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R. Fitzmaurice   to   R.H. Fyson
Fitzmaurice, Sir Raymond Son of late John Gerald Fitzmaurice, Barrister-at-law. Married 1st (1912) Evelyn Mary (died 1914), daughter of Charles Threlfall. Married 2nd (1919) Beatrice Mary Bosanquet, daughter of late Adm. Sir Day H. Bosanquet, GCMG; one daughter.	07.08.1878 Paddington, London - 25.10.1943 Courtsmount, Haslemere [Woking (St. John's) Crematorium]	Lt. 1901 Cdr. 1913 Capt. 30.06.1918 (retd 01.09.1929) R.Adm. (retd) 01.09.1929 V.Adm. (retd) 31.07.1934 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 16.09.1939 KBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 DSO 01.01.1916 blocking Rufiji river 10.11.1914 MID 07.04.1942 3 submarines destroyed 12.1941 MID 17.11.1942 ocean convoys 1939-1942	15.01.1893 entered RN 1913 - 1916 2nd in Command, HMS Chatham (present at operations in East Africa and Dardanelles (DSO)) 1916 - 1918 Commanding Officer, HMS Espiègle 1918 - 1919 Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence 1919 - 1920 Naval Adviser to Sir Reginald Tower, High Commissioner of Dantzig 04.1921 - 04.1922 Commanding Officer, HMS Antrim 1922 - 1923 Commanding Officer, HMS Yarmouth (cruiser) 03.02.1923 - (01.)1925 Director of Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 1925 - 1926 Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer HMS Resolution, 2nd Battle Squadron, and HMS Iron Duke, 3rd Battle Squadron 01.02.1927 - 1929 Vice-President Chemical Warfare Committee (London) 20.06.1929 - (08.1929) Naval ADC to the King 16.09.1939 - 25.10.1943 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
FitzRoy [also: Fitz-Roy], [the Hon.] Robert Oliver; 2nd Viscount Daventry, cr. 1943 (since 1962) Elder son of late Captain Rt Hon. Edward Algernon Fitz Roy, MP and of 1st Viscountess Daventry, CBE. Succeeded mother, 1962. Married (1916) Grace Zoë Guinness (died 1978), daughter of late Claude Hume Campbell Guinness; three daughters (and two daughters deceased).	10.01.1893 Chelsea, London - 19.01.1986 Kensington and Chelsea, London	Midsh. 15.09.1910 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1913 S.Lt. 15.02.1914 Lt. 15.12.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1928 Capt. 31.12.1936 (retd 02.01.1946) (dispersed 11.01.1946) (reverted to retd 09.03.1946) MID 16.01.1945 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.09.1905     joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War 28.08.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 06.01.1927 - (06.1928) HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (Portsmouth) 30.07.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Crocus (sloop) (East Indies) 27.12.1930 - (02.)1931 Executive Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 23.11.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (China) 08.09.1932 - (07.1935) Executive Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 31.01.1936 - (02.1936) Executive Officer, HMS President IV (base defences, Mediterranean) (02.1937) - (07.)1937 no appointment listed 09.10.1937 - (02.)1938 Senior Officers'  War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 14.04.1938 - 21.08.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Hebe (Halcyon class minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 1st Minesweeping Flotilla 22.08.1939 - 28.03.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 1st Minesweeping Flotilla 30.03.1940 - 14.04.1940 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 15.04.1940 - 02.07.1941 Deputy Director of Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 03.07.1941 - 01.08.1943 Director of Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 02.08.1943 - 06.08.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School) 07.08.1943 - 10.09.1943 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 25.09.1943 - 10.01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) & from 11.10.1944-24.11.1945 also Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet 05.07.1945 - 02.01.1946 also: Naval ADC to the King High Sheriff Rutland 1956-1957.
FitzRoy, William Wentworth; changed name by deed poll of 09.10.1958 to: Stewart-FitzRoy Son of Capt. Frederick Henry FitzRoy and Eleanor Allan. Married 1st: Margaret Patricia Grant (26.04.1934) (died 1984); three sons, one daughter. Married 2nd: Evelyn Nichol (1988).	28.09.1907 Romford, Essex - 23.10.1998 Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA	A/S.Lt. RNR 28.09.1928 S.Lt. RNR 13.10.1930, seniority 30.04.1930 Lt. RNR 25.03.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 30.04.1937, seniority 28.09.1931 Lt. ?, seniority 28.09.1931 Lt.Cdr. 28.09.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1946 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 07.01.1962) Cdre. < 07.1961	27.10.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Ardent (destroyer) (to complete 9 months' training) 01.05.1937 - (08.1939) HMS Warspite (battleship) 01.10.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Warspite (battleship) 09.01.1942 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Valorous (destroyer) (02.1943) no appointment listed 16.03.1943 - (10.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Arrow (destroyer) 30.11.1943 - (06.1944) HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 26.02.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Comet (destroyer) 12.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Belfast 09.1952 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) (01.1956) HMS President * 31.03.1959 - (07.1961) Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Terror] 07.01.1961 - 07.01.1962 Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Fitzroy-Williams, David	14.05.1922 - 10/11?.2012	Cadet 01.09.1939 Midsh. 01.01.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.08.1941 Lt. 16.02.1943 (retd 14.06.1948) DSC 04.04.1944 Aegean operations, actions 16.10.1943 [investiture 06.03.1945] DSC 19.06.1945 action against E-boats 07.04.1945 [decoration posted] MID 06.07.1943 destruction U-boat 19.02.1943 MID 19.12.1944 Coastal Forces action with 3 E-boats destroyed 18.09.1944	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1936-01.08.1939; Blake House; Admiralty No. 1604). 01.09.1939 - (12.1939) training, RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1940 - (05.)1940 HMS Edinburgh (improved Southampton class cruiser) (06.1940)     no appointment listed 08.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser) 05.03.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Vanessa (V class destroyer) 01.09.1941 - (02.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.02.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Hursley (destroyer) (DSC, despatches) 23.11.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Faulknor (destroyer) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 02.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (despatches) 01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)       HMS Rutherford (frigate) (Bar to DSC) (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Flannery, Alfred Edward Youngest son (with three brothers and two sisters) of Canon William Flannery (1869-1948), and Isabella Mary Macnamara (1865-1927). Married (16.11.1937, Malta) Elizabeth Maud "Liz" Duffy, LL.B (1909 - 1981), elder daughter of Mr & Mrs John Duffy, of New York, USA; two sons, three daughters.	23.08.1906 Oldcastle district, Co. Cavan, Ireland - 10.03.1964 Ta'Xbiex, Malta [Capuccini (Kalkara) Naval Cemetery, Malta]	Sg.Lt. 22.12.1931 23.11.1934, seniority 22.12.1930 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 22.12.1936 Sg.Cdr. 22.12.1942 Sg.Capt. 30.06.1956 (retd 23.08.1963) OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 Hkn 26.08.1947 service to Norwegians In 1937 he was commended by the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, for his great coolness and efficiency in most trying circumstances when HMS Hunter was mined off the coast of Spain in May, 1937.	Education: LRCPI & LM, LRCSI & LM 1929. 22.12.1931 - (01.)1932 course of instruction for Medical Officers, RN Hospital Haslar [HMS Victory] 04.1932 - (05.)1932 HMS Tarantula (gunboat) (China) 22.05.1932 - (03.)1934 HMS Moth (gunboat) (China) 04.1934 - (07.)1934 HMS Tamar (receiving ship, Hong Kong) (08.1934) - (11.1934) no appointment listed 10.01.1935 - 09.1936 HMS Harebell (patrol sloop (fishery protection)) 02.09.1936 - 10.1936 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 01.10.1936 - 07.1939 Flotilla Medical Officer, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean [HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer), from 12.1936 HMS Hardy (destroyer)] 28.07.1939 - 12.1939 HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) 07.12.1939 - 01.1940 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 23.01.1940 - 04.1942 HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 09.04.1942 - 11.1943 HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) 03.11.1943 - 04.1945 Senior Medical Officer & Medical Specialist, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) (King Haakon VII Liberty Medal) 26.04.1945 - (10.1945) Medical Specialist, HMS Ophir (hospital ship) 10.02.1946 - (04.1946) Medical Specialist, RN Auxiliary Naval Hospital St Peters, Colombo, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] 06.01.1947 - (05.)1949 Medical Specialist, Royal Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] 05.1949 - (05.1950) Medical Specialist, Royal Hospital, Bermuda [HMS Malabar] (OBE) 1950? - 04.1951 Senior Medical Officer, HM Dockyard, Bermuda [HMS Malabar] 01.04.1951 - (05.)1951 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous duties) 01.10.1951 - (05.1953) Medical Specialist, Royal Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo] 12.06.1954 - 07.10.1954 Medical Specialist, HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire) 31.12.1954 - 16.01.1955 Medical Specialist, RN Barracks Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 17.01.1955 - 1955 Medical Specialist, HMS Excellent (gunnery training establishment, Whale Island, Portsmouth) (04.1955)     no appointment listed 20.06.1955 - (01.)1957 Senior Medical Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 07.1957 - 02.1958 Medical Specialist, HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire) 09.02.1958 - (01.1960) Senior Specialist in Medicine, RN Hospital Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 01.02.1961 - (03.)1963 Medical Officer in charge United Kingdom Families Medical Organization [HMS Phoenicia (RN base, Manoel Island, Malta)] 05.01.1962 - 30.06.1963 also: Honorary Physician to the Queen
Fleming, Archibald Henry Tristram   Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Dr Robert Alexander Fleming, MD, and Eleanor Mary Holland (1876-). Married Cynthia ...; two sons.	11.05.1904 Edinburgh, Scotland - 16.01.1972 The Mill House, Sutton Scotney, Winchester distrct, Hampshire	... ... Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 15.09.1925 Lt. 15.09.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1942 (retd 04.03.1950; medically unfit) A/Capt. < 10.1945 MID 21.10.1941 Operation EF	15.05.1918     commissioned, RN ... - ... ... (09.1939) - (12.1939) Fleet Air Arm [not further specified] 29.01.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys) ? - ? Commanding Officer, 700 Squadron FAA (?) 25.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (for observer duties & for Air Staff duties) (despatches) (04.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed 20.12.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (for observer duties) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 15.03.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) (10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 28.02.1945 - (10.1945) on staff of Rear Admiral Commanding 11th Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Venerable] 03.1946 - (07.1946) Director of Naval Air Radio, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Fletcher, George Maximilian Son of ... Fletcher, and ... Sealy. Married Muriel ... (predeceased him); one son, one daughter.	14.12.1916 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 08.12.2013 Eastbourne District General Hospital	... ... A/S.Lt. (E) 01.07.1939 Lt. (E) 16.08.1940 Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.08.1948 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1951 (retd 14.12.1966) OBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 1963	... - ... ... 14.09.1939 - (06.)1940 engineering course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.1940 - (06.)1942 HMS Nigeria (Fiji class cruiser) (08.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed 14.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for mechanical training establishment) ... - ... ... A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I.Mar.E
Fletcher, Leonard Bertram One of nine children of Charles Fletcher and Kate Hawkins. Married (divorced 1964; she re-married 1968); two sons.	07.08.1918 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 09.08.1981 Winscombe, Bath district, Avon	A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 1943?, seniority 01.05.1942 Lt. 16.12.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1950 (retd 07.08.1966) DSC 14.03.1944 Operation Stonewall (operations in Western Channel, 12.1943-01.1944 [investiture 09.05.1944] 34|45 St - - Atl St - & France & Germany clasp Afr St - - BWM 39|45 - - UNSM Kor - - GenSM - - Ruban de L'Amitié from the President of South Vietnam for aiding and transporting refugees from Haighon to Saigon whilst serving on HMS Warrior in 1954 (not officially recognised, so cannot be worn)	Education: RN College, Greenwich. (08.1942)     no appointment listed 19.11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Hotspur (destroyer) 30.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Diomede (cruiser) 07.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 26.03.1946 - (04.1946) Flight Deck Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 15.05.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, nr Padstow, Cornwall) 04.05.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Mauritius (cruiser) 12.07.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS Harrier (RN school of aircraft direction, Kete, Pembrokeshire) 30.07.1953 - (01.1956) HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier) (for aircraft direction duties, but 01.1956 shown as Commanding Officer)  (01.1957)     HMS Ranpura (destroyer depot ship) * [stationed at Malta, 1956-1959] (01.1959)     no appointment listed 11.05.1959 - (07.1961) Staff Movements Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake] (02.1963) - (02.1964) Department of Dockyards and Maintenance, Admiralty [HMS President] * Re-employed by the Admiralty in Bath, doing the same job but as a civil servant. Did sea trials of ocean going tugs in 1968/69. He was doing an Open University degree in Economics/Politics. He died suddenly of a heart attack when he was away at a summer school. * indexed, but not listed as such
Flynn, Francis Cyril	13.08.1894 Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire - 24.04.1975 Liss, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.01.1912 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1914 S.Lt. 15.02.1915 Lt. 15.03.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1929 Capt. 31.12.1937 (retd) 08.01.1947) Cdre. 2nd cl. 15.03.1945?	15.05.1907     entered RN ... - ... ... 22.04.1938 - (02.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (Insect class gunboat) 01.02.1940 - (05.)1940 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (additional; for miscellaneous service) 01.06.1940 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (E class cruiser) 08.1942 - (01.)1945 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 15.03.1945 - (07.1945) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Trincomalee [HMS Highflyer]
Foley *, Charles Oliver "Dick" * Changed name by deed poll of 12.09.1923 from: Oliver Charles Dickron Deodat Seropian (a.k.a. Charles Dickran Oliver Déodat Séropian). Only son (with one sister) Serope Biman Seropian (1865-1938), and Elizabeth Kathleen Foley (1864-1933), of Summer Hill, Nenagh, Ireland. Married 1st (04.07.1919, All Souls, Hampstead; divorced 1927) Hilda Marion Glanfield (21.09.1894 - 1994?), elder daughter of Sir Robert Henry Glanfield (1862-1924), and Mabel Coles Baker (1868-1929), of Eaton Avenue, London NW. Married 2nd (11.11.1928, Calcutta, India; divorced 1947) Helen Rosamund "Anna" Birch (30.05.1896 - 03.06.1985), daughter of John Henry Birch (1854-1933), and Margaret Elizabeth Dodson Wrenford (1865-1953).	15.10.1894 Renagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland - 14.11.1962 Paddington district, London	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.06.1916 A/Lt. 15.10.1917 Lt. 08.03.1919, seniority 15.12.1917 26.10.1920, seniority 15.01.1918 (retd 09.11.1922) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.01.1926 A/Cdr. (retd) > 08.1942, < 02.1943 Cdr. (retd) 11.02.1946, seniority 03.09.1945 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 24.03.1919 for devotion to duty whilst serving in the submarine-hunting flotillas of the Northern Patrol Force	08.1914     entered RN ? - (01.1919) Admiralty [HMS President] 15.10.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 10.08.1942 - 22.03.1943 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for command of RN Air Station Hastings) 22.03.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Spurwing (RN Air Station, Hastings, Sierra Leone) (04.1944)     no appointment listed 04.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, No. 14 Service Flying Training School, Aylmer, Ontario [HMS Canada] (10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
Forbes, Sir Charles Morton Second son of James Forbes, of Colombo, Ceylon, and Mount Grace, Potters Bar. Married 1st (04.03.1909, St Columba's, Church of Scotland, Pont Street, London SW) Agnes Millicent Ewen (died 1915), younger daughter of John A. Ewen, JP, of Potters Bar; one daughter, one son. Married 2nd (1921) Marie Louise Berndtson, daughter of Axel Berndtson, of Stockholm, Sweden; one daughter.	22.11.1880 Colombo, Ceylon - 28.08.1960 Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, London	Midsh. 15.07.1896 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1900 S.Lt. 28.03.1901, seniority 15.01.1900 Lt. 04.11.1901, seniority 15.01.1901 Cdr. 31.12.1912 Capt. 30.06.1917 R.Adm. 05.10.1928 V.Adm. 21.01.1933 Adm. 19.08.1936 Adm. of the Fleet 08.05.1940 (half-pay 23.08.1943) GCB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 KCB 03.06.1935 HM's birthday 1935 CB 03.06.1929 HM's birthday 1929 DSO 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland LegH ? ?	Education: Dollar Academy; Eastman's, Southsea. 15.07.1894     entered Royal Navy 11.11.1914 - 09.10.1915 Executive Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Dardanelles) 09.10.1915 - 28.11.1916 Flag Commander to Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet (and for War Staff Duties) [HMS Iron Duke (battleship)] (including Jutland) (DSO) 28.11.1916 - 10.07.1917 Flag Commander (from 30.06.1917 Captain) to Adm. Sir Charles Madden, commanding1st Battle Squadron [HMS Marlborough, then HMS Revenge] 10.07.1917 - 08.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Galatea (light cruiser) 08.1919 - 25.10.1919 on half-pay 25.10.1919 - 07.03.1921 Member, Ordnance Committee (Woolwich Arsenal) 07.03.1921 - 08.07.1921 Senior Officers' War Course [HMS President] 09.07.1921 - 01.08.1921 HMS President (for duty outside Admiralty at RN College, Greenwich) 01.08.1921 - 11.06.1923 Deputy Director of Staff College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 28.06.1923 - 20.08.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth & as Flag Captain, Mediterranean Fleet 25.10.1924 - 11.05.1925 Flag Captain, HMS Iron Duke (battleship) & Chief Staff Officer to Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Station 24.06.1925 - 23.07.1925 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty) 23.07.1925 - 23.07.1928 Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) 07.04.1928 - 05.10.1928 also: Naval ADC to the King 24.07.1928 - 01.08.1930 on half-pay 01.08.1930 - 15.12.1931 Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)] (01.1932)     no appointment listed 01.02.1932 - 01.03.1932 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty) 01.03.1932 - 23.04.1934 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy 23.04.1934 - 04.09.1936 Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Valiant, from 21.05.1934 HMS Renown (battlecruiser)] (KCB) 10.1936 - 12.1936? Senior Naval Member of the Civil Service Examination Board for Special Entry cadets (02.1937) - (02.1938) no appointment listed 03.1938 - 04.1938 Senior Naval Member of the Civil Service Examination Board for Special Entry cadets 12.04.1938 - 02.12.1940 Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship), from 01.01.1940 HMS Rodney (battleship), from 24.07.1940 HMS Nelson (battleship)] (GCB) 03.12.1940 - 30.04.1941 unemployed 01.05.1941 - 24.08.1943 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Forbes, David Noel	23.12.1916 - 29.10.1987	... ... Lt. 01.03.1938 ... ... Capt. 31.12.1958 (retd 04.03.1968) DSC 06.04.1943 ?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Dryad ... - ... ...
Forbes, Ian Dudley Stewart Youngest son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Lt.Col. James Stewart Forbes (1872-1957), and Feridah Frances Taylor (1883-1953). Married 1st (10.06.1950; divorced 1960) Lady Penelope Anne Rous (31.07.1932 - ), daughter of John Anthony Alexander Rous, 4th Earl of Stradbroke (1903-1983), and Barbara Grosvenor (1901-1977); two daughters, one son. Married 2nd (19.05.1961) Gunilla Ryman, daughter of Major Victor Ryman.	10.09.1919 - 04.08.1992 Lockerbie district, Scotland	Cadet 01.01.1937 Midsh. 01.05.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1939 S.Lt. 16.09.1939 Lt. 16.10.1940 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1948 Cdr. 30.06.1954 (retd 01.01.1966) DSC 29.01.1946 lost off Sianpeng Island 02.1942 [decoration posted] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Pac St - & clasp Burma WM 39|45 - - GenSM - & clasp SE Asia 1945-46 & clasp Palestine 1945-48 Cor M - -	Education: RN College, Dartmouth ("Hawke" Term; Admiralty No. 1307; ...-22.12.1936). ... - ... ... 01.05.1939 - (08.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.01.1940 - 30.04.1940 HMS Bittern (sloop) [ship sunk by German aircraft at Namsos] 1940 - 1940 HMS Aurora (cruiser) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 15.01.1941 - 10.12.1941 HMS Prince of Wales (battleship) [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft off east coast of Malaya] (02.1942)     no appointment listed       in command of a group of 300 sailors & assistant beach master in the defence of Singapore 14.02.1942     on passage, HMS Grasshopper (gunboat) (DSC) [ship driven ashore by Japanese aircraft off Sianpeng Island, Sumatra] 02.1942 - 02.03.1942 HMS Stronghold (destroyer) [ship sunk by Japanese surface force south of Java] 03.1942 - 08.1945 POW in Japanese captivity (Maccasar & Java) ... - ... ... Younger Brother of Trinity House.
Forbes, John Hay Son (with two brothers) of Charles Hay Forbes, and Emily Fawkus Carrall. Married (07.06.1930) Edith Sheilah De Crecy Steel, daughter of Reginald De Crecy Steel (died 07.01.1951).	28.08.1906 Streatham, Wandsworth district, London - 02.08.1940 (KIA) [age 33] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 15.09.1924 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1927 S.Lt. 01.07.1927 Lt. 01.07.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1937 DSO 09.05.1940 successful submarine operations against the enemy [decoration presented to next-of-kin]	15.09.1924 - (05.)1926 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (qualified as interpreter in French 06.1927) 16.04.1928 - (06.1928) submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 15.04.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS X 1 (submarine) (Mediterranean) 01.09.1930 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS H 31 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Alecto] 26.04.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 22.04.1932 - (05.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS L 21 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia] (06.1933)     no appointment listed 10.1933 - (02.)1935 First Lieutenant, HMS Phoenix (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (07.1935)     no appointment listed 14.12.1935 - 17.04.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS dolphin] 13.05.1937 - (09.1939) staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Drake] 12.09.1939 spare Commanding Officer for submarines 22.12.1939 spare Commanding Officer for submarines 31.01.1940 - 02.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Spearfish (submarine) [ship sunk by U-34 off Norway]
Ford, Derek Rowland	30.01.1922 - 08.12.2015	... ... Lt. 16.11.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1951 (retd 30.01.1962) MBE 10.06.1961 ? DSC 26.12.1944 ?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1936-1940). ... - ... ... ? - (10.1945) HMS Glasgow ... - ... ...
Ford, Sir Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Son of late Major C.W. Randle Ford, Bath. Married (04.10.1924) Violet, daughter of G. Hurry; two sons.	19.01.1880 St Helier, Jersey - 16.01.1964	Midsh. 15.09.1896 S.Lt. 15.03.1900 Lt. 26.06.1902 Cdr. 31.12.1914 Capt. 31.12.1920 R.Adm. 02.11.1932 V.Adm. 29.05.1937 Adm. 31.12.1941 (retd 30.06.1944) KCB 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 CB 04.06.1934 HM's birthday 1934 KBE 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940	15.01.1894     entered RN 01.09.1922 - (08.1923) Commanding Officer, HMS Diligence 23.10.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Calliope (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 29.03.1926 - 04.04.1926 Admiralty [HMS President] 05.04.1926 - (05.)1926 Director of Physical Training and Sports, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.05.1927 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) & Captain-in-Charge, Harwich 08.05.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 20.06.1930 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, Navigation School [HMS Dryad] (09.1932)     no appointment listed 24.04.1933 - (06.1933) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth (01.1934)     no appointment listed 19.04.1934 - (02.)1936 Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMS Canberra] 26.01.1937 - 01.01.1942 Vice-Admiral-in-Charge, Malta & Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo] 15.04.1942 - 03.05.1942 Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] 01.06.1942 - 31.05.1944 Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] 01.06.1944 - 30.06.1944 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
Fordyce *, John   Son of ... Fordyce, and ... Wall. Married Margaret Mary Frosr (1932 - ); ... children (one son?). * also known as: Dingwall-Fordyce, John Hall	03.12.1921 Steyning district, Hampshire - 03.02.1978 Farm Bultfontein, Krygersdorp district, South Africa	Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.04.1941 Lt. 16.12.1942 (retd 05.06.1945)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.05.1939 - 25.08.1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)  26.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) 04.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Somali (destroyer) 15.07.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Farndale (destroyer) (04.1944) - (06.1945) no appointment listed
Forman, Archibald George	20.06.1910 Brentford district, Middlesex - 26.04.1967 Salisbury district, Wiltshire	... ... S.Lt. 01.06.1931 Lt. 01.01.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1943 Capt. 30.06.1950 (retd 07.07.1959) CBE 02.06.1962 HM's birthday 1962: Ghana Navy [investiture 18.07.1962] DSC 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete [investiture 01.05.1945] DSC 28.09.1943 capture of Pantellaria & Lampedusa 06.1943 [investiture 01.05.1945] DSC 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche [investiture 01.05.1945] MID 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 1941 MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... 20.03.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Kingston (K class destroyer) (DSC, despatches) (04.1941) - (08.1941) no appointment listed 18.09.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Middleton (Hunt class destroyer) 08.10.1941 - 16.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Airedale (Hunt (Class III) class destroyer) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 01.08.1942 - 07.03.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Lookout (L class destroyer) (Bar to DSC, Second Bar to DSC, despatches) ... - ... ... 05.09.1945 - 1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Garth (escort destroyer) ... - ... ...
Forrest, Donald Alexander Son of Harry Alexander & Marjorie Forrest. Married; three sons.	04.06.1917 Orsett district, Essex - 24.11.2016 Ashchurch View Care Home, nr. Chichester	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. 1939?, seniority 01.05.1938 Lt. 16.05.1939 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1947 (retd 21.01.1957)	01.01.1935 - 31.12.1935 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 02.05.1938 - (10.1938) promotion course, Portsmouth 21.01.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Inglefield (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 30.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Rosemary (sloop) 18.12.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Silverton (destroyer) 01.09.1941 - (12.1941) qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Mercury] 05.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Resolution (battleship) (for signal duties) (06.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Ranchi (troopship under the Ministry of War Transport) * 12.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Flag Officer Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Ceylon)] 15.12.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal and radar establishment) 17.10.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Theseus (aircraft carrier) 04.01.1951 - (05.1953) Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 17.02.1954 - (04.)1955 Staff Communications Officer on staff of Senior Naval Officer Northern Ireland [HMS Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school, Londonderry)] 20.06.1955 - (01.1957) HMS Mercury (signal school, East Meon, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) * indexed, but not listed as such
Forrest, [Sir] Ronald Stephen Son of Stephen Forrest, MD, and Maud M. McKinstry. Married 1st (06.09.1947) Patricia (died 1966), eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs E.N. Russell; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (1967) June (née Weaver) (? - 15.09.2012), widow of Lieut G. Perks, RN; one step son, one step daughter.	11.01.1923 - 25.03.2005 Stockland, near Honiton, Exeter district, Devon	Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 16.06.1942 Lt. 16.12.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1951 Cdr. 1955 Capt. 1963 R.Adm. 07.01.1973 (retd 1975) KCVO 14.06.1975 Defence Services Secretary [investiture 22.07.1975] MID 31.10.1944 Operation Crimson (air strike & bombardment of Sabang 25.07.1944)	Education: Belhaven Hill; RN College, Dartmouth 01.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS York (cruiser) 14.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 01.05.1942 - (08.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 08.09.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Quilliam (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 14.11.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Active (destroyer) 12.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Carnarvon Bay ... - ... ... 1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Tozer 1958 - 1960 on loan to Pakistan Navy 1963 Joint Services Staff College 1964 Chief Staff Officer to Admiral Commanding Reserves 1966 commanded Dartmouth Training Squadron 1968 Director, Seaman Officers Appointments, Admiralty 1970 Commanding Officer, HMS London 1972 - 1975 Defence Services Secretary President, Devon Co. Agricultural Association, 1990-1991. County Commissioner, St John Ambulance Brigade, Devon, 1976-1981, Commander, 1981-1987. Naval General Service Medal, 1949. KStJ 1987 (CStJ 1983). JP Honiton, 1978; DL Devon, 1985. Chevalier, Ordre du Mérite Agricole (France), 1990.
Forrester, Henry	11.10.1887 - 09.03.1972	A/S.Lt. 30.09.1907? S.Lt. 11.04.1908, seniority 30.09.1907 Lt. 01.04.1910 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1918 (retd 02.02.1920; own request) Cdr. (retd) 11.10.1927 (reactivated 1939/40?) A/Capt. (retd) 13.04.1943? (reverted to retd < 10.1943) DSC 25.07.1916 Auxiliary Patrol  ("Carried out dangerous patrol duties with marked ability") MID 26.04.1918 operations on the Belgian coast CdeG 17.05.1918 ? Aviz 04.02.1921 ? DefM ? ? BWM 39|45 ? ?	15.01.1903     entered RN World War I Auxiliary Patrol (04.1940) no appointment listed 04.12.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) 26.06.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) 13.04.1943 - (08.1943) Chief Staff Officer (A) to Commodore (D) Western Approaches [HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)]
Forsberg, Charles Gerald "Gerry" Son of Charles G. Forsberg (1860-1913), and Nellie Wallman (1872-1949). Married ((06?).1952, Lancaster district, Lancashire) Joyce Whewell Hogarth (25.08.1918 - 15.06.1987), daughter of Frederick W. Hogarth (1881-1976), and Tessa Shakeshaf; two children.	18.06.1912 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 24.10.2000 Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 11.04.1938 S.Lt. RNR 30.08.1938, seniority 11.04.1938 Prob. S.Lt. 26.09.1938 S.Lt. 16.08.1939, seniority 26.09.1938 Lt. 07.1940, seniority 18.06.1936 Lt.Cdr. 08.11.1943, seniority 18.06.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1951 (retd 18.12.1962) OBE 01.01.1955 New Year 1955 [investiture 15.03.1955] MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945	(12.1938) - (06.1939) no appointment listed 12.06.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 25.06.1940 - (07.)1940 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 17.07.1940 - (08.)1942 HMS Hotspur (H class destroyer) (10.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Hotspur (H class destroyer) * (02.1943)     no appointment listed 31.03.1943 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Vega (V class destroyer) (despatches) (10.1945)     HMS Marmeluke * (04.1946)     HMS Marne * ... - ... ... 11.01.1953 - (01.1954) Staff of Flag Officer Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (OBE) ... - ... ... Renowned long-distance swimmer (swimming the Channel between England and France in 1957 in a record time of 13 hrs., 33 min.). Published: Long distance swimming (1957); First strokes in swimming (1961); Modern long distance swimming (1963); Salvage from the sea (1977); Brown's pocket-book for seamen (1981). * indexed, but not listed as such
Forster, Herbert Acheson	20.06.1885 Andover district, Hampshire - 12.02.1975 Barton Stacey, Winchester district, Hampshire	... ... Capt. 30.06.1926 R.Adm. 30.05.1937 (retd 1937) MVO 1925 ?	... - ... ... 1939 - 1942 Commanding Officer, HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Isle of Man 1942 - 1945 Naval Attaché, British Embassy, Buenos Aires (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Foster, David John Lisle "Tim" Son (with one brother and one sister) of Edward Hugh Lisle Foster (1881-1959), and Sylvia Margaret Kemp (1880-1946). Married ((03?).1958, Kensington district, London) Joan Russell (1920-), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of Hugh Sunderland Russell (1883-1961), and Christiana Maria Zierold (1884-1950).	(12?).1914 Bedford district, Bedfordshire - 22.04.2011 Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice, Farnham, Surrey	Cadet (E) 01.09.1932 Midsh. (E) 01.09.1933 S.Lt. (E) 1936?, seniority 01.11.1935 Lt. (E) 01.06.1937 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.06.1945 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1949 (retd 23.04.1962) DSC 23.09.1941 war patrols 06-07.1941 [investiture 17.02.1942] DSC 19.12.1944 war patrols in Malacca Straits [investiture 18.05.1945] MID 20.12.1940 sinking Italian submarine & trawler	... - ... ... 25.02.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 27.11.1939 - (02.)1940 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 12.02.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (and for service with submarines) 18.09.1940 - 20.01.1942 HMS Tigris (submarine) (DSC, despatches) 26.01.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines) 10.10.1942 - 08.04.1945 HMS Templar (submarine) (Bar to DSC) 15.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Alderney (submarine) 21.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines) ... - ... ... FIMechE, FIMarEST.
Foster, Francis Henry "Pinto" Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Henry Cotes Foster (1871-1953), and Helen Forbes-Robertson (1876-). Married ((03?).1955, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Joyce M. Hobbs (1916 - ); one daughter.	06.06.1916 Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire - 23.12.1974 RN Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon	Cadet 01.09.1933 Midsh. 01.05.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 16.01.1937 Lt. 01.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 (retd 20.06.1953) MID 22.09.1942 Operation Harpoon MID 27.04.1943 convoy JW51B 12.1942 ? PatrW 11.04.1944 Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (USSR): services to the USSR [award posted]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.09.1933 - (01.1934) cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 03.05.1934 - (07.1934) HMS Achilles (cruiser) 12.01.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies) 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 04.09.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Bulldog (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 01.1939 - (02.)1939 HMS Vanoc (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 07.03.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) 14.01.1941 - (02.1941) HMS Encounter (destroyer) (12.1941)     signals course, HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) * 11.04.1942 - (12.1942) Signal Officer, HMS Onslow (destroyer) 12.01.1943 - (12.1943) Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron & Squadron Signal & W/T Officer [HMS Belfast] 24.03.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) 23.10.1944 - (04.1946) Communications Officer, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Cook] 23.04.1947 - (07.1948) Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves 14.02.1949 - (05.1950) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (05.1953)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Foster, James Paul	07.11.1916 - 26.07.1969 St Pancras district, London	... ... S.Lt. 07.06.1938 Lt. 23.09.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 15.01.1945? Lt.Cdr. 23.09.1947 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd)	... - ... ... 22.06.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Bramble (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla) 1939 - (12.1939) HMS Hebe (minesweeper) 28.02.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Galatea (cruiser) 08.01.1941 - (02.1941) HMS Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Fort William) (12.1941) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (POW?, wounded?) 15.01.1945 - (07.1945) observer, HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland) ... - ... ...
Foster, Roy Bowmaker Son of Harold T. Foster, and Charlotte A. Bowmaker. Married ((06?).1945, Birkenhead district, Cheshire) Annie Nancy Cowgill; ... children (one son?).	16.05.1920 Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear - 20.01.2014	Cadet 01.09.1937 Midsh. 01.09.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1940 S.Lt. 01.10.1939 Lt. 16.04.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1949 (retd 14.06.1958) DSC 15.09.1942 4 Mediterranean war patrols, some destroyers etc. sunk [investiture 01.12.1942]] MID 09.10.1941 patrols Mediterranean, Italian destroyer & 2 tankers sunk	01.09.1937 - 31.08.1938 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 01.05.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 06.05.1940 - (06.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (08.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) * 28.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Elfin (base for 6th Submarine Flotilla, Blyth) (for submarines) 22.02.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, St Johns, Newfoundland) 01.04.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Torbay (T class submarine) (despatches) 22.03.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Turbulent (T class submarine) (DSC) 27.11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS H 50 (H class submarine) (04.1943) - (02.1944) HMS P 512 (R-1 class submarine) * (04.1944) - (06.)1944 submarine Commanding Officer's course 06.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Stockham (Captain class frigate) (04.)1945 - (07.)1945 specialist navigation course [HMS Dryad] 09.1945 - (03.)1946 Navigating Officer, HMS Guardian (net layer) 03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Manxman (minelayer) 09.03.1948 - (07.1948) Navigating Officer, HMS Mull of Kintyre 01.03.1949 - 18.04.1949 HMAS Cerberus II (additional; for passage to Australia per "Orcades") [on loan to RAN; exchange officer] 18.04.1949 - 02.1951 HMAS Cerberus (for quartermasters' school) [on loan to RAN; exchange officer] 02.1951 - 06.1951 HMAS Cerberus (for charge of petty officers' school) [on loan to RAN; exchange officer] 06.1951 - 04.07.1951 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per "Oronsay") [on loan to RAN; exchange officer] 25.09.1951 - (05.1952) HMS Euryalus 03.1953 - (05.)1953 HMS Bermuda 19.10.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) (04.1955)     HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) * 24.04.1955 - 14.08.1956 HMS Ocean 15.08.1956 - (01.1957) Staff Navigation Officer & Staff Officer Operations on staff of Flag Officer, Training Squadron, Home fleet [HMS Ocean]
Fothergill, Christopher Henry Son of Capt. Henry Maclean Fothergill, RN (1881-1963), and Lucie Bouverie-Pusey. Married (06.02.1965) Linda Kathleen Browne, daughter of Claude Henry Browne and Vera Cecilia von Gratzy; two sons.	15.10.1921 St Marylebone district, London - 21.02.2014 Chobham, Surrey	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 16.08.1941 Lt. 16.02.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1951 Cdr. 30.06.1959 (retd) MID 15.09.1942 rescue of 36 men from Ind. Hall	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1939 - (08.)1939 cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 25.09.1941 - (01.)1943 HMS Witch (destroyer) 25.11.1943 - 30.12.1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, NJ, USA) (miscellaneous [for commissioning of HMS Thornborough]) 31.12.1943 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Thornborough (frigate) (07.1945) no appointment listed 15.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Triumph (aircraft carrier) ... - ... ... 1959 - 1960 Commanding Officer, HMS Carysfort
Fothergill, Henry Maclean Son (with five sisters and one brother) of Lt.Col. Charles William Fothergill (1838-1903), and Edith Kathleen Maclean (1847-1939). Married (18.12.1920) Lucy Bouverie-Pusey (1889? - 08.10.1966), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Capt. Edward Bouverie-Pusey, RN (1838-1921), and Esther Elliott Cox Hales (1847-1927); one son (Cdr. Christopher Henry Fothergill, RN).	25.11.1881 Storrington, Thakeham district, Sussex - 31.10.1963 Midhurst, Sussex	Midsh. 15.01.1898 S.Lt. 16.07.1901 Lt. 30.09.1903 Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1911 A/Cdr. 17.02.1917 Cdr. 30.06.1917 (retd 01.01.1923; own request) Capt. (retd) 25.11.1926 (reactivated 22.08.1939) (reverted to retd 01.10.1941) (reactivated 06.08.1942) (reverted to retd 30.10.1945) StAnne 1917 Battle of Jutland 05.1916 ChM 00 ? ? 14|15 St ? ? BWM 14|20 ? ? VM ? ? DefM ? ? WM 39|45 ? ?	15.01.1896     entered RN ... - ... ... 15.09.1897 - 25.05.1901 HMS Undaunted (Orlando class cruiser) (China Station) ... - ... ... 20.05.1914 - 06.1914 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for trials of HMS Kale (torpedo-boat destroyer)) 02.06.1914 - 01.11.1920 HMS Marlborough (dreadnought battleship) 17.12.1920 - 02.1921 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for unpaid time) 01.03.1921 - 03.1922 HMS Crescent (depot ship, Scapa Flow) 13.03.1922 - 06.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for technical course) 26.06.1922 - 01.01.1923 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unpaid time until discharge) 28.09.1938 - 26.10.1938 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (additional; for Naval Control Service at Haifa) 22.08.1939 - 01.01.1940 Consular Shipping Adviser (Naval Control Service duties) at Para (Brazil?) 02.01.1940 - 01.07.1941 Consular Shipping Adviser (Naval Control Service duties) at Santos, Brazil 01.07.1941 - 30.09.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional) 06.08.1942 - 30.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Racer (minesweepers & anti-submarine base, Larne, Co. Antrim) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Larne 06.07.1945 - 29.10.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for discharge; 04.09.1945 indicated as to be released Class A from 29.10.1945)
Foulerton, Alexander Barclay Blood Son of Alexander Grant Russell Foulerton, OBE, FRCS, DPH (1863-1931), and Jessie Blanche Wakeley (1866-?).	04.03.1901 Paddington district, London - 28.03.1968 Haslemere, Surrey	Midsh. 15.08.1917 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.01.1921 Lt. 15.08.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1930 (retd 04.03.1946) Cdr. (retd) 04.03.1946	? - (01.1919) HMS Colossus (battleship) 02.07.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Flinders (surveying vessel) 27.04.1925 - 30.07.1927 temporary commission, RAF as Flying Officer 06.04.1926 - 31.08.1926 pilot,No. 405 Flight [HMS Columbine (RN base. Port Edgar)] 01.09.1926 - (07.)1927 pilot, No. 405 Flight FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] (Atlantic Fleet) 14.12.1927 - (04.)1930 HMS Iroquois (suveying vessel) (China) (08.1930)     no appointment listed 15.09.1930     HMS President (for course in meteorology at Air Ministry) 11.10.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Beaufort (surveying vessel) (in lieu of a specialist Navigating Officer) 18.12.1931 - (01.)1934 HMS Herald (surveying vessel) (China) (in lieu of a specialist Navigating Officer) (07.1934) - (08.1934) no appointment listed 27.11.1934 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, HMS Fitzroy (surveying vessel) 30.03.1936 - (01.)1937 Executive Officer, HMS Challenger (surveying vessel) 14.01.1937 - (08.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Kellett (surveying ship) 29.08.1938 - 04.03.1946 a Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] Estate bailiff.
Fovargue, Stephen John From Portsmouth.	25.05.1917 Bradfield district, Hampshire - 17.01.1999 Torridge, Devon	A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 29.04.1940, seniority 01.01.1939 Lt. 06.1940, seniority 01.11.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1947 (retd 30.03.1959) MID 08.02.1944 war patrols Mediterranean KW 21.10.1941 as liaison officer ORP Wilk	29.09.1938 - 27.08.1939 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 28.08.1939 - (09.1939) promotion course, Portsmouth 03.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Esk (destroyer) ? - 24.10.1940 British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Wilk (Polish submarine) 24.10.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Trident (submarine) 19.02.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Olympus 04.06.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Oberon (submarine) * 22.02.1943 - (08.1943) HMS P 53, renamed: HMS Ultor (submarine) [indicated as highest officer aboard, so probably in command; possibly succeeded as such by Lt.G.E. Hunt, RN] (10.1943) Submarine Commanding Officers' course 22.11.1943 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Varangian (submarine) 15.05.1944 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Virulent (submarine) 19.03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines; later for depot and for duty with submarines) 14.11.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Triumph (05.1949) no appointment listed (05.1950) HMS Terror ** 07.08.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for miscellaneous duties) 17.08.1954 - (01.1956) staff, Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake] * (02.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Fowke, Michael Gustavus Son of Frederick Ferrers Conant Fowke, and Edith Frances Rawdon. Married (15.02.1943) Esmé Muriel Fitz-Gibbon (31.05.1904 - 11.1994), youngest daughter of Philip John Fitz-Gibbon (1859-1928), and Ruth Mary Hearn, and divorced wife of Cdr., later R.Adm. Clarence Dinsmore Howard-Johnston, CB, DSO, DSC, RN (1903-1996).	17.04.1919 St Marylebone district, London - 08.04.1977 Bishops Towton, Barnstaple, Devon	Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 01.05.1939 Lt. 16.07.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1954 (retd 01.02.1963; own request) MID 06.01.1942 attack on enemy convoy 02.11.1941 MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations Sept-Nov 1943	01.01.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.02.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.01.1939 - (04.1939) promotion course, Portsmouth 31.07.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Wanderer (destroyer) 12.10.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MASB 53 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)] (11.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 42 (motor gun boat) 30.12.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Pathfinder (destroyer) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Wakeful (destroyer) 03.08.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Howe 12.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Chameleon (01.1956) HMS President * 30.01.1961 - (07.1961) Naval Equipment Division, Ship Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Fowke, Thomas Randal	16.04.1907 York, Yorkshire - 23.09.2003 Shrewsbury, Shropshire	A/S.Lt. RNR 16.04.1928 S.Lt. RNR 02.11.1929 Lt. RNR 11.02.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 30.03.1937, seniority 16.04.1931 Lt. 1938?, seniority 16.04.1931 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1939 (retd 16.04.1952) A/Cdr. 07.1945?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. 15.06.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 03.08.1937 - (08.1938) HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) 09.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Folkestone (escort vessel) (China) 21.08.1939 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Saltash (minesweeper) 07.10.1941 - (10.1943) HMS Resolution (battleship) 11.1943 - (06.1944) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 09.10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Wave (minesweeper) 07.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) (05.1950) HMS Abercrombie * * indexed, but not listed as such
Fowler, John Harry Married Joy Spencer Mcleod Venables (28.04.1921 - 28.02.1995); four daughters.	11.07.1919 - 25.12.1999 Dunfermline Burgh, Fife, Scotland	Midsh. RNR 01.12.1935 A/S.Lt. RNR 21.03.1938 S.Lt. 15.08.1938 Lt. 15.12.1939 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1947 (retd 28.02.1958)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... 13.05.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Matabele (destroyer) 02.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Valiant (battleship) 13.09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry (large)) 20.10.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Ramillies (battleship) 16.05.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Montgomery (destroyer) (01.1945) - (04.1945) no appointment listed 10.04.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) ... - ... ...
Fowler, Richard Edmond John Married (11.10.1924, Stockport district, Cheshire) Elsie Emily Ada Lambe (21.03.1901 - 08.1991), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of Edward George Lambe (1869-1958), and Susan Elizabeth Gregory (1870-1959); ... children (two sons?).	17.07.1893 Romney Marsh, Kent - 10.11.1967 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Boy 2nd Class 14.01.1909 [Po/J.3288] Boy 1st Class 03.07.1909 Ordinary Seaman 17.07.1911 Able Seaman 17.10.1912 Leading Seaman 01.11.1915 Petty Officer 01.03.1918 A/Gnr. 28.09.1918 Gnr. 1920, seniority 22.06.1918 Cd.Gnr. 22.06.1928 Lt. 10.05.1940, seniority 01.01.1940 (retd 17.07.1943; age) (reverted to retd 07.02.1946) MBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 [investiture 22.09.1944]	... - ... ... 09.01.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Harwich, Essex) 07.03.1927 - (02.1929) HMS Marazion (twin-screw minesweeper) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China) 18.03.1930 - (02.)1932 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) 31.03.1932 - (01.1933) HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (2nd Submarine Flotilla, Home Fleet) 22.05.1934 - (10.1935) HMS Emerald (cruiser) (4th Cruiser Squadron, East Indies) 07.06.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 25.10.1937 - (02.)1939 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.03.1939 - (12.1939) HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) 01.01.1940 - (04.)1945 HMS King George V (King George V class battleship) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Fox, Francis John Scott   Son (with one sister and one brother) of His Honour John Scott Fox, KC (1852-1918), judge, and Agnes Maria Theresa Hammer (1878-1952). Married (09.08.1930, Plympton district, Devonshire) Cecily Rose "Bunty" Woollcombe (20.03.1906 - 15.12.1991), only daughter (with two brothers) of V.Adm. Louis Charles Sterling Woollcombe, CB, MVO, DL (1872-1951), and Constance Perry-Circuitt (1883-1964); two daughters.	(03?).1904 Kensington district, London - 02.02.1948 Newlands, Wynberg, District Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (formerly of Horsham, Sussex)	Midsh. (E) 15.05.1922 A/S.Lt. (E) 15.09.1924 S.Lt. (E) 30.04.1925 Lt. (E) 30.06.1927 Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.06.1935 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1939 (retd 04.11.1942)	... - ... ... 04.08.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Zulu (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (12.1939)     no appointment listed 09.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Abdiel (Manxman class minelayer) (04.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
Fox, Hubert Cornish Son of Gerald Fox (1865-1947), and Beatrice ffoulkes Cornish-Bowden (born 1878). Cousin of Cdr. (S) William Karslake Cornish-Bowden, RN, Lt. Edward John Cornish-Bowden, RN, and T/Lt. (E) John Ambrose Cornish-Bowden, RNVR. Remained unmarried .	22.12.1911 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 03.02.2000 Buckfastleigh, Devon	Cadet 01.05.1929 Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 01.11.1932 Lt. 01.08.1934 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1942 (retd 1946) MID 14.11.1944 Force G, Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	27.04.1929 - (01.)1932 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean & Atlantic Fleet) 01.05.1932 - 05.02.1933 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.02.1933 - (06.)1933 promotion course, Portsmouth 10.10.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Danae (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 17.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 25.02.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Gallant (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 01.11.1937 - (06.)1938 HMS Gallant (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 02.09.1938 - (10.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 03.12.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) 22.08.1939 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Boadicea (destroyer) (10.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     no appointment listed 19.10.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Javelin (destroyer) 08.03.1942 - (02.)1943 on staff of Flag Officer Commanding West Africa [HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)] 01.06.1943 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Ariadne (minelayer) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (held some [unlisted] appointment in Force G for Operation Neptune, the invasion of Normandy) 08.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) 18.10.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Ness (frigate) 04.06.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Ulster Published: Marion Fox : quaker; a selection of her letters (ed.; 1951); Quaker Homespun. The life of Thomas Fox of Wellington, serge maker and banker, 1747-1821 (1958); Mabel Cornish - tribute to a nanny (1980; privately printed); African impressions : the author’s visits to West Africa in 1942, East Africa in 1962, South Africa and Swaziland in 1969 and East Africa again in 1974 : including the Universities Mission to Central Africa (1995); Quaker broadcloth : the story of Joseph and Mariana Fox and the cousinry at Wellington (1995); Spiceland Friends Meeting House : its historical background (1995); Woven from stone : the story of the Quantock weavers (1995); The story of William Cookworthy : maker of porcelain and man of peace (1995); Man of the sea : Vere Wight-Boycott (1995); Letters from sea (1996; autobiographical letters, 1929-1946)
Fox, Noel Louis Son of Charles J. Fox (1895-1964), and Maud Raphael "Mathilde Marie" Collingridge (1874-1963).	26.12.1911 Balmain, New South Wales, Australia - 06.01.1981 Narara, New South Wales, Australia	Sg.Lt. 19.09.1939 07.1940, seniority 19.09.1938 A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 31.08.1942? * Sg.Lt.Cdr. ? (emgcy) MID 16.08.1940 HMS Mosquito, Dunkirk * still 12.1943, no longer 04.1944	Education: MB; BS 1936 (BCh) 19.09.1939 joined the RN when he was undertaking postgraduate studies in England; entered for short service (04.1940) no appointment listed ? - 01.06.1940 HMS Mosquito (river gunboat) (sunk off Dunkirk) 12.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Vanity (North Sea) 05.09.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Port Edgar) 31.08.1942 - (10.1943) HMS President (for special & miscellaneous services) * (04.1944) - (06.1944) Royal Marine Infantry Training Centre, Lympstone 03.1945 - (07.1945) Royal Marine TB [= Training Barracks?], Sydney, NSW, Australia [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)] (04.1946) no appointment listed * (12.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Fox-Pitt, Thomas Stanley Lane Son of William Augustus Lane Fox-Pitt, and Lily Ethel Payne. Married (1930) Marjory Hope Barton; at least one daughter.	27.10.1897 * Chelsea, Greater London - 15.10.1985 Okehampton, Devon * 27.11.1897 according to Admiralty records	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.05.1917 A/Lt. ? Lt. 29.05.1920, seniority 15.12.1918 (retd 03.11.1922; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.12.1926 A/Cdr. (retd) ± 10.1943 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 14.11.1944 salvage U-852 BPeila 05.1944	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (1909-1911) & Dartford (1911-1914) 09.1910     entered RN 1914 - 1922 served RN joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Northern Rhodesia in 1927, stationed at Balovale, then part of Barotseland, as a cadet in 1928 and appointed District Officer in 1930 ? - (03.)1940 HMS Afrikander VII (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) 13.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) 30.07.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Atmah (armed yacht) 03.08.1942 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Burwell (destroyer) 20.10.1942 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Landguard (escort) & from ± 10.1943 as Senior Officer Escort Group (04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) * (07.1945) HMS Gombroon (RN base, Hombruz, Persian Gulf) * Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. * indexed, but not listed as such
Frame, Charles Stephen Son of James Thomas Frame, Regimental Sergeant-Major Royal Horse Artillery, and Mary Williams, nurse. Married (01.04.1939) Eda Cook, dental receptionist; two sons.	26.12.1911 Woolwich district, London - 21.10.1994 Penzance district, Cornwall	A/Boatsw. 22.02.1939 Boatsw. 1940?, seniority 22.02.1939 A/Cd.Boatsw. 18.06.1945 Cd. Boatsw. = Sen.Cd.Boatsw. 01.10.1947 Lt. (Special Duties) 01.04.1951? Lt.Cdr. (SD) 01.04.1959 (retd 26.12.1961)	(04.1939)     no appointment listed 25.04.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Bandit (tug) 04.08.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Mastiff (trawler, fishery protection) (12.1939)     no appointment listed 28.12.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich) (02.1942) - (06.1944) HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) * (10.1944)     no appointment listed 30.11.1944 - (05.1946) HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier) ... - ... ...
Frame, William	06.04.1897 Colchester, Essex - 29.01.1952 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Boy Artificer 04.01.1913 [M5574] Engine Room Artificer 5th class 01.01.1917 A/Engine Room Artificer 4th class 01.11.1917 Engine Room Artificer 4th class 01.11.1918 Engine Room Artificer 3rd class 01.11.1920 Engine Room Artificer 2nd class 01.11.1924 Wt.Eng. 01.10.1928 Cd.Eng. 01.10.1938 (retd > 04.1947, < 04.1947) A/Lt. (E) > 10.1943, < 12.1943	04.01.1913 - 03.01.1917 HMS Fisgard (depot for training boy artificers, Portsmouth) 04.01.1917 - 23.01.1917 HMS Victory II (accounting section, Portsmouth 24.01.1917 - 30.01.1918 HMS St Vincent (battleship) 31.01.1918 - 03.03.1918 HMS Victory II (accounting section, Portsmouth) 04.03.1918 - 07.10.1919 HMS Topaze (light cruiser) 08.10.1919 - 04.12.1919 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.12.1919 - 29.11.1920 HMS Lupin (sloop) 30.11.1920 - 09.12.1920 HMS Victory II (accounting section, Portsmouth) 10.12.1920 - 04.05.1922 HM PC 73 (patrol boat) [tender to HMS Gibraltar (cruiser)] 05.05.1922 - 09.05.1922 HMS Victory II (accounting section, Portsmouth) 10.05.1922 - 25.05.1922 HMS Fisgard (depot for training boy artificers, Portsmouth) 26.05.1922 - 04.01.1925 HMS Lucia (depot ship 2nd Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) 05.01.1925 - 11.03.1927 HMS Fisgard (depot for training boy artificers, Portsmouth) 12.03.1927 - 28.04.1928 Aden W/T Station [HMS Effingham II (RN base, Ceylon)] 29.04.1928 - 02.07.1928 HMS Victory II (accounting section, Portsmouth) 03.07.1928 - 30.09.1928 HMS Champion (cruiser) 12.1928 - (10.1930) HMS Malaya (battleship) (01.1931) - (02.1931) no appointment listed (03.1931)     short course of instruction 09.03.1931 - (09.)1932 HMS Colombo (cruiser) (01.1933)   ... no appointment listed 10.01.1933 - 18.12.1934 HM P 40 (patrol boat, 1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 25.12.1934 - 20.07.1937 HMS Lupin (escort vessel, fishery protection) (09.1937) - (01.1938) no appointment listed 03.01.1938 - (04.)1941 HMS Westminster (W class destroyer) (06.1941)     no appointment listed 27.06.1941 - (04.)1944 HMS Belvoir (Hunt class destroyer) (06.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 08.03.1945 - 25.06.1945 HMS Talybont (Hunt class destroyer) (07.1945)     HMS Talybont (Hunt class destroyer) * 25.07.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Ashanti (Tribal class destroyer) 19.12.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Queensferry (Reserve Fleet Forth Area Parent Ship, Rosyth) 16.12.1946 - (04.1947) HMS Duncansby Head (escort vessel maintenance ship, Chatham) * indexed, but not listed as such
France, Charles Clement Son of Charles France, labourer [according to marriage certificate], and Eliza Alice France (1869?-1886), domestic servant [according to birth certificate, where no father is given]. Married (20.11.1910, St Philip The Apostle (Mission) Church, Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire) Lucy McDermott (1888-), daughter of Hugh McDermott, plasterer; two sons, one daughter.	04.01.1886 West Tadcaster, West Riding of Yorkshire - 28.11.1949 General Hospital, Staincliffe, Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire	Ord.Sea. 24.05.1904 [SS 552, from 07.02.1907 ON 238487] AB Sea. 10.09.1906 Tel. 20.11.1907 Ldg.Tel. 10.06.1908 PO Tel. 02.10.1910 A/Wt.Tel. 20.07.1917 Wt.Tel. 06.08.1918, seniority 20.07.1917 Cd.Tel. 20.07.1927 Tel.Lt. 23.08.1934 (retd 04.01.1936) Tel.Lt.Cdr. (retd) 23.08.1942 (dispersed 05.03.1946) (reld 10.05.1946) (reverted to retd 11.05.1946) MBE 01.01.1936 New Year 1936 DSM 02.11.1917 for services in submarines in enemy waters 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Afr St - - DefM - - WM 39|45 - - Jub M 35 - -	Entered the Navy 24.05.1904. He was a telegraphy specialist. Was serving in Vernon on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, but transferred to the submarine service in the following year (06.09.1915). And on 10.03.1917, he joined HMS K. 2. From July 1917 until March 1919, France served in the 13th Submarine Flotilla’s HMS Crescent. During the inter-war period he served aboard several battleships and cruisers but was also attached to the Titania, depot ship for the 4th Submarine Flotilla on the China station, during the China Emergency in 1927. Appointed to British Postal Service as wireless operator, 12.1935. 28.09.1938 - 04.10.1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for signal school; for ship fitting duties) 29.08.1939 - 12.10.1942 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) (for wireless telegraphy fitting out duties) [04.09.1939-17.09.1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for refresher course)] 13.10.1942 - 26.10.1942 HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) (additional) 27.10.1942 - 1945 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties: from ... 1942 for charge of Rinella Wireless Telegraphy Station) 1945 - 15.07.1945 HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) (additional; for passage to UK & foreign service leave) 16.07.1945 - 01.02.1946 HMS Royal Albert (RN base, Berlin) (from 15.08.1945 on staff of Naval Party 1738, for control duties) 01.02.1946 - 05.03.1946 HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield) (additional; not to join)
Francis, George Frank	26.04.1903 Alton district, Hampshire - 12.05.1996 Huntingdon district, Huntingdonshire	Mne. ? 27.04.1918 [20626] Seaman ? [P/MX 47102] Shipwr. 1st cl. ? T/A/Wt.Shipwr. 11.04.1943 T/Wt.Shipwr. 1944?, seniority 11.04.1943 T/A/Cd.Shipwr. < 04.1946 DSM 26.09.1940 Narvik 04-06.1940 [investiture 13.03.41]	27.04.1918     joined Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) (08.1942) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for service at Bari) 05.02.1946 - (04.1946) Craft and Amphibious Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Francis, Philip Stewart   Married (1939) Ruth Elinor Stewart (née ...) (died 1994); one daughter (died 1971). obituaries	08.04.1908 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire - 17.09.2000 Yeovil, Somerset	Cadet 15.09.1925 Midsh. 15.05.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1928 S.Lt. 16.04.1929 Lt. 16.06.1931 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1939 Cdr. 31.12.1942 (retd 09.04.1956) DSO 30.06.1942 6 war patrols 09.1941-04.1942 [investiture 25.05.1943] DSO 29.12.1942 war patrols 04-08.1942 [investiture 25.05.1943]	Education: Horton School, Biggleswade; RN College, Dartmouth (1921-1925). 29.08.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 11.09.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Duke and Duchess of York's visit to Australia) 04.1929 - (08.)1929 promotion course, Portsmouth 1929 - 1930 motorcycle accident (hospital for 9 months) [(04.1930) no appointment listed] 01.09.1930 - (10.)1930 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 29.12.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China) 16.10.1931 - (04.)1933 HMS Otus (submarine) (Hong Kong) 05.1933 - 05.1934 on half-pay: together with four other officers commissioned, financed and had privately built the yacht Tai Mo Shan & sailed it from Hong Kong to the UK (Dartmouth) for a year (05.1933-05.1934) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 02.07.1934 - (02.)1935 First Lieutenant, HMS Rowena (destroyer) (Portland) 01.05.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 23.04.1936 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Grampus (submarine) [under construction] (and for duty Class I with submarines) 26.04.1937 - (07.)1937 submarine commanding officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 11.12.1937 - (10.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Spearfish (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 18.12.1938 - (03.)1940 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 01.03.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Talisman (submarine) (Channel, Bay of Biscay) (04.1941)     no appointment listed 05.1941 - 06?.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Proteus (submarine) (Mediterranean) 06?.1942 - 01.1943 Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut)] 08.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, Malta) 06.05.1943 - (04.)1945 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.05.1945 - (04.)1946 Executive Officer [then Commanding Officer], HMS Ferret IV (base of Captain [then Commander] S/M Surrendered U-Boats, Lishally, Northern Ireland) 27.07.1946 - 1948 Commander S/M 4th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)] (Far East) 26.04.1948 - (05.)1949 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 13.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland) (for miscellaneous duties) 1951? - 1952? Commander of Dockyard, Portland & Assistant King's Harbour Master [HMS Osprey] 11.07.1952 - (05.1953) directing staff, RN Tactical School, Woolwich [HMS President] 10.01.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) Keen sportsman. Founder member of the Royal Naval Sailing Association, 1935. Retired to Dorset where he hunted regularly, farmed pigs and sailed his 30 ft sloop Peter Rabbit from Poole.
Francis, Stanley	14.04.1904 Dorchester, Dorset - 04.02.1992 South East Hampshire district, Hampshire	Seaman ? [J96715] A/Mate 01.12.1926 Mate 1927?, seniority 01.12.1926 Lt. 01.02.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1938 (retd 1946?)	30.12.1926 - (07.1927) Mates courses for rank of Lieutenant 02.01.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 31.08.1928 - (02.)1931 HMS Vansittart (destroyer), from .... HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 27.07.1931 - (09.)1932 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.12.1932 - (06.)1933 qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 18.12.1933 - (07.)1935 Signal Officer, HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) (and for duty with submarines) 23.09.1935 - (02.)1936 Signal Officer, HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (and for flotilla duties, 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 18.07.1936 - (02.)1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 10.02.1939 - (09.)1939 Executive Officer, HMS Sandwich (escort vessel) (China) 14.11.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (additional, for various services) 06.1942 - 08.)1942 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) 27.11.1942 - (06.)1943 Staff Signal Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Mercury (signal school nr Petersfield) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Franklin, George Alan "Frankie"   Son of ... Franklin, and ... McKenzie. Married Pauline (née ...); one son, one daughter.	25.05.1918 Lambeth district, Greater London / London / Surrey - 19.09.2006 Bristol Royal Infirmary [age 88]	A/Gnr. (T) 30.01.1943 Gnr. (T) 1944, seniority 30.01.1943 A/Cd.Gnr. (T) 30.01.1946 A/Lt. ? Lt. 29.04.1947, seniority 01.06.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1952 Lt.Cdr. RNR 06.06.1962, seniorty 26.09.1953 (retd 25.05.1977) MID 20.06.1944 attack on U-boat 11.01.1944 RD ? -	(06.1943)     no appointment listed 06.07.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Wanderer (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (07.1945) HMS Finnisterre (destroyer) * (04.1946) promotion course, Portsmouth ... - ... ... 06.06.1962     transferred, Permanent RNR * indexed, but not listed as such
Franklin, Gilbert Ferriby   Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of  Robert Francis Franklin (1863-1943), and Edith Rosa Gilbert (1874-1954). Married ((12?).1945, Weston-on-Trent district, Staffordshire) Clara Alice Hart (06.04.1913 - ), daughter (with two sisters) of  William Hart (1872-1923), and Florence Nagginton (1870-1933).	07.04.1906 Devonport, Devon - 06.04.1998 Salisbury district, Wiltshire	Paym.Cadet 01.09.1923 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1924 Paym.S.Lt. 01.03.1926 Paym.Lt. 01.03.1928 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1936 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 31.12.1942 (retd 07.04.1956; age) OBE 01.01.1955 New Year 1955 [investiture 22.02.1955]	... - ... ... 19.10.1937 - (01.)1940 HMS Scorpion (river gunboat) 18.01.1940 - (04.)1942 Assistant Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)] 15.05.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Phoebe (Dido class cruiser) 24.04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) (04.1945)     no appointment listed 17.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) 03.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire) ... - ... ...
Franklin, Gordon   Son (with three brothers and one sister) of Charles Henry Blunt Franklin (1852-1936), and Annie Watson (1855-). Married (06.03.1918, London) Evelyn Cornall (10.01.1893 - 08.01.1978); one son.	08.02.1887 Towcester district, Northamptonshire - 17.07.1969 Bournemouth, Hampshire	A/Clerk 15.01.1905 Clerk 28.03.1905 Asst.Paym. 08.02.1908 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 08.02.1918 (retd 02.06.1922; own request) Paym.Cdr. (retd) = Cdr. (S) (retd) 08.02.1926 (reverted to retd 26.08.1945) OBE 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [investiture 09.03.1943]	15.01.1905     entered RN ... - ... ... 22.08.1939 - (04.)1945 Secretary to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (OBE)
Franklin, Harold Gordon Cooper Son of George Cooper Franklin, MBE, JP, LLD (Hon), FRCS (1846-1919), surgeon, and Lucy Hannah Denne. Brother of Bt.Col. George Denne Franklin (1877-1946), CIE, OBE, JP, Indian Medical Service, making him uncle of of S.Lt. (A) Lionel Cooper Franklin, RN and of Lt. Henry George Franklin, DSC and Bar, RNVR. Married Helen E.C. Franklin (née ...).	15.01.1885 Leicester - 30.06.1957 Bideford district, Devon	A/S.Lt. 30.08.1904? S.Lt. 25.08.1905, seniority 30.08.1904 Lt. 30.11.1906 Lt.Cdr. 30.11.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1917 Capt. 30.06.1925 R.Adm. 12.07.1936 (retd 13.07.1936) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 07.09.1939 LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) LM 28.05.1946 ?	15.01.1900     entered RN (01.1919)     HMS Lion (battlecruiser) 10.1919 - 1920? staff of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University 08.08.1922 - (08.1923) Executive Officer, HMS Barham (battleship) (01.1925) no appointment listed 08.03.1926 - (05.1926) senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (02.1927)     no appointment listed 24.04.1927 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser (East Indies, temp. attached to China Station) 07.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Chatham) 26.03.1930 - 03.1932 Assistant Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.1932 - 05.1932 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.08.1932 - 10.10.1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 12.1933 - 01.1934 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1934) no appointment listed 14.04.1934 - 27.04.1934 London Depot RAN 28.04.1934 - 04.06.1934 HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) (additional; for passage to Australia per "Mataroa") 05.06.1934 - 14.06.1936 Commanding Officer, HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria) & as Captain Superintendent of Training 15.06.1936 - 26.09.1936 London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to UK per "Cathay" & foreign service leave) 02.01.1936 - 12.07.1936 also: Naval ADC to the King 07.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet II] 03.1940 Convoy HX-22 (New Orleans - Liverpool) aboard steamer SS Counsellor (mined 08.03.1940, sunk next day) 26.07.1940 - (08.)1942 staff, Commander-in-Chief Plymouth [HMS Drake] 01.08.1942 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Appledore) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Appledore (04.1946) no appointment listed
Franklin, Lionel Cooper Son of Bt.Col. George Denne Franklin (1877-1946), CIE, OBE, JP, Indian Medical Service, and Ethel Janet Carver (1877-1964), of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Brother of Lt. Henry George Franklin, DSC and Bar, RNVR. Nephew of R.Adm. Harold Gordon Cooper Franklin, RN.	02.1920 - 13.04.1940 (KIA) [age 20] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 1, panel 3]	Midsh. (A) 16.01.1939 A/S.Lt. (A) 05.02.1940	Education: Uppingham School, Rutland 20.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Frobisher (cadet training ship, Portsmouth) (for training) 15.05.1939 - (08.1939) observers' course [HMS Excellent] ? - 13.04.1940 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)] [being lent to Bomber Command he took off from Wick in a Vickers Wellington Mk. I [L4339] of 38 Squadron RAF to reconnoitre Vaernes Airfield; last heard on W/T at 0004 14.04.1940, after which it is presumed it had crashed in the North Sea, 22 miles north of Whitby, Yorkshire]
Franks, Robert Denys Son of ... Franks, and ... Acklom. Married Jane (predeceased him); three sons.	21.05.1912 Chelsea district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 05.03.2008 Dartmouth Hospital	... ... Lt. 01.02.1934 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1942 Cdr. 31.12.1946 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 1961) CBE (OBE), DSO, DSC, MID (2x)	... - ... ... 10.1937 - 1940 HMS Gipsy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 26.02.1940 - 20.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Scimitar (destroyer) 14.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for duty with Naval Adviser Combined Operations HQ, Delhi) (1943)     Mayu River Force Z (06.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed (06.1944) Staff ACNXF 13.02.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Obdurate (destroyer) ... - ... ...
Frary, Ernest [John]   Married 1st ((03?).1915, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Edith M. Palmer (died); ... children (son Capt. Ernest John Frary, Middlesex Regiment). Married 2nd ((09?).1942, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Beatrice Olive Jeram	24.10.1885 Ipswich, Norfolk - 16.04.1980 Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Gnr. 23.06.1915 Cd.Gnr. 23.06.1925 Lt. 17.06.1935 (retd 24.10.1935)	01.11.1915     entered RN (1917)     HMS K 7 (submarine) [had Lord Mountbatten serving under him for two months] 18.12.1922 - (08.)1923 HMS K 2 (submarine) 02.12.1923 - (02.)1927 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for torpedo duties in submarines) 04.02.1927 - (07.1927) Torpedo Officer, HMS H 52 (submarine) [tender to HMS Maidstone] (04.1928)     no appointment listed 11.04.1928 - (08.1930) Assistant Torpedo Officer, HMS barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (02.1931)     no appointment listed 10.04.1931 - (10.1940) Minesweeping Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for mine and minesweeping equipment) (02.1941) - (06.)1944 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 03.05.1941 Roedean School, Brighton) * 01.07.1944 - (04.1946) Minesweeping Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (as officer for mining and minesweeping equipment duties) * indexed, but not listed as such
Fraser, Sir Bruce Austin; 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape of Molesey, cr. 19.09.1946 Younger son of Gen. Alexander Fraser, CB, late RE (1824-1898), and Monica Stores Smith. Younger brother of Lt.Col. Cecil Fraser. Unmarried.	05.02.1888 Acton, London - 12.02.1981 London	Midsh. 1904 A/S.Lt. 15.03.1907? S.Lt. 11.04.1908, seniority 15.03.1907 Lt. 03.07.1909, seniority 15.03.1908 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1916 Cdr. 30.06.1919 Capt. 30.06.1926 R.Adm. 11.01.1938 V.Adm. 08.05.1940 A/Adm. 08.05.1943 Adm. 07.02.1944 Adm. of the Fleet 22.10.1948 (half-pay 04.1952) - Barony 19.09.1946 ? GCB 05.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst KCB 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 CB 02.01.1939 New Year 1939 KBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 OBE 17.07.1919 HMS Resolution OON 19.01.1943 services to Dutch navy Suv 29.02.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst LegH ? ? CdeG ? ? StOlav 13.01.1948 services to Norway Dnbg ? visit to Denmark DSM ? ?	Education: Bradfield College; HMS Britannia (1902); RN College, Greenwich; Hon. DCL Oxon 1947; Hon. LLD Edinburgh 1953; Hon. LLD Wales. 15.09.1902 entered RN 1904 HMS Hannibal HMS Prince George HMS Lancaster (Mediterranean) HMS Boadicea 1911 - 1912 qualified in gunnery, Gunnery School, Whale Island, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich 1914 - 1916 Gunnery Officer, HMS Minerva (cruiser) (Dardanelles and E Indies) 1916 - 1916 staff, Gunnery School, Portsmouth 1916 - 1919 Gunnery Officer [later also: Executive Officer], HMS Resolution (battleship) 1920 - 1920 Commanding Officer, of a detachment of 50 naval ratings in the Caspian Sea (captured and imprisoned by Bolsheviks, Russia) Commander "G" at HMS Excellent 08.06.1922 - 1924 Torpedoes and Mining Department & for duty with Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.12.1924 - 1926 Fleet Gunnery Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth, later: HMS Warspite] 31.01.1927 - 24.12.1928 Head of Tactical Section, Admiralty 24.12.1928 - (08.)1929 Head, Naval Staff of Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.09.1929 06.09.1929 - - (09.)1932 (01.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies Station), as: Flag Captain & Chief of Staff to C-in-C East Indies 15.07.1933 - (02.)1936 Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 22.05.1936 - (07.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 1937 - 1938 Chief Staff Officer to R Adm (Henry) Bernard (Hughes) Rawlings, Admiral Commanding Aircraft Carriers (02.1938) no appointment listed 01.04.1938 - 05.02.1939 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 01.03.1939 - 04.1942 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: Third Sea Lord and Controller [HMS President] 22.05.1942 - 21.06.1942 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 22.06.1942 - 27.06.1942 HMS President (additional; for temporary duty inside Admiralty with D. of P. [Director of Plans Division?]) 28.06.1942 - 14.04.1943 Vice-Admiral Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Home Fleet [HMS Anson] 08.05.1943 - 14.06.1944 Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Duke of York (battleship)] (in charge of Russian convoys and Battle of North Cape [sinking of the Scharnhorst], 26.12.1943) 01.08.1944 - 12.1944 Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet 12.1944 - 31.05.1946 Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Howe (battleship), later: HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] (British signatory to Japanese surrender)       HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.1947 - 07.1948 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 06.09.1948 - 1951 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty: First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff 27.04.1946 - (07.)1948 First and Principal Naval ADC to the King Hon. Freeman, Shipwrights' Co. Literature: Kenneth Edwards, Sir Bruce Austin Fraser, GCB, KBE : Admiral in His Majesty's Fleet. In: Seven sailors (1945); John Winton, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape, GCB, KBE, Royal Navy, 1888-1981. In: Men of war : great naval captains of World War II (1993); Richard Humble, Fraser of North Cape : the life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser, 1888-1981 (1983)
Fraser, David Alexander "Frosty"	14.09.1907 Woking, Guildford district, Surrey - 01.11.1978 Southeast Hampshire	Cadet 01.1925 Midsh. 15.09.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1928 S.Lt. 25.03.1929, seniority 16.09.1928 Lt. 16.11.1930 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1938 1946, seniority 16.11.1940 * (retd 14.09.1952) Cdr. (retd) 14.09.1952 MID 29.01.1946 escapes KW 21.10.1941 as liaison officer ORP Orzel * Set back in seniority as a result of a court-martial about the loss of HMS Oswald.	15.05.1921     entered RN 15.01.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)  05.01.1928 - (06.1928) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 29.04.1929 - (08.)1929 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 30.10.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS L 26 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] 18.08.1931 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania] 17.05.1932 - (05.)1933 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (temporary) 04.05.1933 - (01.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS L 26 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Mackay] 29.01.1934 - (11.1934) First Lieutenant, HMS Swordfish (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 24.01.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Odin (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] 14.12.1936 - (07.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS L 23 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 28.12.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.12.1939 - 20.01.1940 British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Orzel (Polish submarine) 02.1940 - 01.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Oswald (submarine) (ship rammed & taken POW) [backgound story] 1940 - 1945? prisoner of war in Italian / German captivity (c. 1942/43 Campo 5 at Gavi) (escape attempts) (04.1946)     no appointment listed (1946)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 12.08.1947 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Campania (escort carrier) 24.03.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Hartland Point (landing craft repair ship) Executive Officer of HMS Worcester after retirement in the 1950s.
Fraser, the Hon. George Married 1st (06.1920) ...; one son. Married 2nd (1934) ...; two sons.	04.03.1887 - 13.06.1970	... ... Lt. 01.04.1909 Cdr. 30.06.1922 Capt. 31.12.1929 R.Adm. 25.06.1940 (retd 26.06.1940) (reverted to retd 27.09.1941) DSO 1920 ?	15.01.1902     entered service ... - ... ... 25.07.1938 - 08.09.1939 HMS Pembroke (additional; as Chief of Staff & Maintenance Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Nore) 22.10.1939 - 31.12.1939 HMS Victory (additional) 01.01.1940 - 03.04.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 6 months) 04.04.1940 - 28.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS President (Admiralty) 29.05.1940 - 04.06.1940 HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional; for special service) 05.06.1940 - 25.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS President (Admiralty) 26.06.1940 - 21.07.1940 HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (additional; as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Harwich) (as Capt.) 22.07.1940 - 14.08.1940 HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (additional; on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Harwich) (as Capt.) 15.08.1940 - 28.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) 29.07.1941 - 26.09.1941 HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave)
Fraser, John Stewart Gordon	19.01.1883 - 03.11.1973	... ... Capt. 31.12.1923 R.Adm. 26.08.1935 (retd) CBE ? ? DSO ? ?	... - ... ... 01.05.1941 - 01.03.1944 Deputy Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando] 01.03.1944 - (07.1945) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Greenock [HMS Orlando]
Fraser, Kenneth Hillam Second son (with five sisters and one brother) of William Carlile Fraser (1861-1911), and Elizabeth Agnes Theobald (1869-1908).	12.06.1905 Budleigh Salterton, St Thomas district, Devon - 27.02.1979 Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire	Midsh. 15.05.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925 S.Lt. 15.06.1926 Lt. 01.08.1928 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1936 Cdr. 30.06.1942 (retd 03.12.1952) OBE 01.01.1947 New Year 1947 DSC 24.07.1945 for outstanding skill, resource and fine seamanship in minesweeping operations in the Skagerrak, and in leading the way through unswept waters when the Crown Prince of Norway [Olav] returned to Oslo [investiture 26.09.1945]	15.01.1919     entered RN ... - ... ... 08.08.1938 - 11.10.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (Admiralty V&W class destroyer) (12.1939)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) * 12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (as Port Anti-Submarine Officer) 17.02.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory) 01.10.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for anti-submarine duties at Bermuda, later as Chief Staff Officer and Training Commander) (12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed 01.05.1944 - (05.1944) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (06.1944)     HMS Harrier (Halcyon class minesweeper) * 28.08.1944 - 05.01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Catherine (Auk class minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 40th Minesweeping Flotilla 06.01.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Fairy (Catherine class minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 46th Minesweeping Flotilla (OBE) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Frazer, John William   Married ...; ... children (one son?).	28.10.1917 Ballymena district, Ireland - 08.12.2003	Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR 01.09.1943 T/S.Lt. (E) 23.10.1943, seniority 01.09.1943 T/Lt. (E) 01.11.1944 Lt. (E) RNVR 04.03.1947, seniority 27.10.1942 Lt.Cdr. (E) RNVR 27.10.1950 Cdr. (E) RNVR 31.12.1953 (retd 27.02.1961) VRD 19.05.1960 -	01.09.1943     commissioned, RNVR 23.10.1943     transferred, RN 03.09.1943 - 04.1945 HMS Kent (Kent class cruiser) [date of appointment (erroneously?) shown as 03.04.1943] 03.04.1945 - (10.)1945 HMS Cavendish (CA class destroyer) 1945 - 02.1946 HMS Saumarez (S class destroyer) 04.02.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Wrangler (W class destroyer) 04.03.1947     transferred, Permanent RNVR (List I) (Ulster Division) [HMS Caroline]
Freedman, Julius	11.05.1917 - 21.10.1987 Surbiton, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey	A/S.Lt. (A) 01.07.1939 S.Lt. (A) 14.03.1940 Lt. (A) 01.01.1942 (emgcy 03.07.1946) A/Lt.Cdr. (A) > 08.1943, < 12.1943	1938 joined Fleet Air Arm (qualified as a pilot) (08.1939) no appointment listed (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 10.1940 - (02.1941) acting observer, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 12.11.1941 - (08.1942) observer, 834 Squadron FAA [HMS Raven (RNAS Eastleigh, Southampton)] 01.01.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Jackdaw (RNAS, Crail, Fife) 01.01.1944 - (04.1944) HMS Macaw (training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland) 25.04.1944 - (07.1945) Staff Officer (Air) and CGI, HMS Owl (RN Air Station Fearn, Ross-shire) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Freeland, Victor Clifford Son (with two sisters and four brothers) of Ernest Freeland (1876-1974), and Caroline Grummitt (1881-1925). Married 1st ((06?).1943, Bromley district, Kent) Norah E. Flux ((09?).1923 - (03?).1944). Married 2nd (18.12.1946, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland) Edna Maude Pridgeon Adam (01.06.1925 - 01.06.1988), daughter (with one sister) of David Greig Adam (1893-1979), and Agnes Josephine Hunt (1895-); one daughter.	26.06.1915 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 21.04.1993 Stirling, Scotland	A/Gnr. 01.04.1940 A/Lt. 01.10.1941 Lt. 17.07.1944, seniority 01.10.1941 A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 10.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1949 (retd 26.06.1960)	(05.1940)     no appointment listed 31.05.1940 - (01.)1943 Flotilla Staff, HMS Faulknor (F class destroyer) (for direction finding duties) 11.01.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Gardiner (Captain class frigate) 23.07.1944 - (10.)1945 HMS Lamont (infantry landing ship), renamed 1945 HMS Ard Patrick 12.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Holm Sound (aircraft component repair ship) ... - ... ...
Fremantle, Edmund Seymour Denis Married Edna Maud (died 27.05.2006, aged 93), widow of Capt. James Richard Lyddon, RAC (died 1940), and daughter of Albert John Tweed Cusselle, of Dartford, Kent.	02.06.1904 Westhampnett district, Sussex - 14.09.1980 Plymouth district	... ... Lt. 15.06.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1934 (retd 02.06.1949) Cdr. (retd) 02.06.1949 DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 11.05.1945] MID 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik MID 11.09.1940 courage in recent engagements	... - ... ... 09.01.1939 - (04.1940) Gunnery Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 03.03.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) (08.1942)     no appointment listed (02.1943)     no appointment listed 17.05.1943 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (for observer duties) (06.1944) Royal Naval Beach Commando P (04.1946)     no appointment listed 06.11.1946 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, HMS Abercrombie (monitor) 04.05.1948 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Apollo (minelayer) 17.08.1948 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman (minelayer)
French, Edwin Michael Son of Horace Levick French and Dorothy Evelyn French.	12.12.1921 Thrapston district, Huntingdonshire / Northamptonshire - 24.11.1941 [age 19] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]	Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.04.1941	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.05.1939 - 08.1939 cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 26.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) 04.10.1941 - 24.11.1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Frewen, Sir John Byng	28.03.1911 - 28.08.1975	... ... Lt. 01.12.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1940 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1950 R.Adm. 07.07.1959 V.Adm. 09.08.1962 Adm. 09.02.1966 (retd 1970) GCB ? ? (KCB 1964; CB 1961)	1929     joined RN ... - ... ... 31.12.1940 - (08.1942) Navigating Officer, HMS London (cruiser) 26.01.1943 - (07.1945) Squadron Navigating Officer, 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Formidable] ... - ... ...       Chief of Staff to the C-in-C, Home Fleet, August 1959-April 1961; Flag Officer 2nd­in­Comd, Far East Station, 1961-1962; Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff, 1963-1965. C-in-C, Home Fleet and NATO C-in-C, Allied Forces, Eastern Atlantic, 1965-1967; NATO C-in-C, Channel, 1966-1967; C-in-C Portsmouth, 1967-1969. Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command, 1969-1970. Principal Naval ADC to the Queen, 1968-1970.
Freyberg, Geoffrey Herbert Elder son of late Herbert Freyberg, FSI, and Mrs Freyberg, Gray's Inn Sq. Married (1909) Kathleen May (died 1959), youngest daughter of late H.J. Nicholls, Dolgelly, N. Wales; one son.	08.07.1881 - 22.09.1966 [Bude, N. Cornwall ?]	Cadet 1895 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 16.12.1901, seniority 15.11.1900 Lt. 31.12.1902 Cdr. 30.06.1915 (retd 24.04.1926; own request) Capt. (retd) 08.07.1926 CBE 01.01.1940 New Year 1940; for services afloat with Dover Naval Forces OBE 31.07.1919 For valuable services as Navigating Officer of HMS Valiant MID 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 MID 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland King George V Jubilee Medal, 1935	Education: Dragon School, Oxford; HMS Britannia and Dartmouth 15.07.1895     entered RN (1900) China War medal, 1900, when serving in HMS Undaunted 1914 - 1918 served with Grand Fleet throughout European War in HMS Colossus and Valiant (despatches for services at Jutland); took part in surrender of German Fleet, 1918 1919 - 1921 King's Harbour Master, Plymouth 15.05.1922 - (01.1925) a Naval Assistant, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 1926 - 1936 Master Attendant, Singapore, and Marine Adviser to Straits Settlements Government 01.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Hampton (auxiliary minelayer) 12.09.1940 - 1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship) 01.07.1942 - 15.05.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Gosling (naval engineering training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancs) A Younger Brother of Trinity House Corporation, 1921
Friedberger, William Howard Dennis	16.07.1896 Kensington, London - 05.01.1963 Northampton	Lt. 15.08.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 31.12.1939 (retd 08.01.1949) Cdre. 2nd cl. 09.1945 DSO 08.09.1942 convoy Malta & air raids 05-06.1942 MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942	15.05.1909     entered RN 01.03.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Mediterranean) 05.1927 - (07.1927) Staff Officer (Operations) to Captain (S) 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Conquest (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) 14.05.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS L 14 (submarine) (in command of Group "M" Submarines in reserve at Portsmouth) 23.09.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) (China) 15.05.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Odin (submarine) (China) (01.1932) no appointment listed 23.07.1932 - (01.1934) staff, Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.10.1934 - (02.1937) Executive Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 31.05.1937 - (07.1937) Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] 21.01.1938 - (10.1938) course at Staff College, Camberley 09.01.1939 - (08.1939) staff, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 11.03.1940 - (04.1940) HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 26.03.1941 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Welshman (minelayer) 20.05.1943 - 14.12.1943 Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.12.1943 - (06.1944) Deputy Director of Plans Division (Q), Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945) no appointment listed 09.1945 - (04.1946) Commodore Superintendent, Singapore [HMS Braganza] 10.07.1948 - 08.01.1949 Naval ADC to the King
Frodsham, Neville Heathcote Son of Harold Leslie and Hilda Frodsham (née Heathcote).	(03?).1921 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 24.05.1941 (KIA a/b HMS Hood) [age 20] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]	Cadet 01.05.1938 Midsh. 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941	01.05.1939 - (04.1940) Midshipman, HMS Neptune (cruiser) 06.01.1941 - (02.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth 1941 - 24.05.1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser)
Frost, Harold Desmond   Son of Harold Roy Frost, and of Charlotte Ellen Telford, of Bournemouth, Hampshire.	(09?).1918 Dorchester district, Dorset - 08.01.1942 [age 23] [Kilbride Old Churchyard, plot 2, grave 57]	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1937 Paym.Midsh. 01.01.1938 Paym.S.Lt. 01.11.1939	10.11.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 17.09.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean) 09.02.1939 - (04.)1939 for duty in Admiral's Office of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 28.07.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 08.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Valiant (battleship) 04.09.1940 - (02.)1941 for duty in office of Rear-Admiral/Vice­Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron, aboard: HMS Hood 10.08.1940 - (02.).1941 15.05.1941 - 08.01.1942 HMS Cardiff (cruiser)
Fry, Peter Kenneth Llewellin	22.10.1904 - 28.06.1977	... ... Cdr. (E) 31.12.1938 A/Capt. (E) < 07.1945 OBE ? ?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... FIMEchE.
Fryer, Douglas William Patrick   Son of Cdr. William Francis Edward Fryer, RN (1894-1964), and Bertha Jealous, of Thong House, Shorne, Kent. Married ((06?).1947, Kensington district, London) Audrey Valerie Zita Miles, WRNS (05.06.1923 - 07.2002), only daughter of Maj. & Mrs Wilfred Harvey Miles, RFC, of Jos, Nigeria; two sons, one daughter.	10.12.1921 Ipswich district, Suffolk - 05.06.2010 Fleet district, Hampshire	Paym.Cadet 01.05.1940 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/Paym.S.Lt. 01.09.1942 Paym.S.Lt. 14.06.1943, seniority 01.09.1942 Lt. (S) 01.09.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.09.1952 (retd > 04.1956, < 01.1957)	01.09.1940 - (10.)1942 HMS Newcastle (Southampton class cruiser) (12.1942)     HMS Revenge (Royal Sovereign class battleship) * 10.12.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser) (10.1943)     no appointment listed 05.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Indefatigable (Implacable class aircraft carrier) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Fuller, Donald Hamilton Younger son Adm. Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller (1874-1942), and Edith Margaret Connell. Changed name by deed poll of 13.08.1949 to Donald Hamilton Connell-Fuller. Married (10.08.1935, St Martin's, Welton) Ruth Henrietta Garrard, twin-daughter of Maj. & Mrs S.H. Garrard, of Daventry, Northamptonshire; ... children (four sons, one daughter?).	26.11.1907 Fareham district, Hampshire - 02.03.1975 Bromyard district, Hereford and Worcester	Cadet 15.12.1924 Midsh. 15.09.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1928 S.Lt. 01.08.1928 Lt. 15.12.1929 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1941 Capt. 31.12.1946 (retd 07.01.1956) Cdre. 2nd cl. 09.04.1954	... - ... ... 19.07.1938 - (06.)1941 Torpedo Officer, HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser) 07.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Minesweeping Department) 24.09.1943 - (06.)1944 Staff Officer (Torpedoes) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 21.06.1944 - 05.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 01.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) 07.1947 - (07.)1948 Assistant Director (Personnel), Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.1948 - (05.)1949 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous duties) 08.08.1949 - (05.)1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Bulawayo 04.06.1950 - (05.1951) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Destroyers, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Tyne] 22.01.1952 - (01.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Eagle & as Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland 09.04.1954 - 14.12.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Superb (cruiser) & Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station
Fuller, George Michael Fleetwood Son (with one brother) of Edward Fleetwood Fuller (1878-1914), and Margaret Olive Argles (1873-1944).	29.07.1903 - 04.06.1981 Weybridge. Surrey Northern district, Surrey	Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 12.03.1925, seniority 15.03.1924 Lt. 15.08.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1933 A/Cdr. 03.12.1945? (retd > 10.1947, < 07.1948)	15.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 01.07.1937 - (04.)1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (Norfolk class cruiser) 05.1941 - (07.)1942 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.07.1941 - (08.)1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 07.09.1942 - (09.)1943 Gunnery Officer on staff of Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)] 08.09.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (10.1945)     no appointment listed 03.12.1945 - (10.1947) Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Fullerton, Sir Eric John Arthur Son of Admiral Sir John Reginal Thomas Fullerton, GCVO, CB, and Sarah C. Fullerton. Married (1908) Hon. Dorothy Sibyl (1873-1962), 2nd daughter of 1st Lord Fisher; one daughter.	20.11.1878 Hamble le Rice, South Stoneham, Hampshire - 09.11.1962	Cadet 15.07.1892 Midsh. 15.03.1895 S.Lt. 15.09.1898 Lt. 31.08.1900 Cdr. 31.08.1910 Capt. 31.12.1914 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.11.1923 R.Adm. 01.05.1926 V.Adm. 12.12.1930 Adm. 31.08.1935 (retd 01.01.1936; own request) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 11.03.1940-02.07.1940 & 21.07.1942-(1943) KCB 01.01.1934 New Year 1934 CB 01.01.1920 New Year 1920 DSO 08.12.1915 * * Was in charge of the two Monitors, and conducted the operations in the river with complete success (operations against the Königsberg).	Education: Cambridge University (MA (hon., 1915) 15.07.1892 entered RN (Naval Cadet) 17.08.1894 - 07.06.1897 HMS Ramillies (battleship) 08.06.1897 - 07.10.1897 HMS Mars 08.10.1897 - 04.10.1897 HMS Active 05.10.1899 - 30.05.1900 HMS Hermes 31.05.1900 - 05.10.1900 HM Yacht Victoria & Albert 06.10.1900 - 28.02.1902 HMS Crescent 01.03.1902 - 31.08.1903 HMS Victory (School of Gymnasia) 01.09.1903 - 31.08.1905 Inspector of Gymnasia [HMS Racer] 01.09.1905 - 17.01.1907 HMS Renown 18.01.1907 - 11.10.1908 HMS Queen 12.10.1908 - 11.01.1911 HM Yacht Victoria & Albert 12.01.1911 - 10.10.1912 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph 11.10.1912 - 04.08.1914 HMS Racer 05.08.1914 in command monitors, Severn (05.08.1914), Humber, Mersey, during engagement with right flank German Army, off Belgian Coast, August to November 1914 (promoted Captain, December 1914, despatches) 1915 in command Inshore Operations against German cruiser Königsberg, Rufigi River, East Africa (despatches, DSO) 20.09.1916 - 13.12.1916 Commanding Officer, HMAS Melbourne 14.12.1916 - 23.12.1918 despatches for subsequent operations on coast of GEA; commanded battleship Orion (14.12.1916), Grand Fleet 24.12.1918 - 03.04.1921 in charge Naval Officers, Cambridge University 04.04.1921 - 31.07.1921 Senior Officers' Technical Course [HMS Victory] 01.08.1921 - 30.10.1923 Captain of the Fleet, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.11.1923 - (01.)1925 Commodore Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 1925 ADC to King George V (05.1926) no appointment listed 01.04.1927 - 01.10.1929 Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty 18.10.1929 - 14.06.1932 Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station [HMS Effingham (cruiser)] (09.1932) no appointment listed 10.10.1932 - 11.06.1935 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Vivid, later HMS Drake] 11.03.1940 - (04.1940) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet II] 02.07.1940 - 1942 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth [HMS Watchful] 21.07.1942 - early 1943 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Furse, John Paul Wellington Son of late Charles Furse, artist, and late Dame Katharine, GBE, RRC, Dir, WRNS. Married (1929) Cicely Rathbone; one son.	13.10.1904 Farnham - 08.10.1978 [Smarden, Kent ?]	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. (E) ? S.Lt. (E) 30.08.1925 Lt. (E) 30.05.1927 Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.05.1935 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1939 Capt. (E) 31.12.1948 R.Adm. (E) 19.09.1955 (retd 1959) CB 01.01.1958 New Year 1958 OBE 11.06.1946 wind up Far East CEng; FIMechE; FLS	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; RN Engineering College, Keyham 15.09.1922 - (01.1925) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 20.10.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 14.11.1928 - (02.1931) engineer, HMS Olympus (submarine) (01.1932) no appointment listed 27.05.1932 - (09.1932) engineer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 21.12.1932 - (01.1934) staff, Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin] 10.09.1934 - (07.1937) Assistant Engineer to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin] 14.08.1937 - (04.1939) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) * 20.02.1940 - (02.)1943 Assistant Naval Attaché, Europe and the Americas [HMS President] 20.05.1943 - (06.1944) Engineer Officer, 5th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] 27.09.1944 - 1946 Engineer Officer, 4th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)] (04.1946) no appointment listed 1947 Admiralty 25.03.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 22.08.1951 - (05.1953) Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (E) Reserve Aircraft [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus)] 26.09.1955 - 1958 Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Admiralty [HMS President] 1958 - 1959 Director-General of the Aircraft Department, Admiralty [HMS President] Botanical expeditions in Turkey and Iran, 1960, 1962; Afghanistan, 1964, 1966. VMH 1965 Published: articles on flora of the Middle East * (08.1939) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Fyson, Richard Hugh	31.10.1917 Madras - 01.10.2007	Cadet 01.09.1935 Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 1939, seniority 01.05.1938 Lt. 1941, seniority 01.07.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1947 (retd 05.10.1949; own request) DSC 07.08.1945 reconnaissance Lake Comacchio 03-04.1945	01.09.1935 - (02.1936) special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 20.01.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth (08.1939)     no appointment listed 01.02.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Warspite (battleship) 05.01.1942 - (01.1942) long navigation course [HMS Dryad] 04.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Shippigan (Bangor class minesweeper) 04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS James Cook (Combined Operations training establishment, Glen Caladh, nr Tignabruich) 09.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inveraray), from late 1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP)) 1943 - 1944 Officer Commanding, COPP 2 (07.1945)     no appointment listed 28.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Diadem (cruiser) 24.12.1947 - (05.)1949 Moorings Officer, HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake]

 

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