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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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Tait,
[Sir] Allan Gordon

Son of Allan G. Tait and Ann Gordon, Timaru, NZ.
Brother of Lt. James Francis Tait, RNZNVR.
Married (1952) Philippa, daughter of Sir Bryan Todd; two sons, two daughters.

30.10.1921
Timaru, South Island, New Zealand
-
29.05.2005
Auckland, New Zealand

Cadet
01.01.1940

Midsh.
01.09.1940

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1942

Lt.
01.03.1943

Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1951

Cdr.
30.06.1956

Capt.
30.06.1963

R.Adm.
07.07.1972

V.Adm.
1974

Adm.
14.03.1978 (retd 27.09.1979)

KCB
30.12.1976
New Year 77 [investiture 15.02.77]

DSC
19.10.1943
submarine patrols [decoration posted]

MID
06.11.1945
war patrols Far East

Education: Timaru Boys' High School.

1939
-
1942
served Atlantic and N Russia Convoys:

01.01.1940 - 31.08.1940 special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme), RN College, Dartmouth

01.09.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Nigeria (cruiser)

06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Matabele (destroyer)

01.05.1942
-
(08.1942)
promotion course, Portsmouth

1942
-
1945
served submarines, Mediterranean and Far East (DSC, despatches):

1942?

HMS Talbot (submarine)

06.01.1943
-
(12.1943)
Gunnery Control Officer (& First Lieutenant?), HMS Taurus (submarine)

02.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines)

1944?

First Lieutenant, HMS Tally Ho (submarine)

11.09.1944
-
(01.1946)
HMS Tudor (submarine)

1947

Commanding Officer, HMS Teredo (submarine)

27.01.1948
-
(07.1948)
Commanding Officer, HMS Solent (submarine)

1949
-
1951
ADC to Governor-General of New Zealand (Lt.Gen. Lord Freyberg, VC) [HMS President]

1951

Commanding Officer, HMS Ambush (submarine)

08.1951
-
(05.)1953
Commanding Officer, HMS Aurochs (submarine)

1955

Commanding Officer, HMS Tally Ho (submarine)

15.08.1955
-
(01.)1956
Commanding Officer, HMS Sanguine (submarine)

1957
-
1959
Assistant Naval Adviser, UK High Commissioner, Canada

19.09.1960
-
1962
Commanding Officer, HMS Caprice (destroyer)

1965
-
1966
Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (frigate) & Captain (D), 2nd Destroyer Squadron (Far East)

05.08.1967
-
(02.1968)
Commanding Officer, HMS Maidstone & Captain S/M 3rd Submarine Squadron

1968
-
07.02.1969
Captain (S/M), 3rd Submarine Squadron [HMS Neptune]

1969
-
1970
Chief Staff Officer, Submarine Command [HMS Dolphin]

1970
-
1972
Commanding Officer, HMS Britannia (Royal Naval College)

07.01.1972
-
07.07.1972
Naval ADC to the Queen

1972
-
11.1974
Naval Secretary, Ministry of Defence

1975
-
1977
Flag Officer, Plymouth, Port Admiral, Devonport, NATO Comdr, Central Sub Area, Eastern Atlantic

1977
-
1979
Chief of Naval Personnel and Second Sea Lord

Chairman, Lion Nathan Ltd (incorporating NZ Breweries Ltd, Lion Breweries Ltd and Lion Corporation), 1984-10.1997. Director: NZ Board, Westpac Banking Corporation, 1981-1993; Todd Bros Ltd, 1981-1987; Todd Corp., 1987- (Deputy Chairman); Todd Petroleum Mining, 1994- (Deputy Chairman); Owens Gp Ltd, 1984-1993; AGC (NZ) Ltd, 1987-1993. President, and Chairman of Trustees, NZ Sports Foundation, 1981-1986; Chairman: NZ Family Trust, 1983-; NZ International Yachting Trust, 1989-1994; Trustee, NZ National Maritime Museum, 1990-; Member, Spirit of Adventure Trust Board, 1982-1991.

Tait,
Arthur André
"Harry"

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Canon Arthur James Tait (1872-1944), and Jane Dumerque Drury (died 1943), of The Precincts, Peterborough.

15.03.1904
Birkenhead, Cheshire
-
11.03.1943
(KIA) [age 38]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 67, 3]

Midsh.
15.01.1922

A/S.Lt.
15.05.1924

S.Lt.
?, seniority 30.11.1924

Lt.
30.08.1926

Lt.Cdr.
30.08.1934

Cdr.
30.06.1942

DSO
16.06.1942
ramming & sinking U-93 15.01.42 [investiture 09.02.43]

MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41

MID
25.08.1942
Murmansk convoys 03-05.42

MID
01.06.1943
loss of ship & ramming U-boat 11.03.43

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (15.09.1917-04.1921).

04.1921?
-
15.01.1922
HMS Thunderer (battleship)

15.05.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Ajax (battleship)

1923?
-
1924?
HMS Castor (light cruiser)

25.09.1924
-
(01.)1925
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

1925
-
1925
promotion course, Portsmouth

27.10.1925
-
(05.1926)
HMS Voyager (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(02.1927)

no appointment listed

26.03.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Amazon (destroyer) (for anti-submarine duties)

05.06.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Woolston (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

02.01.1930
-
(02.1931)
HMS Vega (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(01.1932)

no appointment listed

20.02.1932
-
05.04.1932
HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per "Ulysses")

06.04.1932
-
20.04.1934
HMAS Canberra (cruiser) [lent to RAN as Exchange Officer for 2 years] (from 06.04.1932-22.07.1932 & 09.04.1934-20.04.1934 additional)

21.04.1934
-
30.04.1934
HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK per RMS Strathaird)

(07.1934)
-
(08.1934)
no appointment listed

09.08.1934
-
(08.)1936
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (for training duties)

07.11.1936
-
(09.1939)
HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (Mediterranean, China, Portsmouth)

06.01.1940
-
02.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Walker (destroyer)

02.1941
-
15.02.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Hesperus (destroyer)

10.03.1942
-
21.07.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Achates (destroyer)

09.08.1942
-
11.03.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Harvester (destroyer) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-432 in Western Atlantic]

Tait,
John Norman

13.11.1888
Stoke Damerel district
-
20.02.1965
Chichester district, Sussex

A/S.Lt. 30.04.1908

S.Lt. 17.12.1908, seniority 30.04.1908

Lt. 10.01.1910, seniority 30.10.1909

Lt.Cdr. 30.10.1917

Cdr. 30.06.1923 (retd 14.11.1934; own request)

Capt. (retd) 14.11.1934 (reverted to retd 1946?)

CBE 01.01.1940 New Year 1940

DSC 17.04.1918 Ostende 22.09.1917 *

* In recognition of his services as Navigating Officer of one of H.M. Ships during an attack on the Naval Works at Ostende on the 22nd September, 1917.

15.09.1903 entered RN

02.01.1922 - (08.1923) Executive & Navigating Officer, HMS Capteown (light cruiser)

25.02.1924 - 17.03.1924 Admiralty

17.03.1924 - (01.)1925 Trade Division, Admiralty

15.09.1925 - (05.)1926 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

23.07.1926 - (07.1927) Executive Officer, HMS Impregnable (training establishment of boys; flagship, Devonport)

(08.1929) no appointment listed

17.09.1929 - (02.)1931 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

27.09.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)

14.04.1932 - (01.1934) Deputy Supertintendent and King's Harbour Master, Sheerness Dockyard [HMS Pembroke]

09.1939 - 27.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Shepperton (ex-Shepperton Ferry) (auxiliary minelayer) [tender to HMS Vernon]

28.11.1939 - 30.04.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Rear-Admiral (Minelaying))

01.05.1940 - 05.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Port Napier (auxiliary minelayer) [tender to HMS Calliope]

06.01.1941 - 05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Isles (anti-submarine training ship), renamed:

05.1941 - (10.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Nemesis (anti-submarine training ship)

17.11.1942 - (04.1946) Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Sheerness Dockyard

Tait,
Sir William Eric Campbell

Son of late Deputy SurgeonGeneral William Tait, MB, RN (retired), of Kirknewton, Alverstoke, Hants.
Married (11.1919) Katie Cynthia, daughter of late Capt. H.H. Grenfell, RN; two daughters.

12.08.1886
Stoke Damerel, Devon
-
17.07.1946

A/S.Lt. 15.08.1906

S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 15.08.1906

Lt. 01.04.1909

Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1917

Cdr. 31.08.1921

Capt. 31.12.1926

Cdre. 2nd cl. 11.08.1937

R.Adm. 10.08.1938

V.Adm. 01.10.1941 (retd 12.12.1944)

Adm. (retd) 08.05.1945

KCB 01.01.1943 New Year 1943

CB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940

MVO 14.08.1917 ?

OON 27.02.1945 services to Dutch navy

15.01.1902 joined RN

1903 - 1905 HMS Grafton, Pacific

1905 - 1908 HMS Drake, Mediterranean

1908 - 1910 HMS Flora, China Station

1910 - 1912 HMS Hindustan and HMS Collingwood, Home Fleet

1914 - 1918 served European War

1919 - 1921 Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert

10.09.1922 - (08.)1923 Executive Officer, HMS Hawkins (light cruiser) (flagship China Station)

(01.1925) no appointment listed

22.02.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for training duties)

(07.1927) no appointment listed

1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

1928 RN College, Greenwich

05.07.1929 - (08.)1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (America and West Indies)

05.12.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (America and West Indies)

(01.1932) no appointment listed

15.04.1932 - 1933 Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President]

24.11.1933 - (01.)1934 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, China [HMS Kent (cruiser)]

29.11.1934 - (07.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

11.01.1938 - 10.08.1938 Naval ADC to the King

11.08.1937 - 15.04.1940 Commodore, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

01.05.1940 - 18.11.1941 Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)]

19.11.1941 - 04.01.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Naval Intelligence)

05.01.1942 - 26.02.1942 Vice-Admiral Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Eastern Fleet [HMS Resolution]

26.02.1942 - 27.05.1944 Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station [HMS Afrikander] *

22.09.1944 - 22.10.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty; temporarily)

23.10.1944 - 12.12.1944 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 20.02.1945-02.06.1946. KStJ, 22.06.1945.
* The ship's listing states: since 16.03.1942

Talbot,
[Sir] Arthur Allison FitzRoy
"Roy"

Son of late Capt. Henry FitzRoy George Talbot, RN, and of Susan Blair Athol Allison.
Married 1st (28.09.1940) Joyce Gertrude Linley (died 1981); two daughters
Married 2nd (1983) Lady (Elizabeth) Durlacher (died 1995).

22.10.1909
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
16.06.1998
Somerset

Cadet
01.01.1927

Midsh.
01.09.1927

A/S.Lt.
01.01.1930

S.Lt.
16.09.1930

Lt.
01.10.1932

Lt.Cdr.
01.10.1940

Cdr.
31.12.1944

Capt.
31.12.1950

R.Adm.
07.01.1960

V.Adm.
14.08.1962 (retd 30.08.1967)

KBE
01.01.1964
New Yar 64

CB
10.06.1961
HM's birthday 61

DSO
25.06.1940
Norwegian coast

DSO
09.02.1943
intercepting convoy Channel 11.12.42

Education: RN College Dartmouth (1923-1926)

15.05.1923

entered Royal Navy

10.01.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)

06.02.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China Station)

02.01.1930
-
(04.)1930
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

11.08.1930
-
(02.)1931
promotion course, Portsmouth

13.04.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Centaur (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

17.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
pilot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars

09.12.1933
-
(07.)1935
First Lieutenant, HMS Bryony (sloop) (Mediterranean)

16.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS Stoke (twin-screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)

01.12.1936
-
10.1939
First Lieutenant, HMS Imperial (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

10.1939
-
28.04.1940
Commanding Officer, 10th Anti-Submarine Striking Force, North Sea [HMS Cape Siretoko] *

05.1940
-
1941
Commanding Officer, MGB 46 & SO 3rd MGB Flotilla (Channel)

01.1941
-
30.04.1942
watch-keeper, later First Lieutenant, HMS Edinburgh (cruiser)

09.07.1942
-
14.07.1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (East Coast)

09.08.1943
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Teazer (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

20.01.1945
-
(07.1945)
Chief Staff Officer, Commodore Western Isles

29.12.1945
-
(04.1946)
Executive Officer, HMS Vulture

14.06.1947
-
(07.)1948
Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet and Far East Station [HMS Tamar]

1949

Commanding Officer, HMS Alert (dispatch vessel)

(05.1950)

no appointment listed

26.10.1951
-
(05.)1953
Naval Attaché, Moscow and Helsinki

1954

Imperial Defence College

04.04.1955
-
1957
Commanding Officer, HMS Saintes & Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Squadron

1957
-
1959
Commodore RN Barracks Portsmouth

1960
-
1961
Flag Officer: Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf

23.08.1960
-
1962
Flag Officer, Middle East (Bahrein) [HMS Jufair]

21.02.1963
-
1965
Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South America Station [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Wynberg, South Africa)]

1965
-
1967
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth

DL Somerset, 26.01.1973
* in the Navy List as: 11.12.1939 - (04.1940) HMS President (for special & miscellaneous services)

Talbot,
Arthur George
A.G. Talbot

Son of George Ponsoby Talbot, and Blanche Douglas, of Wentworth, Yorkshire.
Married (07.12.1918) Doris Branson, daughter of Charles Fremantle Branson; one daughter.

31.03.1892
Royston district
-
15.10.1960
[Broadstone, Dorset ?]

Midsh. 1910

A/S.Lt. ?

S.Lt. 30.01.1913

Lt. 30.12.1914

Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1922

Cdr. 31.12.1927

Capt. 30.06.1934

R.Adm. 08.07.1943 (retd 04.01.1948)

V.Adm. (retd) 04.01.1948

CB 18.12.1945 wind up Europe 45

DSO 23.12.1939 successful action against enemy submarines

DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune

MID 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad (capture of Diego Suarez) 05-07.05.1942

MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44

MID 23.06.1944 Operation Avalanche

LM 17.07.1945 invasion of Normandy

LegH ? invasion of Normandy

CdeG ? invasion of Normandy

Officer of Redeemer of Greece
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.01.1905 entered RN College, Osborne

1914 - 1918 served European War

(01.1919) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

26.09.1922 - (08.)1923 war staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich

07.08.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

(05.1925) lent to Greek government

08.07.1926 - (07.1927) Torpedo Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)

21.05.1929 - (02.1931) Squadron Torpedo Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

13.04.1931 - (09.1932) Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] (for Whitehead Department)

(01.1934) no appointment listed

23.02.1935 - (02.1937) Directing Staff of RN War College [HMS President]

27.05.1937 - 07.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Inglefield (flotilla leader) & Captain (D), 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)

15.11.1939 - 23.09.1940 Director of Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

23.09.1940 - 09.12.1940 Chief Staff Officer to First Sea Lord [HMS President]

14.12.1940 - 10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)

10.1941 - 22.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) & from 20.04.1942-22.04.1942 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to A/V.Adm. E.N. Syfret & from 29.05.1942 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear Admiral Aircraft Carriers, Eastern Fleet

23.08.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

12.01.1943 - 08.07.1943 also: Naval ADC to the King

11.10.1943 - 19.07.1944 Naval Force Commander, Force "S" (Eastern Assault Force) at Invasion of Normandy [HMS Cochrane, from 01.11.1943 HMS Odyssey]

20.07.1944 - 16.09.1945 Rear-Admiral Commanding Force "X", Pacific [HMS Lothian]

17.09.1945 - 24.10.1945 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

25.10.1945 - 01.05.1946 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

02.05.1946 - 02.01.1948 Head British Naval Mission (HBNM), Greece [also indicated as: Senior British Naval Officer (SBNO), Greece] [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)

Pigbreeder.

Tancock,
Edward Bernard

06.01.1902
-
07.02.1990
Petersfield, Hampshire

Midsh.
08.01.1922

A/S.Lt.
15.01.1924

S.Lt.
?, seniority 15.01.1924

Lt.
15.05.1926

Lt.Cdr.
15.05.1934 (retd 06.01.1947)

A/Cdr.
01.01.1946?

Cdr. (retd)
06.01.1947

OBE
09.06.1955
HM's birthday 55

DSC
23.12.1939
successful action against enemy submarines

DSC
28.06.1940
2nd Battle of Narvik

MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45

08.09.1920 entered RN

25.03.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Iron Duke (battleship)

10.04.1924
-
(01.)1925
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

13.07.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Versatile (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

25.10.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (China)

10.09.1928
-
(04.)1930
First Lieutenant, HMS Cockchafer (gunboat) (China)

02.06.1930
-
(02.1931)
First Lieutenant, HMS Scarab (gunboat) (China)

(01.1932)

no appointment listed

03.08.1932
-
(01.1934)
First Lieutenant, HMS Dainty (destroyer) (Mediterranean) [ship commissioned 21.12.1932]

03.01.1935
-
(07.)1935
HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for emergency destroyers)

10.1935
-
(02.)1936
Commanding Officer, HMS Saladin (destroyer) (Portsmouth)

26.10.1936
-
(08.1938)
Commanding Officer, HMS Thracian (destroyer) (China)

(10.1938)

no appointment listed

14.01.1939
-
(02.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Forester (destroyer)

(08.1942)
-
(06.1944)
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

(1945)

HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

01.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS St. Angelo (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)

Served Sea Cadet Corps, Southern Area (1955).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Targett-Adams,
Algernon Percy
A.P. Targett-Adams
Brother of Capt. (E) Richard Pratt Targett-Adams, RN. 11.09.1904
Bloemfontein, South Africa
-
12.12.1972
Hong Kong

... ...

Lt. (E) 15.11.1927

Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.11.1935

Cdr. (E) 30.06.1940 (retd 11.09.1954)

... - ... ...

24.07.1945 - (07.1945) Admiralty (for duty as Assistant Chief Naval Representative at Ministry of Aircraft Production) [HMS President]

... - ... ...

Targett-Adams,
Richard Pratt
R.P. Targett-Adams
Brother of Cdr. (E) Algernon Percy Targett-Adams, RN. 15.11.1905
Bloemfontein, South Africa
-
27.01.1969

... ...

Lt. (E) 01.04.1928

Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.04.1936

Cdr. (E) 31.12.1940

A/Capt. (E) < 07.1945

Capt. (E) 30.06.1949 (retd 15.01.1957)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne; RN Engineering College, Devonport; RN College, Greenwich.

... - ... ...

01.10.1943 - (07.1945) on staff of Flag Officer (Air) East Indies [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)]

... - ... ...

Tarrant,
Bertie Vivian
B.V. Tarrant (Photo courtesy of Mrs Bronwen Cook)

05.10.1886
Portsmouth, Portsea Island district, Hampshire
-
17.09.1947
[Liveramentu Cemetery, Colombo Western, Ceylon, plot: 8. G. 3]

A/Wt.Writer 18.07.1926

Cd.Writer 22.06.1932

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 28.03.1936 (retd 05.10.1936)

... - ... ...

10.09.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for Experimental Department)

... - ... ...

16.03.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon)

01.09.1944 - (04.1946) Auxiliary Naval Hospital St Peters, Colombo, Ceylon [HMS Lanka]

Taylor,
Alfred Hugh

Third son of Alfred Taylor, JP, of Starston Place, Norfolk.
Married (11.11.1911) Maud Violet Bisset (died 1959), eldest daughter of late Col. Sir William Sinclair Bisset, KCIE; three sons, one daughter.

24.10.1886
Starston Place, Norfolk
-
16.08.1972
Diss, Norfolk

Midsh. 15.09.1902

A/S.Lt. 15.11.1905

S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 15.11.1905

Lt. 31.10.1907, seniority 15.05.1906

Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1914

Cdr. 31.12.1917

Capt. 31.12.1924

R.Adm. 04.01.1936 (retd 05.01.1936) (reverted to retd 1945)

CB 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [investiture 22.09.42]

OBE 17.10.1919 for valuable services at the peace conference, Paris

MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk

Education: St Andrew's School, Eastbourne (1894-1901); HMS Britannia (1901-1902).

15.05.1901 entered RN

15.09.1902 HMS Mars (battleship)

01.07.1903 HMS Pilot (training brig)

08.10.1903 HMS Duncan (battleship)

16.01.1906 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich

17.09.1906 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

04.11.1906 HMS Vivid II (RN base, Devonport)

10.04.1907 HMS Recruit (destroyer)

12.11.1907 HMS Dreadnought (battleship)

20.04.1909 HMS Formidable (battleship)

24.07.1909 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

01.10.1910 RN College, Greenwich

07.1911 torpedo long course, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

01.11.1911 training staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

06.06.1912 Torpedo Officer, HMS St Vincent (battleship)

21.02.1914 staff course, RN War College

13.07.1914 HMS Drake (heavy cruiser)

07.04.1915 staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

01.01.1918 Whitehead Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

10.04.1919 staff of Commander-in-Chief, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (OBE)

01.01.1920 Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship)

01.04.1923 - 13.05.1923 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)

14.05.1923 - 10.02.1924 Naval Assistant to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty [HMS President]

11.02.1924 - 01.02.1925 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.02.1925 - (05.1926) Head of Tactical Section, Admiralty [HMS President]

(02.1927) no appointment listed

06.1927 - (07.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (China)

(08.1929) no appointment listed

14.01.1930 - 12.1930 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College

14.01.1931 - 18.01.1931 short anti-submarine course, HMS Osprey

19.01.1931 - 06.05.1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 2nd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean)

(07.1932) no appointment listed

08.08.1932 - 08.08.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

15.08.1934 - 07.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)

25.07.1935 - 01.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)

25.08.1939 - 27.05.1940 Director of Economic Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] & a Member of the Contraband Committee

27.05.1940 - 15.03.1943 Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (Maintenance Officer during Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation)) (CB & despatches)

1943 - 1945 no appointment listed:

06.04.1943 - 10.07.1945 HMS President (additional; for duties outside Admiralty with Director of Naval Intelligence, actually serving as Assistant Director (Navy) with Special Operations Executive (SOE))

Justice of the Peace (JP), Norfolk, 1937; Deputy Lieutenantn (DL) 1951. County Councillor for Norfolk since 1938.

Taylor,
Bertram Wilfrid
B.W. Taylor

23.03.1906
-
30.09.1970

Lt.
?

Lt.Cdr.
15.10.1936

Cdr.
31.12.1941

...
...

R.Adm.
? (retd)

CB
01.01.1959
New Year 59

DSC
29.05.1945
sinking U-boat Western Approaches 26.01.45

MID
01.01.1941
New Year 41

Education: psc

15.09.1919 entered RN

...
-
...
...

05.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Severn (submarine)

30.12.1940
-
(02.1941)
Executive Officer, HMS Pigmy

...
-
...
...

(1945)
-
(1945)
HMS Aylmer

?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Exmoor

...
-
...
...

(1959)

Flag Officer Submarines

Taylor,
Charles

Of Woodside, Bolton. ?
-

T/Lt. (E) 01.06.1940

T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 1943?

Cdr. (E) RNVR 30.06.1948

Capt. (E) RNVR 30.06.1955 (retd 30.06.1958)

MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43

VRD ? -

31.07.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Manxman (minelayer) (despatches)

29.04.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Terpischore (destroyer)

01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Barrosa (destroyer)

AMIME.

Taylor,
Ernest Albert
E.A. Taylor

22.01.1888
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
14.07.1983

Seaman
? [271340]

Wt.Eng.
01.11.1916

Cd.Eng.
01.11.1926

Lt. (E)
04.03.1932 (retd 1938)

Lt.Cdr. (E) (retd)
11.04.1940 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)

01.11..1916

commissioned RN

...
-
...
...

14.12.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMS Chrysanthemum (sloop) (Mediterranean)

23.05.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Vimy (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

11.1933
-
26.07.1935
in charge of HMS Venomous (destroyer) while in maintenance reserve, Rosyth

16.01.1936
-
(07.1937)
HMS Erebus (monitor; turret drill ship, Portsmouth)

(02.1938)

no appointment listed

02.03.1938
-
(04.)1940
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

25.10.1940
-
(10.1943)
HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo]

(12.1943)

no appointment listed

22.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]

Taylor,
[Sir] Ernest Augustus
E.A. Taylor
Son of late LtCol F. H. Taylor, RHA.
Married 1st (1898) Rose Isabel (died 1956), daughter of Louis Alexander Campbell; one son, two daughters.
Married 2nd (1957) Hilda
(Jill), widow of Major Horace Gough Turner.

17.04.1876
Woolwich, Greater London
-
11.03.1971
[Taunton, Somerset ?]

...
...

Capt.
31.12.1913

R.Adm.
01.09.1924 (retd 02.09.1924)

V.Adm. (retd)
31.07.1929 (reactivated 07.1940?) (reverted to retd < 07.1945)

Kt
1952
?

CMG
1920
?

CVO
1919
?

Silver Medal, 1909, certificate, 1913, Royal Humane Society. Commander Crown of Italy, 1917.
Education: Stubbington

15.01.1890

entered RN

1919
-
1920
Commanding Officer, HMS Renown during Prince of Wales' tours in Canada & Australia and New Zealand

...
-
...
...

21.07.1940
-
(08.)1942
Resident Naval Officer, Southwold [HMS Watchful (RN base, Great Yarmouth)]

02.10.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)

MP (Empire Crusade) South Paddington, 30.10.1930-1931. (U), 1931-23.02.1950. Member of London County Council for 3 years.

Taylor,
Frederick Henry

17.06.1888
-
29.06.1964

A/S.Lt.
15.07.1907

S.Lt.
09.04.1908, seniority 15.07.1907

Lt.
15.07.1909

Lt.Cdr.
15.07.1917

Cdr.
30.06.1922

Capt.
30.06.1930 (retd 01.07.1936; own request)

Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR
12.08.1941

CBE
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45

DSC
07.08.1915
*

MID
15.08.1944
3 years ocean convoys

1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal

* In May that year Lieutenant Taylor was in command of the C-Class submarine HMS ‘C-24’, engaged in coastal defence duties. A plan was devised whereby the armed trawler ‘Taranaki’ would tow ‘C-24’ to where U-boats were known to be hunting. On June 23 ‘U-40’ was sighted and while the ‘Taranaki’ acted as a decoy vessel, Taylor on ‘C-24’ fired a torpedo that sank the U-boat.

15.01.1903

entered RN

(05.1915)

Commanding Officer, HMS C 24 (submarine)

(08.1916)

Commanding Officer, HMS F 1 (submarine)

18.12.1922
-
(08.1923)
Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

(01.1925)

no appointment listed

01.04.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Pigmy (special service vessel) (for command of Reserve Half Flotilla) (Portsmouth)

06.05.1929
-
(04.)1930
Commanding Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) & Commander (S) 2nd Submarine Flotilla (Atlantic Fleet) (and for service with submarines)

22.11.1930
-
(10.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) & Captain (S) 1st Submarine Flotilla (Mediterranean)

20.01.1933
-
(01.1934)
Captain (S) & in command of Submarine Flotilla, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse)

(07.1935)

no appointment listed

(02.1936)

no appointment listed

02.10.1939
-
13.04.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Rajputana (armed merchant cruiser) (sunk west of Reykjavik)

12.08.1941
-
1945?
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Taylor,
Gordon Arthur

22.06.1903
Rainham, Kent
-
20.12.1998

T/Wt.Eng.
24.01.1945

15.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Caroline II (trawler base, Belfast)

10.01.1946
-
(04.1947)
HMS Abercrombie (monitor)

Taylor,
Herbert Allen

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Walter Lionel Taylor (1885-1926), and Clara Adeline Dearing (1885-1960).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Walter James Taylor, RN.
Married ((06?).1944, Holderness district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Philippa Walton (07.07.1922 - 01.1986), daughter of John Walton, and Olive Webber; one daughter. 15.08.1921
Sculcoates, Hull, Yorkshire
-
18.11.2011
Berwickshire, Scotland

A/S.Lt. 23.08.1942

S.Lt. 1943, seniority 01.09.1942

Lt. 01.04.1943

Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1951 (retd)

(10.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed

13.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Whitshed (destroyer)

04.03.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Woolston (destroyer)

15.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Chaser (escort carrier)

02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Black Swan (sloop)

... - ... ...

Taylor,
Hugh Aldersey

Son (with three brothers and two half-brothers) of Capt. Oswald Alban Aldersey Taylor (1862-1930), and Emma Mary Rebow Waters (1868-1964).
Married ((03?).1920, Christchurch district, Hampshire) Edith May Chambers; one son (El.Lt. Noel Hugh Aldersey Taylor, RNVR [later Lt.Cdr. (L) RN]), two daughters.

05.08.1893
Paddington, London
-
22.09.1982
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Midsh. 15.01.1911

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1913

S.Lt. 30.01.1914

Lt. 30.11.1915

Lt.Cdr. 30.11.1923

Cdr. 30.06.1929 (retd 05.08.1943)

Capt. (retd) 05.08.1943 (reverted to retd 10.09.1946)

CBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 [investiture 08.07.1947]

... - ... ...

17.09.1937 - (12.)1939 Devonport Dockyard [HMS Drake]

09.12.1939 - (06.)1944 Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

(10.)1944 - 15.07.1946 Deputy Chief of Staff on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (CBE)

Taylor,
James

Married; ... children.
?
-
21.03.2009

Prob. T/Schoolm.
21.12.1941

T/Schoolm.
1942?, seniority 21.12.1941

A/Schoolm (CWO)
18.06.1945

T/Instr.Lt.
1946/47?, seniority 01.07.1944 (reld < 05.1949)

(08.1942)
-
(02.1943)
HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *

01.05.1943
-
(10.)1943
HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire)

16.11.1943
-
(04.1946)
RN Auxiliary Hospital Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire [HMS Eaglet]

01.06.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Bruce (boys' training establishment, Crail, Fife)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Leonard Bertram
"Bert"

Son of Arthur Charles Taylor, a Writer in the Royal Navy, and Catherine Esther Marsh.
Married (03.04.1926, St Luke's Church, Norwood) Violet Lees (30.11.1903 - 19.08.1983); two sons.

18.10.1903
Gillingham, Medway district, Kent
-
20.08.1977
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Engine Room Artificer (ERA) 5th class 18.10.1921 [C/M 34428]

A/ERA 4th class 01.07.1924

ERA 4th class 12.10.1925

ERA 3rd class 01.07.1927

ERA 2nd class 01.07.1931

ERA 1st class 01.07.1936

CERA 2nd class 01.10.1937

T/A/Wt.Eng. 19.01.1942

T/Wt.Eng. 1943?, seniority 19.01.1942 (retd 19.02.1946) [redesignated as: T/A/Sen.Cd.Eng.; war substantive rank: Sen.Cd.Eng.]

DSC 25.07.1944 7 Norwegian patrols 43-44 [investiture 27.02.45]

NGSM - & clasp Palestine 36-39

39|45 St - -

Atl St - -

Afr St - -

WM 39|45 - -

MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41

LSGCM ? -

early 1920s HMS Ramillies (battleship) (8 months)

served apprenticeship for trade of Fitter and Turner at HMS Indus & HMS Fisgard

05.1929 volunteered for submarines

21.10.1939 - 30.06.1940 HMS Gaman (submarine)

01.07.1940 - 31.12.1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (despatches)

01.01.1941 - 22.01.1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)

23.01.1941 - 27.02.1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)

28.02.1941 - 13.01.1942 HMS Twardler (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]

19.01.1942 - 29.01.1942 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

30.01.1942 - 12.03.1942 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee)

13.03.1942 - 07.03.1944 HMS Satyr (submarine) [tender to HMS Ambrose, from 01.08.1942 HMS Dolphin] (DSC)

07.03.1944 - 07.05.1944 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee)

08.05.1944 - 30.08.1944 HMS Selene (submarine)

31.08.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship)

(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed

Emigrated to Horsham, Australia, 1969.

Taylor,
Leonard Frederick

Son of Frederick and Gertrude Taylor.
Married ((09?).1938, Southampton district, Hampshire) Beatrice Mary Hurst, of Chatham; one daughter.

24.06.1909
Devonport district, Devon
-
21.12.1942
(MPK) [age 33]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 2]

A/Wt.Eng. 01.01.1938

Wt.Eng. 1939?, seniority 01.01.1938

DSC 01.04.1941 various good services to end Nov 40 [investiture 23.09.41]

(02.1938) - (03.1938) short course of instruction

25.04.1938 - (06.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]

(08.1938) no appointment listed

06.08.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)

19.11.1938 - (10.)1940 HMS Swordfish (submarine) (DSC)

(12.1940) - (08.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) [date of appointment shown as 01.01.1938]

(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS P 72 (submarine) *

08.1941 - 21.12.1942 HMS P 222 (submarine) [missing, presumed killed when ship was sunk by Italian surface craft off Naples]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
[Thomas] Mark
M. Taylor
Son of Mark Ronald Taylor (1871-1942), surgeon and later (1904-14) Medical Officer of Health, Helston, Cornwall, and Florence Elizabeth Bodilly (1871-).
Married (08.05.1936, Kensington Register Office) [later Second Officer WRNS] Gladys [Maud] Gordon Burton (née Frazer) (03.11.1896 - 24.02.1975).

21.04.1897
Helston, Cornwall
-
11.09.1979
Middle Barton, Oxfordshire

Midsh. 31.07.1914

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1916

S.Lt. 15.11.1916

A/Lt. 15.01.1918

Lt. 15.02.1918

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926

Cdr. 30.06.1932 (retd 21.04.1947; age) (reverted to retd 15.11.1947) (granted War Substantive rank of Capt.)

A/Capt. 09.01.1945-14.11.1947

OBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 [investiture 10.10.1944]

14|15 St - -

BWM 14|20 - -

VM - -

Def M - -

WM 39|45 - -

Cor M 37 - -

Education: RN College, Osborne.

.. - ... ...

12.10.1937 - 30.08.1944 Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(10.1944) no appointment listed

13.11.1944 - 08.01.1945 lent to New Zealand Division [HMNZS Cook (RNZN depot & training establishment, Wellington)]

09.01.1945 - 18.06.1947 Second Naval Member, Naval Board, Royal New Zealand Navy
[HMNZS Cook (RNZN depot & training establishment, Wellington), from 17.06.1946 HMNZS Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland)]
[from 01.04.1945 also an honorary naval ADC to the Governor of New Zealand]

18.05.1947 - 10.06.1947 HMNZS Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland) (additional)

11.06.1947 - 21.08.1947 passage to UK

22.08.1947 - 14.11.1947 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for foreign service leave & release)

Taylor,
Raymond Maurice Trevelyan

Son of Lt. Arthur Trevelyan Taylor, RN, and Geraldine de Courcy.
Married (26.12.1925, St George Hanover Square district, London) Rose Pilkington (22.08.1896 - 02.1985); one son, one daughter.

01.04.1899
Malta
-
18.11.1978
New Forest district, Hampshire

A/Lt.
?

Lt.
15.09.1919

Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1927

Cdr.
31.12.1933

Capt.
30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950)

Cdre. 1st cl.
15.08.1944?

Cdre. 2nd cl.
29.11.1950?

CBE
01.06.1953
Coronation List 53

08.1914

entered RN

02.06.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

(05.1926)

HMS Spenser (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) *

(07.1927)

no appointment listed

26.03.1929
-
(10.1930)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

(02.1931)

no appointment listed

22.07.1931
-
(09.1932)
Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent]

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

05.01.1934
-
(07.1935)
staff, Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

24.01.1936
-
(07.1937)
Commanding Officer, HMS Brazen (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

17.12.1937
-
(09.1939)
Executive Officer, Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent]

20.02.1940
-
(02.)1941
Executive Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)

23.09.1941
-
(06.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)

07.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Nairana (escort carrier)

15.08.1944
-
(04.1946)
Deputy Chief of Naval Air Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President]

15.04.1947
-
(07.1948)
Flag Captain, HMS Superb (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron

21.04.1949
-
(05.)1950
Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, Scotland & Northern Ireland [HMS Cochrane]

07.01.1950
-
07.07.1950
Naval ADC to the King

29.11.1950
-
(05.1953)
Commodore-in-Charge Bombay [HMS Bluejacket]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Walter James

Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Walter Lionel Taylor (1885-1926), and Clara Adeline Dearing (1885-1960).
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Herbert Allen Taylor, RN.
Married (03.06.1934, Sculcoates, Hull, Yorkshire) Monica Cook (07.07.1917 - 13.10.1980), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Thomas Hoodlas Cook (1857-1930), and Amy Beatrice Gard (1877-1950); one son, two daughters.

05.11.1907
Sculcoates, Hull, Yorkshire
-
09.08.1992
Hull, Yorkshire

Boy 2nd class 22.05.1924

Boy 1st class 02.10.1925?

Able Seaman 25.03.1926?

Leading Seaman 18.03.1930?

Petty Officer 18.11.1933?

A/Gnr. 01.04.1934

Gnr. 1935?, seniority 01.04.1934

A/Lt. 06.12.1942

Lt. 10.05.1943, seniority 31.12.1937

Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1945 (retd 05.11.1952)

22.05.1924 - 01.10.1925 HMs Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport)

02.10.1925 - 24.03.1926 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)

25.03.1926 - 07.07.1926 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

08.07.1926 - 29.08.1927 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

30.08.1927 - 13.02.1928 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

14.02.1928 - 10.10.1928 HMS Concord (cruiser)

11.10.1928 - 08.09.1929 HMS Tarantula (gunboat) (China)

09.09.1929 - 10.12.1929 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)

11.12.1929 - 17.03.1930 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

18.03.1930 - 08.09.1932 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)

09.09.1932 - 17.11.1933 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

18.11.1933 - 28.03.1934 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)

29.03.1934 - 31.03.1934 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

(05.1934) - (08.1934) short course of instruction

25.09.1934 - (08.)1936 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk)

28.09.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Westcott (destroyer) (China)

13.04.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Falmouth (escort vessel) (China)

(05.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed

01.11.1939 - (12.1939) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)

25.01.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa, Orkneys)

15.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Ajax (cruiser)

(02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed

(08.1942) - (12.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth *

05.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Obdurate (destroyer)

(06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Monck (Combined Training HQ, Largs) *

24.08.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Diomede (cruiser)

(04.1944) no appointment listed

06.05.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer)

04.03.1946 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer)

01.07.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Nepal (destroyer)

24.10.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Rosneath (landing craft base, Dumbartonshire)

03.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Bramble (minesweeper)

19.06.1950 - 1952 Training Commander, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

Teacher,
Norman Joseph Macdonald
N.J.M. Teacher
Son of Lt.Col. Norman McDonald Teacher, DSO, Royal Scots Fusiliers (1878-1917), and Dorothy Annandale Teacher.

06.02.1914
Oxnam district, Roxburgh, Scotland
-
28.02.1943
(KIA) [age 29]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

Midsh.
01.01.1933

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1935

S.Lt.
12.08.1936, seniority 01.01.1935

Lt.
24.03.1937, seniority 01.02.1936

A/Lt.Cdr.
24.12.1942?

DSO
14.01.1941
sinking submarine 29.09.40 [decoration handed to next-of-kin]

1939-1945 Star 39|45 St
-
-

Atlantic Star Atl St
-
-

Africa Star Afr St
-
-

War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45
-
-

MID
21.04.1942
explosion "Erin" at Gibraltar 18.01.42

MID
22.09.1942
Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 06.42)

Education: West Downs School, Winchester (1923-...)

12.01.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean)

08.03.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediteranean)

02.05.1935
-
05.01.1936
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

06.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
promotion course, Portsmouth

08.08.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

04.04.1938
-
(08.)1938
long navigation course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

02.09.1938
-
(02.)1939
Navigating Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)

19.02.1939
-
(09.)1939
Navigating Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (China)

13.11.1939
-
21.08.1941
Intelligence Officer, HMAS Stuart (and for flotilla duties) (28.09.1940-06.10.1940 temporarily in command) [volunteer for special service]

04.12.1941
-
(08.)1942
Navigating Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)

24.12.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs)

12.1942
-
28.02.1943
Commanding Officer, Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 3 (lost on a reconnaissance operation of the southwest coast of Sicily) [at the time of his death borne on the books of HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)]

Temple,
John Bruce Goodenough
J.B.G. Temple
Younger son of Grenville Newton Temple (1865?-1949), and Mrs Temple, of Bishopstrow, Warminster.
Married 1st (20.06.1935, Boston, Massachutsetts, USA) Lorna Livermore, youngest daughter of the late Harris Livermore, and Mrs Charles Ridgely, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Married 2nd ((03?)1950, Westminster district, London) Patricia Magennis.

14.06.1905
Warminster district, Wiltshire
-
08.04.1979

Midsh. 15.05.1923

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925

S.Lt. 15.06.1926

Lt. 01.08.1928

Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1936

A/Cdr. 02.1943?

Cdr. 31.12.1943 (retd 14.02.1955)

DSC 07.06.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 [investiture 02.07.40]

DSC 07.12.1943 Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.43) [decoration posted]

DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]

MID 06.04.1943 Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 08.11.42)

15.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Ajax (battleship)

14.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)

01.01.1926 - 04.07.1926 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

05.07.1926 - 01.1927 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

31.01.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Cyclamen (sloop) (East Indies)

(08.1929) no appointment listed

05.09.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Wallace (flotilla leader, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Atlantic Fleet)

18.08.1931 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

08.09.1932 - (07.)1935 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)

16.09.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

19.03.1936 - (02.)1938 Executive Officer, HMS Penzance (escort vessel) (Africa)

(06.1938) no appointment listed

18.07.1938 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Salamander (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla)

22.08.1939 - 26.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Hebe (Halcyon class minesweeper) (DSC)

12.07.1942 - 02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Cadmus (Algerine class minesweeper) (despatches)

02.1943 - 01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Acute (Algerine class minesweeper) (Bar to DSC)

28.02.1944 - (01.)1945 French Ship Paris (for minesweeping) (Second Bar to DSC)

(06.1944) Commander (M/S) West

04.06.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser)

31.03.1948 - (05.)1950 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

10.1950 - (05.)1953 on staff of Flag Officer, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]

09.07.1953 - (07.1954) Maintenance Commander, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

Tennant,
Robert Basil Stewart
R.B.S. Tennant

30.01.1905
Strathbrock district, West Lothian, Scotland
-
01.08.1969
Merioneth South district, Merionethshire, Wales

...
...

Lt.
30.12.1927

Lt.Cdr.
30.12.1935 (retd 30.01.1950)

A/Cdr.
07.1944?

Cdr. (retd)
30.01.1950

OBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46

... -
...
...

09.05.1940
-
14.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer)

20.04.1942
-
21.12.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (destroyer)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

19.05.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer)

28.02.1944
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer)

07.1944
-
(07.1945)
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]

(04.1946)

HMS Highflyer *

...
-
...
...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tennant,
Sir William George
W.G. Tennant

Eldest surviving son of late Lt.Col. Edmund William Tennant of the Eades, Upton-on-Severn.
Married (22.07.1919, Felixstowe) Catherine Mary Blount, daughter of late Major C.H. Blount, RHA.

Statue at Upton-on-Severn

02.01.1890
Upton- on-Severn
-
26.07.1963
Worcester Royal
Infirmary

A/S.Lt. 15.12.1909

S.Lt. 16.09.1910, seniority 15.12.1909

Lt. 30.06.1912

Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1920

Cdr. 31.12.1925

Capt. 31.12.1932

R.Adm. 06.02.1942

A/V.Adm. 1945?

V.Adm. 27.07.1945

Adm. 22.10.1948 (retd 03.08.1949)

KCB 18.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945

CB 07.06.1940 Dunkirk

CBE 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune

MVO 16.10.1925
visit of HRH the Prince of Wales to Africa and South America

Ntce 20.12.1940 operations in the field 03-06.1940

MID 23.02.1943 Operation Streamline Jane

LegH ? liberation of France

CdeG ? liberation of France

LM 15.10.1946 ?

Geo I 15.04.1947 ?

Education: HMS Britannia.

15.05.1905 joined RN

1915 specialized in navigation

1914 - 1916 HMS Lizard and HMS Ferret, Harwich Force

1916 HMS Chatham and HMS Nottingham, Grand Fleet

1916 - 1919 HMS Concord, Harwich Force

1921 Navigating Officer, HMS Renown, during royal world tour

01.09.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

10.10.1924 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (Royal World Tour, 1925)

22.04.1926 - 06.05.1926 Admiralty [HMS President]

06.05.1926 - (07.1927) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

26.03.1929 - (04.)1930 Executive Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

22.09.1930 - (10.)1930 tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth

15.12.1930 - (09.1932) staff, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

(01.1934) no appointment listed

21.05.1935 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser) & some time Flag Captain, 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean)

01.07.1937 - (08.)1939 naval instructor, Imperial Defence College (London)

26.08.1939 - 25.05.1940 Chief Staff Officer to First Sea Lord [HMS President (additional)]

26.05.1940 - 06.1940 Senior Naval Officer, Dunkirk [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional) (organised embarkation of allied armies at Dunkirk, Normandy, France)

18.06.1940 - 10.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) & from 14.09.1940-24.09.1940 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (D) Home Fleet (sunk)

15.02.1942 - 12.04.1942 Flag Officer China Force

13.04.1942 - 15.10.1943 Rear-Admiral Commanding 4th Cruiser Squadron, Eastern Fleet (in charge of naval operations covering occupation of Madagascar, 09.1942) & from 07.01.1943 Second-in-Command, Eastern Fleet (temporary)

03.01.1944 - 28.08.1944 Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (ANCXF) [HMS Odyssey (additional; temporary)] (Invasion of Normandy, 1944)

29.08.1944 - 08.09.1944 Rear-Admiral Commanding Bombarding Squadron

09.09.1944 - 29.10.1944 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

30.10.1944 - 02.08.1945 Flag Officer Levant and Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria]

03.08.1945 - 31.08.1945 HMS President (additional; for special duty outside Admiralty)

01.09.1945 - 05.04.1946 Flag Officer Levant and Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)]

06.04.1946 - 1946 Senior British Naval Officer and Flag Officer Liaison Middle East [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria]

23.10.1946 - 03.05.1949 Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station [HMS Sheffield]

Past Chairman, King George's Fund for Sailors; KStJ, 01.01.1951. Hon. Freeman of Worcester, 1958. Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire 21.04.1950-26.07.1963. Honorary Colonel, Worcestershire Hussars, RAC (TA), 04.12.1952-02.01.1957.

Tennyson,
the Hon. Mark Aubrey;
5th Baron Tennyson (cr. 1884)

Second son of 3rd Baron (Maj. the Hon. Lionel Hallam Tennyson; 1889-1951) and Hon. Clarissa Madeline Georgiana Felicite Tennant (1896-1960), only daughter of 1st Baron Glenconner.
Succeeded brother, 1991.
Married (1964) Deline Celeste Budler (died 1995), daughter of Arthur Harold Budler. 28.03.1920
Chelsea district, London
-
03.07.2006
Cape Town, South Africa

Cadet 01.05.1937

Midsh. 01.09.1937

A/S.Lt. 01.09.1939

S.Lt. 01.01.1940

Lt. 16.10.1941

Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1949

Cdr. 30.06.1954 (retd 01.03.1959)

DSC 05.10.1943
operations which prevented the escape of enemy forces after their defeat in North Africa

MID 14.08.1945 relief of Greece

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1934-13.04.1937; Admiralty No. 1360; Greynvile Term).

01.05.1937 - (07.)1937 training, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)

01.09.1937 - (03.)1938 HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

09.05.1938 - (04.1939) HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies)

1939 - 1945 served Second World War on destroyers in action in Atlantic and Mediterranean:

01.05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)

28.08.1939 - (12.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

15.12.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Vanquisher (destroyer)

20.09.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)]:

20.09.1940 - (10.)1941 Commanding Officer, HM MASB/MGB 57 (motor anti-submarine boat, redesignated motor gun boat)

(12.)1941 - (02.)1942 for duty in Destroyer Office, Flagstaff Steps, Devonport

03.02.1942 - 07.1943 Executive Officer, HMS Bicester (destroyer)

31.08.1943 - (01.)1945 Executive Officer, HMS Tuscan (destroyer)

(04.1945) communications course *

(07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) *

03.1946 - (10.1947) Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]

(07.1948) no appointment listed

05.08.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Devonshire

03.04.1950 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(05.1951) no appointment listed

01.11.1951 - (05.1952) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5517 (motor torpedo boat)

(05.1953) no appointment listed

20.07.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Implacable

17.01.1955 - (01.1956) Executive Officer, HMS Jupiter

(01.1957) HMS Jupiter *

18.03.1957 - (01.)1959 Naval Training Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such
Production Manager, Rowntree-Mackintosh (S Africa), 1960-1967; Export Sales Director, Joseph Terry & Sons (UK), 1968-1982. Skied for RN, 1947-1951; Captain, RN Cresta Run team, 1951-1954.

Terry,
Anthony Hunter
A.H. Terry

03.10.1909
Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire
-
28.02.1942
(KIA) [age 32]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 101, column 1]

Cadet
01.01.1927

Midsh.
01.09.1927

A/S.Lt.
01.01.1930

S.Lt.
16.09.1930

Lt.
01.08.1932

Lt.Cdr.
01.08.1940

DSC
06.04.1943
withdrawal survivors RhioArch

15.01.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)

19.04.1929
-
(08.1929)
HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

02.01.1930
-
(04.)1940
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

11.08.1930
-
(02.)1931
promotion course, Portsmouth

25.03.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Keith (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

03.05.1934
-
(07.1935)
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)

07.02.1936
-
(02.)1938
First Lieutenant, HMS Moth (river gunboat) (China)

(06.1938)
-
(08.1938)
no appointment listed

08.08.1938
-
(10.1939)
HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (and for [2nd Battle] Squadron P & RT duties)

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

03.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Pegasus (catapult trials & maintenance ship)

(05.1941)
-
(08.1941)
HMS Prince of Wales (battleship)

?
-
28.02.1942
HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore)

Terry,
George Albert

Married ((09?).1936, Elham district, Kent) Henrietta May Florence Terry (13.05.1908 - (03?).1977), of Folkestone, Kent, daughter of William Charles Terry (1873-1961), and Annie Emery (1877-1975).

19.11.1903
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.11.1942
(MPK) [age 38]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 51, column 2]

T/A/Gnr. (T) 06.12.1941

27.01.1942 - 15.11.1942 HMS Avenger (Archer class escort carrier) [ship torpedoed & sunk near Gibraltar by U-155]

Terry,
John

Married (08.04.1934) ...

01.10.1900
-
09.09.1957

Midsh. 01.05.1917

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1919

S.Lt. 15.05.1920, seniority 15.09.1919

Lt. 15.10.1921

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1929

Cdr. 31.12.1935

Capt. 30.06.1940 (retd 07.01.1950)

CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [investiture 23.07.46]

MVO 29.01.1936 ?

MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41

MID 01.08.1944 Operation Shingle (landing at Anzio 22.01.44)

MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon (invasion of South of France 08.44)

LM ? Operation Dragoon (invasion of South of France 08.44)

LegH ? South of France

15.05.1914 entered RN

? - (01.1919) HMS Colossus (battleship)

18.10.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Carlisle (light cruiser)

(01.1925) no appointment listed

24.09.1925 - (02.)1927 gunnery course, HMS Excellent

07.06.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

19.07.1929 - (03.1931) Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer, New Zealand Station

23.01.1932 - (09.)1932 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school)

21.11.1932 - (07.)1934 Gunnery Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet)

22.07.1934 - (01.)1937 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

22.01.1937 - (02.)1939 Squadron Gunnery Officer, later Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser), later HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean)

20.02.1939 - 16.07.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (despatches)

31.07.1940 - 06.09.1940 with Director of Operations (Foreign), Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for period not exceeding 6 months]

07.09.1940 - 13.09.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

14.09.1940 - 24.03.1941 Deputy Director of Operations (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]

24.03.1941 - 27.08.1942 Director of Operations (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] (temporary)

31.08.1942 - 04.09.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School)

01.10.1942 - 09.10.1942 HMS Dido (light cruiser) (additional)

10.10.1942 - 27.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (light cruiser)

28.10.1943 - 24.11.1943 Captain (F) Levant [HMS Woolwich (additional)]

25.11.1943 - 10.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (light cruiser) & from 22.02.1944-18.07.1944 as Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 15th Cruiser Squadron (despatches twice, Legion of Merit, Légion d'Honneur)

05.12.1944 - 03.01.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty in Combined Operations Division)

04.01.1945 - 27.12.1946 Director of Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] (CBE)

12.03.1948 - 28.06.1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier)

07.07.1949 - 07.01.1950 also: Naval ADC to the King

Teush,
Frank David Evans

Son of Francis Evans Teush, and Alice Grace G. Fox.
Married ((12?).1933, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Mona Wheatley (née Cartwright).

26.08.1898
Gillingham, Medway district, Kent
-
18.02.1986
South East Hampshire district

Seaman ? [M7999]

Wt.Eng. 01.07.1931

Cd.Eng. 01.10.1940 (retd 26.08.1948)

A/Lt. (E) > 07.1945, < 04.1946

Lt. (E) (retd) 26.08.1948

MBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 06.04.43]

07.10.1931 - (06.1933) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)

(01.1934) no appointment listed

12.02.1934 - (01.)1937 HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet)

(02.1937) no appointment listed

16.02.1937 - (08.)1939 HMS Emerald (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)

17.11.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Vivien (destroyer) (MBE)

04.11.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Crane (sloop)

19.03.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)

08.07.1945 - (07.)1948 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)

Tewkesbury,
Francis Leslie

Elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Tewkesbury, of North Chesterton, Cambridge.
Married (04.06.1932, Portsmouth Cathedral Church, Hampshire; divorced 1939) Aileen Margaret Dunsterville "Peggy" Vickery (13.09.1911 - 11.02.1986), daughter of Dr Samuel Henry Vickery (1880-1919), and Hilda Margaret Dunsterville (1883-1941); two sons. Peggy Tewkesbury remarried (1939) William B. Axford. 05.06.1907
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
23.02.1976
Tryford, Reading and Wokingham district, Berkshire

Midsh. (E) 01.01.1927

S.Lt. (E) 01.04.1929

Lt. (E) 01.01.1931

Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.01.1939

A/Cdr. (E) > 01.1945, < 04.1945

Cdr. (E) 31.12.1945 (retd 07.06.1955; own request)

MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944

... - ... ...

29.12.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)

(12.1939) - (10.1940) no appointment listed

12.10.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for Mechanical Training Establishment; for instructional duties)

10.01.1941 - (02.)1944 HMS Guardian (net layer) (despatches)

(04.1944) - (09.1944) no appointment listed

18.09.1944 - (04.)1947 Assistant Naval Attaché, Ankara, Turkey [HMS President]

(10.1947) no appointment listed

08.12.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Agincourt

(04.1950) - (05.1950) no appointment listed

(01.1951) - (05.1951) HMS President *

(10.1951) no appointment listed

17.03.1952 - (05.1952) HMS Campania

(05.1953) HMS Campania *

05.05.1953 - (01.1955) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

MIMarE.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Teynham,
Lord (19th Baron, cr. 1616);
Roper-Curzon, Christopher John Henry
Lord Teynham (C.J.H. Roper-Curzon), 1940. Portrait, 1925.
Lord Teynham (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Eldest son of 18th Baron (Henry John Philip Curzon-Howe) (1867-1936) and Mabel (died 1937), daughter of late Col. Henry Green Wilkinson, Scots Guards, Pannington Hall, Ipswich.
Succeeded father, 1936.
Married 1st (19.10.1927), Elspeth Grace (marriage dissolved 1955); she married 1958, 5th Marquess of Northampton), eldest daughter of late William Ingham Whitaker, Pylewell Park, Lymington; two sons.
Married 2nd (11.02.1955), Anne Rita CurzonHowe (born 14.12.1923), daughter of Capt. Leicester Charles Assheton St. John Curzon-Howe; two daughters.

06.05.1896
Kent
-
05.05.1972
[Sarisbury Green, Hants.?]

Lt. 15.11.1917 (emgcy 15.01.1920)

Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 15.11.1925

A/Cdr. (emgcy) 25.08.1939?-(02.1941),
02.02.1943?-(06.1944)

Cdr. (emgcy) 11.02.1946, seniority 03.09.1945

A/Capt. (emgcy) 12.07.1944

DSO 13.03.1945 Normandy 06-09.44

DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44

MID 15.08.1944 mine disposal at sea 21.04.44

Hkn 15.04.1947 liberation of Norway

LegH ? ?

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.01.1909 entered RN

1914 - 1918 served with Grand Fleet, European War (Staff Signal Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron)

25.08.1939 - (02.1941) Naval Control Service Officer Port of London (London and Gravesend) [HMS Pembroke IV]

29.10.1941 - 02.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbeltown (destroyer)

02.1942 - 04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)

04.1942 - 02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer)

02.02.1943 - (06.)1944 Commander Minesweepers [HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)]

12.07.1944 - ? Captain, Minesweepers for FOBAA (Flag Officer British Assault Area) [HMS Ambitious (minesweepers depot ship, Southend)] (in the Invasion Area North France (DSO))

21.03.1945 - (05.1945) HMS Odyssey (additional; for Naval Party 2031 as Naval Officer-in-Charge Kristiansand, Norway)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

Chairman of C. Roper-Curzon & Co. Ltd., Eastern Merchants; Younger Brother of Trinity House; formerly a Deputy Speaker of House of Lords and Deputy Chairman of Committees; HM Lieutenant of the City of London; a Director of British Sailors Society; a Governor and Member of Managing Committee of Royal National Lifeboat Institute; Chairman of Prince of Wales Sea Training School, Dover; Chancellor of the Primrose League, 1948; Member, Council, Navy League; Member Post Office Advisory Board; Member of Court of Directors of Royal Exchange Assurance. Chairman, Automobile Association, 1953-1957. OStJ (20.06.1939), CStJ (06.1951), KStJ.

Thackara,
Leonard

01.04.1887
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
31.10.1963
Cranleigh Village Hospital, Cranleigh, Surrey South Western district, Surrey

... ...

Eng.Capt. 30.06.1934 (retd 12.1940)

09.08.1906 commissioned, RN

... - ... ...

01.12.1944 - (07.1945) Chief Engineer Officer, Liverpool [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

Thatcher,
Francis Geoffrey

Married (28.04.19145, St Peter's Church, Walton on the Hill, Surrey) Leading Wren Diana Marion Gibson, WRNS (died 25.01.2007, aged 84). 1920 ?
-
28.10.2016
Les Bourgs Hospice, Guernsey [age 96]

A/Paym.S.Lt.
01.09.1940

Paym.S.Lt.
?, seniority 01.06.1940

Lt. (S)
01.02.1942

Lt.Cdr. (S)
01.02.1950

Cdr. (S)
?

Capt. (S)
31.12.1964 (retd)

01.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)

17.11.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)

...
-
...
...

20.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]

...
-
...
...

02.1949
-
(05.1949)
HMS Falcon

...
-
...
...

Commodore, Guernsey Royal Channel Islands Yacht Club, 1986-1988.

Thistleton-Smith,
[Sir] Geoffrey

10.05.1905
Bentley, Suffolk
-
13.11.1986
Chichester, Sussex

Lt. 15.06.1927

Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1935

Cdr. 31.12.1939

Capt. 30.06.1944

R.Adm. 07.01.1954

V.Adm. 03.12.1957 (retd 30.12.1960)

KBE 13.06.1959 HM's birthday 59 [investiture 07.02.61]

CB 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 56 [investiture 24.07.56]

GM 11.03.1941 mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41]

MID 23.06.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.43)

? Alou 1954 Grand Officer of the Order of the Ouissan Alaouite (Morocco): visit Morocco 11.54

15.01.1919 entered RN

... - ... ...

23.12.1939 - 27.07.1942 Commander (M) in charge of Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 05.1941 Roedean School, Brighton)

06.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)

(12.)1943 - (10.1944) Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord [HMS President]

(01.1945) no appointment listed

07.02.1945 - 08.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman (minelayer)

... - ... ...

Thomas,
Cerdyn Lloyd

Son of ... Thomas, and ... Davies.
Married ((09?).1940, Chester district, Cheshire) Mary Fowles. 21.12.1912
Lampeter district, Cardiganshire, Wales
-
12.10.1984
Marford, Wrexham Maelor district, Clwyd, Wales

Schoolm. Candidate 04.03.1940

Schoolm. (Warrant Rank) 1940?, seniority 04.03.1940 (reld 13.02.1946)

Instr.Lt. RNVR 28.04.1948, seniority 01.07.1944

Instr.Lt.Cdr. RNVR 01.05.1952 (retd 21.12.1967)

VRD 30.08.1957 -

VRD 07.11.1967 -

Education: BSc.

04.03.1940 - (05.)1940 Schoolmaster Candidates course [HMS Defiance]

21.05.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man)

22.07.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Daedalus II (RN aircraft training establishment, Newcastle under Lyme)

(10.1942) no appointment listed

30.10.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Belfast (improved Southampton class cruiser)

25.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Excalibur (new entry seaman training establishment, The Brunds, Alsager, Stoke on Trent)

07.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)

31.01.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire)

(10.1945) RN School of Music

28.04.1948 transferred, Permanent RNVR (Mersey Division) (List 2)

Thomas,
John

Son of John Thomas, building contractor, and Joan Thomas Morris.
Married (03.05.1940, Blythwood, Glasgow, Scotland) Christabell Young (1907? - ); one daughter. 12.07.1911
-
14.06.1984
Southampton, Hampshire

Sg.Lt. 30.09.1938
17.04.1939, seniority 02.03.1938

Sg.Lt.Cdr. 02.03.1944

A/Sg.Cdr. 02.03.1950

Sg.Cdr. 31.12.1952 (retd 13.06.1960)

DSC 01.01.1941 New Year 1941

Education: MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond (1936), DO (1951).

30.09..1938 entered for short service, RN (01.1943 transferred to Permanent List)

(12.1938) short course of instruction

16.12.1938 - (02.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

29.03.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Punjabi (Tribal class destroyer) (DSC)

01.11.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Cabot (training establishment, Bristol)

29.07.1941 - (10.)1941 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

26.12.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)

04.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)

23.08.1942 - (12.1943) RN Auxiliary Hospital, Kingseat [HMS Bacchante] (specialist in ophthalmology)

08.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire)

08.08.1944 - (10.)1945 HMS Oxfordshire (hospital ship) (specialist in ophthalmology)

31.12.1945 - (10.1947) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (specialist in ophthalmology)

23.02.1948 - (05.1950) HM Dockyard, Trincomalee [HMS Lanka]

(05.1951) no appointment listed

28.09.1951 - (01.)1954 HM Dockyard Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]

22.06.1954 - (04.1955) RN Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] (specialist in ophthalmology)

12.07.1955 - (01.1957) Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty at the Experimental Station, Porton)

(01.1958) RN Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo] (specialist in ophthalmology)

(01.1959) no appointment listed

26.05.1959 - (01.1960) RN Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (specialist in ophthalmology)

Thomas,
Mervyn Somerset

30.08.1900
-
21.08.1947
Chatterpark, Lympstone, South Devon

... ...

Lt. 15.09.1921

Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1929

Cdr. 30.06.1936

Capt. 31.12.1941

DSO 11.09.1940 courage in recent engagements [investiture 16.10.45]

Greek War Cross 3rd class (11.08.1942: services to belligerent Greece)

15.01.1914 entered RN

... - ... ...

19.02.1938 - 18.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Grafton (destroyer)

06.02.1940 - 24.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Dainty (destroyer)

05.1941 - 24.06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Auckland (sloop)

... - ... ...

28.05.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)

... - ... ...

28.09.1943 - 24.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Faulknor (destroyer)

... - ... ...

Thomas,
Owen

?
-

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1945

S.Lt.
1945?, seniority 01.05.1945

Lt.
16.10.1945

Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1953 (retd 05.07.1955; own request)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

03.05.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (for long navigating/directing course)

02.1949
-
(05.1950)
HMS Actaeon (sloop)

07.04.1953
-
(05.1953)
HMS Harrier (RN School of Aircraft Direction, Kete, Pembrokeshire)

07.02.1955
-
(04.)1955
HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (for aircraft direction duties)

Thomas,
Samuel Richard

14.01.1909
Devonport, Devon
-
19.05.1967

A/Gnr. (T)
01.11.1937

Gnr. (T)
1938, seniority 01.11.1937

A/Cd.Gnr. (T)
18.06.1945

Cd.Gnr. (T) = Sen.Cd.Gnr. (TAS)
01.10.1946

Lt.
12.11.1950

Lt.Cdr. (Special Duties List)
01.01.1957 (retd 14.01.1959)

MID
11.06.1946
wind up Far East

1924?

joined RN (aged 15)

training, HMS Impregnable (boys' traning establishment) (light heavyweight boxing champion holding the title for 4 years in succession for the Hawk Division)

(02.1938)

short course of instruction

05.1938
-
(04.1940)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Diamond (destroyer) (China)

(02.1941)

no appointment listed

08.05.1941
-
(06.)1943
Torpedo Officer, HMS Lookout (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(08.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

15.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Wessex (destroyer) (Far East)

23.03.1946
-
(07.1948)
HMS Defiance (TAS and Electrical School, Devonport) (and as Commanding Officer, Redwing)

14.02.1949
-
(05.1949)
HMS Defiance

27.02.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMNZS Philomel

26.11.1952
-
(01.1956)
HMS Orion (for duty with Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Plymouth)

(01.1957)

HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomas,
[William] Cowley *

Son of Henry John Thomas, a stockbroker, and Rosina Cowley.
Married 1st ...
Married 2nd (10.09.1941, Alexandria, Egypt) Mary Fedora Douglas-Watson (née St Ledger) (1899-1977), widow of Francis Douglas-Watson, RN; no children.
Lived at Malta for many years.

* initially registered with two first names, from the early 1930s only known by his second Christian name

27.06.1900
Barry, Glamorgan, Wales
-
04.09.1977
Hove, Sussex

Lt.
15.08.1921

Lt.Cdr.
15.08.1929 (retd 26.05.1934; own request)

Cdr. (retd)
27.06.1940

A/Capt. (retd)
1945?

CBE
13.06.1946
HM's birthday 46 [investiture 29.07.47]

OBE
13.03.1945
assault Normandy 06-09.44 *

MID
21.12.1943
Operation Husky

MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45

LeoII
12.03.1946
liberation of Belgium [award posted]

* For skill, resource and organisation in the opening-up of Port-en-Bessin, Normandy.

07.05.1917

entered RN

01.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Triad (special service vessel)

02.09.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS L 69 (submarine) (Mediterranean)

25.03.1926
-
(05.1926)
First Lieutenant, HMS L 69 (submarine) (Mediterranean)

24.05.1927
-
(05.)1928
HMS Dartmouth (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)

24.05.1928
-
(06.1928)
First Lieutenant, HMS L 54 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)

29.04.1929
-
(04.)1930
Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) (5th Submarine flotilla, Portsmouth)

21.04.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

31.12.1931
-
(09.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS L 21 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla)

27.01.1933
-
(05.)1933
HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)

04.05.1933
-
(01.1934)
Commanding Officer, HMS Odin (submarine) (China)

31.08.1939
-
(01.)1941
HMS York (cruiser)

15.06.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

(06.1943)

staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] *

01.07.1943
-
(12.1943)
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Sousse [HMS Hasdrubal]

(04.1944)
-
(07.1945)
no appointment listed:

(06.1944)

Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naval Party 1502 (Port-en-Bessin)

06.1945
-
1946?
Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Athelstan (port party, Antwerp, Belgium)

Thomas,
William Scott
W.S. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Mr Ben Scott Thomas)

Son of William Thomas, surgeon, and Elizabeth Thomas (née ...), of Rhyl.
Married ((06?).1931, St Asaph district, Flintshire) Mary Hilda Bertha "Maimie" Hemelryk (30.06.1906 - 11.1990), daughter of Lt.Col. George Edward Hemelryk (1881-1967), and Mary Elizabeth Smith; two sons, one daughter.

05.11.1903
St Asaph, Flintshire
-
24.10.1983
Worthing, Sussex

Midsh. 15.09.1921

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924

S.Lt. 30.08.1924

Lt. 30.05.1926

Lt.Cdr. 30.05.1934 (retd 05.11.1948)

A/Cdr. 01.04.1942?

Cdr. (retd) 05.11.1948

DSC 14.01.1941 good service in minelayers [investiture 08.04.41]

MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk

Arct St 2019 posthumously

15.05.1917 entered RN

15.11.1921 - (04.1922) HMS King George V (battleship)

17.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Diligence (destroyer depot ship)

10.04.1924 - (01.)1925 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

27.10.1925 - (07.)1928 HMS Verity (destroyer) (China)

13.12.1928 - (10.1930) HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

15.01.1931 - (12.)1931 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)

29.12.1931 - (01.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

04.05.1933 - (08.)1934 First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

19.10.1934 - 04.06.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Firedrake (destroyer) (while under construction)

04.06.1935 - (02.)1936 First Lieutenant, HMS Firedrake (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

08.05.1936 - (02.)1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth)

10.05.1937 - (07.)1937 tactical course, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

19.11.1937 - 01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Impulsive (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (DSC, despatches)

(02.1942) no appointment listed

20.02.1942 - (04.)1942 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

01.04.1942 - (04.)1943 British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker II, later HMS Saker]

(06.1943) - (08.)1943 no appointment listed

20.09.1943 - 20.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Verulam (destroyer)

13.11.1944 - 07.1945 HMS Flycatcher (for Mobile Naval Air Bases [MONABs])

17.07.1945 - 30.08.1945 temporary Commanding Officer, HMS Nabaron (mobile naval air base (MONAB) IV, Manus, Admiralty Islands)

(04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) *

01.06.1948 - (07.)1948 Naval Training Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomas-Ferrand,
Richard David Mark Waddington
08.04.1916
-
02.03.1999
Dyfed, Wales

Paym.Midsh.
01.01.1935

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)
01.11.1938

A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
13.03.1946?

DSC
?
?

MID
?
?

01.09.1934
-
(02.1937)
HMS Emerald (cruiser)

28.07.1939
-
(08.1939)
Captain's Secretary, HMS Malcolm (destroyer)

15.02.1942
-
07.1942)
for duty in Admiral's office, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka]

20.07.1942
-
(06.1943)
HMS Warspite (battleship)

(08.1943)
-
(10.1943)
no appointment listed

08.11.1943
-
(06.1944)
HMS Manatee (landing craft base, Yarmouth)

(07.1945)

HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)

13.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)

Thompson,
Albert Robert Victor
"Bob"

Married Gillian ...; two daughters, one son. 11.06.1926
Elliot, Cape, South Africa
-
11.02.1986
Portsmouth, Hampshire

Cadet 01.05.1944

Midsh. 01.01.1945

A/S.Lt. 1945?

S.Lt. 01.09.1946

Lt. 16.03.1948

Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1956 (retd 11.06.1976)

MBE 01.01.1976 New Year 76

1940/41 joined RN & served perhaps on HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier), and later on Arctic convoys

01.05.1944 special entry cadet

15.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

obtained his aviator's licence (No. 23744) on a Tiger Moth taken at RN Air Station, Gosport, 04.12.1947

18.06.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Welfare

(05.1949) HMS Welfare *

(05.1950) HMS Merlin *

(05.1953) HMS Mars *

(07.1954) HMS Vigo *

08.11.1954 - (04.1955) HMS Neptune (for duty with Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Chatham)

(01.1956) - (01.1957) HMS Acute *

(01.1959) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

20.03.1961 - (02.1963) SPO (Operations and NCS) on staff of Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland, COMNORECHAN and COMNORLANT) [HMS Cochrane]

(02.1964) Admiralty [HMS President]

(02.1968) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

24.06.1968 - (02.1969) Deputy SORS, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke]

07.09.1970 - (08.1971) RN Sports Officer, Physical Training School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

Thompson,
Charles Ralfe
"Tommy"
C.R. Thompson

2nd son of late Richard Charles Thompson (1857-1918), shipbuilder, Fencehouses, Co. Durham, and Dorothy Clark.
Unmarried, but became very close with the widow of Lt.Cdr. Ward Thompson, RN (no relation) and her children, Simon Ward and Camilla.

22.11.1894
Shiney Row, Penshaw, Co. Durham
-
11.08.1966
Chelsea, London

Midsh.
1912

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
15.06.1916

Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1924 (retd 23.11.1939)

Cdr. (retd)
23.11.1939 (reverted to retd 23.11.1945)

CMG
17.08.1945
service as PA to Churchill, 40-45

OBE
08.06.1939
HM's birthday 39

LegH
1946
?

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth

15.09.1907

entered RN

1912

Midshipman, HMS Monarch

1915
-
1931
served mainly in Submarines, China and Mediterranean (in command from 1918):

31.08.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Centurion (battleship)

01.09.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (China) (for submarines)

(05.1926)

Commanding Officer, HMS L 19 (submarine) (China)
[appointment given as from 01.09.1924]

21.03.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Conquest (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (additional for submarines)

12.01.1929
-
(04.1930)
Commanding Officer, HMS Oberon (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla)

(10.1930)

no appointment listed

15.11.1930
-
(02.1931)
for submarines & for drafting duties, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport)

09.06.1931
-
(02.)1936
Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

10.08.1936
-
01.1938
HMS Enchantress (Admiralty yacht and convoy sloop) (additional)

24.01.1938
-
(04.)1940
Flag Lieutenant / Flag Commander to the Board of Admiralty [HMS President]

12.12.1940
-
(07.)1945
Personal Assistant to Minister of Defence, Sir Winston Churchill [HMS President]

Secretary to the Stewards of the Jockey Club, 1947-1962.
Published: Gerald Pawle, The war and Colonel Warden : based on the recollections of Commander C.R. Thompson (1963)

Thompson,
George Charles
?
-
?

Wt.Gnr.
?

A/Gnr.
30.11.1942

Gnr.
1943/44?, seniority 30.11.1942

A/Cd.Gnr.
30.11.1945

Lt.Cdr. (SD) (G) 01.10.1960 (retd 13.10.1963)

DSC
14.09.1943
destruction U202 Western Approaches 02.06.43

29.01.1943
-
(12.1943)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Wild Goose (sloop)

(04.1944)

no appointment listed

(06.1944)

advanced course

14.11.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Nigeria (cruiser)

Thompson,
Gerald Hubert

22.06.1901
-
24.03.1969

... ...

Lt. 15.051923

Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1931 (retd 22.06.1946)

A/Cdr. < 08.1942

Cdr. (retd) 22.06.1946

... - ... ...

(1921) HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)

... - ... ...

22.01.1940 - (08.)1943 HMS Iron Duke (RN base, Scapa Flow, Orkneys)

20.09.1943 - (04.)1946 HMS Duke (training establishment, Great Malvern, Worcestershire)

Thompson,
Joseph John Connelly

14.09.1906
Battersea, London
-
07.10.1958
Hampshire

Chief Petty Officer ? [J105995]

T/A/Gnr. 08.12.1944

T/Gnr. 1945?, seniority 08.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

MBE 01.01.1946 New Year 46

(01.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed

(1945) HMS Royal Rupert (Naval Party 1735, Wilhelmshaven, Germany) (MBE)

(04.1946) no appointment listed

Thomson,
Charles Richard Powys
"Dick"

Son (with one brother and one sister) of George Ritchie Thomson (1865-1946), and Mabel Alice Powys (1870-1943).

04.06.1906
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
-
10.11.1942
(MPK) [age 36]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 51, 1]

Midsh. 15.04.1924

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1926

S.Lt. 28.02.1928, seniority 15.03.1927

Lt. 15.04.1928

Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1936

Cdr. 30.06.1940

DSO 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.42 [presented to next-of-kin]

MID 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [while on staff of convoy CS10]

14.09.1924 - 21.05.1925 HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa)

22.05.1925 - 11.1926 HMS Lowestoft (cruiser)

30.12.1926 - 10.02.1928 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

12.02.1928 - 01.1930 HMS Triad (special service vessel) (East Indies)

(04.1930) no appointment listed

14.05.1930 - 18.03.1931 HMS Anthony (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

23.03.1931 - 31.07.1931 long navigation course, HMS Dryad (additional) (commencing at the Compass Observatory, Slough)

10.08.1931 - 21.08.1931 gyro course, HMS Dryad (additional)

22.08.1931 - 31.08.1931 HMS Victory (additional; not to join)

01.09.1931 - (01.)1932 Navigating Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship)

23.03.1932 - 03.10.1934 Navigating Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop) (America and West Indies)

(11.1934) no appointment listed

28.01.1935 - (02.)1935 first class ship course in navigation [HMS Dryad]

30.04.1935 - (02.)1937 Navigating Officer, HMS Exmouth (destroyer; flotilla leader) & for flotilla duties, 5th Destroyer Flotilla

29.04.1937 - (06.)1940 Navigating Officer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron

07.1940 - (10.)1941 Executive & Navigating Officer, HMS Nigeria (cruiser)

(12.1941) no appointment listed

10.12.1941 - 10.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria)

Thomson,
Colin Sinclair

Son of John Sinclair Thomson.
Married (26.05.1915, Westminster, St Marylebone, Greater London) Royale Carter Falk; one son.

27.05.1888
-
24.07.1959
Canterbury district, Kent

... ...

Lt. 01.04.1911

Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1919

Cdr. 30.06.1925

Capt. 30.06.1931

Cdre. 2nd cl. 22.02.1941

R.Adm. 08.07.1941 (retd 09.07.1941) (dispersed 25.11.1945) (reverted to retd 21.01.1946)

15.01.1904 entered RN

... - ... ...

16.12.1934 - 09.10.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser)

10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

12.03.1938 - (06.)1938 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President]

05.08.1938 - 24.08.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) & as Captain-in-Charge Portland & as King's Harbour Master, Portland

25.08.1939 - 05.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)] & as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Portland & as King's Harbour Master & Deputy Superintendent, HM Dockyard Portland

10.10.1940 - 21.10.1940 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; temporary)

28.10.1940 - 21.02.1941 Captain of the Dockyard & Deputy Superintendent & King's Harbour Master, Devonport, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

22.02.1941 - 06.07.1943 Deputy Superintendent, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)

07.07.1943 - 08.07.1943 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (additional) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)

09.07.1943 - 23.10.1945 Commodore-in-Charge, Sheerness Sub-Command & as Commodore Superintendent HM Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)

Thomson,
Evelyn Claude Ogilvie

13.04.1884
Edinburgh
-
21.12.1941

Capt.
31.12.1924

Cdre. 2nd cl.
1935

R.Adm.
02.01.1936

V.Adm.
1939 (retd 1939)

CB
1938
?

DSO
1917
?

15.01.1899

entered RN

1914
-
1918
served European War (despatches, DSO)

1926
-
1928
Captain (D) 3rd Destroyer Flotilla

1929
-
1931
Captain-in-Charge at Singapore

1932
-
1934
HMS St Vincent boys' training establishment, Gosport

1935
-
1936
Commodore Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas

1935
-
1936
Naval ADC to the King

22.07.1937
-
03.08.1939
Rear-Admiral and Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland [HMS Cochrane]

Thomson,
Frederick John
F.J. Thomson (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
12.04.1915
Liverpool
-
14.08.1982

S.Lt. (A) 01.09.1944

... ...

Cdr. 31.12.1955 (retd 19.10.1963)

? - 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

... - ... ...

Thomson,
Robert Knight

29.12.1907
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
11.08.1981
Bournemouth, Dorset

Seaman ? [J107131]

Gnr. (T) 22.08.1939

A/Cd.Gnr. (T) 18.06.1945

Sen.Cd.El.Offr. 01.04.1948

El.Lt. (L) 01.01.1957 (retd 29.12.1957)

MID 27.08.1940 Dutch, Belgian & French coast 05.40

31.01.1940 - (02.)1941 Torpedo Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (despatches)

10.1941 - (10.)1943 Torpedo Officer, HMS Teviot Bank (auxiliary minelayer)

(12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed

29.06.1944 - (01.)1945 Torpedo Officer, HMS Zebra (destroyer)

(07.1945) no appointment listed

31.01.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Aisne (destroyer)

(07.1948) HMS Manxman *

03.08.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Dido

(05.1951) HMS Jupiter *

(05.1953) HMS Cockade *

19.02.1954 - (01.1957) HMS Cochrane (Rosyth Maritime Headquarters) (for miscellaneous duties)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomson,
Roger William David

Married ((06?).1930, Plymouth district, Devon) Avice M. Harding (1912-); three sons.

25.02.1906
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
19.05.1978
Warmington, Peterborough, Oundle district, Huntingdonshire

...
...

S.Lt.
30.12.1926

Lt.
30.12.1928

Lt.Cdr.
30.12.1936

Cdr.
30.06.1943 (retd 25.02.1956)

DSC
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]

...
-
...
...

26.04.1937
-
(02.)1941
HMS Resolution (battleship)

21.06.1941
-
(08.1942)
HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

06.04.1943
-
(10.)1943
HMS Monck (Combined Training HQ, Largs)

(12.1943)

no appointment listed

14.02.1944
-
(01.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Sidmouth (Bangor class minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 9th Minesweeping Flotilla *

?
-
12.01.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Regulus (Algerine class minesweeper) [struck a mine and sank in the Corfu Channel some miles south of Cape Stilo]

25.02.1945
-
(10.1945)
Commanding Officer, HMS Coquette (Algerine class minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 8th Minesweeping Flotilla

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

...
-
...
...

* (10.1944) & (01.1945) indexed as HMS Regulus, but not listed as such and showing under HMS Sidmouth.

Thorne,
John Christopher
20.08.1916 ?
-
20.10.1984 ?

T/S.Lt. (E)
09.10.1939

T/Lt. (E)
20.08.1941

DSC
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45 [decoration posted]

16.05.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Berwick (cruiser)

(08.1942)
-
(08.)1943
HMS Quilliam (destroyer)

(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

17.01.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Onslaught (destroyer)

(04.1946)

HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thornton,
Edward Chicheley
E.C. Thornton
Son of Richard Chicheley Thornton (1847-1910), and Henrietta Nash (1860-1942).
Married (07.06.1917, Brighton, Sussex) Margaret Noel Terry (07.12.1899 - 17.03.1970); one daughter, two sons.

19.09.1889
Butterant Cork, Ireland
-
27.03.1959
Gosport, Hampshire

Midsh. 15.05.1906

S.Lt. 15.08.1909

Lt. 01.04.1912

Cdr. 31.12.1925

Capt. 31.12.1933 (retd 12.01.1943) (reverted to retd 04.09.1945)

DSC 08.03.1918 ?

1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937

15.01.1905 entered service

... - ... ...

11.02.1938 - 19.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)

15.11.1940 - 21.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Suffolk (Kent class cruiser)

22.02.1941 - 02.03.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; whilst unemployed)

17.03.1941 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) & as Cdre. 2nd cl. in charge of RN Barracks Lee-on-Solent

28.07.1942 - 12.01.1943 also: Naval ADC to the King

1944 - 1944 in command of the “Air Spotting Pool” of the 34th Reconnaissance Wing, 2nd Tactical Air Force

10.1944 - (10.)1944 Captain Superintendent, Alexandria, HM Dockyard, Alexandria [HMS Nile]

10.11.1944 - 01.01.1945 Commodore-in-Charge, Sheerness and Commodore Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Sheerness [HMS Wildfire]

(04.1945) no appointment listed

17.04.1945 - (07.)1945 Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Dover [HMS Lynx]

Thornton,
Mark

14.09.1907
-
21.11.1982
Westminster district, London

Midsh.
15.09.1925

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
16.09.1928

Lt.
16.11.1930

Lt.Cdr.
16.11.1938

Cdr.
31.12.1945 (retd 15.05.1956)

DSO
12.01.1943
successful attack on submarine

DSC
03.01.1941
sinking U-boat

MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk 05/06.40

MID
14.09.1943
destruction U-559 Mediterranean 30.10.42

GrkWC
22.06.1943
destruction submarine with Queen Olga

15.01.1925
-
(05.1926)
HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)

15.04.1927
-
(07.1927)
HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Atlantic)

16.03.1929
-
(02.)1931
HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

22.10.1931
-
(09.)1932
First Lieutenant, HMS Forres (twin screw minesweeper) (Devonport)

20.12.1932
-
(07.)1935
HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

10.09.1935
-
(07.1937)
First Lieutenant, HMS Gipsy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (initially till 25.02.1936 in charge while under construction at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., Govan & and for duty with Admiral-Superintendent of Contract-built Ships) [ship commissioned 22.02.1936]

15.01.1938
-
(06.)1938
HMS Punjabi (destroyer) (in charge while under construction at Scotts' Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., Greenock) (and for duty with Admiral-Superintendent of Contract-built Ships)

07.06.1938
-
(09.1939)
Commanding Officer, HMS Scimitar (destroyer) (Portsmouth)

11.03.1940
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Harvester (destroyer)

28.04.1942
-
01.1943
Commanding Offficer, HMS Petard (destroyer)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

01.04.1943
-
(06.)1943
HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs)

(08.1943)
-
(06.1944)
Amphibious Warfare Branch, Combined Operations HQ

07.03.1945
-
(04.1946)
on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]

(07.1948)

no appointment listed

15.02.1950
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Boxer (destroyer) & as Commander (D) Portsmouth

23.02.1951
-
(05.)1953
Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Albert

10.08.1953
-
(01.1956)
Admiralty Liaison Officer for Merchant Navy, Liverpool (and for RNR Liaison Duties) [HMS President]

Thorpe,
Ernest Michael

Youngest of thee sons of Arthur Charles Thorpe (born 1878), and Winifred Thorpe (née Swords). 11.12.1911
Deepcut, Surrey
-
15.10.1974
Portsmouth

Prob. A/S.Lt. RNR
01.12.1933

Prob. S.Lt. RNR
27.09.1934

S.Lt. RNR
21.06.1937, seniority 27.09.1934

Prob. S.Lt.
01.07.1937

S.Lt.
15.07.1938, seniority 01.07.1937

Lt.
?, seniority 10.12.1935

Lt.Cdr.
10.12.1943

Cdr.
31.12.1951 (retd 10.12.1963)

DSO
10.11.1942
action Nore 10.09.42 saving wounded

(02.1938)

no appointment listed

05.04.1938
-
(06.)1938
HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

30.07.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Niger (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla)

01.12.1938
-
(04.)1939
HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for MTB's)

06.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HM MASB 5 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey] (Portland)

08.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HM MASB 58 (motor anti-submarine boat) & SO 4th MASB Flotilla [HMS Drake IV]

08.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 330 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training centre, Fort William, Scotland)]

(08.1942)
-
(08.1943)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training centre, Fort William, Scotland):

(09.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM MGB 334 (motor gun boat)

30.09.1942
-
(06.)1943
Commanding Officer, HM MGB 644 (motor gun boat)

30.08.1943
-
03.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Bickerton (frigate)

(04.1944)

no appointment listed

(06.1944)

Commanding Officer, HMS Watchman (destroyer)

22.06.1944
-
(10.1944)
on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]

08.01.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Offa (destroyer)

15.10.1947
-
(05.1950)
HMS Highflyer

03.1952
-
(05.1953)
Executive Officer, HMS Tamar

10.11.1954
-
(01.1957)
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

03.02.1958
-
(01.1959)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rooke

12.09.1960
-
(02.1963)
Executive Officer & Deputy SORS, Plymouth [HMS Orion]

Threadkell,
Victor Harold
V.H. Threadkell

01.02.1909
Camberwell district, Greater London / London / Surrey
-
22.10.1943
(MPK) [age 34]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 78, column 1]

A/Gnr.
03.01.1942

Gnr.
1943?, seniority 03.01.1942

15.04.1942
-
(08.1942)
HMS Shearwater (sloop)

30.01.1943
-
(06.)1943
HMS Easton (destroyer)

07.1943
-
22.10.1943
HMS Hurworth (destroyer) (missing, presumed killed when ship was mined east of Kalymnos)

Thring,
George Arthur

Only child of late Sir Arthur Thring, KCB.
Married (17.07.1929) Betty Mary (died 1983), elder daughter of Col. Stewart William Ward Blacker, DSO; two sons, two daughters.

13.09.1903
London
-
15.12.2001
Castle Cary, Somerset

...
...

A/S.Lt.
15.01.1924

Lt.
30.01.1926

Lt.Cdr.
30.01.1934

A/Cdr.
02.06.1941?

Cdr.
31.12.1941

Capt.
30.06.1946

R.Adm.
07.01.1956 (retd 1958)

CB
01.01.1958
New Year 58 [investiture 15.07.58]

DSO
01.01.1941
New Year 41 [investiture 15.03.41]

DSO
03.10.1952
Korea (4th list) [investiture 17.02.53]

LM
16.07.1946
?

Education: Wick Preparatory School, Hove; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (till 1921)

HMS Temeraire (battleship)

HMS Thunderer (battleship)

HMS Carysfort (cruiser)

15.05.1923
-
1924
HMS Ramillies (battleship)

10.04.1924
-
(01.)1925
promotion course, RN Collge, Greenwich [HMS President]

06.07.1925
-
1928
HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (China)

02.02.1928
-
(06.1928)
HMS Harebell (sloop; fishery protection cruiser)

01.08.1929
-
(02.)1931
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

08.08.1931
-
(09.1932)
First Lieutenant, HMS Velox (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

27.01.1933
-
(02.)1935
First Lieutenant, HMS Lupin (sloop) (East Indies)

(07.1935)

no appointment listed

14.01.1936 - (02.1936) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

01.01.1937
-
(10.1938)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Norfolk (cruiser)]

(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed

20.05.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Belfast (cruiser)

19.01.1940
-
02.05.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Deptford (sloop)

02.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS President (fro special and miscellaneous services)

01.04.1942
-
(02.)1943
Navy Department Liaison Officer, Washington, DC [HMS Saker]

17.05.1943
-
(06.)1943
HMS Eagles (RN base, Liverpool) (for miscellaneous duties)

15.06.1943
-
(12.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Wellington & Senior Officer, 42nd Escort Group (Atlantic)

04.1944
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Wellington & Senior Officer, 55th Escort Group (Atlantic)

1944 - 1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Tintagel Castle (corvette)

29.09.1944
-
30.03.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Tavy & Senior Officer, 20th Escort Group (Atlantic)

14.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Drafting Commander, RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

Resident Naval Officer for the Reserve Fleet at Faslane

senior officers' war course

1948

Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Destroyers for the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Forth (depot ship)]

1951
-
1952
Commanding Officer, HMS Ceylon (cruiser)

chief of staff to the Nato C-in-C Channel

05.1956
-
1958
Flag Officer Malayan Area

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Somerset, 1968.

Thruston,
Edmund Wybergh

Son of Col. Edmund Heathcote Thruston (1863-1948), and Lucy Lawson (1872-1942).
Married (20.01.1940) Nina Nisbet, of Kensington, London.

06.12.1903
Brighton, Sussex
-
20.11.1941
Indian Ocean
[age 37]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 41, column 1]

Midsh.
15.01.1922

A/S.Lt.
15.05.1924

S.Lt.
15.01.1925

Lt.
15.03.1927

Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1935

Cdr.
30.06.1941

DSC
27.12.1940
destruction Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni 19.07.40

15.01.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Iron Duke (battleship)

25.09.1924
-
(01.)1925
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

27.10.1925
-
(04.)1928
HMS Bluebell (sloop) (China)

(05.1928)
-
(06.1928)
no appointment listed

07.04.1929
-
(04.)1930
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

16.05.1930
-
(02.1931)
Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

(01.1932)

no appointment listed

03.1932
-
(07.)1934
HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (Africa)

14.11.1934
-
(02.)1936
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties)

16.12.1936
-
(02.)9137
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)

(07.1937)

no appointment listed

21.08.1937
-
28.09.1937
passage to Australia per 'Ceramic'

29.09.1937
-
20.11.1941
HMAS Sydney (light cruiser) [Exchange Officer on loan to RAN] (ship sunk by auxiliary cruiser "Kormoran")
[notebable event sinking of Italian light cruiser "Bartelomeo Colleoni" 19.07.1940]

15.10.1939
-
26.04.1940?
Intelligence Officer

30.06.1941
-
20.11.1941
Executive Officer

Tibbatts,
Richard Femister
"Dick"

Son of Walter John Tibbatts (1890-1959), and Aileen Edith Ward (1895?-).
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
Residence: (1945) Muddiford, nr. Barnstaple. 06.05.1920
Adenwalla Mansions, Chaupati, Bombay, India
-
03.12.2005
New Zealand

Cadet 01.05.1938

Midsh. 01.05.1939

A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941

Lt. 16.08.1941

Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1949

Cdr. 30.06.1953 (retd 22.07.1964)

Hon. Capt. 22.07.1964

DSC 23.10.1945 war patrols Far East 05.45 [decoration posted]

01.05.1938 - 30.04.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

01.05.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Sheffield (cruiser)

06.01.1941 - (06.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

17.06.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Euryalus (cruiser)

(04.1943) HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut) *

(06.1943) HMS Parthian (submarine) *

(08.1943) HMS H 30 (submarine) *

04.09.1943 - (12.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS P 511 (submarine)

12.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Severn (submarine)

17.10.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Trenchant (submarine)

(04.1946) no appointment listed

... - ... ...

05.1957 - 10.1958 Executive Officer, HMS Gambia (cruiser)

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tibbs,
Francis Charles

02.09.1908
Plymouth, Devon
-
30.03.1973

Seaman
? [J94606]

A/Gnr.
01.01.1935

Gnr. (T)
> 02.1936, seniority 01.01.1935

Cd.Gnr. (T)
01.10.1944

Sen.Cd.Gnr. (T)
?

Lt.
01.10.1949 (retd 02.09.1953)

MBE
01.01.1938
New Year 38

MID
27.04.1943
convoy JW51B 12.42

- RedSt
11.04.1944
Order of the Red Star: for services to the USSR

(07.1935)

short course of instruction

06.09.1935
-
(02.1936)
HMS Valentine (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

26.05.1936
-
(02.1937)
HMS Hunter (destroyer)

06.1937
-
(08.1938)
HMS Active (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

18.10.1938
-
(09.1939)
HMS Hunter (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

03.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Port Quebec (minelayer)

15.07.1941
-
(02.1943)
HMS Onslow (destroyer)

(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
no appointment listed

15.08.1943
-
(04.1944)
HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)

04.1944
-
(07.1945)
Kilindini Escort Force [HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)]

09.08.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

16.10.1947
-
(07.1948)
Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

06.02.1950
-
(05.1953)
HMS Defiance

Tidd,
Cyril Bristowe

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Maurice Walter Tidd (1869-1955), and Lilian Edna Bristowe (1869-1960).

06.12.1900
Sutton, Epsom district, Surrey
-
16.05.1977
Hove district, East Sussex

RAF:

(T) F/O 16.06.1924

(T) F/Lt. 03.12.1931, seniority 01.01.1930

(T) Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1933

(T) W/Cdr. 01.01.1938

RN:

Midsh. 15.08.1917

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1920

S.Lt. 15.01.1921

A/Lt. 15.01.1923

Lt. ?, seniority 15.10.1922

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1930

Cdr. 30.06.1935

A/Capt. < 02.1941

Capt. 30.06.1942 (retd 07.07.1951)

06.09.1917 - (01.)1919 HMS Benbow (battleship)

31.01.1919 - (06.)1919 HMS Valorous

01.06.1919 - (01.)1920 HMS Erin (battleship)

06.01.1920 - (06.)1920 HMS Barham (battleship)

(07.1920) short course of instruction

17.07.1920 - (04.1922) Navigating Officer, HMS Gnat (river gunboat) [actually joined ship 29.09.1920 at Hankow, China]

(08.1923) short course of instruction

16.06.1924 - (01.)1925 pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon, Wilts. [attached to RAF]

04.04.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF]

03.1927 - (06.)1927 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) (for Fleet Air Arm) [attached to RAF]

02.06.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar) (for Fleet Air Arm) [attached to RAF]

09.1927 - (07.1928) pilot, No. 404 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]

08.04.1929 - 03.12.1929 No. 405 Flight FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]

03.12.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

03.12.1931 re-attached to RAF

01.01.1932 - (10.1932) Flight Commander No. 442 Flight FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]

01.08.1933 - (01.1934) Squadron Commander S/R Squadron 823 FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]

01.01.1935 - (02.)1935 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Fleet Air Arm) [attached to RAF]

38.09.1935 - (02.)1936 Squadron Commander, Fleet Air Arm [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF]

09.09.1936 returned to Naval duty

15.09.1936 - 17.02.1938 staff, Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

18.02.1938 - (08.1938) staff, Air Personnel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

06.09.1938 - (06.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (America and West Indies)

02.07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)

27.11.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional for various services)

28.01.1941 - (10.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)

10.1941 - (06.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Phoenix (RN aircraft repair yard, Fayid, Egypt)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

15.09.1942 - 01.02.1943 staff, Naval Air Division. Admiralty [HMS President]

01.02.1943 - (04.)1945 Assistant Director, Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

18.06.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Roberts (monitor)

27.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Stork (sloop)

16.12.1947 - (07.1948) UK Naval Adviser to UK Liaison Mission in Japan [HMS Commonwealth]

(1949) Naval Attaché, Tokyo

(05.1950) no appointment listed

15.05.1951 - 07.07.1951 Naval ADC to the King

Tighe,
Wilfred Geoffrey Stuart
29.07.1905
-
17.07.1975

... ...

Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1935

Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1942

Capt. (S) 1952

R.Adm. (S) 1959 (retd 1962)

CB 1961 ?

... - ... ...

24.06.1943 - 14.07.1944 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (and for duty with Naval Intelligence Division)

15.07.1944 - (07.1945) Assistant Director Signals Division (ADSD) (SC), Admiralty [HMS President]

... - ... ...

Tilden,
Eric Henry
"Tom"
E.H. Tilden
Son of Harry and Ada Tilden. Married (1930) Susan Jones, of Cookham, Berkshire; two daughters, two sons.

see also: www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk
08.05.1905
Edmonton district
-
17.12.1942
(KIA) [age 37]
[Chatham Naval
Memorial, 51, 1]

Midsh.
15.05.1923

A/S.Lt.
15.09.1925

S.Lt.
> 07.1927, seniority 1926

Lt.
30.05.1928

Lt.Cdr.
30.05.1936

Cdr.
30.06.1941

DSC
25.06.1940
services off the Norwegian coast

Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth (01.1919-07.1922).

completed training in HMS Thunderer (battleship)

15.05.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Barham (battleship) (home waters & Mediterranean)

01.01.1926
-
(07.1927)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich

HMS Wryneck (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(08.1929)

no appointment listed

02.09.1929
-
(10.1930)
HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)

01.01.1931
-
(02.1931)
anti-submarine course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Osprey]

01.09.1931
-
(09.1932)
HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) [accommodated in HMS Wessex]

09.01.1933
-
(01.1934)
staff, Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey]

07.02.1935
-
(02.1937)
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) & for flotilla duties, 4th Submarine Flotilla (China)

1937

Anti-Submarine Officer, 6th Destroyer Flotilla (China)

(07.1937)

no appointment listed

11.01.1938
-
(10.1938)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

02.01.1939
-
(06.1940)
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nelson (Home Fleet Flag ship)

18.12.1940
-
09.1942
Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)

09.1942
-
17.12.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Firedrake (destroyer)

Tillard,
Sir Aubrey Thomas

2nd son of late Rev. Robert Mowbray Tillard.
Married (1924) Margery Gillian Crothers, daughter of late Robert Michell (India Office); one son, one daughter.

10.04.1881
Rodington, Shropshire
-
12.12.1952
Penzance, Cornwall
[buried at sea]

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
31.03.1903

Cdr.
?

Capt.
30.06.1920

R.Adm.
16.10.1932 (retd 17.10.1932)

Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR
28.08.1939

KBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 44

DSO
08.03.1920

for distinguished services as Divisional Destroyer Leader

MID
17.11.1942
ocean convoys 39-42

Education: Marlborough College; HMS Britannia

15.07.1895

entered RN

1900

served China (medal)

(1914)

Commanding Officer, HMS Larne

1914
-
1919
served European War (despatches, DSO), latterly as Division Destroyer Leader in the Baltic

08.08.1922
-
(08.1923)
Commanding Officer, HMS Castor (light cruiser)

23.10.1924
-
(05.)1926
Commanding Officer, HMS Malabar (steam pinnacle) & Captain-in-Charge of the Naval Establishments at Bermuda

14.03.1927
-
(07.1927)
senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich

01.02.1929
-
(08.)1929
Commanding Officer, HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier) & Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)

04.11.1929
-
(10.1930)
Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (battleship; fleet target ship)

(02.1931)

no appointment listed

10.08.1931
-
(09.)1932
Captain of the Dockyard [& Deputy Superintendent] and King's Harbour Master, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

24.09.1932
-
16.10.1932
Naval ADC to the King

28.08.1939
-
(08.1942)
Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]

Tilney,
George Adams

03.03.1905
Sterling, Scotland
-
23.12.1990
Dalbeattie, Scotland

... ...

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1925

S.Lt. 15.03.1926

Lt. 15.06.1927

Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1935

Cdr. 31.12.1942 (retd 03.03.1955; age)

... - ... ...

... - ... ...

10.03.1943 - (10.)1944 Naval Air Organisation Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(06.1944) on staff of Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of ANCXF (Invasion of Normandy, 1944) [HMS Odyssey]

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Titheridge,
Cecil Baird

Son of John and Maud Titheridge.
Married (09.1924, Hendon, London) Mae Sneddon; one son, one daughter.

04.02.1900
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
26.03.1973
Waterlooville, Gosport district, Hampshire

Seaman
? [J43911]

A/Gnr.
01.01.1933

Gnr.
?, seniority 01.01.1933

Cd.Gnr.
01.10.1941

Lt.
04.01.1947 (retd 04.02.1950)

Lt.Cdr. (Special Duties List)
01.01.1957

MBE
07.07.1942
sinking of Dunedin 24.11.41

(05.1933)
-
(06.1933)
short course of instruction

25.07.1933
-
(07.)1935
HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)

14.09.1935
-
(02.1936)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

(02.1937)
-
(07.1937)
no appointment listed

(02.1938)

no appointment listed

10.05.1938
-
08.1939
HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)

23.08.1939
-
24.11.1941
HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]

(08.1942)
-
(02.1943)
no appointment listed

16.03.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

30.05.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Howe (battleship)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

01.07.1946
-
(05.1949)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)

(05.1950)

HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *

(05.1953)
-
(01.1957)
HMS President *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tivy,
Laurence Ryder
"Tan"

Unmarried.

17.05.1918
Kingston, Jamaica
-
13.03.2007
Alverstoke, Hampshire

RAF:

(A) P/O (prob) 09.05.1937

P/O 08.03.1938 (reld 22.08.1938)

RN:

S.Lt. (A) 08.03.1938

Lt. (A) 08.11.1939

A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 21.04.1943?

Lt.Cdr. 08.11.1947 (retd 17.05.1963)

MBE 31.12.1960 New Year 61 [investiture 06.03.61]

MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41

Education: St George's, Weybridge.

09.05.1937 commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission]

09.05.1937 - ? No. 10 Flying Training School RAF (Tern Hill)

22.08.1938 transferred, RN (Air Branch)

22.08.1938 - (10.)1938 Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station Gosport [HMS Victory]

17.10.1938 - (12.)1938 Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Furious(aircraft carrier)]

24.12.1938 - (04.)1939 Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance Squadron 820 FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]

10.04.1939 - (05.)1939 Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance Squadron 810 FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]

(08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm

29.04.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton) (undergoing courses)

02.06.1940 - (06.)1941 pilot, 818 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (despatches)

28.07.1941 - (08.1941) pilot, 785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]

(10.1941) - (04.1942) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *

04.05.1942 - 04.1943 Commanding Officer, 840 Squadron FAA [HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton), then HMS Battler (escort carrier)]

21.04.1943 - 03.1944 Commanding Officer, 842 Squadron FAA

(04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) *

18.07.1944 - (01.)1945 778 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]

(07.1945) no appointment listed

(04.1946) HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) *

... - ... ...

Captain of the John Lewis Partnership yachts. Owned "Katrina" (folkboat), then "Winfrith" (Hillyard sloop).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tod,
David

Elder son of Frederick John Tod (1874-1945), of Kensington.
Married 1st ((09?).1929; marriage dissolved) Shirley Lamplough (07.04.1909 - (09?).1983), eldest daughter of Dr & Mrs Wharram H. Lamplough, of Alverstoke, Hampshire; one daughter, one son. Shirley Tod remarried (1940) F/O Donovan Storr Allom, RAFVR.
Married 2nd ((09?).1938, Plympton district, Devon) [later A/Flight Officer WAAF] Jean Alison Aikman, MBE (1946) (23.02.1914 – 12.1992), second daughter of the late Dr M. Aikman, of Plymouth, and of Mrs Aikman, of Littleham Cross, nr Exmouth, Devon. Alison Tod remarried (30.11.1946) Sq.Ldr. Frank Radley Derry, DFC, RAFVR.

10.06.1902
-
30.05.1943
Gloucester Royal Infirmary, Gloucestershire (formerly of Northcote, Stonehouse, Gloucester)

Midsh. ?

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922

S.Lt. 15.10.1922

Lt. 15.10.1924

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1932 (retd 31.01.1939) (reverted to retd < 02.1941)

15.01.1916 entered RN

... - ... ...

24.06.1921 - 1921 HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)

29.07.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarine course)

... - ... ...

05.09.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Reward (anti-submarine warfare trawler) *

17.01.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen) *

* in Navy List of (04.1940) shown under both HMS Northern Reward & HMS Bacchante

Tod,
Norman Kelso
N.K. Tod
Unmarried.

12.11.1910
Quetta, India
-
06.03.2009
Guildford, Surrey

Cadet
01.01.1928

Midsh.
01.09.1928

A/S.Lt.
01.01.1931

S.Lt.
04.04.1932, seniority 01.05.1931

Lt
02.11.1932, seniority 01.06.1932

Lt.Cdr.
01.06.1940

Cdr.
30.06.1944 (retd 09.08.1958)

A/Capt.
< 01.1956

Hon. Capt.
09.08.1958

DSC
23.02.1940
Battle of the River Plate [investiture 23.02.40]

Education: Miss Corfe's and Windlesham House in Brighton; RM College, Dartmouth (1924-1928)

07.01.1928
-
(05.)1928
HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

29.05.1928
-
(10.1930)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)

(02.1931)

no appointment listed

17.08.1931
-
(01.)1932
promotion course, Portsmouth

21.03.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

12.05.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS Sutton (minesweeper) (temporary)

16.04.1934
-
(08.)1934
long navigating course [HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)]

03.09.1934
-
(11.1934)
HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) (for navigating duties)

01.02.1935
-
(07.)1935
Navigating Officer, HMS Lupin (sloop) (East Indies)

16.11.1935
-
(07.1937)
Navigating Officer, HMS Deptford (escort vessel) (East Indies)

(02.1938)

navigation course

01.05.1938
-
(04.)1940
Navigating Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser)

28.05.1940
-
(02.)1941
Navigating Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

25.09.1941
-
(08.1942)
Navigating Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

01.1943
-
(02.)1943
HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)

10.03.1943
-
(06.)1944
Executive Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (and for navigating duties)

08.1944
-
(01.)1945
navigating duties on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

(07.1948)

HMS Tamar *

(05.1950)

HMS President *

26.09.1952
-
(01.1956)
Naval Attaché Lisbon

* indexed, but not listed as such

Todd,
Percy
P. Todd
Only son (with two sisters) of Surgeon-General Howard Todd, CB, RN (1855-1925), and Florence Agnes Haynes.

19.06.1895
-
24.10.1943
(MPK) [age 48]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 67, 2]

... ...

Lt. 15.10.1916

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1924

Cdr. 31.12.1929

Capt. 31.12.1936

Cdre. 2nd cl. 28.08.1942

CBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [posted to next-of-kin]

DSO 11.07.1940 Norwegian coast [investiture 09.08.40]

MID 08.03.1940 ?

MID 19.07.1940 Norwegian coast

MID 17.03.1942 raid Norwegian coast & sinking supply ship

15.05.1908 entered RN

... - ... ...

04.05.1938 - (09.)1939 in charge of Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

07.11.1939 - 06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Inglefield (destroyer)

06.1942 - 23.07.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship)

28.08.1942 - 24.10.1943 Commodore Commanding Mediterranean / Levant Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)] [assumed command 13.09.1942]
(was missing, presumed killed when the destroyer HMS Eclipse, which he had boarded, hit a mine and sank off Kalymnos)

Tomes,
Noel Eugene
N.E. Tomes
Son of Eugene and Amy Ruth Tomes.
Husband of Iris May Tomes, of Weymouth, Dorsetshire.

25.12.1903
Swanage, Dorset
-
10.11.1942
(MPK) [age 38]
[Chatham Naval Memorial, 51, 2]

Seaman ? [J96874]

A/Gnr. 01.04.1933

Gnr. 1934?, seniority 01.04.1933

Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.10.1942

(05.1933) - (06.1933) short course of instruction

30.08.1933 - (02.)1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)

10.1936 - (01.)1937 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)

(02.1937) no appointment listed

06.04.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland)

22.02.1938 - (02.)1941 HMS Bedouin (destroyer)

11.11.1941 - 10.11.1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria)

Tomkinson,
Edward Philip
"Tommo"

Son of Robert Edward Tomkinson, and Beatrice Lucy Peck.
Married (09.04.1940, Chelsea Old church) Myrtle Alice Land, of Langham, Suffolk; one daughter.
(12?).1911
St George Hanover Square district, London / Middlesex
-
06.05.1942
(KIA) [age 30]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]

Cadet
01.01.1929

Midsh.
01.09.1929

A/S.Lt.
01.01.1932

S.Lt.
31.03.1933, seniority 01.05.1932

Lt..
07.12.1933, seniority 01.10.1933

Lt.Cdr.
01.10.1941

DSO
02.12.1941
submarine patrols Mediterranean [presented to next-of-kin]

DSO
02.12.1941
submarine patrols Mediterranean [presented to next-of-kin]

MID
16.12.1942
submarine patrols Mediterranean [posthumously]

05.01.1929
-
(02.)1931
HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

31.12.1931
-
21.08.1932
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

22.08.1932
-
(09.1932)
promotion course, Portsmouth

10.05.1933
-
(06.)1933
HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) (temporarily)

16.12.1933
-
(01.)1934
HMS L 69 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin]

16.05.1934
-
(02.)1935
HMS Seahorse (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania]

13.04.1935
-
(08.)1936
HMS Thames (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Cyclops]

12.1936
-
(01.)1937
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines)

(02.1937)

no appointment listed

(07.1937)

no appointment listed

28.07.1937
-
13.04.1939
First Lieutenant, HMS Undine (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin]

14.04.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)

14.09.1940
-
06.05.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Urge (submarine)

Tomkinson,
Michael Wilfred

Married 1st (17.12.1936) Kathleen Somers Bellamy; one daughter.
Married 2nd (15.04.1946) Carol Elizabeth De Courcy Hamilton; two daughters, one son.

06.03.1908
Devonport, Devon
-
01.07.1974
Malvern, Worcestershire

...
...

Lt.
16.12.1930

Lt.Cdr.
16.12.1938

Cdr.
31.12.1944 (retd 25.07.1946)

DSC
25.08.1942
Operation Ironclad [investiture 15.12.42]

DSC
09.02.1943
attack enemy submarine 08.10.42 [award posted]

MID
07.06.1940
1st Battle of Narvik

MID
04.10.1940
repelling attacks

MID
23.02.1943
Operation Streamline Jane

MID
01.01.1946
New Year 46

...
-
...
...

28.03.1939
-
(04.1940)
Commanding Officer, HMS Boreas (destroyer)

10.01.1941
-
02.1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Boadicea (destroyer)

02.1941
-
(08.1942)
Commanding Officer, HMS Active (destroyer)

11.01.1943
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Rapid (destroyer)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

Tonkyn,
Edward Drew

23.02.1902
St Columb Major, Cornwall
-
08.11.1951

Seaman
? [M28792]

Wt.Eng.
01.10.1930

Cd.Eng.
01.10.1940

A/Lt. (E)
< 07.1948

Lt. (E)
16.02.1949 (retd 30.06.1951)

29.12.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

25.05.1932
-
(01.)1934
HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)

28.12.1934
-
(02.)1936
HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training cruiser)

14.12.1936
-
(10.1938)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for mechanical training establishment)

(02.1939)

no appointment listed

01.03.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Venomous (destroyer)
[01.03.1939-31.07.1939 in charge while in maintenance reserve]

23.03.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Shoreham (sloop)

(02.1941)
-
(04.1946)
not in the Navy List

24.03.1948
-
(07.1948)
HMS Undaunted

23.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Defiance

Topley,
Kenneth John Barnett

Son of Henry James Topley, assistant grocers, and Elizabeth Eliza Barnett.
Married Mary Lewis. 16.10.1905
Maidstone, Kent
-
02.11.1995
The Infirmary, Lymington, New Forest district, Hampshire

Schoolm. Cand.
15.05.1933

Schoolm.
1934?, seniority 15.05.1933

Schoolm. (CWO)
15.05.1943

Sen. Mstr.
10.06.1946

Instr. Lt.
17.09.1946, seniority 21.06.1940

Instr. Lt.Cdr.
21.06.1952 (retd 16.10.1960)

MBE
11.06.1960
HM's birthday 60

Education: BSc

15.05.1933
-
(06.)1933
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

06.11.1933
-
(07.)1934
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for Mechanical Training Establishment)

13.07.1934
-
(11.)1934
HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)

03.01.1935
-
(07.)1935
HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)

30.08.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton)

19.12.1936
-
(02.)1938
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Mechanical Training Establishment)

21.04.1938
-
(10.)1938
HMS Aurora (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (for duty with Home Fleet destroyers)

16.11.1938
-
(04.)1939
HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) (for flotilla duties, 5th Flotilla) (Home Fleet)

05.1939
-
(09.1939)
HMS Jervis (flotilla leader) (for flotilla duties, 7th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet)

03.1940
-
(04.)1940
RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

03.07.1940
-
(08.1942)
HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)

01.1943
-
(02.)1943
HMS Phoenix (RN aircraft repair yard, Fayid, Egypt)

01.02.1943
-
(04.)1944
HMS Sphinx (accommodation camp, Alexandria, Egypt)

08.05.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

31.07.1945
-
(05.1949)
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dnoon, later RN base, Portland) (for miscellaneous duties)

12.04.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)

06.09.1951
-
(04.)1955
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chartham) (for duty at Depot, Royal Marines, Deal)

06.06.1955
-
(01.1956)
HMS Fisgard (training establishment, Torpoint)

(01.1957)
-
(01.1959)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Torbock,
Richard Henley

27.01.1904
-
14.11.1993

... ...

Lt. 15.06.1927

Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1935 (retd 17.09.1946)

A/Cdr. 02.10.1943?

.. - ... ...

18.09.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)

(06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed

15.09.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Searcher (Archer class escort carrier)

02.01.1943 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Chaser (Attacker class escort carrier)

Torlesse,
Arthur David

Eldest son of Capt. Arthur Ward Torlesse, Royal Navy (born 1857), and Harriet Mary Torlesse (née Jeans) (born 1869).
Married (29.04.1933) Sheila Mary Susan (died 1993), daughter of LtCol Duncan Darroch, Gourock; two sons, one daughter.

24.01.1902
Westhampnett
-
19.07.1995
Lymington, Hampshire

Midsh.
1918

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
15.08.1923

Lt.Cdr.
15.08.1931

Cdr.
31.12.1935

Capt.
30.06.1942

R.Adm.
07.07.1951 (retd 16.12.1954)

CB
01.01.1953
New Year 53 [investiture 10.02.53]

DSO
01.01.1946
New Year 46 [investiture 26.03.46]

MID
02.02.1951
Korea

LM
13.08.1954
Korea

Education: Stanmore Park; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College (1949; idc)

1918

served in the Grand Fleet

02.01.1923
-
(01.1925)
HMS Watchman (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

28.05.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

specialised as observer

1926

Fleet Air Arm, 1926

28.05.1927
-
(07.1927)
acting observer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet)

03.01.1928
-
(04.)1930
observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

08.09.1930
-
(01.)1932
observer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

01.04.1932
-
(06.1933)
observer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

16.01.1934
-
(07.1934)
staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

03.01.1935
-
(07.1935)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)]

06.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

1936
-
31.12.1936
staff appointments, HMS Hood (battlecruiser)

01.01.1937
-
(10.1938)
Staff Officer (Operations) to Commodore, Malaya [HMS Terror II (RN base, Singapore)] & as (non-resident) Naval Attaché to Siam, Bangkok

(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed

06.07.1939
-
(04.)1940
Executive Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (Portsmouth)

08.07.1940
-
11.01.1942
on staff of Rear-Admiral, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]

12.01.1942
-
31.01.1943
an Assistant Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.02.1943
-
(06.)1944
Deputy Director of Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

10.09.1944
-
12.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS Hunter (escort carrier)

01.03.1946
-
16.05.1948
Director of Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

17.05.1948
-
(07.1948)
Director of Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

(05.1949)

no appointment listed

07.12.1949 -
(1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph (Far East, taking part in first 3 months of Korean War)

1952

Flag Officer Special Squadron and in command of Monte Bello atomic trial expedition

(05.1953)

HMS Campania

1953
-
1954
Flag Officer Ground Training

Regional Director of Civil Defence, North Midlands Region, 1955-67.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tosswill,
Richard Gibson

Son of Charles Gibson and Dorothy Ellen Tosswill.
Married (04.08.1934, St Peter's, Eaton Square, Westminster district, London) Cynthia Alers-Hankey (05.07.1914 - 12.2003), daughter of Humphrey Bickerton Munster Alers-Hankey (1874-1959), and Kathleen Isabel ... (1886-?); one son, one daughter.

08.10.1907
Paddington, London
-
22.12.2001
North East Hampshire

Midsh. 15.09.1925

A/S.Lt. 01.01.1928

S.Lt. 01.07.1928

Lt. 01.08.1929

Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1937

Cdr. 30.06.1941

Capt. 30.06.1947 (retd 07.07.1956)

Cdre. 2nd cl. 10?.1952-09.04.1954

OBE 11.01.1944 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43) [investiture 27.02.45]

15.05.1921 entered RN

... - ... ...

12.04.1939 - (12.1939) Navigating Officer, HMS Belfast (cruiser)

23.01.1940 - (06.)1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious

28.07.1941 - (08.)1942 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(10.1942) no appointment listed

26.10.1942 - (12.1943) Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (OBE)

17.04.1944 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Belfast (cruiser)

... - ... ...

30.09.1952 - 09.04.1954 Commanding Officer. HMS Superb & Commodore, Second-in-Command, America and West Indies Station

... - ... ...

Tothill,
John Anthony William

Married Mary Mattei (born 1908).

17.08.1905
Bradford Upon Avon district, Somerset / Wiltshire
-
11.04.1980
Braintree district

Midsh.
15.09.1923

A/S.Lt.
15.01.1926

S.Lt.
30.07.1926

Lt.
30.04.1928

Lt.Cdr.
30.04.1936

Cdr.
31.12.1939

A/Capt.
19.01.1945

Capt.
30.06.1947 (retd 03.08.1956)

DSC
05.08.1941
sinking Italian convoy escorts 14.04.41 [investiture 13.07.43]

Commander of the Military Order of Aviz (Portugal)
Aviz
-
state visit president of Portugal 10.55 [restricted permission to wear decoration]

(01.1925)

no appointment listed

08.04.1926
-
15.01.1927
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

16.01.1927
-
(07.)1927
promotion course, Portsmouth

26.08.1927
-
(06.1928)
HMS Bruce (flotilla leader, 6th Destroyer Flotilla)

27.07.1929
-
(01.)1932
HMS Bruce (flotilla leader, 8th Destroyer Flotilla) (China)

(09.1932)

no appointment listed

11.01.1933
-
(01.)1934
First Lieutenant, HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

17.04.1934
-
04.11.1934
in charge of HMS Encounter (destroyer) while under construction (and for duty with Commander Superintendent of Contract Built Ships)

05.11.1934
-
(02.)1935
First Lieutenant, HMS Encounter (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

17.06.1935
-
(07.)1935
Commanding Officer, HMS Pangbourne (twin screw minesweeper) (Reserve Fleet, Nore)

17.09.1935
-
(07.1937)
HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean & Portsmouth)

02.08.1937
-
(08.)1938
Commanding Officer, HMS Antelope (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla)

26.09.1938
-
(10.1938)
tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

03.01.1939
-
(04.)1939
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet)

14.06.1939
-
16.05.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Janus

15.07.1940
-
(07.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Janus *

(12.1941)

no appointment listed

(08.1942)

no appointment listed

28.09.1942
-
(12.1943)
Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(04.1944)
-
(010.1944)
no appointment listed

19.01.1945
-
(04.)1946
Commanding Officer, HMS Ranee (escort carrier) **

03.03.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS President (for miscellaneous duties)

(05.1950)

no appointment listed

05.12.1952
-
(07.)1954
Commanding Officer, HMS Bramble & as Senior Officer, 4th Minesweeping Squadron & Senior Officer Minesweepers, Harwich

28.12.1954
-
(01.1956)
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Nore Command [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]

* (02.1941) no appointment listed
** possibly until 11.1946

Tottenham,
Edward Loftus

Son of Rev. C.F.B. Tottenham, rector of Castletownroch, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Married (29.07.1924) Florence Louise Gates, daughter of William Gates, of Kildorrery, Co. Cork; two sons. one daughter.

12.05.1896
-
31.08.1974
Rowlands Castle, Hampshire

... ...

Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1934

Capt. (S) 01.12.1945

R.Adm. (S) 05.07.1950 (retd 1953)

CB 1952 ?

OBE 1937 ?

MID ? ?

Education: Bishop Foy School; Waterford and Dean Close School, Cheltenham.

1913 joined RN

... - ... ...

(02.1939) - (09.)1939 Naval Secretary and Member of Naval Board, Navy Office, Wellington, New Zealand

11.09.1939 - (06.)1941 HMS Fiji (Fiji class cruiser)

(08.1941) - (10.1941)1 no appointment listed

(12.1941) French Ship "Paris" *

20.01.1942 - (12.)1943 HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)

03.12.1943 - 1946 Assistant Director (Equipment) (ADAE), Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

1946 - 1947 Fleet Supply Officer, East Indies Station

1948 - 1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres

County Councillor, Hampshire. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire (1965).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tottenham,
Sir Francis Loftus

2nd son of late Captain Francis Loftus Tottenham and Cicell, daughter of Col C. Grimston.
Married (1932) Evelyn Rosalie, widow of Captain Herbert Street, and only daughter of Harry Ernest Prescott; one daughter.

17.08.1880
Ireland
-
09.11.1967
[Bembridge, Isle of Wight ?]

Midsh.
15.01.1897

A/S.Lt.
15.07.1900

S.Lt.
11.07.1901, seniority 15.07.1900

Lt.
01.10.1902

Cdr.
1914

Capt.
31.12.1918

R.Adm.
12.12.1930

V.Adm.
25.08.1935

Adm.
28.06.1939 (retd 01.08.1940; own request) (reverted to retd 22.11.1943) (reverted to retd 14.08.1945)

KCB
01.02.1937
?

CB
02.01.1933
New Year 33

CBE
03.06.1919
HM's birthday 19

Education: H<S Britannia (15.01.1895-14.01.1897); -Imperial Defence College.

1909
-
1911
served on Staff of Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Gamble for re-organisation of Turkish Navy (Imperial Ottoman Order of the Osmanieh 3rd Class, 12.12.1910)

1914
-
1918
served European War (CBE): Flag Commander, HMS Benbow

1918
-
1920
President, Inter-Allied Naval Armistice Commission and Commission of Control in Germany

1920
-
1922
Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (light cruiser)

04.10.1922
-
(01.)1925
Naval Attaché, Washington [HMS President]

14.08.1926
-
(07.)1927
Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

21.04.1928
-
(08.)1929
Commanding Officer, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

1930

Naval ADC to the King

14.01.1930
-
(10.1930)
imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President]

05.01.1931
-
(02.1931)
tactical course HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

01.01.1932
-
1933
Rear-Admiral Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Curacoa (cruiser)]

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

07.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

26.07.1935
-
07.03.1938
Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Amphion (cruiser)] [assumed command 12.09.1935]

(06.1938) - (04.1940) no appointment listed

17.02.1942 - 16.11.1942 HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty)

17.11.1942 - 31.10.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty with Security Executive & as Chairman of the Shipping Security Co-ordinating Committee) (to serve in the rank of R.Adm.)

01.11.19433 - 21.11.1943 HMS President (additional; for disposal)

24.07.1944 - 23.11.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Control Commission Military Sections (CCMS) (Naval Section); temporary; to serve in the rank of R.Adm.)

24.11.1944 - 27.01.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Control Commission Military Sections (CCMS); to serve in the rank of R.Adm.)

28.01.1945 - 13.08.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Head of Naval Division Control Commission Military Sections (CCMS); to serve in the rank of R.Adm.)

* Navy List of 10.1943 states: since 17.11.1942

Tours,
Frank Berthold

Son of Berthold George Tours, CMG (1871-1944), and Ada Theophila Harwood (1869-1956).
Married (04.01.1941) Helen Besly (1901-1980); two sons.

31.01.1902
-
28.06.1972

Midsh. 01.05.1918

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921

S/Lt. 15.05.1922

Lt. 15.10.1923

Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1931

Cdr. 31.12.1937 (retd 07.05.1946; granted war substantive rank of Capt.)

A/Capt. > 07.1945, < 04.1946

OBE 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 01.05.45]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.

15.09.1915 entered RN

... - ... ...

25.04.1938 - (06.)1942 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

20.07.1942 - (08.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Sussex

(10.1943) no appointment listed

28.10.1943 - (06.)1944 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

(10.1944) no appointment listed

(01.1945) - (07.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] *

16.03.1946 - (04.1946) Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

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