Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945

Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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MICH
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MONE
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MYLI

E.D. Michell to H.W. Mole

Michell,
Eric Dangar
"Mike"
E.D. Michell

Son of Sir Robert Carminowe Michell, KCMG (1876-1956), Diplomatic Service, and his first wife Ethel May Michell (1881-1908).
Half-brother of Lt.Cdr. John Francis Michell, RN.
Married (15.09.1934, St Mary's, Oatlands, Weybridge district, Surrey) Eileen Mary Steel, younger daughter of Reginald de Crecy Steel, of Drynham, Weybridge, Kent; ... children (one daughter?).
Residence: (1943) Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

19.08.1908
St Albans district, Hertfordshire
-
18.03.1943
(DOW) [age 34]
[Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya]

Cadet	1926
Midsh. (E)	01.09.1927
S.Lt. (E)	01.12.1929
Lt. (E)	01.12.1931
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.12.1939
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1942

DSC

12.05.1942

firefighting after air attack at Malta 12.02.1942 [presented to next-of-kin]

Education: Haileybury (Edmonstone House; 1922.2-1925.3).

...	-	...	...
			representative of the Navy in Athletics (1928, 1929 & 1930)
09.08.1938	-	(04.)1940	HMS Javelin (destroyer)
(10.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
17.08.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS Maori (destroyer)
04.1942	-	07.1942	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
01.07.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Medway II (1st Submarine Flotilla base, Beirut)
1943	-	18.03.1943	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (died of wounds as result of an accident [explosion] on service in Tripoli)

Michell,
Ian Murray
I.M. Michell

17.06.1924
-
08.08.1982

...	...
S.Lt. (E)	01.05.1945
A/Lt. (E)	< 10.1945
...	...
Capt. (E)	30.06.1968 (retd 24.05.1971)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

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

Michell,
John Francis
"Jack"
J.F. Michell

Son of Sir Robert Carminowe Michell, KCMG (1876-1956), Diplomatic Service, and his second wife Margarita Gana.
Half-brother of Cdr. Eric Dangar Michell, RN.
Married (05.10.1943, St James', Spanish Place, St Marylebone district, London) Mary E. Dunlop, elder daughter of Brig. & Mrs A.G. Dunlop, Indian Army, of Edwardstowe East, Shaftesbury; ... children (one son?).

07.04.1920
-
12.04.1993
Wandsworth district, London

Cadet	01.01.1938
Midsh.	01.01.1939
A/S.Lt.	1940?
S.Lt.	01.02.1940
Lt.	16.08.1941 (Emgcy List 29.10.1947)
A/Lt.Cdr.	< 04.1946
Lt. RNR	23.04.1957
Lt.Cdr. RNR	23.04.1965 (retd 07.04.1970)

01.01.1938	-	31.12.1938	special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.01.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Malaya (battleship)
01.09.1940	-	(10.1940)	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(02.1941)			promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] *
19.10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Upright (submarine)
21.05.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Upright (submarine)
05.10.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Tactician (submarine)
1943	-	(10.)1943	submarine Commanding Officer's course
25.10.1943	-	27.12.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine)
27.12.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Medway II (1st Submarine Flotilla base, Beirut, from 01.1944 Malta)
(01.1945)			HMS P 511 (submarine) *
15.02.1945	-	1945	Commanding Officer, HMS P 614 (submarine)
10.06.1945	-	14.10.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Springer (submarine)
03.01.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Thorough (submarine)
23.04.1957			transferred, Permanent RNR

Michell,
Kenneth
K. Michell

3rd son of late G.B. Michell, Sussex.
Married (28.04.1917, Christ Church, London) Helen Beatrice Frecheville (died 1963), 2nd daughter of late Prof. W. Frecheville; two sons, one daughter.

27.03.1887
Steyning, Sussex
-
25.12.1967
Amberley, Arundel, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	30.03.1907?
S.Lt.	20.12.1907, seniority 30.03.1907
Lt.	01.10.1909
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1917 (retd 03.04.1931)
A/Cdr.	25.02.1928-22.07.1929, 23.08.1929-10.07.1930
Cdr. (retd)	03.04.1931 (reverted to retd 12.06.1946)

DSO	17.06.1941	Greek withdrawal [investiture 08.12.1942]
MVO	10.08.1925	?
DSC	1917	?
DSC	08.01.1942	withdrawal from Crete [investiture 08.12.1942]

Royal Humane Society's Medal, 21.01.1927.

Education: HMS Britannia.

15.09.1902			joined RN
			served European War:
			commanded HM Submarines A9, C28, B10, B7, and E50; Senior Submarines Officer, Venice, 1916 (Cavalier, Order of St Maurice and Lazarus (Italy 07.08.1918; Silver Medal for Military Valour (Italy, 17.11.1917)); DSC in action with German Submarine, North Sea, 1917
1918			Senior Officer, Norwegian Convoy Destroyer Escort Flotilla
1919			Commanding Officer, HM Monitor 33, N. Russia, Dwina River Expedition
1920			Senior Officer, Danube ML Flotilla
1921	-	1923	1st Lieutenant-Commander, HMS Revenge (battleship)
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
06.09.1923	-	(01.)1925	Commanding Officer, HMS Truro (twin-screw minesweeper) (Portsmouth) [escorted HM Yacht Britannia]
24.01.1926	-	1928	Officer Instructor to London Division, RNVR, HMS President, Victoria Embankment
16.01.1928	-	25.09.1930	lent to RAN:
16.01.1928	-	20.01.1928	London Depot RAN
21.01.1928	-	24.02.1928	HMAS Cerberus
25.02.1928	-	22.07.1929	Commanding Officer, HMAS Marguerite (sloop)
23.07.1929	-	22.08.1929	HMAS Penguin
23.08.1929	-	10.07.1930	Executive Officer, Royal Australian Naval College, Jervis Bay [HMAS Franklin]
11.07.1930	-	25.09.1930	London Depot RAN
(02.1931)			no appointment listed
1933			Chief Officer, Training Ship, Exmouth
1935	-	1939	Liaison Officer, RN and RM Officers Civil Employment Committee
1939			Sea Transport Officer, Dieppe
01.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
07.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services):
1940			Technical Delegate to Danube International Commission, Belgrade
			Staff of Naval Attaché, Athens [served Special Operations Executive (SOE)]
			Sea Transport Officer, Piræus (DSO)
			Sea Transport Officer, Suda Bay, Crete (Bar to DSC)
28.05.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
1942			Commanding Officer, HMS Northney II (landing craft base, Hayling Island)
(08.1942)			Commanding Officer, HMS Northney III (landing craft base, Hayling Island) *
(02.1943)			Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty *
17.05.1943	-	(01.)1944	Staff of Operations Division, Admiralty, N. Africa and Adriatic [HMS President]
18.01.1944	-	(01.)1945	Department of the Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.)1945	-	1946	Admiralty Liaison Officer to Ministry of Labour and National Service [HMS President]

Master of MV Sir Edward P. Wills II RN Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, 1947-1948; Superintendent, Training Ship Foudroyant, Portsmouth, 1950-1951; Honorary Local Secretary Sussex Archæological Society Amberley; Member, Society of Sussex Downsmen.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Michell,
Kenneth Walter
K.W. Michell

Second son (with four brothers and one sister) of Eng.Capt. Walter Jabez Michell (1882-1943), RN, and Mrs Ethel May (1883-1971).
Married (17.07.1935, St Andrew's, Farlington, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Nancy Manuka Wheater (19.11.1907 - 03.1998), only child of Eng.Capt. Percy Wheater, RN (1868-1936), and Kate Emily Shepherdson (1874-1927); two sons.

11.09.1909
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
28.08.1972
Aller, Langport, Sodbury district, Gloucestershire

Cadet	01.01.1927
Midsh.	01.09.1927
A/S.Lt.	01.10.1930
S.Lt.	1931?, seniority 01.08.1930
Lt.	01.06.1932
Lt.Cdr.	01.06.1940 (retd 01.01.1954)

	DSC	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 1944 [investiture 03.07.1945]
	MID	14.01.1941	good service in minelayers

15.08.1927	-	(08.1929)	HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
02.01.1930	-	10.08.1930	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
11.08.1930	-	(02.)1931	promotion course, Portsmouth
14.10.1931	-	(09.1932)	HMS Acheron (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
(05.1933)	-	(06.1933)	no appointment listed
04.08.1933	-	(07.)1935	HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)
27.07.1935	-	(02.)1938	HMNZS Achilles (cruiser)
(06.1938)	-	(08.1938)	no appointment listed
13.08.1938	-	(02.)1941	Executive Officer, HMS Intrepid (despatches)
(04.1941)			no appointment listed
24.04.1941	-	09.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Woolston (destroyer)
06.10.1942	-	30.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Raider (destroyer) (DSC)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
21.01.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire) (for preliminary air training duties)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
16.10.1945	-	(04.)1947	Commanding Officer, HMS Orwell (destroyer)
29.09.1947	-	(05.)1949	Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
16.07.1949	-	(05.)1951	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
22.10.1951	-	(05.1953)	Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)

Micklethwait,
St John Aldrich
"Jack" / "Mick"
St.J.A. Micklethwait

Eldest son of late St John Gore Micklethwait, KC, and Annie Elizabeth Aldrich- Blake. Married (1929), Clemence Penelope Olga Welby-Everard; two sons, one daughter.

04.03.1901
Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey
-
31.07.1977
[Penhein, near Chepstow, Gwent ?]

Midsh.	1917
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.01.1921
A/Lt.	?
Lt.	03.10.1923, seniority 15.06.1922
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1930
Cdr.	31.12.1935
Capt.	31.12.1940
R.Adm.	07.07.1950 (retd 15.12.1953)

CB	01.01.1952	New Year 1952 [investiture 05.03.1952]
DSO	01.01.1940	New Year 1940 [investiture 06.02.1940]
DSO	28.06.1940	2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 02.07.1940]
DSO	08.09.1942	Malta convoy 22.03.1942 [investiture 11.05.1945]
MID	20.10.1942	sinking U-boat Mediterranean 04.08.1942
MID	22.12.1942	landing nr. Tobruk 09.1942
Hkn	26.08.1947	services to Norway

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth

(1917)			HMS Thunderer
18.11.1924	-	(01.1925)	HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
06.1927	-	(07.1927)	HMS Caradoc (cruiser)
12.1927	-	(04.1930)	First Lieutenant, HMS Vampire (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
02.10.1930	-	(02.1931)	Commanding Officer, HMS Truant (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
14.11.1931	-	(01.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (China)
16.07.1932	-	(09.1932)	Commanding Officer, HMS Rowena (destroyer) (Portland)
18.10.1933	-	(07.1935)	Commanding Officer, HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
27.06.1936	-	(06.1938)	Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(08.1938)			no appointment listed
10.09.1938	-	(10.1938)	Commanding Officer, HMS Vimy (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet)
09.12.1938	-	(04.1940)	Commanding Officer, HMS Eskimo (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
01.1941	-	(02.1941)	Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. E.J. Spooner [HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)]
03.02.1942	-	14.09.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Sikh (destroyer) (sank off Tobruk)
09.1942	-	1945	captured and POW in Italy & Germany
19.06.1947	-	(07.1948)	Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord [HMS President]
(05.1950)			HMS President *
1950	-	1951	Flag Officer, Training Squadron
18.05.1952	-	(05.)1953	Flag Officer, Gibraltar, and Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard [HMS Rooke]

High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, 1959. Deputy Lieutenant, 1960. Chairman Cwmbran Development Corporation for 9 years.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Middleton,
Gervase Boswell
G.B. Middleton

Son of late Reginald E. Middleton, MInst.CE.
Married (1938) Dora Thacher Clarke; no children.

22.12.1893
Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
12.06.1961
London

Midsh.	15.05.1911
A/S.Lt.	15.09.1913
S.Lt.	15.04.1914
Lt.	08.09.1915, seniority 15.05.1915
Lt.Cdr.	15.05.1923
Cdr.	30.06.1928
Capt.	30.06.1935
R.Adm.	02.01.1945
V.Adm.	02.09.1948 (retd 01.12.1950)
Adm. (retd)	15.03.1952

CB	12.06.1947	HM's birthday [investiture 28.10.1947]
CBE	01.01.1943	New Year 1943 [investiture 09.02.1943]
MID	28.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.1944)
MID	27.03.1945	Operation Dragoon (invasion S France 08.1944)
LM	10.07.1945	Operation Dragoon (invasion S France 08.1944)
LegH	?	invasion S France
CdeG	?	invasion S France

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.09.1906			entered RN
1914	-	1918	served European War in HMS Zealandia (S.Lt., 1913-1915), HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Resolution
1917	-	1918	qualified in Torpedo (Ogilvy Medal)
20.03.1923	-	(01.)1925	Torpedo Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & as Fleet Torpedo Officer, China Station
27.10.1925	-	(06.1928)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
12.03.1929	-	(08.1930)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
13.01.1931	-	(01.)1932	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
05.01.1932	-	(06.1933)	Executive Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China)
(01.1934)			no appointment listed
19.02.1934	-	(07.1935)	Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.02.1936	-	(02.)1938	Deputy Director of Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
20.04.1938	-	21.01.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Aurora (cruiser) & from 20.04.1938-06.12.1939 Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas
27.01.1940	-	24.04.1940	Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Rear-Admiral Minelayers)
25.04.1940	-	17.04.1942	Deputy Director of Torpedoes and Mining Department (London), Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
18.04.1942	-	16.02.1943	Director of Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]
06.03.1943	-	08.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship)
23.08.1943	-	14.02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship)
08.01.1944	-	02.01.1945	also: Naval ADC to the King
15.02.1945	-	30.04.1946	Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 6 months)]
01.05.1946	-	14.07.1946	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
15.07.1946	-	05.09.1950	Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Chatham

Middleton,
Hugh Christopher Alyn
H.C.A. Middleton

Son of Hugh P. Middleton, and Margaret M. James.

24.09.1921
Wrexham district, Cheshire / Denbighshire / Flintshire
-
18.02.1996
Surrey Mid-Eastern district, Surrey

Cadet	01.01.1939
Midsh.	01.09.1939
S.Lt.	16.06.1941
Lt.	?, seniority 16.06.1941
Lt.Cdr.	16.06.1949
Cdr.	31.12.1954 (retd 28.10.1958)

DSC

04.04.1944

Aegean operations mined & sunk 22.10.1943 [award posted]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth

01.01.1939	-	31.08.1939	HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.09.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Manchester (cruiser)
23.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Forester (destroyer)
18.09.1941	-	22.10.1943	HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (ship was mined & lost east off Kalymnos)
(12.1943)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
09.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.04.1948	-	(05.)1949	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous service)
12.12.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Cleopatra
03.09.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
30.07.1953	-	(07.1954)	Gunnery Officer, HMS Birmingham
12.04.1955	-	(01.1957)	Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Middleton,
Hugh Philip

16.03.1889
-
10.05.1974

...	...
Lt.	15.08.1910 (retd)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.08.1918
Capt. (retd)	30.10.1938

...	-	...	...
16.06.1941	-	(07.1945)	Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]

Middleton,
John Henry Dudley
J.H.D. Middleton

Father of R.Adm. John Patrick Windsor Middleton, CB, RN (1938-).

19.11.1907
Dublin South district, Ireland
-
29.01.1989
Wandsworth district, London

Midsh. (E)	15.09.1926
S.Lt. (E)	01.12.1928
Lt. (E)	01.07.1930
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.07.1938
A/Cdr. (E)	> 02.1941, < 12.1941
Cdr. (E)	30.06.1942 (retd 20.07.1948)

...	-	...	...
26.07.1938	-	(04.)1940	HMS Ramillies (battleship)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
07.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
(12.1941)	-	(06.1943)	no appointment listed
28.06.1943	-	(01.)1945	an Engineer Inspector at the Department of the Engingineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President]
(07.1945)			HMS Diadem (cruiser) *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

MIMechE, MIMarE.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Middleton,
Joseph Reginald

Son (with one brother) of Reginald Joseph Middleton (1874-), and Betsy Stevenson (1876-).
Married ((06?).1934, Bromley district, Kent) Ivy Holmes (10.03.1907 - 15.06.1982), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Richard John Holmes (1878-1941), and Mary Carter (1871-1956); two sons.

10.09.1905
Full Sutton, Pocklington district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
24.01.1986
Bromley district, Kent

Chief Yeoman of Signals	? [C/J 103503]
T/A/Signal Boatswain	29.01.1945
T/A/Commissioned Communication Officer *	08.03.1945 (reld 04.1948)

	MID	08.06.1944	HM's birthday 1944
	MID	27.06.1944	Adriatic 10.1943

* Officer promoted to quasi-permanent rank

10.1925	-	12.1929	HMS Diomede & HMS Dunedin
03.1935	-	08.1937	HMS Dunedin
07.1939	-	05.1942	HMS York (cruiser)
10.1942	-	11.1942	HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
02.1943	-	06.1944	HMS Troubridge (destroyer) (despatches twice)
(07.1945)			HMS Watchful (RN base, Yarmouth) *
08.1945	-	01.1946	HMS Tamar (Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
06.06.1946	-	04.1948	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for signal school)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Miers,
[Sir] Anthony Cecil Capel
A.C.C. Miers

Second son of late Capt. D.N.C.C. Miers, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (Killed in France, September 1914) and Margaret Annie Christie; married 1945, Patricia Mary, daughter of late D.M. Millar, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; one son, one daughter.

11.11.1906
Birchwood, Inverness
-
30.06.1985
Inverness
[Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness, Scotland. Roman Catholic Section]

S.Lt.	01.01.1928
Lt.	01.01.1930
Lt.Cdr.	01.01.1938
Cdr.	31.12.1941
Capt.	31.12.1946
R.Adm.	07.01.1956 (retd 07.07.1959)

VC	07.07.1942	attack Corfu Roads 04.03.1942 [investiture 28.07.1942] *
KBE	13.06.1959	HM's birthday 1959 [investiture 07.07.1959]
CB	12.06.1958	HM's birthday 1958 [investiture 11.07.1958]
DSO	07.10.1941	2 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 30.06.1942]
DSO	07.04.1942	war patrols Mediterranean 08-11.1941 [investiture 30.06.1942]
MID	01.01.1941	New Year 1941
LM	28.05.1946	?

* For valour in command of HM Submarine Torbay in a daring and successful raid on shipping in a defended enemy harbour, planned with full knowledge of the great hazards to be expected during seventeen hours in waters closely patrolled by the enemy. On arriving in the harbour he had to charge his batteries lying on the surface in full moonlight, under the guns of the enemy. As he could not see his target he waited several hours and attacked in full daylight in a glassy calm. When he fired his torpedoes he was heavily counter-attacked and had to withdraw through a long channel with anti-submarine craft all round and continuous air patrols overhead.

Education: Stubbington House; Edinburgh Academy; Wellington College

1924			special entry cadet RN
29.04.1929	-	(08.1929)	submarine course, Portsmouth
12.08.1929	-	(02.1931)	HMS M 2 (submarine)
25.04.1931	-	(01.1932)	First Lieutenant, HMS H 28 (submarine)
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
19.10.1933	-	(07.1935)	First Lieutenant, HMS Rainbow (submarine)
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
08.09.1936	-	(07.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS L 54 (submarine) (Coronation medal at HM's review in 1937)
1937	-	1938	HMS Iron Duke (training ship)
11.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich (psc)
02.01.1939	-	(10.)1940	Staff Officer (Operations 2) to Commander-in- Chief Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship) till 01.01.1940, HMS Rodney (battleship) till (04.1940), and HMS Warspite (battleship), then again HMS Nelson (battleship)]
1940	-	1940	HMS Largs
12.11.1940	-	28.10.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Torbay (submarine)
19.11.1942	-	05.1944	HMS Saker (RN base, USA)
1943	-	1944	Staff of Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief US Pacific Fleet
21.05.1944	-	(07.)1945	Commander Submarines 8th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
1946			Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon II (HMS Ramillies and HMS Malaya)
1947			jssc
1948	-	1950	Commanding Officer, HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton)
(05.1950)			no appointment listed
1950	-	1952	Commanding Officer, HMS Forth and Capt. S/M, 1st Submarine Flotilla
25.06.1952	-	1954	Captain of RN College, Greenwich (Coronation medal, 1953)
1954	-	1955	Commanding Officer, HMS Theseus
(01.1956)			no appointment listed
1956	-	1959	Flag Officer, Middle East

Joined National Car Parks as Director for Development Coordination, 1971.With Mills and Allen Ltd, 1962-74, and with London and Provincial Poster Group, 1962-83. Obtained pilot's certificate ("A" License), 1948. Governor, Star and Garter Home, Richmond, 1970-76; Chm., RN Scholarship Fund, 1968-73. Nat. Pres., Submarine Old Comrades Assoc., 1967-81. Chm., Hudsons Offshore Ltd, 1972-73. Burgess and Freeman of Burgh of Inverness, 1955; Member, Royal Highland Society, 1966. Councillor, Lawn Tennis Association, 1954-78, Hon. Life Councillor 1979; Pres. RN Squash Rackets Assoc., 1960-70; Pres. RN Lawn Tennis Assoc., 1962-78; FInstD 1960. Freeman of the City of London, 1966; Member, Court of Assistants, 1969, Under Warden, 1982, Upper Warden, 1983, Master, 1984, Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers; Hon. Kt, Hon. Soc. of Knights of Round Table, 1967. Silver Jubilee Medal, 1977.

Milbourne,
Charles Delves
C.D. Milbourne

Son of Lt.Col. Charles Kingsley Milbourne (1863-?).

11.08.1895
Guildford district, Surrey
-
14.01.1962
[Castries City Cemetery
Castries, Saint Lucia]

Lt.	15.03.1919 (retd 31.03.1923; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.03.1927 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)
A/Cdr. (retd)	29.05.1940 to 1941?
Cdr. (retd)	08.05.1946

09.1914			joined RN
(04.1940)			no appointment listed
29.05.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for service at Aruba)
08.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
01.04.1942	-	(07.1945)	Resident Naval Officer, St Lucia [HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad)]

Miles,
Francis Nigel
F.N. Miles, early 1950s (Photo courtesy of Mr Grant Paton)

Son of Charles Stafford Miles (1849-1927), a Civil Service clerk, and Maria Wallace.
Brother of Lt.Gen. Charles George Norman Miles, CMG, DSO, Australian Army.
Married 1st (20.06.1914, Kensington district, London) Emily Helen Shirreff Hilton ((03?).1888 - 13.11.1955).
Married 2nd (22.05.1957, St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Edinburgh, Scotland) Agnes Dunlop Paton, of West Kilbride, Ayrshire.

04.05.1886
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
-
29.05.1971
West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland

Midsh.	30.06.1903
A/S.Lt.	30.08.1906?
S.Lt.	22.04.1907, seniority 30.08.1906
Lt.	30.08.1908
Lt.Cdr.	30.08.1916
Cdr.	30.06.1920 (retd 16.08.1932; own request)
Capt. (retd)	16.08.1932 (recalled 24.07.1939) (reverted to retd 16.11.1945)

	OBE	21.06.1919	for valuable services as Navigating Officer of HMS Phaeton during minelaying operations in the North Sea
	Arc St	2014	-

15.01.1902			entered RN
1902	-	1903	Cadet, HMS Britannia (training ship)
1903	-	1904	Cadet, HMS Revenge (battleship)
1904	-	1906	Midshipman, HMS Euryalus (armoured cruiser)
1906	-	1906	Midshipman, HMS Duncan (battleship)
1906	-	1907	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
1908	-	1908	HMS Avon (destroyer)
1908	-	1908	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for navigation qualifying course)
1909	-	1909	Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Cumberland (armoured cruiser)
1909	-	1909	Navigating Officer, HMS Hazard (submarine depot ship)
1909	-	1910	Navigating Officer, HMS Pyramus (armoured cruiser)
1911	-	1912	Navigating Officer, HMS Patrol (cruiser)
1912	-	1913	Navigating Officer, HMS Intrepid (cruiser)
1913	-	1913	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for navigation qualifying course for first class ships)
1913	-	1913	Navigating Officer, HMS Dido (2nd class cruiser)
1913	-	1914	Navigating Officer, HMS Theseus (1st class cruiser)
1915	-	1916	Navigating Officer, HMS Phaeton (light cruiser) (Battle of Jutland)
1919	-	1920	Navigating Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser)
1921	-	1923	Navigating Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser)
11.05.1923	-	1926	Commanding Officer, HMNZS Philomel (cruiser; training and depot ship, Auckland) & Superintendent Naval Base, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand [lent to New Zealand government]
(05.1926)			no appointment listed [lent to New Zealand government]
04.07.1926	-	1928	Navigating Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & Fleet Navigating Officer, China Station [lent to New Zealand government]
(08.)1929	-	(01.)1932	Air Ministry (in charge of development of compasses and navigation instruments)
02.09.1939	-	10.08.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Transylvania (armed merchant cruiser) (Arctic Patrol duties) (torpedoed & sunk by U-56)
25.09.1940	-	16.02.1941	Duty Captain on operational staff of Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
17.02.1941	-	(07.)1945	Duty Captain on operational staff of Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

Miles,
Sir Geoffrey John Audley
G.J.A. Miles

Third son of Audley Charles Miles (1855-1919), and Eveline Francis CradockHartopp (1856-1946).
Married (22.02.1918) Alison Mary Cadell (13.10.1898 - 20.05.1981), daughter of Henry Moubray Cadell (1860-1934), geologist and geographer, and Elinor Simson (1868-1943); two sons (Lt.Cdr. Peter Tremayne Miles, RN & Lt. Archibald Geoffrey Miles, Royal Artillery).

02.05.1890
Chelsea district, London
-
31.12.1986
Holyport, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Midsh.	1907?
A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.06.1911
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1919
Cdr.	31.12.1924
Capt.	30.06.1931
R.Adm.	08.07.1941
V.Adm.	09.03.1944 (supernumerary 15.03.1946)
Adm.	04.01.1948 (retd 15.04.1948)

KCB	14.06.1945	HM's birthday 1945 [investiture 20.07.1945]
KCSI	01.01.1948	New Year 1948 [investiture 10.02.1948]
CB	11.06.1942	HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 30.03.1943]
LegH	?	commanding operations Western Mediterranean 1944

Education: Bedford School; HMS Britannia (1906-1907).

15.01.1905			joined the Royal Navy
15.05.1906			HMS Victorious
			specialised in navigation
15.09.1908			HMS King Edward VII
10.08.1910			HMNZS Leander (cruiser) (for disposal) [lent to RNZN]
01.1912	-	1912	Assistant to Navigator, HMS Neptune (flagship of Home Fleet)
1912	-	1914	Navigator, HMS Surprise, 1913 renamed HMS Alacrity (despatch vessel) (China Station)
1914	-	1915	Navigator, HMS Empress of Russia (armed merchant cruiser) (Indian Ocean)
1915	-	1916	Navigator, HMS Botha (flotilla leader) (Grand Fleet)
1916	-	(01.)1919	Navigator, HMS Fearless (light cruiser; submarine flotilla leader) (Grand Fleet)
1919	-	1919	Navigator, HMS Calliope (cruiser)
06.1919	-	10.1920	staff course, RN Staff College [HMS President]
1920	-	1922	Staff Officer, HMS Coventry under Rear-Admiral Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas
28.07.1922	-	(01.)1925	Navigating Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, Destroyer Flotillas, Atlantic later Mediterranean Fleet
1925	-	1926	for operations duties on staff of 3rd Battle Squadron
09.03.1926	-	(07.)1927	for operations duties on staff of Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Vice-Admiral Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean)
01.11.1927	-	14.11.1927	gyro compass instruction, Admiralty Compass Observatory (Ditton Park, Langley)
15.11.1927	-	17.05.1929	Navigating Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) & as Staff Officer (Operations) and Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet)
19.07.1929	-	30.08.1929	RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (temporarily)
25.11.1929	-	24.08.1931	Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.10.1931	-	15.12.1932	Commanding Officer, HMS Pangbourne (twin-screw minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 1st Minesweeping Flotilla
02.01.1933	-	10.03.1933	senior officers' course, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
11.03.1933	-	24.06.1935	Deputy Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (from 20.06.1934-08.1934 Director (temporarily))
23.07.1935	-	(05.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) & as Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)
17.07.1937	-	16.12.1938	Assistant Director Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
16.12.1938	-	(04.)1939	Director Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
19.07.1939	-	14.06.1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) & to 01.04.1941 Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet
15.01.1941	-	08.07.1941	also: Naval ADC to the King
23.06.1941	-	22.03.1943	Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services):
06.1941	-	03.1943	Head of Military Mission in Moscow
03.1943	-	07.1943	on staff of Commander-in-Chief Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
05.04.1943	-	18.04.1943	HMS President (additional; for temporary duty with Chief of Combined Operations outside Combined Operations HQ)
13.07.1943	-	23.10.1943	Naval Force Commander, Eastern Expeditionary Force [HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India)]
24.10.1943	-	07.05.1944	Deputy Naval Commander, South East Asia Command (under Mountbatten), East Indies Station [HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi, India)]
08.05.1944	-	21.05.1944	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
22.05.1944	-	14.07.1944	HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not to exceed 6 months)
15.07.1944	-	31.05.1945	Flag Officer, Western Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy)]
01.06.1945	-	03.08.1945	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
04.08.1945	-	12.08.1945	HMS President (additional; for special duty outside Admiralty)
13.08.1945	-	21.01.1946	Senior British Representative on the Tripartite Naval Commission (Berlin) [HMS Royal Albert (additional; for Naval Party 1813) (concurrently Senior British Representative on the Tripartite Merchant Marine Commission)
22.01.1946	-	14.03.1946	HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)
15.03.1946	-	25.01.1948	Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy (from 01.03.1947 Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy)
26.01.1948			HMS President (additional; for reversion to RN)

Literature: obituary in: The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004, p. 20-22).

Miles,
Peter Tremayne
P.T. Miles

Son of Adm. Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles, KCB, KCSI, RN (1980-1986), and Alison Mary Cadell (1898-1981).
Married (22.06.1957) Christine Valerie Walby Perks, daughter of Frank Rupert Perks, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent; two sons.

08.06.1920
Woolwich district, Greater London
-
19.08.1995
Windsor and Maidenhead district, Berkshire

Cadet	01.05.1938
Midsh.	01.05.1939
A/S.Lt.	01.01.1941
S.Lt.	1941, seniority 01.08.1940
Lt.	16.02.1942
Lt.Cdr.	16.02.1950 (retd 15.11.1962)

MID

01.06.1953

Korea

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

01.05.1938	-	30.04.1939	direct entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
01.05.1939	-	(10.1940)	HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
06.01.1941	-	(02.)1941	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
07.06.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Versatile (destroyer)
09.03.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
13.09.1942	-	(01.)1945	First Lieutenant, HMS Clyde (submarine)
1945	-	05.1945	submarine Commanding Officers' qualifying course
07.06.1945	-	(07.)1945	Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine)
22.09.1945	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sanguine (submarine)
23.06.1948	-	(07.)1948	HMS Dolphin (for submarines)
15.12.1948	-	(05.1949)	Commanding Officer, HMS Aeneas
26.02.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Montclare
1950/51?			Commanding Officer, HMS Crane (frigate)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
20.10.1953	-	(04.)1955	Commanding Officer, HMS Alcide
07.11.1955	-	(01.1957)	RN Representative on Secretariat, Commander-in-Chief Committee, Germany [HMS Royal Prince] (Rheindahlen)
?	-	(01.1959)	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
?	-	(07.1961)	Staff Officer, Mersey Division RNR

Maritime painter.
Published: A gift of observation (1988).

Miles,
Roderick Bruce Tremayne
R.B.T. Miles

08.06.1887
St George Hanover Square district, Greater London
-
26.04.1963
Terwick, Sussex

A/S.Lt.	15.07.1906
S.Lt.	06.04.1907, seniority 15.07.1906
Lt.	31.07.1908, seniority 15.07.1907
Lt.Cdr.	15.07.1915
Cdr.	30.06.1920
Capt.	31.12.1927
R.Adm.	10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939) (reactivated 04.09.1939) (reverted to retd > 04.1946)

15.01.1902			entered RN
05.1923	-	(04.)1924	Executive Officer, HMS Dragon (light cruiser)
14.11.1924	-	07.12.1924	Admiralty [HMS President]
08.12.1924	-	(01.1925)	Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
12.01.1926	-	(06.1928)	Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (sloop) (China)
16.03.1929	-	(08.)1929	senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]
14.08.1929	-	(04.1930)	Commanding Officer, HMS Comus (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
21.06.1930	-	(10.)1932	Commanding Officer, HMS Codrington (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 3rd Flotilla (Mediterranean)
13.12.1932	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
08.01.1934	-	(07.)1935	Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
19.12.1935	-	(02.)1936	Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
21.08.1936	-	(02.)1937	Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.07.1937	-	(07.1937)	Commanding Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet)
04.01.1938	-	09.01.1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
04.09.1939	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

Millar,
Fitzadam
F. Millar

Fifth of nine children of Fitzadam Millar (1849-1923), and Georgina Westby (1850-1936).
Married 1st (17.08.1918, Plympton, Devon) Frances Louise Lewarne ((09?).1893 - 23.07.1928) daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Nicholas Lewarne, and Florence Case; one son [S.Lt. Michael Fitzadam Millar, RN], two daughters.
Married 2nd (1930?) Violet Marion Trouton ((12?).1892 - 13.06.1963).
Married 3rd ((06?).1964, Midhurst, Sussex) Kathleen Helen Mary Bevan (18.05.1895 - 02.01.1981)

27.08.1889
Windsor, Monkstown, Co. Dublin
-
02.12.1965
Liphook, Hampshire

Midsh.	15.05.1906
S.Lt.	15.09.1909
Lt.	15.06.1911
Lt.Cdr.	15.06.1919 (retd 22.11.1920; own request, with gratuity)
Cdr. (retd)	27.08.1929 (reverted to retd 17.10.1945)

DSC

19.11.1915

Aden

28.09.1938	-	04.10.1938	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for duty with Naval Officer-in-Charge, Kirkwall)
25.08.1939	-	19.12.1939	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; as Staff Officer (Intelligence) & (Operations), Kirkwall
20.12.1939	-	24.03.1940	HMS ... [Cochrane?] (additional; not to join)
25.03.1940	-	17.10.1945	Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, Admiralty (Kite and Balloon Section) [HMS President]

Millar,
John Wellwood
F.D. Miller

29.06.1920
Croydon district, London
-
30.01.2004
San Francisco, California, USA

Cadet	01.09.1937
Midsh.	01.09.1938
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1940
S.Lt.	1941?, seniority 01.10.1939
Lt.	16.07.1941
Lt.Cdr.	16.07.1949 (retd 09.03.1959)

Education: Hurstpierpont College, Sussex.

01.09.1938	-	(12.1938)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
02.02.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Nelson (battleship)
06.05.1940	-	(06.)1940	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1940)			no appointment listed
05.09.1940	-	(12.1942)	HMS Saladin (destroyer)
(02.1943)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed
03.1943	-	1943	British Naval Liaison Officer, French cruiser "Gloire"
(10.1943)	-	(12.1943)	British Naval Liaison Officer, French battleship "Richelieu" *
(02.1944)	-	(10.1944)	HMS Waveney (frigate) * [possibly in command of a Landing Craft, Headquarters (LCH) during the Normandy landings 06.1944]
20.12.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Teazer (destroyer)
25.03.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Milne (destroyer)
...	-	...	...

Emigrated to the US in 1959 and obtained a J.D. in College of Law, WY, in 1964. and in the same year was assistant to the Attorney General in Cheyenne. In 1965 he moved to San Francisco and for 14 years he was law writer/editor at Bancroft Whitney Law Publishers mostly as senior Headnoter of the California Supreme Court and Appellate Court opinions. He retired in 1979.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Millar,
Michael Fitzadam
M.F. Millar

Son (with two younger sisters) of Cdr. Fitzadam Millar, DSC, RN (1889-1965), and Frances Louise Lewarne ((1893-1928).
Brother of Third Officer Rachel Millar, WRNS.

31.01.1921
Plympton district, Devon
-
23.08.1941
off Tripoli
(MPK) [age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 2]

Cadet	01.05.1938
Midsh.	01.01.1939
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1940
S.Lt.	16.12.1940

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.09.1934-05.04.1938; Admiralty No. 1452; Chief Cadet Captain and Eardley Howard-Crocket Prize).

01.05.1938	-	26.01.1939	HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)
27.01.1939	-	04.07.1940	HMS Gloucester (Southampton class cruiser)
01.09.1940	-	(10.)1940	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(12.1940)	-	(02.1941)	no appointment listed
09.02.1941	-	03.1941	submarine course, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)
22.03.1941	-	(04.)1941	HMS Medway (submarine depot ship)
04.1941	-	23.08.1941	HMS P 32 (U class submarine) [ship mined off Tripoli]

Miller,
Francis Duppa
"Frank"
F.D. Miller

Brother of Lt.Cdr. J.B.P. Miller, RNVR.
Changed name by deed poll of 02.03.1956 to:
Duppa-Miller,
Francis

09.12.1906
Solihull, Warwickshire
-
20.11.1975
Shipston/S district

Lt.	01.05.1929
Lt.Cdr.	01.05.1937
Cdr.	31.12.1944

MBE	?	?
MID	11.11.1941	Greek withdrawal 04.1941
GrWC	11.08.1942	services to belligerent Greece
LoP	-	Operation Neptune

15.08.1928	-	(08.1929)	HMS Lupin (sloop) (East Indies)
(02.1931)			short course
07.12.1931	-	(09.1932)	signal course, HM Signal School, Portsmouth
17.12.1932	-	(01.1934)	for charge of Aden W/T Station [HMS Hawkins II]
09.04.1934	-	(07.1935)	Signal School (Experimental), HMS Victory
07.10.1936	-	(07.1938)	Signals Officer, HMS Hardy (Flotilla Leader, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Malta)
01.05.1939	-	(08.1939)	Lt.Cdr., HMS Shoreham (escort vessel)
(03.1941)	-	(04.1941)	Flag Lieutenant to Adm. Cunningham [HMS Orion (cruiser)]
09.1941	-	(10.1943)	Admiralty Signal Establishment, Haslemere [HMS Mercury II]
05.11.1943	-	(06.1944)	Staff Signal Officer to Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx]
08.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	staff, Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
		(05.1950)	HMS Saker
		(05.1953)	HMS President
		(01.1956)	HMS Victory

Miller,
Gordon George Ralph
G.G.R. Miller (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son of .... Miller, and ... Harris.

(03?).1921
Banbury district, Gloucestershire / Northamptonshire / Oxfordshire / Warwickshire
-
05.05.2009
Australia

A/S.Lt. (A)	01.09.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr.	01.09.1953 (retd 01.03.1960)

?	-	23.08.1944	Cochrane course, Final Selection Board, Upper Yardmen & Upper Yardmen (Air), HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
...	-	...	...

Miller,
Max Owens Waldemar
M.O.W. Miller

Son (with one sister and one brother) of William Charles Walmer Miller, OBE (1870-1936), and Daisie Ethel Owens (1878-1970).
Married ((12?).1936, Easington district, Durham) Lilian Elsie Morgan (16.08.1906 - 15.11.2003), daughter (with five sisters and two brothers) of Arthur W. Morgan (1879-), and Florance Martha Gutcher (1883-1968); three sons.

13.04.1904
Mussoorie, India
-
26.01.1959
The General Hospital, Rangoon, Burma
(formerly of Teignmouth, Devon)

Midsh.	15.09.1923
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1926
S.Lt.	?
Lt.	15.09.1927 (emgcy 21.12.1933)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy)	15.09.1935
A/Cdr. (emgcy)	> 07.1945, < 04.1946
Cdr. (emgcy)	12.08.1946, seniority 08.05.1946

DSC

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [decoration posted]

02.11.1923	-	(01.1925)	HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
08.04.1926	-	15.01.1927	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
16.01.1927	-	(07.)1927	promotion course, Portsmouth
04.08.1927	-	(08.)1929	HMS Vanessa (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
28.10.1929	-	(04.)1930	observers' course [HMS Excellent]
24.06.1930	-	(02.)1931	HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and as Acting Observer)
28.08.1931	-	(09.1932)	Observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
06.03.1933	-	(06.)1933	Observer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
25.08.1939	-	(10.)1940	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
20.10.1940	-	(12.)1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Coila (armed yacht)
12.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Diomede (cruiser)
30.09.1942	-	(10.)1942	HMS Carlisle (Carlisle class cruiser)
(12.1942)	-	(02.1943)	no appointment listed
17.03.1943	-	(07.)1945	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank (LCTs))
(06.1944)			"I" Squadron, Landing Craft under Assault Group S2 (Sword Beach, Normandy)
12.09.1945	-	(04.1946)	MLC Squadron Commander [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]

Published: contributed several stories in air magazines

Millett,
Herbert Claude
H.C. Millett

07.05.1896
Cuckfield district, Sussex
-
22.12.1963

...	...
Lt.	15.09.1917 (retd 18.07.1922; own request)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	15.09.1925
Cdr. (retd)	07.05.1936

MID

07.07.1946

POW at the fall of Hong Kong

15.01.1909			entered RN
...	-	...	...
27.08.1939	-	12.1941	HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (captured)
27.08.1939	-	10.1940	for miscellaneous service
10.1940	-	12.1941	Maintenance Commander
12.1941	-	1945	POW in Japanese captivity

Milligan,
Patrick Desmond Laing
P.D.L. Milligan

Son of Mrs R.M. Milligan, of Wickham, Hampshire.
Engaged (07.1940) Kathleen Wendy Guarme, second daughter of Mrs P.J. Chissell, of Colombo.
Married 1st ((06?).1942, St Marylebone district, London) Lovice Adele Soutry ((12?).1909 - (12?).1968), divorced wife of William Cecil Gordon Cuthbert Goodfellow (1906-1975).
Married 2nd ((06?).1955, Hampstead district, London) Mary R. Falconer.

08.11.1918
Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana
-
26.01.1996
Trowbridge district, Wiltshire

Cadet	01.01.1936
Midsh.	01.09.1936
A/S.Lt.	01.09.1938
S.Lt.	16.05.1939
Lt.	16.10.1940 (emgcy 07.02.1948) (retd 07.02.1948)

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (King's Dirk, Sword of Honour, 1935).

01.01.1936	-	(08.)1936	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
01.09.1936	-	(02.)1937	HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)
01.06.1937	-	(08.)1938	HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet)
05.09.1938	-	(04.)1939	promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
27.05.1939	-	(08.)1939	HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) [20.07.1939 appointment cancelled]
02.08.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Kent (cruiser)
20.03.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Jackal (destroyer)
02?.1942	-	05?.1942	Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
21.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
(06.1943)			no appointment listed
07.06.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield)
(10.1943)			HMS Sussex (cruiser) *
15.10.1943	-	(06.)1944	Flag Lieutenant & Squadron Signal and W/T Officer, 4th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Kenya (cruiser)]
01.10.1944	-	(10.1944)	Flag Lieutenant & Squadron Communications and W/T Officer, 4th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Nigeria (cruiser)]
(01.1945)			HMS Nigeria (cruiser) *
06.04.1945	-	(04.1947)	HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for communications duties)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Millington,
Richard Clare St Valentine
R.C.St.V. Millington (Photo courtesy of Mr Steve Oakeshott)

Married; ... children.

14.02.1902
Yarmouth district, Norfolk
-
18.02.1985
Honiton district, Devon

A/S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	15.05.1922
Lt.	15.08.1923
Lt.Cdr.	15.08.1931 (retd 14.02.1947)
A/Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 07.1945
Cdr. (retd)	14.02.1947

02.01.1923	-	(08.1923)	HMS Viscount (torpedo-boat destroyer)
09.1924	-	(05.)1926	HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)
30.12.1926	-	14.08.1927	qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
15.08.1927	-	(06.1928)	qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon
(08.1929)			HMS Defiance (torpdeo school ship, Devonport) *
01.08.1929	-	(02.)1931	HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies)
29.12.1931	-	(01.)1934	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
10.01.1934	-	(02.)1935	Torpedo Officer, HMS Leander (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
07.05.1935	-	(02.)1936	HMS President (for miscellaneous service at Admiralty)
15.02.1936	-	(07.1937)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean)
17.02.1938	-	(10.)1938	HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)
04.10.1938	-	(04.1946)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth/Brighton) (for duty at Stokes Bay Experimental Establishment [later: STS Stoke Bay])

* indexed, but not listed as such

Millns,
Frederick Leslie
F.L. Millns

08.04.1908
Mattersey, East Retford district, Nottinghamshire
-
(12?).1989
Greenwich district, London

...	...
Gnr. (T)	01.04.1936
A/Lt.	18.05.1941
Lt.	16.01.1942, seniority 01.04.1938
A/Lt.Cdr.	01.11.1944
Lt.Cdr.	01.04.1946
Lt.Cdr. (L)	25.03.1947, seniority 01.11.1944
Cdr. (L)	31.12.1946
Capt. (L)	31.12.1955 (retd 02.02.1962)

CBE	01.01.1962	New Year 1962 [investiture 20.02.1962]
DSC	08.04.1941	sighted "Berillo", sunk 20.10.1940 [decoration posted]
NGSM	-	-
39\|45 St	-	-
Afr St	-	& clasp
Bur St	-	-
It St	-	-
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
CorM	-	-

...	-	...	...
14.09.1936	-	(08.)1940	HMS Havock (H class destroyer) (DSC)
(10.1940)	-	(02.1941)	no appointment listed
(04.1941)	-	(06.1941)	promotion course, Portsmouth *
19.08.1941	-	(10.)1942	HMS Emerald (E class cruiser) (in lieu of specialist Torpedo Officer)
06.10.1942	-	(10.)1943	Torpedo Officer, HMS Eskimo (Tribal class destroyer)
10.1943	-	(10.1944)	on staff of Vice-Admiral Malta & Flag Officer Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) *
09.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
...	-	...	...
08.01.1960	-	(07.1961)	Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) (CBE)
...	-	...	...

Mills,
Charles Brian

From Belfast.

11.07.1921
-
20.11.1996
SE Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1940
Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	01.10.1941
Lt.	16.02.1943
Lt.Cdr.	16.02.1951
Cdr.	30.06.1958 (retd 11.07.1971)

DSC

12.09.1944

4 war patrols Eastern Fleet [decoration posted]

01.09.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
01.05.1942	-	(02.1943)	promotion course, Portsmouth
03.05.1943	-	(06.1943)	HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
13.07.1943	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Storm (submarine)
29.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth)
30.08.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)
(07.1948)			HMS Montclare (submarine depot ship) *
26.11.1948	-	(05.1950)	Commanding Officer, HMS Tradewind (submarine)
31.10.1951	-	(05.1953)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sanguine (submarine)
29.10.1955	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Totem (submarine)
22.09.1959	-	(07.1961)	FOO, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot)
27.04.1962	-	(02.1963)	Commanding Officer, HMS Medway & Commander S/M, 7th Submarine Squadron
17.03.1967	-	(02.1969)	Staff Officer (Nav/Dep), Allied Forces Northern Europe (AFNORTH), NATO

* indexed, but not listed as such

Mills,
John William

29.08.1885
-
08.07.1969
South Liverpool district, Lancashire

Gnr.	17.02.1914 (retd)
Cd.Gnr. (retd)	08.1941, seniority 01.05.1941
Lt. (retd)	07.08.1944, seniority 01.05.1944

...	-	...	...
29.09.1939	-	10.02.1942	HMS Pretoria Castle (armed merchant cruiser) [tender to HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)]
02.06.1942	-	16.06.1942	Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
17.06.1942	-	14.08.1942	HMS Eaglet II (anti-submarine & minesweeping trawler base, Birkenhead, Cheshire)
15.08.1942	-	04.11.1944	HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead, Cheshire) (for gunnery maintenance (ammunition))
05.11.1944	-	16.07.1945	HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead, Cheshire) (as Armament Officer)
24.09.1945	-	14.04.1946	HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) (as Assistant to the Gunnery Officer)
17.05.1946	-	19.07.1946	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

Mills,
Ronald George
"Ronnie"

Son of Charles Mills Jr. (1872?-1959), and Kate Mills (1874?-1959), of Croylands, Wimbledon Common, later of Folkestone.
Married 1st ((03?).1928, Weymouth district, Dorset) Sylvia Gurney ((03?).1901 - 19.01.1960), younger daughter of the late Dr. H. Gurney, of Dovercourt, Essex, and Mrs Gurney, of Brentry, Weymouth; ... children (one son, one daughter?).
Married 2nd ((12?).1960, Westminster district, London) Mary Frances Gerardine "Pooch" Campbell (née Howell) (25.10.1908 - 21.01.1975), widow of Lt.Cdr. Andrew Neil Gillespie Campbell, RN (1909-1944), of Seymour Place, London W1.

27.12.1903
Putney, Wandsworth district, London
-
30.10.1987
Henley district, Berkshire

Midsh.	15.01.1922
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1924
S.Lt.	1925?, seniority 30.11.1924
Lt.	30.04.1926
Lt.Cdr.	30.04.1934
Cdr.	31.12.1940
Capt.	31.12.1948 (retd 07.01.1958)

DSO	17.06.1941	successful submarine patrols [investiture 03.02.1942]
DSC	28.06.1940	submarine actions against the enemy [investiture 03.02.1942]
DSC	06.09.1940	successful submarine patrols [investiture 03.02.1942]
DSC	24.07.1945	anti-U-boat operations Plymouth area 26.03.1945 [investiture 13.11.1945]
MID	16.01.1945	probable destruction U-boat Plymouth area 15.08.1944
MID	03.07.1945	destruction U-boat Plymouth area 24.02.1945

02.10.1922	-	(08.1923)	HMS Diomede (light cruiser)
25.09.1924	-	(01.1925)	promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
09.04.1926	-	(05.)1926	HMS Conquest (cruiser) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) (additional; for submarines)
08.08.1926	-	(06.)1928	First Lieutenant, HMS H 44 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Vulcan]
08.08.1928	-	(08.1929)	HMS Salmon (destroyer) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)
14.01.1930	-	27.04.1930	First Lieutenant, HMS Proteus (submarine) (while under construction at Barrow-in-Furness) (for duty with submarines & for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract-Built Ships)
28.04.1930	-	(01.)1932	First Lieutenant, HMS Proteus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(09.1932)			no appointment listed
09.01.1933	-	(01.)1934	Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]
03.05.1934	-	(08.)1936	HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
02.09.1936	-	09.1936	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for course)
18.09.1936	-	(02.)1939	Commanding Officer, HMS Regent (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway]
(04.1939)			no appointment listed
(08.1939)			no appointment listed [intended appointment as Commanding Officer of HMS Otway (submarine) was cancelled]
02.08.1939	-	(09.)1939	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
30.11.1939	-	15.11.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Tetrarch (submarine) (DSO, DSC & Bar)
15.11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
04.03.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
01.01.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines)
(02.1943)	-	(08.1943)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) *
05.09.1943	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Inconstant (destroyer)
19.11.1943	-	02.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Duckworth (frigate) & as Senior Officer, 3rd Escort Group (2nd Bar to DSC, despatches twice)
(07.1945)			HMS Duckworth (frigate) *
03.1946	-	(04.1946)	Commanding Officer, HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport)
(07.1948)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
(05.1949)			no appointment listed
08.08.1949	-	(05.1950)	Naval Attaché, Warsaw, Poland [HMS President] (accredited to Bucharest, Sofia & Budapest as well)
29.10.1951	-	(05.1953)	Senior British Naval Officer, Ceylon & Captain Superintendent Ceylon [HMS Highflyer]
24.11.1953	-	?	tactical course
05.04.1954	-	(07.1954)	Commanding Officer, HMS Agincourt & as Captain (D) 4th Destroyer Squadron
02.12.1954	-	?	senior officers' technical course
(04.1955)			no appointment listed
19.05.1955	-	(01.1957)	Captain-in-Charge, Portland & Captain Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Portland [HMS Osprey]
08.07.1957	-	07.01.1958	also: Naval ADC to the Queen

Milne-Home,
Archibald John Fitzwilliam

Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Sir John Hepburn Milne-Home (1876-1963), and Mary Adelaide Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1883-1970).
Married ((09?).1936, Surrey South Eastern district) Evelyn Elizabeth Darley (25.10.1911 - 11.1997), daughter of Cdr. Arthur T. Darley; four children.

04.05.1909
-
27.07.1993
Salisbury district, Wiltshire

A/S.Lt.	01.09.1929
S.Lt.	01.05.1930
Lt.	01.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.	01.10.1939
A/Cdr.	> 01.1945, < 04.1945
Cdr.	30.06.1945
Capt.	31.12.1952 (retd 07.07.1962)

15.01.1923			entered RN
...	-	...	...
01.12.1930	-	24.08.1931	HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
...	-	...	...
01.10.1939	-	(12.1939)	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
01.01.1940	-	(02.)1940	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)
07.02.1940	-	(05.)1940	HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
18.05.1940	-	(12.1943)	HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
(02.1944)	-	(10.1944)	no appointment listed
10.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship) *
08.09.1945	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Milner,
Cyril William Black
C.W.B. Milner

Elder son of Maj. & Mrs C.W. Milner, of Slindon, Sussex.
Married (12.12.1936, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Celia Diana Craven, younger daughter of Lt.Col. & Mrs W.S.D. Craven, of Kingsley Green, Haslemere; three daughters, one son.

30.07.1911
-
17.02.1970
Plaistow, Sussex

...	...
Lt.	16.05.1934
Lt.Cdr.	16.05.1942 (retd 18.05.1954)
A/Cdr.	07.07.1945?

MID

25.01.1944

Operations Baytown & Ferdy (landings in Italy 09.1943)

1939-1945 Star; Africa Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; 1939-1945 War Medal

...	-	...	...
06.11.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Venomous (destroyer)
(05.1940)	-	(06.1940)	no appointment listed
(07.1940)			HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
(10.1940)	-	(02.1941)	no appointment listed
(04.1941)	-	(04.)1943	Boat Unit, Royal Marine Group MNBDO (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization) (2)
23.05.1943	-	()2.)1944	HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) (despatches)
(04.1944)			HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole) *
(06.1944)			no appointment listed
06.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Dido (cruiser)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
20.01.1945	-	(04.)1945	Commanding Officer, HM TF 41
07.07.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM LST 3025 (landing ship, tank) & as Senior Officer, 52nd LST Flotilla
...	-	...	...

Milner,
Geoffrey Deryck Nicholson

26.09.1918
Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
19.11.1943
(MPK) [age 25]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

...	...
S.Lt.	01.01.1939
Lt.	01.01.1940

DSC

07.10.1941

patrols Mediterranean sunk 'Souffleur' [investiture 21.10.1941]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth.

...	-	...	...
(1941)			HMS Parthian (submarine)
01.10.1941	-	09.01.1942	Commanding Officer, HM L 26 (submarine)
17.01.1942	-	19.02.1942	Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine)
11.07.1942	-	23.08.1942	Commanding Officer, HM L 27 (submarine)
07.09.1942	-	15.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Nymph (submarine)
15.04.1943	-	11.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Simoom (submarine)

Milner,
John Stanley
J.S. Milner

16.02.1908
-
30.09.1983

Prob. S.Lt. RNR	18.02.1931
S.Lt. RNR	18.08.1932, seniority 18.02.1931
Lt. RNR	27.08.1933
Lt. (Supplementary List)	24.04.1937, seniority 16.02.1932
Lt.	1938?, seniority 16.02.1932
Lt.Cdr.	16.02.1940
A/Cdr.	< 07.1945 [13.11.1944?]
Cdr.	31.12.1945
Capt.	31.12.1952 (retd 04.07.1959)

OBE

01.01.1953

New Year 1953 [investiture 07.07.1953]

24.05.1937	-	(07.1937)	HMS Despatch (cruiser)
10.01.1938	-	(10.1938)	HMS Guardian (netlayer)
07.03.1939	-	(02.1941)	HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
11.08.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Tana
10.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Sussex *
13.11.1944	-	(04.1946)	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
23.02.1950	-	(05.1950)	HMS Highflyer (for miscellaneous duties) (Ceylon)
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
07.01.1954	-	(01.1956)	Commanding Officer, HMS Ranpura

* till 10.1943 listed at HMS Tana, 12.1943 listed at HMS Sussex since 10.1943, 04.1944 and on listed at HMS Sussex since 10.03.1943

Milner-Barry,
John O'Brien

04.12.1898
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
28.02.1954
Bridgwater district

...	...
Lt.Cdr.	15.02.1928 (retd 04.12.1943)
Cdr. (retd)	04.12.1943

MID

19.12.1945

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

08.1914			entered RN
...	-	...	...
29.12.1941	-	(07.1945)	HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)

Milward,
Raymond Harry

16.12.1914
-
30.06.1998

...	...
Lt.	16.09.1938
Lt.Cdr.	16.09.1946 (retd 20.12.1951)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

...	-	...	...
01.09.1941	-	(08.1942)	Navigating Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)
...	-	...	...
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Minter,
John Henry Christian
J.H.C. Minter

25.12.1891
Plymouth, Devon
-
27.01.1973

...	...
Lt.	28.02.1914
Lt.Cdr.	28.02.1922 (retd 28.05.1936)
Cdr. (retd)	28.05.1936 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

15.05.1904			entered RN
...	-	...	...
08.04.1928	-	(04.)1930	Signal Department, Admiralty & for duty with Director of Naval Intelligence [HMS President]
20.10.1930	-	(01.1932)	Signal School (Experimental), Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
06.08.1932	-	(07.1935)	Commanding Officer, RN Shore Wireless Station, Flowerdown
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
28.08.1936	-	08.1939	Commanding Officer, Signal School, Devonport [HMS Drake]
18.10.1940	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, RN Shore Wireless Station, Flowerdown [HMS President II]
27.04.1942	-	(07.1945)	Communication Officer on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Harwich [HMS Badger]

Mitchell,
Geoffrey Charles
G.C. Mitchell

Son of William C. Mitchell.
Married 1st, 1955, Jocelyn Rainger (died 1987), Auckland, NZ; one son two daughters; 2nd, 1990, Dr Hilary Gardiner.

21.07.1921
-
15.10.2015
Stockbridge, Hampshire

Cadet	01.01.1940
Midsh.	01.09.1940
A/S.Lt.	01.05.1942
S.Lt.	?, seniority 01.08.1941
A/Lt.	> 02.1943, seniority 01.12.1942
Lt.	07.1943, seniority 01.12.1942
Lt.Cdr.	01.12.1950
Cdr.	31.12.1954
A/Capt.	< 07.1961
Capt.	31.12.1961
R.Adm.	07.07.1971 (retd 31.10.1975)

	CB	01.01.1973	New Year 1973 [investiture 13.02.1973]
	MID	01.01.1945	New Year 1945

Education: Marlborough College

01.01.1940			joined RN
01.09.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Nelson (battleship)
01.05.1942	-	(08.1942)	promotion course, Portsmouth
15.01.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Fury (destroyer)
23.09.1944	-	(04.1946)	Executive Officer, HMS Meynell (destroyer)
17.01.1949	-	(05.1950)	Executive Officer, HMS Barrosa
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
13.01.1955	-	(01.1956)	staff, Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Ranpura]
			Executive Officer, HMS Hermes
17.07.1961	-	1963	Deputy Director of Naval Recruiting
1963	-	1965	Captain (F), 2nd Frigate Squadron
1965	-	1967	Director Naval Operations and Trade
03.01.1968	-	(02.)1969	Commander, NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic (Matchmaker Squadron IV)
1969	-	1971	Director Strategic Policy, to Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic
07.1971	-	1974	Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations), Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
1974	-	1975	Chairman, RNR and Naval Cadet Forces Review Board

Director, The Old Granary Art and Craft Centre, Bishop's Waltham, Hants, 1975-1986.

Mitchell,
Harry
H. Mitchell (Photo courtesy of Mr Chris Davey)

Son of Fred Mitchell (1886-1934), and Minnie Simon (1885-1950).
Married 1st (1944, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; divorced 1960) ...; one daughter.
Married 2nd (26.10.1971, Haywards Heath, Sussex) Margaret Baker.

10.07.1913
Leeds, Yorkshire
-
14.04.2000
Pickering, Yorkshire

Schoolm. *	12.02.1943
Instr.Lt. RNVR	1946?, seniority 01.07.1944
Instr.Lt.Cdr. RNVR	01.05.1952 (reld 13.12.1956)

* Warrant Rank, entered for hostilities only

14.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Waxwing (RN camp, Townhill, Dunfermline, Fife)
22.09.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Pintail (RN Air Station, Nutts Corner, Crumlin, Co. Antrim) *
1946?			transferred, RNVR (London Division, List 2)
1946/47			seconded, South African Naval Force

Schoolmaster, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, 1946. Regional Official National Union of Teachers, London, 1950-1973
* indexed, but not listed as such

Mitchell,
John Ebenezer Miller
J.E.M. Mitchell

27.03.1897
Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire
-
17.04.1947
Salem, India

...	...
Lt.	30.11.1919 (retd 31.08.1920; own request; receiving gratuity)
Lt.Cdr. (retd)	30.11.1927
A/Cdr.	22.051944 (dispersal 18.04.1946) (reverted to retd 28.08.1946; granted War Service Rank of Cdr.)

...	-	...	...
29.08.1939	-	07.01.1940	HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional; for duty with NCS Madras)
08.01.1940	-	05.05.1940	HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)
06.05.1940	-	20.05.1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
21.05.1940	-	16.07.1940	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for Degaussing Establishment Weymouth)
17.07.1940	-	11.08.1940	HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) (additional; for Degaussing duties Belfast)
12.08.1940	-	31.12.1940	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for Degaussing duties at Methil)
01.01.1941	-	31.03.1941	on staff of Commander-in-Chief East Indies for Degaussing & Magnetic Advisory duties at Colombo [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
01.04.1941	-	07.04.1943	on staff of Commander-in-Chief East Indies for Degaussing Advisory duties Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
08.04.1943	-	16.05.1943	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; not to join)
17.05.1943	-	20.06.1943	HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Superintendent Net Defence, for training)
21.06.1943	-	20.12.1943	Net Defence Officer, Craigandoran [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)]
21.12.1943	-	14.01.1944	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
15.01.1944	-	16.04.1944	HMS Volcano (bomb disposal training establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland) (for instructional duties)
17.04.1944	-	21.05.1944	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; not to join)
22.05.1944	-	31.10.1945	HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) (as Officer-in-Command Permanent Naval Staff & Naval Draft Transport 25501 [later 42051, later 13])
01.11.1945	-	31.12.1945	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join)
01.01.1946	-	18.04.1946	HMS Victory X (demobilisation centre, Commercial Chambers, Portsmouth) (additional & for release in India)

Mitchell,
Philip Hastings Fletcher
P.H.F. Mitchell

24.02.1896
Islington district, Greater London / Middlesex
-
15.05.1962

Lt. (E)	15.10.1918
Lt.Cdr. (E)	15.10.1926
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1933 (retd 24.02.1946)

01.1909			entered RN
28.09.1922	-	(08.1923)	advanced course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich
28.07.1924	-	(01.)1925	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)
21.04.1925	-	(05.)1926	HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
13.09.1926	-	(07.)1927	HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
14.11.1927	-	(04.1930)	HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
27.08.1930	-	(01.)1932	HMS Velox (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
25.07.1932	-	(01.1934)	staff of Engineer Overseer, Manchester and Liverpool Districts, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.06.1934	-	(07.1935)	HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
(02.1936)			no appointment listed
27.01.1937	-	(04.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for charge of Engineer Officers' Courses)
14.11.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
15.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden)
10.11.1942	-	(06.)1944	HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
26.10.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
01.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Warspite (battleship)
29.08.1945	-	1946	HM Devonport Dockyard [HMS Drake]

Mocatta,
Robert Henry
R.H. Mocatta

27.09.1924
-
07.03.1986

...	...
S.Lt. (E)	01.08.1944
...	...
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.04.1954 (retd 26.09.1964)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

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

Mockler,
Edmond Joseph
E.J. Mockler

04.04.1902
-
20.01.1983
Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Sg.Lt.	17.05.1932 ?, seniority 10.12.1927
Sg.Lt.Cdr.	10.12.1933
Sg.Cdr.	10.12.1939
Sg.Capt.	31.12.1952 (retd 04.04.1959)

Education: National University of Ireland (medicine); MB, ChB, DPH.

1926	-	1929	joined RAF and served in India
08.08.1932	-	(09.1932)	HMS Resolution (battleship)
03.04.1933	-	(01.1934)	HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
(07.1935)			no appointment listed
19.09.1936	-	(02.1937)	HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
22.04.1938	-	(08.1939) (1942?)	Naval Health Officer, HMS Terror II (Singapore Naval Base)
06.1942	-	(02.1943)	HMS Tana (base Kilindini, Kenya)
01.04.1943	-	(04.1944)	HMS Dipper (RNAS, Henstridge, Somerset)
04.1945	-	(04.)1946	Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet [HMS Beaconsfield]
1951	-	1952	Naval Medical Officer of Health for Hong Kong

OStJ, 04.01.1954.

Moir,
Dashwood Fowler
D.F. Moir (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Lennon)

Son of late Dr John Wilson Moir, and Helen Alice Levine Moir, St Andrew's, Fife. Married (1908, Reading) Ada Francis M. Muir, daughter of late Dr W.M. Muirhead; two sons, one daughter.
Lived at Brimpton House, Brimpton, Reading, 1931-1942.

16.08.1880
St. Andrew's, Fife, Scotland
-
08.08.1942
(MPK) [age 61]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]

A/S.Lt.	15.06.1900
S.Lt.	30.05.1901, seniority 15.06.1900
Lt.	26.06.1902
Cdr.	30.06.1914
Capt.	30.06.1919
R.Adm.	19.07.1931 (retd 20.07.1931)
V.Adm. (retd)	02.01.1936
Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR	01.10.1941

DSO	08.03.1918	for service in destroyer flotillas 1917
QSA	-	& 2 clasps (Cape Colony & South Africa 1901)
AGS	-	& 1 clasp (Aro 1901-02)
14\|15 St	-	-
BWM 14\|20	-	& 9 clasps (Narrow Seas 1914, Heligoland 28 Aug. 1914, North Sea 1915, Dogger Bank 24 Jan. 15, North Sea 1916, Jutland 31 May 16, North Sea 1917, North Sea 1918, Eastern Baltic 1918-19)
VM	-	-
MID	15.09.1916	Battle of Jutland

15.07.1894			entered RN
1901			served South Africa
01.06.1901	-	(1902)	HMS Thrush (Southern Nigeria and in the Aro expedition on the Lower Niger in 1902 (despatches))
15.08.1903			HMS Exmouth
29.12.1903			HMS Fire Queen (for six months' course of instruction in gymnastics)
23.08.1904			HMS Implacable (as Inspector of Gymnasia)
14.07.1906			HMS Dryad (for supervision of Sub-Lieutenants)
15.02.1907			Commanding Officer, No. 7 TB (torpedo-boat)
24.08.1910			Commanding Officer, HMS Nith [tender to HMS St George]
01.1912	-	10.1914	Commanding Officer, HMS Ariel (torpedo-boat destroyer)
10.1914	-	(1916)	Commanding Officer, HMS Goshawk (destroyer) & in command of a Division of 1st Flotilla (Battle of Jutland (despatches))
(1917)	-	(03.)1918	Commanding Officer, HMS Vimeira (torpedo-boat destroyer) & in command of a Division
16.07.1918	-	(01.1919)	Commanding Officer, HMS Valhalla (destroyer) (DSO)
(1920)			senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth
21.12.1920	-	1921	Commanding Officer, HMS Bruce (flotilla leader) & as Captain (D) 4th Destroyer Flotilla
1921	-	15.01.1923	Commanding Officer, HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) & as Captain (D) 4th Destroyer Flotilla
(08.1923)			no appointment listed
20.10.1923	-	03.1924	Commanding Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean) & as Senior Officer, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Mediterranean Station
03.1924	-	(01.)1925	Commanding Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean) & as Senior Officer, Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Mediterranean Station
15.01.1925	-	28.12.1926	Commanding Officer, HMS Egmont (RN base, Malta) & as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral-in-Charge, Malta & from 07.1925 for charge of Malta Reserve of Minesweepers
(02.1927)			no appointment listed
12.04.1927	-	01.04.1929	Captain Superintendent, HM Dockyard Sheerness
(08.1929)			no appointment listed
07.08.1929	-	14.03.1931	Commanding Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)
02.04.1931	-	20.07.1931	also: Naval ADC to the King
(04.1940)			HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
10.07.1940	-	(02.1941)	Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth [HMS Watchful (RN base, Yarmouth)]
01.10.1941	-	08.08.1942	Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
13.11.1941	-	26.11.1941	Vice Commodore of Convoy ON-36 (Liverpool - dispersed) aboard Manchester Commerce
(01.1942)			Commodore of Convoy HX-165 aboard Pacific Explorer
05.08.1942	-	08.08.1942	Commodore of Convoy SC-94 (Sydney - UK) aboard Trehata (missing, presumed killed when ship was torpedoed southeast off Cape Farewell)

Captain, RN and RM Golfing Society, 1921-...
* indexed, but not listed as such

Moir,
Ronald William

20.09.1902
-
24.02.1969
Midhurst district, Sussex

Midsh.	15.01.1921
A/S.Lt.	15.05.1923
S.Lt.	15.12.1923
Lt.	15.11.1925
Lt.Cdr.	15.11.1933
Cdr.	31.12.1939 (retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
A/Capt.	?

MID

11.10.1940

blocking operations in enemy occupied ports (Zeebrugge / Dieppe / Calais)

15.09.1916			entered RN
24.08.1939	-	06.01.1940	Commanding Officer, HMS Odin (submarine)
04.08.1940	-	mid 1941	Commanding Officer, HMS Fleetwood (sloop)
...	-	...	...
13.07.1943	-	(06.)1944	Executive Officer, HMS Indefatigable (Implacable class aircraft carrier)
04.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

Mole,
Harold William
H.W. Mole

Married ((03?).1944, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Charlotte Clemence Jeanne Cescau (née Cacciolaro) (10.05.1909 - 06.1999); one daughter, two sons.

23.06.1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
13.11.1964
Liphook, Hampshire (formerly of Seaview, Isle of Wight)

Midsh. (E)	15.09.1925
A/S.Lt. (E)	01.01.1928
S.Lt. (E)	01.10.1928
Lt. (E)	01.07.1930
Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.07.1938
Cdr. (E)	31.12.1941 (retd 15.08.1954)

DSC

07.03.1944

sinking of Scharnhorst [investiture 21.11.1944]

...	-	...	...
06.02.1939	-	(10.)1940	an Assistant for Gun-Mounting Work, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(12.1940)	-	(12.1941)	no appointment listed
31.12.1941	-	(04.)1942	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(06.)1942	-	(02.)1943	on staff of HM Dockyard, Alexandria [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
(04.1943)			no appointment listed
28.04.1943	-	(10.)1944	HMS Jamaica (Fiji class cruiser)
24.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.)1945	-	(10.1945)	on naval staff of Scientific and Technical Staff at Admiralty Gunnery Establishment, Teddington [under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty]
...	-	...	...

His daughter writes: "On loan to Indian Navy INS Shivaji 1952. Re-entered Royal Navy and based at Greenwich when killed in car crash in November 1964."

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