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Macafee, John Leeper Anketell Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Thomas Boyd Macafee (1877-1963), and Muriel Katherine Allen (1886-1961). Married ((09?).1939, Hollingbourne district, Kent) Mary Ruth Nowell Lewis (1916 - 11.12.2012); one child.	24.07.1915 Ballymoney, Ireland - 20.02.1974 Bredhurst, Gillingham, Maidstone district, Kent	2nd Lt. 01.09.1934 Lt. 20.02.1937 Capt. 09.04.1940 A/Maj. 02.05.1942-23.01.1947, 22.01.1948-31.12.1948 Maj. 31.12.1948 A/Lt.Col. 30.05.1955-05.12.1955 local Lt.Col. 14.11.1949-?, 05.03.1956-30.06.1956 Lt.Col. 30.06.1956 Col. 31.12.1960 (retd 24.07.1964) CBE 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 1964	... - ... ... 30.12.1938 - (05.)1940 HMS Royal Sovereign (Royal Sovereign class battleship) 28.05.1940 - (06.)1941 Fleet Recreational Officer, Mediterranean & Assistant Naval Provost Marshal, Alexandria [HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship), accommodated in HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] 26.06.1941 - (02.)1942 Fleet Recreational Officer, Mediterranean & Assistant Naval Provost Marshal, Alexandria [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] (04.1942)     Plymouth Division RM (06.1942) - (04.1943) 3rd Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) (06.1943)     Second-in-Command, 3rd Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade) (08.1943) - (10.1944) Second-in-Command, 44 RM Commando (01.1945) - (07.1945) 3rd Commando Brigade HQ (waiting disposal) (10.1945)     RM Training Group Devon ... - ... ...  14.01.1960 - (01.1960) Fleet RM Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia]       Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty 28.08.1961 - (02.1962) Director, Naval Security Department, Admiralty 28.03.1963 - 24.07.1964 ADC to HM the Queen
Macan, Antony Vernon Son (with one sister) of Arthur Vernon Macan (1882-1964), designer of golf courses, and Juliet Adelaide Richards (1886-1958), of Rath, Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Married ((09?).1946, St Marylebone district, London) Pamela Mary Elizabeth Cotton (24.06.1919 - 02.07.2012), daughter (with two sistrs and two brothers) of Henry James Fitzsimon Cotton (1888-1958), and Phylis Mary Staunton (1897-1969); three daughters, three sons.	06.12.1919 Co. Dublin, Ireland - 09.11.1977 Exeter, Devon	2nd Lt. 01.09.1938 Lt. 14.04.1940 A/Capt. 24.04.1944	Education: Campbell College, Belfast, Northern Ireland ((C); Army, July, 1938.  Prefect.  1st XV, 1937-38;  1st XI (Hockey), 1938;  Ulster Schools' Hockey, XI;  Swimming Team, 1937-38). ... - ... ... 1940 - 1941 HMS Barham (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 1943 - 1946 3rd Special Service Brigade (from 12.1944 3rd Commando Brigade): (07.1945)     44 RM Commando (India)
Mackinnon, John Withers Son of James and Helen W. Mackinnon, of Glasgow.	15.07.1921 - 23.03.1943 [age 22] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 93]	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942	15.05.1942     commissioned, Royal Marines [temporary commission] 25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division (08.1942) - 23.03.1943 RM Boom Patrol Detachment [borne on Portsmouth Division, RM] (captured on 12.12.1942 during the Operation Frankton, the RM canoe raid on the River Gironde, imprisoned for some months and executed by the Germans in Paris)
Macmillan, Ian Macleod	22.10.1919 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland - 1992 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland	Army:   Cadet ? 2nd Lt. 08.05.1943 [269654] WS/Lt. 08.11.1943 (reld 01.08.1944) RM:   T/Lt. 01.08.1944, seniority 08.11.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: University of Edinburgh (1st year Classics student, 1939). 1939     enlisted, Army 08.05.1943     commissioned, Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission] 01.08.1944     transferred, Royal Marines (10.1944) - (01.)1945 29th RM Battalion (04.)1945 - (07.1945) No. 1 (Assault) Squadron, 34th Amphibian Support Regiment RM Became qualified in Dentistry from Glasgow University, 29.10.1951 (LDS, RFPS).
Macpherson, Michael Stuart Son of Cdr. Alan Duncan Leslie Macpherson, DSC, RN (1894-1960), and Sybil Ada Phillips (1896-1959).	10.08.1919 Red Lodge, Craneswater Park, Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 09.10.1944 (KIA) [age 25] [Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery, Albania]	T/2nd Lt. 10.10.1940 T/Lt. 10.04.1941 A/T/Capt. 29.07.1943	(02.1941) - (04.)1944 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (1) (12.1941)     Orderly Officer, No. 11 Searchlight Regiment 1944 - (06.)1944 RM Training Group Wales 1944 - 09.10.1944 40 RM Commando
Mahoney, David Callaghan	15.01.1920 - 09.07.1992 Bantry, Cork, Ireland	2nd Lt. 01.01.1938 A/Lt. 15.12.1939-29.02.1940 Lt. 01.03.1940 A/Capt. 11.08.1941-31.07.1942, 26.08.1944-(01.1946) Capt. ? Maj. ? (retd 15.01.1970) Hon. Lt.Col. 15.01.1970 MC 19.10.1951 Malaya 1951 [investiture 21.07.1953]	... - ... ... 26.08.1944 - (04.1945) Squadron RM Officer, HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) ... - ... ... (1951)     42 Commando RM (MC) ... - ... ...
Mahoney, John Edward	? - ?	... ... T/Maj. 24.06.1943	RM Engineers ... - ... ...
Malcolm, Pulteney William	10.04.1882 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany - 24.12.1946 Lanholm, Dumfiresshire, Scotland	2nd Lt. 01.09.1900 Lt. 01.07.1901 Capt. 01.09.1911 Maj. 06.06.1917 (retd 30.03.1931; own request) (recalled for service 03.09.1939) (reverted to retd 24.07.1942; medical unfitness) OBE 11.11.1919 ?	... - ... ... 26.01.1927 - 12.01.1928 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 08.09.1939 - 25.06.1942 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (additional): 08.09.1939 - 20.07.1941 Sea Transport Officer I, Barry 21.07.1941 - 25.06.1942 Sea Transport Officer I, Cardiff 26.06.1942 - 23.07.1942 Chatham Division RM
Marsh, Alan Edward	05.05.1912 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 12.04.2001 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	2nd Lt. 01.01.1935 Lt. 21.05.1937 Capt. 13.01.1941 (retd 30.09.1953) T/Maj. 17.01.1944-(01.1946)	served in the ranks for 4 years, 45 days (07.1935) - (02.1936) Portsmouth Division, RM ? - (02.)1937 RM Depot, Deal 1937 - (07.)1937 Plymouth Division, RM 01.07.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 1938 - (06.)1938 Plymouth Division, RM 27.06.1938 - (08.)1938 pilots' course, No. 6 Elementary Flying Training School, Sywell 10.09.1938 - (04.)1939 pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 21.11.1940 - (02.)1941 pilot, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)] 05.07.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)] 14.05.1942 - 10.1942 Commanding Officer, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton)] (02.1943) - (12.1943) RM Planning Section, Combined Operations HQ 18.03.1944 - (06.1944) Lieutenant-Commander, Flying, HMS Rajah (escort carrier) 31.12.1944 - 11.06.1945 HMS Khedive (escort carrier) 12.06.1945 - 21.11.1945 HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee) ? - (04.1946) Plymouth Division, RM ? - (07.1948) 42 Commando RM ? - (05.1950) Plymouth Division, RM ? - (05.1953) RM Barracks, Eastney Published: Flying marines (1980)
Marsh, Jeffrey Charles Son of ... Marsh, and ... Baker.	(06?).1923 Canterbury district, Kent -	T/2nd Lt. 21.08.1942 T/Lt. 21.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	(10.1942)     Portsmouth Division RM 1942 - (12.1942) RM Division * (02.1943) - (10.)1943 RM Infantry Training Centre 1943 - (12.1943) 22nd (Training) Battalion RM (02.1944) - (04.)1944 RM Holding Commando (05.)1944 - (06.)1944 "A" Troop, 46 RM Commando 1944 - (10.)1944 45 RM Commando 10.12.1944 - (01.)1945 Naval Party 2401 [HMS Dragonfly (Combined Operations base, South Hayling Island)] (04.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Marshall, Frederick Nicholas Son (with one sister) of Reginald Frank Marshall (1871-1956), and Louise Maud Brough (1875-1960). Married (21.04.1942, Plymstock Parish Church, Plymstock, Devon) Betty Evelyn Pengelly (20.03.1922 - 04.05.2013), daughter (with two brothers) of Frederick George Pengelly (1893-1990), and Minnie Eveline Jones (1897-1982); two sons.	15.04.1917 Rogate, Harting, Midhurst district, West Sussex - 24.11.1970 Eastleigh, Winchester district, Hampshire	T/2nd Lt. 22.03.1941 T/Lt. 22.09.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	(06.1941) - (04.)1944 Troop Officer, "O" Battery, 12th RM Searchlight Regiment, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (2) 23.04.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Marshall, Lionel Guy Bradford Son of Harry Guy Marshall, and Florence Edna Marshall (née McConnell), of Tealby, Lincolnshire.	18.02.1918 Westhampnett district, Sussex - 03.02.1945 (KIA) [age 27] [Bari War Cemetery, Italy, VII.D.4]	T/2nd Lt. 01.12.1939 T/Lt. 01.06.1940 A/T/Capt. < 06.1944 MC 08.02.1944 capture of Termoli 30.10.43 (Italy) MC 18.04.1944 crossing Barigliano 22.01.44	? - (04.1940) 3rd Battalion, RM Brigade ? - (02.1941) 3rd Battalion, 102nd RM Brigade ? - (12.1941) 3rd Battalion, 101st RM Brigade (08.1942) - (10.1943) 101st RM Brigade (12.1943) - (04.1944) HQ Special Service Group (06.1944) - 03.02.1945 40 RM Commando [killed in action]
Martin, William Hynd Norrie	see:	RN officers' section
Mascall, Reginald George "Reggie" Son of Capt. George Percival Yorke Mascall (1881-1964), and Florence May Hearn (1890-1968), of St John's Wood. Married 1st (31.10.1936, All Saints' Catholic Church, Oxted, Surrey South Eastern district; marriage dissolved) Adelaide Rona Windle (21.08.1913 - (09?).1980), younger daughter of Ronald Gage Windle (1877-1962), and Edith Sarah E. Barrow (1873-1918), of Stonycroft, Limpsfield, Surrey; one daughter. She remarried ((06?).1945, Windsor district, Berkshire) Henry George Sydney Robson (1899-1978). Married 2nd Phyllis Helen Yannedis (27.01.1907 - 02.2002), daughter of Paul Christo Yannedis (1877-1951), and Mabel Ellen L. Harding (1879-1931), of Broomwater, West Teddington; two sons. She married previously ((12?).1932, Kingston district, Surrey) Hubert Frank Stewart Emerson (1907-1973).	21.07.1909 East Stonehouse district, Devon - (03?).1966 Westminster district, London (died of cancer)	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1928 Prob. Lt. 01.09.1931 Lt. 26.04.1932, seniority 01.09.1931 Capt. 24.07.1937 (resigned commission 06.10.1937) T/Lt. 06.10.1941 T/A/Capt. 18.11.1941 T/Capt. 18.09.1942 (reld 03.05.1946) (re-activated?) (commission terminated 01.03.1952) Army:   Lt. 01.03.1952, seniority 04.08.1947 [421315] Capt. 04.08.1953 DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]	03.01.1929 - (08.1929) course for Prob. 2nd Lts. RM, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] ? - (04.)1930 RM Depot Deal (08.)1930 - (02.)1931 Plymouth Division RM 27.10.1931 - (08.)1934 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1934 - (11.1934) Chatham Division RM ? - (02.)1935 Portsmouth Division RM 1935 - (07.)1935 Chatham Division RM 14.09.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Australia) 1936 - (08.)1936 HMS President IV (base defences, Mediterranean) (10.)1936 - (01.)1937 Chatham Division RM 1937 - (02.)1937 Portsmouth Division RM 15.04.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 18.11.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 22.09.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Berwick (cruiser) (DSC) 01.03.1952 - 01.03.1956 commissioned, Royal Pioneer Corps [short service commission] 01.03.1956 - 1959? Regular Army Reserve of Officers
Mason, Robert	? -	? ? [PLY/114362] T/Lt. 06.08.1942 T/A/Capt. 05.10.1943?-(04.1944) MID 12.02.1946 NW Europe	(08.1942) - (10.1943) RM Division 05.10.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Dorlin (Combined Operations base, Acharacle, Argyll) (06.)1944 - (10.1944) RM Training Group Devon (07.1945) - (04.1946) RM Engineers
Masters, Cyril Herbert Charles Son (with one brother and one half-brother) of Lt. Charles Monro Masters, RN (1867-1901), and Susan Elizabeth White (1872-1931). Married ((06?).1940, Kensington district, London) Stella Margaret Gabrielle Davies (née Evans) (17.09.1903 - 29.01.1988).	03.11.1900 Rochester, Medway district, Kent - 17.01.1976 Tonbridge district, Kent	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.09.1918 Prob. Lt. RMA 01.09.1921 Lt. ?, seniority 01.09.1921 Capt. 01.09.1929 Maj. 15.03.1939 (retd 03.11.1942) Lt.Col. (retd) 08.08.1948	... - ... ... 26.01.1927 - 13.01.1928 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 31.03.1937 - 25.04.1937 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty (on probation) [HMS President] 26.04.1937 - 09.10.1938 Assistant Range Table Officer (Naval), Naval Ordnance Committee 10.10.1938 - 02.11.1942 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Maton, John Richard Son (with five sisters and three brothers) of Charles Edward Maton (1877-1937), and Edith Frances Chandler (1883-1962). Married (04.03.1944, St. Mark's, Portsmouth, Hampshire) Patricia Dugan (02.11.1919 - 03.09.1999), daughter of Patrick Dugan (1871-1950), and Ruby Rose Beatrice Evans (1887-1983); one daughter, one son.	09.12.1917 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 23.08.1973 St Pancras district, London (formerly of Chatham)	T/2nd Lt. 15.08.1940 T/Lt. 15.02.1941 (reld 28.03.1946) T/A/Capt. 12.04.1943-(03.1944), 24.03.1944-(10.1945) MID 04.04.1944 services in Italy	Education: Sir Joseph Williamson's Maths School. 02.09.1940 - 12.10.1940 Probationary Temporary 2ne Lieutenant's Abbreviated Course (10.1940)     Portsmouth Division RM (12.)1940 - (02.)1941 8th Battalion, 103rd RM Brigade (04.1941)     Chatham Division RM (06.1941)     RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (08.)1941 - (02.)1942 RM Signal Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (04.1942)     RM Signal School (06.)1942 - (08.)1942 RM Division Signals (10.)1942 - (12.1942) RM Signal Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (02.1943) - (04.)1944 Officer Commanding, "B" Cable Section, No. 1 Company, Group Signals, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (2) (despatches) (06.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed ? - (01.)1945 Chatham Division RM 03.03.1945 - (10.1945) Instructor of Signalling, Chatham Division RM
Maude, Neil Stanley Eustace	21.04.1920 - 30.05.1987 Somerton, Yeovil district, Somerset	2nd Lt. 01.09.1938 Lt. 14.04.1940 A/Capt. 06.06.1942-16.12.1943, 01.09.1944-(01.1946) Capt. 14.04.1948 A/Maj. 17.12.1943-31.08.1944 Maj. 30.06.1956 Lt.Col. 31.12.1961 Col. 31.12.1965 (retd late 1960s?) A/Brig. 01.03.1968 MID 29.08.1944 Italy	(10.1938) - (02.)1939 RM Course, Plymouth (04.)1939 - (04.)1940 RM Course, Portsmouth 05.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) 1941 - (12.1941) RM Depot, Deal (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) - (12.1943) Commando Group RM (04.1944) - (06.1944) 40 RM Commando 20.03.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Belfast (cruiser) ? - (07.1948) RM Depot, Deal ? - (05.1949) Staff College, Camberley 19.12.1949 - (05.1950) General Staff Officer, 3rd grade (GSO3) (Plans and Staff Duties), General Staff, Royal Marine HQ [= RM Office] ? - (05.1953) HMS President (Admiralty) * ? - (04.1955) Infantry Training Centre, RM ? - (01.1956) 40 RM Commando ? - (01.1957) RM Barracks, Eastney ? - (07.1961) Infantry Training Centre, RM 15.01.1962 - (02.1963) Commanding Officer, 45 RM Commando 16.09.1963 - (02.1964) General Staff Officer, 1st grade (GSO1) (Training), General Staff, Royal Marine HQ [= RM Office] (02.1968) - (02.1969) Plymouth Group RM * indexed, but not listed as such
Maul, Richard Henry Leigh Son of ... Maul, and ... Hoskyns.	19.06.1917 Banbury district, Northamptonshire / Oxfordshire / Warwickshire - 24.11.1941 [age 24] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 58, column 2]	2nd Lt. 01.01.1936 A/Lt. 04.01.1938-31.01.1938 Lt. 01.02.1938 A/Capt. 01.04.1940-24.11.1941	? - (02.1936) RM Depot, Deal ? - (02.)1937 Portsmouth Division RM 1937 - (07.1937) RM Depot, Deal 04.01.1938 - 08.1939 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 26.08.1939 - 24.11.1941 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-124 in South Atlantic]
Maxwell, John Son of Arthur Henry and Vereana Estelle Beresford Maxwell, of Corduff, Co. Dublin, Irish Republic.	12.08.1913 - 20.07.1945 [age 32] [Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore, collective grace 23.A.12-14]	2nd Lt. 01.01.1932 Lt. 01.01.1935 Capt. 22.05.1939 A/Maj. 20.04.1944-20.07.1945 Bt. Maj. 30.06.1944	(09.1932) - (05.)1933 RM Depot, Deal 1933 - (06.1933) Chatham Division RM ? - (01.)1934 Portsmouth Division RM 1934 - (07.1934) Plymouth Division RM 04.01.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (02.1936)     no appointment listed 03.06.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Ramillies (battleship) 1937 - (07.)1937 Plymouth Division RM 10.07.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Portsmouth) (06.)1938 - (08.)1938 Plymouth Division RM (10.)1938 - (08.)1939 Portsmouth Division RM 07.10.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 1941 - (12.1941) Portsmouth Division RM 24.03.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Anson (battleship) ? - (04.1944) Portsmouth Division RM (06.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed (03.1945) - 20.07.1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) [head of a Small Operations Group party that had landed by canoe from a submarine in March 1945 on the island of Phuket on the West Coast of Siam (Thailand) (Operation Copyright); captured and eventually killed (beheaded) by th Japanese [story]]
McGarel-Groves, Robin Jullian Son of Lt.Col. Edward Julian McGarel-Groves, DSO, MC, Scots Guards (1894-1959), and Hon. Norah Evelyn McGarel-Hogg (1890-1967). His father had changed surname by deed poll of 02.03.1926 from Groves to McGarel-Groves Maried (18.06.1949, St Michael & All Angels' Church, Helensburgh, Scotland) Constance Morton Macmillan (1921–2001); four sons.	06.06.1920 Kensington, London - 05.12.2014 Lymington Hospital [buried at East Boldre, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire]	2nd Lt. 01.01.1939 Lt. 11.08.1940 A/Capt. 20.05.1943 ... ... Col. 30.06.1966 (retd 05.06.1970) Brig. 22.07.1968-05.06.1970	Education: Eton (1938). ... - ... ... 20.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Venerable (Colossus class aircraft carrier) ... - ... ...
McLean, Arthur Nigel Fitzroy Married ...; ... children (three sons?).	13.03.1922 - 04.1972	T/2nd Lt. 15.05.1942 T/Lt. 15.11.1942 (reld 07.07.1946)	25.05.1942 - 27.06.1942 Platoon Weapons Course, RM Division 28.06.1942 - 01.03.1944 7th Battalion RM, 101st RM Brigade (from 05.1943 RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization 2) 02.03.1944 - 06.06.1944 Second-in-Command, X Troop, 48 RM Commando (wounded at St. Aubin sur Mer; evacuated) 07.06.1944 - (01.)1945 RM Holding Commando (04.)1945 - (04.)1946 Plymouth Division RM
Mercer, Lawrence	06.06.1896 - 21.10.1952 Whitwell, Isle of Wight	T/2nd Lt.... 02.09.1914 T/Lt. 26.05.1915 Lt. 02.06.1915 T/Capt. 14.09.1917-05.01.1921 Capt. 06.01.1921 Maj. 23.10.1934 A/Lt.Col. 01.09.1942-06.01.1944, 25.05.1944-12.07.1945 Lt.Col. (Paym.) 13.07.1945 (retd 15.04.1946; own request) A/Col. 2nd Comdt. 07.01.1944-24.05.1944	... - ... ... 09.08.1939 - 31.01.1940 Drafting Officer, Plymouth Division RM 01.02.1940 - 31.08.1942 Brigade Major, Chatham Division 01.09.1942 - 16.08.1944 FOGD, Plymouth Division 17.08.1944 - 31.12.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with CCMS HQ, Naval Section) 01.01.1945 - 31.03.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with CCMS HQ, Naval Section) 01.04.1945 - 16.06.1945 HMS Royal Albert 17.06.1945 - 30.06.1945 HMS Royal Albert (additional; for Naval Party 1749) 01.07.1945 - 14.04.1946 Plymouth Division RM
Messer-Bennetts, Michael	31.08.1908 St Feock, Cornwall - 12.08.2005 Truro, Cornwall	... ... T/Capt. 12.02.1942 T/A/Maj. 12.11.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	... - ... ... 01.09.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) (06.1944)     on staff of Assault Group S3 (Normandy) 24.07.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Lothian (landing ship, infantry (headquarters)) 08.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) (10.1945)     Portsmouth Division, RM
Milliken, Frank Andrew Son of James Milliken, and Mary Ford. Married Elizabeth Lilian Melvill Coode, of Hooe, Devon.	24.03.1903 Chatham, Medway district, Kent - 07.09.1945 Penang, Malaysia (accidental death) [Western Road Cemetery, Penang, Malaysia, grave L.2393]	2nd Lt. 01.09.1921 Lt. 01.09.1924 Capt. 01.09.1933 A/Maj. 12.07.1941-23.10.1941, 01.08.1942-05.01.1943, 26.05.1944-07.09.1945 A/Lt.Col. 06.01.43-25.05.1944	... - ... ... 29.12.1936 - 10.09.1939 HMS Suffolk (Kent class cruiser) 11.09.1939 - 25.11.1939 Plymouth Division RM 26.11.1939 - 23.10.1941 HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 24.10.1941 - 01.04.1942 Plymouth Division RM 02.04.1942 - 05.01.1943 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), MNBDO Reinforcement Depot, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (2) 06.01.1943 - 23.03.1943 104th (Training) Brigade RM 24.04.1943 - 25.05.1944 Commanding Officer, 24th Battalion RM, 3rd Mobile Naval Base Brigade, Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (1) 26.05.1944 - 04.07.1944 attached HQ RM Training Groups Devon 05.07.1944 - 13.10.1944 Second-in-Command, 25th (Training) Battalion, RM Training Group Devon 14.10.1944 - 19.03.1945 HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship) 20.03.1945 - 20.03.1945 Portsmouth Division RM 21.03.1945 - 07.09.1945 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship)
Moonie, George	1915? - 2002?	T/Lt. 17.11.1941 A/T/Capt. 22.04.1943 MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy o6.1944)	... - ... ... 01.09.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (06.1944)     536th LCA Flotilla (Force "S") (Normandy) ... - ... ...
Moore, Arthur Son of Charles Francis Moore, and Ruth Mary Moore (née Watts); husband of Irene Madeline Moore, of Southsea, Hampshire, England.	1908 ? South Yorkshire - 18.02.1945 (KIA) [age 37] [Sydney War Cemetery, V.C. 13]	Clr.Sgt. ? [Ch.24477] T/Lt. 16.09.1944	16.09.1944 commissioned, Royal Marines [temporary commission]
Moore, Roland Frank Married ((03?).1939, Surrey North Eastern district) Joan Winifred Burgess (29.11.1919 - 21.12.1980); ... children.	28.12.1913 Kingston district, Surrey - 05.05.1988 Clyst St Mary, Devon	T/2nd Lt. 22.02.1941 T/Lt. 22.09.1941 (reld 07.11.1946) A/T/Capt. 05.10.1942	1941 - (04.)1941 Plymouth Division RM (06.1941) - (02.)1942 "E" Battery, No. 3 RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment (RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (2)) (04.)1942 - (06.)1942 Headquarters, Coast Artillery Regiment (2) (RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (MNBDO) (2)) 1942 - (08.)1942 RM Divisional Artillery 1942 - (10.)1942 Training Battery, RM Divisional Artillery (12.)1942 - (02.)1943 Battery Captain, 1st RM Field Battery, RM Divisional Artillery 1943 - (04.)1943 Administrative Officer, 1st RM Field Battery, RM Divisional Artillery 1943 - (06.)1943 RM Artillery Training Camp (Burma Camp, Llwynwril) (RM Training Group Wales) (waiting disposal) (08.)1943 - (01.)1945 Officer Commanding, Light Anti-Aircraft Wing, RM Artillery Training Camp (Burma Camp, Llwynwril) (RM Training Group Wales) (04.)1945 - (07.)1945 no appointment listed (10.)1945 - (10.1946) Plymouth Division RM His son writes: "Originally with the Royal Artillery then switched to the Royal Marines around the outbreak of WW2. Maybe based at one time in Plymouth/Portsmouth? Rank Captain, trained with troops in Scotland, Landed in June '44 Normandy. Leg amputated, then back with a convoy that eventually arrived by the Keil canal after collecting info/scientific/materials en route. Later, Provost Marshall,? interrogating prisoners in camps."
Morgan, Maelgwyn	10.11.1904 - 06.08.1979	... ... T/Lt.Col. 10.02.1943	RM Engineers ... - ... ...
Morley-Scott, William	? - ?	... ... T/Maj. 05.11.1943	RM Engineers ... - ... ...
Morris, Ernest Horace Married ((12?).1954, Bromley district, Kent) Olive Maud Mariner (23.05.1916 - 01.2003), daughter of Frederick James Mariner (1877-1962), and Emily Florence Hudson (1884-1978); one son.	27.02.1903 West Thurrock, Orsett district, Essex - 08.08.1982 Carshalton Beeches, Sutton district, Surrey	Colour Sergeant 29.12.1938 [Ch.22828] T/Lt. 01.04.1943 (dispersal 01.10.1945) (reld 26.11.1945) DSC 12.09.1944 Operation Gun (operation off West Coast of Italy, 27.03.1944) [decoration posted] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - It St - - WM 39|45 - -	03.01.1921     enlisted RM 01.04.1943 - 22.05.1943 Portsmouth Division RM 23.05.1943 - 28.09.1945 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon), from 01.09.1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty): 23.05.1943 - 11.07.1945 HM LCG 20 (landing craft, gun) 12.07.1945 - 28.09.1945 HMS Robertson (Combined Operations base, Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent) (on pool, for major craft) 29.09.1945 - 26.11.1945 Chatham Division RM (for release under Class "A"
Morris, Hector Philip	14.10.1910 West Ham district, Essex - 23.12.1987 Clare, Sudbury district, Suffolk	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 1st Battalion, 101st RM Brigade ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) 42 RM Commando
Morson, Peter Lincoln Eldest son (with two brothers) of Albert Clifford Morson (1882-1975), and Adela Frances M. Phene (1891-1982), of London NW11. Married 1st (02.08.1957) Joan Barley, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Barley, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada; two sons, two daughters Married 2nd Mary Evans Gummey; two stepdaughters.	18.05.1919 Hampstead district, Greater London - 07.02.2014 Montreal, Quebec, Canada	T/2nd Lt. 28.10.1939 T/A/Lt. 16.02.1940 T/Lt. 28.04.1940 (reld 21.07.1950) T/A/Capt. 30.12.1940 WS/Capt. ? MID 04.10.1940 Norway	Education: Beaumont College, Windsor; Magdalene College, Cambridge. (12.)1939 - (04.)1940 Portsmouth Division RM (05.)1940 - 05?.1941 Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation (1): (05.)1940 - (08.)1940 21st RM Light Battery (10.1940) - (12.1940) no appointment listed (02.1941) - 05?.1941 Second-in-Command, 23rd Light Battery, No. 2 RM Anti-Aircraft Regiment (served at Crete [captured]) 05?.1941 - 1945 POW (No. 3374) in German captivity (Oflag O 7B, Fuchstaat, Germany)
Moulton, James Louis "Jim"   Son (with two brothers) of Capt. John Davis Moulton, RN (1853-1921), and Beatrice Nutter Cox (1870-1955). Brother of Capt. John Frederick Morris Moulton, RM.	03.06.1906 Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire - 22.11.1993 Chertsey, Surrey	2nd Lt. 01.09.1924 ... ... Capt. 01.04.1936 A/Maj. 29.06.1940-03.01.1941. 13.01.1941-18.12.1941, 01.02.1943-23.09.1943 Bt. Maj. 31.12.1944 Maj. 01.12.1945 A/Lt.Col. 19.12.1941-31.01.1943, 24.09.1943-14.03.1945 A/Col.Cdt. (T/Brig.) 15.03.1945 ... ... Maj.Gen. 01.06.1954 (retd 02.10.1961) CB 02.01.1956 New Year 1956 DSO 29.08.1944 Normandy 06.1944 [investiture 26.02.1946] OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 MID 02.04.1946 services with British Army of the Rhine	... - ... .. 27.12.1939 - 18.06.1940 seconded as General Staff Officer, grade 3 (GSO3), Operations Section, General Headquarters (GHQ) British Expeditionary Force (BEF) (France) 19.06.1940 - 23.06.1940 RM Reserve Depot Exmouth (temporary) 24.06.1940 - 05.01.1941 Commandant, Liaison School (War Office school for training of Motor Contact Officers at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 10.1940 at Brasenose College, Oxford) 06.01.1941 - 12.01.1941 Chatham Division RM 13.01.1941 - 18.02.1941 HMS President (Admiralty) (additional) 19.02.1941 - 16.03.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 2 (GSO2), from 19.12.1941 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ RM Division 17.03.1942 - 30.12.1942 General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1), HQ Force 121 (Operation Ironclad, capture of Diego Suarez & Madagascar) 31.12.1942 - 31.01.1943 Plymouth Division RM 01.02.1943 - 13.08.1943 Second-in-Command, 10th RM Battalion, RM Division (UK) 14.08.1943 - 01.03.1944 HMS President (for duty with Chief of Combined Operations (CCO), inside Combined Operations Headquarters (COHQ), from 24.09.1943 as General Staff Officer, grade 1 (GSO1)) 02.03.1944 - 14.03.1945 Commanding Officer, 48 RM Commando (UK, Normandy, Walcheren, Dutch Islands, River Maas) (DSO) 15.03.1945 - 20.01.1946 Commander, 4th Commando Brigade (defence of Dutch river line, occupational duties Germany) (despatches) ... - ... .. Published: Haste to the battle (1963; war memoirs 1943-1945); Defence in a changing world (1964); The Norwegian Campaign of 1940 (1966); British maritime strategy in the 1970s (1969); The Royal Marines (1972; rev. ed. 1981); Battle for Antwerp (1978).
Mucklow, Antony Trelawny "Tony"	31.01.1917 St George Hanover Square district, London - 27.06.2011 Teignmouth, Devon	Prob. 2nd Lt. 01.01.1936 A/Lt. 04.01.1938-31.01.1938 Lt. 01.02.1938 A/Capt. 17.10.1940-02.10.1943 Capt. 03.10.1943 (retd 1958)	Education: Radley (1932-1935). ... - ... ... 17.10.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) ? - (10.1944) RM Military School, Thurlestone (attached) ... - ... ...
Muldowney, Ronald Samuel Ivor Son (with six siblings) of Philip Lawrence Muldowney (1875-1949), and Elizabeth Mary Lacey A'Lee (1881-1951). Married ((03?).1942, Plymouth district, Devon) Betty Irene Westlake (04.11.1922 - 12.02.2013), daughter of George Westlake (1887-1959?), and Jessie Irene Williams (1893-1982?); one child.	07.05.1914 Plymouth district, Devon - 23.12.1999 Plymouth district, Devon	Lt. 26.09.1940 A/Capt. 01.04.1941-31.05.1942, 21.09.1943-(01.1946) Capt. 26.09.1948 (retd 31.07.1957) A/Maj. 01.06.1942-20.09.1943 War Service Rank of Maj. 31.07.1957	served in the ranks for 8 years, 143 days (12.1940) - (04.)1941 Officer Commanding, No. 3 Company, RM Brigade (later RM Division) Re-inforcement Depot (Hayling Island) (06.)1941 - 20.09.1943 15th (Support) Battalion RM, from about 06.1942 15th (Machine Gun) Battalion RM (101st RM Brigade, later RM Division) (06.)1941 - (02.)1942 Officer Commanding, Machine Gun Company (04.)1942 - (06.)1942 exact position unknown 01.06.1942 - 11?.1942 Second-in-Command, 1st RM (Machine Gun) Company, 11?.1942 - 20.09.1943 Commanding Officer, 1st RM (Machine Gun) Company (10.1943) - (10.1944) RM Holding Commando (01.1945) - (07.)1945 46 RM Commando (10.)1945 - (10.1946) Chatham Division RM ... - ... ...
Munro, Neil Gordon Macleven Married (30.12.1940, South Africa) ...	1920 ? - 26.06.2009 Cape Town, South Africa	T/2nd Lt. ? T/Lt. ? T/Capt. 22.07.1943 A/T/Maj. 22.04.1943 MBE 18.09.1945 Anz Grg inlet Dolomites 08.1944-05.1945 MID 23.01.1945 Italy 01-04.1944 MID 19.06.1945 services Mediterranean Theatre 09-12.1944	... - ... ... (06.1944) - (07.1945) Second-in-Command, 43 RM Commando ... - ... ...
Mycroft, Thomas David Son of M.T. Mycroft. Married (21.12.1940) Jose Watson.	01.01.1916 Bedwelty district, Monmouthshire - 07.02.2007 Broadstairs, Kent	... ... T/Capt. 29.11.1942 T/Maj. ?	... - ... .. ? - (07.1945) 5th RM Anti-Aircraft Brigade

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