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1939-1945

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Naish,
Arthur John Brabant
I.R. Naylor

Son of ... Naish, and ... Brabant.
Married Margaret Naish, WRNS officer (died 24.01.2007, aged 88).

21.12.1911
Paddington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
12.2000
Ditteridge, Wiltshire

Prob. T/S.Lt.	02.02.1940
T/S.Lt.	?, seniority 02.02.1940
T/Lt.	02.02.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945
T/A/Cdr.	< 04.1946
...	...
Capt. RN	30.06.1953 (retd)

CBE

08.06.1963

HM's birthday 63

Education: MA

07.03.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Aberdeen (sloop)
28.10.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties)
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Tara [= perhaps HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)] *
?	-	(04.1946)	Directorate of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty *
			transferred to RN
...	-	...	...

FIERE, MIEE
* indexed, but not listed as such

Naylor,
Ian Rochester
I.R. Naylor

Son of ... Naylor, and ... Asquith.

(06?).1926
North Bierley district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
07.04.1945
(KIA) [age 18]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

T/Midsh.

07.04.1945

Third Officer, HM MTB 494 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)] (killed in action)

Naylor,
[Prof.] Malcolm Neville
M.N. Naylor

Elder son of late Roland B. Naylor, MBE and Mabel L. Naylor (née Neville), Walsall, Staffordshire.
Married (1956) Doreen Mary, daughter of late H.E. Jackson, CBE; one son.

30.01.1926
West Bromwich district, Staffordshire
-
[01.2007 still alive at Aldwick]

T/Midsh.	22.09.1944
T/S.Lt.	30.01.1946
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	15.03.1947
Sg.Lt.	02.03.1955
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	26.08.1962
Sg.Cdr. (D)	31.12.1967
Sg.Capt. (D)	31.12.1972 (retd 31.12.1976)

1967

Education: Queen Mary School, Walsall; Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham & London (studied dentistry) (BSc [1951], BDS (Birmingham) [1955], FDS RCS (Eng) [1958], LDS RCS (Eng) [194?], PhD Dentistry (London) [1963])

05.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(07.1948)	-	(05.1950)	Sea Cadet Corps
02.03.1955	-	31.12.1976	transferred to & service in Permanent RNVR, from 1958 RNR

Hospital appointments, Birmingham and Dundee, 1955-1959; Guy's Hosp. Dental School: Res. Fellow, 1959-1962; Senior Lecturer in Preventive Dentistry, 1962-1966; Reader in Preventive Dentistry, 1966-1970; Honorary Consultant Dental Surgeon, Guy's Hospital, 1966-1991, Consultant Emeritus, 1991. Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Dental Surgery, since 1991; Professor of Preventive Dentistry, University of London, 1970-1991, now Professor Emeritus; Head of Department of Periodontology and Preventive Dentistry, Guy's Hospital Dental School, 1980-1991.
William Waldorf Astor Fellow, USA, 1963. President: British Division, IADR, 1990-1992 (Honorary Treasurer, 1975-1990); Odontol Section, RSocMed, 1984-1985; Member, FDI Commission, 1992-1995; Patron, Society of Cosmetic Scientists, 1995-. Civil Consultant Dental Surgeon, RN, 1974-1991; Honorary Dental Surgeon to the Queen, 1976; Honorary Colonel, University of London OTC, 1979-1994; Secretary, 1978-1982, Chairman, 1982-1989, COMEC; Chairman: Military Education Committee, Universtiy of London, 1979-; Sea Cadet Association, Sports Council, 1975-1994. Governor: Roehampton Institute for Higher Education, 1978-1996; Whitelands College, 1975-1996; Bacons School, Bermondsey, 1979-1990 (Vice Chairman, 1981-1990); St Saviour's and St Olave's School, 1980- (Chairman, 1988-); Wye College, University of London, 1992-; Member Ct of Governors, Brunel University, 1994-. Member, St Saviour's and St Olave's Foundation, 1991- (Warden, 1997-). Lay Reader, C of E, 1974-. Member, Southwark Diocesan Synod, 1983-1992. Freeman, City of London, 1983; Liveryman, Bakers' Co., 1983-. Hon. FDSRCPSGlas 1992. Colgate Prize, IADR, 1961; Tomes Medal, BDA, 1987.
Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Greater London, 1992 (Repr. DL Lambeth, 1994).
Published: The contribution of dentrifices to oral health. a colloquium held at Guy's Hospital Dental School on 26th June, 1979 (1980) edited with J J Pindborg; edited: Diagnosis and treatment of dental caries, the clinicians' dilemma (Royal Society of Medicine, London 1985); Scientific basis of caries prevention. Symposium. Papers, (Royal Society of Medicine, London 1986); Proceedings of the conference on dental care for the disadvantaged child (World Dental Press, 1998)

Neale,
Cyril Geoffrey Vaughan
C.G.V. Neale

02.11.1905
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
(12?).1976
Brent district

T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	02.05.1941
T/Lt.	27.03.1946, seniority 02.05.1941

Served until August 1940 with the Shanghai Municipal Police, and spoke several languages, including various dialects of Chinese and Japanese.

(10.1944)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
(07.1945)			HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi) *
(04.1946)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Near,
Isaac Elliston

see:

RNR officers' section

Neill,
James Wright
J.W. Neill

Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Wright Neill, of Bellshill, Lanarkshire.
Husband of Elizabeth Hamilton Baxter Neill, of Bellshill.

1911
Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
13.02.1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 13, column 2]

T/S.Lt.	21.08.1941
T/Lt.	17.02.1942, seniority 21.11.1941

Education: Glasgow University (Arts Faculty, 1928-1933).
Licentiate Royal Academy of Music.

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
?	-	13.02.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Cap d'Antifer (minesweeping trawler) [sunk by a German Motor Torpedo Boat in the North Sea]

Neill,
Thomas
"Tom"
T. Neill (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles F. Young)

T. Neill (Photo courtesy of Mr Charles F. Young)

Son of Robert Neill.
Married 1st (1943) Daphne Higgins; one son, twin daughters.
Married 2nd (1952) Cate McLean MacRae; two sons.
Married 3rd (1987) Rosena McMahon Robertson.

29.07.1920
Glasgow, Scotland
-
18.05.2012

Prob. T/Midsh.	12.04.1940
T/A/S.Lt.	29.07.1940
T/S.Lt.	29.07.1941
T/Lt.	29.01.1943 (reld 15.04.1946)

DSC

11.08.1942

attack with torpedo boats 06.06.42 off Belgian coast [investiture 09.03.43]

Education: Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland (till 1938).

09.1939			mobilized RNVR
(05.1940)	-	(06.1940)	no appointment listed
(07.1940)			HMS California (armed merchant cruiser) *
02.09.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
07.10.1940	-	(12.)1941	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 18 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
12.1941	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 14 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(06.1942)			[acting?] Commanding Officer, HM MTB 70 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
03.08.1942	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 223 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport), later HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	no appointment listed
26.02.1944	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 42 (motor torpedo boat)
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nelson,
Hugh
H. Nelson

Married; three daughters.
From Holywood, Co. Down.

02.06.1916
-

T/S.Lt.	27.02.1941
T/Lt.	27.02.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

26.04.1941	-	(10.1943)	HMS Barrymore (boom defence vessel)
07.1944	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Preventer (boom defence vessel)
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS William Hannam (trawler) *
			may have served at HMS Manchester & HMS Birmingham at some point

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nelson,
Leslie Digby
L.D. Nelson

25.06.1904
Sunderland district, Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
12.1994
Carlisle district, Cumberland

Prob.Sg.S.Lt.	01.03.1926
Sg.S.Lt.	27.03.1927, seniority 01.03.1926
Sg.Lt.	07.07.1927
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	07.07.1933
A/Sg.Cdr.	23.08.1939?
Sg.Cdr.	31.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 16.02.1948)

VRD

15.06.1942

Education: MD, BS, LRCP, MRCS.

01.03.1926			joined RNVR (Tyne Division, List 2)
07.1926			RN Hopsital, Haslar (for 28 days' training)
23.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for Alexandria Military Hospital)
1941	-	09.1941	HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
27.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, RM Infirmary Plymouth [HMS Drake]

Nelson,
Tom John
F.P.W. Neve

Son of Ralph and Frances Nelson (née Donaldson), of Wallbottle, Northumberland.

(03?).1921
Castle Ward district, Northumberland
-
22.09.1943
(KIA) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]

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

MID

01.09.1944

Operation Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz 22.09.43) [posthumously]

14.05.1943	-	22.09.1943	HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne)
?	-	22.09.1943	HMS X5 (midget submarine) (killed in action during the action against the German battleship Tirpitz)

Nesbitt,
James D'Arcy

see:

RNR officers' section

Ness,
James Carmichael
J.C. Ness

Son of James M. Ness, and Marjorie T. Woolnough.

22.04.1916
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
08.05.1977
Churt, nr Farnham, Surrey

Prob. S.Lt.	10.06.1939
S.Lt.	14.12.1940
A/Lt.	22.04.1941
Lt.	22.12.1942, seniority 22.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.	22.04.1949 (retd 09.05.1960)

VRD

31.03.1952

10.06.1939			joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
09.1940	-	(12.)1943	HMS Rodney (battleship)
28.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Unicorn (aircraft supply & repair ship, Devonport)

Bank director.

Neve,
Frank Percival William
F.P.W. Neve

Son of Percival Edward and Amy Clara Neve (née Walford), of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

(09?).1919
Uckfield district, Sussex / East Sussex
-
08.02.1943
(KIA) [age 23]
[Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 11, column 1]

T/S.Lt.

07.08.1942

15.09.1942

08.02.1943

HMS Bredon (armed trawler) (sunk by U-boat in north Atlantic)

Neville,
Arthur Ray
A.R. Neville

21.06.1916
-
03.1988
Eastbourne district, Sussex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	28.08.1941
T/Lt.	28.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

MID

22.12.1942

hazardous minesweeping operations Channel 06.42

26.11.1941	-	04.10.1943	HM MMS 60 (motor minesweeper) [HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen), from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]
26.11.1941	-	(08.1942)	First Lieutenant
(10.1942)	-	04.10.1943	Commanding Officer
04.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 298 (motor minesweeper)

Newbigin,
Thomas Leslie
T.L. Newbigin (Photo courtesy of Mr Douglas T. Newbigin)

Son of Henry Thornton Newbigin, Chairman of Michell Bearings Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers.
Married (15.07.1947) Dorothy Parkin; one son.

05.03.1915
Newcastle upon Tyne
-
30.12.1964
Hull, East Yorkshire

T/S.Lt.	19.10.1940
T/Lt.	16.08.1941 (reld 30.04.1946)

	MBE	01.01.1946	New Year 46: salvage service [HMS Odyssey]
	MID	08.01.1942	withdrawal from Crete 05.41 [MTB 216]

Education: HMS Conway (Officer Training School 1929-1931)
Apprenticeship, Michell Bearings, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1931-1936. National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering, Rutherford College of Technology, 1938.

30.11.1936			joined Royal Naval Supplementary Reserve [attached to Tyne Division RVR]
09.12.1940	-	(06.1941)	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for Motor Torpedo Boats) *:
(05.1941)	-	(06.1941)	HM MTB 216 (motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla)
09.1941	-	11.1941	salvaging the White Star liner “Georgic” at Suez
28.01.1942	-	15.12.1943	Salvage Officer, Fleet Salvage Department, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] ** [salvaged SS City of Pittsburgh at Alexandria 01.1942, Jeddah refloated 02/03.1942]
02.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Assistant Salvage Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President] [& HMS Odyssey?]
04.03.1944			Diving Course Certificate, HMS Tedworth (minesweeper)
15.04.1944	-	14.12.1945	Salvage Officer, NW Europe [HMS Royal Albert]

Mechanical engineer.
* (08.1942) - (06.1943) listed under both HMS Hornet and HMS Nile
** Navy List has as starting date 03.02.1941. Given dates taken from two consecutive release forms.

Newcombe,
Edward John
E.J. Newcombe

(09?.)1903
Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey
-
1997

Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)	29.08.1939
T/Lt. (A)	30.01.1940 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	09.1942?

18.09.1939	-	(02.1941)	HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (additional for various duties)
28.07.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
09.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Korongo (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Nairobi, Kenya)
?	-	?	served in Madagascar [probably HMS Ironclad]
17.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport)
1945?			Control Commission Germany

Emigrated to Tasmania, 1963.

Newgass,
Harold Reginald
H.R. Newgass

Youngest son of Benjamin and Maria Newgass, of Slapton, Towcester.
Married 1st (17.06.1931, Chelsea district, London; marriage dissolved) Mary Lloyd, daughter of Mr & Mrs S.J. Lloyd, of Pipewell Hall, Kettering.
Married 2nd (25.10.1945, Westminster district, London) Josephine Nancy R. Richards, widow of Lt.Cdr. D.L.C. Craig, RN, and youngest daughter of Maj. T.P. Rose Richards.

03.08.1899
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
17.11.1984
Dorchester, West Staffordshire

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	13.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	< 06.1943 (reld < 07.1945)

04.03.1941

mine disposal 28-30.11.40 [investiture 08.07.41]

1918	-	1934	served with Royal Artillery in the Territorial Army
15.11.1940	-	(06.)1943	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
05.07.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
(04.1944)			HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
06.04.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for base duties, as P.A.L.O.)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed

Dorset landowner & active as a councillor in local government.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Newlove,
Harold Godfrey
H.G. Newlove

Son of Godfrey John Newlove (1889-1986), and Beatrice Lily Joce (1888-1966).
Married ((06?).1943, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Susan Mary Egan (25.08.1916 - 10.1995); three sons, two daughters.

07.10.1920
Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
18.02.2004
Weston Hospital, North Somerset district, Somerset

T/S.Lt.	26.06.1942
T/Lt.	26.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.	13.12.1956
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	06.05.1965, seniority 13.12.1964 (retd 07.10.1979)

01.07.1969

(01.1942)			HMS Hesperus (destroyer)
26.12.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inverary), from late 1944/early HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
1956?			joined Permanent RNVR, from 1958 RNR (Unattached (Severn Division) 14)

Newman,
Ronald Arthur
R.A. Newman

Son of ... Newman, and ... Wilkinson ?
Married (08.04.1939, Hove district, Sussex) Pauline Marion Thomas (21.04.1915 - 08.2001); one son, one daughter.
Residence: Hove, Sussex, then Lewes, Sussex, finally Burton Joyce, Nottingham.

18.02.1913
Hampstead district, London ?
-
07.1998
Burton Joyce, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire

T/A/S.Lt.	22.01.1943
T/S.Lt.	22.07.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

(05.1941)			HMS King George V (battleship)
?	-	22.01.1943	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(04.1943)	-	(05.1943)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
25.05.1943	-	(04.)1945	HMS Oakley (destroyer)
(07.1945)			HMS Oakley (destroyer) *
24.09.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Newton,
Percy
P. Newton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Margaret Williams)

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	14.11.1942

MID

27.03.1945

Operation Dragoon (invasion South of France 08.44)

(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank) *
(08.1944)			26th LCT Flotilla (despatches)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nicholas,
John Harold
"Jack"
J.H. Nicholas

Brother of El.Lt. W.A. Nicholas, RNVR.
Married to Mary.

?
-
11.2004 still alive at Malta

T/El.Lt.	23.07.1941
Lt. (L) RN	15.07.1946, seniority 28.06.1939
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN	28.06.1947 (retd 28.06.1961)

AMIEE

			served at Holy Loch [HMS Forth ? / HMS Titania ?]
04.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
15.07.1946			transferred to RN
04.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Wakeful
02.03.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Kenya
01.09.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS Collingwood

Nicholas,
Walter Archibald
W.A. Nicholas

Brother of El.Lt. J.H. Nicholas, RNVR.
Married; at least one daughter.

11.06.1913
-
11.12.1994
Daventry, Northamptonshire

Prob. A/T/El.S.Lt.	?
T/El.S.Lt.	?
T/El.Lt.	26.05.1941 (reld 1946?)

			served at Holy Loch [HMS Forth ? / HMS Titania ?]
12.04.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Revlis (degaussing establishment, Helensburgh)
(04.1946)			no posting listed

Nicholson,
Ian
I. Nicholson

04.06.1925
Edinburgh
-
07.05.2008 Edinburgh

T/A/S.Lt.

04.01.1945

05.08.1943

(04.1946)

HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for MLC)

Rugby player & administrator.

Nicholson,
Jack Frank
J.F. Nicholson

?
-

T/Lt.	06.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

29.04.1940

(04.1946)

Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 05.1941 at Roedean School, Brighton, from 06.1945 again at Portsmouth)

Nicolson,
Peter Trevylyan Erskine
P.T.E. Nicolson

Son of ... Nicolson, and ... Lopes.

(12?).1921
Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon
-
18.08.1942 (KIA) [age 20]

T/A/S.Lt.

	DSC	03.03.1942	attack enemy shipping Dover 17.01.42
	MID	20.10.1942	attack convoy Dover Straits 17.08.42

(1942)

18.08.1942

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 38 (motor torpedo boat)

Nightingirl,
James Darrell
J.D. Nightingirl

Son of Frederick Nightingirl, and Olive Smith.

(03?).1924
Uxbridge district, Middlesex
-
07.2005 still alive

T/Midsh.	?
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
Lt.	12.07.1956, seniority 01.07.1955
Lt.Cdr.	25.04.1964
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR	02.12.1966, seniority 25.04.1964 (retd 18.07.1968)

12.09.1967

?	-	spring 1942	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
spring 1942	-	1942	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
1942	-	(09.1942)	HMS Scylla (light cruiser)
12.05.1943	-	(01.)1945	Third Officer, HM MTB 520 (motor torpedo boat)
(1945?)	-	1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 676 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Product (trawler; repair ship)
12.07.1956			commissioned, Permanent RNVR (later: RNR)
02.12.1966			transferred, Special Branch

Chartered accountant.

Nisbet,
George Lindsay
G.L. Nisbet

1910 ??
-

T/S.Lt. (S)	26.11.1943
T/Lt. (S)	26.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

25.07.1944

(04.1946)

HMS Lothian (landing ship, headquarters (large))

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nisbet,
Jack Dexter
J.C. Nisbet

Son of John Richard Nisbet, and Ethel Florence Dexter.

(03?).1922
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-

T/Midsh.	21.08.1941
T/Lt.	24.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

13.09.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Tormentor (RN base, Warsash)
24.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Nisbet,
James Alexander
J.A. Nisbet

?
-

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

01.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

* for staff, etc. duties ashore

(10.1944)

(04.1946)

Sea Cadet Corps

Nisbet,
James Carrick
J.C. Nisbet (Photo courtesy of Mark & Pam)

Son of ... Nisbet, and ... Evans.

07.10.1919
Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside
-
23.02.1973
East Kurrajong, New South Wales, Australia

T/S.Lt.	21.08.1941
T/Lt.	21.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

?	-	(12.1941)	"Junon" (French ship?)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HM MTB 725 (motor torpedo boat) *
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nisbet,
John Tait
J.T. Nisbet

20.03.1925
-
08.1997
Rochdale district, Lancashire

T/Midsh.	19.11.1943
T/A/S.Lt.	20.09.1944
T/S.Lt.	20.03.1945

01.09.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Charlock (corvette)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Nisbet,
Robert Archibald
R.A. Nisbet

23.11.1900
Kensington district, London
-
09.1986
Sutton district, Surrey

T/Lt.	10.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

OBE

08.06.1944

HM's birthday 44: Roughs Fort AA [investiture 27.11.45]

10.01.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) (for miscellaneous services)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
08.01.1942	-	(01.1945)	HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Nisbet,
William Michael
W.M. Nisbet

Son of William Nisbet, and Violet E. Mountford.

26.04.1920
Richmond district, Surrey
-
11.2001
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire

T/A/S.Lt.	13.12.1940
T/S.Lt.	26.04.1941
T/Lt.	13.06.1943

(02.1941)			no appointment listed
06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Midge (for motor launches)
08.06.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats)
12.1942	-	(06.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 225 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
23.04.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Varne (submarine)
18.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Taurus (submarine)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Niven,
Alexander Bryan
"Sandy"
A.B. Niven

1922
St Mary district, Angus, Scotland
-
2010
Bathgate district, West Lothian, Scotland

T/A/S.Lt.	05.05.1944
T/S.Lt.	05.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

Edcuation: St Andrews University (MA; with Honours in History, English of the Second Class).

(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
20.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)

Niven,
James
"Tiff"
J. Niven

From Dundee, Scotland.

05.1908 ?
-
1952

T/A/Lt.	26.07.1940
T/Lt.	1941, seniority 26.07.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

28.05.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)
01.04.1941	-	(06.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Semita (patrol craft; minesweeping trawler?)
08.01.1944	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Lightfoot (Algerine class minesweeper)
09.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2217 (British Yard minesweeper)

Noakes,
David Alexander
D.A. Noakes (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Bolton)

Son of ... Noakes, and ... Heron.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

(06?).1923
Wandsworth district, London
-

Ord.Sea.	1941
T/A/S.Lt.	1942?
T/S.Lt.	21.10.1943
T/Lt.	21.10.1945

			served as a rating in the Coastal Forces
mid 1942			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
14.11.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Newark (destroyer)
09.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Tenacious (destroyer)

Noble,
Frank William
F.W. Noble

Married ((06?).1940, Strood district, Kent) Mabel Isabel Raes; one son.

1914 ?
-
(12?).1968
Bridport district, Dorset

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	16.10.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	16.10.1942 (reld 22.04.1946)
Lt.	1950/51?
Lt.Cdr.	19.11.1952, seniority 08.12.1950 (retd 10.03.1966)

VRD

11.12.1962

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
08.01.1942	-	(01.)1945	HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for duties on confidential books)
05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for duty at Leghorn)
1950/51?	-	10.03.1966	London Division RNVR (List II) [from late 1950s Unattached List RNR]

Nock,
Neville Robert
N.R. Nock

Son of ... Nook, and ... Early.

01.01.1921
St Thomas district, Devon
-
11.1999
New Forest, Hampshire

A/T/Lt.

DSC

22.01.46

St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42

(03.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 9 (motor torpedo boat)

Noding,
Donald Alan
"Don"
D.A. Noding

Son of Alan William Noding (1897-), and Marion B. Smith.
Married 1st ((12?).1951, Paddington, London) Evelyn Mildred Andrews (11.01.1920 - 01.1995).
Married 2nd ((06?).2001, Stafford, Staffordshire) Susan A. Owen.

(09?).1923
West Ham district, Greater London
-
10.2009 still alive

T/S.Lt.	17.02.1944
T/Lt.	17.02.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

22.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM ML 309 (motor launch)
06.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)

Noot,
Leonard Alfred
L.A. Noot

Son of Alfred Henry Noot and Edith Louisa Parsons.
Married (16.03.1940) Dorothy Ellen Nicholls; three daughters.

19.10.1913
Southwark district, Greater London / London
-
(12?).1970
Sutton district

L.Sea.	27.01.1941 [P/JX 237216]
T/S.Lt.	21.08.1942
T/Lt.	21.08.1943 (reld 03.01.1946)

Watchkeeping Certificate (04.02.1943; for LCT and similar craft only)

07.1941	-	02.06.1942	HMS Hydrangea (corvette) (escort duties, Mediterranean) [03.08.1941 participated in the sinking of U-401]
02.06.1942	-	21.08.1942	HMS President (additional) (for courses at RN College, Greenwich)
21.08.1942	-	27.09.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (additional) (for training)
27.09.1942	-	15.10.1942	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (additional) (for HMS Bronosaurus; for Landing Craft, Tank training)
15.10.1942	-	06.11.1945	HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) (additional) for:
15.10.1942	-	06.02.1943	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 398 (landing craft, tank)
06.02.1943	-	27.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 405 (landing craft, tank)
27.04.1943	-	05.08.1943	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 334 (landing craft, tank)
05.08.1943	-	24.09.1943	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 932 (landing craft, tank)
24.09.1943	-	23.06.1945	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 769 (landing craft, tank) (Operation Neptune, Normandy; recovery of PLUTO after it was redundant)
23.06.1945	-	06.11.1945	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 1127 (landing craft, tank)
06.11.1945	-	03.01.1946	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for dispresal from Rosneath)

Norcott,
Harry
H. Norcott

Son of Harold Norcott, and Dorothy M. Davison.
Married ((06?).1944, Cheam, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Barbara Mary Lees, of Cheam, Surrey.

(09?).1921
Newark district, Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire
-
17.07.1945
(killed in an air crash)[age 24]
[Yeovilton Churchyard, RNAS Extension, F.2]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	26.06.1942
T/Lt. (A)	27.05.1944

01.04.1943	-	(01.)1945	pilot, 801 Squadron FAA
14.02.1945	-	17.07.1945	pilot, 759 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] (for instructional duties)

Norgett,
John
"Jack"
J. Norgett (Photo courtesy of Mrs Isobel Hays)

Son of Harry Cordell Norgett, and Florence Elizabeth Linnell.

08.08.1914
Walthamstow, West Ham district, Essex
-
28.03.2005

Ord.Sea.	01.10.1940
T/S.Lt.	12.06.1942
A/T/Lt.	12.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

01.10.1940			joined Royal Naval Patrol Service (qualified as a Hydrophone Listener on 26/10/40, operating ASDIC)
21.12.1940			HMS De La Pole (minesweeping trawler) [HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft)]
12.03.1941			HMS Negro (minesweeping trawler)
?	-	12.06.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Norman,
Alan
A. Norman (Photo courtesy of Mr Ray A. Purton)

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	15.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

1943			qualified as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
08.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Air Intelligence Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)

Norris,
Arthur John
A.J. Norris

Married (08.07.1933, Hurstpierpont) Margaret Faith Sands (1908-1977); one daughter (died in infancy), two sons.

26.12.1892
Chichester, Sussex
-
11.11.1962
Hassocks, Sussex

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

29.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

Had earlier served in the Navy in WWI, joining in 1914 as a Writer. He accepted discharge in 1923, by then a Petty Officer and 1st Writer, as a result of malaria contracted in India. He served on HMS Achilles, HMS Caroline and HMS Merlin.
Worked in Venezuela as a manager for the Caribbean Petroleum Company.

29.12.1941

(07.1945)

HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) (probably for sea transport duties)

Norton,
David Barton Moon
D.B.M. Norton

Son of David Richmond and Annie Moon Norton, of Rosstrevor, Co. Down, Ireland.
Married ((03?).1926, St Marylebone district, London) Norah J. Wallace.

(12?).1898
Kilkeel district, Ireland
-
19.09.1958
Farm M'Teni Plains, Port Shepstone, Natal, South Africa

T/S.Lt.	09.12.1940
T/Lt.	09.03.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 01.1945, < 03.1945 (commission terminated 28.07.1945; medically unfit)

CdeG

Operation Dragoon (invasion South of France 08.44)

(02.1941)	-	(10.1941)	no appointment listed
10.10.1941	-	(04.1942)	HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(06.1942)	-	(12.1942)	HMS Troubadour *
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
15.02.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	British Naval Liaison Officer, French light cruiser "Gloire" *
(04.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed [possibly British Naval Liaison Officer, French cruiser "Émile Bertin" (Croix de Guerre)]
(04.1945)			HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Norton,
John Elliot
"Johnny"
J.E. Norton

?
-

T/S.Lt.	24.11.1943
A/T/Lt.	01.08.1945

26.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
05.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

Norway,
Nevil Shute
N.S. Norway

Second child of Arthur Hamilton Norway, CB, and Mary Louisa Gadsden.
Married (23.11.1931) Frances Mary Heaton; two daughters.

17.01.1899
Ealing, London
-
12.01.1960
Melbourne, Australia

T/S.Lt.	21.06.1940
T/A/Lt.	< 10.1940
T/Lt.	21.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	03.1941 (reld 1945)

Education: Dragon School, Oxford; Shrewsbury School; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Balliol College, Oxford University (BA); FRAeS.

1918			served European War as a Private in the Suffolk Regiment
Aeronautical career: Calculator, the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd, 1922-1924; Chief Calculator to Airship Guarantee Co. Ltd on construction of Rigid Airship R. 100, 1925; Deputy Chief Engineer, 1928; flew the Atlantic twice in R. 100, representing the constructors, 1930; Managing Director, Yorkshire Aeroplane Club Ltd, 1927-1930; founded Airspeed Ltd, aeroplane constructors, 1931; Joint Managing Director, 1931-1938.
25.06.1940	-	(07.1945)	Department of the Inspector of Anti-Aircraft Weapons, from 1941 Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (took part in the Normandy landings 06.1944 as a writer for the Ministry of Information, and later as a correspondent in Burma 1945)

Author of mainly novels under the pen name Nevil Shute.
Published: Marazan, 1926; So Disdained, 1928; Lonely Road, 1932; Ruined City, 1938; What Happened to the Corbetts, 1939; An Old Captivity, 1940; Landfall, 1940; Pied Piper, 1942; Pastoral, 1944; Most Secret, 1945; Vinland the Good, 1946; The Chequer Board, 1947; No Highway, 1948; A Town Like Alice, 1949; Round The Bend, 1951; The Far Country, 1952; In the Wet, 1953; Slide Rule (autobiography), 1954; Requiem for a Wren, 1955; Beyond the Black Stump, 1956; On the Beach, 1957; The Rainbow and the Rose, 1958; Trustee from the Toolroom, 1960 (posthumous); Stephen Morris, 1961 (posthumous).
Literature: Gerald Pawle, The secret war (1956); Julian Smith, Nevil Shute (1976); John Anderson, Nevil Shute and the DMWD (2004).

Norwell,
John Luke
"Jack"
J.L. Norwell (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Norwell)

?
-

T/S.Lt.	29.10.1939
T/Lt.	13.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

15.12.1936			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached Clyde Division, RNVR]
29.10.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Prosperine (RN base, Scapa)
21.01.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 1004 (motor launch) [tender to HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)] *
12.01.1943	-	(10.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 385 (motor launch) [picked up survivors of U-97, sunk off Haifa 17.06.1943]
20.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Slinger (escort carrier)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Nottingham,
Fred Charles
"Freddie"
F.C. Nottingham

Son of a railwayman.
Married ((09?).1947, Horsham district, Sussex) Lois Talbot; four children.

15.06.1916
Johannesburg, South Africa
-
17.04.2005

Prob. S.Lt. (A)	28.02.1939
S.Lt. (A)	?, seniority 28.02.1939
Lt. (A)	15.06.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	< 07.1945

	DSC	20.01.1942	Mediterranean flights [investiture 09.03.43]
	MID	30.05.1944	North Russian convoy 02.44

Education: studied aero-engineering in the UK.

28.02.1939	-	(04.1939)	HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth)
1939	-	1939	No. 1 RNVR pilots’ course
1939	-	1940	ferried Swordfish torpedo-bombers to Toulon, where the Royal Navy was conducting intensive flying training
1940	-	1940	825 Squadron FAA (UK south coast)
			short spell at Machrihanish on Kintyre
24.11.1940	-	05.1941	pilot, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable] (Mediterranean)
05.1941	-	11.1941	830 Squadron FAA [Hal Far, Malta]
11.1941	-	09.04.1942	senior pilot, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes] (Ceylon; ship sunk)
(04.1942?)	-	(< 08.) 1942	senior pilot, 827 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable] (Colombo, Ceylon & Mediterranean)
late 1942	-		flying instructor and test pilot (Barracuda bombers)
12.07.1943	-	28.03.1944	Commanding Officer, 816 Squadron FAA [HMS Tracker & HMS Chaser] (Atlantic)
30.01.1945	-	27.03.1945	Commanding Officer, 854 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious] (Pacific) [lost flying a Grumman TBF Avenger; rescued by USS Kingfish on her 11th war patrol]
(04.1946)			HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown) *

Got a job with the Johannesburg stock exchange, then bought a fruit farm at Mulders Drift, Krugersdorp.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Nowson,
Sidney James Duncan
S.J.D. Nowson

30.08.1919
-
08.2003
Sutton, Surrey

Prob. T/A/S.Lt.	15.03.1940
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	03.1941, seniority 31.08.1940
T/Lt.	15.09.1942

			HACS Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser)
02.12.1940	-	(08.1942)	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
06.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Nunn,
Frederick Arthur
F.A. Nunn

04.10.1913 ?
Sheffield, Yorkshire ?
-
08.01.1978 ?
Oxford, Oxfordshire ?

T/S.Lt.	11.09.1941
T/Lt.	11.09.1942

28.10.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Thames Queen (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel)
01.11.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Larne (Algerine class minesweeper)
02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Fly (Algerine class minesweeper)

Nutting,
Gerald Arthur
G.A. Nutting (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Ryder)

Son of Josiah Jesson Nutting (1887-1942), and Beatrice Lily Abbott (1880-1967).
Married ((03?).1940, Ilford district, Essex) Muriel M. Phillips; no children.

23.07.1911
Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan
-
02.03.1993
Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston district, Lancashire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	25.09.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	25.06.1943 (reld 08.04.1946)

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

(12.1942)			no appointment listed
21.11.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Safeguard (base for Defensively Equippped Merchant Ships, Calmore, Southampton)
25.06.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Safeguard (base for Defensively Equippped Merchant Ships, Calmore, Southampton)
(06.1944)	-	(10.1945)	HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) *
1947?	-	1962?	Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve

03.02.1908
Richmond district, Surrey
-
10.1992
Exeter district, Devon

T/Lt.	29.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	?

	DSC	01.01.43	New Year 43
	MID	02.10.42	Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.42)

(1942)	-	(1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 312 (motor gun boat)
			Commanding Officer, .. MTB Flotilla
24.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 2011 (motor torpedo boat)

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