Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 -- C

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Conder,
Edward Reignier
E.R. Conder

Son of the Rev. Canon Edward Baines Conder (1872-1936), Canon of Coventry Cathredal, and Eleanor Charlotte Henrietta Eames, artist.
Married 1st (1932) Anne Brown (died of cancer, 10.1940); two sons.
Married 2nd (21.12.1942, Gibraltar) Sheila Margery Bayley (died 06.10.2008, aged 92); two daughters.

10.04.1901
Kensington, Greater London
-
09.07.1970
while on holiday in Italy

Midsh.	1917
A/S.Lt.	12.1920?
S.Lt.	15.05.1921
A/Lt.	15.05.1923
Lt.	03.10.1923, seniority 14.04.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1931
Cdr.	31.12.1938 (retd 10.04.1951)
A/Capt.	01.1945?

DSO	27.08.1940	operations Dutch. Belgian & French coasts
DSC	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940
MID	03.12.1940	for coolness and courage in adversity (mining of HMS Whitshed)

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1915-1917); Caius College, Cambridge University (economics & biology, in addition Naval curriculum) (09.1922-05.1923) .

15.01.1915			entered RN
09.1917	-	1918?	HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
1918?	-	1919?	HMS Lion (battlecruiser)
1919?	-	1920?	HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
1920?	-	12.1920	HMS Vectis (destroyer) (Baltic)
12.1920	-	1921?	HMS Crocus (sloop) (Persian Gulf) (anti-slavery and gun running; liaison officer with sheikhs; invalided home)
04.1921	-	09.1922	HMS Godetian (sloop) (as North Sea fisheries inspector)
08.1923	-	(08.1923)	short course of instruction (technical courses)
22.08.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) (personnel orientation specialist)
01.1927	-	(08.)1929	First Lieutenant, HMS Seraph (destroyer) (China) (during Nationalist/Communist Revolution)
14.02.1930	-	1931	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] (training new entries & apprentices)
02.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties)
23.07.1932	-	(10.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Salmon (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
08.02.1934	-	(07.1935)	Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) (China) (re-established relations between Hong Kong and Macao; discovered new lands and rivers and negotiated a provincial treaty)
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
15.09.1936	-	(10.1938)	First Lieutenant, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
05.01.1939	-	(09.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Kittiwake (patrol vessel) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) [produced drill for air and sea convoy escorts; ship mined 09.1939]
15.11.1939	-	09.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Western Approaches, then Dover Patrol) [ship mined 07.1940]
09.1940	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Southdown (destroyer) [East Coast convoys; radar experimental work]
20.02.1941	-	06.1942	Operations Division, Admiralty (London) [HMS President]
06.1942	-	01.1945	Executive Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) [was in command for 1 month, 01.1945?) (took [and became friends with] Prime Minister Winston Churchill's family from Quebec conference and out to Cairo conference; was naval advisor at Quebec conference]
(07.1945)	-	1948	Naval Officer-in-Charge, Wilhelmshaven * [partitioned German Fleet, civilianised German navy, redeployed population, started factories and schools, destroyed dockyard, etc.; had English and Canadian troops and 800 of Russian navy under command; recommended for the Legion of Honour]
24.05.1948	-	03.1951	Admiralty Officer, Liverpool [HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)]

* (07.1945) & (04.1946) no appointment listed

Coney,
Gerald Thomas
G.T. Coney

26.05.1904
-
19.03.1982
Batcombe, Shepton Mallet, Somerset

...	...
Lt.	15.12.1926
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1934
Cdr.	31.12.1940
Capt.	31.12.1946 (retd 07.01.1956)

OBE

01.01.1945

New Year 1945

1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal, 1937 Coronation Medal

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
11.10.1944	-	(01.1945)	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Rodney] (OBE)
...	-	...	...

Published: Chronicle of the Village of Batcombe (1971).

Congreve,
Sir Geoffrey Cecil;
1st Baronet (cr. 1927)
G.C. Congreve

Second son (with two brothers) of General Sir Walter Norris Congreve, VC, KCB, MVO (1862-1927), and Cecilia Henrietta Dolores "Celia" Blount la Touche (1867-1952).
Married (14.10.1922, St James's, Piccadilly, London) Helena Madeleine Mary Allhusen (17.05.1897 - 27.07.1982), daughter of Augustus Henry Eden Allhusen, and Osma Mary Dorothy Stanley, of Stoke Court, Stoke Poges; three daughters. Madeleine Congreve remarried (21.10.1942) Reginald James Tyler (1887-1956), who assumed the surname of Stewart- Mackenzie (of Seaforth) in February 1944, in right of his wife.

19.07.1897
Gosport, Alverstoke district, Hampshire
-
28.07.1941
France
(KIA)

Midsh.	01.07.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1916
S.Lt.	17.03.1917
Lt.	15.06.1918
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1926 (retd 25.08.1928; own request, with gratuity)
Cdr. (retd)	19.07.1937

	DSO	26.09.1940	Norway 04-06.1940
	MID	26.07.1940	preventing war materials falling into enemy hands at Brest

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

			served in Grand Fleet as Midshipman, Sub-Lieutenant and Lieutenant during European War; A.D.C. to G.O.C. in command Egypt and Palestine, 1920-21
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	16.01.1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for duty as instructor at HM Signal School, Portsmouth) (to serve in rank of Lt.Cdr.)
17.01.1940	-	03.05.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Aston Villa (anti-submarine warfare trawler) & for command of 16th Anti-Submarine Striking Force [tender to HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon), from 14.02.1940 to HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)]
05?.1940	-	11.06.1940	in command of decoy ship "Ranen"
12.06.1940	-	15.06.1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
16.06.1940	-	25.06.1940	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for special service as in charge of Demolition Party XD.O (Brest))
26.06.1940	-	10.1940	HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for special service outside Admiralty with Director of Combined Operations at Lochailort)
10?.1940	-	21.10.1940	Commanding Officer, Dutch vessel "Jupiter"
10?.1940	-	13.06.1941	HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) (additional; for duty of staff of Commodore [...] as Commando's Senior Landing Officer) [Navy List shows date of appointment 17.06.1940]
14.06.1941	-	28.07.1941	HMS President (Admiralty) (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Combined Operations) [killed in action by machine gun fire while acting as a Combined Operations observer during a raid on the French coast at Ambleteuse (Operation Chess)]

Connell-Fuller,
Donald Hamilton

see:

Fuller,
Donald Hamilton

Connolly,
Patrick Joseph
P.J. Connolly

06.06.1908
-
03.02.1994
Mid Devon district, Devonshire

RAF:
P/O (prob)	25.05.1928
P/O	25.05.1929
F/O	25.11.1929 (reld 13.06.1938)
RN:
Lt. (A)	13.06.1938 ?, seniority 13.03.1935
Lt.Cdr. (A)	13.03.1944 (retd 13.06.1953)

25.05.1928			commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
25.05.1933			transferred, Reserve of Air Force Officers - Class A
13.06.1938			transferred, RN (Air Branch)
03.06.1938	-	(08.)1938	pilot, TSR Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet)
16.08.1938	-	(10.1938)	pilot, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth) (for Fleet Air Arm)
09.01.1939	-	(08.1939)	air armament course, No. 1 Air Armament School, RAF, Manby [HMS Pembroke]
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
16.09.1940	-	21.05.1941	pilot, 801 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier), then RN Air Station, Hal Far] [his Fulmar was last seen to leave the squadron formation, heading in the direction of Cape Bon; landed on the North African coast & was captured]
21.05.1941	-	(1943?)	POW in French captivity
31.03.1943	-	(08.)1943	Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
25.08.1943	-	(06.)1944	Commanding Officer, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire]
11.09.1944	-	(10.)1944	staff of Second Sea Lord's Office for Appointments, &tc., Admiralty [HMS President]
12.1944	-	(04.1946)	on staff of Flag Officer Naval Air Stations Australia [HMS Golden Hind]
10.03.1947	-	(05.)1953	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Conway,
Harold Robson
"Robin"
G. Cook

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Robert Arthur Conway (1869-), and Edith Mary Shrubsole (1872-).
Married ((09?).1928, St Marylebone district, London) Marjorie "Miggs" Stewart; two sons.

01.01.1901
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
16.12.1990
Chichester, Sussex

Midsh.	11.10.1920
S.Lt.	15.09.1921
Lt.	15.09.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.09.1931
Cdr.	30.06.1939 (retd 01.01.1951)
A/Capt.	05.04.1943

MID

16.08.1940

Dunkirk 05/06.1940

11.04.1919			entered RN
...	-	...	....
02.08.1939	-	05.03.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine)
(04.1940)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(05.1940)	-	(06.1940)	no appointment listed
30.06.1940	-	(04.)1941	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
05.1941	-	(08.)1941	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
12.08.1941	-	(04.)1943	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) [from 12.1941-12.06.1942 possibly in command]
05.04.1943	-	30.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)
13.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, French Ship "Largs" (Operational HQ landing ship, Bizerta, Tunisia)
02.04.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
27.04.1947	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Conyngham,
the Lord John Victor Albert [Blosse]
J.V.A. Conyngham

04.04.1926
-
31.05.1963
Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co. Meath

Midsh.	01.05.1944
...	...
Lt.	16.02.1949 (retd 01.02.1952)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.01.1940-1944; Admiralty No. 180).

...	-	...	...
15.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Berwick
...	-	...	...

Coode,
Trevenen Penrose
"Tim"
T.P. Coode

Only son (with one sister) of R.Adm. Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, CB, DSO (1870-1939), and Noel Callaghan, of South Kensington, London.

28.01.1907
Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
25.01.1943
[age 35]
[Mombasa (Mbaraki) Cemetery, Kenya, Prot. Service Plot, row H, grave 60]

Midsh.	15.01.1925
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1927
S.Lt.	01.03.1928
Lt.	01.07.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1938
A/Cdr.	08.1942?

	DSO	16.09.1941	Bismarck sunk [presented to next-of-kin]
	MID	06.09.1940	Dakar ("Richelieu")

15.09.1920			entered RN
...	-	...	...
27.10.1928			obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 8463), taken on a D.H. 60 "Moth" 27/60 h.p. Cirrus I at Hampshire Aeroplane Club
...	-	...	...
17.04.1939	-	(08.)1940	pilot, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)] (despatches)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
10.1940	-	05.1941	Commanding Officer, 818 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (DSO)
(08.1941)			no appointment listed
29.08.1941	-	(10.)1941	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
27.10.1941	-	(05.)1942	HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayid, Egypt)
05.05.1942	-	27.08.1942	Commanding Officer, 805 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] [Flying a Grumman Martlet III he claimed an Italian S.79 bomber destroyed on 25 July 1942. ]
08.1942	-	11.1942	Commander Air Yard, RN Air Station Coimbatore [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
11.1942	-	25.01.1943	HMS Kipanga (RN Air Station, Kilindini, Kenya) (killed in a night flying accident)

Cook,
Arthur Henry Elliott
A.H.E. Cook

01.05.1925
-
05.05.2014
Australia

Midsh.	?
...	...
S.Lt.	01.04.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1953 (retd 24.04.1965)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.01.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 50).

...	-	...	...
31.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Sanguine
...	-	...	...

Cook,
Edward Lewis

see:

RNVR officers' section

Cook,
George
G. Cook

16.04.1904
-
02.02.1983

Seaman	? [J99157]
A/Gnr. (T)	01.01.1938
Gnr. (T)	?, seniority 01.01.1938
A/Cd.Gnr. (T)	18.06.1945
Sen.Cd.Gnr. (T)	01.01.1947
Lt.	01.10.1951 (retd 16.04.1954)

MBE	01.01.1952	New Year 1952
DSC	02.06.1943	HM's birthday 1943
MID	21.08.1945	minelaying Western Approaches Command 01-04.1945

(02.1938)			short course
18.04.1938	-	(04.1939)	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Portsmouth)
17.04.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Sheffield (cruiser)
05.07.1940	-	(02.1943)	HMS Manxman (minelayer)
(06.1943)	-	(10.1943)	no appointment listed
01.10.1943	-	(04.1946)	HMS Apollo (minelayer)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
(1951)			HMS Vernon III
23.02.1953	-	(05.1953)	HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) (for miscellaneous duties)

Cook,
Gerald Richardson
G.R. Cook (Photo courtesy of Mrs Jane Shafto)

Only son of Mr J.W. Cook, and Mrs Cook, of Blackheath.
Married (14.04.1928, Parish Church of St Margaret, Lee, Lewisham district, London) Brenda Edith Burnett (17.04.1904 - 25.05.1973), only daughter of Cecil Ross Burnett, RI (1872-1933), and Alice Theresa Allenberg (1877?-1962) [from 1935 Mrs Lewisohn], of Blackheath; three daughters.

15.01.1902
Blackheath, Greenwich district, Kent
-
19.02.1959
Shoreham, Battersea district, Kent (died after an operation)

Midsh.	01.05.1918
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1921
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt. (E)	15.03.1924
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.03.1932
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1936
Capt. (E)	31.12.1945 (retd 11.08.1952)

	OBE	01.01.1942	New Year 1942 [investiture 10.02.1942]
	DSC	11.06.1946	wind up Far East [presented by messenger]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1915-1920).

15.09.1915			entered RN
...	-	...	...
18.12.1930	-	(12.)1931	HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (and for duty in HMS Hornet (CMB base, Haslar) and attached submarines)
15.12.1931	-	(06.)1933	Assistant to Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Pembroke]
17.12.1933	-	(02.)1936	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)
28.04.1936	-	(07.)1937	Assistant to Deputy Superintendent and Works Managers, RN Torpedo Factory Greenock [HMS President]
28.07.1937	-	(02.)1939	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Mechanical Training Establishment)
24.04.1939	-	(02.)1941	Engineer Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (OBE)
(04.1941)	-	(06.1941)	no appointment listed
10.06.1941	-	01.02.1944	Executive Officer, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
04.04.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS King George V (battleship)
(04.)1945	-	(10.1945)	Squadron Engineer Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS King George V (battleship)] (DSC)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Cook,
Henry Home
H.H. Cook

24.01.1918
-
23.09.2003

...	...
Lt. (S)	01.02.1941
Lt.Cdr. (S)	01.02.1949
...	...
Capt. (S)	30.06.1963 (retd 24.01.1973)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Benbow
...	-	...	...

Cooke,
Geoffrey Clement
G.C. Cooke

20.03.1890
Strood, Kent
-
25.11.1941
(MPK) [age 51]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

A/S.Lt.	30.04.1910?
S.Lt.	19.12.1910, seniority 30.04.1910
Lt.	30.07.1912
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1920
Cdr.	30.06.1926
Capt.	30.06.1933

MID

03.02.1942

Battle of Cape Matapan [posthumously]

15.09.1905			entered RN
14.05.1918	-	(01.1919)	HMS Fearless (light cruiser; submarine depot ship)
02.11.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Emperor of India (battleship)
(01.1925)			no appointment listed
02.02.1925	-	(05.)1926	HMS Impregnable (training establishment for boys, Devonport)
24.09.1926	-	(06.1928)	Commanding Officer, HMS Petersfield (twin screw minesweeper) (China)
01.08.1929	-	(02.)1931	Executive Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
23.10.1931	-	(06.)1933	Executive Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
16.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
24.09.1934	-	(11.1934)	tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
12.02.1935	-	(07.)1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (Trooping)
30.08.1935	-	(07.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Guardian (net layer) (Home Fleet)
07.02.1938	-	13.02.1938	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
14.02.1938	-	27.02.1940	Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
28.02.1940	-	24.03.1940	HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
25.03.1940	-	25.11.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) & from 16.11.1940-11.05.1941 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & from 01.09.1941 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet (sunk, Eastern Mediterranean)

Cooke,
Hugh Geary
H.G. Cooke

Second son of F.P. Cooke, ICS, and Mrs Cooke, of Sunnymead, Keynsham.
Married (1924?) Phyllis Mathew, only child of Paym.Capt. O.R. Mathew, RN, and Mrs Mathew, of Alverstoke, Hampshire.

18.08.1901
-
29.10.1981
Andrews, Bristol district, Avon

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	17.03.1924, seniority 15.07.1922
Lt.	?, seniority 15.12.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1931
Cdr.	31.12.1937
Capt.	30.06.1943 (retd 08.01.1953)

	MID	08.09.1942	Malta convoy 22.03.1942
	MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944

15.06.1919			entered RN
05.01.1925	-	(01.1925)	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
(07.1927)			no appointment listed
29.04.1929	-	(04.1930)	First Lieutenant, HMS L 71 (submarine)
27.12.1930	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine)
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
14.03.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
16.10.1933	-	(02.1936)	HMS Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [16.01.1934 ship commissioned]
09.07.1936	-	(07.1937)	HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
12.1937	-	(02.1938)	HMS Tamar (receiving ship) (Hong Kong)
(06.1938)	-	(08.1938)	no appointment listed
08.08.1938	-	(10.1938)	Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
24.10.1938	-	(08.1939)	Drafting Commander, Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
10.09.1940	-	(02.)1943	Executive Officer, HMS Euryalus (cruiser)
(06.1943)			no appointment listed
16.07.1943	-	(07.1945)	Deputy Director of Operations Division (Coastal Force), Admiralty [HMS President]
26.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Protector
01.03.1949	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Protector
08.07.1952	-	08.01.1953	Naval ADC to the Queen

Cooke *,
Sydney Elliot
S.E. Cooke

* Also known as: Elliot Cooke, Sydney
Son (with one brother) of Walter Cooke (1879-), and Leslie Elliot (1879-).
Married ((12?).1938, Crosby district, Lancashire) Eunice Mary Clapham (02.11.1912 - 05.07.1983); ... children (one(?) son, one(?) daughter & one daughter who died in childhood).

1910 ?
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
?

Prob. Sg.S.Lt. RNVR	09.11.1934
Sg.S.Lt. RNVR	19.11.1935, seniority 09.11.1934
Sg.Lt. RNVR	10.10.1936, seniority 08.07.1936
Sg.Lt.	01.04.1938 25.07.1938, seniority 01.04.1937 (emgcy 01.04.1943)
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)	01.04.1943

Education: University of Liverpool (MB, ChB 08.07.1936).

09.11.1934			commissioned, RNVR (Mersey Division)
02.09.1935			RN Hospital Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (for training)
15.03.1937			HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (Portsmouth) (for training)
08.07.1937			RN Hospital Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (for training)
01.04.1938			transferred RN [short service commission]
25.06.1938			short course of instruction [HMS Victory (for RN Barracks, Portsmouth)]
27.07.1938	-	(12.1938)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
03.01.1939	-	(09.)1939	HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet)
11.09.1939	-	(03.)1940	HMS Sturdy (S class destroyer)
(04.1940)	-	(10.1940)	no appointment listed
06.11.1940	-	(04.)1943	HMS Wellesley (RN training establishment, Liverpool)
26.04.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) *
02.01.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Pembroke (for RN Barracks, Chatham)

General practitioner, Liverpool (Elliot Cooke & Speight).

Cooke,
Wilfrid Alan
W.A. Cooke

Son of Herbert Samuel Cooke, M.A., and Emilie Carter.
Husband of Mary Eleanor Cooke, of Caversham, Oxfordshire.

1907 ?
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
-
15.11.1942
(KIA) [age 35]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]

Prob. S.Lt. RNR	18.02.1931
S.Lt. RNR	22.06.1931, seniority 18.02.1931
Lt. RNR	18.02.1933
Lt. (Supplementary List)	24.05.1937, seniority 11.05.1931
Lt.	1938?, seniority 11.05.1931
Lt.Cdr.	11.05.1939

MID

06.04.1943

Operation Torch

15.08.1931	-	(01.1932)	HMS Ramillies (battleship) (to complete 12 months' training)
29.05.1937	-	(10.1938)	HMS Hardy (flotilla leader)
(02.1939)			no appointment listed
21.03.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Bramble (minesweeper)
22.01.1941	-	(02.1941)	Commanding Officer, HMS Salamander (minesweeper)
11.11.1941	-	15.11.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Algerine (minesweeper)

Cooper,
David Gerald
D.G. Cooper

09.08.1927
-
08.10.2010
Havant, Hampshire

Midsh.	01.01.1945
...	...
Capt.	30.06.1968 (retd)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Drake House; 01.05.1941-1944; Admiralty No. 300a).

...	-	...	...
08.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Duke of York
...	-	...	...

Cooper,
John Edward
J.E. Cooper

Son of Edward Cecil "Bunny" Cooper (1884-1966), incorporated accontant, and Marjorie Eleanor "Pickle" Low (1897-1989).
Married (11.02.1958, Register Office, Gosport, Southampton) Mrs Pamela Dorothea "Pam" Lang (née Purchase) (29.08.1921 - 23.08.2016), earlier married to Gervase Elford Dashwood Lang (19.04.1921 - 08.02.2000) [with whom she had one daughter and one son], and daughter of Sir William Bentley Purchase, CBE, MC (1891-1961), barrister-at-law & coroner, and Mary "Molly" Dearden (1887-1967); two daughters.

05.12.1926
Colchester, Essex
-
25.06.1970
Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge district, Kent

Midsh.	01.05.1944
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1946
S.Lt.	01.05.1946
Lt.	01.11.1947
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1955 (retd 07.12.1959)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.09.1940-1944; Admiralty No. 239).
Gained civil aviator's licence (No. 21104), taken on a Tiger Moth at RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire on 11.04.1946.

01.05.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
10.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser)
(04.1946)	-	(10.1946)	HMS Marne (M class destroyer) *
04.11.1946	-	(10.1947)	HMS Cardigan Bay (Bay class frigate)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cooper,
Philip Sturley
P.S. Cooper

Son of William Charles Payne Cooper, bank manager.
Married (12.11.1921, St Paul's Cathedral Church, Valletta, Malta) Frances Mary Regina Clarke, daughter of Charles Thomas Erlin Clarke.

09.08.1893
-
05.04.1970
Bath district, Somerset

Midsh.	15.05.1911
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1913
S.Lt.	15.03.1914
Lt.	15.10.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1923 (retd 09.08.1938; age)
Cdr. (retd)	09.08.1938 (dispersed 13.09.1945) (reverted to retd 09.11.1945)

LegH

services to Free French Navy

15.05.1906			entered RN
...	-	...	...
16.04.1940	-	04.12.1940	HMS Vernon (additional; for De-Gaussing Department, ... Clarence Pier)
05.12.1940	-	13.09.1945	for liaison duties with Free French ships, from 29.07.1943 onwards indicated as Allied Naval Liaison Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional)]

Cooper,
Richard John
R.J. Cooper

Son (with one brother) of John Bruce Cooper (1869-1912), and Violet Mary Gordon (1878-1972).
Married ((03?).1940, Westminster district, London) Edmée Mary Budd (27.05.1915 - 25.09.2007); ... children (one son?).

17.05.1910
Basingstoke, Hampshire
-
14.03.1993
Northampton district, Northamptonshire

Cadet	01.09.1927
Midsh.	01.05.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1930
S.Lt.	16.01.1931
Lt.	16.06.1932
Lt.Cdr.	16.06.1940
Cdr. (L)	31.12.1945 (retd 17.05.1957; own request)

12.08.1927	-	(07.1928)	HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
			HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
20.03.1929	-	(08.)1930	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
25.09.1930	-	(03.)1931	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
13.04.1931	-	(09.)1931	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
14.11.1931	-	(05.)1932	HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
17.05.1932	-	(04.)1933	pilot's course, RAF base, Leuchars [attached to RAF]
05.1933	-	(08.)1934	pilot, T/B Squadron 810 FAA [HMS Courageous (Courageous class aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
22.10.1934	-	(02.)1937	pilot, S/R Squadron 820 FAA [HMS Courageous (Courageous class aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]
			HMS Glorious (Courageous class aircraft carrier)
14.06.1937	-	(03.)1938	HMS Winchester (W class destroyer) (Portsmouth)
05.05.1938	-	(04.)1939	qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
(05.1939)	-	(06.1939)	no appointment listed
01.06.1939	-	(12.)1939	HMS Keppel (Shakespeare class destroyer)
09.12.1939	-	(06.)1943	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 03.05.1941 Roedean School, Brighton) (for Minesweeping Department)
17.07.1941	-	(06.)1943	Torpedo Officer, HMS Newcastle (Southampton class cruiser)
07.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) *
02.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
(06.1944)			RN College, Greenwich *
16.09.1944	-	(04.)1945	Torpedo Officer, HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser)
06.1945	-	(10.1945)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Birmingham (Southampton class cruiser)
11.02.1946	-	(07.1946)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Electrical Department)
26.02.1947	-	(05.1949)	Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
13.04.1950	-	(05.1952)	on staff of Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship), from ... HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)]
02.02.1953	-	(01.)1955	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
13.02.1955	-	(01.)1957	Tactical Ship Requirements and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cooper *,
Sidney Grattan
S.G. Cooper

Son of Sidney Cooper.
Married (1940) Felicity Joan Pitt; two sons.

* changed last name to Grattan-Cooper by deed poll of 25.02.1950

03.12.1911
Newport M district, Glamorgan / Gwent / Monmouthshire
-
24.10.1999
[St James, South Africa ?]

Army:
2nd Lt.	27.06.1934 (reld 13.07.1936)
RAF:
(A) P/O (prob)	13.07.1936
P/O	18.05.1937 (reld 26.08.1938)
RN:
S.Lt. (A)	26.08.1938, seniority 18.05.1937
Lt. (A)	18.01.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (A) [acting rank]	1943?
A/Lt.Cdr. (A) [appointed rank]	01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.	18.01.1947
A/Cdr.	< 05.1949
Cdr.	30.06.1949
Capt.	30.06.1954
R.Adm.	07.01.1964 (retd 04.03.1966)

	CB	01.01.1966	New Year 1966 [investiture 08.03.1966]
	OBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946

Privately educated.

27.06.1934	-	13.07.1936	commissioned, Royal Monmouthshire (Militia) Royal Engineers - Supplementary Reserve of Officers
13.07.1936	-	26.08.1938	commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]
26.08.1938	-	(10.)1938	FAA Training Squadron, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory]
21.11.1938	-	(12.)1941	pilot, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier), later HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)]
30.12.1941	-	(08.)1942	pilot, 769 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
15.12.1942	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, 825 Squadron FAA [early 1943 at HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire)]
04.04.1944	-	(04.1946)	on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
(1946)			HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
26.08.1947	-	(05.1949)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1950)			lent to RCN
01.09.1952	-	(07.)1954	Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.11.1954	-	(01.)1957	Commanding Officer, HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta) & as Captain (Air), Mediterranean
25.07.1957	-	(01.)1959	Chief of Staff to Flag Officer (Air) Home [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
06.07.1961	-	(02.)1963	Director Strategic Application and Policy on staff of Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
07.07.1963	-	?	also: Naval ADC to the Queen
07.01.1964	-	07.01.1966	Deputy Controller (Aircraft) RN, Ministry of Aviation [HMS President]

Cooper,
Sydney Alan
S.A. Cooper

Son of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Cooper; husband of Ethel Clara Cooper, of Haywards Heath, Sussex.

17.07.1902
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
-
18.02.1940
(KIA) [age 38]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]

Lt.	15.09.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.09.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1938

15.01.1916			entered RN
(01.1925)			HMS Valorous (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) *
03.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS Comus (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
25.05.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
(04.1930)	-	(02.1931)	Torpedo Officer, Flotilla Staff, 1st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Mackay (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) **
(01.1932)			no appointment listed
02.03.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
30.08.1933	-	(02.1936)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [24.02.1934 ship commissioned]
11.11.1936	-	(06.1938)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
16.08.1938	-	(07.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (and for duty with submarines)
07.07.1939	-	18.02.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Daring (destroyer) (sunk)

* indexed, but not listed as such
** starting date indicated as 01.11.1926

Cooper,
William Guy Loy
W.G.L. Cooper

06.11.1900
-
04.07.1966
Pickering, Ryedale district, North Riding of Yorkshire

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1928 (retd)
Cdr. (retd)	06.11.1940 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

PolMC

21.10.1941

good services in Polish ships

09.01.1917			entered RN
...	-	...	...
23.08.1939	-	(08.)1942	Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] (eventually Executive Officer)
09.1939?	-	?	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Błyskawica (Polish destroyer)
07.10.1942	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Charlotte (anti-aircraft range, Ainsdale on Sea, Southport, Lancs)

Copisarow,
[Sir] Alcon Charles
A.C. Copisarow (Photo courtesy of Mr Clive Kidd)

Only son of Dr Maurice Copisarow, and Eda Cohen, of Chester.
Married ((03?).1953, Paddington district, London) Diana Elissa Castello, OBE (16.05.1933 - 15.09.2019), youngers daughter of Maj. Ellis James Castello, MC, TD, of Bucklebury; two sons, two daughters.

25.06.1920
Moss Side, nr Manchester, Fylde district, Lancashire
-
02.08.2017
London SW7

RAFVR:
(A) PO (prob)	16.09.1942 [129081] (reld 29.04.1943)
RN:
T/Instr.Lt.	29.04.1943 (Emgcy 29.04.1947)

11.06.1988

HM's birthday 1988: for public services

Education: Manchester Central Grammar School; University of Manchester (BSc): Imperial College of Science and Technology; Sorbonne, Paris (DUP 1960). Council of Europe Research Fellow. FInstla; HET.

16.09.1942	-	29.04.1943	commissioned, RAFVR (Technical Branch) [emergency commission]
(06.1943)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed
13.09.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
03.03.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) (for radar school)
1945			HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
26.08.1946	-	(10.1946)	Naval Meteorological Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Home Civil Service, 1946-1966 (Office of Minister of Defence, 1947-1954; Scientific Counsellor, British Embassy, Paris, 1954-1960; Director, Forest Products Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1960-1962; Chief Technical Officer, National Economic Development Council, 1962-1964; Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Technology, 1964-1966). Director, McKinsey & Co. Inc., 1966-1976; non-executive Director, British Leyland, 1976-1977; Director, TR Technologies and Holdings, 1976-1996. Chairman of Trustees, Eden Project, 1996-2000; Member, BNOC, 1980-1983; Chairman, APAX Venture Capital Funds, 1981-1994. Special Adviser, Ernst & Young, 1993-1999; Chairman, ARINSO International, 2000-2003. By-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2005. Chairman, Commonwealth Forest Products Pre-Conference, Nairobi, 1962; CENTO Conference on investment in Science, Teheran, 1963; Member: Scientific Manpower Committee, Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, 1963-1964; Economic Development Committees for Electronics Industry and for Heavy Electrical Industry, Tropical Products Advisory Committee, 1965-1966; Press Council, 1975-1981. A Chairman, General Commissaries for Income Tax, 1975-1995. External Member, Council of Lloyd's, 1982-1990; Deputy Chairman, Lloyd's Tercentenary Trust, 1989-... (Chairman, 1988 and 2007; Hon. Lloyd's Fellow 2008). Deputy Chairman, Board of Governors, English-Speaking Union, 1976-1983; Chairman, Youth Business Initiative, subsequently The Prince's Youth Business Trust, 1982-1987. Director, Windsor Festival, 1983-2000. Trustee: Duke of Edinburgh's Award, 1978-1984; FMI, 1995-2001; Member Council: Royal Jubilee Trusts, 1981-1987; Zoological Society, 1990-1991. Societé des Ingenieurs et des Scientifiques de France, 1992; Assoc. of MBAs, 2007-.... Governor, Benenden School, 1976-1986. Freeman, City of London, 1981. Hon. FTCL.
Published: Unplanned journey : from Moss Side to Eden (2014; memoirs)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Copperwheat,
Dennis Arthur
D.A. Copperwheat

23.05.1914
Raunds, Northamptonshire
-
08.09.1992

A/Gnr. (T)	01.04.1939
Lt.	01.10.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1947 (retd 24.05.1957)

17.11.1942

scuttling MS Talabot

(07.1939)			no appointment listed
15.07.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Hero (destroyer)
(1940/41?)			HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
16.06.1941	-	(02.1943)	HMS Penelope (cruiser) (in lieu of specialist torpedo officer)
04.1943	-	(08.1943)	HMS Vernon (training establishment, Brighton)
15.09.1943	-	(12.1943)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer)
27.03.1944	-	(06.1944)	HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)
10.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Vindictive (fleet reapair ship)
01.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Vernon (for miscellaneous duties)
			Underwater Weapons Research Establishment, Portland
21.06.1948	-	(05.1950)	staff, Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Duke of York]
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
24.08.1953	-	(01.1956)	Admiralty [HMS President]

Worked for a firm of insurance brokers in London before turning himself into a specialist on the treatment of timber, working at one time for a subsidiary of the Wates building group
Also saw war service on HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier); dates unknown

Coppin,
David John
D.J. Coppin

Married Daphne Eileen Arbuthnot Alexander (13.10.1920 - 20.07.1995), only child of Capt. Gilbert William Arbuthnot Alexander, MC (1895-1957), and Dorothy Mary Kent (?-1960s); three sons, one daughter.

15.09.1921
Pretoria, South Africa
-
13.07.1989
Duirinish, Wester Ross, Highlands, Scotland

Cadet (E)	01.01.1939
Midsh. (E)	01.09.1939
A/S.Lt. (E)	01.05.1941
S.Lt. (E)	11.1941, seniority 01.04.1941
A/Lt. (E)	> 04.1942, < 06.1942
Lt. (E)	25.05.1943, seniority 01.05.1942
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.05.1950 (retd 11.09.1953)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.09.1935-20.12.1938; Grenville House; Admiralty No. 1525).

01.01.1939	-	(09.)1939	HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
12.09.1939	-	(12.)1942	course of instruction in Engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]
30.12.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Cumberland (Kent class cruiser)
(02.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Cumberland (Kent class cruiser) *
(10.1944)	-	(07.1946)	no appointment listed
30.08.1946	-	(04.1947)	HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Coppinger,
Cuthbert

28.04.1890
Alverstoke, Hampshire
-
07.09.1973
Ashton, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.	30.04.1910
S.Lt.	19.12.1910, seniority 30.04.1910
Lt.	30.01.1912
Lt.Cdr.	30.01.1920
Cdr.	31.12.1925
Capt.	30.06.1933 (retd 28.07.1942) (dispersed 10.08.1946) (reverted to retd 25.10.1946)

DSC

15.09.1916

Battle of Jutland 1916 *

* For navigating the ship in the coolest manner from a very exposed position under extremely heavy fire.

Officer, Order of Maritime Merit (France) (12.03.1940; in recognition of valuable services rendered by them in connection with the rescue of survivors from the French steamer "Yolande" when wrecked on the coast of Shantung (China) on the 6th March, 1938).

15.09.1905			entered RN
21.04.1916	-	(01.1919)	Navigating Officer, HMS Canterbury (light cruiser)
07.01.1924	-	(01.1925)	Navigating Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean)
28.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.08.1927	-	(08.1929)	Tactical Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.12.1929	-	(02.1931)	Executive Officer, HMS York (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) [ship commissioned 06.05.1930]
16.11.1931	-	(06.1933)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
24.04.1934	-	(02.)1936	Flag Captain, HMS Effingham (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet
27.05.1936	-	(05.)1936	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.06.1936	-	(06.)1938	Commanding Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) & Senior Naval Officer, North China
(08.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
10.10.1938	-	(02.)1939	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich
11.03.1939	-	04.02.1941	Captain of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
03.03.1941	-	02.05.1941	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Imperial Defence College)
03.05.1941	-	23.05.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) & from 01.11.1941-02.11.1941 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding Force "H", from 03.11.1941-19.04.1942 as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Commanding Force "H"
06.02.1942	-	28.07.1942	also: Naval ADC to the King
24.05.1942	-	10.1944	Captain Superintendent, HM Dockyard Alexandria, Egypt [HMS Nile]
18.02.1945	-	20.06.1945	HMS Victory IV (additional; whilst unemployed)
21.06.1945	-	10.08.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)

Corbet-Singleton,
Colin Henry
C.H. Corbet-Singleton

Son (with one sister) of Col. Henry Townsend Corbet-Singleton, CMG, DSO (1874-1934), and Evelyn Elsie Harris (1878-1954).
Married ((09?).1940, Camberwell, Surrey) Laurie Lungley Haffenden-Smith.

02.12.1905
Banchory, Kincardineshire
-
12.11.1949
RN Hospital, Malta (formerly of Whitehall Mansions, Sliema, Malta)

Midsh.	15.01.1924
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1926
S.Lt.	15.01.1927
Lt.	01.06.1929
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1937
Cdr.	30.06.1943
A/Capt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944

DSC	16.08.1940	Dunkirk [investiture 20.05.1941]
DSC	31.03.1942	clearing minefield 12.41-01.1942 [investiture 11.12.1945]
DSC	23.03.1943	commanding operation minesweeping North Russia 11.1942 [investiture 11.12.1945]
MID	27.03.1945	Operation Dragoon
CdeG	?	Operation Dragoon [decoration posted to next-of-kin]

...	-	...	...
21.08.1939	-	06.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Albury (Hunt class minesweeper) (DSC)
06.1941	-	18.06.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Felixstowe (Bangor class minesweeper) (Bar to DSC)
18.06.1942	-	02.02.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Halcyon (Halcyon class minesweeper) (Second Bar to DSC)
04.02.1943	-	28.07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Fort York (Bangor class minesweeper)
30.08.1943	-	02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Rinaldo (Algerine class minesweeper)
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
20.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.07.1948	-	(05.)1949	Welfare and Service Conditions Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
?	-	12.11.1949	HMS Lofoten (landing ship, tank)

Corbett,
Hugh Askew
H.A. Corbett

25.06.1916
-
19.04.2012

...	...
S.Lt.	01.09.1936
Lt.	01.10.1937
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1945
Cdr.	31.12.1950
Capt.	30.06.1958 (retd 06.06.1969)

CBE	01.01.1968	New Year 1968 [investiture 27.02.1968]
DSO	13.02.1945	action Quarnarolo Channel Croatia 01.11.1944 [investiture 27.07.1945]
DSC	05.10.1943	9 offensive sweeps Sicilian Channel [investiture 27.07.1945]
MID	09.08.1940	?

...	-	...	...
25.11.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Brazen (destroyer) (despatches)
(05.1940)	-	(06.1940)	HMS Cardiff *
(07.1940)			no appointment listed
12.08.1940	-	(06.)1941	HMS Tynedale (destroyer)
21.06.1941	-	(06.)1943	HMS Lookout (destroyer) (DSC)
(08.1943)			HMS Lookout (destroyer) *
09.1943	-	18.12.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Wheatland (escort destroyer)
(11.1944)			HM LCH 282 (landing craft, headquarters) (DSO)
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
18.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
...	-	...	...
(1967)			HMS Fearless (CBE)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Corbett,
John Gray
J.G. Corbett

Married (26.03.1940) Ann ...; three children.

20.06.1924
Otorohanga, New Zealand
-
21.10.2011
Portchester

Cadet	01.01.1942
Midsh.	01.09.1942
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1944
S.Lt.	23.10.1944, seniority 01.08.1943
Lt.	01.08.1945, seniority 01.08.1944
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1952 (retd 20.06.1974 & re-employed) (reverted to retd 20.06.1979)

MBE

31.12.1960

New Year 1961

01.01.1942			special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme)
01.09.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Birmingham (light cruiser)
11.03.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Warspite (battleship)
04.10.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Nelson (battleship)
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Nelson (battleship) *
28.09.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Cubitt (frigate)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop) *
06.1947	-	(07.1948)	pilot, 816 Squadron FAA
09.04.1949	-	04.05.1951	pilot, 816 Squadron FAA [HMAS Sydney (light aircraft carrier), from 25.05.1949 HMAS Albatross (air station, Nowra, NSW), from 30.07.1949 HMAS Sydney, from 11.11.1949 HMAS Albatross, from 12.01.1950 HMAS Sydney, from 05.04.1950 HMAS Albatross, from 24.01.1951 HMAS Sydney, from 04.04.1951 HMAS Albatross] [on loan to RAN]
05.05.1951	-	10.07.1951	HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to UK per "Orion"] [on loan to RAN]
11.07.1951	-	15.08.1951	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent; additional for IF course at Rochester [HMS Pembroke] & from 01.08.1951 leave]
16.08.1951	-	?	pilot, 719 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglington, Londonderry]
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
31.08.1953	-	(07.1954)	HMS Centaur (light fleet carrier)
(04.1955)			no appointment listed
(01.1956)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
(01.1957)			HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth) *
(01.1959)	-	(07.1961)	HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta) *
(02.1963)	-	(02.1964)	Admiralty [HMS President] *
(02.1968)			HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) *
(02.1969)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(08.1971)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Corbett,
Noel Marcus Francis
N.M.F. Corbett (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Barnes)

Son (with one sister and one brother) of Thalberg Corbett (1864-1947), and Edna Harvey (1864-).
Married Alice Jane Averina Hughes (1886 - 06.05.1936); one daughter, one son.

20.12.1887
Axminster district, Devon
-
20.01.1962
17, Overton Road, Sutton, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey (residing at 59, Sandy Lane, South Wallington, Surrey)

...	...
Cdr.	30.06.1922 (retd 20.12.1933; own request)
Capt. (retd)	20.12.1933 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)

Dann

22.04.1947

Sea Gallantry Medal, G.V.R., silver (Lieut. Noel M. F. Corbett, R.N. “Delhi” 13 Dec. 1911); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Commr., R.N.); France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1917, bronze palm on ribbon; Royal Humane Society, small silver medal (successful) (Lieut. N. M. F. Corbett, R.N. 13th Dec. 1911) last with silver buckle on ribbon

15.01.1903			entered RN
			He was appointed a Midshipman in June 1904 and Sub-Lieutenant in August 1907. Promoted to Lieutenant in November 1909, he served aboard the battleship London, October 1910-February 1912. He was aboard the ship when in December 1911 she was called upon to give aid to the passengers and crew of the P. & O, liner S.S. Delhi which had run aground near Cape Spartel, Morocco. Amongst the passengers were the Duke and Duchess of Fife (The Princess Royal) and their two daughters which only gave further urgency to a grave situation. For his services in the rescue of the passengers and crew of the Delhi and for saving the life of Able Seaman Luxton (above), Corbett was awarded the Sea Gallantry Medal and Royal Humane Society Medal in silver. In the Great War Corbett served on the battlecruiser Indomitable, being present on her during the battle of Jutland. In November 1917 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander and in February 1918 was posted to the Aurora. For his services during the war he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 30 November 1917). Promoted to Commander in June 1922, he retired with the rank of Captain in December 1933. The following year he was appointed Superintendent of the training ship Cornwall.
...	-	...	...
24.05.1940	-	(10.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Pyramus (minesweeper & anti-submarine base, Kirkwall, Orkney)
27.11.1941	-	24.02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Northman, from 26.03.1943 HMS Polar Bear (RN base, Thorshavn, Faroes) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Faroes
01.05.1945	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) & as Senior Naval Officer, Levant Area
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Corby,
John
J. Corby

31.03.1887
Newcastle, Northumberland
-
19.10.1946
[Golders Green Crematorium, panel 2]

Seaman	? [225290]
Petty Officer	?
Gnr.	13.06.1918
Cd.Gnr.	13.06.1928 (retd 01.04.1937)
Lt. (retd)	01.04.1937
A/Lt.Cdr. (retd)	< 01.1945

	OBE	01.01.1946	New Year 1946 [posted to next-of-kin]
	DSM	11.05.1916	?

...	-	...	...
10.02.1925	-	(02.1927)	HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (for DF & I duties in 4th Destroyer Flotilla) [joined HMS Venomous (destroyer) prior to sailing for Palmas Bay on 27.01.1926]
...	-	...	...
02.02.1937	-	(02.)1941	HMS Manchester (cruiser)
16.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.03.1942	-	(07.1945)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(04.1946)			Office of the Admiral Commanding Reserves

Cordeaux,
Edward Cawdron
E.C. Cordeaux (Photo courtesy of Mr Kenneth Moore)

Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of late Col. Edward Kyme Cordeaux, CBE (1867-1946), and Hilda Eliza Agar Bennett (1870-1946), of Brackenborough Lawn, Louth, Lincolnshire.
Married (07.07.1921, The Chapel Royal, Savoy, St Martin, London) Marjorie Holmes Bennett (04.10.1894 - 25.09.1975), daughter of William Bennett, of Grimsby and London; four sons.

24.07.1894
Great Coates, Caistor district, Lincolnshire
-
08.06.1963
Goulesby, nr Louth, Horncastle district, Lincolnshire

Midsh.	15.01.1912
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.11.1914
Lt.	15.05.1916 ?, seniority 15.12.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1923 (retd 01.04.1931; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	24.07.1934
A/Capt. (retd)	16.06.1940 (reverted to retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

	DSO	16.08.1940	Dunkirk [investiture 03.09.1940]
	OBE	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 1941 [investiture 23.09.1941]

Czechoslovak Air Force Pilot's Badge (1942)

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; RN Staff College (1927); Middlesex Hospital. MB (1935), BS (London, 1935), MRCS (England, 1935), LRCP (London, 1935)

15.05.1907			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War (Dardanelles, Gallipoli & Jutland)
05.08.1918	-	(01.)1919	qualified Gunnery specialist [HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)]
01.11.1922	-	(08.1923)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
10.12.1924	-	(01.1925)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Broke (flotilla leader)
28.09.1926	-	(07.1927)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich
(08.1929)	-	(02.1931)	no appointment listed
Entered Middlesex Hospital as student, 1931. House Surgeon and Casualty Medical Officer, Middlesex Hospital, 1935-1936. General Practice, Southwold, Suffolk, 1937.
26.08.1939			reactivated RN
26.08.1939	-	11.04.1940	Assistant Staff Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
12.04.1940	-	15.06.1940	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
(06.1940)			HMS Royal Eagle (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel (coastal)) (Dunkirk)
16.06.1940	-	08.1943	Senior Officer, Thames Local Defence Flotilla [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)]
08.1943	-	(07.)1945	Maintenance Captain on Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

CC for parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 1949; Deputy Lieutenant (DL) County of Lincoln; Justice of the Peace (JP) Parts of Lindsey; Diocesan Lay Reader, Vice-Chairman Diocesan Trust and Board of Finance 1957-1962; Member Church Assembly, Diocese of Lincoln, 1950; Member Sheffield Regional Hospital Board, 1952-1960; Chairman Horncastle Rural District Council, 1958-1960; Chairman County Civil Defence Committee, 1958; Chairman Grimsby Group Hospitals Management Committee, 1960-1962; Group Controller, Civil Defence, North Lincolnshire, 1960. High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1963.

Cork,
Richard John
"Dickie"
R.J. Cork

Son of Harold James Cork and Ethel Mary Cork, of Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

04.04.1917
London
-
14.04.1944
[age 27]
[Trincomalee War Cemetery, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 2.C.9]

A/S.Lt. (A)	01.05.1939
S.Lt. (A)	14.03.1940
Lt. (A)	01.11.1941
A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	01.09.1942

	DSO	10.11.1942	Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar to Malta convoy, 11-16.08.1942) [investiture 08.12.1942]
	DSC	18.10.1940	successful action against enemy bombers [investiture 11.03.1941] *

* Originally awarded the DFC by the RAF but this was exchanged for the DSC on the insistence of the Admiralty.

Battle of Britain Clasp to his 1939 Star.

Education: Slough Secondary School

(08.1939)			no appointment listed
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
07.06.1940	-	12.1940	242 Squadron RAF [on loan to RAF] (Battle of Britain) [claiming 5 air victories]
15.01.1941	-	(02.1941)	pilot, 880 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
(02?.)1941	-	10.1941	pilot, 880 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
11.10.1941	-	09.1942	pilot, 880 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)] (08.1942-09.1942 acting Commanding Officer during Operation Pedestal after CO was killed) [claiming 5 air victories]
07.09.1942	-	03.1943	pilot, 761 Squadron FAA (and instructional duties) [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] *
10.04.1943	-	(10.)1943	Chief Flying Instructor, 761 Squadron FAA [HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)]
02.12.1943	-	14.04.1944	Wing Leader, 15th Naval Fighter Wing [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] (killed in aircraft collision on China Bay Airfield, Ceylon)

Air ace with 9 confirmed destroyed enemy aircraft, 2 shared destroyed, 1 probable, 4 damaged, 7 destroyed on the ground.
* possibly initially with 759 Squadron FAA at HMS Heron
Literature: A.H. Wren, Naval fighter pilot: Lt. Cdr. R.J. Cork DSO, DSC, RN: the story of the Fleet Air Arm's unsung hero and the men with whom he served (1998)

Cork and Orrery,
12th Earl of (cr. 1620);
Boyle, William Henry Dudley
Baron Boyle of Youghall, 1616;
Viscount Dungarvan, 1620;
Viscount Kinalmeaky, Baron Boyle of Bandon Bridge and Baron Boyle of Broghill (Ireland), 1628;
Earl of Orrery, 1660;
Baron Boyle of Marston, 1711
W.H.D. Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery

Son (with a twin sister, and three brothers and four sisters) of late Col. Gerald Edmund Boyle (?-1927), and late Lady Elizabeth Theresa Pepys (?-1897), daughter of 1st Earl of Cottenham.
Succeeded cousin, 13.10.1934.
Married (24.07.1902) Lady Florence Cecilia Keppel (24.02.1871 - 30.06.1963), youngest daughter of William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle; no children.

30.11.1873
Hale, Farnham
-
19.04.1967
London
[Marston Churchyard, Frome, Somerset]

Midsh.	15.06.1889
A/S.Lt.	20.09.1893
S.Lt.	07.1894?, seniority 14.06.1893
Lt.	01.10.1895
Cdr.	31.12.1906
Capt.	30.06.1913
Cdre.	(1922)
R.Adm.	01.11.1923
V.Adm.	12.06.1928
Adm.	01.11.1932
Adm. of the Fleet	21.01.1938 (reverted to half-pay 12.12.1940)

GCB	23.06.1936	HM's birthday 1936
KCB	03.06.1931	HM's birthday 1931
CB	01.01.1918	New Year 1918
GCVO	16.07.1935	?
MID	11.08.1917	?

Commander, Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus (Italy); Order of Nile, 3rd class (Egypt), 04.12.1916; Order of El Nadhr (Arabia), 2nd class, 1917 (gazetted 23.04.1920); Grand Cross of the Order of St Olav (Norway); Grand Cross of Legion of Honour (France); Croix de Guerre avec palme (France)

15.01.1887			entered RN as Naval Cadet
1900			served China
02.1909	-	02.1911	Naval Intelligence Department
06.1912			War Staff Officer
06.1913	-	08.11.1915	Naval Attaché, Rome
?	-	11.1917	Senior Officer Red Sea Patrol (despatches)
06.11.1917	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
01.11.1922	-	01.11.1923	Naval ADC to the King
01.11.1923	-	(01.)1925	Rear-Admiral, 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Resolution (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet)
09.09.1926	-	1928	Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Frobisher (cruiser)] (China)
1928	-	1929	Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet
03.04.1929	-	(01.)1932	President of RN College, Greenwich, and Vice-Admiral commanding Royal Naval War College
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
14.09.1933	-	20.08.1935	Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
12.07.1936	-	01.07.1938	First and Principal Naval ADC to the King (bore the Curtana or Sword of Mercy at the coronation of King George VI)
(02.1937)	-	(07.1937)	no appointment listed
03.07.1937	-	29.06.1939	Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1939)	-	(08.1939)	no appointment listed
21.09.1939	-	21.03.1940	HMS President (additional; for special service inside Admiralty, not exceeding 6 months)
21.03.1940	-	11.04.1940	appointed to duty on Permanent Committee
12.04.1940	-	12.06.1940	HMS Victory (additional; for special service & as Flag Officer, Narvik, Norway [HMS Aurora (cruiser))
13.06.1940	-	19.07.1940	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
20.07.1940	-	10.11.1940	Flag Officer Commanding Shetlands [HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick, Shetlands)]
29.11.1940	-	12.12.1940	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special service outside Admiralty)

Home Guard, 1941-1942. President, Shaftesbury Homes and Arethusa Training Ship, 1943-1953.
Published: My naval life, 1886-1941 (1942).

Cornell,
Harry Ralph
H.R. Cornell

21.12.1926
-
30.01.2015

Midsh.	01.05.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	01.03.1956 (retd 13.08.1966)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.09.1940-1944; Admiralty No. 240).

...	-	...	...
10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS King George V
...	-	...	...

Cornish,
Herbert James
H.J. Cornish (Photo courtesy of Mr Nicholas Parks Young)

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

06.11.1880
Woolwich, Kent
-
16.02.1960
Emsworth, Gosport district, Hampshire (formerly of Southbourne, Sussex)

Boy 2nd cl.	1896? [188389]
Boatsw.	15.01.1913 (retd 1922; own request)
Cd. Boatsw. (retd)	09.04.1940
Lt. (retd)	09.04.1943 (reverted to retd > 10.1944, < 01.1945)

...	-	...	...
01.12.1939	-	(10.1944)	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)

Cornish-Bowden,
Edward John
E.J. Cornish-Bowden (Photo courtesy of Mrs Athel Cornish-Bowden)

Son of William Cornish-Bowden (1869-1939), and Henrietta Edith Kitson (1875-1965), of Newton Abbot, Devon.
Brother of Cdr. (S) William Karslake Cornish-Bowden, RN.
Cousin of Lt. (E) John Ambrose Cornish-Bowden, RNVR.

14.05.1918
Sydney, Nova Scotia
-
02.11.1941
(KIA) [age 23]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]

Cadet	01.09.1936
Midsh.	01.05.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1939
S.Lt.	1940?, seniority 01.05.1939
Lt.	16.12.1940

MID

05.05.1942

patrols hitting 3 supply ships 09-11.1941 [posthumously]

01.09.1936	-	(02.)1937	special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
24.04.1937	-	(04.)1939	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.05.1939	-	(09.1939)	promotion course, Portsmouth
14.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Montrose (destroyer)
16.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Taku (submarine)
1941	-	02.11.1941	HMS Tetrarch (submarine) (ship lost in western Mediterranean)

Cornish-Bowden,
William Karslake
E.J. Cornish-Bowden

Son of William Cornish-Bowden (1869-1939), and Henrietta Edith Kitson (1875-1965), of Newton Abbot, Devon.
Brother of Lt. Edward John Cornish-Bowden, RN.
Cousin of Lt. (E) John Ambrose Cornish-Bowden, RNVR.
Married (08.08.1934, Church of St Michael-du-Valle, Guernsey) Dorothy Beryl Madge Duncan, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs F.W.A. Duncan, of Tintern, l'Ancresse, Guernsey; two daughters, one son.

06.11.1908
Sydney, Nova Scotia
-
14.09.1992
Totnes, Devon

Paym. Cadet	15.01.1926
Paym.Midsh.	15.01.1927
Paym.S.Lt.	15.10.1928
Paym.Lt.	15.10.1930
Paym.Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1938
Cdr. (S)	31.12.1944 (retd 07.03.1953)

15.09.1926	-	(04.)1928	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
10.04.1928	-	(08.)1929	HMS Canterbury (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
04.11.1929	-	(10.)1930	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
29.10.1930	-	(01.)1932	HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)
05.08.1932	-	(06.)1933	HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)
01.09.1933	-	(07.)1934	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)
29.08.1934	-	(02.)1937	HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)
25.05.1937	-	(02.)1938	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
15.02.1938	-	(06.)1938	accountant officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.07.1938	-	(04.)1940	Captain's Secretary, HMS Faulknor (destroyer)
03.04.1940	-	(10.1940)	HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)
(02.1941)			HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) *
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
(02.1943)			HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) *
27.03.1943	-	(07.1945)	Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
06.04.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Suffolk (cruiser)
05.03.1947	-	(05.1949)	RN Base, Singapore [HMS Terror]
05.03.1950	-	(05.1950)	staff of Commander-in-Chief, Far Eastern Station [HMS Terror]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cornwall,
Neil Derrick
N.D. Cornwall

Son of ... Cornwall, and ... Trendall.

07.12.1917
Edmonton district, Oxfordshire
-
28.10.2003
Bournemouth district, Hampshire

Midsh. RNR	01.02.1936
A/S.Lt. RNR	25.04.1938
Prob. S.Lt.	25.11.1938
S.Lt.	1939?, seniority 25.11.1938
Lt.	25.12.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 07.1945, < 10.1945
Lt.Cdr.	25.12.1947 (retd 07.12.1962)

RHS Br

attempt to rescue mid... [= Midshipman?] overboard 02.1944

...	-	...	...
(08.1939)			short course of instruction
23.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
06.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Olympus (submarine)
20.02.1941	-	(06.)1941	First Lieutenant, HMS H 34 (submarine)
02.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS P 35 (submarine)
09.02.1942	-	(02.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer)
16.02.1943	-	(10.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Whimbrel (sloop)
07.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Musketeer (destroyer)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
10.11.1944	-	mid 1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Cooke (frigate)
06.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Blencathra (escort destroyer)
...	-	...	...

Cornwallis,
the Hon. Oswald Wykeham

16.03.1894
Linton, Maidstone district, Kent
-
28.01.1974
Froxfield, Petersfield district, Hampshire

Midsh.	15.09.1911
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1914
S.Lt.	15.09.1914
Lt.	15.12.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1923
Cdr.	31.12.1928 (retd 16.03.1944)
Capt. (retd)	16.03.1944 (reverted to retd 27.10.1945)

OBE

27.06.1919

for valuable services in HMS Caroline, 4th Light Cruiser Squadron

...	-	...	...
31.05.1933	-	18.12.1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop) (America and West Indies Station)
...	-	...	...
24.02.1939	-	(09.)1939	Admiralty Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, Area North Foreland to Newport (Monmouthshire) (based at Southampton)
(11.1939)			no appointment listed
28.11.1939	-	(02.)1940	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for Torpedoes and Mining Department)
20.02.1940	-	01.09.1945	Deputy Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]

Corry,
[Sir] William James;
4th Bt created 1885, of Dunraven, Co. Antrim
W.J. Corry

01.08.1924
-
09.05.2000

Midsh.
...	...
S.Lt.	16.12.1943
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1953 (retd 01.08.1974; re-employed) (reverted to retd 1977)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.05.1938-16.12.1941; Admiralty No. 1924).

...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Corson,
Eric Reid
E.R. Corson

Married (28.02.1924, London) Marjorie Miller Warner (née Winants); one stepson, two sons (Cdr. Peter Francis Reid Corson, RN).

09.01.1887
-
17.08.1972

Midsh.	15.02.1903
...	...
Lt.	15.04.1908
Cdr.	30.06.1921
Capt.	30.06.1929
R.Adm.	05.01.1940 (retd 06.01.1940) (reverted to retd 25.04.1943)

	MVO	1922	?
	DSC	1914	?

15.09.1901			entered service
...	-	...	...
26.08.1937	-	27.11.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) & in charge of Shotley Training Establishment
28.11.1939	-	05.01.1940	HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave)
05.09.1940	-	24.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) & as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Portland & as King's Harbour Master & Deputy Superintendent, Portland (as Capt.)
13.12.1943	-	24.10.1945	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional; as Deputy to Director General of Ship Repairs and Ship Construction in India) (as Capt.)
25.10.1945	-	?	HMS President (additional; for disposal) (as Capt.)

Corson,
Peter Francis Reid
P.F.R. Corson

Elder son of R.Adm. Eric Reid Corson, MVO, DSC, and Marjorie Miller Winants.

14.12.1924
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
19.08.2007
Beaminster, Dorset

Midsh.	01.01.1944
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1945
S.Lt.	1945?, seniority 01.12.1944
Lt.	16.12.1945
Lt.Cdr.	16.12.1953
Cdr.	31.12.1959 (retd 31.12.1966)

04.1943			special entry cadet
01.01.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Hawkins (Hawkins class cruiser)
05.1944	-	09.1944	HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
09.1944	-	02.1945	HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) *
02.1945	-	08.1945	HMAS Norman (N class destroyer) *
02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Jamaica (Fiji class cruiser)
...	-	...	...
			Extracted from his memoirs: September 1946 transferred to HMS Loch Glendhu, initially no specific post but soon became Navigating Officer. The round of duties was the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. Went to Singapore in May 1948 for refit. June 1948 HM HDML 1031 (Motor Launch) in Command for anti-terrorist operations on the East coast of Malaya regarding the declared emergency. Then return to HMS Loch Glendhu late August. Returned to UK early 1949 for Gunnery Officer course (HMS Excellent). On completion of the course was appointed Gunnery Officer of HMS Broadsword. January 1952 appointed HMS Largo Bay (frigate in training squadron). 1954 appointed First Lieutenant HMS Virago (anti-submarine frigate conversion). Early 1956 joined the planning staff in Cyprus. 1958 appointed in command of HMS Russell (frigate) for service in the fisheries protection squadron. Early 1962 appointed in command HMS Barrosa (radar picket destroyer).

* indexed, but not listed as such
Published: Call the middle watch : an account of life at sea in the Royal Navy 1905 to 1963 (1997).

Cortlandt-Simpson *,
James Woore
"Jim"
C.J.W. Simpson

Son of late R.Adm. Cortlandt Herbert Simpson, CBE (1856-1943), and Edith Octavia (née Busby).
Married 1st, Lettice Mary Johnstone.
Married 2nd, Ann Margaret Cubitt.
Married 3rd, Joan Mary Watson; one daughter.
Married 4th, Vanessa Ann Stainton (née Heald).

* Last name:
Simpson till c. 1932, then Cortlandt-Simpson till c. 1949, then again
Simpson.

02.09.1911
Westbourne, Sussex
-
09.05.2002
South Hams, Hampshire

Midsh.	01.09.1929
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1932
S.Lt.	31.03.1933, seniority 01.09.1932
Lt.	10.02.1934, seniority 01.10.1933 (retd 26.06.1934; own request)
A/Lt.Cdr. (retd)	08.1943?
Lt.Cdr.	01.01.1945?
Lt.Cdr. (L)	28.10.1946, seniority 01.01.1945
Cdr. (L)	31.12.1948 (retd 02.09.1961)

CBE	02.01.1956	New Year 1956 (Greenland Expedition) [investiture 21.02.1956]
DSC	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945
PolMed	30.11.1954	as leader of the British North Greenland Expedition [investiture 15.03.1955]

Education: St Ronans, Worthing; RN College, Dartmouth (1925); London University (BSc Engineering, Hons.).

05.01.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
19.05.1931	-	12.1931	HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
31.12.1931	-	(01.1932)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
22.08.1932	-	(09.1932)	promotion course, Portsmouth
1932?	-	1933?	HMS Nelson (battleship)
15.09.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Boadicea (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
16.07.1937			Probationary Assistant Engineer with the Post Office
			served War of 1939-1945 in Home and Mediterranean Fleets:
01.04.1940	-	(04.1940)	anti-submarine course, HMS Osprey
(02.1941)	-	(12.1941)	anti-submarine course *
01.07.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Medway II (1st Submarine Flotilla base, Beirut)
11.08.1943	-	(06.1944)	[Commanding Officer ?], HMS Mackay (destroyer)
?	-	1945	HMS Eglinton (destroyer)
18.06.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyll) (for miscellaneous duties)
28.10.1946			transferred to the Electrical Branch
19.01.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Collingwood (radar and electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
30.01.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS King George V (battleship)
28.12.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
1950	&	1951	summer expeditions to Greenland
(05.1953)			HMS President *
1952	-	1954	Leader of British North Greenland Expedition
(04.1955)			Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.12.1955	-	(01.1957)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (miscellaneous duties)
(07.1961)			no appointment listed

Royal Geographical Society, Founder's Medal, 1955.
Published: North Ice : the British North Greenland Expedition (1957)

Cotton,
Thomas Christopher
T.C. Cotton

1924 ?
New Zealand
-
14.03.1968
Kensington district, London
[age 43]

Cadet	01.05.1941
Midsh.	01.05.1942
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1944
S.Lt.	1944?, seniority 01.04.1943
Lt.	01.05.1944
Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1952
Cdr.	30.06.1960

01.05.1941			special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme)
01.05.1942	-	(10.)1943	HMS King George V (battleship)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
30.05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Euryalus (cruiser)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
29.12.1948	-	(05.1950)	HMS Loch Arkaig
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
(07.1954)	-	(01.1956)	HMS Ricasoli (RN barracks, Fort Ricasoli, Malta) *
(01.1957)			HMS Cavendish *
08.04.1958	-	(01.1959)	First Lieutenant, HMS Albion
25.09.1960	-	(07.1961)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wizard
24.04.1962	-	(02.1964)	Services Conditions and Fleet Supply Duties Division, Personal Services and Officer Appointments Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1968)			HMS Osprey (parent ship for Work Up Base, Royal Naval Air Station and RN Air A/S School, Portland, Dorset)

Couch,
Richard John Hullis
R.J.H. Couch

Son of Engr. Lieut.-Comdr. Herbert William Couch, R.N., and Edith Cecile Couch, of Westminster, London.

16.11.1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
01.09.1940
(KIA) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]

Midsh.	15.09.1925
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	12.06.1929, seniority 16.10.1928
Lt.	16.02.1931
Lt.Cdr.	16.02.1939

	DSC	16.08.1940	Dunkirk
	MID	23.12.1939	successful actions against enemy submarines

15.01.1925	-	(07.1927)	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
30.08.1929	-	(01.1932)	HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
15.05.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet)
05.09.1934	-	(02.1936)	HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa)
15.12.1936	-	(07.1937)	First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Portland)
14.02.1938	-	01.09.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Esk (destroyer)

Couchman,
[Sir] Walter Thomas

Son of Malcolm Edward Couchman, CSI,
and Emily Elizabeth Ranking.
Married 1st (1937) Phyllida Georgina Connellan (marriage dissolved 1965); one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1965) Mrs Hughe Hunter Blair (died 1972), widow of Lt.Col. D.W. Hunter Blair.
Married 3rd (1972) Mrs Daphne Harvey,
widow of Capt. E.H.N. Harvey, RN.

19.03.1905
Madras, India
-
02.05.1981
Bulmer, Sudbury, Deben district, Suffolk

...	...
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1925
S.Lt.	30.11.1925
Lt.	30.08.1927
Lt.Cdr.	30.08.1935
Cdr.	31.12.1938
Capt.	31.12.1942
R.Adm.	08.07.1952
V.Adm.	29.02.1956
Adm.	30.04.1959 (retd 11.1960; own request)

KCB	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 1958 [investiture 15.07.1958]
CB	10.06.1954	HM's birthday 1954 [investiture 15.03.1955]
CVO	16.07.1953	Coronation Review [investiture 27.10.1953]
DSO	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 21.11.1944]
OBE	01.01.1941	New Year 1941 [investiture 21.11.1944]

Education: RN College Osborne and RN College Dartmouth.

...	-	...	...
			specialised in Naval Aviation, 1928; Staff College, 1935; qualified Naval Pilot
...	-	...	...
01.08.1938	-	(10.)1940	Air Matériel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1940)			Air Matériel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *
04.12.1940	-	06.07.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Veteran (modified W class destroyer)
07.07.1941	-	04.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Broke (Shakespeare class destroyer) (DSO)
04.04.1942	-	(12.1942)	Staff Officer (Plans) to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt), later HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
02.02.1943	-	(10.1945)	Naval Assistant (U-boat Warfare) to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (UT)
...	-	...	...
			commanded HMS Glory, 1946; Director of Naval Air Organization and Training, Admiralty, 1947; Flag Officer Flying Training, 1951 (CVO); Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers, 1954 (CB); Deputy Controller of Supplies (Air), Ministry of Supply, 1955-56; Flag Officer Air (Home), 1957-60 (KCB); Vice-Chief, Naval Staff, Admiralty, 1960.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Coull,
Albert
A. Coull

?
-

Sg.Lt.	30.09.1938 17.04.1939, seniority 31.10.1937 (emgcy 30.09.1943)
Sg.Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)	31.10.1943

Education: MB, ChB.

25.01.1939	-	(08.)1942	HMS Hebe (minesweeper) [accommoadted in HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper)]
03.09.1942	-	(12.)1943	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
29.12.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Exmouth (accommodation ship landing craft personnel Tilbury)
21.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Battler (escort carrier)

Courage,
Rafe Edward
R.E. Courage

Eldest son of Lt.Col. Miles Rafe Ferguson Courage, DSO (1872-1961), and Kathleen Roma Beatty (1877-1949), of Preston House, Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Married 1st (03.05.1934, St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Malta) Irene Mary Graham Campbell, eldest daughter of Gen. Sir David Graham Muchet Campbell, Governor of Malta, and Lady Campbell; one son.
Married 2nd (1942, abroad) L/Cpl. Nancy Petersen, WTS (1913-1995), daughter of P.R. Petersen.

22.06.1902
Chelsea, London
-
25.03.1960
Bradley, Alresford, Hampshire

...	....
S.Lt.	30.08.1922
Lt.	30.06.1924
Lt.Cdr.	30.07.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1940 (retd 03.03.1948)

DSO	07.06.1940	1st Battle of Narvik [investiture 08.07.1941]
DSO	26.05.1942	action with Italian cruisers 12.12.1941 [investiture 26.03.1946]
DSC	11.07.1940	HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 08.07.1941]
DSC	08.04.1941	sinking Italian submarine Berillo 20.10.1940 [investiture 08.07.1941]
OON	12.05.1942	withdrawal from Holland [decoration posted]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1914).

15.01.1916			entered RN
			served European War
...	-	...	...
19.01.1934	-	(07.)1935	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
24.09.1935	-	(08.)1936	Commanding Officer, HMS Bagshot (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)
21.09.1936	-	(10.1936)	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(01.1937)			no appointment listed
15.01.1937	-	02.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Havock (destroyer) (Narvik [DSO] & other operations [Bar to DSO, DSC and Bar])
09.07.1941	-	12.02.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Maori (destroyer)
(08.1942)			HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) *
(02.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
18.09.1944	-	(07.)1945	Executive Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
22.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Lowestoft)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Courtney,
Anthony Tosswill
A.T. Courtney

Son of Basil Tosswill Courtney (1873-1933), manufacturer of machine tools, and Frances Elizabeth Rankin.
Brother of Maj. Roger J.A. Courtney, MC, and of Lt.Col. Godfrey B. Courtney, MBE, MC.
Married 1st (1938) Elisabeth Mary Cortlandt Stokes (died 1961); no children.
Married 2nd (1962) Lady (Elizabeth) Trefgarne (marriage dissolved 1966).
Married 3rd (1971) Mrs Angela Bradford.

16.05.1908
Bromley, London
-
24.01.1988
Devizes, Wiltshire

Cadet	15.09.1925
Midsh.	15.05.1926
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1928
S.Lt.	01.03.1929
Lt.	01.10.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1938 (retd 16.05.1953)
A/Cdr.	19.10.1941-1942 & 21.01.1946-...
Cdr. (retd)	16.05.1953

OBE

01.01.1949

New Year 1949

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

15.01.1922			entered RN
29.08.1925	-	(05.)1926	HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
11.09.1926	-	(06.1928)	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (world cruise of Duke & Duchess of York)
04.1929	-	08.1929	promotion course, Portsmouth
15.11.1929	-	(10.1930)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China Station)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
26.04.1931	-	(06.)1933	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.10.1933	-	(07.)1934	qualified as Interpreter in Russian after language study in Bessarabia [HMS President (for study of languages)]
04.07.1934	-	(11.)1934	HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
03.12.1934	-	(07.)1935	qualified in Signals and Wireless Telegraphy, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
16.12.1935	-	(02.)1936	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1936)			no appointment listed
28.09.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Signal School)
26.03.1937	-	04.1939	Flag Lieutenant and subsequently Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Arethusa (cruiser)] (and as Squadron Signals and Wireless/Telegraphy Officer) (Mediterranean Fleet)
(07.1939)			no appointment listed
(08.1939)			HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) *
01.01.1940	-	(02.)1941	Flag Lieutenant-Commander on staff of Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Seaborn (accounting base, Halifax, Nova Scotia)] (and as Squadron Signal and W/T Officer)
1941	-	1941	North Atlantic Escort Force, Halifax, Nova Scotia
19.10.1941	-	(08.)1942	Deputy Head of Naval Mission to USSR [HMS President]
08.12.1942	-	(02.)1943	Squadron Signals & Wireless/Telegraphy Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
05.1943	-	(10.)1943	Flag Lt.Cdr. & Squadron Signals Officer to Flag Officer commanding Aircraft Carriers, Home Fleet [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier), later HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)]
08.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	Staff Signals Officer to Flag Officer commanding South Atlantic Station [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)]
11.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Staff Signals Communication Officer to Flag Officer, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]
21.01.1946	-	(07.)1948	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.11.1948	-	1951	Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence), to R Adm S.H.T. Arliss, Flag Officer Commanding British Naval Forces, Germany, and Chief British Naval Representative in the Allied Control Commission [HMS Royal Albert] (Hamburg, Germany)
1952	-	1953	qualified as Interpreter in German; Intelligence Div, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]

Export Consultant, ETG Consultancy Services, 1954-1965; contested Hayes and Harlington as Conservative Party candidate, UK General Election, 1955; Conservative MP for Harrow East, 1959-1966; Vice Chairman, Conservative Navy Committee, 1964; Chairman, Parliamentary Flying Club, 1965; Managing Director, New English Typewriting School Limited, 1969-1988; Chairman, Wiltshire Monday Club, 1977; Chairman of Governors, Urchfont School, 1982-1988
Published: Sailor in a Russian frame (1968).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Cove,
William Wilson
W.W. Cove (Photo courtesy of Mr Andrew Wilkinson)

09.10.1890
-
13.08.1964

...	...
Paym.Cdr.	09.10.1929 (retd 09.10.1940)
Paym.Capt. (retd) = Capt. (S) (retd)	09.10.1940

...	-	...	...
01.04.1940	-	(07.1945)	HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
...	-	...	...

Covington,
Richard Guy
R.G. Covington

12.09.1925
-
10.08.2016
Dawlish, Devon

...	...
Midsh. (E)	01.05.1944
...	...
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1962 (retd)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1940-1943).

...	-	...	...
?	-	(10.1945)	HMS Anson
...	-	...	...

Cowan,
Peter Brook
P.B. Cowan

Son (with one sister) of George Dalrymple Cowan (1887-1963), and Eleanor Mary "Nell" Lewis (1882-1962).
Married (07.05.1960, Churt, Surrey South Western district, Surrey) Diana Bryce-Smith (07.01.1926 - 02.01.1998), daughter of Herbert Bryce Smith (1897-1981), and Catherine Evelyn Smith (1899-1981); one daughter, one son.

17.09.1923
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
-
21.06.2012
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Cadet	01.01.1941
Midsh.	01.09.1941
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1943
S.Lt.	10.1943, seniority 01.08.1942
Lt.	20.03.1944, seniority 01.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1951
Cdr.	30.06.1957 (retd 17.09.1976)

MID

14.08.1945

relief of Greece

Education: Winchester College (1937.2-1940.3; exhibitioner at Morshead's; boxing team); RN College, Dartmouth.

01.01.1941			special entry cadet
(04.1941)	-	(08.1941)	no appointment listed
01.09.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)
05.02.1942	-	31.12.1942	HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser) (Atlantic, Iceland and landings in Madagascar)
01.1943	-	(02.)1943	HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser)
25.03.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Mackay (Scott class destroyer)
03.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Tuscan (T class destroyer) (Mediterranean) (despatches)
(04.1945)			no appointment listed
22.04.1945	-	(10.)1945	HMS Diomede (cruiser; boys' training ship, Devonport)
24.11.1945	-	1948	Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), from 10.04.1945 HMS King George V (battleship)]
			Persian Gulf 1948; HMS Excellent, course 1948, instr. 1950; HMS Kenya, Korea, and HMS Ladybird, Japan, 1950-3; RN Air Station Halfar, Malta, 1954-6; Commander RN Field Gun Run, Royal Tournament 1957; Naval Assistant to Director of Air Armament Research and Development, Ministry of Supply, 1959-61; j.s,s,c, 1961; Naval Staff, Trade and Operations Division, 1962; RN Tactical School Woolwich, 1964; Staff, C.-in-C. A.F.S.E., Naples, 1965; Commanding Officer, N,B.C.D. School, HMS Phoenix, 1968; RN Air Station, Brawdy, 1970, Commanding Offer 1971; RN School of Management and Work Study 1971; staff of F.O.C.A.S.; Commander RN School of Management 1973-74

Clerk, Worshipful Company of Butchers 1979-85. Freeman, City of London 1985. Retired to Farnham, Surrey. Taught Italian to Adult Education Classes 1987-88. Secretary Waverley EXACT Group (assistance for over 50s to find work).

Cowan,
Robin Buchanan
R.B. Cowan

09.07.1927
-

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Drake House; 01.01.1941-(05.1941); Admiralty No. 265) [probably did not complete education as he's not showing as being commissioned in the RN].

14.12.1946

commissioned, Royal Army Service Corps [emergency commission] [2nd Lt. [373975], Lt. 14.12.1947]

Cowan,
Sir Walter Henry
"Tich";
1st Baronet (1921)

Eldest son of Maj. Walter Frederick James Cowan, JP (1845-1914), Royal Welch Fusiliers, and Frances Anne Lucas, of Alveston, Warwickshire.
Married (13.02.1901, Kensington, London) Catherine Eleanor Millicent Cayley ((09?).1869 - 21.04.1934), daughter of Digby Cayley, JP, and Charlotte Philadelphia Bower, of Norton Grove, Yorkshire; one daughter.

11.06.1871
Crickhowell, Brecknockshire
-
14.02.1956
Warneford Hospital. Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Midsh.	15.07.1886
S.Lt.	14.07.1890
Lt.	13.11.1892
Cdr.	30.06.1901
Capt.	31.12.1906
Cdre. 2nd cl.	07.07.1917
R.Adm.	02.09.1918 (half-pay 06.07.1920-31.03.1921 & 17.05.1923-01.011.1923)
V.Adm.	02.11.1923 (half-pay 02.11.1923-29.06.1925)
Adm.	01.08.1927 (retd 06.10.1931) (reactivated 1939) (reverted to retd 28.08.1945)

KCB	01.01.1919	New Year 1919
CB	15.09.1916	Battle of Jutland
DSO	15.11.1898	Egypt & Sudan
DSO	05.09.1944	very great gallantry Mediterranean for No. 2 Commando operations [investiture 20.05.1947]
MVO	05.05.1904	State Visit to Ireland
MID	01.01.1897	Benin
MID	01.09.1898	Sudan
MID	09.04.1920	Baltic

Medjidie 4th class (Turkey); Rising Sun 3rd class (Japan); St Anne 2nd class with swords (Russia); Officer, Légion d'Honneur (France); Royal Humane Society Medal.

Education: RN College, HMS Britannia (15.01.1884-05.02.1886).

05.02.1886	-	08.12.1886	HMS Alexandria (flagship Mediterranean) (under training)
24.02.1887	-	25.03.1887	HMS Duke of Wellington
25.03.1887	-	20.10.1887	HMS Seaflower (under training)
20.10.1887	-	13.04.1889	HMS Temeraire (under training)
18.07.1889	-	12.09.1889	HMS Alexandra (under training)
12.09.1889	-	02.09.1890	HMS Volage (under training)
02.09.1890	-	08.07.1891	HMS Excellent (for navigation, torpedo & gunnery course)
08.07.1891	-	23.01.1892	HMS Spider
23.01.1892	-	04.01.1893	HMS Boadicea (lent to RIM) (for divisional duties) (01.06.1892)
04.01.1893	-	21.01.1894	First Lieutenant, HMS Redbreast
1895			served Brass River and Mwele Expeditions
1897			Benin (despatches)
20.01.1898	-	27.06.1898	Commanding Officer, HMS Boxer (Nile) (DSO, despatches)
1899			Nile (despatches)
1901			S. African War, ADC to Lord Kitchener, and Naval ADC to Earl Roberts (despatches, promotion)
05.03.1903	-	1904	Commanding Officer, HMS Falcon
02.02.1904	-	13.04.1904	Commanding Officer, HMS Itchen
13.04.1904	-	09.06.1904	Commanding Officer, HMS Foyle
09.06.1904	-	17.09.1904	Commanding Officer, HMS Blackwater
17.09.1904	-	06.01.1905	Commanding Officer, HMS Sylvia
06.01.1905	-	17.02.1905	Commanding Officer, HMS Ostrich
17.02.1905	-	14.03.1905	Commanding Officer, HMS Kennet
14.03.1905	-	24.07.1905	Commanding Officer, HMS Sylvia
24.07.1905	-	01.01.1907	Commanding Officer, HMS Skirmisher
01.01.1907	-	05.01.1909	Commanding Officer, HMS Sapphire
06.08.1909	-	09.07.1910	Commanding Officer, HMS Cressy
09.07.1910	-	01.05.1912	Commanding Officer, HMS Gloucester
01.05.1912	-	27.01.1914	Assistant to the Admiral of Patrols
28.01.1914	-	17.02.1915	Commanding Officer, HMS Zealandia
17.02.1915	-	07.07.1917	Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Royal (Battle of Jutland Bank, 01.06.1916) (CB, despatches)
07.07.1917	-	14.05.1919	Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon & as Commodore Commanding 1st Light Cruiser Squadron
23.10.1917	-	?	also: ADC to HM the King
14.05.1919	-	05.07.1920	Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Light Cruiser Squadron & from c. 06/07.1920 as Senior Naval Officer Baltic [HMS Curacoa, later (from c. 08.1919) HMS Delhi]
31.03.1921	-	16.05.1923	Rear-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)]
(07.1924)	-	(04.1925)	no appointment listed
30.06.1925	-	02.06.1926	Admiral Superintendent, Rosyth Dockyard & Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland [HMS Columbine]
02.06.1926	-	22.07.1928	Commander-in-Chief, [North] America and West Indies Station [HMS Calcutta (cruiser), later HMS Despatch (cruiser)]
12.12.1930	-	06.10.1931	First and Principal Naval ADC to the King
			served War of 1939-1945 with Commando Forces (Bar to DSO); a Liaison Officer at Tobruk 1941-42; served with Commandos from 1940 in Middle East including raid on Bardia and siege of Tobruk with 18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry (captured at Bir Hakeim 27.05.1942, repatriated 1943) and in 1943-44 with 2nd Special Service Brigade in Italy and the Dalmatian Islands:
20.06.1940	-	(12.1940)	HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) (for miscellaneous duties)
30.01.1941	-	(06.)1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
(08.1942)	-	(06.1943)	no appointment listed
(08.1943)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
(10.1943)			Combined Operations Headquarters *
15.11.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for special service)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Victory IV (accounting section, Leydene House, nr Petersfield) *

Honorary Colonel, 18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry, 22.11.1946. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), 1933; Justice of the Peace (JP), 1933, Warwickshire.
Literature: Lionel George Dawson, Sound of the guns, being an account of the wars and service of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan (1949); Geoffrey Bennett, Cowan's war : the story of British naval operations in the Baltic, 1918-1920 (1964)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Cowburn,
George Gerard
G.G. Cowburn

Younger son of Frank and Emily Cowburn.
Married 1st ((09?).1933, Chorley district, Lancashire) Julia A. Snape.
Married 2nd ((09?).1952, Samford district, Suffolk) Joan Currington, only daughter of Mr & Mrs E.G. Currington, of Felixstowe, Suffolk.

20.07.1909
Newtown district, Montgomeryshire / Powys
-
01.06.1980
Newport district, Wales

Midsh.	01.01.1929
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1931
S.Lt.	22.08.1932, seniority 01.03.1931
Lt.	01.05.1933
Lt.Cdr.	01.05.194
Cdr.	31.12.1945 (retd > 07.1959, < 07.1961)

DSC

23.02.1940

Battle of the River Plate 12.1939 *

* "...who handled the ship with the utmost skill and coolness and was undismayed when the Commanding Officer and the Chief Yeoman of Signals were wounded alongside him. The Ship's immunity from being hit was mainly due to him. The running commentary on the progress of the action which he passed to the Lower Conning Tower was of the greatest value, as it was broadcast .to all positions between decks, including the Engine Room."

13.01.1928			entered RN
05.01.1929	-	(08.1929)	HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic)
04.01.1930	-	(02.1931)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)
30.04.1931	-	(01.1932)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
06.09.1932	-	(01.1934)	HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
15.04.1935	-	(07.1935)	long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]
13.09.1935	-	(02.1936)	Navigating Officer, HMS Fowey (patrol sloop)
15.01.1937	-	(02.1937)	Navigating Officer, HMS Harebell (patrol sloop (fishery protection))
10.05.1937	-	(08.1938)	Navigating Officer, HMS Hastings (escort vessel)
(10.1938)			advanced navigation course
27.01.1939	-	(02.1941)	Navigating Officer, HMS Achilles (cruiser)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
18.01.1943	-	(06.1943)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
07.1943	-	(06.1944)	Navigating Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship)
08.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	Navigating Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship)
19.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	Navigation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.1950	-	(05.1950)	Executive Officer, HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halifax, Malta)
11.08.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
22.03.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties)

Cowell,
Patrick James
P.J. Cowell

15.08.1910
-
26.10.1985
Bournemouth district, Hampshire (formerly of Mudeford, Christchurch, Dorset)

Cadet	01.01.1928
Midsh.	01.09.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1931
S.Lt.	01.07.1931
Lt.	01.04.1933
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1941
A/Cdr.	< 07.1945
Cdr.	31.12.1945
Capt.	31.12.1951 (retd 07.01.1961)

DSC	01.01.1941	New Year 1941 [award posted]
DSC	19.06.1945	Operation Hotbed (North Russian convoy 02.1945) [award posted]
MID	12.08.1941	towing Taku [serving as Liaison Officer]
MID	21.04.1942	Erin blown up Gibraltar 18.01.1942
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944
MID	09.05.1944	Operation FW (North Russian convoy 01.1944)
MID	05.12.1944	passage convoy SW59 & RA59A
MID	21.08.1945	3 U-boats destroyed Kola Inlet 04.1945

15.05.1924			entered RN
07.01.1928	-	(06.1928)	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
02.01.1929	-	(04.1930)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
17.08.1931	-	(01.)1932	promotion course, Portsmouth
06.07.1932	-	(09.)1932	HMS Albury (twin screw minesweeper) (temporary)
17.12.1932	-	(05.)1933	HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (for submarines)
11.05.1933	-	(07.1934)	HMS Oberon (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean)
22.05.1935	-	(07.1937)	First Lieutenant, HMS Spearfish (submarine) (and for duty with submarines) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
11.01.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
07.10.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Dwarf (particular service vessel) (for Reserve Group "B" of submarines)
24.07.1939	-	(09.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS L 27 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla)
10.02.1940	-	(06.)1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Swordfish (submarine)
06.11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Elfin (submarine base for 6th Submarine Flotilla, Blyth) (for submarines)
(07.)1941	-	(08.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Thrasher (submarine)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
26.12.1941	-	(08.)1943	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
01.11.1943	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehall (destroyer)
(1945)			HMS Cygnet (sloop)
30.05.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Sandhurst (immobile depot ship, Loch Ryan)
24.09.1945	-	(10.1947)	Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
01.1948	-	(05.1949)	Executive Officer, HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
20.03.1953	-	(05.1953)	Commanding Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)
18.10.1954	-	(01.1956)	Deputy Director, Undersurface Warfare Division (M), Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1957)			no appointment listed

Cowie,
John Stewart
J.S. Cowie

Son of James Eden Cowie.
Married (1922) Dorothy Mary, daughter of Sg.Cdr. J.A. Keogh, RN.

23.06.1898
-
05.01.1982

...	...
Lt.	15.12.1918
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1926
Cdr.	30.06.1931 (retd 30.04.1948)
A/Capt.	14.01.1942?
Capt. (retd)	30.04.1948

	CBE	13.06.1946	HM's birthday 1946 [investiture 17.12.1946]
	LM	13.08.1946	?

08.1914			entered RN
...	-	...	...
10.10.1933	-	(02.)1935	Executive Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
08.07.1935	-	(06.)1938	in charge of Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)
08.08.1938	-	(10.1938)	staff, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1939)			no appointment listed
06.03.1939	-	22.05.1939	HMS President (for Tactical Division, Admiralty)
23.05.1939	-	01.10.1939	staff, Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.10.1939	-	13.01.1942	staff, Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.01.1942	-	14.10.1945	Deputy Director of Operations Division (Mining), Admiralty [HMS President]
15.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	Deputy Director Information Department (General Publicity), Admiralty [HMS President]

Published: Mines, minelayers and minelaying (1949).

Cox,
Charles Henry
C.H. Cox

?
-

T/A/Sign.Boatsw.	22.09.1941
T/Sign.Boatsw.	1942?, seniority 22.09.1941
T/A/Cd.Boatsw.	22.09.1945

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
01.04.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Dundonald II (Combined Operations training establishment, Auchengate)
(04.1944)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
(07.1945)			HMS Moonrise *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Cox,
Ian Nagle Douglas
I.N.D. Cox (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)

09.09.1915
-
14.10.1990
Chichester, Sussex

Cadet	01.01.1933
Midsh.	01.09.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1936
S.Lt.	01.10.1936
Lt.	01.06.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1946 (retd 03.11.1951)

DSC	16.08.1940	Dunkirk 06.1940
MID	08.09.1942	Malta convoy 22.03.1942
MID	11.05.1943	minelaying 11.1942
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth

01.01.1933	-	09.08.1933	naval cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
10.08.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
25.03.1934	-	(02.)1935	HMS Durban (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
02.1935	-	(07.1935)	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
01.01.1936	-	31.08.1936	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
31.08.1936	-	(02.)1937	promotion course, Portsmouth
02.06.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Lupin (escort vessel (fishery protection))
22.07.1937	-	(04.)1940	HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China)
27.05.1940	-	(02.)1941	First Lieutenant, HMS Malcolm (destroyer)
31.07.1941	-	(12.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Woolston (destroyer)
?	-	(03.)1942	HMS Hasty (destroyer)
25.05.1942	-	01.02.1943	HMS Welshman (minelayer) (sunk)
23.02.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
(12.1943)			no appointment listed
03.01.1944	-	05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Middleton (destroyer)
07.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	RN College, Eaton, Chester (for duty with Special Entry cadets) [HMS Britannia]
05.08.1947	-	(05.)1949	Commanding Officer, HMS Virago (destroyer)
25.11.1949	-	(05.1950)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

Cox,
Jack Broughton
J.B. Cox (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son of George Ralph Cox (1876-1954), and Rhoda Mary Delves-Broughton (1894-1956).

02.12.1914
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
04.06.1989
Sefton North district, Merseyside

Cadet	01.05.1932
Midsh.	01.01.1933
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1935
S.Lt.	16.01.1936
Lt.	16.07.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1945
Lt.Cdr.	16.07.1946 (retd 30.08.1957)

	MID	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945
	Hkn	15.04.1947	liberation of Norway

...	-	...	...
22.08.1939	-	(10.)1940	First Lieutenant, HMS Stronghold (destroyer)
22.10.1940	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Scarab (river gunboat)
(04.1943)	-	(06.1943)	HMS Scarab (river gunboat) *
(08.1943)	-	(10.1943)	no appointment listed
10.1943	-	05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Woolston (destroyer) (despatches)
01.05.1945	-	early 1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Ledbury (escort destroyer)
(04.1946)			HMS Ledbury (escort destroyer) *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Cox,
John Bevan
J.B. Cox (Photo courtesy of Mrs Amanda Spencer-Cooke)

Married (10.08.1942, Alexandria, Egypt) Rhoona Eileen Levy(21.10.1913 - 13.04.1987), daughter of Samuel Benjamin Levy (1857-1935), and Ethel Beatrice "Trixie" Hatchard (1879-1964); one daughter. Rhoona Cox was earlier married ((06?).1937) to Cpl. Lionel Innes Montell Toller, RAC (1905-1940), and (03.11.1940) Lt. (E) William Borel Setten, RN (1914-1941). She remarried (25.06.1962) Lt.Col. Percival Henry "Pat" Denyer, Indian Army (1897-1974).

16.09.1910
Kensington district, London
-
07.03.1980
Narberth, Dyfed, Wales

Cadet	01.01.1928
Midsh.	01.09.1928
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1931
S.Lt.	16.09.1931
Lt.	16.01.1934
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1942 (retd 16.09.1955; age)
A/Cdr.	14.10.1952

DSC	29.07.1941	Inshore Squadron with 8th Army Egypt & Cyrenaica [decoration posted]
MID	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942
MID	04.09.1945	scuttling of HMS Sikh 14.09.1942 *

* For outstanding courage and devotion to duty in HMS Sikh when she was disabled by fire from shore batteries during an attack on Tobruk in September, 1942. Although in a hopeless position fire was kept up against the shore batteries until it became necessary to abandon the sinking ship, scuttling charges being fired at the last moment to prevent any possibility of capture by the enemy.

07.01.1928	-	(08.)1929	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
24.09.1929	-	(08.1930)	HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
01.01.1931	-	16.08.1931	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
17.08.1931	-	(01.)1932	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
23.05.1932	-	1932	HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.07.1932	-	(11.1934)	HMS Fowey (sloop) (East Indies station)
(02.1935)			no appointment listed
08.03.1935	-	(07.1927)	HMS Guardian (net layer) (Home Fleet)
18.01.1938	-	(02.)1938	HMS Tenedos (destroyer) (China)
27.03.1938	-	(12.1938)	HMS Cockchafer (river gunboat) (China)
(02.1939)	-	(09.1939)	no appointment listed
27.02.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Aphis (river gunboat) (DSC)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(08.1942)			on staff of Senior Naval Officer Inshore Squadron [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] * (despatches twice) [captured at Tobruk]
(02.1943)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed: from Tobruk he was taken to prison camp in Italy and then moved to the Marlag [Marinelager] near Bremen - and eventually repatriated from a camp at Lübeck
14.08.1943	-	(10.1943)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ludlow (destroyer)
(12.1943)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ludlow (destroyer) *
(04.1946)			HMS Boxer (fighter direction ship) *
02.01.1947	-	(10.1947)	Commanding Officer, HMS Cockade (destroyer)
(07.1948)	-	(05.1949)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
09.03.1950	-	(05.1951)	Flag Lt.Cdr. to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
14.10.1952	-	31.05.1955	Naval Attaché, Madrid (Spain)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Coxon,
Arthur John Douglas
A.J.D. Coxon

(06?).1927
Docking district, Norfolk
-
11.07.2019
Glamorgan, Wales

...	...
Cadet	01.01.1945
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1958 (retd 22.03.1977)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1940-1943).

...	-	...	...
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

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