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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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D'Aeth,
John Reginald Hughes
J.R.H. D'Aeth

Son of Capt. Reginald Hughes-D'Aeth, RN, and Lady Nina Hughes-D'Aeth.
Married Mary Winifred Hughes-D'Aeth, of St. Arm's Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies.

07.02.1899
Cranbrook, Kent
-
08.07.1940
(KIA) [age 41]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 1]

Lt.	15.10.1919
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1927
Cdr.	30.06.1934

08.1914			entered RN
12.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
14.06.1924	-	(05.)1926	Commanding Officer, HMS H 52 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla)
18.11.1926	-	(07.)1927	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
21.11.1927	-	(06.1928)	HMS Resolution (battleship)
15.04.1929	-	(08.1929)	Commanding Officer, HMS L 56 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)
14.01.1930	-	(04.1930)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(08.1930)	-	(10.1930)	no appointment listed
06.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	Staff Officer (Operations) to Captain A/S [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland)]
19.02.1932	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Regent (submarine) (Mediterranean)
(07.1934)			no appointment listed
10.12.1934	-	(01.)1937	Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] (and for duty with submarines)
09.01.1937	-	(06.)1938	RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
11.07.1938	-	08.07.1940	Executive Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (East Indies)

Dagg,
Joseph Henry
J.H. Dagg

Son of George Walter Dagg and Sarah H. Sagler.
Married ((03?).1912, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Emily Wilson.

14.12.1888
Camberwell,
London
-
02.03.1963
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Gnr.	14.12.1916
Cd.Gnr.	14.12.1926 (retd 02.06.1931)
Lt. (retd)	02.06.1931
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	30.10.1942

29.06.1917			commissioned
...	-	...	...
30.10.1939	-	(08.1942)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(02.1943)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
18.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Granton) (for base duties)

Daintry,
George Michael
G.M. Daintry

Marrie Betty "Janie" ... ; one son, one daughter.

12.02.1903
-
13.07.1977
St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth district, London

Lt.	30.01.1926 (emgcy 19.07.1928)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)	30.01.1934
A/Cdr. (emgcy)	?
Cdr. (emgcy)	?

LoP

1944?

Operation Neptune

...	-	...	...
31.07.1939	-	(08.)1939	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
05.11.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Valiant (battleship)
01.08.1940	-	(10.1944)	Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Dakeyne,
Richard Herbert Rooper

13.12.1912
-
21.01.1967
[age 54]
[Portsmouth district, Hampshire]

Paym.Lt.	01.11.1935
Paym.Lt.Cdr. = A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	01.11.1943
Cdr. (S)	30.06.1949 (retd 13.12.1962)

			...
?	-	(04.1940)	HMS Cochrane
(06.1944)			HMS Tana *
15.09.1944	-	(04.1946)	Secretary to Commodore RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dalby,
Robert
R. Dalby

21.04.1901
-
10.01.1990
Derby district, Derbyshire

Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1930 (retd)
A/Cdr.	< 07.1945
Cdr. (retd)	?

			...
11.12.1939	-	(02.)1941	Superintendent of Anti-Gas School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
02.11.1941	-	(08.1943)	[Executive Officer?,] HMS Caradoc (cruiser)
09.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Braganza (for duty in Barracks, Bombay)
01.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	Assistant Director, Combined Operations Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Dale,
James George
J.G. Dale

19.01.1887
Lewisham, London
-
26.03.1976

Seaman	? [M4497]
...	...
Eng.Lt.	01.07.1920
Eng.Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1928 (retd 19.01.1932)
Eng.Cdr. (retd)	19.01.1932

22.09.1931	-	01.1932	HMS Spenser (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)
...	-	...	...
(04.1940)	-	(07.1945)	Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty
22.03.1943	-	(07.1945)	staff of Gun Mounting Overseer at Woolwich Arsenal (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) [HMS President]

Dale,
Jack Hillen
J.H. Dale

29.12.1901
Northampton
-
28.04.1965
Battle, Sussex

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1932 (retd 29.12.1946)
A/Cdr.	< 07.1945

...	-	...	...
07.03.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
...	-	...	...
14.06.1943	-	(12.1943)	Naval Officer-in-Charge, Pantellaria [HMS Hasdrubal]
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
(06.1944)			HMS King George V (battleship)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn) *
08.1945	-	(04.1946)	RN Depot, Simonstown [HMS Afrikander]

Played first-class cricket, 1922-1928.

Dale,
Richard Hugh

Son of James Dale, and ... Asquith, of Mawnan Smith, Falmouth.

(09?).1914
Church Stretton district, Shropshire
-
24.05.1941
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]

S.Lt. (E)	06.09.1937
Lt. (E)	07.11.1938, seniority 06.02.1938

Education: New House (09.1928-07.1932); Cambridge University (specialised in Mechanical Sciences)
Was with Metropolitan Vickers until 1933.

06.09.1937	-	10.1937	training, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
30.10.1937	-	(02.)1939	HMS London (cruiser) (Nore)
23.03.1939	-	09.1939	HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
28.09.1939	-	(04.1940)	course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich
15.08.1940	-	24.05.1941	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (sunk by Bismarck, North Atlantic)

Dale,
William Robert
W.R. Dale

12.06.1881
Lowestoft, Suffolk
-
13.01.1961
Gosport district, Hampshire

Seaman	? [191284]
...	...
Lt.	29.03.1929 (retd 12.06.1931)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	29.03.1937 (reactivated 09.10.1939) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

27.11.1911			commissioned RN
			...
09.10.1939	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)

Dalglish,
James Stephen
"Fish"
J.S. Dalglish (Photo courtesy of Mr Edward J.C. Corry)

Eldest son (of 3 sons & 4 daughters) of late R.Adm. Robin Campsie Dalglish, CB (1880-1934), and Dulcie Gertrude F. Stephen (born 1886).
Married (1939) Evelyn Mary, eldest daughter of late Rev. A.Ll. Meyricke, Vicar of Aislaby, near Whitby; one son, one daughter.

01.10.1913
Kensington district, London
-
06.10.1995
Scarborough district, Yorkshire

Cadet	01.01.1931
Midsh.	01.09.1931
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1934
S.Lt.	01.05.1934
Lt.	01.06.1935
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1943
Cdr.	30.06.1948
Capt.	30.06.1954 (retd 31.08.1963)

CBE	08.06.1963	HM's birthday 1963 [investiture 24.07.1963]
CVO	01.01.1955	New Year 1955 [investiture 15.02.1955]
MID	11.06.1946	wind up Far East

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1927-1931); jssc 1950; idc 1957

06.01.1931	-	(02.)1931	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
01.10.1931	-	(06.1933)	HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
04.01.1934	-	12.08.1934	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
13.08.1934	-	(02.)1935	promotion course, Portsmouth
25.04.1935	-	(07.)1935	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet))
15.11.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
08.09.1936	-	(07.)1937	HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet)
30.09.1937	-	(08.)1938	gunnery course [HMS Excellent]
(10.1938)			no appointment listed
14.10.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
06.03.1940	-	(12.1941)	Gunnery Officer on Flotilla Staff [HMS Faulknor (destroyer)]
03.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)
01.04.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
27.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Swiftsure (cruiser) & from (1945?) also as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 4th Cruiser Squadron
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
01.1948	-	(07.)1948	Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser)
15.09.1948	-	(05.1949)	on staff of Flag Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command Far Eastern Station [HMS Belfast (cruiser)]
(05.1950)			HMS President (Admiralty) *
1952	-	1953	Commanding Officer, HMS Aisne (destroyer)
08.04.1953	-	(07.)1954	Executive Officer, HMY Britannia (Royal yacht)
?	-	(04.1955)	Member, Ordnance Board
(01.1956)			HMS President (Admiralty) *
(01.1957)			no appointment listed
31.03.1958	-	16.08.1959	Commanding Officer, HMS Woodbridge Haven (Coastal Forces depot ship) & as Captain Inshore Flotilla Mediterranean
07.09.1959	-	(07.)1961	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
1961	-	17.02.1963	Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark (light fleet carrier)

Welfare Officer, Metropolitan Police, 1963-73.
Published: Life story of a fish (1992; autobiography)
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dalison,
John Standley
J.S. Dalison

Son of Lt.Col. John Pelham Dalison (1863-1936), and Mary Mabel Wigan (1876-1967), of Folkestone.
Married 1st (09.1924, Kensington district, London; divorced 1937) Marie Therese [Leonide] Carudel (10.01.1897 - 05.1984), of London; one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((03?).1938, Surrey South Eastern district) Rosalie S. Blaker (1909?- ).

26.12.1901
St Marylebone district, London
-
09.10.1949
near Ottawa
(motor accident)

Midsh.	?
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt.	15.03.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1939

DSO

01.01.1943

New Year 1943 [investiture 15.02.1944]

11.09.1922			HMS Excellent (additional; for torpedo course for rank of Lt.)
23.02.1932			HMS Doon
01.1934			HMS Moth
20.04.1937			HMS Cardiff
24.08.1937			HMS Cornwall
17.01.1939			HMS Titania
11.08.1939	-	(09.1939)	Commanding Officer, HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean, for Portland)
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
09.12.1940	-	(02.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Londonderry (sloop) (DSO)
01.04.1943	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Lulworth (sloop)
08.09.1943	-	05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Pelican (sloop)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
11.07.1944	-	(04.1946)	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
11.1947	-	(05.1949)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

Dallmeyer,
William Alexander
"Willie"
W.A. Dallmeyer

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Richard Owen James Dallmeyer (1869-1949), and Helen Cowan Menzies (1874-1961), of Willerton, Weybridge.
Married (06.04.1935, St Saviour's, Walton Street) Frances Margaret England (18.05.1910 - 09.2002), daughter of Capt. George Plunkett England, RN (1877-1957), and Hilda Rochfort Dingwall (1881-1963), of Ashleigh, Tavistock; one son, two daughters.

20.02.1901
Bowdon, Bucklow district, Cheshire
-
26.11.1990
Tavistock district, Cornwall / Devon

Midsh.	15.08.1917
S.Lt.	15.01.1921
Lt.	15.06.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1930
Cdr.	30.06.1936
Capt.	30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950)
Cdre. 2nd cl.	29.02.1948-20.03.1950

DSO

03.01.1941

sinking German submarine [investiture 10.03.1942]

15.09.1914			entered RN
...	-	...	...
04.1936	-	(08.)1936	HMS Valiant (battleship) (as Squadron Torpedo Officer, 1st Battle Squadron)
01.10.1936	-	(07.)1937	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (as Squadron Torpedo Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron)
15.11.1937	-	(09.1939)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (in charge of Instructional Department)
01.01.1940	-	14.01.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) (DSO)
15.02.1941	-	29.06.1941	HMS Albatross (repair ship)
30.06.1941	-	15.01.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Albatross (repair ship)
16.01.1942	-	(06.)1944	an Assistant Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] (from 1944? for duty at Bath)
16.10.1944	-	03.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier)
03.1946	-	08.1946	no appointment listed
09.1946	-	(10.1947)	Commanding Officer, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeper base, Granton) (and as Captain Minesweeping & in command Minesweepers Inton)
08.01.1948	-	21.01.1948	HMAS Cerberus II (RAN depot, London)
22.01.1948	-	28.02.1948	HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Williamstown, Victoria) (additional; for passage to Australia per "Strathaird")
29.02.1948	-	20.03.1950	Commanding Officer, HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Williamstown, Victoria) & as Commodore Superintendent of Training
21.03.1950	-	11.06.1950	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per "Dominion Monarch")
12.06.1950	-	07.07.1950	HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional whilst unemployed & for 28 days terminal leave 07.07.1950-03.08.1950)

Dalrymple-Hamilton,
Sir Frederick Hew George
F.H.G. Dalrymple-Hamilton

Son of late Col Hon. North de Coigny DalrympleHamilton, MVO, of Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire. Mmarried (28.02.1918) Gwendolen (died 1974), daughter of Sir Cuthbert Peek, 2nd Bt; one son, two daughters.

27.03.1890
Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire
-
26.12.1974
[Bargany, Girvan, Ayrshire ?]

A/S.Lt.	15.09.1909?
S.Lt.	08.04.1910, seniority 15.09.1909
Lt.	04.10.1911, seniority 31.08.1911
Lt.Cdr.	31.08.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1924
Capt.	31.12.1931
R.Adm.	08.07.1941
V.Adm.	15.06.1944
Adm.	04.01.1948 (retd 04.10.1950)

KCB	01.01.1945	New Year 1945 [investiture 13.02.1945]
CB	14.10.1941	Bismarck action
MID	13.02.1945	Operation Neptune

Education: HMS Britannia.

15.01.1905			entered Royal Navy
			served European War, 1914-1918
15.12.1922	-	(01.1925)	HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (Portsmouth)
15.09.1925	-	(05.)1926	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
25.08.1926	-	01.09.1926	Admiralty
01.09.1926	-	(06.)1928	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
14.09.1928	-	(08.1929)	HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
(04.1930)			no appointment listed
26.06.1930	-	(01.)1932	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
08.05.1933	-	(06.)1933	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
18.10.1933	-	(02.)1936	Captain (D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Keith (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean)
29.12.1936	-	(08.)1939	Captain, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
21.11.1939	-	07.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) & from 01.01.1940-25.07.1940 as Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (present at destruction of German battleship Bismarck)
07.1941	-	28.08.1941	home service leave
29.08.1941	-	04.09.1941	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
05.09.1941	-	11.09.1942	Flag Officer Commanding Iceland [HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)]
17.10.1942	-	30.10.1942	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
31.10.1942	-	09.02.1944	Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
10.02.1944	-	02.03.1944	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
03.03.1944	-	31.03.1945	Rear-Admiral/Vice-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron & Second-in-Command, Home Fleet [HMS Belfast (cruiser)]
01.04.1945	-	01.05.1946	Vice-Admiral Malta and Flag Officer Central Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo]
17.07.1946	-	01.07.1948	Flag Officer Commanding Scotland and Northern Ireland [HMS Lochinvar]
08.09.1948	-	(05.)1950	Admiral, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, USA [HMS Saker]

Member, Queen's Body Guard for Scotland, Royal Company of Archers, 1947-1973. JP and DL for Wigtownshire, 27.03.1951.

Dalrymple-Hay,
Christopher Montague Vernon Francis
C.M.V.F. Dalrymple-Hay

Only son of Lt.Col. Stair Francis Barton Dalrymple-Hay (1872-1963), Indian Army, and Laura Mary Edith Catherine de Bouillion Wickham (?-1955), of Hawkhurst, Kent.
Married 1st (27.02.1919, St Marylebone district, London; divorced 1929) Mary Teresa "Tes" Mostyn (?-1977), twin daughter of Lt.Col. Edward Henry Joseph Mostyn and Mary Cecily Talbot; one daughter. Teresa Mostyn remarried (26.01.1939) Capt. Charles Hugh Fletcher.
Married 2nd (30.11.1929, Southampton district, Hampshire) Helen Violet Grierson, daughter of H.K. Grierson.

09.11.1896
-
20.12.1944
[age 48]
[Thornton Garden of Rest, Lancashire, sec. C, grave 3]

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.09.1918 (retd 04.07.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.03.1927
A/Cdr. (retd)	09.1943

DSC	05.12.1944	shuttle service to France [presented to next-of-kin]
MID	WW I	?
MID	27.01.1942	Operation Demon (withdrawal from Greece 04.1941)
MID	01.08.1944	Operation Shingle (Anzio landings 22.01.1944)
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
RHSBr	1917	for saving life at sea

09.1914			entered RN
			fought in the First World War, with submarines and anti-submarines
?	-	(01.1919)	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)
16.03.1939	-	(08.1939)	HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth)
(04.1940)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
02.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	Executive Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (despatches)
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
09.02.1942	-	(08.)1942	Commanding Officer, French Ship "Mistral" (torpedo boat)
02.12.1942	-	09.1943	Commanding Officer, HM LST 41 (landing ship, tank)
09.1943	-	20.12.1944	Commanding Officer, HM LST 425 (landing ship, tank) & Senior Officer, 2nd LST Flotilla (DSC, despatches twice)

Dalrymple-Smith,
Hugh
H. Dalrymple-Smith

Son of Arthur Alexander Dalrymple-Smith, and Mary Glover.
Married (15.04.1939, Westminster district, London) Eleanor Mary Hoare; two sons, one daughter.

27.09.1901
Sunderland, Co. Durham
-
20.09.1987
Wickham, Droxford district, Hampshire

Midsh.	1917
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1921
S.Lt.	15.09.1921
Lt.	15.10.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1930
Cdr.	30.06.1935
Capt.	31.12.1941 (retd 08.01.1951)
A/R.Adm.	12.04.1951 (reverted to retd 1953)

	MID	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
	MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

Education: Ovingdean; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. Ronald Megaw Prize for 1921-22.

15.05.1915			entered RN
...	-	...	...
1917	-	1919	HMS Ramillies
1925			qualified gunnery
1928			advanced course
...	-	...	...
10.01.1939	-	12.1940	Executive Officer, HMS Aurora (Arethusa class cruiser) (despatches)
09.12.1940	-	19.01.1942	Economic Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty)]
20.01.1942	-	26.01.1942	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)
27.01.1942	-	08.11.1943	Deputy Director of Operations Division (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
01.12.1943	-	06.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Arethusa (Arethusa class cruiser) (despatches)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(10.1945)			HMS Lothian (landing ship, infantry (headquarters)) *
1946	-	1948	Naval Attaché, Nanking
19489	-	1949	Commanding Officer, HMS King George V
12.04.1951	-	1953	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe [HMS President (additional)]

Director, Television Audience Measurement Ltd, 1958-1966.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dalton,
Roland Palmer
R.P. Dalton

13.01.1889
-
02.01.1962

...	...
Eng.Cdr.	30.06.1925
Eng.Capt.	30.06.1936 (retd 01.08.1942) (dispersed 01.05.1946) (reverted to retd 27.06.1946)

...	-	...	...
11.07.1940	-	09.04.1946	HMS Raleigh (additional; for RN Artificers Training Establishment & as Engineer Captain-in-Charge)
01.12.1941	-	01.08.1942	also: Naval ADC to the King
...	-	...	...

Damant,
Eric Louis Baxter
E.L.B. Damant

Son of ... Damant, clerk.
Married (13.06.1925, St John's Church, Hove, Steyning district, Sussex) Sybil Alice Joy (15.08.1905 - 12.1989), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs G.R.G. Joy, of Kingsway, Hove; one daughter, one son.

25.03.1896
Epping district, Essex
-
04.03.1965
King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, Sussex (formerly of Hove, Sussex)

Midsh.	15.09.1913
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1915
S.Lt.	15.03.1916
A/Lt.	15.08.1917
Lt.	15.09.1917 ?, seniority 15.04.1917
Lt.Cdr.	15.04.1925 (retd 23.04.1931; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	25.03.1936 (dispersed 02.10.1945) (reld 23.11.1945)

15.01.1909	-	15.09.1913	training establishments
15.09.1913	-	24.11.1915	HMS Monarch (battleship)
24.11.1915	-	16.03.1916	HMS Speedwell (minesweeper)
17.03.1916	-	05.11.1916	HMS Druid (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)]
06.11.1916	-	13.11.1916	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for torpedo control course] in HMS Vernon)
14.11.1916	-	10.04.1918	HMS Orford (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)]
11.04.1918	-	12.12.1918	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
13.12.1918	-	31.01.1919	HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
17.02.1919	-	10?.1919	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (additional; to qualify for torpedo duties in RN College, Greenwich)
01.10.1919	-	09.07.1920	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
10.07.1920	-	01.10.1920	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (additional)
01.10.1920	-	04?.1921	HMS President (additional; for RN College, Greenwich)
20.04.1921	-	04.1923	Torpedo Officer, HMS Dunedin (light cruiser)
04.1923	-	(01.)1925	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for mine depots)
03.02.1925	-	20.10.1925	Torpedo Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) [lent to HMS Vernon 02.03.1925-02.06.1925]
(03.1926)			no appointment listed
25.04.1926	-	04.05.1926	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for unemployed time)
05.05.1926	-	(07.)1927	staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
03.08.1927	-	06.1929	Torpedo Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)
27.08.1929	-	22.04.1931	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (additional; for special service and torpedo duties)
29.09.1938	-	01.10.1938	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (additional; for course)
15.05.1939	-	05.1939	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (additional; for 14 days' course)
23.08.1939	-	08.09.1939	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (additional; to serve in rank of Lt.Cdr.)
09.09.1939	-	(12.)1942	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 1941 Roedean School, Brighton) (additional; as Electrical Commander, in charge of Electrical Department, in rank of Act. Cdr. RN)
12?.1942	-	01.02.1943	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (additional; not to join)
01.02.1943	-	07.02.1943	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School)
08.02.1943	-	21.02.1943	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (additional)
22.02.1943	-	24.05.1943	HMS Anson (battleship) (additional temporarily; on staff of Vice-Admiral Second-in-Command Home Fleet for special (torpedo) duties)
25.05.1943	-	02.06.1943	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional)
03.06.1943	-	30.08.1943	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Torpedoes and Mining at Bath, for period not exceeding 6 months)
31.08.1943	-	07.12.1943	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Naval Ordnance at Bath (Communications Section))
08.12.1943	-	20.08.1944	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Naval Ordnance at London (Communications Section))
21.08.1944	-	02.10.1945	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Torpedoes and Mining at London (Communications Section))

* indexed, but not listed as such

Damant,
Guybon Chesney Castell
G.C.C. Damant

Son of late Harry Castell Damant and Mary, daughter of David Wilson of Ballymoney. Married (1913) Eleanor May Brook; one
son, two daughters.

25.07.1881
Cowes, Isle of Wight
-
29.06.1963
[East Cowes, Isle of Wight ?]

A/S.Lt.	15.04.1901?
S.Lt.	29.03.1902, seniority 15.04.1901
Lt.	15.04.1903 (retd 05.10.1911; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	?
A/Cdr. (retd)	?
Cdr. (retd)	11.11.1918 *
Capt. (retd)	07.11.1924 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

	CBE	03.06.1924	HM's birthday 1924
	OBE	11.06.1919	for valuable services as Salvage Officer

* special promotion in recognition of war services

15.01.1896			entered RN
1906			experimental officer to Admiralty Committee on Deep Water Diving
			later Inspector of Diving
1914	-	1918	served European War at sea and as an Admiralty Salvage Officer
			later in charge of successful operations for recovery of bullion to the value of £5,000,000 from the wreck of the Laurentic
1939	-	1945	served in Admiralty Salvage Department and Overseas:
01.09.1939	-	(02.1941)	Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1942)	-	27.07.1943	Superintendent of Salvage, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] *
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
28.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

Published: various papers on diving, the natural history of underwater life, compressed air illness, etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Dampier,
Denis John
D.J. Dampier

Younger son (with one brother) of V.Adm. Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG, RN (1868-1950), and Barbara Constance Anne Giffard (1883-1966), of Bentworth, Droxford, Hampshire.
Brother of Lt. Robert Cecil Walter Dampier, RNVR.
Married (02.02.1963) Rosemary Jeanetta Darroch, daughter of the late Lt.Col. Duncan Darroch of Gourock, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Rosemary Helena Lilian Henderson, of Edinburgh; two sons, one daughter.

07.10.1920
Blackheath, Lewisham district, Greater London / Kent / London
-
25.12.1999
West Surrey district, Surrey

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh.	01.09.1939
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	01.12.1940
Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1950 (retd 08.12.1959)

01.01.1939	-	01.1940	entered RN, HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training ship, Portsmouth)
23.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Warspite (battleship)
04.04.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Fiji (cruiser)
21.10.1940	-	03.1941	HMS Berkeley (destroyer)
03.1941	-	1941	HMS Prince of Wales (battleship)
15.09.1941	-	(01.)1942	HMS Trinidad (cruiser)
19.06.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Brocklesby (destroyer)
1942	-	12.1942	HMS Firedrake (destroyer)
11.02.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Collingwood (training establishment Fareham, Hampshire)
07.07.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
(12.1943)	-	(06.1944)	no appointment listed
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *
17.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
			he later trained as an Aircraft Direction Officer (Navigator) and got his pilots license whilst learning to fly a Tiger Moth
31.01.1947	-	(10.1947)	Direction Officer, HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)
(07.1948)			HMS Glory (aircraft carrier) *
23.08.1948	-	(05.1949)	HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)
18.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Dryad (training establishment, Southwick Park)
24.03.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
26.06.1954	-	(01.1956)	Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves, Admiralty [HMS President]
(01.1957)			HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment, Portsdown) *
(01.1959)			HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) *

Served Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty in a civil capacity, 1960s-1980s.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Danby,
Sir Clinton Francis Samuel
"Peter"
C.F.S. Danby

Son of late Rev. Clement Edward Danby, MA, and late Susanna Ellis Baddeley. Married 1st (1914) late Phyllis Antill-Pockley, Sydney, NSW; two sons (Capt. Clinton Brian Danby, Royal Artillery), one daughter.
Married 2nd (1942) Alice Beatrice, widow of Capt. F.M. Johnson, RN.

09.05.1882
Witham, Lincolnshire
-
30.06.1945
[East Sutton, Kent ?]
[St Anthony-in-Meneage Churchyard, NE of Church]

A/S.Lt.	15.05.1902?
S.Lt.	02.05.1903, seniority 15.05.1902
Lt.	30.09.1904
Cdr.	1915
Capt.	31.12.1921
R.Adm.	13.02.1934 (supernumerary 01.10.1935)
V.Adm.	04.11.1937 (retd 05.11.1937) (reverted to retd 1942)

	KBE	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
	CB	03.06.1935	HM's birthday 1935

Education: Littlejohn's School, Greenwich; HMS Britannia

15.01.1897			entered RN
1912	-	1914	served as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Richard Porre, Bart, Commander-in-Chief The Nore
1914	-	1918	HMS Cleopatra and HM Ships Chatham and Courageous, Flagship of Adm. Sir Trevylyan Napier
1919	-	1921	Commander of RN Barracks, Chatham
01.08.1922	-	02.10.1922	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia)
03.10.1922	-	23.05.1924	Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Melbourne] [lent to RAN]
24.05.1924	-	21.089.1924	Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Brisbane] [lent to RAN]
22.08.1924	-	28.09.1924	Flag Captain to Adm. Sir Percy Addison, Commanding Australian Squadron [HMAS Melbourne] [lent to RAN]
29.09.1924	-	25.04.1925	Flag Captain, HMAS Sydney (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Commodore Commanding HM Australian Fleet [lent to RAN]
25.04.1925	-	28.04.1925	HMAS Penguin (additional) [lent to RAN]
29.04.1925	-	23.06.1925	HMAS Penguin (additional; for Foreign Service Leave) [lent to RAN]
24.06.1925	-	10.09.1925	HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per Diogenes) [lent to RAN]
08.03.1926	-	(05.)1926	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
02.07.1926	-	(06.)1928	Admiralty [HMS President] (in charge of Naval Personnel Committee)
28.12.1928	-	29.12.1930	Flag Captain, HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta) & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral in Charge, Malta
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
14.10.1931	-	(06.)1933	Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
16.10.1933	-	(01.)1934)	Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(07.1934)	-	(08.1934)	no appointment listed
25.10.1934	-	(02.)1935	HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)
07.05.1935	-	(07.)1935	tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.10.1935	-	15.10.1942	Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

Danckwerts,
Victor Hilary
V.H. Danckwerts (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Danckwerts)

Son of William Otto Adolph Julius Danckwerts, KC (1853-1914), lawyer, and Mary Caroline, daughter of Maj.Gen. Lowther.
Married (26.06.1915) Joyce Middleton; three sons, two daughters:
¤ Lt. (Sp.Br.) Peter Victor Danckwerts, RNVR
¤ Lt. (A) Michael John Danckwerts, RNVR
¤ Capt. Richard Evelyn Danckwerts, RAMC
Last residence: Emsworth, Hampshire.

11.01.1890
Kensington, London
-
01.03.1944
(died of natural causes, New Zealand & was buried at sea) [age 54]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 81, column 1]

A/S.Lt.	15.03.1909
S.Lt.	13.01.1910, seniority 15.03.1909
Lt.	15.03.1910
Lt.Cdr.	15.03.1918
Cdr.	31.12.1922
Capt.	30.06.1930
R.Adm.	25.06.1940 (retd 08.12.1940; medically unfit)
A/V.Adm. (retd)	27.05.1942
V.Adm. (retd)	07.11.1943

	CMG	23.06.1936	HM's birthday 1936: for services in connection with the London Naval Conference 12.1935
	MID	17.07.1919	?

Education: Winchester College; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defece College (idc).

15.09.1904			joined RN
1914			HMS Kent (Falkland Island action)
1915			sinking of German cruiser Dresden
08.12.1918	-	(01.1919)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)
01.08.1923	-	(01.1925)	RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
01.04.1926	-	(05.)1926	Staff Officer (Operations) and Squadron Gunnery Officer, 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Iron Duke (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet)
31.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	Staff Officer (Operations) and Squadron Gunnery Officer, 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Iron Duke (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet)
14.01.1929	-	(08.1929)	imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]
06.01.1930	-	(04.)1930	HMS President (for Naval Intelligence Division)
15.07.1930	-	(01.)1932	Commanding Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (China)
14.09.1932	-	(01.1934)	Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.06.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS President (for Plans Division)
03.03.1936	-	(02.)1938	Captain (D), 6th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader)] (Home Fleet)
02.04.1938	-	19.04.1938	HMS President (additonal; for duty inside Admiralty)
20.04.1938	-	08.03.1940	Director of Plans, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] [details]
11.03.1940	-	07.12.1940	HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave)
08.12.1940	-	22.12.1941	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty as Member of the UK delegation to the UK-US staff conversations in Washington)
23.12.1941	-	28.12.1941	HMS President (additional; for disposal)
29.12.1941	-	08.03.1942	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 6 months)
09.03.1942	-	26.05.1942	Chief of Staff (Ashore) to Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional)]
27.05.1942	-	01.03.1944	Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)] (as A/V.Adm.)

Some background information on the dismissal of Capt. V.H. Danckwerts as Director of Plans, taken from Stephen Roskill's "Churchill and the Admirals" (1978), pages 93-94: "There can be no question that Churchill's return to the Admiralty in September 1939 was warmly welcomed throughout the navy, though doubts soon began to arise regarding the soundness of some of his strategic and technical ideas. That he invigorated the whole administrative machinery of the department and made his personality feIt far and wide is beyond doubt; but he also diverted to fruitless schemes manpower and materials which were sorely needed for more conventional purposes - sometimes on the advice of Professor Lindemann who was convinced that his rocket weapons could provide better A-A defence than conventional guns. As in World War I Churchill regarded the Baltic as the best theatre for launching the 'naval offensive' which he was always seeking. Since he himself has given a full account of the preparations for operation 'Catherine' there is no need to repeat them here in detail; but some of the exchanges it produced, which have not been published before, are relevant to this study. On 18 September the first of a series of meetings took place in Churchill's room to discuss War Plans in general and a paper which two very senior admirals, Sir Reginald Drax and Sir Gerald Dickens, had produced. Their conclusion was that we could not be ready to take the offensive at sea for six months - which was highly distasteful to Churchill. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cork and Orrery, who had last served at sea in command of the Home Fleet 1933-5 and was sixty-seven years old, was brought in to prepare for 'Catherine', the object of which was defined as being 'a force a passage into the Baltic and maintain there a naval force'. Churchill proceeded cautiously, and on 20 September stated that 'At present the decision is only for exploration and no question of action arises. But the search for a naval offensive must be incessant.' Though Cork repeatedly pressed for a decision on whether the operation was to be launched, and was obviously ready and anxious to lead it, at the end of the year Churchill told him that 'the political situation in the theatre has considerably changed', doubtless due to the Russo-Finnish war, and he should therefore review his plan. Neither the Admiralty nor the Government was, he stated, committed to action. The position was that 'the gun is to be loaded ready for firing. This and no more'. Meanwhile Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord, and the naval staff had developed and expressed strong doubts about the feasibility of the undertaking; and Cork himself described it as 'very hazardous'. On 10 January 1940 Pound told Churchill that he and Cork had discussed the plan thoroughly, and he was 'of the opinion that a strong force of submarines could achieve the object we desire while a surface force could not'. He was anxious that 'we should if possible end the war with our sea supremacy unchallenged' - a somewhat long-term hope. If we lost all the submarines sent to the Baltic 'it would not really matter' he wrote; but 'if we lost a considerable part of our surface fleet the story would be a very different one'; which shows how wedded Pound was to the 'battle fleet concept' and how little aware of the growing influence of air and underwater weapons. The outcome was that on 23 January 1940 the order was given that preparations to carry out the operation that year were to cease. In retrospect the decision was a wise one, since no surface force could possibly have survived for long against the air, submarine and mine counter measures which the Germans would certainly have brought to bear against it. It does therefore seem very unfair that the able Director of Plans, Captain V.H. Danckwerts, should have been sacked for criticizing the plan too vigorously; but his departure was an ominous warning to staff officers of the fate which awaited them if they opposed Churchill's ideas."

Dane,
Clement Richard
C.R. Dane

14.09.1883
-
25.08.1963

Midsh.	15.05.1900
S.Lt.	15.05.1903
Lt.	31.12.1905
Lt.Cdr.	31.12.1913
Cdr.	30.06.1915 (retd 21.11.1924)
Capt. (retd)	14.09.1928 (reverted to retd 02.1946)

15.09.1898			entered RN
...	-	...	...
12.09.1939	-	29.04.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Maloja (armed merchant cruiser)
(06.1940)			no appointment listed
12.06.1940	-	01.10.1941	Resident Naval Officer, Burnham [HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)]
01.10.1941	-	10.1943	Resident Naval Officer, Burnham [HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea)]
10.1943	-	03.05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch)
(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	HMS St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch) *
10.1944	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS St Mathew (Combined Operations training base, Burnham on Crouch)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dangerfield,
Edward
E. Dangerfield (Photo courtesy of Mr Phillip Dangerfield)

Elder son (with one brother) of Edward Dangerfield (1865-1905), of Calcutta & Barskimming, Ayrshire, and Louie Gowenlock Wicks (1878-1950), later Mrs Walter Kingsbury Dowding.
Married ((09?).1927, St George Hanover Square district, London) Elma Tryphosa Birkett (11.10.1907 - 22.01.2006), daughter of Henry Birkett (1873-), and Hannah Mullenaux Findlay (1874-1952); one daughter.

27.07.1899
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
-
03.01.1941
St Annes-on-Sea
(after 4 months' illness) [age 41]
[Wallakirk Churchyard, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, grave 38]

Midsh.	02.08.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.07.1917
S.Lt.	15.03.1918
Lt.	15.06.1919
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1927
Cdr.	31.12.1932
Capt.	30.06.1938

MID

11.10.1940

blocking Zeebrugge, Calais & Dieppe

05.1912			entered RN
...	-	...	...
07.09.1938	-	13.09.1938	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional)
14.09.1938	-	08.08.1939	Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves (for command of HMS President and as Naval Member of the RNVR Advisory Committee)
09.08.1939	-	29.08.1939	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional)
30.08.1939	-	15.09.1939	Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves (for command of HMS President and as Naval Member of the RNVR Advisory Committee)
16.09.1939	-	19.09.1939	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
20.09.1939	-	13.05.1940	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for a period not exceeding 6 months)
14.05.1940	-	07.07.1940	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Duty Captain)
08.07.1940	-	22.09.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (cruiser) [tender to HMS Eaglet]
11.10.1940	-	03.01.1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for full pay sick leave)

Daniel,
[Sir] Charles Saumarez
C.S. Daniel

Son of late Lt.Col. C.J. Daniel, CBE, DSO. Married 1st (1919) Marjory Katharine (died 1958), daughter of Arthur C. Wilson, MB, ChB, Formby; one daughter. Married 2nd (1963) Mrs Pares Wilson, The Manor House, Little Shelford, Cambridge.

23.06.1894
-
11.02.1981
[Sulhamstead, Reading, Berks ?]

A/Lt.	? 15.09.1916, seniority 30.06.1916
Lt.	? 16.09.1920, seniority 15.12.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1923
Cdr.	30.06.1928
Capt.	30.06.1934
R.Adm.	12.01.1943
A/V.Adm.	< 07.1945
V.Adm.	23.08.1946
Adm.	01.05.1950 (retd 15.03.1952)

KCB	01.01.1948	New Year 1948
CB	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945
CBE	01.07.1941	HM's birthday 1941
DSO	23.12.1939	successful actions against enemy submarines

Education: Southcliff School, Filey; RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College

15.05.1907			entered RN
1912	-	1918	HMS Orion, Home Fleet and Grand Fleet (despatches, Jutland, 1914-15 Star, 2 medals)
1918			specialised in Signals and Wireless
14.11.1923	-	(01.1925)	Signal School (Experimental), Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
01.10.1926	-	(07.1927)	Fleet W/T Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)]
03.11.1928	-	1930	Experimental Commander HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
13.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
18.01.1932	-	(09.1932)	Air Force Staff College, Andover [HMS President]
01.1933	-	(01.)1934	Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)
15.01.1935	-	(07.1935)	Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College
13.01.1936	-	(02.1936)	Senior Officers' Technical Course (Portsmouth)
16.03.1936	-	01.1938	Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for Joint Planning Committee)
10.01.1938	-	(02.1938)	tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth
01.04.1938	-	1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Faulknor (destroyer) & Capt. (D) 8th Destroyer Flotilla
08.03.1940	-	(02.)1941	Director of Plans, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
26.08.1941	-	1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
(02.)1943	-	(12.1943)	Assistant Chief of Combined Operations, renamed [06-08.1943?]: Flag Officer Combined Operations
08.02.1944	-	(06.1944)	HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)
1944	-	1945	Vice-Admiral (Administration) British Pacific Fleet
06.1945	-	(07.)1945	Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron, British Pacific Fleet
01.12.1945	-	1949	A Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty & Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy
19.09.1949	-	1951	Commandant Imperial Defence College [HMS President]

Chairman, Television Advisory Committee 1952-1962; a Director of Blaw Knox Ltd. 1953-1966.

Daniel,
William Anthony
"Bill"

Elder son (with one brother) of Lt.Col. Hubert Owen Daniel (1892-1955), and Margery Thomas, VAD.
Brother of S.Lt. (S) Peter Geoffrey Daniel, RNVR.
Married (22.01.1944, St Marylebone district, London) Rosemary Eustelle Jacqueline "Jacquie" Taverner (23.01.1924 - 14.09.1974); one daughter.

19.07.1921
Wandsworth district, London
-
30.07.1950
British Military Hospital, Imtarfa, Malta

Cadet	01.09.1939
Midsh.	01.05.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1942
S.Lt.	06.1942, seniority 01.04.1941
A/Lt.	01.10.1942
Lt.	16.08.1943, seniority 01.10.1942

01.09.1939			direct entry cadet, RN
01.05.1940	-	(01.)1941	HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
23.01.1941	-	(06.)1941	HMS Legion (L class destroyer)
06.1941	-	(10.1941)	HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
05.01.1942	-	(04.)1942	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
13.05.1942	-	(06.)1942	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for miscellaneous services)
29.07.1942	-	(10.)1942	HMS Tanatside (Hunt class destroyer)
(12.1942)	-	(02.1943)	no appointment listed
15.03.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Enchantress (Bittern class sloop)
(12.1943)	-	(02.1944)	no appointment listed
22.02.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Bullen (Captain class frigate)
(01.1945)			HMS Bullen (Captain class frigate) *
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Veryan Bay (Bay class frigate) *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Dannreuther,
Hubert Edward
H.E. Dannreuther

Youngest son of late Prof. Edward George Dannreuther (1844-1905) [pianist, conductor, writer and lecturer on music], and Chariclea Anthea Euterpe (Ionides) Dannreuther (1844-1923).
Married (26.09.1916, London) Jane Hay Thorburn (1890-1984), youngest daughter of late John Hay Thorburn; three sons:
Hubert Harold Dannreuther [Capt., RN];
Ion Alexander Dannreuther [Capt., RA];
Raymond Portal Dannreuther [Capt., RN]

12.12.1880
London
-
12.08.1977
Hastings, East Sussex

Midsh	?
A/S.Lt.	15.10.1900
S.Lt.	08.01.1902, seniority 15.10.1900
Lt.	15.10.190
Cdr.	31.12.1914
Capt.	30.06.1920
Cdre. 2nd cl.	02.11.1931
R.Adm.	15.10.1932 (retd 16.10.1932) (reverted to retd 06.12.1939)

	DSO	15.09.1916	loss of HMS Invincible *
	MID	03.03.1915	Battle of Falkland Islands

Order of St Anne, 3rd Class, with Swords; French Croix de Guerre with palms, 02.11.1917
* The senior of the two surviving officers of the "Invincible". Up till the moment when the ship blew up Commander Dannreuther controlled the fire of "Invincible" in a manner which produced visible and overwhelming results on the enemy.

Education: Privately; HMS Britannia.

1895			joined HMS Britannia
1896			chief cadet Captain
1911	-	1912	Gunnery Lieutenant of HMS Exmouth, Flagship of Mediterranean Fleet (commanded Guard of Honour on official landing of the King at Malta, 01.1912)
(08.1914)	-	31.05.1916	First and Gunnery Lieutenant of HMS Invincible (battlecruiser) (in action of Heligoland Bight 28.08.1914; also when Flagship of V.Adm. Sturdee at Battle of Falkland Islands, 08.12.1914 (despatches, promoted to Commander); senior of six survivors when ship was sunk, 31.05.1916 (despatches, DSO))
1916	-	1919	Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
1919	-	1920	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
1920	-	1923	Vice-President, Chemical Warfare Committee
14.10.1924	-	1926	Commanding Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
08.03.1927	-	11.03.1929	Captain Superintendent of Training and in command of the Flinders Naval Depôt, Australia [HMAS Cerberus]
12.08.1929	-	11.10.1929	technical course
18.10.1929	-	31.10.1929	HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (additional) (Mediterranean)
01.11.1929	-	20.08.1931	Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
02.11.1931	-	14.10.1932	Commodore of RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
23.09.1932	-	16.10.1932	also: RN ADC to the King
1939?			Assistant Director General, Control Division, Ministry of Information
26.09.1938	-	03.10.1938	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty)
16.09.1939	-	06.12.1939	HMS Eaglet II (anti-submarine & minesweeping trawler base, Birkenhead) (additional) (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR)

Dannreuther,
Hubert Harold
H.H. Dannreuther

Son of R.Adm. Hubert Edward Dannreuther & Jane Hay Thorburn. Brother of Capt. Raymond Portal Dannreuther, RN & Capt. Ion Alexander Dannreuther, RA. Married Oriole Angela Burdett-Coutts; one son, two daughters.
From Hastings.

16.06.1917
-
21.12.2003
S & W Dorset

Midsh.	01.05.1935
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1937
S.Lt.	01.01.1938
Lt.	16.01.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1945
Lt.Cdr.	16.01.1947
Cdr.	31.12.1951
Capt.	30.06.1957 (retd 30.11.1966)

MID

31.10.1944

Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.1945)

01.05.1935	-	(07.1937)	HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
30.08.1937	-	(02.1938)	promotion course, Portsmouth
28.06.1938	-	(04.1939)	HMS Kent (cruiser) (China)
(08.1939)			no appointment listed
08.02.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Cossack (destroyer)
22.04.1942	-	(02.1943)	Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Howe (battleship)
06.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
20.12.1943	-	(06.1944)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Quilliam (destroyer; flotilla leader)
09.04.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Euryalus (cruiser)
13.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.04.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
24.03.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
01.10.1955	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Striker
21.11.1960	-	(07.1961)	Commanding Officer, HMS Diamond
08.02.1963	-	(02.1963)	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

Dannreuther,
Raymond Portal
R.P. Dannreuther

Son of R.Adm. Hubert Edward Dannreuther & Jane Hay Thorburn.
Brother of Capt. Hubert Harold Dannreuther, RN & Capt. Ion Alexander Dannreuther, RA.
Married Elizabeth Bourne; two sons.

12.07.1923
Hastings district, Sussex
-
21.03.2006
Frimley Park Hospital

Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	?, seniority 01.04.1942
Lt.	01.08.1943
Lt.Cdr.	01.08.1951
Cdr.	31.12.1954
Capt.	31.12.1962 (retd 07.01.1972)

01.09.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Kenya (cruiser)
(08.1942)			promotion course, Portsmouth
06.11.1942	-	(08.1943)	HMS Relentless (destroyer)
01.08.1943	-	(11.1943)	HMS Relentless (destroyer)
11.1943	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Lewes (destroyer)
03.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HMS Pytchley (destroyer)
(04.1946)			HMS Camperdown (destroyer) *
01.02.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
10.01.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties)
20.03.1952	-	(05.1953)	HMS Cumberland (cruiser)
08.08.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS President (for miscellaneous duties)
02.06.1960	-	(07.1961)	staff, Surface Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
07.12.1962	-	(02.1963)	Commanding Officer, HMS Undaunted & Captain (F), 2nd Frigate Squadron
24.06.1968	-	(02.1969)	Director of Naval Operational Requirements, Navy Department
(08.1971)			HMS Glamorgan *
07.07.1971	-	07.01.1972	Naval ADC to the Queen

* indexed, but not listed as such

D'Arcy,
Kenneth Judge
K.J. D'Arcy (Photo courtesy of David G. Weaver, from his book "The history of HMS Queen : a World War II Lend Lease escort aircraft carrier")

Eldest son (with one brother) of V.Adm. Judge D'Arcy, RN (1867-1927), and Hester Jane "Hettie" Creak (1880-1913), of Taunton.
Married (05.12.1928, St James' Church, Sydney, NSW, Australia) Isobel Lorraine Piesse, daughter of Arnold Piesse, and Lillie Johnston (1878-1963), of Katanning, Western Australia.

22.04.1902
Fulham, Greater London
-
11.02.1972
Australia

A/S.Lt.	15.01.1922
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.06.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1932
Cdr.	30.06.1938 (retd 22.04.1952) (RAN emgcy 23.04.1952; terminated 08.12.1961)
A/Capt.	12.1943?

	DSO	11.11.1941	Greek withdrawal 04.1941 [investiture 09.11.1943]
	OBE	01.01.1952	New Year 1952 [decoration presented]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (15.01.1916-).

(08.1923)			short course of instruction
15.06.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
14.02.1926	-	(05.1926)	HMS President (for 6 months' study in Germany)
28.03.1927	-	(07.)1927	long navigation course [HMS Dryad]
17.09.1927	-	07.11.1927	HMAS Cerberus
07.11.1927			on loan to RAN (Exchange Officer)
07.11.1927	-	09.01.1928	HMAS Sydney
10.01.1928	-	24.10.1929	Intelligence Officer, HMAS Anzac (flotilla leader) (Australian Squadron) [lent to RAN] (and as interpreter (German))
28.10.1929	-	29.10.1929	HMAS Australia (additional)
30.10.1929			HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per SS Ulysses for reversion to RN)
03.01.1930	-	(10.1930)	First Lieutenant, HMS Carstairs (twin screw minesweeper) (Devonport)
(01.1931)			no appointment listed
19.01.1931	-	(02.)1931	first class ship course (navigation) [HMS Dryad]
10.04.1931	-	(01.)1932	Navigating Officer, HMS Bruce (flotilla leader) (China) (and for flotilla duties, 8th Destroyer Flotilla)
12.01.1932	-	(01.)1933	Navigating Officer, HMS Keppel (flotilla leader) (China) (and for flotilla duties, 8th Destroyer Flotilla)
(05.1933)	-	(06.1933)	no appointment listed
09.10.1933	-	(11.1934)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
15.01.1935	-	(10.1935)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
14.01.1936	-	(02.)1936	tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
15.04.1936	-	01.1938	Navigating Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)
02.01.1938	-	(09.)1939	Assistant King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
11.12.1939	-	25.05.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Grimsby (sloop) (sunk by German aircraft off Tobruk, Libya)
(08.1941)	-	(10.1941)	no appointment listed
18.10.1941	-	02.07.1943	HMS Martial (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation RM Depot Ship)
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
12.1943	-	02.1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier)
11.03.1946	-	(04.)1947	Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
23.07.1947	-	(05.)1949	Commander of the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke]
09.08.1949	-	(05.1951)	on staff of Flag Officer, Malaya [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]
05.05.1952			Cdr. RAN to temporary service & seconded to Department of Defence for duty
05.05.1952	-	31.05.1956	HMAS Lonsdale (naval depot, Port Melbourne) (for miscellaneous service)

D'Arcy,
Norman John Hyacinth

Married ((09?).1932, Kensington district, London) Alfreda Catherine Erskine (21.11.1907 - 01.1993); one son.

14.02.1902
-
26.10.1973
Chichester district, Sussex (formerly of Emsworth, Hampshire)

...	...
Lt. (E)	15.09.1923
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.09.1931
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1935
Capt. (E)	30.06.1946 (retd 28.09.1952)

...	-	...	...
25.08.1939	-	(12.)1940	HMS Birmingham (Southampton class cruiser)
09.12.1940	-	(12.1942)	Works Manager, RN Torpedo Factory, Greenock
23.01.1943	-	(10.)1943	an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
28.10.1943	-	(10.)1944	Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.12.1944	-	(07.1946)	HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser)
...	-	...	...
1947	-	1948	Superintendent, Admiralty Experimental Laboratory
10.12.1948	-	(05.)1950	Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President]
09.10.1950	-	(05.)1952	Fleet Engineer Officer on the staff of Flag Officer Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]

MIMechE, MIMarE. General manager & director, Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow, 1952-1962. Administrative director, Pametrada Ltd. (Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association), Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1962-1967.

Daubney,
John William
J.W. Daubney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son of Robert W. Daubney, and Viole Whiting.
Married ((12?).1945, East Elloe district, Lincolnshire) Edith Alma Haslam (02.08.1925 - 09.07.2011); two daughters.

28.08.1922
Holbeach district, Lincolnshire
-
14.11.1980
Petersfield district, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.	01.09.1944
S.Lt.	18.06.1946, seniority 01.09.1944
Lt.	15.07.1946, seniority 01.12.1944
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1952 (retd & re-appointed 28.08.1972) (reverted to retd 01.10.1974)

?	-	23.08.1944	Cochrane course, Final Selection Board, Upper Yardmen & Upper Yardmen (Air), HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
(10.1944)	-	(04.1945)	no appointment listed
(07.)1945	-	(10.1945)	RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
28.01.1946	-	(04.)1946	HMS Whirlwind (W class destroyer; target ship)
(07.1946)	-	(10.1946)	HMS Whirlwind (W class destroyer; target ship) *
13.12.1946	-	(10.1947)	HMS London (London class cruiser)
(07.1948)	-	(05.1949)	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *
05.1949	-	(05.)1951	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)
14.08.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
15.09.1953	-	(01.1954)	HMS Warrior
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davenport,
Dudley Leslie
D.L. Davenport (Photo courtesy of Mr Shawn Dymond)

Son of Vice-Adm. Robert Clutterbuck Davenport, CB (1882-1966), and Gwladwys M Halahan née Gwatkin- Williams (1886-1973), of Catherington, Hants.
Married (19.08.1950) Joan Winifred Morris (born 09.04.1919), daughter of Surg.-Maj.Maj. Comdr H. Burns, OBE; two sons.

17.08.1919
Alverstoke, Hampshire
-
27.12.1990
Chichester, Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1937
Midsh.	01.05.1937
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1939
S.Lt.	01.09.1939
Lt.	16.10.1940
Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1948
Cdr.	31.12.1951
Capt.	31.12.1957
R.Adm.	07.01.1967 (retd 25.09.1969)

CB	01.01.1969	New Year 1969
OBE	10.06.1954	HM's birthday 1954
MID	01.01.1944	New Year 1944

Education: RN College, Dartmouth

(1935)			cadet, HMS Iron Duke (training ship)
01.01.1937	-	01.05.1937	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.05.1937	-	(07.)1937	HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
10.07.1937	-	(02.)1938	HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
25.03.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Portsmouth)
29.11.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
1939	-	1945	served in Destroyers, Mediterranean and Atlantic:
01.05.1939	-	(09.1939)	promotion course, Portsmouth
20.02.1940	-	(02.1941)	First Lieutenant, HMS Mashona (destroyer)
25.10.1941	-	(12.1943)	First Lieutenant, HMS Tetcott (destroyer)
(04.1944)			no appointment listed
16.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	[First Lieutenant?,] HMS Caesar (destroyer)
25.06.1945	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Cotton (frigate)
1945	-	1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Holmes (frigate)
28.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Porlock Bay (anti-aircraft frigate)
22.12.1946	-	(07.)1948	HMS Sheffield (light cruiser) (America and West Indies)
17.12.1948	-	1951	HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
1951			Naval Staff Course
09.1951	-	(05.)1953	Naval Instructor, Indian Defence Services Staff College [HMS Bluejacket] [on loan to Indian Navy]
03.04.1954	-	(04.)1955	Commanding Officer, HMS Virago (anti-submarine frigate)
1955	-	1956	NATO Defence Course
(01.1956)			no appointment listed
07.02.1956	-	(01.)1957	Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
1958	-	1960	Staff of Admiral Commanding Reserves
29.06.1960	-	1962	Commanding Officer, HMS Woodbridge Haven (frigate) & Captain Inshore Flotilla Far East
04.06.1962	-	1964	Director of Officers Appointments (Seaman Officers), Officer Appointments Division, Personal Services and Officer Appointments Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
1964	-	1966	Commanding Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
05.06.1967	-	(02.)1969	Flag Officer, Malta & NATO Commander South-Eastern Area, Mediterranean

Davey,
George

06.08.1916
-
09.11.1990
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire

A/Gnr. (T)	01.03.1944
Wt.El.Offr. (L)	1946, seniority 01.03.1944
Sen.Cd..El.Offr. (L) = El.Lt. (L)	01.04.1951 (retd)

(04.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
10.01.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Venus (V class destroyer)
(04.1946)	-	(10.1946)	no appointment listed
05.03.1947	-	(10.1947)	HMS Cockade
(10.1948)			no appointment listed
(05.1951)			no appointment listed
11.05.1953	-	(01.1954)	HMS Warrior
21.02.1955	-	(04.1956)	HMS Orion
...	-	...	...

Davey,
John Arthur Stanley
J.A.S. Davey (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Davey)

Son of Capt. Arthur Davey (1878?-1953), and Contessa Alessiana Maria Maggiolini-Scarampi, of Beckford, Gloucestershire.
Married (19.12.1939, Lady Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, London) Elizabeth Diana Pollock, elder daughter of the late C.C. Pollock, of Lydham, Bishop's Castle, and Mrs Pollock, of Littlehampton; five sons, one daughter.

16.09.1916
Hereford district, Herefordshire
-
20.12.2002
Uckfield, East Sussex
[buried at sea]

Cadet	01.01.1934
Midsh.	01.09.1934
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1937
S.Lt.	16.05.1937
Lt.	22.03.1939, seniority 01.03.1939 ?, seniority 16.11.1938
Lt.Cdr.	16.11.1946 (retd 16.09.1960)

	DSC	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 02.02.1943]
	DSC	21.12.1943	Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) [investiture 09.03.1945]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth Term, 1929; Robert Roxburgh Memorial Prize).

01.01.1934	-	18.08.1934	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
19.08.1934	-	(02.)1936	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)
28.04.1936	-	(08.)1936	HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)
31.12.1936	-	04.04.1937	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
05.04.1937	-	(07.)1937	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
30.12.1937	-	(08.)1938	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
21.09.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport)
19.06.1939	-	(09.1939)	HMS Jupiter (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
20.02.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Bideford (sloop)
29.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	long navigation course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
25.11.1940	-	(08.1942)	Navigating Officer, HMS Bramble (Algerine class minesweeper)
(02.1943)	-	(10.1943)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) *
(07.1943)			on Staff of Rear-Admiral for Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily)
07.11.1943	-	(12).1943	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
17.12.1943	-	(06.)1944	Navigating Officer, HMS Hunter (escort carrier)
(10.)1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Hunter (escort carrier) *
01.02.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
03.04.1947	-	(10.)1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Blencathra (destroyer) (based at Hull)
29.12.1947	-	(05.1949)	RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
03.1950	-	(05.1951)	HMS Jamaica (cruiser)
25.07.1951	-	(05.1953)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
08.02.1954	-	(04.)1955	Torpedo & Anti-Submarine (TAS) Staff of the Training Staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine school, Portsmouth)
18.10.1955	-	(01.1959)	Schools Liaison, Naval Recruiting Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davidson,
Alastair Gordon

Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Henry Oliver Duncan Davidson (1854-1915), schoolmaster, and Ethel Leslie Robinson (1861-1953).
Married (21.04.1923, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Mildred Valentine Blomfield Osborne (15.08.1894 - 07.1990), daughter (with one brother) of Col. Frederick William Osborne (1863-1941), and Mabel Susan Blomfield (1864-1946); two daughters, one son.

25.09.1893
Harrow on the Hill, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
12.08.1974
in hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

Midsh.	15.01.1911
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1913
S.Lt.	15.03.1914
Lt.	30.01.1916
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	30.01.1924 (retd 25.09.1936; own request)
Cdr. (retd)	25.09.1936 (dispersed 02.02.1946) (reld 01.04.1946) (reverted to retd 02.04.1946)
A/Capt.	22.10.1941-02.04.1946 (granted War Service Rank of Capt.)

15.05.1906	-	15.01.1911	training establishments
...	-	...	...
08.09.1939	-	12.01.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Weston (sloop)
13.01.1940	-	27.02.1940	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join)
28.02.1940	-	20.10.1941	Second Sea Lord's Office for Appointments, &tc., Admiralty [HMS President]
22.10.1941	-	10.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Ascania (armed merchant cruiser)
22.10.1942	-	26.06.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Cardiff (light cruiser)
27.06.1944	-	21.08.1944	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join)
22.08.1944	-	31.07.1945	Deputy Administrative Captain on staff of Commodore Naval Air Stations (North) [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
01.08.1945	-	14.11.1945	Maintenance Captain on staff of Commodore Flying Training [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
15.11.1945	-	02.02.1946	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)

Davie,
Peter
P. Davie

Son of ... Davie, and ... Browne.

03.10.1920
Hambledon district, Surrey
-
23.08.2000

Cadet	01.01.1938
Midsh.	01.05.1938
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1940
S.Lt.	?. seniority 16.02.1940
Lt.	16.10.1941
Lt.Cdr.	16.10.1949
Cdr.	30.06.1954 (retd 06.10.1956)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

01.01.1938	-	30.04.1938	cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
1939	-	1945	saw service in the North Atlantic (Greenland), Pacific, and the Mediterranean:
01.05.1938	-	(09.1939)	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	promotion course, Portsmouth
05.05.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
23.11.1940	-	(08.1942)	First Lieutenant, HMS Whaddon (escort destroyer)
01.1943	-	(08.)1943	First Lieutenant, HMS Roxborough (destroyer)
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
23.11.1943	-	(12.)1943	HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, US) (for miscellaneous duties)
14.12.1943	-	(04.)1944	First Lieutenant, HMS Tyler (frigate)
(06.)1944	-	(10.1944)	specialist signals course
09.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Squadron Communications Assistant (2), 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]
31.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	Communications Officer on staff of Rear-Admiral (Aircraft Carriers) [HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)]
19.11.1947	-	(07.1948)	Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.01.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) (for miscellaneous duties)
05.1952	-	(05.1953)	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
09.08.1954	-	(01.)1956	Signals Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Davies,
Albert George

06.05.1920
Ramsgate
-
13.03.2004
Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Midsh.	01.01.1939
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1940
S.Lt.	1941?, seniority 01.02.1940
Lt.	01.09.1941
A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1945, < 04.1946
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1949 (retd 16.06.1958)

DSC

14.12.1945

war patrols Far East 07.1945 [decoration posted]

...	-	...	...
18.07.1943	-	30.05.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Ursula (U class submarine)
27.07.1944	-	1946	Commanding Officer, HMS Stubborn (S class submarine) (DSC)
...	-	...	.c..

Davies,
Sir Arthur John
A.J. Davies

Son of late Rev. J.B. Davies of Waters Upton, Salop.
Married (20.11.1916, St Martin's Church, London) Dorothy, daughter of late Capt. J.R. Prickett of Browston Hall, Great Yarmouth; one son, one daughter.

26.09.1877
Waters Upton, Wellington, Shropshire
-
13.12.1954
Gosport, Hampshire

Midsh.	15.01.1894
S.Lt.	15.07.1897
Lt.	15.01.1899
Cdr.	31.12.1909
Capt.	31.12.1915
Cdre. 1st cl.	15.08.1924?
R.Adm.	25.10.1926 (retd 04.04.1931)
V.Adm. (retd)	04.04.1931
Adm. (retd)	01.01.1936
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	14.03.1940

KBE	01.01.1943	New Year 1943; ocean convoys
CB	01.01.1927	New Year 1927
MID	24.08.1943	3 years ocean convoys

15.01.1892			entered RN, HMS Britannia
1914	-	1918	served in North Sea, European War
?	-	(01.1919)	HMS Lion (battlecruiser)
18.08.1922	-	(08.1923)	Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
15.08.1924	-	(07.)1927	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)]
10.04.1928	-	(06.)1928	senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
27.12.1928	-	(02.)1931	Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Curacoa]
14.03.1940	-	(06.)1944	Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Davies,
Austin Francis
A.F. Davies

Son of Arthur Ford Davies, and Meta Elizabeth Davies, of Sidmouth, Devon.

08.06.1920
-
18.04.1943
(MPK) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

Cadet	01.09.1937
Midsh.	01.01.1938
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1940
S.Lt.	01.03.1940
Lt.	01.12.1941

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1934-03.08.1937; Exmouth House; Admiralty No. 1374).

01.09.1937	-	01.01.1938	HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1938	-	(12.1939)	HMS Rodney (battleship)
(02.1940)			course of instruction
(03.1940)	-	(04.1940)	no appointment listed
18.05.1940	-	(08.)1941	HMS Valiant (battleship)
1941	-	19.09.1941	submarine course
20.09.1941	-	23.01.1942	HMS Ambrose (base of 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines)
24.01.1942	-	(06.)1942	HMS H 44 (submarine)
06.1942	-	18.04.1943	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
?	-	18.04.1943	HMS P 615 (submarine) (ship sunk off Freetown by U-boat)

Davies,
Bernard Sydney
B.S Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Tim Robinson)

Son of Owen William Davies, and Emilene Mary Gascoine.
Married 1st (07.04.1923, Chipping Barnet) Hilda Eileen Cockerill (marriage dissolved 07.10.1947); one son, one daughter.
Married 2nd (20.10.1948) Yvonne Marjorie Elizabeth Patterson (28.12.1918-04.1986); no children.

28.01.1899
Walthamstowe, West Ham district, Essex
-
11.04.1989
Llsantffraid-Y-Mechin, Welshpool & Llanfyllin district, Powys

Midsh.	01.09.1917
S.Lt.	1919?
A/Lt.	?
Lt.	14.01.1922, seniority 15.12.1920
Lt.Cdr.	15.12.1928 (retd 28.01.1939)
Cdr. (retd)	28.01.1939

04.1917			entered RN as special entry cadet
10.1917	-	1918	HMS Bellerophon (battleship)
1918	-	1919	HMS Ramillies (battleship)
1919	-	1920	HMS Vanoc (torpedo-boat destroyer) (Baltic; attack on Petrograd)
1920	-	1920	HMS President (for study at Cambridge University)
1920	-	1921	HMS Restless (torpedo-boat destroyer) (Gibraltar)
1921	-	1922	HMS Doon (fishery protection trawler) (Irish Coast)
06.12.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Snapdragon (sloop)
06.10.1924	-	(01.)1925	observers' course, Portsmouth
09.1925	-	(05.1926)	observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)
(02.1927)			no appointment listed
01.03.1927	-	(07.1927)	First Lieutenant, HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(04.1928)	-	(06.1928)	HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) *
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
11.10.1929	-	(10.)1930	Commanding Officer, HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Vernon]
18.12.1930	-	(02.)1931	Commanding Officer, HMS Whitley (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
29.12.1931	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Malcolm]
20.04.1933	-	14.06.1935	on loan to RAN (Exchange Officer):
20.04.1933	-	21.04.1933	London Depot RAN
22.04.1933	-	14.06.1935	HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) (passage to Australia per "Corfu"; from 16.07.1934-11.06.1935 for First Lieutenant's duties)
15.06.1935	-	1935	passage to UK per "Akarea", "Katoomba" and "Niagara"
30.11.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS Danae (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
23.07.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
17.06.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)
(02.1938)	-	(01.1939)	no appointment listed: from 09.1937 Assistant Conservator, Port Commissioners of Calcutta
13.03.1941	-	(04.1941?)	HMS Stronghold (destroyer) **
04.1941	-	27.01.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Thanet (destroyer) (sunk by Japanese destroyers off Endau, east coast of Malaya) **

Returned as Assistant Conservator, Port Commissioners of Calcutta, c. 03.1942. Skippered hopper barge "Phoebe" in March 1943 during the SOE-guided 'boarding party' of the German merchant vessel "Ehrenfels", which was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour from Portugal's neutral territory of Goa, causing serious losses by sinkings. Retired from the Port Commissioners of Calcutta in 1947, and lived in Llsantffraid-Y-Mechin until his death.
* indexed, but not listed as such
** (12.1941) listed under both HMS Stronghold & HMS Thanet

Davies,
Cromwell Felix Justin Lloyd

Also known as : Lloyd-Davies, Cromwell Felix Justin.

22.09.1903
-
27.01.1998

...	...
Lt.	15.07.1924
Lt.Cdr.	15.02.1934
Cdr.	31.12.1939
Capt.	31.12.1945 (retd 07.01.1955)

	DSO	23.05.1952	Korea [investiture 02.11.1954]
	DSC	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 06.03.1945]

...	-	...	...
12.07.1943	-	07.08.1944	Executive Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser) (DSC)
08.08.1944	-	23.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser)
...	-	...	...

Davies,
George Philip Sevier
G.P.S. Davies

Son (with two sisters) of George Sevier Davies (1869-), and Ethel Fleming Bradley (1866-1943).
Married ((06?).1934, Kensington district, London) Elizabeth Gwendolen Hill (24.01.1909 - 08.1997), daughter (with one brother) of Peter William E. Hill (1874-), and Ursula Tucker (1877-); one son.

29.04.1904
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
30.07.1968
Maidstone district, Kent

Midsh.	15.05.1922
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1924
S.Lt.	30.05.1925
Lt.	30.05.1927
Lt.Cdr.	30.05.1935
A/Cdr.	> 06.1941, < 08.1941
Cdr.	30.06.1942 (retd 29.04.1954; age)

	OBE	28.12.1943	for outstanding enterprise and devotion to duty: Operation Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz 22.09.1943) [investiture 18.04.1944]
	MID	29.09.1942	for brave conduct in the face of the enemy: services Military Mission Russia from 07.1941

15.01.1918			joined RN
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
01.01.1925	-	08.1925	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
17.08.1925	-	(05.)1926	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
02.12.1926	-	(07.1927)	HMS L 22 (submarine) (Portsmouth)
03.1928	-	(07.1928)	First Lieutenant, HMS L 27 (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China) [tender to HMS Titania]
(06.1929)	-	(08.1929)	no appointment listed
25.09.1929	-	(04.)1930	HMS Champion (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth)
(08.1930)			no appointment listed
17.11.1930	-	(09.)1932	First Lieutenant, HMS L 27 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia]
16.11.1932	-	(01.)1934	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) (for submarines)
01.01.1934	-	(03.)1934	submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto]
30.04.1934	-	(03.)1935	Commanding Officer, HMS L 69 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
20.07.1935	-	(01.)1938	HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
1939	-	1945	served Norway, Atlantic, N. Russia, Mediterranean & Pacific:
27.02.1938	-	19.02.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine) [under construction at Greenock]
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(05.1940)	-	(06.1940)	HMS Tribune (submarine) *
(08.1940)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
10.08.1940	-	(06.)1941	Staff Officer (Operations), 7th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship, Rothesay)] (and for duty with submarines)
26.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	on staff of Senior British Naval Officer, North Russia [HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)] (despatches)
01.01.1942	-	(04.)1942	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines)
(06.1942)	-	(02.1943)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *
17.04.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties) (OBE)
(12.1943)	-	(10.1944)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties) *
12.1944	-	(04.)1946	Senior Officer (Submarines) & Staff Officer (Operations) II, Sydney [HMS Golden Hind]
24.05.1948	-	(07.1948)	Manning Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(05.1949)	-	(05.1950)	HMS President (for miscellaneous services) [starting date given as 24.05.1948]
20.02.1951	-	(05.1953)	staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

Liaison Officer, Orient Line, 10.1955-... (L/O Otranto Orcadio L/O Orcadio Oronsa Orion).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Davies,
Gerald Oulton Colthurst

23.05.1897
Dublin South district, Ireland
-
16.05.1989
Bramshot, Alton district, Hampshire

Midsh.	31.07.1914
A/S.Lt.	15.07.1916
S.Lt.	15.01.1917
Lt.	15.02.1918
Lt.Cdr.	15.02.1926
Cdr.	30.06.1931
Capt.	30.06.1939 (retd 10.07.1948) (reverted to retd 12.09.1948)

MID

30.05.1944

attack of Tirpitz 03.04.1944

...	-	...	...
20.09.1939	-	(04.)1941	Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)
(02.1941)	-	(04.1941)	Associate Member (Ex-officio), Ordnance Board (as Naval Assistant to the Director of Projectile Development)
05.04.1941	-	12.01.1943	Director of Miscellaneous Weapon Development Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
15.02.1943	-	23.01.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Searcher (Attacker class escort carrier)
31.01.1945	-	(07.1946)	Deputy Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]
...	-	...	...

Davies,
Gilbert Foster
G.F. Davies

04.09.1921
Salisbury district, Dorset
-
25.06.1991
Bath district, Somerset

Midsh.	?
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1941
S.Lt.	1942?, seniority 01.02.1941
Lt.	01.11.1942
Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1950 (retd)

MID

20.10.1942

Operation Harpoon

...	-	...	...
01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
06.01.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Badsworth (destroyer) (despatches)
(01.1945)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Davies,
Harold
H. Davies

06.12.1899
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
18.05.1982
Bexley district, Greater London

Seaman	? [J44612]
Gnr.	01.07.1931
Cd.Gnr.	01.04.1941
Lt.	11.03.1947 (retd 06.12.1949; age)

31.12.1931	-	(08.)1934	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for direction finding duties)
31.10.1934	-	(07.)1937	HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) (for direction finding duties)
18.10.1937	-	(09.)1939	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school, for direction finding duties)
16.10.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Alaunia (armed merchant cruiser)
09.1941	-	(10.)1943	HMS Valiant (battleship)
30.11.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Drake (RN Base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
14.05.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (and for Deep Sea Diving Unit)
18.02.1947	-	(05.1949)	Gunnery Officer, HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake]

Davies,
John Camm
J.C. Davies

Son of Maj. H. Erris Davies and Emily Beatrice Davies of Nyeri, Kenya.

1921 ?
-
25.04.1943
[age 22]
[Bunbury (St Boniface) Churchyard Extension, grace 195]

Paym.Cadet	01.01.1938
Paym.Midsh.	01.01.1939
A/Paym.S.Lt.	01.01.1941
Paym.S.Lt.	01.04.1941
Paym.Lt.	01.04.1943?

Education: BSc (London).

01.09.1938	-	(08.1939)	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	for duty in the office of Adm. Sir Charles M. Forbes, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Rodney (battleship)]
16.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	Secretary to Commanding Officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
20.08.1941	-	(11.)1941	HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [unclear whether he was aboard the ship when torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic, 24.11.1941]
03.07.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
?	-	25.04.1943	HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)

Davies,
[Sir] Lancelot Richard Bell
"Lance"
L.R.B. Davies

Son of V.Adm. Richard Bell Davies, VC, CB, DSO, AFC, and Mary Kerr Montgomery, of Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire.
Married ((06?).1949, Gosport district, Hampshire) Emmeline Joan Molengraaff, elder daughter of Dr & Mrs G.J.H. Molengraaff, of Wassenaar, Holland; one son, two daughters.

18.02.1926
16, Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, London SW
-
03.07.2010
Hamble, Hampshire

Midsh.	01.05.1943
S.Lt.	01.02.1945
...	...
V.Adm.	06.01.1976 (retd 02.11.1981)

KBE

1977

Education: Boxgrove Preparatory School, Guildford; RN College, Dartmouth (1939).

01.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Scharnhorst sunk)
1944?	-	02.1944	HMS Ben Torc (minesweeping trawler)
29.02.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)
			HMS Opportune (destroyer)
1944			joined submarines
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(05.1945)			HMS Tally-Ho (submarine)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...
11.12.1953	-	(07.)1954	HMS Subtle
23.10.1954	-	(04.)1955	First Lieutenant, HMS Charity
24.10.1955	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Explorer
...	-	...	...

Davies,
Richard Bell
R.B. Davies

Son of late William Bell Davies, Croxley Grove, Rickmansworth.
Married (1920) Mary, daughter of late Maj.Gen. Sir R.A. Kerr Montgomery, KCMG, CB, DSO; one son (V.Adm. Sir Lancelot Richard Bell Davies, KBE), one daughter.

19.05.1886
Kensington, London
-
26.02.1966
RN Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth
[Swaythling Crematorium, Southampton]

A/S.Lt.	15.12.1905?
S.Lt.	22.11.1906, seniority 15.12.1905
Lt.Cdr.	30.06.1916
Capt.	31.12.1926
Cdre. 2nd cl.	20.02.1936
R.Adm.	11.01.1938 (retd 29.05.1941)
V.Adm. (retd)	29.05.1941 (reverted to retd 10.03.1945)
RNAS:
Squadron Cdr.	?
Wing Cdr.	01.01.1916

VC	01.01.1916	Ferijik Junction, Bulgaria *
CB	08.06.1939	HM's birthday
DSO	10.04.1915	?
AFC	10.10.1919	war service
Comdn	14.03.1916	Dardanelles
CdeG	23.08.1919	?

* On 19 November 1915 while carrying out an air attack at Ferrijik Junction, Bulgaria, one of the planes engaged in the bombing mission was brought down, the pilot making a safe landing. Seeing, however, that Bulgarian troops were approaching, he set fire to his aircraft. He then realised that Squadron Commander Davies was preparing to land to rescue him, so he detonated the last bomb on the burning aircraft, with a pistol shot, in case it should blow up as the rescue plane approached. The squadron commander landed as near as possible to the stranded pilot, picking him up just as the enemy came within rifle range.

15.05.1901			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War: Squadron Commander, 3 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, Dardanelles, 1915 (despatches twice, VC, Chevalier Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre with Palm)
1920	-	1924	in charge of the Air Section of the Naval Staff
08.04.1924	-	1926	Executive Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
22.10.1926	-	1928	Naval Air Section, Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.04.1929	-	(04.)1930	Flag Captain, HMS London (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean)
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
1931	-	1933	Liaison Officer for Fleet Air Arm at Air Ministry
17.01.1933	-	(07.)1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
20.02.1936	-	(02.)1938	Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
09.05.1938	-	(06.)1938	tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed
05.09.1938	-	(04.)1939	HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)
24.05.1939	-	30.09.1941	Rear-Admiral, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
01.10.1941	-	27.10.1941	HMS Victory (additional; not to join)
28.10.1941	-	23.02.1942	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for Liverpool Convoy Pool) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)
24.02.1942	-	11.08.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Dasher (escort carrier) [initially tender to HMS Saker II]
12.08.1942	-	13.01.1943	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Assistant CNAB) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)
14.01.1943	-	07.02.1943	HMS President (additional; for diposal)
08.02.1943	-	21.02.1943	HMS President (additional; for courses)
22.02.1943	-	26.02.1943	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School)
18.03.1943	-	12.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Pretoria Castle (escort carrier-training aircraft carrier)
13.10.1944	-	09.03.1945	HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal)

Published: Sailor in the air : the memoirs of Vice-Admiral Richard Bell-Davies, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., A.F.C. (1967)

Davies,
Robert William
R.W. Davies

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

30.05.1898
Wargrave, Wokingham district, Berkshire
-
23.04.1949
Gosport district, Hampshire

A/Wt.Eng.	01.10.1926
Wt.Eng.	1927?, seniority 01.10.1926
Cd.Eng.	01.10.1936
Lt. (E)	28.07.1941 (retd 30.05.1948; age)

DSC	01.01.1943	New Year 1943 [investiture 06.04.1943]
MBE	01.01.1948	New Year 1948
MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 1945

27.11.1926	-	(02.)1927	submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
12.02.1927	-	(04.)1927	HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (4th Submarine Flotilla) (China) (for submarines)
(07.)1927	-	(07.1928)	HMS L 27 (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla) (China)
(06.1929)	-	(08.1929)	no appointment listed
06.11.1929	-	(04.)1930	HMS L 4 (submarine) (Group "Y" Submarines in Reserve at Portsmouth)
21.05.1930	-	(03.)1931	HMS L 33 (submarine) (Group "D" Submarines in Reserve at Portsmouth)
18.05.1931	-	(07.)1931	HMS Emperor of India (battleship)
03.07.1931	-	(09.)1931	HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
09.11.1931	-	(05.)1933	HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
19.10.1933	-	(01.)1934	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Mechanical Training Establishment)
21.02.1934	-	(04.)1936	HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
13.04.1936	-	(03.)1938	HMS Grimsby (escort vessel) (China)
(06.1938)	-	(10.1938)	no appointment listed
25.10.1938	-	01.02.1943	HMS Enchantress (Bittern class sloop) (DSC)
(04.1943)			HMS Enchantress (Bittern class sloop) *
17.04.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Obedient (O class destroyer)
10.07.1943	-	(01.)1945	HMS Zest (Z class destroyer)
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
06.08.1945	-	(10.1947)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davies,
Rupert Lisburn Gwynne
R.L.G. Davies (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Sayer)

22.05.1916
Liverpool
-
22.11.1976
Putney, London

A/S.Lt. (A)	21.11.1938
S.Lt. (A)	01.04.1940, seniority 21.11.1939
Lt. (A)	04.1942, seniority 21.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

21.11.1938	-	(02.)1939	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training)
13.02.1939	-	(04.)1939	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
15.05.1939	-	(08.1939)	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
?	-	22.08.1940	812 Squadron FAA [shot down in his Swordfish plane while minelaying off the coast of Holland; captured]
22.08.1940	-	1945	prisoner of war (Stalag Luft III)

Post-war career as an actor, best known for the title role in the BBC series of inspector Maigret.

Davis,
Ian Joicey
I.J. Davis

From Buckingham.

03.09.1922
Kensington district, London
-
26.02.1975
Surrey Mid Eastern district

...	...
Lt.	16.03.1943
Lt.Cdr.	16.03.1951
Cdr.	31.12.1954 (retd 09.07.1972; medically unfit)

DSC

31.07.1945

Operation Iceberg [decoration posted]

...	-	...	...
11.1943	-	(07.1945)	observer & Second-in-Command, 857 Squadron FAA [HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)] [crashed with a Grumman TBM Avenger at sea 31.03.1945, being rescued by USS Kingfish on her 11th war patrol]
...	-	...	...

Davis,
John Cecil
J.C. Davis

Younger son of Gen. Sir John Davis, and Lady Gertrude Caroline.
Married Marguerite ...

25.07.1883
Elham district, Kent
-
01.09.1969
Warren Grange, Crowborough, Uckfield district, Sussex

...	...
Capt.	31.12.1922 (retd 10.01.1924; own request)

OBE

15.09.1897			entered RN
...	-	...	...
11.09.1939	-	05.05.1943	Captain of College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
(06.1943)	-	(06.1944)	Admiralty [HMS President] *
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Davis,
[Sir] William Wellclose

Elder son and eldest of three children of Walter Stewart Davis (1865-1946), Indian Political Service, and Georgina Jessie C. Ross (1871?-1925), of Longhope, Gloucestershire.
Married (28.04.1934, St Oswald's, Lythe, Yorkshire) Lady Gertrude Elizabeth Phipps (30.04.1908 - 19.09.1985), younger daughter of the Rev. 3rd Marquess of Normanby (Constantine Charles Henry Phipps) (1846-1932), and Gertrude Stansfeld Forster (?-1948), of Mulgrave Castle, Whitby; two sons, two daughters.

11.10.1901
Simla, Punjab, India
-
29.10.1987
hospital, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

Cadet	05.1915
Midsh.	1917
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.10.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.10.1930
Cdr.	30.06.1935
Capt.	31.12.1940
Cdre. 1st cl.	11.02.1948?
R.Adm.	07.01.1950
A/V.Adm.	1953
V.Adm.	15.09.1953
Adm.	22.10.1956 (retd 17.08.1960)

GCB	13.06.1959	HM's birthday 1959 [investiture 15.07.1959]
KCB	02.01.1956	New Year 1956 [investiture 21.02.1956]
CB	01.01.1952	New Year 1952 [investiture 26.03.1952]
DSO	23.05.1944	Operation Avalanche [investiture 02.02.1945]
DSO	14.11.1944	13 vessels destroyed Plymouth area 08.1944 [investiture 02.02.1945]
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
MID	21.12.1943	Operation Husky
MID	01.08.1944	Operation Shingle
MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune

Education: Summer Fields, Oxford; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1914-1917).

09.1917	-	02.1919	HMS Neptune (battleship)
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
25.09.1924	-	(05.1926)	torpedo course, HMS Vernon
23.09.1926	-	(02.)1927	advanced specialist torpedo course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
25.03.1927	-	(07.)1927	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (temporary)
01.09.1927	-	(08.)1929	Torpedo Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
19.12.1929	-	(10.1930)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
13.01.1931	-	(02.)1931	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
30.12.1931	-	(06.1933)	HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, Aircraft Carriers (temporarily)
(01.1934)	-	(03.1934)	no appointment listed
03.04.1934	-	(07.1935)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & as Fleet Torpedo Officer, China Station
13.01.1936	-	(07.1937)	Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(02.1938)	-	(10.1938)	Fleet Torpedo Officer and Staff Officer, Plans, to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] *
30.01.1939	-	18.09.1940	Executive Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
27.09.1940	-	16.03.1941	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.03.1941	-	23.03.1941	Admiralty [HMS President]
24.03.1941	-	27.01.1942	Deputy Director of Operations Division (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
03.02.1942	-	28.09.1942	an Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
29.09.1942	-	21.01.1943	Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
22.01.1943	-	31.01.1943	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Plans)
01.02.1943	-	05.02.1943	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School)
06.02.1943	-	10.02.1943	HMS Victory (additional; for courses)
11.02.1943	-	21.03.1943	HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)
22.03.1943	-	22.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Mauritius (cruiser) & from 25.07.1943-27.12.1943 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 15th Cruiser Squadron
29.11.1944	-	09.09.1945	Director of Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.09.1945	-	31.01.1946	Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1946	-	(04.)1946	Director of Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
1947			Imperial Defence College
11.02.1948	-	(05.)1949	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York (battleship)]
03.04.1950	-	1952	Naval Secretary to First Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.12.1952	-	1954	Flag Officer (Air) Mediterranean & Flag Officer 2nd in Command Mediterranean Station [HMS Falcon]
04.1954	-	(01.)1957	Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiralty
06.01.1958	-	(01.)1960	Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Tyne, later HMS President], and Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, Eastern Atlantic Area, NATO
30.04.1959	-	17.08.1960	also: First and Principal Naval ADC to the Queen

Vice-President, King George's Fund for Sailors; Member: Royal Institution of GB (Vice-President); Royal United Service Institution; European-Atlantic Group (Vice-President); British Atlantic Committee; Gloucestershire Community Council; President: Gloucestershire Outward Bound; Gloucestershire County Scouts; Forest of Dean District Scouts; Treasurer, Friends of Gloucester Cathedral; Member, St Helena Association; Past Chairman, Cheltenham Ladies' College and various educational authorities. DL Gloucestershire 1963.
Literature: obituary in: The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004, p. 36-39).
* date of appointment given as 04.01.1937

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