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Haines, George Thomas Son of Thomas George Haines (1887-1917), and Christina Marion Winifred Callaghan (1886-1969). Married ((09?).1934, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Mary Christina Guise (04.11.1912 - 04.11.2004); two sons, one daughter.	28.12.1911 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 17.01.1997 North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand	2nd Lt. 01.01.1930 Lt. 01.01.1933 Capt. 24.10.1937 (retd 20.10.1947) A/Maj. 23.07.1941-23.03.1943, 25.03.1944-25.01.1945, 19.10.1945-20.10.1947 A/Lt.Col. 24.03.1943-24.03.1944, 26.01.1945-28.10.1945	02.01.1930 - (08.1930) RM course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] ? - (02.1931) RM Depot, Deal ? - (01.)1932 Portsmouth Division RM 1932 - (09.1932) Chatham Division RM 03.02.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 04.10.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Iron Duke (training ship) (02.1936) - (02.)1937 Chatham Division RM (07.1937)     no appointment listed 08.07.1937 - (09.1939) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) (and for signal duties) (04.1940) - (02.)1941 Assistant Signal Officer, then Brigade Signal Officer, 101st RM Brigade [initially known as RM Brigade] (12.)1941 - (02.)1943 RM Division Signals (06.)1943 - (04.)1944 RM Signal School (06.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed ? - (04.1946) RM Signal School Emigrated to New Zealand.
Hale, Reginald Dennis Son (with three sisters and one brother) of Richard Dennis Hale (1871-1960), and Sarah Stone (1872-1963). Married (04.06.1921, Kinsale, Ireland) Edith Melinda Charman (03.10.1897 - 12.11.1969); one son.	18.03.1896 Eastry district, Kent - 30.12.1968 Chatham district, Kent	2nd Lt. 13.09.1918 A/Lt. RMLI 17.09.1920 Lt. 17.03.1921 Capt. 01.09.1929 Maj. 16.02.1939 (reld 18.03.1946; age; granted War Service Rank of Lt.Col.) A/Lt.Col. 13.10.1942-21.04.1943 DSM 09.05.1917 for services in the Patrol Cruisers	... - ... ... 26.01.1927 - 12.01.1928 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 31.07.1939 - 26.06.1942 HMS Despatch (D class cruiser) 27.06.1942 - 20.07.1942 Portsmouth Division RM 21.07.1942 - 21.04.1944 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II (MNBDO II): 21.07.1942 - 21.04.1943 Officer Commanding, Signal Company (renamed 13.10.1942 Group Signals) 22.04.1943 - 21.04.1944 Second-in-Command, RM Group Base Commandant, Second Echelon 22.04.1944 - 12.11.1944 Portsmouth Division RM (as Records Officer) 13.11.1944 - 17.03.1946 Portsmouth Division RM (as Drafting Officer)
Hall, Joseph Thomas Son of Joseph Thomas Hall (1873-), and Mary Elizabeth Mighell (1869-). Married (1925, Isle of Wight, Hampshire) Sarah Marion Cawley Way (14.01.1904 - 30.08.1961), daughter (with seven siblings) of Henry Cawley Way (1867-1948), and Francis Elizabeth Ruffin Blake (1866-1956); one child.	10.02.1901 Croydon, Surrey - 10.08.1887 Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1918 A/Lt. 01.05.1921-11.06.1921 Prob. Lt. 01.09.1921 Lt. 1922?, seniority 01.09.1921 Capt. 01.09.1929 Maj. 03.04.1939 A/Lt.Col. 04.01.1941-16.11.1943, 20.12.1943-31.12.1944 A/Col.Cdt. (T/Brig.) 17.11.1943-20.12.1943 A/Col. 01.01.1945-30.12.1947 Lt.Col. 04.01.1946 Col. 31.12.1947 (retd 24.01.1954) CBE 01.06.1953 Coronation List 1953 [investiture 07.07.1953] OBE 06.10.1942 duties Middle East 11.1941-04.1942 [investiture 11.12.1945] MID 17.11.1942? Middle East operations 07-10.1941	... - ... ... 01.10.1936 - 27.08.1939 Instructor of Gunnery (Coast), Portsmouth Division RM 28.08.1939 - 07.01.1940 HMT Devonshire (for Alexandria) 08.01.1940 - 31.01.1940 Portsmouth Division RM 01.02.1940 - 16.11.1943 Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General (AAQMG), Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation I (MNBDO I) (OBE, despatches) 17.11.1943 - 20.12.1943 Commander, 3rd Mobile Naval Base (MNB) Brigade (MNBDO I) 27.06.1944 - 25.09.1944 Commander, RM Group (MNBDO I) 26.09.1944 - 26.11.1944 Portsmouth Division RM 27.11.1944 - 03.12.1944 HQ Staff (RM Office) (for duty inside Admiralty) 04.12.1944 - 30.04.1945 Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG), HQ Staff (RM Office) 01.05.1945 - 07.05.1945 Staff of General Officer Commanding RM, HQ Staff (RM Office) 08.05.1945 - 27.09.1953 Military Secretary on staff of Adjutant-General RM (later General Officer Commanding RM, later General Commandant RM), HQ Staff (RM Office) (CBE) 06.12.1950 - 07.02.1952 also: Marine ADC to the King 07.02.1952 - 24.01.1954 also: Marine ADC to the Queen
Halliwell, Samuel	14.01.1888 Bournemouth, Hampshire - 07.07.1977 Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire	Lt. QM 12.07.1933 Capt. QM 12.07.1936 Maj. QM 30.04.1938 Lt.Col. QM 07.07.1941 (retd 14.01.1943; age) (recalled for service 14.01.1943) (reverted to retd 23.07.1945) MBE 03.06.1932 HM's birthday 1932	served in the ranks for 19 years, 115 days       Warrant Officer Class 1 for 7 years, 35 days ... - ... ... 30.04.1938 - 30.09.1943 on staff of Headquarters Staff RM 01.10.1943 - 22.07.1945 Depot RM, Lympstone (from 14.05.1945 as additional)
Hamer, Frederick Alexander Son of Richard Hamer (1846-1922), vicar, and Clara Louisa Pattenden (1851-1903). Married (13.11.1906, Portsmouth district) Gladys Pansy Jane [Hewitt] Hack (born 19.09.1888 - (03?).1974); one daughter, two sons (Lt. Richard J.A. Hamer, The South Wales Borderers, and Cdr. John A.H. Hamer, CVO, OBE, DSC, RN).	30.12.1886 Granby, Bingham district, Nottinghamshire - 26.01.1972 Salisbury, Wiltshire [St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Burwash, Rother District, East Sussex]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1903 Lt. 12.04.1906, seniority 01.07.1904 Capt. 01.09.1914 (supernumerary ...-09.05.1916) A/Maj. 25.11.1916-26.08.1918 Maj. 06.04.1925 (Paymaster 01.12.1933) Lt.Col. 05.04.1934 (dismissed the service by sentence of a general court martial 21.10.1941)	commissioned, Royal Marine Artillery ... - ... ... 01.04.1921 - 06.1925 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.1925 - 25.09.1925 Chatham Division RM 26.09.1925 - 24.01.1926 HMS President (additional; for study in France) (qualified as interpreter French 01.1926) 25.01.1926 - 05.02.1926 Chatham Division RM 06.02.1926 - 14.02.1928 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (China) 15.02.1928 - 16.02.1928 Chatham Division RM 17.02.1928 - 23.02.1931 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 24.02.1931 - 09.04.1931 Chatham Division RM 10.04.1931 - 14.03.1932 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) & as Squadron RM Officer, 1st Battle Squadron 15.03.1932 - 14.05.1933 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) & as Squadron RM Officer, 1st Battle Squadron 15.05.1933 - 30.11.1933 Chatham Division RM 01.12.1933 - 08.08.1939 Plymouth Division RM 09.08.1939 - 20.10.1941 Portsmouth Division RM
Hamilton, Stuart	1916 - 2005	Prob. Lt. 21.05.1937 Lt. 22.12.1937, seniority 21.05.1937 A/Capt. 16.05.1940 Capt. 12.12.1940 A/Maj. 04.01.1941-22.04.1944, 11.05.1944-11.10.1948 Maj. 31.12.1949 (retd 01.04.1951; own request)	... - ... ... (02.1939) - (04.)1940 Portsmouth Division RM (05.)1940 - (10.)1940 No. 1 RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) 1940 - (12.1940) Staff Officer (Artillery), Group Headquarters, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (attached, additional) (02.1941) - (10.)1943 Battery Commander, "D" Battery (3.7 in), No. 1 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1) (12.)1943 - (04.)1944 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2) (Artillery), Group Headquarters, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1) 16.05.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (10.1945)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * 10.12.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Hancock, Frank Holgate   Son of Francis James Hancock, and Mildred Butterfield, of Bearsted, Kent.	(12?).1923 Alverstoke district, Hampshire - 28.03.1944 [age 20] [Belgrade War Cemetery, Serbia, 9.B.1] [commemorated at Shire Hall War Memorial, Cambridgeshire]	T/2nd Lt. 07.08.1942 T/Lt. 07.02.1943	Cambridgeshire County Hall staff. (10.1942)     Chatham Division RM (12.)1942 - (06.)1943 2nd Battalion RM, 102nd RM Brigade (08.)1943 - 28.03.1944 43 RM Commando [Died during an air attack on Vis, their base of operations against enemy held Dalmatian Islands. "Enemy aircraft attacked Vis town, and bombs also fell in Podselje. A direct hit was scored on the Cdo Orderly room, resulting in the death of Ty. Lt. F.H. Hancock and two marines."]
Harden, Ernest Thornborough	20.07.1896 - 29.09.1966	2nd Lt. 29.09.1914 Lt. 27.03.1915 Capt. 17.03.1919 Maj. 01.10.1934 (retd 04.06.1942) A/Lt.Col. 16.02.1940-04.05.1941, 15.07.1941-04.06.1942	... - ... ... 26.01.1927 - 21.10.1927 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 24.03.1939 - 26.10.1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (SORM) 27.10.1939 - 29.02.1940 Portsmouth Division RM 01.03.1940 - 05.05.1941 RM Brigade 06.05.1941 - 28.05.1941 Portsmouth Division RM 29.05.1941 - 04.06.1942 Plymouth Division RM
Harding, Adrian Isidore Gore   Son (with one brother) of Adrian Francis Harding (1882-1968), and Dora Taylor (1880-1958). Married ((06?).1939, Surrey South Western district) Gladys Mary Castleman (04.03.1914 - 07.2000); one daughter, one son.	16.05.1913 Godalming, Guildford district, Surrey - 16.06.1996 Basingstoke, Hampshire	T/2nd Lt. 04.03.1941 T/Lt. 04.09.1941 A/T/Capt. 21.04.1943-09.09.1944 T/Capt. 10.09.1944 (reld 31.05.1946) A/T/Maj. 10.06.1944-31.05.1946	Building surveyor, Birmingham Corporation. (04.)1941 - (06.)1941 RM Officer Cadet Training Unit (08.)1941) - (10.)1941 17th (Support) Battalion, 103rd RM Brigade (12.)1941 - (06.)1942 15th (Support) Battalion, 101st RM Brigade (08.)1942 - (10.)1942 15th (Machine Gun) Battalion, RM Division (12.)1942 - (02.)1943 No. 2 RM (Machine Gun) Company, 15th (Machine Gun) Battalion, RM Division (04.)1943 - (06.)1943 Second-in-Command, No. 3 (Machine Gun) Company, RM Training Group Dalditch (08.)1943 - (01.)1945 43 RM Commando (04.1945)     no appointment listed (07.)1945 - (10.1945) RM Infantry Training Centre, RM Training Group Devon (04.1946)     Plymouth Division RM
Hardy, [Sir] Campbell Richard   Son of Maj. Frank Buckland Chilton Hardy, OBE (1868-1932), and Ethel Maud Mary Gibson (1876?-). Married ((12?).1931, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Phyllis Cole Sutton (09.12.1907 - 11.05.2001); one son, one daughter.	24.05.1906 South Africa - 29.07.1984 Haslemere, Surrey	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1924 A/Lt. 22.08.1927-31.08.1927 Lt. 01.09.1927 Capt. 01.12.1935 Bt. Maj. 31.12.1940 A/Maj. 09.09.1941-21.05.1943 Maj. 28.11.1944 A/Lt.Col. 22.05.1943-26.11.1944, 01.06.1948-29.06.1948 Lt.Col. 30.06.1948 local Col. 22.06.1947-01.06.1948 A/Col.Comdt. 27.11.1944-(01.1946) Col.Comdt. 31.12.1950 A/Brig. 23.11.1948-05.09.1951 T/Brig. 27.11.1944-(01.1946) Col. 31.12.1950 local Maj.Gen. 01.05.1952-19.05.1952 Maj.Gen. 20.05.1952 Lt.Gen. 22.08.1955 Gen. 22.08.1957 (retd 16.03.1959) KCB 01.01.1957 New Year 1957 [investiture 12.02.1957] CB 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 1954 [investiture 06.07.1954] CBE 19.10.1951 Malaya 1951 [investiture 12.03.1952] OBE 10.06.1948 HM's birthday 1948 DSO 12.09.1944 Normandy [investiture 12.03.1946] DSO 03.04.1945 Commando operations France 06-10.1944 [investiture 12.03.1946] DSO 15.05.1945 assault Nyebon & Kangan [investiture 12.03.1946]	Education: Felsted School (1920-1924). 1927 - 1929 HMS Renown 1929 - 1930 courses 1930 - 1931 HMS Rodney 1932 - 1937 Physical and Recreational Training Officer, Portsmouth Division RM 1937 - 1938 RN College, Dartmouth 1938 - 1939 HMS Vindictive 04.08.1939 - 01.10.1939 Portsmouth Division RM 02.10.1939 - 22.09.1940 Adjutant, Portsmouth Division RM 23.09.1940 - 21.07.1941 RM Reserve Depot, Exton 22.07.1941 - 31.07.1943 RM Division: 22.07.1941 - 09.09.1941 8th Battalion RM (103rd RM Brigade) 09.09.1941 - 09.10.1942 Second-in-Command, 8th Battalion RM (103rd RM Brigade, later 102nd RM Brigade) 10.10.1942 - 31.12.1942 Second-in-Command, 10th Battalion RM (102nd RM Brigade) 01.01.1943 - 28.02.1943 1st Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 01.03.1943 - 01.05.1943 3rd Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 02.05.1943 - 21.05.1943 Second-in-Command, 9th Battalion RM (102nd RM Brigade) 22.05.1943 - 31.07.1943 Commanding Officer, 9th Battalion RM (102nd RM Brigade) 01.08.1943 - 26.11.1944 Commanding Officer, 46 RM Commando 27.11.1944 - 31.07.1945 Commander, 3rd Special Service Brigade [from 12.1944: 3rd Commando Brigade] 01.08.1945 - 22.10.1945 Commander, 3rd Commando Brigade (Light), Commando Group (Light) 23.10.1945 - 31.12.1945 Commander, 2nd Commando Brigade (Light), Commando Group (Light) 1946 - 1947 Staff, RM Office 1947 - 1948 Chief Instructor, School of Combined Operations 1948 - 1951 Commander, 3rd Commando Brigade 1951 - 1952 Commandant, Depot RM, Deal 1952 - 1955 Chief of Staff, RM 1955 - 1959 Commandant General, RM Colonel Commandant, RM, 01.01.1962-01.01.1966. Director of the Coal Utilisation Council, 1960-1970.
Harris, Alan Hubert * Son of John Waugh Harris (1873-1920), and Ethel Marion Mountford Scrivener (1875-1962). Married (12.09.1950) Pamela McGregor Ritchie; five children. * First names shown in naval records as: Alan Hugh.	01.08.1919 Stone, Staffordshire - 15.04.1997 Norwich district, Norfolk	T/2nd Lt. 31.05.1940 T/Lt. 01.12.1940 A/T/Capt. 01.08.1943 (dispersal 26.02.1946) (reld 26.05.1946) Capt. (War Service Rank) 26.05.1946 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Bur St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	10.02.1940     enlisted, Royal Marines 31.05.1940 - 05.06.1940 RM Depot, Deal 06.06.1940 - 19.06.1940 Portsmouth Division RM 20.06.1940 - 31.07.1943 1st Coast Artillery Regiment (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation No. 1 (MNBDO1))       09.10.1940 1st Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Battery, Coast Artillery Brigade, Plymouth (from Eastney) (Home Base Ledger); 03.02.1941-22.04.1941 passage from Glasgow to Port Said, Egypt per HMT H12; 22.04.1941 El Zahag Camp; 28.05.1941 Abu Suir Camp; 29.05.1941 Ferry Post; 02.06.1941-17.06.1941 54th General Hospital; 09.07.1941 "Kent" Battery, 1st Coast Artillery Regiment; 11.06.1943-18.07.1943 on Detachment Duty to Madras 01.08.1943 - 15.05.1944 Adjutant, 3rd Coast Artillery Regiment, 3rd Mobile Naval Base Brigade (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation No. 1 (MNBDO1))       06.05.1944-15.05.1944 on Detachment Duty 05.06.1944 - 09.06.1944 Detachment 385 [Portsmouth Division RM] 10.06.1944 - 26.10.1945 Detachment 385 [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional)] 27.10.1945 - 10.11.1945 HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) (additional; for RM Pool) 11.11.1945 - 25.02.1946 Portsmouth Division RM (for passage to UK, 05.12.1945 in continuation, 25.02.1946 for Class A release)
Harris, Arthur Leicester Stuart Married (11.04.1923) Olive Isabelle Davidson Watt.	19.11.1894 Calcara, Malta - 27.07.1979 ? Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland ?	2nd Lt. 05.03.1915 T/Lt. 21.11.1195 Lt. ?, seniority 21.11.1195 Capt. 06.01.1921 (retd 19.11.1939; age) (recalled for service 19.11.1939) A/Maj. 16.10.1940 (dispersed 01.11.1945) (reverted to retd 28.12.1945; granted War Service rank of Maj.)	05.03.1915     commissioned, Royal Marines ... - ... ... 19.07.1935 - 15.09.1936 Plymouth Division RM 16.09.1936 - 30.10.1945 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division) 31.10.1945 - 27.12.1945 Plymouth Division RM (for release)
Hart, William James	? - 1995? France	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942 A/T/Capt. 30.11.1945-06.08.1946 (reld 05.04.1947)	15.05.1942     commissioned, Royal Marines (Chatham Division) 25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division (08.)1942 - (06.)1943 9th Battalion RM (103rd RM Brigade, later 102nd RM Brigade) (08.)1943 - 11.06.1944 46 RM Commando (captured) 11.06.1944 - 05.1945 POW (No. 83985) in German captivity (Oflag XIIB, Hadamar) (07.)1945 - (10.1945) RM Holding Commando (Light) ? - (04.1946) 3rd Commando Brigade HQ (waiting disposal)
Hartley, Brian Godwin	03.04.1923 Macclesfield, Cheshire - 07.08.1992 Balgowan, Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	T/Lt. 06.08.1942 OBE 04.06.1976 for services to agricultural development in Ventral Africa	... - ... ... 05.06.1943 - (04.1945) HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) ... - ... ...
Harvey, Adolphus John Son of John Harvey, and Maria Elizabeth Sturman.	17.11.1905 Lowestoft, Suffolk - 05.02.1972	2nd Lt. 01.09.1924 Lt. 01.09.1927 Capt. 01.04.1936 A/Maj. 16.02.1940-12.10.1942 Maj. 04.01.1946 A/Lt.Col. 13.10.1942-08.03.1944, 18.10.1944-(01.1946) Lt.Col. 30.06.1949 A/Col. 09.03.1944-17.10.1944 Col. 31.12.1952 (retd) CBE 09.06.1955 HM's birthday 1955 OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 MID 04.04.1944 sevices in Sicily	? - (04.1940) Portsmouth Division RM (02.1941) - (10.1943) Staff Officer (Artillery), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO) (2) ? - (12.1943) RM Support Craft Regiment 09.03.1944 - 17.10.1944 RM Armoured Support Group 07.01.1945 - 29.03.1945 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 30.03.1945 - (04.1946) RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 13.10.1947 - (07.1948) "Q" Staff, RM Office (London) ? - (05.1950) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 55 Infantry Training Centre RM
Hasler, Herbert George "Blondie"	27.02.1914 Dublin, Ireland - 05.05.1987 Glasgow, Scotland	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1932 Prob. Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt. ?, seniority 01.09.1935 Capt. 23.05.1939 A/Maj. 11.03.1941-12.12.1943, 29.09.1947-30.12.1947 Bt. Maj. 30.06.1943 Maj. 31.12.1947 (retd 16.06.1948; medically unfit) A/Lt.Col. 13.12.1943-29.09.1947 DSO 29.06.1943 ? OBE 11.07.1940 distinguished services during the war CdeG ? ? MID 26.09.1940 Norway	01.09.1932 commissioned into the Royal Marines (01.1934) Portsmouth Division, RM (07.1935) Plymouth division, RM 10.01.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1937) no posting listed (02.1938) - (08.1939) Portsmouth Division, RM (04.1940) Landing Officer, RM Fortress Unit (Norway) [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM] (02.1941) Commander, Landing Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation 2 (MNBDO 2) * early 1942 - 22.06.1942 Development Staff, Combined Operations HQ 22.06.1942 - (12.1943) Officer Commanding, RM Boom Patrol Detachment [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM] 30.11.1942 leader of Operation Frankton (better known as the "Cockleshell Heroes" raid on German shipping in Bordeaux) 25.01.1944 - (04.1944) HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi) 24.04.1944 - (07.1945) CO RM Detachment 385 [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo)] (04.1946) HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore) * Innovative sailor, founder of the Single-handed Transatlantic race (1960), and inventor of the first effective self-steering gear for yachts. Literature: Ewen Southby-Tailyour, Blondie : a biography of Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Hasler, DSO, OBE, Croix de Guerre, Royal Marines (1998) * no starting date indicated
Hasting, Peter Henry Son of Charles Albert Hasting (1885-1947), and Mildred Helena Moody (1888-?), of Wolborough, Brixham & Chiswick. Married 1st ((09?).1947, Devon Central district) Ann R. McCausland, daughter of Maj. F.M. McCausland, The Royal Scots, and Mrs E.C. McCausland (later Becher), of Dunsford, nr Exeter; one son. Married 2nd ((03?).1955, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire) Joyce Vielvyn Relph (03.09.1929 - 11.1989); one son, one daughter. Married 3rd ((09?).1978, Wantage district, Berkshire) Diana Wilson.	(06?).1922 Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex - 03.09.2012 Oxfordshire	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942 Lt. 21.01.1947, seniority 15.12.1943 Capt. 15.12.1951 (retd 18.03.1965) local Maj. 15.10.1960-06.11.1962	15.05.1942 - (08.)1942 Portsmouth Division RM 03.09.1942 - (02.1944) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon), from 01.09.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (09.1943)     Second-in-Command, RM Detachment, HM LCF 4 (landing craft, flak) 16.03.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) (07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) * ? - (04.1946) Lympstone ... - ... ... Enlisted as a recruit to the Corps 1940 and served for two years in the ranks becoming corporal before his selection for a War Service Commission in 1942; he translated in 1946 to a Regular Commission. His war service centred on the Mediterranean, participating in the Allied invasions of Sicily and of Italy in 1943 and he had a narrow escape from a shell, which killed three of his marines on the day of the allied invasion of mainland Italy. From July 1944 until Victory in Europe he was OC RM Detachment and Naval Provost Marshal in Algiers. Hasting joined the aircraft carrier Unicorn in Hong Kong 1950, soon after North Korea invaded South Korea. In August that year, Unicorn sailed with a British Infantry Brigade HQ and two British Infantry Battalions to the relief of besieged Pusan; the first non-US reinforcements to South Korea. He remained with Unicorn in Korean waters until 1952, when he was appointed in the rank of Captain as Aide-de-Camp and Personal Secretary to HM Governor of the Bahamas. Returning to the UK 1954 he became Adjutant to the Royal Marines Reserve (City of London) and in his off-duty time was Chairman of the House Committee of the Army and Navy Club (‘The Rag’). In 1960 he became the first non-US Officer to be selected as Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Adm Robert Dennison, US Navy, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was at the nerve centre of the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962. In retirement he organised the annual Poppy Appeal for five villages and was a member of the Poole & District branch RMA. * indexed, but not listed as such
Hatter, Alfred William "Alf" / "Jerry"   His parents ran a pub opposite the RM Barracks at Eastney. Married Muriel Ackland; one daughter, one son.	13.04.1920 Eastney - 02.11.1974 Chichester, West Sussex	T/2nd Lt. 14.05.1943 A/T/Lt. > 08.1943, < 10.1943 T/Lt. 14.11.1943 A/T/Capt. 15.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(06.1943) - (12.1943) 102nd RM Brigade (04.1944) - (06.1944) Commando Group RM ? - (07.1945) No. 1 RM Provost Company (London?) ? - (04.1946) Plymouth Division, RM
Hawkins, George Robert Married Phyllis Maude Dye (1906 - ); one daughter.	08.04.1895 Manchester, Chorlton district, Lancashire - 02.07.1989 Wexford, Ireland	2nd Lt. 06.04.1921 Lt. 30.03.1923 Capt. 01.11.1930 Bt. Maj. 01.03.1940 Maj. 25.05.1941 (retd 08.04.1945; age) A/Lt.Col. 09.11.1942-01.02.1945 OBE 01.01.1951 New Year 1951 [investiture 28.02.1951]	... - ... ... (09.1939) - (06.)1940 RM Depot, Deal (08.)1940 - (08.)1941 RM Reserve Depot, Exton (10.)1941 - (10.)1942 Officer-in-Charge, Non-Commissioned Officers' School (Non-Commissioned Officers' Wing, RM Military School) (12.)1942 - (10.1944) RM Depot, Deal ? - (01.)1945 Portsmouth Division RM 01.02.1945 - (04.1946) Recruiting Staff Officer, Bristol District, Naval Recruiting Service (OBE)
Haworth-Booth, Osbert Moore	11.12.1895 - 04.08.1960	... ... Maj. 21.02.1933 (retd 15.09.1938) (recalled to service 12.05.1939) (reverted to retd 22.04.1946)	... - ... ... 12.05.1939 - 23.07.1942 Assistant Staff Officer (Intelligence), Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 24.07.1942 - 05.09.1942 Portsmouth Division RM 06.09.1942 - 10.02.1946 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division)
Hay, Ronald Cuthbert "Ronnie"   Son of Capt. Cuthbert Joseph Hay (1882-?) and Letitia Griffith Fausset. Married (24.10.1944) Third Officer Barbara Grange, WRNS, daughter of George Rockfort Grange; two sons, two daughters.	04.10.1916 Perth - 22.11.2001 Wiltshire	2nd Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt. 01.10.1937 A/Capt. 02.05.1942-15.11.1942 Capt. 16.11.1942 (reld 06.09.1951) A/Maj. 15.04.1943-11.12.1944, 12.07.1945-(01.1946) A/Lt.Col. 12.12.1944-11.07.1945 T/Lt.Col. 12.07.1945-01.09.1945, 24.10.1945-(01.1946) Lt.Cdr. RN 06.09.1951, seniority 01.09.1947 Cdr. RN 30.06.1955 (retd 11.10.1966) DSO 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian [investiture 20.05.1947] DSC 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance [investiture 14.04.1942] DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [investiture 20.05.1947]	01.09.1935     commissioned, RM ... - ... ... 08.05.1939 - (08.)1939 pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon (09.)1939 - (04.)1940 Fleet Air Arm 17.04.1940 - (08.)1940 pilot, 801 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (10.1940)     HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester) * 22.10.1940 - (10.)1941 pilot, 808 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 01.01.1942 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, 761 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] 24.08.1942 - (10.)1942 Commanding Officer, 809 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 21.11.1942 - (04.)1943 Commanding Officer, 809 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 01.06.1943 - (06.1943) HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (08.1943)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * 01.09.1943 - (10.)1943 Full Flying Duties with School of Air Combat [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 14.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) 09.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Leader of No. 47 Fighter Wing [HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] 01.10.1945 - (04.1946) on staff of Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] ... - ... ... 06.09.1951     transferred to Fleet Air Arm * indexed, but not listed as such
Hayman, Gerald Stanley	26.03.1896 - 18.12.1975	Prob. 2nd Lt. 22.08.1914 Lt. 27.03.1915 Capt. 20.05.1918 Maj. 01.09.1933 Lt.Col. (Barrackmaster) 01.12.1939 (retd 26.03.1951; age)	... - ... ... 03.11.1936 - 26.03.1951 Drafting Officer (from 06.10.1939 Barrackmaster), Plymouth Division RM
Hayter, John Owen Goodenough "Jack" Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Owen Chilton Goodenough Hayter (1876-1964), and Violet Mary Wakefield (1879-1947). Married (04.12.1931, Widley, Hampshire) Emma Eugenie Masson (29.09.1906 - 05.1959), of Littleham, Devon, daughter (with three sisters and three brothers) of Percy George Vivian Richardson Masson (1870-1958), and Martha Minnie Godley (1870-1959); two sons, two daughters.	23.01.1903 Bandikui, Rajastan, India - 31.03.1941 [age 38] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 59, column 1]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1921 Lt. 01.10.1924 Capt. 01.10.1933	Education: Dollar Academy. 01.09.1921     commissioned, Royal Marine Artillery 12.10.1921 - (04.1922) RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1923)     no appointment listed 15.12.1924 - (03.1926) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Mediterranean) (02.1927) - (06.)1928 Portsmouth Division RM 01.06.1928 - (07.1928) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (06.1929) - (09.)1929 Portsmouth Division RM 08.09.1929 - (03.)1931 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 1931 - (12.)1931 Portsmouth Division RM 28.12.1931 - (07.)1932 Admiralty [HMS President] (for 6 months' study of foreign languages in Holland) (08.)1932) - (09.)1932 Portsmouth Division RM 18.10.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) (03.)1934 - (05.)1934 Chatham Division RM 17.05.1934 - (08.)1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) (10.)1936 - (01.)1937 Chatham Division RM 21.01.1937 - (07.)1939 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (China) (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed (12.)1939 - (04.)1940 Chatham Division RM 09.04.1940 - 31.03.1941 HMS Bonaventure (cruiser) (ship torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Ambra in Mediterranean)
Headey, Ronald	29.04.1913 - 24.02.1982	T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. 07.02.1943 A/T/Capt. 04.02.1946	... - ... ... (06.1944)     43 RM Commando ... - ... ...
Hedley, John Norman "Jack" Son (with one sister and one brother) of Robinson Hedley (1882-1911), and Annie Messam (1880-1970). Married (02.08.1930, Plymouth district, Devon) Violet Elsie May Roberts (23.09.1909 - 20.07.1974); one daughter.	03.09.1907 Aberdare Glam, Merthyr Tydfil district, Glamorganshire - 20.07.1974 St Germans, Cornwall (car accident) [buried at the Church in Sheviock (near Torpoint)]	Mne. 08.01.1925 [PLY/22531] Cpl. 23.09.1930 Sgt. 24.01.1934 Col. Sgt. 21.10.1938 Lt. 28.02.1940 A/Capt. 10.05.1940-30.09.1940 Capt. 09.06.1945 A/Maj. 01.10.1941-20.03.1946 Maj. 31.12.1950 (retd 03.09.1957; age) DSO 13.07.1943 resolution and leadership in landings near Tobruk 09.1942 [investiture 26.02.1946] OBE 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 1957 [investiture 23.07.1957] Korea Medal; UN Service Medal - Korea	served in the ranks for 15 years, 51 days 05.12.1929 - 10.06.1930 HMS Victory 27.06.1930 - 05.10.1930 HMS Vivid 24.03.1931 - 13.07.1933 HMS Emerald 28.02.1940 - 09.03.1940 Depôt RM, Deal 10.03.1940 - 13.09.1942 Home Base Ledger RM: (05.)1940 - 13.09.1942 Land Defence Force, renamed 11th RM Battalion (LDF), renamed 11th Battalion RM, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (1) 01.10.1941 - 13.09.1942 Second-in-Command 14.09.1942 - 10.05.1945 POW in Italian & German captivity (No. 228251) (c. 1942/43 Campo 5 at Gavi, finally at Marlag und Milag Nord) 11.05.1945 - 12.08.1945 Portsmouth Division RM 13.08.1945 - 19.03.1946 Officer Commanding, RM Small Arms School [Portsmouth Division RM] 20.03.1946 - 28.08.1949 Instructor of Small Arms, Plymouth Division RM 29.08.1949 - 13.10.1950 HMS Belfast 14.10.1950 - 14.11.1950 RM Barracks, Eastney 15.11.1950 - 02.09.1957 Infantry Training Centre RM (WT duties, Aylwin) Farmed a small farm near Exmouth until the early 1970s, then moved to a retirement bungalow in Crafthole near Plymouth. The stepson of his daughter writes: "He died in a slightly bizarre manner when he was with his wife driving onto the ferry at Torpoint when he had a heart attack and the car drove into the sea, drowning his wife. He was probably dead already. Coincidentally some years later I met a Torpoint ferryman who is distantly related to my brother in law and he had swam to the car as it floated away but as he managed to get the door open the car sank immediately. A sad end for such a brave man."
Hetherington, Peter Graham   Twin son of  John G. Hetherington, and Blanche Thomas, of Kingswood, Surrey. Married (08.07.1944, King's Chapel of the Savoy, London) Judith Esther Hunt, only daughter of Mr & Mrs J.E. Hunt, of Purley, Surrey; ... children (one daughter).	(12?).1919 Barnet district, London -	T/Lt. 01.10.1941 A/T/Capt. 02.04.1941 T/Capt. 13.01.1943 A/T/Maj. 13.10.1942-(07.1945) MID 04.09.1945 services with 21 Army Group 02-04.1945	(12.1941) - (07.1945) Second-in-Command, from 13.10.1942 Officer Commanding, 25th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery (4th RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2)), from mid-1944 4th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 5th RM Anti-Aircraft Brigade)
Hewiett, Frederick George	03.1892 Yarmouth, Norfolk -	Sub-Divisional Inspector RMP 25.01.1940 Chief Inspector RMP 16.10.1940 Superintendent RMP 15.01.1943 Assistant Chief Constable RMP 01.12.1946 (retd> 05.1950,  < 05.1953)	1911 joined RM 15.09.1932 enlisted, Royal Marine Police (RMP) 25.01.1940 commissioned, RMP: 25.01.1940 - (04.1940) Deptford (02.1941) - (12.1941) HM Dockyard, Sheerness (07.1945) - (07.)1946 Area Police Officer, Scottish Area (East) 01.12.1946 - (07.1948) Area Police Officer, Portsmouth Area
Highett, Richard Theodore Son of Maj. C.J. Highett, Dorsetshire Regiment.	01.01.1925 Farnborough, Hampshire - 28.07.2001 Chichester, West Sussex	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1942 A/Lt. 25.04.1944 Prob. Lt. 09.05.1944 Lt. 09.11.1944 Lt. RN 02.09.1952, seniority 01.09.1946 Lt.Cdr. RN 01.09.1954 (retd 29.07.1958)	Education: Imperial Service College, Windsor (09.1938-12.1941; "C" (Lawrence) House; Sixth Form; 2nd XI 1941, 2nd XV 1941, Athletics 1940). (10.)1942 - (12.1942) course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, Plymouth ? - (02.)1943 course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, Portsmouth 1943 - (04.)1943 course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, Plymouth 1943 - (06.)1943 course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, Portsmouth (08.)1943 - (12.1943) course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, RM Military School ? - (02.)1944 course for Probationary 2nd Lieutenants RM, Deal 1944 - (04.)1944 Plymouth Division RM 25.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship) (10.1944)     HMS Jamaica (Fiji class cruiser) * ? - (01.)1945 Plymouth Division RM 21.02.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship) 02.09.1952     transferred, RN ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Hill, Roderick Harry	29.05.1911 Willesden district, Middlesex - 29.09.1984 Hillingdon district, Middlesex (formerly of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942	25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division 1942 - (08.)1942 8th Battalion, 102nd RM Brigade ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) 116th RM Brigade
Hiscocks, Charles Richard	01.06.1907 - 02.07.1998	... ... T/Maj. 05.09.1943 A/T/Lt.Col. 05.06.1943	Education: Highgate School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MA), Berlin University (DPhil 1935). Assistant Master Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, 1929-1932, Bradfield College, 1936-1939, Marlborough College1939-1940. ... - ... ... 14.03.1943     seconded 1945     seconded to Army as Military Governor of Dannenberg, Germany British Council Representative in Austria, 1946-1949, Southern India 1949-1950; Prof of Political Science and International Relations, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1950-64; member United Nations Sub-Committee for Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1953-62; Prof of International Relations University of Sussex, 1964-72. Published: The Rebirth of Austria (1953); Democracy in Western Germany (1957); Poland: Bridge for the Abyss (1963); Germany Revived (1966); The Security Council: a study in Adolescence (1973).
Hoar, Edward Cecil Son (with one sister) of Charles Hoar (1846-), surveyor, and Helen Bianca Constantia Valentin (1863-1947).. Married (08.08.1936, Dover Kent) Margaret Lewis Murdock (01.09.1914 - 16.11.1988); one son.	30.01.1899 West Hampstead, London - 26.10.1979 Middlesex, London	2nd Lt. 27.04.1816 A/Lt. 04.05.1917 Lt. ?, seniority 04.05.1917 Capt. 27.04.1927 Maj. 30.07.1936 (retd 01.02.1946; own request; granted War Service Rank of Lt.Col) A/Lt.Col. 11.03.1941-01.02.1946	Education: Brighton College (...-Easter 1916). ... - ... ... 26.01.1927 - 23.10.1927 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 08.12.1938 - 06.02.1940 HMS Berwick (Kent class cruiser) 07.02.1940 - 29.02.1940 Plymouth Division RM 01.03.1940 - 17.03.1940 RM Brigade 18.03.1940 - 02.01.1941 Battery Commander, "Devon" Battery, Coast Artillery Brigade (RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) 03.01.1941 - 13.08.1942 Commanding Officer, Coast Artillery Regiment (2), RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (2) (MNBDO (2)) 14.08.1942 - 07.10.1943 HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) (for duty with IADF) 08.10.1943 - 14.04.1944 RM Training Group Wales (Gibraltar Camp, Llanegryn, Towyn) (waiting disposal) 15.04.1944 - 08.02.1945 Plymouth Division RM 09.02.1945 - 01.05.1945 HQ Staff (for duty inside Admiralty, not exceeding 1 month)  [HMS President] & Naval Party 2402 [HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties)] 02.05.1945 - 30.01.1946 Plymouth Division RM
Hogg, Edward Jenner "Ned"   Married (15.12.1944, Mayfair, Westminster district, London) Angela Suzanne Rodney Béor (29.03.1918 - 01.11.2001), daughter of Bertram Richard White Béor (1880-), and Estelle I. Sevier; two sons, one daughter.	11.02.1919 Canton, China - 06.01.2008 [St Peter and St Paul's Church Cemetery, Pettistree, Suffolk]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1937 A/Lt. 26.08.1939-30.09.1939 Lt. 01.10.1939 A/Capt. 27.06.1941-07.06.1942. 21.11.1942-13.01.1943, 07.04.1943(01.1946) Capt. 01.10.1947 (retd 29.12.1958) MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	... - ... ... (08.1939)     RM course, Portsmouth (09.1939)     RM course, Plymouth 25.08.1939 - (02.)1940 Second-in-Command, RM Detachment, HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) (03.1940)     Plymouth Division RM 12.03.1940 - (04.)1941 Second-in-Command, RM Detachment, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (06.1941)     Plymouth Division RM 27.06.1941 - (04.)1942 Officer Commanding RM Detachment, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (06.1942)     no appointment listed (08.1942) - (02.)1943 Plymouth Division RM 07.04.1943 - (10.)1944 Officer Commanding RM Detachment, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (despatches) 19.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) 19.03.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Woolverstone (landing craft base, Ipswich) 08.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) ... - ... ...
Obituary from his parish magazine: "Edward (Ned) Hogg was born in Canton, China on 11th February 1919. Two of his earliest memories were of the Royal Navy Gun Boats on the West River, and the church where his Mother Edith was the organist and where he was given a bottle of fizzy lemonade if he pumped the organ satisfactorily. In 1925 he began his early education in England at a Boarding School in Crabtree Furlong, Buckinghamshire, run by his Father’s eldest sister – Aunt Lottie. His schooling then finished at Monkton Combe school in Bath, where he was a keen member of the Rugby Team. He used to speak of fun days out, and ski holidays – before the days of ski lifts. He started his training in the Square and Gym with the Royal Marines at Plymouth in 1937, followed by the normal round of training to complete his office education: Eastney, Whale Island; Gunnery HMS Iron Duke; Seamanship and Navigation HMS Vernon; Electricity and Torpedoes RM Barracks Chatham; Admin and Military Law RM Deale; Military Course and Tactics Gosport, Hants; and Small Arms School before being posted as Acting Lieutenant to HMS Edinburgh in August 1939. It was in the Edinburgh that he witnessed the first air raid on the 16th Oct.1939 whilst in harbour at Rosyth, seaward from the Forth Bridge. In April 1940 he joined the Ark Royal in Portsmouth and sailed almost immediately for Alexandria in Egypt for Flying Training. Then, hurriedly back to Greenock for the Norwegian campaign, where his memories were of 24 hours daylight and the resultant constant bombing. In June 1940, at the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk, he sailed with the Ark Royal for Gibraltar where it blew up the French Fleet to prevent it from joining the Nazis. He states in his memoirs ‘This was not a happy episode’. He left Ark Royal in April 1941 and in June, at the age of 22, was made Acting RM Captain of HMS Dorsetshire, where he had the fabulous surprise of an increase in his pay from nine shillings to twenty-five shillings a day. In Dec.1941 the Allies, including America declared war on Japan, and the Dorsetshire was deployed to the Indian Ocean, carrying troops to Singapore. On Easter Day 1942 his ship was sunk by Japanese bombers off Ceylon, and Ned had to swim in shark infested waters for 36 hours. He was eventually picked up by an Australian Destroyer, and finally arrived at Liverpool on the Empress of Russia, via the Maldives and Mombassa, in July 1942. He caught pneumonia, and spent some weeks in the RN Hospital at Stonehouse. On recovery early in 1943 he was appointed RM Captain of HMS Emerald which was due to join the Eastern Fleet based in Ceylon. Having made the long journey via the Cape in January 1944, he returned via the Suez Canal and the Med. to give support for the D Day landing in Normandy in June 1944. Specifically, he supported the legendary 47 RM Commando raid which was compared with the action at Pegasus bridge by the then Commander of the 2nd Army (General Dempsey). In this action, he was awarded a Mention in Dispatches. On the home front, it was during this time that he met again with Angela, a Wren Officer whom he had met previously at Plymouth. They were married on 15th Dec. 1944 in Mayfair, London: a marriage that was to last 57 years. On VE day in May 1945, he was at HMS Woolverstone in Suffolk where his new wife left the WRNS to join him. He retired from the Royal Marines in 1958, after various appointments in Argyllshire, Hamburg and Bermuda, and settled in Westbury on Trim, Bristol, with Angela, and their three children (Richard, Jenny and Christopher). He set up in business, becoming a Director of Bristol Merchant Finance Co. Ltd. In 1968 the Company was floated on the London Stock Exchange and subsequently sold. Ned continued a branch of the business in Cyprus, but following the invasion by Turkey in 1974 living there became untenable. He did however remain in contact with his friends there, and continued to enjoy caravan visits to them. Ned moved into Amberley House, Pettistree in August 1982 with Angela, where they enjoyed village life. He played golf at Thorpeness, and we remember him well playing cricket with his family in the early days of village cricket. Sadly, Angela suffered a severe stroke in 1990 and Ned spent many years caring for her, until she sadly passed away on Nov.1st 2001. He was a very proud grandfather to six grand-children and three great grand-children, all of whom enjoyed his robust humour, strong affection and ready supply of chocolate. The Corps was never far away in Ned’s life and it was no surprise when his son (Richard) and grandson (William) followed in his military footsteps - both were commissioned into The Light Infantry and served from Aden to Bosnia to Northern Ireland. Ned was a very regular member of the Church, and a most valuable and committed Church Warden for many years, taking great care of the church yard which he was keen to promote as a significant nature reserve. We remember him as always managing to find time for his friends and neighbours, being ready with a joke, sharing his garden produce and giving his time to care for others. He spent Christmas 2007 with Christopher in Norfolk after having sadly learnt of the death of his eldest son Richard. He went to Bristol for Richard’s funeral at St. Mary’s Redcliff, but became unconscious on the morning of the funeral and died, surrounded by his family, on 6th January 2008. The Last Post and Reveille were played at his funeral in Pettistree Church on 17th January by a Marine Bugler, and the White Ensign was draped over his coffin."
Holford, Cecil Francis Lovell "Chang"   Elder son (with one sister and one brother) of Herbert Frank Stanley Holford (1871-1929), and Fanny Elizabeth Lovell (1876-1961), of Horsham, Sussex. Married 1st (31.03.1930, St Michael's Church, Bournemouth, Dorset) Aileen Margery Rees (24.06.1907 - 1975), younger daughter of Dr John Llewellyn Rees (1865-), and ... Sparrow (1873-); one daughter. Aileen Holford remarried (1949) Sydney C. Woolley. Married 2nd ((09?).1949, Westminster district, Middlesex) Lucy Lillian Crook (22.07.1922 - 08.2003).	08.07.1900 Hampstead district, Greater London - 14.06.1963 The Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester (formerly of Selsey, Chichester, Sussex)	2nd Lt. 01.01.1919 Lt. 01.01.1922 Capt. 01.01.1930 Maj. 02.10.1939 (retd 01.03.1948; granted War Service rank of Lt.Col.) A/Lt.Col. 14.08.1942-01.03.1948 DSO 06.09.1940 withdrawal from Boulogne [investiture 18.02.1941] 39|45 St - - Afr St - - It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	01.01.1919 - 13.01.1919 on leave 14.01.1919 - 05.01.1920 RN College, Greenwich 06.01.1920 - 12.03.1920 RM Depot, Deal 13.03.1920 - 31.05.1920 Chatham Division RM 01.06.1920 - 18.12.1920 HMS Commonwealth (for courses) 19.12.1920 - 09.01.1921 Portsmouth Division RM 10.01.1921 - 05.04.1921 HMS Excellent 06.04.1921 - 10.04.1921 Portsmouth Division RM 11.04.1921 - 11.06.1921 Chatham Division RM 12.06.1921 - 29.07.1921 Portsmouth Division RM (for course at HMS Vernon) 30.07.1921 - 19.11.1921 Chatham Division RM 20.11.1921 - 30.04.1922 Chatham Division RM (at RM Depot, Deal for military course) 01.05.1922 - 08.05.1922 Chatham Division RM 09.05.1922 - 02.10.1922 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic)  03.10.1922 - 04.05.1923 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic) 05.05.1923 - 27.07.1923 Chatham Division RM 28.07.1923 - 01.01.1925 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic) 02.01.1925 - 11.01.1925 Chatham Division RM 12.01.1925 - 09.08.1925 No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon [employed under Air Ministry] (as Temp. Flying Officer RAF, seniority 12.01.1925) 10.08.1925 - 20.01.1926 RAF Training Base, Leuchars [employed under Air Ministry] [awarded wings 08.01.1926; flying Reece - Spotter. D.H.9A; was involved in a serious air crash and his injuries resulted in him being forced to return to Corps Duties] 21.01.1926 - 28.02.1926 Chatham Division RM (for sick leave) 01.03.1926 - 12.09.1926 Chatham Division RM 13.09.1926 - 19.09.1927 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 20.09.1927 - 30.11.1927 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 01.12.1927 - 07.11.1928 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.11.1928 - 12.01.1929 Chatham Division RM 13.01.1929 - 02.09.1929 RM Depot, Deal 03.09.1929 - 22.01.1931 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 23.01.1931 - 06.05.1931 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 07.05.1931 - 21.12.1931 Portsmouth Division RM 22.12.1931 - 09.10.1933 HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 10.10.1933 - 06.05.1935 Portsmouth Division RM 07.05.1935 - 30.05.1935 HMS Iron Duke (for special service) 31.05.1935 - 22.08.1935 Portsmouth Division RM 23.08.1935 - 29.08.1935 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 30.08.1935 - 24.05.1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean & Portsmouth) 25.05.1938 - 07.08.1938 Portsmouth Division RM 08.08.1938 - 07.03.1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (and for training duties in the port) 08.03.1939 - 30.03.1939 Portsmouth Division RM 31.03.1939 - 01.02.1942 Instructor of Gunnery (Sea Service), Chatham Division RM [in command of "Force Buttercup" to cover the evacuation of Boulogne, 23.05.1940] 02.02.1942 - 12.04.1944 Instructor of Gunnery, from 14.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HQ 2nd Coast Artillery Regiment of Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) 13.04.1944 - 31.07.1944 HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (additional; on staff of Flag Officer Dover, for Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation II) 01.08.1944 - 14.01.1945 HMS Porcupine (landing craft base ship, Stokes Bay, Portsmouth) (additional; on staff of Commodore Landing Craft Bases) 15.01.1945 - 17.05.1945 Liaison Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth for duty with Commodore Landing Craft Bases [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 18.05.1945 - 30.09.1945 Admiralty [HMS President] (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Combined Operations Division) 11.10.1945 - 28.12.1947 Naval Provost Marshal and Senior Officer, Royal Marines on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 29.12.1947 - 29.02.1948 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
Hollis, [Sir] Leslie Chasemore "Jo" Son of late Rev. Canon C.J. Hollis, MA. Married (1922) Rose May Fraser; no children.	09.02.1897 Bath, Somerset - 09.08.1963 Cuckfield, Sussex	Prob. 2nd Lt. 17.04.1915 A/Lt. 21.11.1915 Lt. 16.04.1918, seniority 21.11.1915 Capt. 06.01.1921 Maj. 05.04.1935 Bt. Lt.Col. 31.12.1937 T/Col. 01.04.1939-30.09.1941 A/Col.Cdt. 01.10.1941-11.11.1943 T/Brig. 01.10.1941-(04.1946) Lt.Col. 01.10.1943 A/Maj.Gen. 12.11.1943-31.12.1946 Col. 04.01.1946 Maj.Gen. 01.01.1947 A/Lt.Gen. 01.01.1947-19.05.1949 Lt.Gen. 20.05.1949 Gen. 11.05.1951 (retd 15.07.1952) KCB 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 1951 KBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 CB 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 CBE 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 LM 16.01.1946 ?	Education: St Lawrence's College, Ramsgate. 1914 - 1915 joined Royal Marine Light Infantry (training at RM Depot, Deal & RN Gunnery School, Whale Island) 1915 - 1917 HMS Duke of Edinburgh (cruiser) (Grand Fleet) 1917 - 1919 Lieutenant in charge of RM Detachment, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Harwich Force) 1919 - 1920 RM Barracks, Plymouth 1920 - 1923 Captain of Marines, HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1923 - ? assistant small arms instructor, RM Barracks, Plymouth ? - (01.1925) RM Depot, Deal 01.01.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.10.1927 - (06.)1928 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 18.04.1929 - 05.031932 Staff Officer (Intelligence) Capetown on staff of Commander-in-Chief Africa Station [HMS Calcutta (cruiser), from 05.1931 HMS Cardiff (cruiser)] 06.03.1932 - 26.04.1932 Plymouth Division RM 27.04.1932 - 09.03.1936 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.03.1936 - 31.03.1936 Plymouth Division RM 01.04.1936 - (08.)1939 Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence 1939 - 31.12.1946 Senior Military Assistant Secretary, War Cabinet Office 01.01.1947 - 1949 Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence, also Deputy Secretary (Military) of the Cabinet Commandant General, Royal Marines, 26.05.1949-20.05.1952. Member Institute of Directors. Company director and author. Published: One marine's tale (1956); War at the top (by James Leasor, based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, KCB, KBE) (1959); The Captain General (1961).
Hood, Alfred Cecil Son of William Hood. Married (04.03.1924, Malta) Rozalia Schlesinger, daughter of Janos Schlesinger.	15.02.1898 Ipswich, Suffolk - 14.01.1977 Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe, Ipswich district, Suffolk	Mne. 22.02.1915 Cpl. 27.07.1920 Sgt. 19.07.1928 Staff Clerk 12.07.1933 Superintending Clerk 25.03.1935 Lt. (QM) 07.11.1939 Capt. (QM) 07.11.1942 Maj. (QM) RMFVR 23.02.1949 RN LSGC (29.03.1931); received shares from the Naval Prize Fund for having been at Jutland	22.02.1915 - 11.07.1933 served in the ranks for 20 years & 31 days: 22.02.1915 - 06.10.1915 C Company, Royal Marine Light Infantry (Deal) 07.10.1915 - 07.12.1915 F Company, Royal Marine Light Infantry (Chatham) 08.12.1915 - 31.05.1918 HMS Champion (light cruiser) 01.06.1918 - 21.06.1918 Chatham Division, RM 22.06.1918 - 22.07.1919 HMS Superb (battleship) (Flagship of V.Adm. Gough-Calthorpe, Eastern Mediterranean)) 23.07.1919 - 08.11.1919 Chatham Division, RM 09.11.1919 - 07.10.1921 Clerk, Allotment Office, RM 18.10.1921 - 30.11.1921 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) 01.12.1921 - 23.01.1922 Chatham Division, RM 24.01.1922 - 30.09.1924 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.10.1924 - 13.11.1924 Chatham Division, RM 14.11.1924 - 24.11.1925 HMS Ganges (Shotley training establishment, Harwich) 25.11.1925 - 26.11.1925 Chatham Division, RM 27.11.1925 - 20.06.1926 Clerk, Allotment Office, RM 19.01.1927 - 23.10.1927 E Company, 12th RM Battalion 24.10.1927 - 30.11.1928 Chatham Division, RM 01.12.1928 - 30.10.1932 Clerk, Barracks 01.11.1932 - 11.07.1933 Clerk, Royal Marine Office (London) 12.07.1933 - 06.11.1939 served as Warrant Officer for 4 years & 227 days: 12.07.1933 - 06.11.1939 Staff Clerk, Royal Marine Office (London) ? - (04.1940) RM Depot, Deal ? - (02.1941) Quartermaster, RM Engineer Battalion (12.1941) - (06.1944) Chatham Division, RM (07.1945) - (07.1946) Quartermaster, 2nd Battalion RM Engineers ? - (07.1948) Pay and Records Office, RM 1948/49 ? transferred to RM Forces Volunteer Reserve 1949 ? - 1955 ? Personnel & Records Office, RM ?
Horne, Harry Reynolds	26.12.1882 Norwich, Norfolk - 11.02.1958 War Memorial Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire (formerly of Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire)	... ... Cd. RM Gnr. 12.05.1924 (retd 26.12.1932; age) A/Lt. 26.03.1940 Lt. (retd) 26.03.1941 (reverted to retd 07.09.1945; granted War Service rank of Capt.) A/Capt. 05.09.1941-02.05.1943, 02.06.1943-06.09.1945	26.03.1940 - 30.03.1942 RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (MNBDO (2)) 26.03.1940 - (10.)1940 No. 2 RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment (12.)1940 - (02.)1941 "D" Battery, No. 2 RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment (04.)1941 - (08.1941) Adjutant, No. 12 Searchlight Regiment (10.1941)     no appointment listed (12.)1941 - 30.03.1942 Officer Commanding, Workshop Company 01.04.1942 - 19.08.1942 RM Auxiliary Battalion, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (MNBDO (2)) 01.04.1942 - 19.06.1942 Officer Commanding, X Company 20.06.1942 - 19.08.1942 Adjutant 20.08.1942 - 11.07.1945 Reinforcement Depot MNBDO, RM Group MNBDO (2) [later redesignated RM Training Group Wales (Towyn)] 20.08.1942 - (04.)1943 Officer Commanding, ... Company 1943 - 03.06.1943 waiting disposal 04.06.1943 - 11.07.1945 Officer Commanding, Headquarter Wing, RM Artillery Training Camp (Burma Camp, Llwynwril) 12.07.1945 - 06.09.1945 Portsmouth Division RM (for release under Class "A")
Hosking, Geoffrey Robert d'Aubrey "Geoff"	11.03.1922 St Thomas district, Devon - 13.01.1991 Deal, Dover district, Kent	2nd Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt. 11.01.1942 A/Capt. 25.11.1944 Capt. 11.01.1950 (retd 04.10.1951)	01.09.1940 commissioned, Royal Marines (02.1941) course for Probationary Second Lieutenants, RM, Chatham 10.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) 15.11.1944 - 28.07.1945 48 RM Commando (A Troop, Y Troop Commander) (NW Europe; went to the UK, injured) (04.1946) RM Depot, Deal (07.1948) - (05.1950) Commando School RM Played rugby for England, 1949-50.
Houghton, Robert Dyer "Titch" Son of John Mayo Houghton, and Lucy EvelynTrotman, of Dawlish, Devon. Married (1940) Dorothy Uladh Lyons (28.09.1912 - 10.1995), youngest daughter of Maj.Gen. R.W.S. Lyons, IMS; two sons, one daughter.	07.03.1912 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 17.01.2011 Whitesmith, near Lewes, East Sussex	2nd Lt. 01.09.1930 Lt. 01.09.1933 Capt. 31.08.1938 A/Maj. 06.05.1941 ... ... Lt.Col. 31.12.1953 ... ... Maj.Gen. 04.09.1961 (retd 28.10.1964) CB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 1963 OBE 07.01.1949 Palestine 03-07.1948 MC 14.12.1945 Dieppe 19.08.1942 & POW	Education: Haileybury (3rd term 1925-2nd term 1930). 1930     joined RM       HMS Malaya (battleship)       qualified as a small arms instructor 1935     Officer Commanding an anti-aircraft battery of the Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (Egypt, Crete)       Chatham Division RM (04.1940) - (02.)1941 Adjutant, 1st Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 1941 - (12.1941) Adjutant, 15th (S) Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) 1942 - 19.08.1942 Second-in-Command, 40 RM Commando (Dieppe; captured) (MC) 19.08.1942 - 1945 POW in German captivity 1945     Commanding Officer, 45 RM Commando       staff course, Staff College, Camberley       Commanding Officer, 40 RM Commando (Palestine) (07.1954)     Commando School RM 01.10.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, 42 RM Commando (01.1956)     Director, Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve ... - ... ... 1961 - 1962 Chief of Amphibious Warfare, Ministry of Defence 1962 - 1964 Major-General, Royal Marines (MGRM) Colonel Commandant, Royal Marines, 01.01.1973-31.12.1976. General Secretary, Royal UK Beneficent Association, 1968-1978. Deputy Lieutenant (DL) East Sussex, 1977.
Howard, Alfred James Richard   Son of Alfred and Eliza Howard.	08.05.1896 Alverstoke, Hampshire - 27.11.1966 Memorial Hospital, Peterborough (formerly of Manthorpe nr Bourne, Lincolnshire)	Bugler 12.07.1910 [15490] T/Sgt.Maj. 28.04.1942 T/Lt. 23.09.1942 A/T/Capt. 02.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	12.07.1910     joined Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division) 01.1941 civilian instructor, Air Ministry 28.04.1942 commissioned, Royal Marines [temporary commission] (08.1942) Portsmouth Division, Royal Marines ? - (02.)1943 Combined Operations HQ * 12.04.1943 - (08.)1943 Adjutant RM Unit Combined Operations & CI Duties [HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire)] 24.09.1943 - 30.05.1944 HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend) 30.05.1944 - (09.1945) HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) * indexed, but not listed as such
Howarth, James Edward Gorse Son (with one brother) of James Howarth, and Lillian Oliver (1889-1980). Married (14.07.1950, Manchester, Lancashire) Audrey Holmes, daughter of Harry Holmes; one son.	10.10.1921 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire - 11.1986 Kingston, Ontario, Canada	T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. ? A/T/Capt. 23.01.1945 A/T/Maj. (1946) MBE 02.07.1946 operations in Burma	Education: Archbishop Holgates York;  St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (MA 1947). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     44 RM Commando (India) Assistant merchandise manager Tootal Ltd., Manchester, 1947-1951. Assistant managing director, Baerleim Bros. Ltd., Manchester, 1951-1953. Emigrated to Canada.  Manager product development, Dominion Textile Ltd., 1953-1960. Merchandise manager, United Merchants & Manufacturers Ltd., 1960-1964. Public servant. Deputy Br. Dir. & Br. Dir. Dept. Industry Ottawa, 1965-1967. Director International Economic Relations, Department of Finance, 1967-1970. President, Howarth & Co., Ottawa, 1971-1974. Deputy Commissioner Foreign Investment Review Agency, 1974-1976 (Commissioner 1976-1982).
Howe, Geoffrey "Geoff"	? -	T/2nd Lt. 12.02.1944 T/A/Lt. 10.06.1944 T/Lt. 12.08.1944	12.03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Hudspith, John Charles Dumoutier	03.03.1915 Brampton dictrict, Cumberland - 01.01.2002 Leeds, West Yorkshire	T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. 17.11.1941 A/T/Capt. 19.08.1943 A/T/Maj. 23.01.1945 MC 27.06.1944 services in Italy	... - ... ... ? - (06.1944) 43 RM Commando ... - ... ...
Hunter, David Peter Lafayette	24.11.1919 Stelling Minnis, Kent - 05.09.2001	2nd Lt. 01.01.1938 A/Lt. 19.12.1939-31.01.1940 Lt. 01.1941, seniority 01.02.1940 A/Capt. 25.02.1946 Capt. 01.02.1948 Maj. 31.12.1954 local Lt.Col. 08.09.1960 Lt.Col. 31.12.1960 (retd 30.03.1967) MC 27.04.1951 45 Commando RM, Malaya [investiture 26.03.1952] MID 11.09.1945 defence of Calais 1940	Education: Shrewsbury. ... - ... ... 25.05.1940 - 16.04.1945 captured at Calais; POW in German captivity (Oflag 4C, Colditz) (07.1945)     Depot RM, Deal ... - ... ...
Hunton, Thomas Desmond Son of Gen. Sir Thomas Lionel Hunton, RM.	19.08.1920 Bristol district, Gloucestershire - 29.01.1988 Torbay district, Devon	2nd Lt. 01.09.1939 A/Lt. 28.02.1941-15.03.1941 Lt. 16.03.1941 A/Capt. 07.07.1944-05.02.1946 Capt. 16.03.1949 (retd 19.11.1967)	... - ... ... (08.1943)     Plymouth Division RM ... - ... ...
Hunton, Sir Thomas Lionel Son of Theodore Hunton, and Emma Maria Hunton. Married (08.09.1919, Clifton, Bristol) Margaret Mary France Steele, daughter of Lt.Col. W.H. Steele, late RAMC; one son [Capt. Thomas Desmond Hunton, RM] (one daughter deceased).	30.10.1885 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire - 20.04.1970 Belvedere, Lympstone, Near Exmouth, South Devon	2nd Lt. 01.09.1903 Lt. 01.07.1904 Capt. 01.09.1914 Brev. Maj. 01.01.1919 Maj. 24.01.1924 Brev. Lt.Col. 31.12.1930 Lt.Col. 05.04.1933 Brev. Col. 05.10.1935, seniority 05.10.1934 Col. 2nd Comdt. 01.06.1936, seniority 31.12.1933 Col. Comdt. 01.10.1938 T/Brig. 01.10.1938-30.09.1940 Maj.Gen. 01.10.1940 Lt.Gen. 26.01.1943 Gen. 01.05.1945 (retd 25.06.1946) KCB 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 [investiture 07.03.1944] CB 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 01.04.1941] MVO 27.06.1927 visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand and Australia OBE 12.09.1919 ? MID 11.12.1918 Aegean MID 11.04.1919 Aegean British War Medal; Victory Medal Beaufort Testimonial and the Wharton Testimonial with Gold Medal	Education: Clifton College. 1903     joined RM 10.1909     passed as Interpreter (Higher Standard) in Japanese 1914 - 1918 served European War, including Battle of Jutland (despatches twice [11.12.1918], Chevalier Légion d'Honneur, Star of Roumania, Chevalier): 25.05.1912 - 02.07.1917 Assistant Intelligence Officer, China Station 21.08.1917 - 03.03.1919 Intelligence Officer, Eastern Mediterranean (from 17.10.1918 as General Staff Officer, 2nd grade (GSO2)) 04.03.1919 - 21.01.1923 Adjutant, Plymouth Division RM 22.01.1923 - 02.05.1926 Assistant Military Instructor, Depot RM, Deal 03.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 15.04?.1929 - 30.03.1930 Brigade Major, Depot RM, Deal 01.04.1930 - 31.08.1933 Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (DAAG), RM 05.04.1934 - 27.09.1935 Superintendent, School of Land Artillery [Portsmouth Division, RM] 28.09.1935 - 04.10.1935 General Staff RM 05.10.1935 - 30.09.1938 Assistant Adjutant-General (AAG), Royal Marines, HQ 01.10.1938 - 30.09.1941 Colonel Commandant (T/Brig.), Portsmouth Division RM 30.09.1939 - 01.10.1940 also: Marine ADC to the King 01.10.1941 - 25.06.1942 Portsmouth Division RM 26.06.1942 - 26.12.1942 General Staff (additional) 27.12.1942 - 18.01.1943 Portsmouth Division RM 19.01.1943 - 25.01.1943 duty on staff of Adjutant-General RM (additional) 26.01.1943 - 23.11.1943 Adjutant-General, Royal Marines, redesignated: 24.11.1943 - 26.05.1945 General Officer Commanding, Royal Marines, redesignated: 27.05.1945 - 30.04.1946 Commandant General, Royal Marines Qualified as interpreter in Japanese. Honorary Colonel Commandant Portsmouth Group RM, 01.02.1949-30.10.1950.