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Cadogan, Anthony	? -	T/S.Lt. (E) 20.04.1940 T/Lt. (E) 08.09.1941 (reld > 04.1946) MID 01.01.1944 New Year 1944	20.04.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) 18.11.1940 - 1941/42? HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel) * 01.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS St Mary's (destroyer) (despatches) 15.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Shikari (destroyer) (04.1946)     HMS St Helena (frigate) ** * Up till (07.1945) listed under HMS Cutty Sark, but obviously left the ship much earlier. ** Indexed, but not listed as such.
Cambridge, Robert Arthur Dillon	15.04.1906 Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex - 11.03.1993 Downgate, Upton Cross, Liskeard, Cornwall	Prob. S.Lt. 25.09.1931 S.Lt. 1932, seniority 25.09.1931 Lt. 25.09.1933 Lt.Cdr. 25.09.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 15.04.1956) DSC 17.11.1942 towing USS Prairie 05.1942 [investiture 01.12.1942] MID 11.09.1945 sinking of U-1024 12.04.1945 RD 15.10.1943 - RD 12.01.1959 1st clasp	(04.1940)     HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) * 12.11.1940 - 03.06.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Kingcup (corvette) 01.07.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Tees (frigate) 14.10.1944 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Tarbert (frigate) [possibly intended & not effectuated] 14.10.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Loch More (frigate) 17.02.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Halladale (frigate) Commodore, Merchant Navy. * indexed, but not listed as such
Cameron, Donald Married Eve ...; four children. His wife remarried (1962) Lt.Cdr. Patrick Richard Compton-Hall.	18.03.1916 Carluke, Lanarkshire - 10.04.1961 RN Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth [Portchester Crematorium, ashes were scattered at sea off Portsmouth from the deck of HM Submarine Thule]	Prob. S.Lt. 22.08.1939 S.Lt. 1940, seniority 22.08.1939 Lt. 18.03.1941 Lt. RN 05.06.1946, seniority 18.03.1940 Lt.Cdr. RN 18.03.1948 Cdr. RN 31.12.1952 VC 22.02.1944 Operation Source - attack on Tirpitz * * On 22 September 1943 at Kaafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Cameron, commanding Midget Submarine X.6, and another lieutenant (PLACE, B.C.G.) commanding Midget Submarine X.7, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz. The two submarines had to travel at least 1,000 miles from base, negotiate a minefield, dodge nets, gun defences and enemy listening posts. Having eluded all these hazards they finally placed the charges underneath the ship where they went off an hour later, doing so much damage that the Tirpitz was out of action for months.	Served Merchant Navy. (04.1940)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 08.1940     joined submarine service (10.1940)     training, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 15.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Sturgeon (submarine) 05.05.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 11.09.1942 - (10.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS X6 (midget submarine) [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne) (12.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed 29.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Stoic (submarine) 05.06.1946     transferred, RN 01.04.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) (05.1950)     no appointment listed (05.1953)     no appointment listed 07?.1953     Executive Officer, HMS Goldcrest (07.1954)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 31.01.1955 - (01.)1957 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse and 5th Submarine Squadron) 08.04.1957 - (01.1959) Fleet Facilities Officer, Allied Command Atlantic HQ, NATO (Norfolk, Virginia, USA) 22.01.1960 - ? HMS Vernon (for bookwriting duties) 08.04.1961 - 10.04.1961 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cameron-Webb, Peter Edwin John Son of Brig.Gen. John H. Cameron-Webb. Married ((06?).1944, Hendon district, Middlesex) Beryl Dain, daughter of A.G. Dain, and M.B. Dain; three sons, one daughter.	26.05.1923 India - 09.12.2004 Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA	T/Midsh. 11.12.1941 T/A/S.Lt. 26.05.1943 T/S.Lt. 26.11.1943 T/Lt. 26.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	Served Merchant Navy. (02.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 14.08.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Guillemot (sloop) 04.04.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Walpole (destroyer) 02.05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Duncan (destroyer) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 04.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Duke of York (battleship)
Campbell, Archibald Freebairn Son of Archibald and Leah Campbell. Husband of Ann Malcolm Campbell, of Glasgow.	29.08.1885 - 02.12.1940 [age 56] [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]	T/Lt.Cdr. 24.10.1939	24.10.1939 - 02.12.1940 HMS Forfar (armed merchant cruiser) [ship torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-99 west of Ireland]
Campbell, Donald Son of William Campbell, and Flora Morrison (1849-1924). Married Mary Munro McSwann (1892-1975); one child.	08.11.1888 Kildalton, Kintyre, Scotland - 04.1965 Tarbert, Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland	T/Skpr. 13.02.1940 (WS 3344 & TS 451) (reld 12.04.1944; medically unfit)	Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate 03.04.1916; First Mate 24.09.1917). (04.1940) - (05.1940) no appointment listed 26.05.1940 - mid 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Powis Castle (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) mid 1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Powis Castle (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) 08.1942 - (02.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Admiral Sir John Lawford (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (04.1944)     HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) *
Campbell, Hugh McDonald	03.07.1908 - 25.05.1971 Southampton, Hampshire	T/Lt. 03.01.1942 (reld < 04.1946)	Chief Officer, SS "Faraday" (cable ship, sunk 28.03.1941). 28.01.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) 28.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) 10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (07.1945 shown as "for Sea Transport Duties at Colombo" from 08.1944)
Campbell, William James "Billie"	? -	T/Skpr. 04.09.1939 [WS 3038 & TS 157] T/A/Skpr.Lt. 06.01.1943 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 [investiture 17.11.1942] MID 26.12.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy invasion 06.1944)	21.12.1939 - (10.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Amalia (minesweeping trawler) 07.12.1940 - 09.1942 Commanding Officer, French Ship Antioche II (minesweeping trawler) 09.11.1942 - 06.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 233 (motor minesweeper) 29.11.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1002 (motor minesweeper) (206th Minesweeping Flotilla)
Canner, William John Son of William Arthur Canner, and Sarah Elizabeth Barnes Best. Married ...; ... children.	08.01.1892 Taunton, Somerset - (03?).1969 Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey	T/Lt. 10.09.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1941, < 08.1941 (reld > 07.1946)	(02.1941) - (08.1941) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) * 09.1941 - (07.1946) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) * indexed, but not listed as such
Card, Antony Son of ... Card, and ... Fisher. Married ((06?).1946, Plymouth district, Devon) Patricia Regan.	(09?).1922 Tamworth district, Derbyshire / Staffordshire / Warwickshire - 02.05.2009 Exeter, Devon	T/Midsh. 25.01.1940 T/A/S.Lt. 25.06.1942 T/S.Lt. 25.06.1943 T/Lt. 25.12.1944 Lt. RN 02.01.1947, seniority 25.12.1944 Lt.Cdr. RN 25.12.1952 (retd 25.06.1967) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Bur St - & clasp Pacific BWM - - Sol It 31.10.1958 rescue of Italian seamen following a collision at sea near the island of Ouessant 19.06.1957 Rsn Conv M - -	(02.1940) - (08.1941) no appointment listed 18.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) 01.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Tartar (destroyer) 04.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 11.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Pimpernel (corvette) 20.01.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Watchman (destroyer) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 06.06.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Quality (destroyer) (10.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HM LST 381 (landing ship, tank) * 02.01.1947     transferred to RN 19.12.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Orsay (trawler) 20.02.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Onslaught (destroyer) 26.02.1951 - (05.1951) HMS Helmsdale (frigate) 12.01.1953 - (04.)1955 HMS Roebuck (destroyer) 31.05.1955 - (01.)1956 HMS Orion (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties) 17.09.1956 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Ulster (01.1959)     no appointment listed (01.1960)     HMS Raleigh (new entry training establishment, Torpoint, East Cornwall) * 31.01.1961 - (02.)1963 First Lieutenant, HMS Cochrane (Rosyth naval base) 16.09.1963 - (02.1964) Staff Officer Operations, HMS Orion (Reserve Ships Plymouth Division) * indexed, but not listed as such
Caris, John Noel Married ((03?).1940, Sheerness, Sheppey district, Kent) Kathleen McCullough.	25.12.1903 Gateshead district, Durham / Tyne and Wear - (09?).1973 Wallasey district, Cheshire	S.Lt. 20.06.1928 Lt. 19.12.1931 Lt.Cdr. 19.12.1939 (retd 25.12.1948) A/Cdr. 18.05.1944? MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 RD 07.1942 -	(12.1939) - (02.1940) no appointment listed (04.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Nogi (minesweeping trawler) * 16.10.1940 - 23.06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Nogi (minesweeping trawler) 28.08.1941 - 31.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Epine (minesweeping trawler) 08.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) 12.07.1943 - (12.1943) Lt.Cdr. Minesweeping and Patrolling, Hartlepool [HMS Paragon (RN base, Hartlepool)] 19.01.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Exmouth (accommodation ship landing craft personnel, Tilbury) 18.05.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Carr, William Henry	30.05.1890 Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham -	T/Lt. 08.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1941? (reld > 04.1946)	Went to sea as an apprentice with a Sunderland based cargo shipping company and at some stage later joined his elder brother in serving with the Royal Mail Line. Gained Foreign Going Masters' certificate, 1916. 1916     saw service on a minesweeper Took up a career in marine insurance. 01.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 19.07.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) (02.1941)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) * 01.02.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 20.10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for Sea Transport duties) (04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] * His son writes: "I do know that he was in Greece in 1941 assisting in getting British troops off the beaches during the German 's southward advance through that country. He next appeared in Alexandria, Egypt and was involved with port administration including a side-trip to the Lebanon to purchased wooden hulled craft. Some time later he was in Italy and was in Naples until he returned to the UK and re-took up residence in Hull." * indexed, but not listed as such
Carston, Albert Charles Father of S.Lt. W.A. Carston, RINVR.	? -	T/Lt. 15.09.1939	temporary officer serving under T.124 agreements 21.09.1939 - (02.1942?) Commanding Officer, HMS Mata Hari (auxiliary patrol vessel) (ship bombed by Japanese aircraft & lost at Sunda Strait 28.02.1942) * 02.1942 - 13.09.1945 POW in Japanese captivity [see his reports] * (02.1941)-(08.1942) indexed, but not listed as such
Case, Richard Vere Essex Son (with one sister) of Robert Hope Case (1857-1944), and Hilda Annie Trew (1872-1946). Married ((06?).1940, Liverppol district, Lancashire) Olive May Griggs (13.05.1913 - 25.03.1991); one daughter, one son.	13.04.1904 Liverpool, Toxteth Park district, Lancashire - 30.10.1991 Thanet, Kent	Lt. 03.04.1929 Lt.Cdr. 03.04.1937 Cdr. 30.06.1942 (reld 1945/46) Capt. 31.12.1953 (retd 1950s) DSO 13.04.1943 Operation Torch DSC 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 DSC 16.08.1940 Romsdal Fjords RD ? ? RD ? ?	Education: Thames Nautical Training College; HMS Worcester 1920     joined RNR 1920     commenced service in merchant navy 1928     Master's Certificate of Competency [ (08.1939)     HMS Verity (destroyer) ?] 1940     HMT Stella Capella (08.1941)     Commanding Officer, HMS Campanula (corvette) 16.01.1942 - 09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Rother (frigate) (12.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Watu (auxiliary rescue tug) (10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 26.04.1945 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Irwell (trawler base, Birkenhead) Royal Naval Reserve ADC to the Queen, 1958; Chief Marine Superintendent, Coast Lines Ltd and Associated Companies, 1953-69
Casey, Denis Arthur	25.10.1889 [Spring Garden, Tipperary ?] - 20.07.1968 [Ryde, Isle of Wight ?]	Midsh. 1907 Capt. 30.06.1939 A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 06.11.1940 (retd [> 07.] 1944) CBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 DSO 21.07.1942 U-boat attack Murmansk, Cdre Convoy QP10 DSC 1915 ? RD 1923 ?	Education: Weybridge; HMS Conway (Silver medallist) 1914 - 1918 Submarine Service (DSC and 3 war medals) 06.11.1940 - (06.1943) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] (08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS President 15.04.1944 - 25.10.1944 also: RNR ADC to the King 10.1944 - (07.1945) Divisional Sea Transport Officer Delhi & as Deputy Divisional Sea Transport Officer India [HMS Braganza] (04.1946) Deputy Principal Sea Transport Officer India [Sea Transport Department, Admiralty] 1948 - 1949 Master of Royal Mail Flagship Andes (retd) Younger Brother Trinity House
Cashel, William Davies	03.10.1899 Wirral district, Cheshire - 1960	Prob. T/Lt. 24.02.1941 T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 24.02.1941 (reld > 04.1946)	24.02.1941 - (12.1941) [Commanding Officer?], HMS Sir John Hawkins (ferry) 30.06.1942 - 07.1942 HMS Maplin (fighter catapult ship) 23.07.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Ranpura (armed merchant cruiser) 28.03.1944 - (07.1945) French Ship "Courbet" (battleship) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Casperson, Juul Marcus	21.12.1895 Norway -	T/Lt. (E) 28.10.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) < 12.1943 DSC 06.05.1941 Channel Mobile Balloon Barrage [investiture 29.07.1941]	16.11.1940 - (12.1943) HMS Haslemere (barrage balloon vessel) (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.10.1945 - 01.05.1946 transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy as U/Lt. (M)
Catchpole, Henry Arthur	(12?).1902 ? Mutford district, Norfolk / Suffolk ? -	Skpr. 12.12.1939 [WS 3153 & TS 272] T/A/Ch.Skpr. 31.01.1944 (reld < 04.1946) MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.1940	19.03.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Strive (drifter) (despatches) 24.04.1941 - (12.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Aurilia (auxiliary patrol trawler) 15.12.1941 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS West Neuk 22.10.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Refraction (drifter) 28.08.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Tocsin (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (10.1944)     HMS Zareba * (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     HMS Cap Ferrat (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Caws, Sydney Arthur Nugent	27.04.1906 Sea View, Isle of Wight - 28.11.1960 Devizes, Wiltshire	Prob. T/Lt. 02.09.1940 T/Lt. 01.1941, seniority 02.09.1940 (commission terminated 08.04.1942; medically unfit)	Education: Royal Masonic School, Bushey, Herts. Served Merchant Navy. Second Mate certificate (12.10.1926). (10.1940)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 05.11.1940 - (12.)1941 HMS Haslemere (barrage balloon vessel) 30.12.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (as Duty Convoy Officer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cawthorn, John Lutert Son (with five sisters and three brothers) of John Lutert Cawthorn (1886-1944), and Kate Nesbitt (1885-1981). Married Ivy Smith (10.11.1911 - 02.2007), daughter (with one sister and one brother) of William Arthur Smith (1883-), and Mary Ann Caroline Hudson (1886-); two daughters.	21.04.1910 Sunderland district, Co. Durham - 25.10.1963 Whipps Cross Hospital, London (formerly of Wanstead, London)	Prob. Lt. 01.07.1937 Lt. 18.02.1938, seniority 01.07.1937 17.01.1939, seniority 01.05.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950)(removed from retd list 29.11.1954)	(09.1939) - (08.1940) no appointment listed 13.08.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (for Naval Control Service) 01.01.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South Africa) (for Naval Control Service) 08.06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty at Vizagapatam) (01.1945)     HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) * (04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Challis, Arthur Frederick	(09?).1902 Lowestoft?, Mutford, Suffolk -	T/Skpr. 05.12.1939 T/Ch.Skpr. 06.01.1944 T/A/Skpr.Lt. < 07.1945 (< 04.1946)	09.02.1940 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS June Rose (auxiliary minesweeping drifter) * (06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Osako (minesweeping trawler) ** 09.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Osako (minesweeping trawler) 06.06.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 225 (minesweeper) * (02.1941)-(08.1942) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Chandler, Arthur George	c. 1915 ?? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Prob. Midsh. 01.12.1933 Midsh. 1934?, seniority 01.12.1933 A/S.Lt. 16.06.1937 S.Lt. 20.11.1938 Lt. 05.05.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 05.05.1948 (retd 17.11.1958) DSC 07.08.1945 war patrols Far East 07.1944-04.1945 MID 03.12.1940 attack on large enemy comvoy 16.09.1940 MID 14.12.1945 war patrols Far East 07.1945 RD 22.03.1949 -	17.02.1934 - 1934 training, HMS Barham (battleship) 21.08.1938 - 1938 training, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 02.10.1938 - 1938 training, HMS Verity (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla) 05.11.1939 - 12.1939 submarine course [HMS Dolphin] 23.12.1939 HMS Tarpon (for trials) [cancelled] 23.12.1939 - 09.1940 HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin, from 04.06.1940 HMS Maidstone] 20.09.1940 - 03.1941 HMS Usk (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin, from 12.12.1940 HMS Medway] 02.03.1941 - 04.1941 HMS Osiris (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 26.04.1941 -  10.1941 HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Cyclops] 22.10.1941 - 10.1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare officer for submarines) 10.1941 - 10.1941 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (as spare officer for submarines) 27.10.1941 - 05.1942 HMS Oruç Reis (submarine), 10.05.1942 renamed: HMS P 611 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 14.05.1942 - 07.1942 HMS Porpoise (minelaying submarine) 15.07.1942 - 07.1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 27.07.1942 - 09.1942 submarine Commanding Officers' qualifying course 26.09.1942     HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut) ? HMS Nebojsca (Yugoslavian submarine) [date to be reported] 12.03.1943 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Osiris (submarine) (08.1943)     no appointment listed 09.09.1943 - 09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Osiris (temporarily) 27.09.1943     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (10.1943)     no appointment listed 15.11.1943 - 02.1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 02.12.1943 -  12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Umbra (submarine) 15.12.1943 - 16.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Stygian (submarine) 16.04.1944 - 06.1944 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (additional; sickness) 19.06.1944 - 14.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Una (submarine) 14.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship) (additional) * 01.02.1945 - 04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Thorough (submarine) 30.04.1945 - 05.1945 HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) 11.05.1945 - 03.01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Thorough (submarine) 15.01.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Ballinderry (frigate) * possibly from 12.09.1944 HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines)
Chantler, Donald Alfred	02.11.1913 -	T/Lt. 07.10.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld 16.05.1946)	(12.1941)     HMS President (Admiralty) * 11.01.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Patia (armed merchant cruiser) (06.1941)     no appointment listed 07.07.1941 - (06.)1944 Navigating Officer, HMS Bachaquero (Bachaquero class tank landing ship) 16.10.1944 - (10.1945) Navigating Officer, HMS Assistance (aircraft depot and repair ship) * indexed, but not listed as such
Chaplin, Joseph Kenneth	07.02.1885 Chesterton, Cambridgeshire - 21.02.1954	Capt. 31.12.1934 (retd 07.02.1940) CBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945: as Master, ss "Strathmore", Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. RD ? -	(1918)     HMS Boxer 06.08.1939 - 07.02.1940 also: RNR ADC to the King
Chappell, James Harold George Son of George and Catherine Chappell. Married Gladys Emily Louise Chappell, of Letchworth, Hertfordshire; two (?) sons.	(09?).1897 Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire - 05.11.1940 (KIA) [age 43] [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 2]	T/Cdr. (E) 05.08.1940, seniority 03.11.1939	Chief Engineer, SS Matakana: 20.02.1939 - 25.06.1939 voyage Glasgow - Victoria Docks 30.06.1939 - 06.07.1939 voyage London - Glasgow Engineer, MV Waimarama: 20.10.1939 - 30.10.1939 voyage Victoria Docks - Liverpool 31.10.1939 - 05.11.1940 Engineer Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser)
Chard, Edward Rex Son of Herbert Edward "Ted"Chard (1896-), and Amy P. Porter. Married 1st (08.1945, Milton Abbas, Blandford district, Dorset) Elizabeth H. "Betty" Collis; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (05.1993, Weston-super-Mare district, Somerset) Betty West (née Urch).	16.02.1923 Axbridge, Bridgwater district, Somerset - 11.03.2011	Prob. Midsh. 25.08.1939 Midsh. 1941/42?, seniority 25.08.1939 A/S.Lt. 16.02.1943 S.Lt. 16.08.1943 Lt. 01.08.1945 Lt. RN 21.07.1947, seniority 01.08.1945 (commissioned terminated 29.05.1952) (emgcy 20.06.1952) Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy) 01.08.1953 MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944	Education: HMS Conway (Merchant Navy school ship). (04.1940)     no appointment listed 20.06.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Wolfe (destroyer depot ship) 02.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Inconstant (destroyer) 19.04.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (04.1946)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 20.06.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Widemouth Bay (anti-aircraft frigate) 28.02.1949 - (05.)1949 HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance carrier) 01.07.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Howe (battleship) 19.10.1950 - (05.1951) HMS Belfast (cruiser)
Charlton, George Walter	? -	T/Lt. 26.06.1941 (reld 1945/46) DSC 11.05.1943 Operation Torch & action with U-boat	10.05.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Starwort (corvette) 29.07.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Camellia (corvette)
Cherry, Ronald Albert	? -	T/Lt. 27.08.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 1945/46)	04.12.1940 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Freesia (corvette) 18.07.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer * HMS Chelmer (frigate) [* from 01.12.1943 to [04.1944?] First Lieutenant] 14.10.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Loch Katrine (frigate)
Chesterman, Harold Geeves Married Caroline ...; ... children (one son?).	1917 Melbourne, Australia - 1997 Sherwood, Queensland, Australia	Midsh. 01.09.1933 A/S.Lt. 31.01.1938 Lt. 21.07.1940 ?, seniority 21.07.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 02.1945? Lt.Cdr. 21.07.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1952 Capt. 31.12.1958 (retd 28.02.1972) MBE 03.06.1978 HM's birthday 1978: for public service to transport as master of the "MV Cape Moreton" DSC 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 [investiture 28.09.1943] DSC 19.10.1943 defence of convoy, U-boat damaged [investiture 27.09.1945] MID 27.01.1942 attempt to save SS CP Rodney RD 24.06.1950 & 1st clasp RD 21.10.1966 2nd clasp	31.07.1940 - early 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Kingston Turquoise (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 18.03.1941 - 13.05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Burdock (corvette) 13.05.1941 - 23.08.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Zinnia (corvette) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-564 in eastern Atlantic] 20.10.1941 - 21.09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Snowflake (corvette) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 01.02.1944 - 01.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Hurst Castle (corvette) [ship sunk by U-482 north of Tory Island, Donegal] (10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 02.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ambuscade (destroyer) 28.09.1945 - 04.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Achray (frigate) Literature: David Jones & Peter Nunan, Master Mariner : the story of Captain Harold Chesterman (2010).
Christie, George Brown Son of James Christie (1871-1960), and Helen Laird Tarbet (1864-1948). Married 1st ((06?).1941, Liverpool district, Lancashire) Helen Stevenson Wood Dryden (23.09.1888 - 19.10.1947), daughter (with two brothers) of James Melville Dryden (1854-1916), and Eliza Pride Gillet Wood (1856-1910).. Married 2nd (20.03.1948, Horncastle, Lincolnshire) Letitia Mary Ruth Hulme (20.06.1925 - 16.06.1994), daughter of Sam Bertram Hulme, and Vera Gertrude Robins; one daughter.	05.07.1899 Greenock, Renfrewshire - 08.01.1983 Spilsby, Lincolnshire	Prob. T/Lt. 19.05.1941 T/Lt. 24.02.1942, seniority 19.05.1941 (reld > 01.1945, < 04.1945)	World War I service as Temporary Midshipman RNR. Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate 12.12.1919; First Mate 21.11.1923). (06.1941) - (08.1941) no appointment listed 07.08.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Dunnotar Castle (auxiliary armed merchant cruiser) (08.1942) - (10.1942) HMS Birdlip (Hills class trawler) * (12.1942)     no appointment listed 14.12.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Hayling (Isles class trawler) 17.08.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for Admiralty Berthing Officer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Chubb, Philip Ashton Son of Thomas Henry Chubb (1892-1969), and Hilda Maude Beales (1894-1972). Married ((03?).1951, Bromley district, Kent) Daphne M. Ball; two daughters.	31.12.1922 Camberwell district, London - 25.03.2011 Lymington, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.01.1939 A/S.Lt. 31.12.1942 S.Lt. 01.07.1943 Lt. 30.06.1945 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1953 Cdr. 31.12.1957 (retd 31.12.1972) RD 17.02.1953 - RD 16.06.1964 1st clasp RD 31.07.1973 2nd clasp	Education: Dulwich College (1934-1936). 24.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Kipling (K class destroyer) 14.02.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 03.04.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Raglan Castle (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 18.02.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Newcastle (Southampton class cruiser) 31.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Springdale (mine destructor vessel) (04.1946)     no appointment listed His daughter writes: "He attended the Incorporated Thames Nautical College (HMS Worcester 1936-39). He was made RNR whilst there. He was due to leave school on 31st Dec 1939 to work for P&O, but instead was required early during the summer of 1939 and served throughout the war and until approx 1950/54. He then joined Elders and Fyffes and was a Master Mariner until 1981, but remained RNR and a Navigation Officer. I remember him doing a course at HMS Dryad c 1974."
Chudleigh, Reginald Son of Thomas and Annie Chudleigh.	07.09.1892 Tresco, Scilly Islands, Cornwall - (09?).1969 Truro district, Cornwall	T/Lt. 27.01.1940 (reld > 04.1946) OBE 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 21.10.1941]	Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate's certificate, 21.02.1922; First Mate's certificate, 23.10.1924; Master's certificate, 13.07.1926). 27.01.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Salvonia (tug) (OBE) 08.04.1941 - (04.1946) Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Clark, Edward Burling Brother of Cdr. J.E. Clark, RN. Two other brothers were Alfred Gordon Clark (died as Ordinary Seaman aboard HMS Myrtle 14.06.1940), and Reginald Clark (served Merchant Navy).	05.09.1902 Birkenhead district, Cheshire / Merseyside - 20.10.1981	Prob. S.Lt. 20.06.1928 S.Lt. 28.03.1930, seniority 20.06.1928 Lt. 20.06.1931 Lt.Cdr. 20.06.1939 A/Cdr. 1942? Cdr. 30.06.1944 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 05.09.1957) RD 05.1942 - CdeG 1944? several dangerous missions on the coast of France PolGCM 01.08.1944 evacuation of Polish units from enemy held territory [award posted]	20.12.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (to complete 12 months' training) 23.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Navigating Officer, HMS Dunluce Castle (depot ship) 08.10.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Corinthian (armed merchant cruiser) 1942 - 1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tarana (trawler) * 03.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers & Taranto) (additional; for miscellaneous duties) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 04.10.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship) (India / Ceylon) * (08.1942) indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, George Gordon Elder son of George R. Clark, and Evelyn Ashworth, of Moncton, Eccles, Lancashire, England, formerly of Perth, Scotland. Married (24.05.1945, Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) Geraldine Lois "Gerry" Paterson, only daughter of Mrs. Paterson and the late Dr. Peter H. Paterson, of Victoria; ... children (one son?).	14.06.1912 Rochdale district, Lancashire - 2002? New South Wales, Australia	Prob. T/Lt. 27.01.1941 T/Lt. 27.10.1941 (reld 05.07.1946) DSC 22.12.1942 war patrols Mediterranean 03-09.1942 [decoration posted]	27.01.1941     RN College, Greenwich (for training) (04.1941) - (06.141) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * (08.1941)     HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) * 27.09.1941 - 20.11.1941 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines) 21.11.1941 - 28.12.1942 HMS Una (U class submarine) (DSC) 29.12.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Thunderbolt (T class submarine) 04.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS P 554 (submarine) (10.)1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) * 03.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Berry Head (escort maintenance ship) (04.1946)     HMS Berry Head (escort maintenance ship) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, Denis Francis Son (with four brothers) of James Arthur Clarke, and Elizabeth Ethel Garside. Brother of Lt.Cdr. John Garside Clarke, RNR.	23.02.1915 Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire - 24.12.2002 Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire	A/Lt. 01.07.1940 Lt. 11.1941, seniority 01.07.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1948 (reld from active service < 04.1946) (dismissed the service by sentence of a court-martial 06.10.1955) RD ? -	08.07.1940 - (01/02?).1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Lady Estelle (minesweeping trawler) (02.1941)     HMS Malpin (catapult armed merchant ship) * (12.1941)     no appointment listed 06.1943 - (07.1945) HM LST 402 (landing ship, tank) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, George Bernard	? -	Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 07.09.1937 A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = A/Lt.Cdr. (S) < 10.1944	... - ... ... 01.06.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) 10.10.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Pioneer (maintenance carrier) 14.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twatt, Orkney)
Clarke, John Garside Son (with four brothers) of James Arthur Clarke, and Elizabeth Ethel Garside. Brother of Lt.Cdr. Denis Francis Clarke, RNR. Married ... ; ... children (one son?).	17.12.1912 Grimsby district, Humberside / Lincolnshire - 26.05.1961 South Shields district, Durham	Prob. S.Lt. 16.12.1938 S.Lt. 14.11.1939, seniority 16.12.1938 Lt. 02.07.1940 (reld from active service 11.11.1945) Lt.Cdr. 02.07.1948 (retd 01.07.1950) RD 14.07.1949 -	23.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cavina (ocean boarding vessel) 19.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Tuna (submarine) 10.05.1942 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS H 32 (submarine) (06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 20.07.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne) 17.02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, Reginald Edkins	16.12.1904 Kensington district, London - 24.07.1945 (air crash or at sea; probably while on passage) [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 95,column 1]	... ... Lt.Cdr. 03.04.1937 (retd 04.04.1937; own request) A/Cdr. (retd) ? MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945 RD ? -	... - ... ... 01.09.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Medway at Alexandria (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla), from 31.06.1942 after being sunk, ashore at HMS Medway II at Beirut (for submarines) [late 1942 serving as Staff Officer (Intelligence), 1st Submarine Flotilla, later (from c. 06.1943) shown as in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer] (10.1944) - (04.1945) HMS Medway II * 1945?     transferred, SANF(V) 19.04.1945 - 24.07.1945 HMS Adamant (despatches) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarkson, George Goodwin	(06?).1910 Fylde, Lancashire - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973	Skpr. 20.03.1939 A/Chief Skpr. 06.01.1944 A/Skpr.Lt. < 07.1945 (reld from active duty < 04.1946) (retd 01.07.1950) DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [investiture 23.03.1943] MID 29.09.1942 attack 3 E-boats, 1 [bld?] sunk 10.05.1942 [shown as at HMS Trusty Star (drifter)]	01.12.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Evening Primrose (auxiliary patrol & minesweeping drifter) (02.1941) HMS Strathelliott (trawler) * 25.05.1941 - 01.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Girl Margaret (minesweeping drifter) [based at HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (06.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 01.01.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 228 (motor minesweeper) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarkson, Norman	? - 1957 ?	T/Lt. 10.04.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946) MBE 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	Served Merchant Navy. 10.04.1941 - (02).1944 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (04.1944) - (04.1945) HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) * (07.1945)     no appointment listed 01.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for miscellaneous services) * indexed, but not listed as such
Claxton, Leonard Married (1929).	02.09.1909 Hull - 26.10.1944 [Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, L.191]	T/Skpr. 29.03.1940 [WS 3428, TS 527] T/A/Skpr.Lt. 12.1943	Fisherman/trawler deckhand. (02.1941) HMS Silver Dawn (armed drifter) * 09.1941 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Three Kings (08.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 12.1943 - 26.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2006 (minesweeper) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clayton, Richard George	? -	Capt. 30.06.1934 (retd > 08.1939, < 04.1942) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 20.04.1942 Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) ?, antedated 30.06.1934? DSC ? ? MID 19.06.1945 ocean convoys 1942-1945 RD ? ?	13.06.1939 - 25.10.1939 also: RNR ADC to the King 20.04.1942 - (07.1945) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Cleeves, York McLeod Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) o Edmund Allen Cleeves (1869-1956), and Mary McLeod Craik (1871-1951). Married (21.04.1926, Walter Road Congregational Church, Swansea, Glamorgan) Averil Eileen Brown (1903-), only daughter of John S. Brown, of Oakleigh, Blackpill, Swansea; one son, one daughter.	09.12.1896 Cockett, Swansea district, Glamorgan - 04.05.1965 West Glamorgan	Midsh. 02.01.1913 S.Lt. 09.12.1917 Lt. 09.12.1919 Lt.Cdr. 09.12.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1939 Capt. 31.12.1944 (demobilized > 07.1945, < 04.1946) (retd 09.12.1951) DSO 16.08.1940 Roesdal Fjords [investiture 10.03.1942] DSC 12.04.1940 trawlers combatting submarines [investiture 10.03.1942] RD 06.04.1933 -	05.09.1925     HMS Leamington (for disposal; additional, for 21 days' training) 07.07.1928     HMS Vivid 26.05.1934     HMS Curacoa 21.08.1938     HMS Osprey 02.10.1939 - 24.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Imperialist (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (DSO, DSC as a Unit Commander in Anti-Submarine Group 23) 04.1940 - 30.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Warwickshire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (05.1940) - (06.1940) no appointment listed 19.06.1940 - 07.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Clematis (corvette) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 14.01.1942 - 30.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Warwick (destroyer) (12.1943)     HMS Warwick (destroyer) * 05.01.1944 - 11.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Rother (frigate) (01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Cline, Leonard Harry Son of Leon Henri Cline (1863-1935), and Harriet Jane Thoms (1878-1920). Married ((06?).1929, Gateshead district, Durham) Esther Amelia Louise Tully (11.12.1905 - 04.1980), daughter of Robert Andrew Tully (1879-1933), and Marie Louise Trice (1877-1946); two children.	15.08.1902 Sunderland, Durham - 06.08.1941 (MPK) [age 38] [Lowestoft Naval Memorial, panel 4, column 3] (formerly of Kiaora, Wooler, Northumberland)	Prob. T/Lt. 05.12.1940 Comdn 02.09.1941 attacked by aircraft & destroyers 01.07.1941 [posthumously]	Served Merchant Navy (Second Mate, 06.06.1923; First Mate 26.07.1926). 18.12.1940 - 06.08.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Agate (Gem class trawler)
Close, Harold Son of George and Annie Close, of Great Lever, Lancashire.	12.06.1902 Bolton, Lancashire - 14.07.1940 (KIA) [age 38] [Plymouth (Weston Mill) Cemetery, section C Cons, grave 3684]	Prob. S.Lt. 11.04.1927 S.Lt. 1928?, seniority 11.04.1927 Lt. 11.04.1929 Lt.Cdr. 11.04.1937	(04.1940) HMS Esperance Bay (armed merchant cruiser) * ? - 14.07.1940 HMS Esperance Bay (armed merchant cruiser) (killed when ship was bombarded) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clouston, Herbert William	? -	T/Lt. 01.05.1940	14.09.1939 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Barricade (boom defence vessel) 11.11.1941 - (10.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Barking (boom defence vessel) 08.02.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Barcombe (boom defence vessel) (04.1946) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Clubb, Eric Wentworth Son of Herbert Wentworth Clubb (1890-1962) and Margaret Cryer (1886-1968). Married Jo Stollery; three sons. Weblog for HMS Rushen Castle	23.12.1919 Epping, Essex - 09.07.1983 London	Prob. Midsh. 01.07.1937 A/S.Lt. 11.01.1940 S/Lt. 08.1941, seniority 23.12.1940 Lt. 10.1942, seniority 11.07.1942 (dispersal 27.02.1946) (reld 05.05.1946)  Lt.Cdr. 11.07.1950 (retd 05.07.1954) RD 14.07.1949 long service with RNR 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? ? Afr St ? ? BWM ? ? Watchkeeping Certificate (28.07.1942)	Apprenticeship with Port Line. 31.07.1939 - 08.04.1940 HMS Esk (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 09.04.1940 - 21.04.1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional) 22.04.1940 - 18.08.1940 HMS Rodney (battleship) (additional) 19.08.1940 - 29.09.1940 course, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 30.09.1940 - 04.12.1940 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional) (as spare submarine officer) 05.12.1940 - 08.12.1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (additional) (as spare submarine officer) 09.12.1940 - 23.12.1940 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (additional) (temporary for duty Class 1 with submarines) 24.12.1940 - 19.05.1941 HMS Perseus (submarine) [HMS Medway (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean)] (additional) 20.05.1941 - 21.06.1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (additional) (as spare submarine officer) 22.06.1941 - 04.08.1941 HMS Perseus (submarine) [HMS Medway (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean)] (additional) 05.08.1941 - 19.10.1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (additional) (as spare submarine officer) 20.10.1941 - 27.12.1941 HMS Delphinium (corvette) (temporary) 28.12.1941 - 06.01.1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional; for disposal) 07.01.1942 - 14.09.1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (for duty with Distributing Authority) 15.09.1943 - 06.10.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; passage) 07.10.1943 - 07.11.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; on arrival UK) 08.11.1943 - 21.11.1943 H/F course, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (additional) 22.11.1943 - 07.12.1943 TT course, HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional) 08.12.1943 08.12.1943 07.12.1945 - - - 25.02.1946 07.12.1945 25.02.1946 HMS Rushen Castle (corvette) [HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) (additional)] [ship commissioned 14.02.1944] First Lieutenant Commanding Officer Returned to the Merchant Navy with the New Zealand Shipping Company, 1947-1951. School of Navigation at the University of Southampton (lastly as Head of Department), 1951-1965. Her Majesty's Inspectorate, 1965-1980. Merchant Navy College, 1980-1983.
Cocks, Arthur	21.11.1879 Colyton, Beer, Devon - 16.11.1949 Exmouth, Devon	Prob. S.Lt. ? S/Lt. 01.01.1909 Lt. 28.04.1911 Lt.Cdr. 28.04.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1923 Capt. 31.12.1928 (retd 21.11.1934) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. (retd) 04.01.1943 DSC 31.12.1917 * MID 23.05.1917 ? RD 10.06.1921 - 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Def M - - BWM 39|45 - - * London Gazette 8 March 1918 (recommendation for honours dated 31.12.1917), signed by the Commanding Officer of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla: "A zealous and capable officer who has been in the Flotilla since early in the war, commanding "Earnest", "P-52" AND "Rother" in succession. He handles his vessel with care and ability; was mentioned in despatches in October 1916, and is again recommended for general good work. He is recommended for the Acting rank of Lietenant-Commander R.N.R."	04.01.1943 - (10.1944) Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet] (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Cogley, Christopher Patrick	(03?).1898 Swansea, Glamorgan -	T/Lt. 17.04.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 04.1944, < 06.1944 MID 06.07.1943 rescue work after air attack at Tripoli	17.05.1940 - (06.)1944 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) (additional, for various services) (10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) * (04.1946) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Cole, Walter Matless Son (with two brothers and three sisters) of Robert Cole (1874-1937), and Elizabeth Susanne Charles (1883-1962). Married ((03?).1926, Romford district, Essex) Alice Winifred Toogood; one son, two daughters.	22.09.1902 Ilford, Romford district, Essex - (03?).1983 Chichester district, West Sussex	T/S.Lt. 28.12.1940 T/Lt. 20.12.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) agreement: 01.04.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton) 20.12.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs) (06.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham) * 15.01.1943 - 05.1943 HMS Victory III (accounting section, Woolley Park, Wantage, Berkshire) 31.05.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs) * indexed, but not listed as such
Coleman, John Fulcher Son of Guy Fulcher Coleman (1882-1950), and Edith C.M. Coster (1892?-1967). Married; ... children.	27.02.1912 Sheppey district, Kent - 04.2000 Portsmouth, Hampshire	Prob. S.Lt. 01.08.1937 S.Lt. 01.02.1938, seniority 01.08.1937 Lt. 01.08.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. < 04.1944 (reld  04.05.1946) Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1948 (retd 27.02.1957) MID 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 RD 02.11.1946 -	22.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Scarborough (sloop) (10.1940)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 19.10.1940 - 03.02.1941 HMS Crispin (ocean boarding vessel) (sunk) 12.07.1941 - (12.1941) Navigating Officer, HMS Rothesay (Bangor class minesweeper) 27.08.1942 - 12.02.1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) ** 03.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant & Navigating Officer, HMS Prinses Beatrix (landing ship infantry) (04.1944) - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer & Navigating Officer, HMS Prinses Beatrix (landing ship infantry) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 11.1944 - (07.1945) Navigating Officer, HMS Smiter (escort carrier) Rose to the rank of Captain in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. * indexed, but not listed as such ** Coleman was erroneously carried on on the books of HMS Venomous in the Navy List, which explains why he is wrongfully listed as highest officer in rank there for the period (04.1944) - (01.1945).
Coles, Arthur Edward	? -	Prob. S.Lt. 17.05.1927 S.Lt. 1928?, seniority 17.05.1927 Lt. 12.07.1930 Lt.Cdr. 12.07.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1944 Capt. 31.12.1951 (retd 1958?) MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) RD 02.1942 ? RD ? 1st clasp	Went to sea, 1918. (12.1939) - (04.1940) HMS Caledonia (boys' and artificers' training establishment, Rosyth) * 22.04.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Selkirk (Hunt class minesweeper) (despatches) 04.1941 - (06.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Bangor (Bangor class minesweeper) 02.07.1941 - (10.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Bangor (Bangor class minesweeper) 16.10.1942 - (04.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Bangor (Bangor class minesweeper) (despatches) 01.05.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Algerine class minesweeper) (despatches) 07.09.1944 - 12.01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (Algerine class minesweeper) 05.02.1945 - (04.1946) Training Commander, HMS Lochinvar (RN base, Granton) Commodore of the Orient Line Fleet, retiring in 1962.
Coles, Edward Christian St Arnand	? - 07.1962 still alive [died before 08.1973 ??]	Prob. S.Lt. 01.10.1935 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.10.1935 Lt. 06.03.1939 02.1941, seniority 05.03.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. < 02.1943 (reld 14.06.1946) Lt.Cdr. 05.03.1947 (retd 04.08.1950) RD ? ?	10.10.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser) 19.07.1940 - (08.1943) HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (10.1943) no appointment listed 02.12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Prins Albert (landing ship infantry)
Collett, Roger Gordon Pascoe	13.08.1922 - 09.2003	... ... T/Lt. 13.02.1945 Lt.Cdr. RN 13.02.1953 (retd 12.04.1963)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (10.1945) HMS Bigbury Bay ... - ... ...
Collier, Harold Malcolm "Mac" Son of ... Collier, and ... Ryner. Married ((06?).1942, Goole district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Joyce Richardson (24.12.1919 - 05.2003); one daughter.	(06?).1917 Goole district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 06.01.2012 Sheffield	Prob. A/S.Lt. 01.08.1937 A/S.Lt. 31.01.1938 S.Lt. 14.11.1939, seniority 30.07.1939 Lt. 30.04.1940 (reld < 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1948 Cdr. 30.06.1954 Capt. 30.06.1962 (retd 30.06.1967) RD 08.08.1947 long service RNR RD 18.04.1958 1st clasp: long service RNR RD 17.06.1966 2nd clasp: long service RNR	Education: Goole Grammar School (?-1933). Articled apprentice in Andrew Weir’s Bank Line where he spent two years on the Indian-African service in the MV Congella, followed by two years on round-the-world service. After passing his 2nd Mate’s Certificate Collier joined Associated Humber Lines of Hull whose ships traded to the continent. Obtained 1st Mate’s Certificate, 1939.       RNR training in HMS Iron Duke (battleship) [05.02.1938] & HMS Antelope (destroyer) 30.04.1939     gunnery course, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)  11.06.1939     HMS Brilliant (destroyer) 12.09.1939 - 11.1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Anglia (armed yacht) 02.11.1939 - 03.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Charles McIver (armed yacht) * 23.03.1940 - 22.11.1941 First Lieutenant, from early 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Anglia (armed yacht) 22.11.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (04.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 24.09.1942 - 04.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Valse (anti-submarine trawler) (10.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed 03.03.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Burdock (corvette) 07.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Emerald (cruiser) (10.1945)     no appointment listed 04.11.1945 - 07.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Rushen Castle (corvette) 28.04.1966 - 28.04.1967 RNR ADC to the Queen At war’s end Collier returned to Associated Humber Lines (AHL), and became a Master Mariner in 1949.  In 1960 he was appointed Marine Superintendent in AHL and in 1966 became Marine Superintendent of British Rail Southern Region, responsible for the ferries operating from the southern English ports.  When the Sealink fleet was formed Collier, as Chief Marine Superintendent and Registered Manager of the company for 11years until his retirement in 1982, was effectively the ‘admiral’ or senior officer of a fleet of 72 ships. * (02.1941) still shown at this ship, but at the same time at HMS Anglia as well; assumed is that his appointment to HMS Charles McIver only lasted a few months in the period 1939/40.
Collings, Patrick Varwell	? - [1959 still alive]	Prob. A/S.Lt. 31.10.1938 Lt. 30.04.1941 A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 07.1945 (retd 1945/46) DSC 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 RD ? ?	08.03.1942 - 11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Celandine (corvette) 05.07.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Swale (frigate)
Collins, William Francis Married ...; ... children (one son?).	18.10.1900 - (12?).1970 Southampton district, Hampshire	Prob. T/Lt. 29.04.1940 T/Lt. 1941?, seniority 29.04.1940 T/A/Lt. Cdr. > 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld 14.10.1946)	(06.1940)     no appointment listed (08.1940) - (12.1940) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 14.02.1941 - (08.)1941 French Ship "Emile Baudot" (cable ship) 11.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS May (auxiliary cable ship) 01.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS X 216 (auxiliary cable ship) (08.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 01.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Bullfrog (Bull class cable ship) 05.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Straide (cable ship) 06.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Retriever (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (10.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Somaliland (Colony class frigate) * 22.06.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HM LST 3523 (landing ship, tank) * indexed, but not listed as such His son writes: "Previously Captain in the Merchant Navy, Bibby Line Group. He captained a number of ships, including a minesweeper and several destroyers. At the end of WW2 he was seconded to Germany and worked for SIS."
Collinson, David William Married; ... children.	12.01.1904 Sculcoates, East Yorkshire - 10.09.1970 Hiull, East Yorkshire	T/Skpr. 09.01.1941 [TS 878] (invalided out 1945?) Atlantic Star and other medals. Royal Humane Society Vellum award (in recognition of him diving into the River Humber on the 27 July 1928 and rescuing an injured man who was in imminent danger of drowning)	Was Skipper of the trawler "Nab Wyke" at Hull for 8 years, before it was being requisitioned by the Admiralty. did some training at Skegness (Butlins) 08.02.1941 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Strathavon (trawler) (at Scupper Flow) 23.08.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1009 (motor minesweeper) Retired trawler skipper.
Collinson, Frank Bentley	? - [1959 still alive]	Lt. 27.11.1927 Lt.Cdr. 27.11.1935 (retd > 02.1937, < 08.1939) Cdr. (retd) ? DSC 30.11.1943 sinking of U-boat 26.05.1942 MID 09.06.1940 successful submarine patrols MID 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942 RD pre-WW II ?	(1940) HMS Tetrach (submarine) (04.1942) HMS Oxlip (corvette) 01.10.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Test (frigate) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Collis, Charles Patrick Ridsdale "Pat" Son of ... Collis, and ... Eccles. Married June ...; ... children.	(09?).1923 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 12.11.2013 Dawlish, Devon	T/Midsh. 19.01.1942 T/A/S.Lt. 01.06.1943 T/S.Lt. 01.12.1943 T/Lt. 01.12.1945 Lt. RN 1946?, seniority 01.12.1945 Lt.Cdr. RN 01.12.1953 (retd 09.06.1968)	Education: Naval College, Pangbourne (1937-1941; King's Gold Medal, 1942). (02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed 06.06.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Danae (cruiser) 28.08.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Anson (battleship) (08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 15.12.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Leeds Castle (corvette) 07.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Allington Castle (corvette) 1946?     extended service commission, RN 09.05.1950     permanent commission, RN ... - ... ... After leaving the RN he became skipper of the sail training ship Winston Churchill.
Colmans, Louis Son (with one brother and one sister) of Jack Roli Colmans (1891-1961), and Margaret Thornton (1891-1946). Married 1st ((10?).1942, Stoke Newington district, London; divorced) Hannah Nathan (06.09.1920 - 17.05.1973), daughter of Lipman Nathan (1888-1930), and Bessie Kelly (1877-1966). She remarried (1949) William J. Hornbuckle. Married 2nd Elsy Sharp Morrison (10.02.1926 - 18.09.2017); four children.	23.09.1918 Holborn, Middlesex - 14.02.2001 Chelmsford, Essex	T/S.Lt. 21.02.1941 T/Lt. 01.11.1942 (reld > 04.1945, < 07.1945)	temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement 06.03.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Salvonia (auxiliary rescue tug) (02.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) [possibly in command of HMS Stormking (Assurance class rescue tug)] * 09.06.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for duty with rescue tugs) * indexed, but not listed as such
Connell, Richard Sinclair	? -	T/Lt. 10.04.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. ? (reld 1945) MID 01.01.1943 New Year 1943	21.01.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Convolvulus (corvette) 01.02.1943 - (10.1943) French Ship La Melpomene 16.12.1944 - (07.1945) Training Establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall [HMS Raleigh]
Connolly, William John Son of John Thomas Connolly and Edna Connolly; husband of Freda Connolly, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.	1914 ? - 22.10.1943 (KIA) [age 29]	T/Skpr. 01.07.1942	07.1942 - 22.10.1943 Third Officer, HM Trawler Orfasy (Isle class trawler) (torpedoed)
Conway, Richard "Dick"	1891 Connah's Quay,  Flintshire, Wales - 1964	Prob. Lt. 31.12.1923 Lt. 1925?, seniority 31.12.1923 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1931 (retd 11.03.1936) Cdr. (retd) 11.03.1936 OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 RD 30.04.1935 ? 14|15 St ? ? BWM 14|20 ? ? 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? ? Def M ? ? WM 39|45 ? ? Gen S M ? ?	WW I served in submarines Served with the White Star Line. 03.01.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) 23.02.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 18.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea) Retired as Staff Captain of the Queen Mary, 1954/55.
Cook, Alfred Thomas Son (with four sisters) of Alfred Bartholomew Thomas Cook (1823-1911), and Charlotte Fisher (1853-1905). Married (30.12.1916, Hampstead Register Office, London) Gladys Lydia Lavinia Cooke Sirett (24.12.1894 - ); two sons [Lt. Lionel Aubrey Cook, MBE, RNR (1920-2004), F/Sgt. Alan Thomas Cook (1917-1943)], one daughter [Pamela Cook (1923-2013)].	22.02.1893 Dover, Kent - 14.06.1965 Chichester, Sussex	T/Lt. 08.11.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 02.1942, < 04.1942 DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.1940 [investiture 18.02.1941]	08.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) 17.04.1940 - (05.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Grey Mist (auxiliary danlaying yacht) 20.05.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Medway Queen (auxiliary minesweeping paddle steamer) (DSC) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 20.02.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Borde (minesweeping trawler, then repair ship) (12.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed 13.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Empress (auxiliary anti-aircraft trawler) 01.10.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Ulsterman (landing ship, infantry) (04.1946)     HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot, Sheerness) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Cook, James William Dunbar "Bill"   Son of James Alexander Cook, of Pluscarden, Morayshire. Married 1st (1949) Edith May Williams (predeceased him); one son, two daughters. Married 2nd Liz ...	12.12.1921 Pluscarden, Elgin district, Morayshire, Scotland - 26.01.2007 Haslemere, Surrey	T/Midsh. 20.07.1940 T/A/S.Lt. 12.12.1941 T/S.Lt. 12.12.1942 T/Lt. 12.06.1944 Lt. RN 1946?, seniority 12.06.1944 Lt.Cdr. RN 12.06.1952 Cdr. RN 31.12.1957 Capt. RN 31.12.1963 R.Adm. RN 07.01.1973 (retd 07.04.1975) CB 01.01.1975 New Year 1975	Education: Bedford School; HMS Worcester. 20.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) 16.09.1941 - 1942 French Ship "Largs" (armed boarding vessel, from 1942 landing ship headquarters (large)) * 13.10.1942 - 10.11.1942 HMS Martin (destroyer) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria] * 10.03.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Blankney (destroyer) 03.1945 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Cheviot (destroyer) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1946?     transferred to Royal Navy 07.10.1947 - (05.1950) HMS Mull of Kintyre (escort maintenance vessel) 11.06.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) 1953 - 1953 Executive Officer, HMS Loch Fada (frigate) 12.10.1953 - (07.)1954 Executive Officer, HMS Verulam (anti-submarine frigate) 02.12.1954 - (01.)1956 Executive Officer, HMS Barrosa (destroyer) 14.08.1956 - 1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (frigate) 1958 - (01.)1959 Joint Services Staff College [HMS President] 1959 - 1960 Staff Officer (Operations), to Flag Officer Commanding 5 Cruiser Squadron and Second-in-Command, Far East Station [HMS Belfast] 10.10.1960 - 1962 Naval Staff, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1963 - 1965 Commanding Officer, HMS Dido (frigate) 1965 - 1967 Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations), Eastern Atlantic Area 12.04.1967 - (02.)1969 Commanding Officer, HMS Afrikander & Senior British Naval Officer, South Africa (as Commodore) 1969 - 1971 Director, RN War College 1970     Senior Officers' War Course 04.1971 - (08.1971) Commanding Officer, HMS Norfolk 1973 - 1975 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) Deputy Lieutenant (DL). Vice President, Surrey Branch of Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmen's Families Association. * (02.1943) still listed in the Navy List under "Largs"; lists of the sinking of HMS Martin show him as survivor of that ship, and other sources show him as joining the ship on 13.10.1942
Cook, Lionel Aubrey Son of Lt.Cdr. Alfred Thomas Cook, DSC, RNR (1893-1965), and Gladys Lydia Lavinia Sirett (1894-1981). Married Blossom Ismay Hester Ferguson Morrison (24.09.1920 - 08.1994), daughter of Jock John Morrison (?-1956), and Betty Elizabeth Bell (?-1976); one son.	15.05.1919 Lewisham, Kent - 19.11.2004 Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland	T/S.Lt. 22.11.1943 T/Lt. 15.05.1945 (reld 17.04.1946) MBE 02.03.1943 rescue of passengers when ship was torpedoed & sunk 29.10.1942 * 39|45 St - - Atl St ? & clasp Pac St ? & clasp WM 39|45 - - Lloyd 1943 rescue of passengers when ship was torpedoed & sunk 29.10.1942 * The ship, sailing in convoy, was torpedoed. She listed heavily and it was decided to prepare for abandonment. The Third Officer helped to carry a passenger and two members of the crew who had been injured to a boat. This boat was capsized by the overturning ship and the occupants were thrown into the water. The Third Officer displayed great courage. Although continuously swept by heavy seas, he supported one of the injured men in the waterlogged boat, keeping his head above water for four hours until assistance arrived.	Third Officer in the Merchant Navy on the MV Brittany, torpedoed & sunk 29.10.1942 (MBE, Lloyd's Medal). (12.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed 18.02.1944 - (04.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Loring (frigate) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Cook, Norman Of Dundee. Married ...; one daughter.	1890 ? - 21.10.1943 [age 53] [Jakarta War Cemetery, Indonesia, 1.F.13]	T/Lt. 1942?, seniority 28.06.1940	(02.1942) - 16.02.1942 HMS Fuh Wo (patrol boat/minesweeper) (ship beached on Bangka Island & scuttled) 16.02.1942 - 21.10.1943 POW in Japanese captivity (died in the POW Camp at Palembang, Sumatra)
Cook, Robert Archibald	02.05.1916 West Ham district, Greater London - 03.1990 Southend on Sea district, Essex	T/Paym.S.Lt. 30.10.1940 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 18.05.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements 26.11.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Ascania (armed merchant cruiser) (08.1942) HMS Ranchi (armed merchant cruiser) * 18.05.1943 - 09.02.1946 HMS Ulster Queen (fighter direction ship) (04.1946) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Cook, Thomas Andrew Son of ... Cook, and ... Lee. Married ((03?).1935, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Marjorie Thirkell (02.02.1908 - 03.1978); ... children (one daughter?).	20.07.1911 Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire - 05.1995 Hull district, Humberside [Northern Cemetery, Kingston upon Hull]	T/Skpr. 01.01.1941 [TS 905] T/A/Skpr.Lt. 06.01.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) DSC 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 08.1942) [investiture 27.10.1942]	(04.1941)     no appointment listed 02.05.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary): (08.1942)     Commanding Officer, HM LCT 163 (landing craft, tank) (DSC) 05.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft)
Cooke, Campbell Stewart Son of Robert Charles Cooke, and Edith Jane Wall, of Cleveland Road, London W13. Married ((06?).1936, Brentford district, Middlesex) Sylvia I.B. Piccininio, daughter of the late Dr. Piccininio, of Siena, and Mrs Ellis, of Grange Road, London W5.	13.02.1903 Wandsworth district, Greater London - 25.04.1973 Kenilworth, Warwick district, Warwickshire	Midsh. 01.01.1921 A/S.Lt. 13.02.1924 S.Lt. 02.04.1925 Lt. 24.04.1929 Lt.Cdr. 24.04.1937 (retd 02.02.1938) A/Cdr. (retd) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) RD 1941? ?	20.06.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa Flow) 27.01.1941 - (07.1945) an Assistant to Naval Assistants to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] Prison governor (Governor of Lewes Prison, Sussex, 1948; Governor of Chelmsford Prison ...-05.1957; Governor of Lincoln Prison 05.1957-05.1965 (retd.)).
Coombe, Cecil Gordon Chudley Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of James John Coombe (1859-1917), and Lucy Ann Chudley (1866-1949). Married (08.05.1934, Milford Haven, Haverfordwest district, Pembrokeshire) Charlotte Ann James (24.08.1910 - 05.05.1979); ... children.	26.02.1909 Milford Haven, Haverfordwest district, Pembrokeshire, Wales - 12.06.1954 Milford Haven, Haverfordwest district, Pembrokeshire, Wales	T/Skpr. 09.01.1940 [WS 3193, TS 310] T/A/Ch.Skpr. 31.01.1944 T/A/Skpr.Lt. < 04.1944 (reld 05.04.1946)	(04.1940)     no appointment listed 16.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Earl Essex (minesweeping trawler) [was on HMS Rifsnes when it was sunk by enemy aircraft off Ostend, Belgium, on 20.05.1940] 01.07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot, Sheerness) (for minesweeping duties) 02.02.1942 - 13.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Saturn (minesweeping trawler) 23.01.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 251 (motor minesweeper)
Coombs, Leonard Horton	18.07.1906 Richmond, Surrey - 05.1984 Winchester, Hampshire	Prob. Paym.S.Lt. ? Paym.S.Lt. 28.08.1929, seniority 11.04.1929 Paym.Lt. 11.04.1931 Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 11.04.1939 (retd 18.07.1951) A/Cdr. (S) 12.1944? RD 02.1942 ? Atlantic Star; Defence Medal	Education: Kingston Grammar School or Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Kingston upon Thames Secretary of the RNOCA in the late 1930's for at least two and possibly three years. 31.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 14.06.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 01.04.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 22.03.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Spurwing (RN Air Station, Hastings, Sierra Leone) 12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Glasgow (cruiser)
Coombs, Thomas Edward	(12?).1884 Wells, Somerset - 27.06.1953	Capt. 30.06.1930 (retd 1941) CBE 1937 ? OBE 1919 ? RD ? ?	Education: Wells Grammar School 1915 - 1917 Second-in-Command HM Auxiliary Cruiser Patia 1917 - 1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Gossamer 1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Gainsborough (sweeping mines off coast of Belgium (despatches, OBE)) commanded ships of RM Lines 1936 - 1938 ADC to the King 1939 - 1945? served World War II as Commodore of Convoys and at Admiralty Member of Honourable Company of Master Mariners
Cooper, Jack Winston	(03).1910 Mansfield, Derbyshire - [1959 still alive]	S.Lt. 01.07.1936 Lt. 18.02.1938 (retd) A/Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.04.1943? DSC 19.09.1944 sinking of U765 06.05.1944 DSC 11.09.1945 U-boat sunk 21.04.1944	06.08.1941 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Sweetbriar (corvette) 15.04.1943 - 10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Derg (frigate) (04.1944) HMS Bazely (frigate) (05.1944) HMS Bligh (frigate) (07.1945) no appointment listed
Cooper, Peter Frank	? - 2010	T/Paym.S.Lt. 06.11.1940 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 05.02.1943	officer serving under T.124X agreements 08.01.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cathay (armed merchant cruiser) 05.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Biter (escort carrier) 06.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool) 12.01.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Sansovino (landing ship, infantry)
Cope, Desmond Henry Son of Frank William Enoch and Elsie Cope, of Wembley.	1922 ? - 31.05.1946 (died of cancer) [age 24] [Wembley (Alperton) Burial Ground, Middlesex, plot D.D., grave 112]	Midsh. 08.08.1939 A/S.Lt. 14.12.1941 S.Lt. 14.12.1942 Lt. 14.06.1944 DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 1943	28.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Boadicea (destroyer) 29.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Victory III (accounting section, Portsmouth & Wantage) 15.08.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Fratton (barrage balloon vessel) 15.02.1943 - (12.1943) staff, HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool) 07.02.1944 - 06.1944 HMS Mallard (sloop) 14.06.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Shearwater (sloop) 01.01.1946 - 12.03.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Oakham Castle (corvette)
Cordery, Joseph	? -	T/Lt. 11.03.1940	officer holding temporary commission under T.124 agreements: 23.07.1940 - 22.01.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS St Cyrus (tug) (mined off the Humber)
Cormack, Peter	13.08.1891 Portgordon, Banffshire -	Seaman ? [A 4686 & WSB 36] Skpr. 27.01.1917 [2163 WSA] Ch.Skpr. 27.01.1927 Skpr.Lt. 30.06.1940 (retd 13.08.1941) [WS 2525] MBE 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 MID 31.07.1919 ? RD > 04.1946, < 07.1946 -	24.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Hatano (minesweeping trawler) 04.03.1941 - (04.)1946 HMS Cochrane II (supply and accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for service with Naval Officer-in-Charge, Methill) (MBE) 17.05.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Martello (auxiliary patrol base, Lowestoft)
Corneby, Charles George Vernon	12.08.1904 Oxford - 01.1987 Southampton, Hampshire	T/Lt. 24.02.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 04.1944, < 07.1945 (reld 1945/46)	03.06.1941 - 08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Camellia (corvette) 15.08.1942 - (04.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Inchmarnock (trawler) (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS LST 3043
Cornish, Albert Richard "Bill" Son (with five brothers) of Robert Haddock Cornish (1870-), a Chief Engineer who was drowned at sea, and Ellen Louisa Saddler (1873?-). Married ((09?).1918, Sculcoates, Hull, Yorkshire) Elsie Margaret Frost (1899?-); four sons, two daughters.	(03?).1899 Grangetown, Cardiff, Glamorganshire - 06.11.1959 Withernsea, Holderness district, Yorkshire (died only a few hours after returning from an Icelandic fisihing voyage)	T/Lt. 28.02.1940 (reld 1942/43) Comdn 14.08.1945 commended for brave conduct when his ship encountered enemy ships, aircraft, submarines or mines	Played Rugby Union for Cardiff RFC. Started aged 15 as apprentice with W.C.T. Jones of Cardiff. Held foreign-going Mates' Certificate of Competency. 18.03.1940 - 02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Leicester City (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 13.11.1941 - 10.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Northern Pride (anti-submarine warfare trawler) Skippered fishing trawlers for the Kingston Steam Trawling Company Ltd. (s.t. Scottish, s.t. Kingston Onyx [commendation], s.t. Kingston Cryanite, s.t. Kingston Turquoise). Set a new world fish landing record in 1943. President of the Hull Trawler Officers' Guild.
Couch, George Witheridge Son (with two brothers and four sisters) of John William Couch (1863-1938), and Maggie Sewell Dottie (1866-1940). Married 1st (1920) Grace Halsall (14.08.1900 - 14.03.1979), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Archibald Halsall (1855-1915), and Annie Cecilia Gerrard (1870-1953); one daughter, one son. Married 2nd (1973) Montserrat Condal Banquells (1924-2013); one step-daughter.	03.01.1897 Liverpool, Lancashire - 30.03.1975 Irby, Wirral, Birkenhead district, Merseyside	S.Lt. 03.01.1918 Lt. 03.01.1920 Lt.Cdr. 03.01.1928 Cdr. 31.12.1939 (retd 20.08.1940; medically unfit) RD 28.09.1931 -	12.10.1939 - 19.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Windermere (Lake class trawler) 20.12.1939 - 03.01.1940 HMS Romola (minesweeper base, Lowestoft) 03.01.1940 - 13.03.1940 HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan) 14.03.1940 - 20.08.1940 HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service central depot, Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft)
Coughlan, Derek Harold George Son (with two brothers) of Daniel Charles Coughlan (1876-1957), and Rebecca Alice Whittingham (1877-1960). Married 1st ((12?).1939, Woolwich district, London) Agnes Creeksen Granger (27.01.1909 - 27.05.1976), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Frederick Collins Granger (1880-1917), and Agnes Richmond Murchland Wilson (1880-1945). Married 2nd ((12?).1958, Wallasey district, Cheshire) Angela A.P. Jackson.	11.09.1911 Sheppey district, Kent - 19.11.1989 Bristol, Gloucestershire (formerly of Sherston, near Halmesbury, Wiltshire)	Prob. S.Lt. 01.05.1936 Lt. 11.08.1938, seniority 28.12.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1944? Lt.Cdr. 22.02.1946, seniority 28.12.1945 (retd 01.07.1950; own request) (re-instated on active list 25.08.1950) Cdr. 31.12.1951 Capt. 31.12.1959 DSC 09.05.1944 minesweeping Western Desert sweep * MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) RD 02.11.1946 - RD 12.11.1957 1st clasp RD 22.04.1966 2nd clasp * For great skill, endurance & devotion to duty in clearing enemy minefields to enable supply convoys and bombardment forces to operate in support of the 8th Army in their advance from Egypt to Tunisia	Education: HMS Conway. 24.11.1941 - 09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Boston (minesweeper) (07.1943?) - (23.10.43?) Commanding Officer, HMS Cromarty (minesweeper) (DSC) 16.10.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Orestes (minesweeper)
Coull, Peter	1911 ? Findochty, Scotland - 1958 ? Ayr Harbour, Scotland [aged 47]	Skpr. 01.06.1940 [WS 3560] Ch.Skpr. 09.09.1945 Lt. (P.S.) 22.11.1951, seniority 02.08.1950 Lt.Cdr. (P.S.) 02.08.1958 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - F&G St - - WM 39|45 - - RD 31.03.1952 -	(02.1941) - (06.1941) no appointment listed 03.07.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Huddersfield Town (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 31.08.1943 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1002 (harbour defence motor launch) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Couttie, Earle	? -	Prob. T/Midsh. 15.09.1941 T/A/S.Lt. 28.11.1942 T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 28.05.1945 (reld > 07.1946)	(08.1942) no appointment listed (06.1943) HMS Zingarella * 08.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 07.11.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Matchless (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cowap, Charles Richardson	(06?).1882 Liverpool, Lancashire -	Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 30.06.1939 (retd > 08.1939) RD ? -	active service ??
Cowell, Reginald Ernest Son (with two sisters and one brother) of David Henry Cowell (1865-1927), and Sarah Jane Wilgress (1862-1933). Married (12.04.1928, Parish Church, Stokenham, Kingsbridge district, Devon) Philippa Eleanor Frances Anne Prettejohn (26.08.1905 - 15.01.1993), daughter of Browse Nathaniel Oldreive Prettejohn (1874-1937), and Frances Mary Keeling (1870-1905); two sons, two daughters.	05.01.1902 Wandsworth, London - 29.10.1982 Mid Devon district, Devon	Prob. S.Lt. 06.08.1925 S.Lt. 1925?, seniority 06.08.1925 Lt. 03.04.1929 09.09.1936, seniority 03.04.1928 Lt.Cdr. 09.09.1936, seniority 03.04.1936 Cdr. 30.06.1941 A/Capt. 18.10.1944? Capt. 31.12.1945 (Supernumerary List 29.06.1956) (retd 05.01.1957) CBE 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 1961 RD 10.1940 -	11.12.1939 - (06.)1941 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, from 03.05.1941 Roedean School, Brighton) 23.06.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) (additional; for various services) 03.09.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties at Colombo) 09.11.1941 - (04.)1943 Staff Minesweeping Officer on staff of Flag Officer Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (10.1943)     HMS President (Admiralty) * 25.10.1943 - 21.09.1944 Executive Officer, HMS Ruler (escort carrier) (10.1944)     HMS Ruler (escort carrier) * 18.10.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Exmouth (accommodation ship, Scapa Flow) & as Captain Minesweepers (M/S), Scapa 20.02.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Iron Duke (RN base, Scapa Flow) & as Commanding Officer Minesweepers (M/S) & Patrols, Scapa 24.10.1945 - (04.1946) an Assistant to Naval Assistants to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.12.1953 - 09.12.1955 RNR Aide-de-Camp to the Queen Marine Superintendent, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. * indexed, but not listed as such
Cowie, Robert	25.08.1895 - (12?).1969 Grimsby district, Lincolnshire	Skpr. 17.11.1927 [WS 2588] Ch.Skpr. 14.11.1937 Skpr.Lt. 31.12.1944 RD 19.01.1944 -	10.1939 - (06.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Westgate (gate vessel) [tender to HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] (07.1940) - (10.1940) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * 24.11.1940 - (08.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Sunset (minesweeping drifter) (10.1941)     no appointment listed (12.1941) - (06.1942) HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) * 02.07.1942 - (02.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Arrest (auxiliary boom defence vessel) 27.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Fort Ryan (auxiliary boom defence vessel) 26.09.1944 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Barfoot (boom defence vessel) 11.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Barnwell (boom defence vessel) (07.1945)     HMS Barnwell (boom defence vessel) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Cox, Joseph [Leonard]	? -	T/Lt. 06.05.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1943, < 10.1944 DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk [investiture 22.02.1941]	06.04.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Netsukis (drifter) 31.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for Landing Craft Infantry (Large)) (08.1943)     no appointment listed 20.08.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Bouvet I (minesweeping whaler) 14.02.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Squid (Combined Operations base, Southampton) (07.1945)     HMS Oronsay (trawler) * 12.1945 - (04.1946) [Executive Officer?], HMS Kelantan (minesweeper depot ship) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cox, William Leslie Parker Son of William Cox, and Rosina Mary D. Lansdown. Married Doreen Mary Cox (née ...) (died 10.05.1960).	14.06.1895 Redland, nr Bristol, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire - 16.04.1964 St Marylebone district, Greater London	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 02.05.1917 A/Lt. ? Lt. 02.05.1919 Lt.Cdr. 02.05.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 30.06.1943 (reld from active service 26.09.1945) (retd 14.06.1950) A/Cdre. 2nd cl. 27.07.1943 RD 10.12.1928 -	29.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Watchful (RN base, Yarmouth) 01.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft) 02.06.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Colonsay (minesweeper base, Grimsby) 09.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) (for convoy duties) 27.07.1943 - 19.05.1944 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 01.11.1943 - 14.11.1943 convoy RA-54A (Archangel - Loch Ewe) 20.05.1944 - 09.07.1944 HMS Leigh (RN base, Southend on Sea) 10.07.1944 - 26.09.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 19.03.1945 - 02.04.1945 convoy HX 345 (New York - Liverpool) Returned post-war to work for the Cunard Line.
Crane, Reginald James Son of James Robert Crane (1877-1909), and Helen Eliza Webster (1877-1955). Married (04.11.1922, Winterton, Norfolk) Elsie King (12.09.1902 - 07.02.1999); two sons.	14.05.1899 Caister on Sea, Flegg district, Norfolk - 16.07.1974 Winterton on Sea, Great Yarmouth district, Norfolk	T/Skpr. 11.10.1939 [WS 3078 & TS 197] T/A/Ch.Skpr. 20.12.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) DSC 02.08.1940 for continued devotion to duty when sweeping for magnetic mines in shallow water [decoration posted]	Fisherman. 29.01.1940 - 13.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Ocean Sunlight (auxiliary minesweeping drifter) (ship sunk by mine off Newhaven) (DSC) (08.1940) - (12.1940) HMS Ocean Sunlight (auxiliary minesweeping drifter) * (02.1941) - (04.1941) HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service central depot, Lowestoft) * 19.05.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) (08.1943)     HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) * 28.09.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Dunlin (armed yacht) (02.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed (04.1945) - (07.1945) HMS George Jewson (auxiliary harbour service tug) * (10.1945)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Crawford, Robert Henry Campbell Son of Robert Henry Campbell Crawford. Married (30.10.1923, All Saints, Carshalton, Surrey) Esme Mary Faulconbridge.	28.01.1896 Nassau, Bahamas, British West Indies - 18.02.1947 Southampton district, Hampshire (age 51) [Southampton Crematorium]	Lt. 31.12.1924 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1932 Cdr. 30.06.1937 Capt. 31.12.1942 (reld 1945/46) OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 RD ? ?	12.09.1939 - (12.1943) HMS Alaunia (armed merchant cruiser / repair ship) 19.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) ? - 18.02.1947 HMS Alaunia (repair ship)
Crawley, Hugh John Married ...; ... children.	26.09.1891 Egremont, Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 12.12.1972 Trefgraig Isaf, Rhoshirwaun, Pwllheli district, Caernarvonshire	Lt. 24.04.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 24.01.1941 (reld 15.10.1945)	Served Merchant Navy. 24.04.1940 - 25.08.1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) 26.08.1940 - (02.)1944 Compass Department, Admiralty (Admiralty Compass Observatory, Ditton Park, Slough, Bucks.) [HMS President] (04.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 02.1945 - (07.1945) Compass Officer (Electrical) on staff of Flag Officer Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) A grandchild writes: "He was a HMS Conway trained midshipman who was a merchant seaman who I believe served in both Ww1 and WW2. He mentioned he served on Q ship in WW1."
Cressey, David William "Bill" / "Dave" Youngest son (with four sisters and one brother) of David William Cressey (1874-1936), and Grace Osborne (1877-1936). Married (04.11.1935, St Mary and St Peter, Hull) Florence Alma "Floss" Edgar (24.06.1917 - 11.04.2000), youngest daughter (with eight siblings) of Fred Edgar, and Betsey Pickering; two sons, one daughter.	30.12.1916 Hessle, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire - 02.1985 Goole, Yorkshire [ashes scattered at sea]	Seaman ? [X 20785] Skpr. 05.08.1943 [WS3836] (reld < 04.1946) DSM 01.01.1940 New Year 1940 [investiture 04.03.1941]	Fisherman, sailing out of Milford Haven, Fleetwood, Hull and Grimsby. (1939) - (1942) HMS Northern Pride (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 18.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Arctic Ranger (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed Fishing trawler skipper, sailing out of Hull and Grimsby.
Crighton, Joseph Leonard * "Len" * Navy List has different names/spellings: (04.1940) Conrad J. Crighton [index L.J. Crighton], (10.1940) Joseph Leonard Crichton [index J.L. Crighton], (02.1941 & 08.1942) Leonard James Crighton [index L.J. Crighton], (London Gazette 11.06.40) L.J. Crichton.	14.01.1904 Kirkdale, West Derby district, Lancashire - (09?).1959 Birmingham district, Warwickshire	Prob. T/Lt. 29.01.1940 T/Lt. 06.1940, seniority 29.01.1940 (reld < 02.1943)	Deck officer in the Leyland Line trading to the Americas. 29.01.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Letitia (armed merchant cruiser) (12.1941)     HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot, Sheerness) (08.1942)     no appointment listed
Croasdaile, John Lloyd "Jack" Son of Henry Frederick Croasdaile (1863-1929), Master Mariner, and Mary Ellen Lloyd (1867-1932). Married 1st (16.08.1925, St Martin's in the Fields, London) Florence Alexandra Farley, of New York, USA; one son, one daughter (all three were killed on passage to USA aboard SS City of Benares, which was torpedoed by U48 in the Atlantic Ocean in 09.1940). Married 2nd Suzanna Jacoba Fabricius, of Riversdale, South Africa; one daughter.	09.04.1894 Toxteth, Liverpool - 1957 South Africa	Midsh. ? S.Lt. 09.04.1916 A/Lt. ? Lt. 09.04.1918 Lt.Cdr. 09.04.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1934 (retd 09.04.1944) Capt. (retd) 21.09.1945 RD 18.05.1926 ?	17.11.1939 - 10.06.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Vandyck (armed boarding vessel) [ship was bombed & sunk by German aircraft off Narvik; captured] 06.1940 - 05.1945 POW (No. 1135) in German captivity (Marlag und Milag Nord)
Crockett, John "Jakey" Son of John Crockett, Extra Skipper, of Aberdeen, Scotland. Married Anne Crockett; two sons, one daughter.	1903 -	Skpr. 15.11.1937 [W.S. 2734] (reld < 04.1946)	? - 25.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Hammond (anti-submarine trawler) (ship sunk off Norway) (04.1940)     HMS Sindonis (anti-submarine trawler) * (10.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     HMS Europa (RN base, Lowestoft) * 28.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Davy (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 05.02.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Wolves (anti-submarine trawler) 01.06.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS York City (anti-submarine trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Cross, Alan Richard *   Son of William R. Cross, and Mabel Margaret Skuse. Married; .two sons, one daughter. * Naval records show his first name as Allan	28.09.1920 Newport, Monmouthshire - 02.12.1953 Liverpool, Lancashire	T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S) 24.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements (06.1`943)     no appointment listed (08.1943) - (01.1945) HMS Queen Emma (troopship) * [according to son from 07.1943 to 03.1945] (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) HMS Palomares (fighter direction ship) * Sugar Refinery Manager, Tate & Lyle, from 1946 onwards. * indexed, but not listed as such
Cross, Cyril Duncan	13.04.1877 Dulwich, Surrey - 07.02.1945 County Council Emergency Hospital, Old Windsor, Berkshire [Datchet Cemetery, Buckinghamshire, section D, grave 135]	A/Asst.Paym. 15.10.1906 Asst.Paym. 18.12.1907, seniority 15.10.1906 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1916 (retd 13.04.1922) Paym.Cdr. (retd) 13.04.1922 (reactivated 01.06.1940) (reverted to retd > 10.1944, < 07.1945) MID 01.10.1917 ? RD ? ? CdeG 17.05.1918 ?	Education: Dulwich College 01.06.1940 - (02.)1943 RN Auxiliary Hospital, Invergordon [HMS Flora] (06.1943)     no appointment listed 01.06.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)
Crowley, Edward Albert Ashworth Son of Edward Albert Ernest Crowley (1861-1923), assistant engineer RN, and Margaret Ann Ashworth (1860?-1892?). Married 1st (12.07.1917, St Peter, Birkdale, Ormskirk district, Lancashire) Katie Wynne (1885? - (03?).1957), daughter of John Wynne; one daughter. Married 2nd ((12?).1959, Southport district, Lancashire) Ida Leadbeater (06.02.1900 - (03?).1974).	18.03.1887 Morice Town, Stoke Damerel district, Devon - 07.11.1970 Birkdale, Southport district, Lancashire	Prob. S.Lt. 13.08.1914, seniority 01.08.1914 S.Lt. 24.04.1915 Lt. 01.08.1916 (demobilized 18.02.1919) Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1923 (retd 18.03.1932) Cdr. (retd) 18.03.1932 (recalled 08.11.1939) A/Capt. (retd) 09.07.1945-18.10.1945 (dispersed 18.10.1945; retaining rank of Capt.) (reverted to retd 06.12.1945) (removed from retd 29.11.1954) 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - RD 29.07.1925 - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	Served Merchant Marine/Navy, 1904-1914 & 1919-1930 (Master, 05.05.1913). Resigns from the White Star Line, 1930, and becomes British representative and salesman for the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. 13.08.1914     joined RNR 24.02.1915     HMS Dreel Castle (nominal depot ship at Falmouth) (additional; for duties and instruction with the net drifters at Falmouth) 09.03.1915     HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for duty with the net drifters at Devonport) 09.08.1915     HMS Isis (cruiser) 17.10.1917     HMS Apollo (reserve ship, Southampton) (additional; for service with HMS Lennox (torpedo-boat destroyer)) 25.03.1918     HMS Idaho (RN base, Milford Haven) (additional; for command of PC 44 (Q-ship)) 15.02.1919 - 18.02.1919 HMS Prince George (destroyer depot ship) 06.08.1921     HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery course) 20.08.1921     HMS Defiance (for torpedo course) 05.05.1923 - 01.06.1923 HMS Glorious (cruiser) (for training) 10.05.1925     HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery course) 13.06.1925     HMS Defiance (for torpedo course) 07.1925     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signals course) 02.04.1927     HMS Impregnable (additional; for 28 days' training at HMS Saumarex (destroyer leader)) 20.07.1929 - 02.08.1929 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery course) 03.08.1929     HMS Rodney (battleship) (for 14 days' training) 01.08.1931     HMS Defiance (for torpedo course) 11.08.1939     Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship ? 08.11.1939 - 21.01.1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) (for Naval Control Service) 22.01.1940 - 08.07.1945 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for navigation duties with Naval Control Service) 09.07.1945 - 18.10.1945 Naval Control Service Officer, Mersey [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
Cumberlege, Claude Michael Bulstrode "Mike" Son (with one sister and further half-siblings) of R.Adm. Claude Lionel Cumberlege (1877-1962), and Sarah Laetitia Crossley Couldwell (1883-1929), of Gibraltar. Married (23.09.1936, St Peter's Church, East Marden, Chichester district, Sussex) Nancy Winifred Pemberton "Nan" Wooler (17.08.1915 - 06.1989), daughter of Mr & Mrs Claude Pemberton Wooler, of Toronto, Canada; one son. Nan Cumberlege remarried (14.05.1947, London) Lt.Col. Lennox John Livingstone-Learmonth, RHA (1911-1988).	26.10.1905 St George Hanover Square district, London - 10.04.1945 (died in captivity) [age 39] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 81, 1]	Midsh. 01.05.1922 A/S.Lt. 26.10.1926 S.Lt. 03.03.1928 Lt. 14.02.1934, seniority 22.07.1933 (reld 24.09.1937; own request) A/Lt.Cdr. (retd) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 21.02.1944 DSO 20.01.1941 Crete etc. * [investiture 07.07.1942] DSO 03.12.1946 attempt blowing up Corinth Canal [presented to next-of-kin] RD ? ? Gk WC 11.08.1942 services to belligerent Greece * For taking the caique 'Hedgehog' to occupied Crete, where, after successfully landing an SOE agent, picked up 86 soldiers that had evaded capture during the German occupation of the island.	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. Server Merchant Navy (Second Mate's certificate, 23.02.1926). 27.05.1933 - 16.06.1933 HMS Victory 17.06.1933 - 30.06.1933 HMS Defiance 01.07.1933 - 28.07.1933 HMS Vivid 29.07.1933 - 24.11.1933 HMS Royal Sovereign 25.11.1933 - 22.02.1934 HMS Diana Spent 1937-40 in Cap d'Antibes, France, skippering private yachts in the Aegean and Adriatic. (04.1940) - (08.1942) no appointment listed  1940     liaison officer to the French at the port of Marseilles, attached to a French anti-smuggling unit 1940 - 1941 served Special Operations Executive (SOE) with Force 133: 1940 in command of HMS Hedgehog (caique) (DSO) (10.1942) - (08.1943) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * (10.1943) - 10.04.1945 no appointment listed: captured by the Germans and shot in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Germany Literature: Alan Ogden, Sons of Odysseus : SOE heroes in Greece (2012); Robin Knight, In search of Mike Cumberlege (2015); Robin Knight, The extraordinary life of Mike Cumberlege SOE (2018). * indexed, but not listed as such
Currie, John Hewitt Son of John Smith Currie, and Elsie Hannah Currie (née Hewitt). Married Margaret McCart Barr Stevenson (Glasgow 06.07.1918 -); one son, one daughter.	23.03.1920 Conway district, Caernarvonshire / Denbighshire - 10.07.1993 Norwich, Norfolk	3rd Lt. (E) ? ?	Education: King Edward VI Grammar School, Totnes. Served Merchant Navy.       serving under T.124 agreements: ? - 05.11.1940 HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser) Worked in a factory in the North of England, but spent most of his working life serving the BBC Monitoring Service based at Caversham Park, near Reading.
Currie, Kenneth	? -	Prob. T/Lt. 13.03.1940 T/Lt. > 02.1941, seniority 13.03.1940	(04.1940) no appointment listed (04.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) * 28.08.1941 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS St Monance (rescue tug) ** 24.08.1943 - (07.1945) Assistant Salvage Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such ** (06.1943)-(08.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Cuthbertson, Charles George Son of Thomas Arthur Cuthbertson (1869-1939). Married 1st ((09?).1939, Poole district, Kent) Mary L. Brunyee; one son. Married 2nd ((03?).1956, Wirral district, Cheshire) Lilian Maud Coward (née Simpson) (29.04.1905 - (12?).1978), daughter of Robert Daniel Simpson (1875-), and Caraoline Margaret Way (1879-1965).	03.09.1906 Gillingham, Medway district, Kent - 01.04.1994 Surrey South-Eastern district	Midsh. 01.01.1923 A/S.Lt. 03.09.1927 Lt. 11.07.1931 Lt.Cdr. 11.07.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1943 (retd 11.01.1953) DSC 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 22.02.1941] 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Afr St - - Bur St - & clasp Pacific BWM 39|45 - - MID 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942 MID 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 RD 1941 ? Rsn CM 1985 - The fictional character of Commander George Eastwood Ericson, DSO, DSC, RNR in Nicholas Monsarrat's 'The Cruel Sea' seems to be based on Cuthbertson.	Served with Union Castle and was second officer of MS Caernarvon Castle. 15.08.1931 - (01.1932) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (to complete 12 months' training) 1939 - 1940 Officer Commanding an ad hoc Flotilla of Anti-Submarine Warfare Trawlers on the east coast of Scotland [in the Navy List both showing under HMS Olvina (anti-submarine warfare trawler) from 16.10.1939 & HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith) from 05.12.1939] 10.10.1940 - 02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Hibiscus (corvette) 04.05.1941 - 23.08.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Zinnia (corvette) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-564 in eastern Atlantic] 20.10.1941 - 05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Snowflake (corvette) 20.06.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Scimitar (destroyer) 26.07.1943 - early 1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Helford (frigate) & Senior Officer of an Escort Flotilla (04.1946)     HMS President * 1946     commander of the RN Victory Parade Camp in Kensington Gardens and marched at the head of the column Returned to Union Castle, was elected a Younger Brother of Trinity House and was a member of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. Appointed master of 'Sandown Castle' in 1948 and in 1953 became a nautical surveyor in the Marine Survey Service of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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