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
(08.1942)     HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) *
02.09.1942 - (12.)1942 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines)
15.12.1942 - 24.02.1943 HMS Vandal (ex-P 64) (submarine)
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hicks,
Harry
H. Hicks
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
?
-
?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.02.1945 (reld > 10.1946)

* Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature

(04.1945) - (10.1946) Naval Store Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hicks,
John Gordon
J.G. Hicks
Son of ... Hicks, and ... Boulden.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
26.10.1921
Devonport district, Devonshire
-
(09?).1979
London
T/A/Paym.S.Lt. 22.09.1943
T/Paym.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S) 22.03.1944 (reld > 07.1946)
15.10.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser)
(04.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) *
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
29.09.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Vairi (RN Air Station, Sullur, India)
07.04.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Kalugu (RN Air Station, Cochin, India)
* indexed. but not listed as such
Higbee,
William George
W.G. Higbee
Son of ... Higbee, and ... Miller.
Married Norma ...
26.02.1913
Bethnal Green district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
10.09.2004
Worthing district, West Sussex
T/A/S.Lt.
28.07.1944
T/S.Lt.
28.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(1944)


HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
17.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)



was stationed for some time at Troon
(1945/46?)


HMS Dauntless (cruiser)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Higgs,
Frederick George Dennis
F.G.D. Hibbs
Married ((06?).1942, Brentford district, Middlesex) Kathleen N. Coppinger.
18.06.1911
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
(09?).1970
Braintree district, Essex
T/S.Lt.
24.07.1941
T/Lt.
24.10.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
16.02.1943
-
(06.1943)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) *
1943?


transferred, RINVR
13.04.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMIS Circars (RIN base, Vizagatapam)
* remained being indexed under HMS Beehive for the rest of the war, but no longer listed as such from 08.1943 onwards
Hildebrand,
William Robert Perry
W.R.P. Hildebrand
Son of Perry Johnston Hildebrand (1882-1940), and Mary Chrystal Bennett.
Married (30.03.1950) Olive Isabella Smyth; two sons.
30.04.1923
Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland
-
10.09.1991
Belfast, Co,. Antrim, Northern Ireland
T/Midsh. 09.10.1942
T/A/S.Lt. 30.04.1943
T/S.Lt. 30.10.1943
T/Lt. 30.10.1945 (reld 19.08.1946)
12.11.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Jed (River class frigate)
06.08.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Columbine (Flower class corvette)
07.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Jed (River class frigate)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
02.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Mutine (Algerine class minesweeper)
Veterinary surgeon (MRCVS) from 1951.
Hiles,
Peter Noel
P.N. Hiles
Son of Harold Corney Hiles (1889-1965), and Gertrude E.A. Skeates.
Married 1st ((06?).1945, Bristol district, Gloucestershire; divorced) Faith Mary Eveson ((06?)1924 - 08.02.2015), daughter of Thomas E. Eveson, and Gladys E. Willis. She remarried ... Beresford.
Married 2nd ((06?).1975, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire) Beryl L. Galpin.
17.12.1924
Chepstow district, Monmouthshire
-
1992
RAFVR:  
Acm 2nd cl. ? [1850960]
P/O (prob) 27.08.1944 [180249]
(WS) F/O 27.02.1945 (reld 07.04.1945; on appointment to RNVR)
RNVR:  
T/S.Lt. (A) 07.04.1945, seniority 27.02.1945
S.Lt. (A) RN 27.03.1946, seniority 27.02.1945
Lt. (A) RN 27.02.1947
Lt.Cdr. RN 27.02.1955 (retd 17.12.1974)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
NAval General Service Medal NGSM - & clasp Malaya
27.08.1944 - 07.04.1945 commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
21.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (additional; for full flying duties and training)
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
04.01.1946 - (04.)1946 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (additional; for full flying duties and training)
27.03.1946     transferred, RN [extended service commission]
18.06.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) (for fighter training)
(10.1946)     HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) *
02.1947 - (04.1947) pilot, 805 Squadron FAA
09.03.1949     permanent commission, RN (Air Branch)
... - ... ...
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hiley,
Charles Arthur St Clair
C.A.St.C. Hiley
03.08.1913
-
11.1993
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Prob. Sg.Lt.
14.10.1938
Sg.Lt.
> 08.1939, seniority 14.10.1938
A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.
?
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
14.10.1944 (reld 1945/46)

MRCS, LRCP

14.10.1938


joined RNVR, London Division (List 2)
28.07.1939
-
(04.1940)
Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser)
(> 04.)1940
-
05.11.1940
Medical Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
11.1940
-
(02.1941)
Assistant Medical Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser)
29.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
Medical Officer, HMS Daedalus III (RN Air Station camp, Lee-on-Solent)
Hill,
Arthur Falknor
A.F. Hill
02.03.1920
-
03.1999
Sutton, Surrey
T/S.Lt.
13.03.1941
T/A/Lt.
13.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 42
Mention in Despatches MID
22.09.1942
Operation Harpoon (Malta-Gibraltar convoy 11-15.06.42)
Polish Military Cross PolMC
08.12.1942
services to the Polish Navy
(06.1942)
-
(12.1942)
British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Kujawiak (Polish destroyer)
(07.1945)


ORP Blyskawica (Polish destroyer) *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hill,
Charles Henry
C.H. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr Brent Westwood)

Married Joy ..., WRNS; two sons, one daughter.
13.07.1914
-
17.04.1993
Heaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 03.07.1942
T/A/Lt. 03.10.1942
T/Lt. 1945, seniority 03.10.1942 (reld 12.04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
09.08.1942 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs) *:
(1943)     HM LCI(L) 285 (landing craft, infantry (large)) (despatches)
      Commanding Officer, HM LCH 275 (landing craft, headquarters)
* (10.1945) indexed as HMS Copra, but still shown under HMS Dinosaur
Hill,
Edward George
E.G. Hill
?
-

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.08.1943
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
> 10.1944, < 01.1945
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
12.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)
-
(01.)1945
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) *
(03.1945)


British Naval Liaison Officer, "Apostolis" (Greek corvette)
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples)
03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hill,
Geoffrey John
G.J. Hill
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Edward John Hill (1900-1988), and ... Eveleigh.
Married ... Hall, daughter of Stanley Howard Hall (1904-1979), and Lilian Ethel Barrow (1905-1990); two daughters, one son.
31.01.1926
West Ham district, London
-
06.2000
Thanet with Dover district, Kent
T/Midsh. (A) 10.01.1945
T/S.Lt. (A) 10.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
28.02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)
(10.1945)     HMS Pintail (RN Air Station, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co. Antrim)
24.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop) (for Link Trainer Instructor duties)
Hill,
Rex Anthony
R.A. Hill (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hill)
Son of ... Hill, and ... Radcliffe.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
22.12.1922
Southall, Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-
05.05.2006
Australia
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.11.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1946? (reld 13.09.1946)
28.01.1942 - 31.10.1943 service as a rating (MX117379) as Ordinary Technician, Radio Mechanic & Leading Radio Mechanic
04.1943 - 06.1946 RNVR service as Radar Officer; two terms at HMS Argonaut (cruiser) & one at HMS King George V (battleship):
(04.1944)     no appointment listed
24.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
(10.1944)     HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) *
12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Argonaut (Dido class cruiser)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
(04.1946)     HMS Argonaut (Dido class cruiser) *
Joined the Air Ministry (service record in Air Ministry from 9 May 1939 [civil service commission, Clerical Class, Air Ministry] to June 1950) as an Auditor in 1947 and resigned in 1950 to emigrate to Australia in 1949.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hill,
Robert Charles James
R.C.J. Hill
Son of Robert John Hill (1870-1924), and Emma Mary Cates (1871-1939).
Married ((09?).1924, Chorlton district, Lancashire) Emma G. Jones-Davies; one son.
15.02.1900
East Ham, West Ham district, Essex
-
(06?).1968
Warminster district, Wiltshire
T/S.Lt. 13.12.1940
T/Lt. 13.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
10.01.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
02.10.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Laureate
08.03.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Prudence
09.08.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Allenby (Combined Operations base, Folkestone)
28.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ariel (air radio & air mechanics training establishment, Warrington, Lancashire)
Hill-Snook,
Edmund Fletcher
E.F. Hill-Snook
Son of Edmund [Hill-]Snook (1887-1976), and Mary Fletcher Geen (1890-1977).
His father changed surname from Snook to Hill-Snook by deed poll of 02.10.1933.
Married (1950) Suzanne Andrée Angèla Pierrard, daughter of Justin Pierrard, of Penarth, Glamorganshire; one son.
22.01.1922
Cardiff district, Monmouthshire
-
11.1989
Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire
T/A/S.Lt. 19.02.1943
T/S.Lt. 19.08.1943
T/Lt. 19.08.1945
Lt. 07.12.1948, seniority 19.08.1945
Lt.Cdr. 19.08.1953
A/Cdr. 16.11.1954
Cdr. RNR 30.06.1959
A/Capt. RNR 01.01.1960
Capt. RNR 31.12.1961 (retd 29.06.1965)
1939-1945 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St   -
Burma Star Bur St - -
Defence Medal Def M - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 1959 -
Education: The Leys School, Cambridge.
(04.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
08.1943 - (10.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM ML 1291 (motor launch), renamed: HDML 1291 (harbour defence motor launch)
(04.1946)     HM BYMS 2004 (British yard minesweeper) *
07.12.1948     transferred to List I of Permanent RNVR (officer, South Wales Division [HMS Cumbria], in command 1960-1963)
Timber importer. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Glamorgan, 1961.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hillier,
Alan Desmond
J.B. Hinchliffe
Son (with two sisters) of Hubert Cecil Hillier (1890-1941), 2nd Engineer in the Merchant Navy, and Ruby Gwendoline Stone (1894-1932). Stepson of Dorothy Mabel Hillier (née Shirley) (1897-1976), of Godalming, Surrey.
24.03.1922
-
25.06.1943
(air crash) [age 21]
[Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, row H.1, grave 105]
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 04.12.1942
Education: Godalming County School.
Was on the staff of the Godalming branch of the Midland Bank.
12.1941     enlisted Fleet Air Arm
      training in UK & Canada
25.01.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (additional; for full flying duties and training)
06.1943 - 25.06.1943 755/756 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
Hilton,
James Herbert Wilkinson
"Jack"
J.H.W. Hilton (Photo courtesy of Mr David Hilton) J.H.W. Hilton (Photo courtesy of Mr David Hilton)
J.H.W. Hilton (Photo courtesy of Mr David Hilton)
Son of William Edward and Gwendoline Hilton.
29.03.1909
Liscard, Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
17.12.1981
South Africa
T/S.Lt. 17.07.1942
T/Lt. 17.10.1942 (reld 19.05.1946)
(10.1942) - (10.1943) no appointment listed
14.10.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Belfast (cruiser)
Emigrated to South Africa, 1948.
Hinchliffe,
John Brenton
J.B. Hinchliffe
?
-
T/S.Lt.
23.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
08.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Spare Officer, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat)
(04.1946)


HM HDML 1277 (harbour defence motor launch) *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Lawyer, 1975-2003.
Hinton,
Samuel George
S.G. Hinton (Photo courtesy of Dr David Hinton)
Son of Stephen George Hinton (1872-1963), and Rose Goss (1873?-).
Married (01.07.1942, Grays Thurrock Baptist Tabernacle, Thurrock district, Essex) Molly Elsie Osborn (29.10.1920 - 04.1994); two sons.
01.05.1918
Grays Thurrock, Orsett district, Essex
-
27.04.1974
Basildon Hospital, Brentwood district, Essex
AB Sea. ? [C/JX 202399]
T/A/S.Lt. 01.01.1943
T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943
T/Lt. 01.07.1945 (reld 16.05.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID

07.07.1942

3 patrols Mediterranean 12.41-03.42
1940 - 1940 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) (for training)
1940 - 1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training)
1940 - 1940 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for training)
1940 - 1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship, Alexandria, Egypt) (for submarines)
[Boarded troopship Leopoldville with convoy WS5A 11.1940. Troopship hit by German pocket battleship Admiral Hipper off Azores, damaged but eventually reached Capetown 02.1941 and on to Alexandria 04.1941.]
28.05.1941 - 24.04.1942 HMS Torbay (submarine) (despatches)
[Served 10 war patrols.]
05.1942     returned to Gosport, Hampshire
1942 - 12.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) & HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper training base)
01.1943 - 02.1943 HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper training base)
01.03.1943 - 06.1944 HMS Onyx (Algerine class minesweeper)
[Escort to Russian convoys; minesweeping Western approaches and G Force (clearing mines for Gold Beach) on Operation Neptune (D-Day).]
31.07.1944 - 07.1945 HMS Statice (corvette)
[Escort to Atlantic convoys, coastal convoys and channel convoys to support troops post-Normandy invasion.]
1945 - 1946 served at Canty Bay, East Lothian, Scotland
[Possibly at the radar station at Castleton.]
Hird,
John
J. Hird
?
-
T/Lt.
05.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
18.09.1941
-
31.01.1944
HMS Pine (Tree class trawler) [initially as First Lieutenant, from between Febr & June 1943 as Commanding Officer] [probably based at HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)] (ship sunk by E-boat off Selsey Bill)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Hirst,
John Douglas
J.D. Hirst (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Hirst) J.D. Hirst
J.D. Hirst
Son (with two sisters) of John Arthur "Jack" Hirst (1885-1928), and Edith Alice Brook (1888-1973).
Married ((03?).1948, St Marylebone Registry Office, London) Beryl Patricia Everett (21.10.1926 - 07.1995), daughter of Charles Anthony Everett, and Maude Fullcher; one son, one daughter.
30.12.1917
Brighouse, Halifax district, Yorkshire
-
05.03.1969
[Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Prot. Officers Plot, grave 227]
T/A/S.Lt. 06.01.1944
T/S.Lt. 06.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946) *

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 28.11.1944 Assault Group G2, Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 13.02.45]

* Rank at gravestone showing as Lt.Cdr.

      HMS Hurworth (destroyer)
      HMS Tartar (destroyer)
06.01.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Manager, Shell Company, Nairobi, Kenya in the 1950s.
Hiscoke,
Leslie Walter
L.W. Hiscoke
Son (with two half-sisters) of Horace Walter Hiscoke (1890-1943), and Elizabeth Dampier (1889-1915).
Married (12.09.1936, St Saviour, Raynes Park, Surrey) Violet Hilda Maureen Broadfoot (29.09.1909 - 01.07.1989), daughter of Sgt. Charles Broadfoot, Royal Flying Corps (1881-1918), and Hilda Emily Berry (1884-1967); one son, one daughter.
14.07.1913
Walthamstow, Essex
-
16.06.1996
Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 24.04.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 24.04.1942
T/A/Lt. 21.08.1944, seniority 24.04.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.05.1948, seniority 21.10.1947

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

19.05.1941 - 24.06.1942 Naval Centre Edinburgh
25.06.1942 - 16.07.1942 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (not to join; borne for time only)
17.07.1942 - 08.05.1943 Admiralty [HMS President]
10.05.1943 - 02.09.1943 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
03.09.1943 - 14.05.1944 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
16.07.1944 - 17.08.1944 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (not to join; borne for time only)
21.08.1944     transferred to Executive Branch of the RNVR
18.09.1944 - 28.10.1945 HMS Colossus (aircraft carrier)
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hitch,
Henry Philip Yeulett
"Harry"
H.P.Y. Hitch (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Yeulett Hitch) H.P.Y. Hitch (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Yeulett Hitch)
H.P.Y. Hitch (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Yeulett Hitch) H.P.Y. Hitch (Photo courtesy of Mr Roger Yeulett Hitch)
Son of Henry Leonard Hitch (1893-1979), builder's clerk, and Gladys Yeulett (1890-1929).
Married (12.07.1952, Weybridge Congregational Chapel, Weybridge, Surrey North Western district, Surrey) Marion Grace Howard (27.05.1930 - 16.05.2014), daughter of Alfred Leslie Howard; one son, two daughters.

21.03.1924
Shoreham-by-Sea, Steyning district, Hampshire
-
06.06.1988
Walton on Thames, Surrey Northern district, Surrey
Prob. T/Midsh. (A) 01.11.1943
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A) 27.05.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) * 27.11.1944 (reld 06?.1946)
* For aeronautical technical duties in the Fleet Air Arm
Education: Steyning Grammar School; Brighton Technical College.
01.11.1943 - 14.11.1943 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) [lent to HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) for divisional course)
15.11.1943 - 27.05.1944 HMS Drake (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for aeronautical engineering course at RN Engineering College, Keyham)
27.05.1944 - 04.08.1944 HMS Turnstone (training establishment, Watford) (additional; for course of training at Government Training Centre, Watford)
10.08.1944 - 04.12.1944 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester) (under training)
18.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Emperor (Ruler class escort carrier)
31.01.1946 - 15.05.1946 HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire) (for air duties)
25.06.1946 - 1946 HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) (for release, class "A")
After taking an external London Engineering’ degree and after some wartime experiences in aircraft carriers, Mr Hitch joined Vickers, Armstrong’s Ltd at Weybridge for whom (and successors) he has worked ever since. Originally a stressman, he later set up the Dynamics Department (Flutter, Aeroelasticity and Vibration) and later still the Technical Computing Department. Since 1975 he has been concerned with the Company’s forward thinking processes in Research, Development and Future Projects. In his career he has worked on all the post war Vickers aircraft (Viking to VC10) BAC range (1—11, Concorde, Tornado) and many others beside.
Hitchcock,
Rodney Miles
R.M. Hitchcock (Photo courtesy of Mr Rob Hitchcock)
Son of Edward Charles Hitchcock (1871-1950), and Marjorie Jean Franklin (1896-1981).
Married (05.06.1948, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Patricia A. Hall; one daughter, one son.
03.06.1919
Mildenhall district, Essex / Suffolk
-
26.06.2008
Epsom district, Surrey
T/S.Lt. 23.04.1942
T/Lt. 03.06.1944 (reld 09.04.1946)
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
(08.1942)     HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham) *
29.09.1942 - (03.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 337 (motor launch)
29.03.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1012 (harbour defence motor launch)
05.06.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 462 (motor launch)
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hixson,
Vivian Walton
V.W. Hixson
Son of Walton Victor Hixson, and Annie Louise Vivian.
Married ((12?).1953, Poole district, Dorset) Dorothy I. Inch (née Sankey); one son.
15.08.1913 *
-
01.1988
Poole district, Dorset

* Birth registration seems to be (06?).1915 Wareham district, Dorset. Death registration shows the 1913 date.
T/S.Lt. 29.12.1939
T/A/Lt. 24.11.1940
T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 24.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
02.03.1937     Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Sussex Division RNVR)
29.12.1939 - (06.)1941 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
30.06.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Fernie (escort destroyer)
10.02.1942 - 05.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Bengali (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
01.1943 - 03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Turcoman (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(06.1943)     no appointment listed
10.06.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Stamshaw Camp)
(07.1945)     HMS Kilbirnie (escort) *
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hoague,
George
G. Hoague (Photo courtesy of Mr Eric Dietrich-Berryman)
30.08.1904
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
-
24.01.1957
at sea
[named on memorial in Greenwich]
T/Lt. 23.08.1941 (reld > 04.1946)
23.08.1941     joined the RNVR (as an American citizen)
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
(10.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Hoare,
John Wyatt
J.W. Hoare (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Falkner at Ancestry.co.uk)
Younger son (with one brother and one sister) of Arthur John Hoare (1876-1960), civil servant, and Jessie Pearce (1877-1969), of Weymouth.
Married (27.10.1944, St Margaret's Church, Putney, Wandsworth district, London SW15) Second Officer Daphne Maude Ross Williams, WRNS, daughter of Mr & Mrs F.W. Williams, of Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Eire; ... children (one son?).
22.10.1911
Streatham, Wandsworth district, London
-
28.10.1988
Surrey Southwestern district, Surrey
Seaman ?
T/A/S.Lt. 04.06.1943
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1943, seniority 04.06.1943
T/Lt. 04.12.1945 (dispersal 23.04.1946) (reld 02.08.1946)
1942? - 1943? HMS Blackpool (Bangor class minesweeper) (five months at sea)
? - 04.06.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (additional; for training)
(08.1943)     no appointment listed
14.08.1943 - 01.07.1945 HMS Magpie (sloop) (Western Approaches)
04.07.1945     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
22.08.1945     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (additional; for passage)
04.01.1946 - 08.03.1946 HMS Vindex (escort carrier) (Pacific) (temporarily)
Hoare,
Keith Robin
K.R. Hoare
Son of Charles Arthur Richard Hoare, a Partner in C. Hoare & Co, bankers, and Beatrice Holme Sumner.
Married (1919, Prestwich, Lancashire) Brenda Bardsley; one son (Capt. Keith Peter Hoare, RAC, killed in action 12.07.1943), three daughters.

26.09.1890
Isle of Wight
-
06.02.1959
Carlisle
2nd Lt. (Army)
06.12.1902
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
07.10.1915
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1918?
T/Lt.
06.05.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Order DSO
23.07.1918
Zeebrugge/Ostend 22/23.04.18 *
Distinguished Service Order DSO
28.08.1918
Ostend 09/10.05.18 **

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
06.04.1918
Auxiliary Patrol 17
Albert Medal AM
20.08.1918
saving life at sea ***
Letter of Praise LoP
1944?
Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.44)
* When "Sirius" was sinking he went alongside in his motor-launch under very heavy fire and took off 50 of the crew; then proceeding to "Brilliant " he took on- board 16 men, and afterwards returning to "Sirius" took off remainder of officers and crew. He showed the utmost coolness and judgment in handling his vessel throughout.
** Volunteered for rescue work at Ostend in command of M.L. 283. He was ordered to follow astern and assist two other motor launches which were detailed for rescue work. He remained at the Stroom Bank Buoy position until "Vindictive" had passed and then followed her, patrolling east and west within a quarter of a mile of the shore under heavy pom-pom and machine-gun fire, searching for survivors until 3.20 a.m., when all hope of finding anyone had passed.
*** On the 12th April, 1918, an explosion took place in the engine-room of H.M. Motor Launch 356, and the forward tanks burst into flame. The Officer and some of the crew were blown overboard by the explosion, and the remainder were quickly driven aft by the flames, and were taken off in a skiff. By this time the flames were issuing from the cabin hatch aft, and there was much petrol burning on the surface of the water. It was then realised by the crews of adjacent vessels that the aft petrol tanks and the depth charge were being attacked by the fire, and might explode at any moment. At the moment when others were running away, Lieutenant Hoare and Sub-Lieutenant Bagot jumped into their dinghy, rowed to the wreck, got on board, and removed the depth charge, thereby preventing an explosion which might have caused serious loss of life amongst the crowd of English and French sailors on the quay.
Education: Northwood Park School, Isle of Wight; Loretto School near Edinburgh.
06.12.1902


commissioned, 1st Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers), Volunteer Corps
21.03.1903
-
07.11.1903
transferred to The Lancashire Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), Militia (resigned his commission)
1914?


served RNVR
(05.1918)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 283 (motor launch)
20.05.1940
-
06.02.1941
Staff of Commander Minesweeping and Patrol, Dover Command [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
07.02.1941
-
(08.)1943
Minesweeping and Patrol Duties, Dover Command [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)]
23.08.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(01.1945)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hobbs,
Bernard Horace
B.H. Hobbs.B.H. Hobbs (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Hobbs)
B.H. Hobbs (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Hobbs)

Son (with three brothers and one sister) of
Joseph Claude Flook Hobbs (1894-1959), and Mildred Ellen King (1899-1995).
Married 1st (27.12.1943, New Brunswick, Canada; divorced 1949/50?) Pauline Catherine Coveney (06.11.1924 - 24.08.2015), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Henry Cecil Coveney (1891-1936), and Catherine Matheson (1889-1953).
Married 2nd ((12?).1951, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Jean Rita Giles (13.01.1924 - 06.03.2019), daughter (with one brother and three sisters) of Victor Henry Giles (1885-1962), and Alice Maud Fox (1892-1954); one daughter, one son.
14.06.1922
Staple Hill, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire
-
12.02.1986
Staplegrove, Taunton, Somerset
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 23.10.1942
T/S.Lt. (A) 23.04.1943
T/Lt. (A) 23.04.1945 (reld 14.05.1946)
25.01.1943 - 22.04.1943 pilot, 743 Squadron FAA [HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS)]
23.04.1943 - (06.)1944 pilot, 744 Squadron FAA [HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS)]
23.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) (for full flying duties and training)
03.12.1944 - (04.)1945 pilot, 836 Squadron FAA
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Graduate, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 06.1958.
Hobday,
Geoffrey Malvern
G.M. Hobday
Husband of Helen M. Hobday (née ....) (died 07.10.1989, aged 80).
1908
Auckland, New Zealand
-
21.01.1988
[St James Church Cemetery, Kerikeri]
Prob. T/S.Lt.
06.09.1940
T/Lt.
04.1941, seniority 06.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
> 06. 1944, < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
01.01.1945
New Year 45 [decoration posted]
?
-
09.1940
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove Sussex)
23.10.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Maron (ocean boarding vessel)
[about 01.1941 boarded French trawler 'Joseph Duhamel' and took it to Gibraltar and later on to the UK; arrived 02.1941]
08.03.1941
-
23.03.1941
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
24.03.1941
-
1941
First Lieutenant, HM ML 110 (motor launch)
22.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
10.1941


HM ML 339 (motor launch)
06.10.1942
-
20.10.1942
HMS Seahawk (Coastal Forces base, Ardrishaig)
21.10.1942
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 643 (motor gun boat) (DSC)
05.09.1944
-
(10.)1944
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 725 (motor torpedo boat)
12.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
01.04.1945
-
(07.1945)
on staff of Rear Admiral (Q), British Pacific Fleet [HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Port Melbourne, Australia)]
Published: In harm's way : a RNVR officer at war, 1940-44 (1985).
Hockey,
Frederick [Roy]
F. Hockey
Son of Frederick William Hockey (1886-1936), and Harriett May Goldsworthy (1891-1946).
Married ((09?).1948, Wallasey district, Cheshire) Nancy Goldingay (21.12.1919 - 07.10.1983), daughter of Leslie Goldingay (1891-1959), and Ada Affleck (1891-1979); one daughter.
02.11.1918
Wallasey
-
02.12.1985
Tavistock, Devon
Seaman ? [MD/X3047]
T/A/S.Lt. 07.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 07.11.1943
T/Lt. 1945/46? (reld < 04.1946)

Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
(06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
09.08.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Speedwell (Halcyon class minesweeper) (MBE)
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Hodder,
John Hartly
J.H. Hodder (Photo courtesy of Sarah Greenhalgh)

Son (with one sister) of Clement Hartly Hodder (1874-1944), and Edith Kate Baron (1882-1971).
Married 1st ((12?).1930, Paddington district, London; divorced) Patricia Pamela Enid Cottis (17.03.1907 - 10.11.1987); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((09?).1961, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Maureen Ada Anderson (28.07.1927 - 08.1988).
25.08.1905
Sharpness, Thornbury, Gloucestershire
-
09.10.1961
Bristol, Gloucestershire
T/Lt. 28.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 01.06.1943 action Channel 15.04.1943 [investiture 03.07.1945]
Mention in Despatches MID 16.01.1945 actions Plymouth area 07-08.1944
Ship broker.
07.06.1941 - (06.)1942 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 322 (motor gun boat) (14th MGB Flotilla) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
22.06.1942 - (04.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 608 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)] (DSC)
05.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 679 (motor gun boat), redesignated c. 09.1943 HM MTB 520 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
Hodge,
Kenneth
R. Hodge
Brother of Lt. Ronald Hodge, RNVR.
?
-
T/S.Lt. 17.07.1941
T/A/Lt. 23.03.1943
T/Lt. 1945?, seniority 23.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1941) - (12.1941) HMS Coriander *
(02.1942)     French Ship "Lobelia" *
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
(06.1942) - (04.1943) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
17.05.1943 - (02.)1944 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
01.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
(10.1944) - (04.1945) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) *
06.1945 - (07.1945) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
(04.1946)     HMS Theseus *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodge,
Ronald
"Ronnie"
R. Hodge
Brother of Lt. Kenneth Hodge, RNVR.
?
-
T/S.Lt. 29.05.1942
T/Lt. 29.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France) LegH ? liaison officer
Architect.
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
(10.1942)     HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) *
(12.1942) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
(01.1943) - (1944) British Naval Liaison Officer, French sloop "Savorgnan de Brazza"
(04.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) *
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgetts,
Albert William
A.W. Hodgetts
Son of William Joseph Hodgetts (1885-1974), and Elizabeth Finmore (1886-).
23.11.1904
Watford, Hertfordshire
-
04.1997
Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex
T/S.Lt. 02.04.1942
T/Lt. 02.07.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(06.1942) - (10.1943) no appointment listed
11.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick)
03.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for ML's etc.)
(06.1944)     no appointment listed
(10.1944) - (04.1946) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
      while borne on the books of the above establishments actually serving as liaison officer with Norwegian ships:
(08.1942)     served on a Norwegian ship
? - 17.01.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian torpedo boat Sleipner
17.01.1944 - 24.05.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, 54th (Norwegian) MTB Flotilla
06.06.1944 - 06.06.1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian corvette Acanthus
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgetts,
Robert Bartley
"Bobby"
R.B. Hodgetts
Son of Capt. Bartley Hodgetts, MN (1886-), and Florence Stagg (1877-).
Married 1st (29.01.1945) Ann Kathleen Jeffreys (26.03.1924 - 01.2007), daughter of Robert Sydney Jeffreys (1888-1959), and Edith Dorothy Anna Christiansen (1898-1975); one daughter.
Married 2nd ((09?).1949, Surrey Northern district) Frances Grace "Tansy" Pepper (11.08.1925 - 01.2007), daughter of Alfred John Pepper (1885-1972), and Lily Frances Pepper (1887-1978); two daughters.
10.11.1918
Formby, Lancashire
-
15.11.2015
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 16.12.1940
T/Lt. (A) 16.06.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Education: Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby; St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1941; MA 1945).
31.12.1940 - 26.03.1941 acting observer, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
27.03.1941 - 27.03.1941 observer, 807 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
[failed to return in a Fulmar after being unable to locate ship on return from reconnaissance; landed at Dakar and was captured] 
27.03.1941 - 1942 POW in French captivity (at Koulikoro, French Soudan)
16.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
08.07.1943 - (06.)1944 observer, 847 Squadron FAA
13.07.1944 - (10.1944) observer, 810 Squadron FAA
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1945)     HMS President *
17.04.1945 - (10.1945) observer, HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
Joined Civil Service, working for many years in the areas of National Insurance and Health. Assistant Principal, Ministry of National Insurance, 1947 (Principal, 1951; Assistant Secretary, 1964). Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security, 1973-1978. Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, 1979-1985.
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgkinson,
Hubert
H. Hodgkinson (Photo courtesy of Peter Hodgkinson) H. Hodgkinson (Photo courtesy of Peter Hodgkinson)
H. Hodgkinson (Photo courtesy of Peter Hodgkinson)
Married (06.08.1945, St James Church, Sydney, NSW, Australia) Patricia Joan Richards, a Welfare Officer with the Women's Royal Australian Air Force; ... children (one son?).
13.02.1924
Kidsgrove, Stoke on Trent district, North Staffordshire
-
06.03.1972
Sydney, NSW, Australia
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 20.09.1943
T/S.Lt. (A) 20.03.1944
T/Lt. (A) 20.03.1946 (reld 08.07.1946)
20.09.1943 - (05.)1944 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)
01.05.1944 - (07.)1945 pilot, 1843 Squadron FAA [formed at Brunswick, USA; 24.08.1944 aboard HMS Trouncer to UK; based at Eglinton & Ayr; from 14.02.1945 at HMS Arbiter (Archer class escort carrier)]
(10.1945)     HMS Nabbington (Mobile Naval Air Base I, Nowra, NSW, Australia) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgskin,
Peter James
P.J. Hodgskin
Son of ... Hodgskin, and ... Clements.
12.12.1924
Staines district, Middlesex
-
30.09.1987
Stoke Poges, Chiltern and South Bucks, Buckinghamshire
Prob. T/Midsh. (A) 14.03.1945
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 17.11.1945
T/S.Lt. (A) 17.05.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
18.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop) (for A.E.D. [= Air Engineer Department ?])
Hodgson,
Alan Burnet
A.R.S. Hodgson
Son of ... Hodgson, and ... Appleton.
26.08.1921
Richmond district, Surrey
-
17.06.1944
[Bolsena War Cemetery, Italy, IV, H, 19]
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
02.1943, seniority 26.08.1942

Mention in Despatches

MID
07.11.1944
Operation Brassard/Cut-Out (landings on Elba)
?
-
17.06.1944
A1 RN Commando [HMS Royal Scotsman] (killed in action)
Hodgson,
Archibald
A. Hodgson
Husband of Nora Elizabeth Hodgson, of Johannesburg, South Africa.
1892 ?
-
04.10.1941
[age 49]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 50, 1]
T/S.Lt. (E)
?
07.1941
-
04.10.1941
HMS Whippet (ex-Kos XXI) (whaler) [ship bombed & sunk]
Hodgson,
Archibald Richard Stanford
A.R.S. Hodgson
12.11.1908
Horsham district, Sussex
-
02.06.1990
Chichester district, Sussex
T/Lt.
?

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC


(07.1942)


Commanding Officer, HM ML 139 (motor launch)
Hodgson,
George Alan
G.A. Hodgson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Margaret Atkinson) G.A. Hodgson (Photo courtesy of Mrs Margaret Atkinson)
Son of William Hodgson, and Amelia Lawson, of Whitby, Yorkshire.
11.04.1922
Whitby, North Yorkshire
-
18.03.1943
(MPK) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 4, panel 7]
T/Midsh. (A) 03.11.1941
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 11.04.1942
T/S.Lt. (A) 01.12.1942
1940     flying training in Canada
(02.1942)     HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
(04.1942)     HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
01.07.1942 - 02.1943 HMS Malagas (RN Air Station, Wingfield, nr Capetown, South Africa)(for "pool" of air crew)
03.02.1943 - 18.03.1943 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika)]
[He had been ordered to "simulate a dogfight" in a Fairey Fulmar Mark 2. It was his first flight in this plane. Needless to say, the aircraft stalled in some manoeuvre, which led to his death and that of his 28-year old air gunner/wireless operator Temporary Leading Airman George Anderson McNiven.]
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgson,
Irvine Dobson
I.D. Hodgson
Eldest son of Irvine Hodgson, and Mary H. Garner, of 212 Queen's Road, Halifax.
Married (20.12.1947, Salisbury, Wiltshire) Jane Edith "Wendy" Fletcher, youngest daughter of Wilfrid Fletcher, and Mrs Fletcher, of Atherton House, Salisbury.
13.07.1914
Halifax district, Yorkshire
-
09.09.1986
Isle of Wight
T/Sg.Lt. (D) 05.11.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) < 04.1946
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) 05.11.1946
A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) RN ?
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) RN 05.04.1948 (reld 1949/50)
Education: LDS.
05.11.1940 - (02.)1941 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
19.03.1941 - (12.1941) RM Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (additional; for various services)
(01.1945)     HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) *
02.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier)
(04.1946)     HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Chat Camp, Colombo, Ceylon) *
[probably appointed 05.01.1946, establishment paid off 31.03.1946]
1947?     transferred, RN
07.07.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment)
(05.1949)     HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment) *
* indexed. but not listed as such
Hodgson,
Ronald
R. Hodgson (Photo courtesy of Mr Pete Hodgson)
Son of John H. Hodgson, and Daisy Warrilow.
Married (1949, East Riding of Yorkshire) Margaret Andrews; two daughters, two sons.
28.03.1923
York, Yorkshire
-
10.08.2007
York, Yorkshire
Able Seaman ? [C/JX 318228]
T/A/S/Lt. 1942?
T/S.Lt. 28.09.1943
T/Lt. 28.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
02.1941     joined RNVR
      training at Rosyth
      training, HMS Liddesdale (escort destroyer)
late 1942     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing)
17.05.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Professor (trawler)
(07.1945)     HMS Professor (trawler) *
      spare Commanding Officer, HMS Ashanti (frigate) (for 2 weeks)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hodgson,
William Cliffe
W.C. Hodgson
21.11.1925
-
17.02.1990
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
Prob. Midsh. (Sp.Br.)
16.07.1945
Lt. (L) RN
24.11.1947
Lt.Cdr. (EngL) RN
24.11.1955
Cdr. (E) RN
30.06.1964 (retd 15.05.1977)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division)

OBE
11.06.1977
HM's silver jubilee & birthday 77
?
-
?
?
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
02.10.1946
 
 
transferred RN
07.1947
-
(05.1949)
HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment)
(05.1950)
 
 
no appointment listed
03.1952
-
(05.)1953
HMS Zephyr (destroyer)
12.10.1953
-
(04.)1955
HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
12.12.1955
-
(01.1957)
HMS Royal Arthur (RN Petty Officers' school, Corsham, Wiltshire)
(01.1959)
 
 
no appointment listed
(07.1961)
-
(02.1963)
Personal Services and Officer Appointments Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *
(02.1964)
 
 
HM's Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake] *
12.06.1967
-
(02.)1969
Weapons Electrical Engineer Officer, HMS Devonshire
29.08.1969
-
(08.1971)
FWEO [= Fleet Weapons Engineer Officer?], Far East Fleet [HMS Terror]
AMBritIRE, later MIERE
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hodgson-Robinson,
Christopher Jacot
"Kit"
C.J. Hodgson-Robinson
Married Gypsy (née ...); two sons, one daughter.
16.09.1922
Derby, Derbyshire
-
27.03.2007
Valley View Villa, Riverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
?
? [JX221741]
T/Midsh.
28.08.1941
T/A/S.Lt.
1942?
T/S.Lt.
16.03.1943
T/Lt.
16.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
25.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Duke of York (battleship)
12.10.1943 -
(07.1945)
HMS Berwick (cruiser)
(04.1946)


HMS Blankney (destroyer) *
In 1946, he moved to Scotland and there pursued his lifelong passion and appreciation for the land and all living things as a shepherd. Kit and his family immigrated to Newfoundland in December of 1954 as he had been recruited by Joey Smallwood to establish and oversee the Sheep Division of Russwood Ranch on Roaches Line, NL. In 1960, Kit made a trip to Nova Scotia where he discovered beautiful Pictou County. That summer, the family moved to the East River Valley. Kit was employed at Eastern Meat Packers and Canso Chemicals while continuing with his love for farming, raising sheep, judging sheep-dog trials and many other aspects of the sheep industry. He was an elder in the St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, St. Pauls, a past president and active member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #75, Eureka.

* indexed, but not listed as such
Hodkinson,
Herbert Thayer
H.T. Hodkinson
Son (with one sister) of Albert Hodkinson (1874-1933), and Mary Thomas (1878-).
Married ((03?).1956, Coventry, Warwickshire) Eileen Ena Carter (13.07.1907 - 10.1990).
15.05.1905
Barton district, Manchester, Lancashire
-
(06?).1970
Lambeth district, London
T/A/S.Lt. 19.02.1943
T/S.Lt. 19.08.1943
T/Lt. 19.08.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

Mention in Despatches

MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Advertising service agent, Coventry, Warwick.
(04.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
(06.1944)     HM LCT 503 (landing craft, tank) (Normandy) (despatches)
(04.1946)     HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
* indexed, but not listed as such


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