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O.N.A. Cecil   to   P.N. Churchill
Cecil, [Sir] Oswald Nigel Amherst	11.11.1925 - 10.03.2017 Winchester, Hampshire	Midsh.   ... ... S.Lt. 16.12.1944 ... ... R.Adm. 07.07.1975 (retd 15.09.1979)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.05.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 87). ... - ... ... 03.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Serapis ... - ... ...
Chacksfield, Vincent William	10.02.1915 - 24.12.1992 Northampton district, Northamptonshire	A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 29.04.1940, seniority 01.01.1939 Lt. 06.1940, seniority 01.03.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1948 (retd 07.07.1956; own request)	... - ... ... 16.04.1941 - (06.)1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 06.08.1942 - (06.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Easton (destroyer) (08.1943) - (10.1943) French Ship "Suffren" (as liaison officer to the French squadron at Alexandria) 16.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 08.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) ... - ... ...
Chalmer, Alexander Reginald Son of Colonel George Chalmer, formerly of The Gordon Highlanders, and Janet Chalmer. Husband of Katharine Douglas Gordon Chalmer, of Nairn.	21.12.1886 Scotland - 20.01.1943 [age 56] [Camberwell (Honor Oak) Crematorium, screen wall, panel 3]	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 30.04.1906 Lt. 31.12.1908 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1916 (retd) Cdr. (retd) 21.12.1926	15.09.1901     entered RN ? - 20.01.1943 Admiralty [HMS President] (killed at a bombing) * * although borne on the Active List, no appointments are given in the Navy Lists of 02.1941, 12.1941, 08.1942 & 02.1943.
Chalmers, Andrew Thomas "Andy" Son of an intelligence officer. Married (1945) Jean Eleanor Hawkins; two sons. From Hanworth, near Norwich.	27.12.1920 - 13.10.2005	A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 10.10.1942, seniority 01.05.1942 Lt. 01.08.1943 ?, seniority 16.01.1944 ?, seniority 16.01.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1951 (retd 27.12.1970) DSC 30.01.1945 2 patrols & special operations Northern Waters MID 18.07.1944 Norwegian patrols: 2 supply ships sunk, 1 damaged	1936 joined RN as a boy seaman 1st class 1942 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) (08.1942) no appointment listed [CO?] 90th Landing Craft Flotilla (North Africa) (02.1943) no appointment listed 03.05.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 23.06.1943 - (04.1944) HMS Venturer (submarine) 03.05.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 06.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Venturer (submarine) 07.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Tabard (submarine) 1946? - ? First Lieutenant, HMS Meteorite (ex-German submarine) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Spur (submarine) 07.1948 - 06.1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Truculent (submarine) 30.01.1950 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 03.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Alderney (submarine) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Sanguine (submarine) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Trenchant (submarine) ? - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Alliance (submarine) ? - ? commander's assistant, HMS Indefatigable (training carrier) 19.09.1955 - (01.1956) First Lieutenant, HMS Veryan Bay (frigate) (West Indies) 20.05.1959 - (02.1969) Commanding Officer, RG [= ?], Devonport [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot)] Worked for the Probation Service.
Chalmers, William Scott Son of the late Quintin Chalmers, MD, JP, of London. Married (1921) Muriel Violet Frances (born 1899), daughter of Hon. Francis William Arthur Agar; two sons.	01.05.1888 Glasgow, Scotland - 11.06.1971 Titchfield, Hampshire	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1908? S.Lt. 21.12.1908, seniority 15.05.1908 Lt. 09.02.1910, seniority 15.08.1909 Cdr. 30.06.1921 Capt. 31.12.1927 R.Adm. 10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939) (re-employed 25.08.1939) (reverted to retd < 08.1942) CBE 08.06.1939 HM's birthday 39 DSC 17.01.1919  Belgium 14-15 * * In recognition of his services with the Horse Boats on the Belgian Canals and the Naval Siege Guns on shore in Flanders between December, 1914, and April, 1915. He at all times displayed the seamanlike qualities of quickness and resource and personal courage of a very high order. His good example of cheerful and fearless work under the most trying circumstances contributed in a great degree to the excellent behaviour of the men.	Education: Glasgow Academy (1895-1902); HMS Britannia; RN College, Dartmouth 15.09.1903     entered RN 1912 - 1914 Navigating Officer, HMS Rainbow 1914 - 1914 First Lieutenant & Navigating Officer, HMS Earl Grey 1914 - 1915 service in horse canal boats and with Royal Naval Siege Guns, Belgium (Croix de Guerre, France [30.11.1917], DSC) 1915 - 1918 on staff of Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty [HMS Lion and HMS Queen Elizabeth, Battle of Jutland (despatches, British once [15.09.1916], French twice)] 01.11.1923 - 14.11.1923 Admiralty [HMS President] 15.11.1923 - (01.)1925 Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.12.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 16.01.1928 - (06.1928) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 22.03.1929 - 04.04.1929 HMAS Cerberus II / London Depot [on loan to Permanent Naval Force, Australia] 05.04.1929 - 16.05.1929 HMAS Australia (additional; for passage to Australia) [on loan to Permanent Naval Force, Australia] 17.05.1929 - 28.05..1931 Flag Captain, HMAS Australia (cruiser) & as Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [on loan to Permanent Naval Force, Australia] 29.05.1931 - 26.09..1931 Commanding Officer, HMAS Australia (cruiser) [on loan to Permanent Naval Force, Australia] 27.09.1931 - 13.01.1932 HMAS Cerberus / London Depot (additional; for passage to UK per RMS Comorin) [on loan to Permanent Naval Force, Australia] 01.08.1932 - (07.)1934 staff, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 23.10.1934 - 10.10.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.02.1937 - 10.01.1939 Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.08.1939 - 1942 HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services) 1939 Supreme War Council 1940 Allied Military Council 1942 Admiralty Naval Staff Chairman, Emergency Services Eastern Region, 1943-1945. Post-war Deputy to Managing Director Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Published: The Life and Letters of David Beatty, 1951; Max Horton and the Western Approaches, 1954; Full Cycle (the biography of Admiral Sir B. H. Ramsay), 1959.
Chambers, Kenneth George Godfrey	09.07.1927 - 12.07.1989	Midsh. 01.09.1944 ... ... Lt. 01.10.1948 (resigned 1953/54?)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Drake House; 01.01.1941-1945; Admiralty No. 264). ... - ... ... 05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Belfast ... - ... ...
Champion, John Pelham Son of Rev. Francis Beresford Champion.	26.03.1883 Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire - 13.02.1955 [Hasketon, Woodbridge, Suffolk ?]	A/S.Lt. 26.03.1902? S.Lt. 27.03.1903, seniority 26.03.1902 Lt. ? Cdr. 31.12.1915 (retd 13.12.1922; own request) Capt. (retd) 26.03.1928 (reverted to retd 1945) T/Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 1944? CBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 DSO 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland 31.05.16 LoP 1944? Operation Neptune	15.01.1897     entered RN (1916) HMS Maenad 17.08.1918 - (01.1919) Deputy Director of Naval Equipment 1939 - 1945 Naval Control Service Officer, Thames and Medway 16.10.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) 06.09.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) 14.04.1941 - (12.1943) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Southend [HMS Pembroke IV, since 01.10.1941 HMS Leigh] (04.1944) - (07.1945) Commodore-in-Charge, Southend & Naval Control Service Officer, Thames [HMS Leigh]
Champness, Charles Henry Second son of Henry Robert Champness, MVO, Assistant Director of Naval Construction, and Susan Augusta Quiller. Married (15.06.1920, New Monkland Church, Airdrie, Scotland) Jessie Black Motherwell, daughter of late John Motherwell, coalmaster, of Rawyards House, Rawyards, Lanarkshire.	30.08.1889 Portsea Island district, Hampshire - 13.08.1963 Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland	Cadet 15.09.1904 Midsh. 15.01.1906 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.05.1909 Lt. 31.12.1911 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1919 Cdr. 31.12.1925 (retd 01.06.1935; own request) Capt. (retd) 01.06.1935 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946) DSO 25.06.1940 Norwegian coast [investiture 06.08.40] MID 20.12.1940 operations in Norway Jubilee Medal, 1935; Coronation Medal, 1953.	Education: Plymouth College (1897-1902); Dulwich College (16.01.1903-04.1904); Shortlands School, Eastbourne (1904); HMS Britannia (09.1904). 03.1907     HMS Exmouth 04.1907     HMS Terrible (temporary) 26.05.1909     HMS Irresistible 01.06.1910     HMS Gibraltar 07?.1910     HMS Fox 1910 - 1912 served in Persian Gulf in suppression of gun­running (Naval General Service Medal, Persian Gulf Bar) 1913     qualified as Navigation Specialist 1914 - 1918 navigator in HMS Hornet (destroyer), HMS Iphigenia (minelayer), HMS King Orry (armed merchant cruiser), HMS Parker (flotilla leader): 1914 - 1915 in North Sea Destroyers 11.1915 - 12.1916 served in the White Sea (Russian Order of St Anne 3rd Cl. with crossed swords, 1914-1915 Star, Victory and Allied Medals) 12.1916 - 11.1918 in North Sea Destroyers 15.12.1922 - (08.1923) Navigating Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) 02.09.1924 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.01.1926 - (07.)1927 HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 04.10.1927 - (06.)1928 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.03.1929 - (03.)1931 Navigating Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & as Fleet Navigating Officer, Africa Station 11.06.1931 - 30.08.1933 Navigating Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)  (and from 10?.1931 as Squadron Navigating Officer & Staff Officer (Operations), Battle Cruiser Squadron) (01.1934) - (03.1934) no appointment listed 09.05.1934 - 23.02.1935 Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Pembroke] Marine Superintendent to Scottish Fishery Board, 1935-1939 04.1940 - 05.1940 landed for operations in Norway, April-May 1940 (DSO, despatches, 1939-1945 Star) 05.05.1940 - 03.1941 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for ship's complement) 03.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton) 26.03.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) 08.01.1943 - (01.)1945 Captain-in-Charge, Jamaica [HMS Morgan (RN base, Kingston, Jamaica)] (07.1945)     no appointment listed Marine Superintendent to Scottish Home Department, 09.1945-12.1954.
Chance, Edward Stanley Royal Concession and Declaration of 31.03.1956 to bear the name of: Chance-Curwen. Son of Frederick Selby Chance (1886-1946), and Isabel Mary Curwen (1897-1967). Married 1st ((06?).1949, Chelsea district, London) Caryl Catcheside ((06?).1929 - ). Married 2nd Elizabeth Honor Susan Calcott ((12?).1941 - ), daughter of George Calcott, and Audrey Olive Eleanor Milligan; two sons. Elizabeth Curwen remarried (1988) David Heath Thornely.	20.11.1924 St Marylebone district, London - 22.10.1983 Belle Isle, Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmorland	Midsh. 01.01.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 S.Lt. 01.11.1943 Lt. 01.12.1945 (Emgcy List 12.07.1947) (removed 01.03.1952; medically unfit)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.01.1939-12.1941; Admiralty No. 1921). 01.01.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) 05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Melbreak (Hunt class destroyer) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed (02.1944) - (04.)1944 submarine course [HMS Dolphin] 24.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 27.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Taku (T class submarine) 15.01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines) 12.06.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Springer (S class submarine) 01.12.1945 - (07.)1946 HMS Springer (S class submarine) 02.11.1946 - (04.)1947 HMS Spur (S class submarine)
Chapman, Alex Colin Son of Rev. Theodore Charles Chapman and Alice Barr Chapman. Married (1929) Janet Marion, daughter of late Canon Percy Hugh Chapman, LL.D.; one son.	15.09.1897 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire - 04.09.1970 [Ravelston, The Marina, Deal ?]	Midsh. 08.1914 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.09.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt.  30.06.1940 (retd 08.07.1949) CBE 29.06.1943 bringing ship to port after torpedo attack MID 25.11.1941 operations Style & Substance	Education: Clifton College; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 09.1910     entered RN (08.1923) no appointment listed 27.09.1923 - (01.1925) qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 07.07.1926 - (07.1927) Gunnery Officer, HMS Adventure 28.06.1929 - (08.)1929 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 21.12.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 25.10.1930 - (02.1931) Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1932 - (09.1932) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.12.1933 - (02.1936) Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship), later (1936) HMS Valiant (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 17.11.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Fleetwood (escort vessel) (Home Fleet) 22.02.1938 - (04.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) 24.07.1940 - (02.)1941 Staff Officer (Plans) to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 14.05.1941 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser) 10.06.1943 - (06.)1944 Captain of the Fleet, Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York (battleship)] 27.07.1944 - 31.07.1946 Director of Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.04.1948 - (07.1948) Head of Naval Branch Combined Services Division, Berlin [HMS Royal Albert] 08.01.1949 - 08.07.1949 Naval ADC to the King
Chapman, Edmund Henry Cracroft Son of Edmund Steuart Chapman (1870-1909), and Muriel Elfrida Nourse. Married (1933).	10.10.1907 - 04.11.1987	Midsh. 15.09.1925 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 16.09.1928 Lt. 16.09.1930 Lt.Cdr. 16.09.1938 (retd 10.10.1952) A/Cdr. > 02.1943, < 06.1943 Cdr. (retd) 10.10.1952 MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 45	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 11.01.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.04.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Verbena (sloop) (Africa) 24.10.1931 - (09.)1932 HMS Basilisk (destroyer) (Mediterranean) qualified for observer duties 01.08.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 08.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 07.01.1937 - (02.)1938 HMAS Australia (cruiser) 19.04.1938 - (06.)1938 HMAS Albatross (seaplane carrier) 07.07.1938 - (10.1938) HMAS Canberra (cruiser) (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed (08.1939) Fleet Air Arm ? - 17.09.1939 observer, Fleet Air Arm [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (ship torpedoed) (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 03.09.1940 - (02.)1941 Assistant Staff Officer (Air), HMS Formidable  (aircraft carrier) 11.10.1941 - (08.)1942 Staff of Second Sea Lord's Office for Appointments, &c, Admiralty [HMS President] (for Fleet Air Arm personnel duties) 15.09.1942 - (08.)1943 Air Staff Officer on staff of Rear-Admiral, Home Fleet Aircraft Carriers [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)] 20.08.1943 - (10.)1943 on staff of Commander (A)-in-Charge of Naval Air Stations, Mediterranean [HMS Cormorant II] (12).1943 - 11.04.1944 Air Staff Officer on staff of Rear-Admiral, Home Fleet [later: Eastern Fleet] Aircraft Carriers [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] * 11.04.1944 - (04.1946) directing staff, RN Tactical School, Greenwich [HMS President] 30.09.1946 - (05.1950) HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex) * appointment dated 20.08.1943 which implies a continuation of the appointment at HMS Cormorant II
Chapman, George Critchett	21.08.1926 - 22.11.2005 [according to England & Wales Death Index: 12.08.1926-05.2006]	Midsh. 01.01.1944 ... ... S.Lt. 01.08.1945 ... ... Cdr. (E) 30.06.1961 (retd)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.05.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 216). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     HMS Gregale * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Chapman, Kenneth Alfred Jack	20.12.1902 Slough, Eton district, Buckinghamshire - 09.06.1959 Reading district, Berkshire	Wt. Wardmaster 15.11.1939 A/Cd. Wardmaster ? Wardmaster Lt. ? (retd 20.12.1952; age) MBE 01.01.1953 New Year 53 [investiture 24.02.53]	10.01.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
Chapman, Miles Patrick Married ...; ... children (one son?).	19.07.1921 Johannesburg, South Africa - 27.03.2008 Emsworth, Hampshire	Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.10.1940 Lt. 16.02.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1950 (retd 19.07.1971) MBE 12.06.1971 HM's birthday 71 [investiture 20.07.71]	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. 01.09.1938 - 08.1939 direct entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 04.08.1939 - 04.02.1941 HMS Danae (cruiser) 05.02.1942 - 11.05.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training) 26.05.1941 - 15.06.1941 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for training) 15.06.1941 - 04.07.1941 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for training) 06.07.1941 - 27.07.1941 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for training) 28.07.1941 - 09.09.1941 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for training) 09.09.1941 - 20.07.1942 HMS Fleetwood (sloop) 05.08.1942 - 23.09.1944 HMS Forester (destroyer) 23.09.1944 - 23.11.1944 gunnery officer's course [HMS Excellent?] 23.11.1944 - 19.06.1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Duncan (destroyer) 25.07.1945 - 30.09.1945 HMS Macaw (RN Air Station, Bootle) (Instructor training RAF Pilots for Fleet Air Arm) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 05.06.1946 - 14.01.1947 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for long course in Torpedo & Anti-Submarine duties) 15.01.1947 - 10.03.1948 HMS Vernon (TAS school, Portsmouth) (for instructional staff) 11.03.1948 - 25.12.1949 Executive Officer & Flotilla Torpedo & Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Black Swan (sloop) 27.03.1950 - 14.02.1952 HMS Defiance (training establishment, Devonport) 15.02.1952 - 16.09.1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Plover (minesweeper) 05.10.1953 - 30.11.1954 Squadron Torpedo and Anti-Submarine Officer & Senior Staff Officer, HMS Agincourt (destroyer) 10.01.1955 - 24.11.1955 Fleet Torpedo & Anti-Submarine Officer, America and West Indies Station, and Forecastle & Divisional Officer, HMS Superb (cruiser) 16.01.1956 - 30.09.1957 Staff Torpedo & Anti-Submarine Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 06.01.1958 - 25.01.1960 UCWE (Application Officer for Mine hunting equipment) 25.02.1960 - 01.08.1969 Torpedo Trials Team (later CWTA), Mine Warfare Group, HMS Vernon (TAS School, Portsmouth)
Chapman, Rowland Paul	20.07.1897 Hereford district, Herefordshire - 04.01.1959 Evancoyd, Radnorshire	Midsh. 1914 S.Lt. 10.1916? Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.09.1926 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1929 Capt. (E) 30.06.1941 (retd 29.01.1948) (reverted to retd 03.07.1948)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 05.1912 entered RN 08.1914 - ? HMS Hannibal ? - 10.1916 HMS Benbow 10.1916 - 05.1917 HMS Mignonette (sloop) 05.1917 - ? HMS Christopher (destroyer) ? - (01.1919) HMS Valentine (torpedo-boat destroyer) early 1920 - 05.1920 engineering course, RN College, Greenwich 05.1920 - 1921 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham 10.10.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Warspite (battleship) 15.05.1924 - (05.)1926 HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (North America and West Indies) 10.07.1926 - (06.1928) a Second Assistant to the Manager, Engineering Department, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 08.07.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (08.1930)     no appointment listed 09.09.1930 - 06.03.1933 HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (for charge of gun mountings and sighting gear) 18.05.1933 - 26.05.1936 HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) 07.07.1936 - (08.1939) an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1940) no appointment listed (10.1940) no appointment listed (02.1941) no appointment listed (12.1941) HM Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Sultan] * 02.1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity (Mukden in Manchuria) 24.04.1946 - 30.11.1946 Captain (E)-in-Charge, Artificers' Training Establishment [HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) 01.12.1946 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, HMS Fisgard (naval artificers' training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall) 05.11.1947 - 29.01.1948 also: Naval ADC to the King MIMechE. * indexed, but not listed as such
Chapman, Samuel	03.06.1890 * Stretford, Lancashire - 08.03.1970 Bexleyheath, Greenwich, Kent * death registration shows 25.12.1890 as date of birth	A/Gnr. (T) 01.08.1914 Gnr. (T) 04.08.1915, seniority 01.08.1914 A/Mate 22.06.1918 Mate 1919?, seniority 22.06.1918 A/Lt. 22.06.1920 Lt. 1921?, seniority 22.06.1920 Lt.Cdr. 22.06.1928 (retd 03.06.1935) Cdr. (retd) 03.06.1935 (reverted to retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	... - ... ... 03.10.1939 - (12.1942) Boom Defence Officer, Aden (Boom Defence Depot, Aden [HMS Sheba]) (02.1943) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 18.05.1943 - (06.)1944 Boom Defence Officer, HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea, Ross-shire) 30.08.1944 - (01.)1945 Boom Defence Depot, Lyness [HMS Proserpine] 27.03.1945 - (07.)1945 Boom Defence Depot, Portsmouth [HMS Victory III] (10.1945)     no appointment listed
Charlwood, David White	05.05.1880 King's Norton district, Worcestershire - 05.10.1960 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.07.1937 (retd)	28.12.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
Charman, Albert Edward "Ted" Son of John "Jack" Charman (1875-1951), and Mary Ann "Polly" Holmes (1884-1968).	17.11.1910 Hook, Kingston district, Surrey - 23.08.1991 Dunstan Bank, Gateshead district, Tyne and Wear	A/Wt. Steward 19.09.1941 Wt. Steward 1942?, seniority 19.09.1941 Cd. Steward = Cd. Catering Offr. 27.03.1943 Lt. (S) 01.08.1945, seniority 13.02.1945 Supply Lt.Cdr. (Catering) 13.02.1953 (retd 17.11.1960) MBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 54 [investiture 20.07.54]	(12.1941)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 06.03.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) (02.1943) - (06.)1943 HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth) * (08.)1943 - (07.1945) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 15.02.1946 - (05.1949) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 02.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Ceres (Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire) 21.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 29.06.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Centaur (light fleet carrier) (01.1957)     HMS Ceres (Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire) * (01.1959)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * MHCI. * indexed, but not listed as such
Chartres, Clive Frederick Evelyn Son of Frederick William Charles Chartres (1880-1967), and Constance Muriel Antill (1884-1943), of Woodbridge, Suffolk.	(06?).1919 Wangford district, Suffolk - 23.03.1943 (MPK) [age 23] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1]	Cadet 01.01.1937 S.Lt. (E) 01.08.1939 Lt. (E) 16.02.1941	11.01.1937 - 07.09.1937 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 08.09.1937 - 31.12.1937 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1938 - (02.)1941 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 12.09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) 22.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Taku (submarine) 1943 - 23.03.1943 HMS Turbulent (submarine) (ship lost off Sardinia)
Chatfield, Lord Alfred Ernle Montacute; 1st Baron Chatfield of Ditchling, cr. 11.06.1937 Only son of late Admiral Alfred John Chatfield, CB (1831-1910), and Louisa Faulconer (?-1916). Married (29.07.1909) Lillian Emma St John Matthews (CStJ 1957) (26.03.1889 - 30.09.1977), daughter of Maj. George Lipscomb Matthews, TF (1858-?), and Emma Florence Lewis; one son, one daughter (and one daughter deceased).	27.09.1873 Southsea, Portsea Island, Hampshire - 15.11.1967 Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire	Midsh. 15.08.1888 S.Lt. 27.09.1892 Lt. 27.03.1894 Cdr. 31.12.1903 Capt. 30.09.1909 R.Adm. 31.07.1920 V.Adm. 01.03.1926 Adm. 01.04.1930 Adm. of the Fleet 08.05.1935 (half-pay 07.09.1938?) - PC 1939 ? GCB 01.01.1934 New Year 34 KCB 1922 ? CB 03.06.1916 HM's birthday 16 OM 02.01.1939 ? KCMG 05.04.1919 services during the war CMG 15.09.1916 commanded and fought Flagship with great skill and gallantry CVO 04.02.1912 ? MID 03.03.1915 ? Hon. DCL Oxford, 1934; Hon. LLD Cambridge, 1939 Gold Medal, RSA, 1947; Grand Cross of the Phœnix (Greece), 1933; Grand Cross of Aviz of Portugal, 1940	15.07.1886   joined RN, HMS Britannia specialized in Gunnery 03.1906 - 06.1909 Commanding Officer, Gunnery School HMS Excellent 11.1911 - 02.1912 Captain HMS Medina during tour of King George V and Queen Mary in India 1914 - 1916 served as Flag Captain to Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Fleet (Sir David Beatty), HMS Lion, during action off Heligoland, Dogger Bank action, 1915 (despatches, CB), and battle of Jutland, 1916 (despatches, CMG) 02.1917 - 07.04.1919 Flag Captain and Fleet Gunnery Officer to Sir David Beatty (Commander-in-Chief Grand Fleet), HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 19.06.1919 - 05.03.1920 4th Sea Lord (Naval Representative, Washington Naval Conference, 1920) 15.03.1920 - 11.12.1922 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff 11.12.1922 - 01.1925 Commanded Third Light Cruiser Squadron [HMS Cardiff] (01.1925) no appointment listed 30.04.1925 - 01.11.1928 Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy 17.04.1929 - 26.05.1930 Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 27.05.1930 - 30.09.1932 Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 21.01.1933 - 07.09.1938 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (First Sea Lord) and Chief of Naval Staff  22.09.1938 - 04.02.1939 Chairman of Expert Committee on Indian Defence [HMS President] 1939 - 1940 Minister for Co­ordination of Defence (with seat in War Cabinet) 1940 Chairman of Committee on Evacuation of Casualties in London Region Hospitals 1940 - 1946 Chairman of Civil Defence Honours Committee Special Assistant Commissioner for Hampshire, 1941; President: Institute of Naval Architects, 1941-1948; War Memorials Advisory Committee, 1943-1948; Chairman of Trustees of Imperial War Museum, 1943-1950; Chairman Royal Empire Society, 1948-1951; President of Garden Tomb Association, 1950-. DL Bucks, 15.06.1951. Freedom of Salters' Company, 1937.
Chattock, Thomas Rawden Married 1st (14.11.1924) Irene ...; ... children (one son?). Married 2nd ((03?).1947, Surrey South Western district) ... Millar, née King.	05.01.1901 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 01.09.1959 Ware, Hertfordshire	Midsh. 06.09.1917 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1920 S.Lt. 15.01.1921 Lt. 15.01.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.01.1931 (retd 1947?) Cdr. (retd) 1947?	15.09.1914     entered RN 06.09.1917 - 01.1919 HMS Canada (battleship) 31.01.1919 - 01.06.1919 HMS Vanessa (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blake (destroyer depot ship)] 01.06.1919 - 03.1920 HMS Princess Royal (battlecruiser) 03.1920 - 19.08.1920 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 20.08.1920 - 04.1922 HMS Winchelsea (torpedo-boat destroyer) 19.04.1922 - 07.1922 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for course at Cambridge University) 11.09.1922 - 15.12.1922 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for course for rank of Lt., to be followed by courses in torpedoes & navigation) 28.12.1922 - 01.04.1924 HMS Sandhurst (destroyer repair ship) 01.04.1924 - 09.05.1924 HMS Diligence (temporarily) 11.06.1924 - 20.06.1924 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for GCC??) 21.06.1924 - 05.1926 HMS Cornflower (sloop) (Mediterranean) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 24.07.1926 - 04.1928 HMS Conquest (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 07.04.1928 - 06.1929 HMS Douglas (flotilla leader, 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 21.08.1929 - 30.10.1929 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for Unemployed Time) 31.10.1929 - 30.11.1929 First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.11.1929 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Vimy (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932)     no appointment listed (01.1933)     no appointment listed 01.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 27.05.1935 - 13.04.1938 HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) (for First Lieutenant duties) [lent to RAN] (06.1938)     no appointment listed 04.07.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 01.03.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Durban (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 23.11.1939 - 25.12.1941 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (captured) 25.12.1941 - 30.08.1945 POW in Japanese captivity at Hong Kong: 30.12.1941 - 23.01.1942 Sham Shui Po 23.01.1942 - 18.04.1942 North Point 18.04.1942 - 15.05.1944 Argyle Street 15.05.1944 - 30.08.1945 Sham Shui Po 14.02.1946 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)
Chatwin, Cecil Athos Newcome Only son of Herbert Freeman Chatwin (1871-?), and Emma Chatwin (died 1951). Married (27.12.1930, St Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate) Mrs. Phyllis Una T. Smith (née Dreyer) (born 1902), elder daughter of Adm. Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer.	10.03.1898 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - 11.05.1974 Chichester district	Midsh. 1914? A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? A/Lt. 15.11.1918 Lt. 15.06.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1933 (retd 21.07.1948; reld under the government's re-allocation plan) A/Capt. 02.11.1943 DSO 26.07.1940 for good services in successful operations which prevented much war material from falling into the hands of the enemy CdeG ? liaison operations Norway 04.40	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (01.1911-1914?). 01.1911     entered RN 1914? - 1916 HMS Albemarle (battleship)  1916 - ? HMS Benbow (battleship)  ? - 1918 HMS Cordeila (cruiser) (01.1919)     HMS President 25.06.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Marlborough (battleship) 12.12.1924 - (05.)1926 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 21.12.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training duties) 05.04.1928 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Tetrarch (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 14.01.1929 - 03.09.1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 16.09.1929 - 01.11.1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Verity (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) no appointment listed 20.08.1931 - 11?.1933 First Lieutenant Commander, RN Barracks, Portsmouth  [HMS Victory] 09.11.1933 - 19.07.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 20.07.1934 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Bryony (sloop) (Mediterranean) 1935 - 21.12.1935 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 14.01.1936 - (08.1936) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (psc) (01.1937)     no appointment listed 19.01.1937 - (07.1937) course at Air Force Staff College, Andover [HMS President] (psa) 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 25.03.1938 - (09.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Garland (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (12.1939) supposedly to have been on board the HMS Exeter (cruiser) during the Battle of River Plate (01.1940?) - 16.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (04.1940) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * (04.1940) Liaison Officer, French Ship "Indomptable" 06.07.1940 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer) 13.12.1940 - (08.)1942 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] ** 02.11.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) 02.11.1943 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) 03.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) President, Leamington Spa branch Royal Navy Association, 1956-1963. * indexed, but not listed as such ** (02.1941) & (12.1941) still also borne [incorrectly?] on HMS Fame
Chavasse, [Rev.] Evelyn Henry Fourth son (with four brothers) of Maj. Henry Chavasse (1863-1943), and Judith Isabella Fleming (1867-1935). Brother of Col. Kendal George Fleming Chavasse, DSO*, Royal Irish Fusiliers and Capt. Paul Morrison Bushe Chavasse, CBE, DSC*, RN. Married 1st (17.12.1930) Evelyn Constance Morgan; two sons. Married 2nd (07.10.1957) Violet Helen (?-1991). personal memoirs	10.10.1906 Whitfield Court, Kilmeaden, Co. Waterford, Ireland - 09.08.1991 Kyrenia, Cyprus	Midsh. 15.09.1924 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1927 S.Lt. 01.07.1927 Lt. 01.02.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1943 (retd 20.04.1949; medically unfit) DSO 07.09.1943 U-boat destruction convoy HX237 05.43 [investiture 27.07.45] DSC 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 [investiture 27.07.45] LoA - passage convoy ON139 10.42	1920     joined RN 15.09.1924 - (05.1926) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.12.1926 - (07.)1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 17.08.1927 - (12.1927) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (04.1928)     no appointment listed 16.04.1928 - (07.)1928 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 04.12.1928 - (08.1930) HMS L 69 (submarine) (10.1930)     no appointment listed (01.1931) - (03.1931) no appointment listed 24.04.1931 - (05.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Salmon (destroyer) (Portland) (07.1932)     no appointment listed 01.07.1932 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Scarab (gunboat) (China) (03.1934) - (07.1934) no appointment listed (08.1934)     short course of instruction 31.08.1934 - (10.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Crescent (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 05.10.1936 - (11.1936) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (01.1937)     no appointment listed 12.01.1937 - (10.)1937 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1938)     no appointment listed 05.01.1938 - 12.1941 Staff Officer (Operations) 2 & Staff Officer Intelligence (Afloat), Commander-in-Chief East Indies [HMS Gloucester] (12.1941) - (02.1942) no appointment listed 02.03.1942 - 09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Broadway (destroyer) & Escort Commander in Western Approaches (North Atlantic) 12.09.1943 - 07.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Bentinck (frigate) & Senior Officer, 4th Escort Group (10.)1944 - (07.)1945 Staff Officer (Operations), Derby House in Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 14.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for Rosyth Escort Force) 15.02.1946 - 10.1946 Staff Officer (Operations) 2, Commander-in-Chief East Indies [HMS Highflyer] post-war     Naval Intelligence Department (07.1948) - (10.1948) no appointment listed 20.04.1949     invalided out of the navy with recurring TB Joined the church (Reverend), 1952. Retired from his last parish (St Peter, 1964-1973, in Jersey, to Cyprus, 1973. Periodically Acting Honorary Chaplain in Kyrenia, Cyprus during the Turkish invasion, 1973-1980.
Chavasse, Paul Morrison Bushe Youngest son (with four brothers) of Maj. Henry Chavasse (1863-1943), and Judith Isabella Fleming (1867-1935). Brother of Col. Kendal George Fleming Chavasse, DSO*, Royal Irish Fusiliers and Cdr. Evelyn Henry Chavasse, DSO, DSC, RN. Married (11.04.1930) Elizabeth Geraldine Aylmer Somerville (03.03.1905 - 12.11.1959), only daughter of Capt. Aylmer Coghill Somerville (1865-1928), and Natalie Adah Turner, of London SW10; one son, one daughter.	04.01.1908 Co. Waterford, Ireland - 23.08.1994 Castletownshend, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland	Midsh. 15.01.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1928 S.Lt. 01.01.1929 Lt. 01.10.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1944 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960) CBE 11.06.1960 HM's birthday 60 [investiture 26.10.60] DSC 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 [investiture 03.09.40] DSC 07.03.1944 sinking of the Scharnhorst [investiture 27.07.45] MID 13.10.1942 service in Mediterranean from 04.41	Education: RN College, Dartmouth; RN College, Greenwich. ... - ... ... 25.09.1939 - 19.05.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Princess Victoria (minelayer) (DSC) (ship mined & sunk off the mouth of the Humber) (06.1940) - (07.1940) no appointment listed 12.09.1940 - (12.1941) Squadron Torpedo Officer, HMS Abdiel (minelayer) (despatches) 10.07.1942 - (08.1942) Torpedo Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (10.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed: in the headquarters ship HMS Bulolo for the North African landings 15.01.1943 - (12.1943) Torpedo Officer, HMS Jamaica (cruiser) (Bar to DSC) 23.01.1944 - (06.)1944 Torpedo Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) 07.1944 - (01.)1945 Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1945) - (07.1945) Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty [HMS President] * 10.09.1945 - (04.1946) Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ... 15.06.1953 - 07.11.1955 Commodore, Sri Lanka Navy       HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (CBE)
Chave, Robert Leslie	03.05.1909 South Stoneham district, Hampshire - 12.07.1973 Bedford district	Midsh. (E) 01.05.1927 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.09.1929 S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1930 Lt. (E) 01.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.08.1940 (retd 03.05.1954; age)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. 05.05.1927 - (02.)1931 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 23.04.1931 - (06.)1933 HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Africa) 25.09.1933 - (07.)1934 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 27.12.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (and for duty with submarines) 20.12.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Osiris (submarine) (China) 12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines) 10.04.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Regent (submarine) (China) (02.1938) -  (08.1938) no appointment listed 14.09.1938 - (10.1938) Admiralty Engineering Laboratory, West Drayton, Middlesex (under Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty) [HMS President] 03.01.1939 - (04.)1939 in charge of HMS Oxley (submarine) (reduced to reserve at Portsmouth) 05.05.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Tigris (submarine) 24.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, NS) 04.03.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 29.12.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Scourge (destroyer) (04.1944)     no appointment listed 16.05.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Chequers (destroyer) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 05.01.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Zephyr 04.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Ariadne (05.1953)     HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Terror] * MIMarE * indexed, but not listed as such
Cherry, Apsley Dunbar Maxwell Son of William Cherry, Surgeon General. Married (18.11.1915, St Luke, Chelsea, London) Kathleen Macan; ... children (daughter Marguerite married Capt. Roger Curzon Lewis, RN).	07.08.1876 - 24.05.1955 Domaine de Pigranel, Mouans-Sartoux, Alpes Maritimes, France	... ... Capt. 30.06.1917 (retd 20.07.1922; own request)	15.07.1890     entered RN ... - ... ... 01.01.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers / Taranto) (02.1944)     no appointment listed 04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) 16.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)
Chevallier, Felix Edward	12.06.1897 - 17.09.1970	... ... Lt.Cdr. 23.06.1926 (retd 12.06.1942; age) Cdr. (retd) 12.06.1942 (reverted to retd 04.05.1946) DSC 17.07.1919 ?	... - ... ... 05.03.1945 - 27.10.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Rochester (Shoreham class sloop)
Cheyne, Mark Edmonstone Son of ... Cheyne, and ... Haggard. Grandson of H. Rider Haggard.	14.03.1917 St Thomas district, Devon - 27.07.2001 Norwich, Norfolk	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.03.1938 Lt. 08.05.1940, seniority 01.07.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1947 Cdr. 31.12.1954 (retd 18.09.1961) DSC 04.05.1943 sinking of 11 enemy ships 19.01.43	01.01.1935 - 01.01.1936 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1938 - (10.1938) promotion course, Portsmouth (02.1939) no appointment listed 01.03.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (The Nore) (02.1941) no appointment listed 05.03.1942 - (06.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Kelvin (destroyer) 28.08.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.) 06.06.1944 - (04.1946) HMS King George V (battleship) 30.06.1947 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Whimbrel (sloop) 17.08.1948 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Hartland Point (landing craft repair ship) 03.1951 - (05.1953) Executive Officer, HMS Saintes (destroyer) (04.1955) no appointment lsited (01.1956) HMS President * 17.02.1958 - (07.1961) an Assistant Director, Marine Services Division, Department of Dockyards and Maintenance, Admiralty [HMS President] Served on the Norfolk County Council for 15 years. Member of the former Loddon District Council and Ditchingham Parish Council and was also Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Norfolk, 01.03.1977. * indexed, but not listed as such
Chibnall, Anthony Bernard	23.03.1909 Biddenham, Bedfordshire - 17.02.1987 Isle of Wight, Hampshire (formerly of Wakeham, Portland, Dorset)	... ... A/S.Lt. (E) ? S.Lt. (E) 16.01.1932 ?, seniority 16.01.1930 Lt. (E) 01.12.1931 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.12.1939 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1943 Capt. (E) 31.12.1942 (retd 1960?)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... 02.02.1942 - (07.1945) an Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Chichester, Cecil George Married (25.04.1905) Katherine Elizabeth Cottrell-Dormer; three sons (Capt. Cecil Charles Chichester, Royal Signals, Lt.Cdr. Michael Guy Chichester, RN), one daughter (Florence Anne Chichester, who married 1st Lt.Cdr. Henry Wilkin, RN, 2nd V.Adm. Sir Alastair Ewing, RN).	25.09.1875 - 11.05.1967	... ... Cdr. 31.12.1908 (retd) Capt. (retd) ? (reverted to retd < 07.1945) DSO 04.1918 * MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 * In recognition of the energy, good judgment and coolness under fire with which he organised and executed the evacuation of the Aerodrome at Thermi, Mityleni, on the 9th to 15th October, 1917. The evacuation of the Aerodrome was carried out under continuous bombardment by the enemy, and was effected entirely without casualties and without loss of stores.	15.01.1890     entered RN ... - ... ... 10.06.1940 - (01.)1945 Senior Fitting Out Gunnery Officer, Humber [HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham, Lincolnshire)]
Chichester, Gilbert Etienne	16.09.1924 - 20.01.1976 Dunsford, Exeter, Devon	Midsh. ? ... ... S.Lt. 01.04.1944 Lt. 01.06.1946 (retd 10.10.1950; medically unfit)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.05.1938-16.12.1941; Admiralty No. 1922). ... - ... ... 02.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Arethusa ... - ... ...
Chichester, Michael Guy Son of Capt. Cecil George Chichester, DSO, RN, and Katherine Elizabeth Cottrell-Dormer. Married (04.08.1945) Eleanor Sarah "Sally" Riddell-Blount (born 25.11.1915); one son, one daughter.	22.12.1917 Eton district, Buckinghamshire - 26.12.2012	Cadet 01.05.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. 01.11.1938 Lt. 01.09.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1947 Cdr. 31.12.1951 (retd 12.08.1961) MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS London (cruiser) (1st Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet) 02.05.1938 - (10.1938) promotion course, Portsmouth 1939 - 1945 service with the Home Fleet and the Western Approaches Command: 21.01.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Imogen (destroyer) (3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet) 09.01.1941 - (02.1941) HMS Aberdeen (sloop) 1942 qualified as signal communications specialist (08.1942) no appointment listed 1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Offa, Battle of the Atlantic * 03.06.1943 - (12.1943) Signals Officer, HMS Onslow (destroyer) 08.01.1944 - 03.1944 HM Signal School, nr Petersfield [HMS Mercury] 03.03.1944 - 1945 Flag Lieutenant, HMS Belfast (cruiser) (sinking of the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, Battle of North Cape, 1943 & shore bombardment of Normandy coast,  June 1944) 18.07.1945 - (07.1945) staff, Naval Air Signal School [HMS Condor] 18.01.1946 - 1947 Flag Lieutenant-Commander, HMS Ukussa, Royal Naval Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon 12.05.1947 - 1949 Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.09.1949 - (05.1950) Flag Lieutenant-Commander, HMS Dolphin 02.1952 - 1954 HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 02.05.1955 - (01.)1956 HMS Contest (destroyer) 1957 Joint Tactical School, Malta 1958 - 1960 HMS Phoenicia (07.)1961 served as Sea Cadet Corps Officer Defence Correspondent for the Statist, 1962-1967; regular contributor of articles to Navy magazine, 1962-1977, member of the Bow Group Standing Committee on Defence, 1982. Published (with John Wilkinson): The uncertain ally : British defence policy, 1960-1990 (1982); British Defence, a blueprint for reform (1987) * Index of Febr 1943 shows HMS Valkyrie, though the ship's listing does not include him
Child, Miles Ambrose Gregory Son of Stephen Ambrose Child (1865-1946), and Mabel Gregory (1861-). Married (02.1941, Surrey North Eastern district) Maria Filomena "Ena" Burrill (16.08.1908 - 09.01.1999), actress, daughter of Charles Sutherland Burrill, and Alyce Virginia Welch.	08.05.1901 Cobham, Epsom district, Surrey - 04.08.1961 Wrecclesham, Farnham, Surrey	Lt. 15.12.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1930 (retd 08.05.1946) A/Cdr. 04.01.1943 Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946	15.01.1915     entered RN 10.01.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 22.04.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.03.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.1928 - 28.03.1928 HMS Wakeful (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 29.03.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 10.05.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 16.12.1930 - (06.)1933 HMS Keith (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 27.12.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for emergency destroyers) 04.01.1935 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 23.04.1935 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 10.05.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Tactical School) 11.08.1937 - (10.)1938 Merchant Navy Defence Instructional Officer, South Shields (under Officer of Admiral Commanding Reserves) [HMS President II] 07.12.1938 - (05.)1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties) 17.06.1939 - 13.07.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Viscount (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 14.07.1939 - 12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Warwick (destroyer) 17.12.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) 01.09.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth) 04.01.1943 - (04.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (06.1943)     no appointment listed 11.06.1943 - (01.)1945 Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.04.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer (PNLO), Admiralty [HMS President] 10.03.1947 - (10.1947) Naval Adviser to Polish Resettlement Corps on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Childs, Geoffrey William Samuel	04.04.1892 St Pancras district, London - 19.05.1967 Worcester district	Clerk ? Asst. Paym. 15.04.1913 Paym.Lt. 15.04.1915 (retd 07.1919?) A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. < 04.1940 Paym.Lt.Cdr. (retd) = Lt.Cdr. (S) (retd) ?, seniority 25.11.1939 A/Paym.Cdr. (retd) = A/Cdr. (S) (retd) < 12.1941 PolRes 22.12.1942 services to Polish Navy	15.07.1909     entered RN 15.12.1911     HMS Neptune Immigration officer, Home Office (1930). 22.09.1939 - 03.1940 HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport) 05.03.1940 - (12.1941) Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 11.06.1942 - (04.1946) staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President]
Chilton, Patrick Charles Stuart "Pat" Son (with three brothers) of William Brydon Chilton (1892-1970), and Joyce Geddes Bartlett (1892-1938). Married ((06?).1943, St Marylebone district, London) Winifred Kathryn Mary Todd (03.03.1919 - 2004), daughter of Campbell Todd (1880-1949), and Winifred Collins (1896-1971); two children.	15.02.1921 Tientsin, North China - 23.07.1995 Westminster district, London (formerly of Brixham, Devon)	Midsh. (A) 13.03.1939 A/S.Lt. (A) 13.07.1940 S.Lt. (A) 06.1942, seniority 15.02.1942 Lt. (A) 15.05.1943, seniority 13.01.1943 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 01.08.1944 Lt.Cdr. (A) 13.01.1951 Cdr. 30.06.1956 Capt. 31.12.1965 (retd 05.04.1971) AFC 01.01.1959 New Year 59: RN Test Squadron Boscombe Down [decoration presented]	Education: Blundell's School. 13.03.1939 - 25.06.1939 HMS Frobisher (Hawkins class cruiser) (for training) 26.06.1939 - 03.09.1939 pilots' course at No. 20 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Gravesend 04.09.1939 - 13.01.1940 No. 5 Course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars 14.01.1940 - 10.06.1940 Fighter School 11.06.1940 - 18.10.1940 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)] 19.10.1940 - (10.1941) 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)] (12.1941)     Fleet Air Arm course 12.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) [with 805 Squadron FAA] 01.07.1943 - (06.)1944 pilot, 761 Squadron FAA 01.08.1944 - 06.12.1944 Commanding Officer, 1849 Squadron FAA [formed at Brunswick, from 22.11.1944 HMS Reaper (Archer class escort carrier)] 16.12.1944 - (01.)1945 709 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 11.02.1945 - 10.12.1945 Commanding Officer, 1843 Squadron FAA [based at Eglinton & Ayr; from 14.02.1945 at HMS Arbiter (Archer class escort carrier)] 12?.1945 - 03.1946 Commanding Officer, 748 Squadron FAA & in charge of School of Naval Air Warfare [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 03.1946 - (04.)1946) 736 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] ... - ... ...       became senior naval test pilot in the UK and spent two years on test duties with the US Navy; commanded 806 Squadron, became CFI at the Fighter School at Lossiemouth, commanded the Flying Wing at Bedford and was Commandant of the Empire Test Pilots School at Boscombe Down from 1968 until he retired; flew 153 types of aircraft
Chitty, Joseph Charles Oliver Son of Joseph Torry Chitty (1893-1951) of Jesmond, Newcastle (formerly of Torrie Lodge), and Olive Francesca Constance Martelli. Formerly of Salisbury (Harare). Married (26.09.1942) Liv Helga Bakke (? - 20.04.1985), daughter of J.J. Bakke, of Norway; one daughter.	28.10.1917 Sleaford district, Lincolnshire - ? Southern Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 01.05.1938 Lt. 05.1940, seniority 16.07.1939 (retd 1946?) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Bur St - -	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1935 - 31.08.1935 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (07.1937) HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 17.09.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) 20.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Atlantic & Somaliland) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 29.05.1942 - (06.)1943 observer, HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown) (for Fleet Air Arm pool) 07.1943 - (10.)1943 observer, HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar) (for duty with pool) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 29.02.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Howe (battleship) (Burma) 12.11.1945 - (04.1946) an Assistant (Air) to Naval Assistants to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
Cholerton, Eric Willis Son of Temp. Quartermaster & Lieut. Willis Cholerton, MC, and Ada Minnie Coates. Married (01.01.1938, Holy Trinity Church in Sliema, Malta) Kathleen Rose McLeod Jenkin (born 03.01.1912, Sliema, Malta), daughter of Thomas George and Eva Marion (née Lillywhite) Jenkin, of Sliema, Malta; one daughter, two sons.	05.01.1910 Frimley, Surrey - 08.01.1976 Eastbourne, East Sussex	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 01.07.1933 S.Lt. RNR 08.12.1935, seniority 01.07.1933 Lt. RNR 01.07.1936 09.12.1936, seniority 22.05.1936 Lt. (Supplementary List) 23.03.1937, seniority 05.01.1934 Lt. 1938?, seniority 05.01.1934 Lt.Cdr. 05.01.1942 (retd 05.01.1955)	25.11.1936 - 01.1938 HMS Snapper (submarine) (Mediterranean) 01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Douglas (flotilla leader, 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Shark (submarine) 08.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (Mediterranean) 13.11.1938 - (08.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Snapper (submarine) 07.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Galatea (cruiser) 28.04.1940 - 09.04.1942 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft south of Ceylon] (08.1942) no appointment listed 29.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Ajax (cruiser) 06.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Royalist (cruiser) 01.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Sainfoin (landing ship, infantry) 17.02.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) 01.04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (05.1953) HMS Lochinvar (destroyer & minesweeper base, Granton) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Chovil, Albert Maurice Son (with two brothers) of Alfred Samuel Chovil, export merchant, and Caroline Harriet Newey. Married ((12?).1923, Ware district, Hertfordshire) Alianor Beatrice Emery (26.09.1902 - 10.02.1976); ... children.	28.07.1901 Moseley, King's Norton district, Warwickshire - 13.01.1973 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1917 A/S.Lt.. 15.09.1920 S.Lt.. 15.05.1921 Lt.. 15.06.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1930 (retd 28.07.1946) A/Cdr. 01.07.1944? Cdr. (retd) 28.07.1946 MID 26.01.1943 escort convoy to Russia 07.42	... - ... ... (09.1939)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 20.09.1939 - (12.)1939 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 18.12.1939 - (02.)1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 23.03.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Palomares (fighter direction ship) (despatches) (08.1943)     no appointment listed 16.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth) (12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 01.07.1944 - (07.)1946 Executive Officer, HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * indexed, but not listed as such
Christie, Arthur Edward Tolfrey	21.09.1907 Isle of Wight, Hampshire - 08.02.1989 Farnham, Surrey North-Western district, Surrey	Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. 22.03.1930, seniority 01.12.1928 Lt. 08.10.1930, seniority 01.01.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 31.12.1949 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 07.01.1959) OBE 22.07.1941 towing Taku 03.41 DSC 06.04.1943 Operation Torch Aviz ? visit Portugal 02.57	15.09.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 03.01.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.03.1930 - (04.1930) HMS Waterhen (destroyer) (Mediterranean) ? - (10.1930) HMS Wryneck (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) short course 09.02.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Bulldog (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 18.04.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 02.04.1935 - (02.1937) HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) (07.1937) no appointment listed 26.07.1937 - (02.1938) HMS President (for study of languages) (for 6 months' study  in Germany) 05.04.1938 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Sheldrake (patrol vessel) 12.1940 - 11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Enchantress (escort vessel) & from .... ? also SO 38th Escort Group 11.1943 - (06.1944) Chief Staff Officer, HM Naval Establishments Bermuda [HMS Malabar] (07.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) * 01.12.1945 - (04.1946) Staff Officer (Q) to Vice-Admiral (Q) British Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind II (RN base, Sydney, NSW)] 07.07.1948 - (08.1948) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (05.1950) HMS President * 16.02.1953 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 01.09.1953 - (04.)1955 NATO Defence College 18.11.1955 - (1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Chieftain (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Chubb, Edwin Joseph Married ((06?).1935, Devonport district, Devon) Doris H. Taylor.	28.11.1908 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 23.02.2000 South Hams district, Devon	Midsh. (E) 01.01.1928 S.Lt. (E) 01.04.1930 Lt. (E) 01.07.1931 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.07.1939 (retd 28.11.1953)	12.01.1928 - (01.)1932 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 04.01.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 24.07.1934 - (02.)1935 on staff of Gun Mounting Overseer at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. in Barrow-in-Furness under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.02.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Galatea (cruiser) (building at Greenock) (and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-Built Ships) 01.1936 - (10.1936) HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) (01.1937)     no appointment listed 28.01.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Diomede (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 19.08.1937 - 1937 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for courses) 04.11.1937 - (04.)1940 HMS Firedrake (destroyer) 30.05.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Nestor (destroyer) 11.1940 - 01.03.1942 HMS Exeter (cruiser) [sunk by Japanese forces in Battle of the Java Sea; captured] 01.03.1942 - (07.1945) POW in Japanese captivity (04.1946) - (07.)1948 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) * 16.08.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Guardian (05.1950)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 19.06.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Newcastle 09.06.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS Orion (for duty with Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Plymouth)
Churchill, Charles Fraser Harrington Son of Lt.Col. Herbert Forbes Churchill, retired, and Grace Hay Hunt. Married 1st (07.12.1931, Malta) Gertrude Vivian Swan, daughter of Sir Charles Sheriton Swan, shipbuilder; one son. Married 2nd Ethel Dorothea (née ...) (died 21.08.1980).	19.03.1899 Alderley Edge, Macclesfield district, Cheshire - 10.11.1980 Ponterwyd, Aberstwyth, Dyfed	S.Lt. 15.01.1918 Lt. 15.02.1920 Lt.Cdr 15.02.1928 (retd 19.03.1944) A/Cdr. 21.07.1941? Cdr. (retd) 19.03.1944 A/Capt. (retd) 01.1945? DSC 20.07.1943 [ar ats?] & convoy escort 11.42-03.43 [investiture 06.03.45]	08.1914     entered RN (01.1919)     Admiralty [HMS President] 02.08.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Laburnum (sloop) (01.1925)     no appointment listed 09.03.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 02.07.1927 - (04.)1928 HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta) (for command of destroyers in reserve) 04.1928 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 10.1928 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Seraph (destroyer) (China) (08.1930) - (10.1930) no appointment listed 25.04.1931 - (06.1933) Commanding Officer, HMS Bulldog (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 12.03.1934 - (08.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Escapade (destroyer) (and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract-built Ships while under construction at Greenock) 24.09.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for tactical school) [borne in HMS Dryad] (02.1935)     no appointment listed 17.06.1935 - (07.)1935 HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 31.07.1935 - (08.)1938 Officer Instructor, Sussex Division RNVR 22.08.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) 10.1939 - 12.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Folkestone (sloop) 21.07.1941 - (12.)1941 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.12.1941 - 06.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanoc (destroyer) 05.06.1943 - 25.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Inglefield (destroyer) [ship sunk by a German radio controlled glider bomb off Anzio, Italy] 04.1944 - 19.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Faulknor (destroyer) 01.1945 - 14.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Abercrombie (monitor) (04.1946)     HMS Cape Wrath (repair ship) * Published: An elementary guide for executors (written by a layman for laymen) (1951)
Churchill, James Lloyd	11.05.1921 Reading, Berkshire - 28.02.2013 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia	... ... Lt. (E) 01.04.1943 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.04.1951 (retd)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... (10.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Churchill, Leonard Samuel Married ((06?).1935, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Florence Hilda Hooper.	29.08.1906 Teignmouth, Newton Abbot district, Devon - 10.05.1947 * (illness) [Hong Kong Cemetery, 21A, 10396] * borne on HMS Eaglet at the time of his death	Seaman ? [J105391] Gnr. (T) 18.12.1939 A/Cd.Gnr. (T) 18.06.1945	11.01.1940 - 20.07.1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Viscount (destroyer) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 03.09.1942 - 21.08.1944 Torpedo Officer, HMS Onslaught (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed 10.05.1945 - (04.)1947 Torpedo Officer, HMS Lagos (destroyer)
Churchill, Peter Norton Younger son of Lt.Col. Arthur Benjamin Norton Churchill (1860-1939), Royal Artillery, and Marion Foster (1865-1958), of Camberley. Married (17.12.1938, St Michael's, Teignmoutth, Newton Abbot district, Devon) Nancy Trevelyan King (07.07.1911 - 12.1997), daughter (with one sister) of Alexander Trevelyan King (1879-1949), and Maud Henrietta Lepper (1883-1964). Residence: Abbots Leigh, Teignmouth, Devon; one daughter.	25.09.1903 Tonbridge district, Kent - 08.07.1940 (KIA) [age 36] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 1]	... ... A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924 S.Lt. 15.07.1924 Lt. 15.10.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1933	15.05.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 30.12.1930 - (06.1933) Torpedo Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) (01.1934) - (03.1934) no appointment listed 09.03.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 19.07.1935 - (01.)1938 Torpedo Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean Fleet) (02.1938) - (03.1938) no appointment listed 24.04.1938 - 08.07.1940 Torpedo Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (killed while ship was acting as cover passage of Malta convoys evacuating families to Egypt and ship was under heavy and sustained air attacks and hit on compass platform; Captain FR Garside, CBE, RN and 17 others of the ship's company were killed)