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Beamer, Donald Tait Son (with two brothers and one sister)of Charles Henry Beamer (1864-1924), and Martha McAuslin (1872-1938). Married ((12?).1937, Crosby district, Lancashire) Mary Ellen Ramsey (30.11.1906 - 01.1986), daughter (with five sisters and one brother) of George Ramsey (1858-), and Margret Mcdonald (1870-); two daughters.	03.10.1902 Litherland, West Derby district, Lancashire - (06?).1969 Crosby district, Lancashire	T/Lt. 17.02.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	Served Merchant Navy (2nd Mate's Certificate, 10.10.1923; 1st Mate's Certificate, 22.02.1927; Masters' Certificate, 06.02.1930). 17.02.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) 02.01.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Jester (armed yacht) (04.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 20.05.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory) 19.07.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Ryde (anti-aircraft ship) (02.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Ryde (anti-aircraft ship) * (04.1945) - (07.1945) [HMS?] Ixion * (10.1945)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Beams, John Arthur Francis Married 1st (1946) Susan Hinton; three children. Married 2nd (1980) Stella Sophios.	08.09.1925 Upton, Cheshire - 31.12.2021 Australia	T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) 05.11.1943 T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 08.03.1945 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 08.09.1945 (reld 11.1946)	01.1943  - 06.1943 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) 06.1943 - 08.1943 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 08.1943 - 12.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 12.1943 - 12.1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 31.12.1943 - 06.12.1944 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Pt Bannatyne) 07.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Bonaventure (submarine depot ship) (04.1946)     HMS President * Emigrated to Australia, 03.1950. * indexed, but not listed as such
Beard, Ralph Arnold Son (with one brother) of George Arnold Beard (1882-1949), and Mabel Agatha Moody (1887-1963). Married (19.01.1939, Stourbridge, Bilston district, Worcestershire) Enid Joan Homer (23.11.1918 - 08.02.1992); three sons, one daughter.	20.06.1916 Stourbridge, Worcestershire - 07.1990 Liss, Petersfield district, Hampshire	T/S.Lt. (A) 24.06.1940 T/Lt. (A) 24.06.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 14.02.1944 (reld 26.01.1946)	Motor salesman. Obtained civil aviator's certificate No. 13514 on 05.01.1936 taken on D.H. Moth Major 130 h.p. at Midland Aero Club, Castle Bromwich. 06?.1940 - 08?.1940 pilot, 780 Squadron FAA [HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)] * 08?.1940 - 09?.1940 pilot, 750 Squadron FAA [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)] 09.1940 - 31.01.1941 pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] 01.02.1941 - 17.05.1942 pilot, 750 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)] 18.05.1942 - 06.07.1943 794 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] 18.05.1942 - 03.01.1943 Officer Commanding, Station Flight (Yeovilton) 03.01.1943 - 28.02.1943 Second-in-Command, 794 Squadron FAA (Haldon, Teignmouth) 28.02.1943 - 06.07.1943 Second-in-Command, 794 Squadron FAA (RAF Warmwell) 07.07.1943 - 18.11.1943 Second-in-Command, 794 Squadron FAA [HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Angle/Dale, Pembrokeshire)] 18.11.1943 - 01.12.1943 Second-in-Command, 794 Squadron FAA [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (for Charlton Hortthorne)] 01.12.1943 - 13.02.1944 776 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)] (Speke & Woodvale) [handwritten service record states: C/O 766 [should read 776] Woodvale), which would indicate that he was Commanding Officer of the Woodvale detachment of 776 Squadron FAA ] 14.02.1944 - 20.04.1944 Commanding Officer, 733 Squadron FAA [HMS Bambara (RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon)] 20.04.1944 - 21.08.1944 Lt.Cdr. Flying, HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo Racecourse, Ceylon) 11.09.1944 - 08.10.1944 HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) (as Lt.Cdr. Flying, RN Air Section, Evanton) 09.10.1944 - 26.01.1946 Lt.Cdr. Flying, HMS Fieldfare (RN Air Station, Evanton, Ross-shire) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beardmore, Walter Thomas John Son of ... Beardmore, and ... Hughes. his PQ17 story	03.05.1920 Richmond district, Surrey - 09.2005 Hounslow district, London	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 14.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) MID 11.05.1943 action with U-boats & Operation Torch	25.03.1942 - (06.1944) Navigating Officer, HMS Poppy (corvette) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 18.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Knaresborough Catle (corvette)
Beart, Eric Henry	(09?).1904 St Marylebone district, Greater London / London - 28.03.1942 (KIA) [age 37] [Escoublac-la- Baule War Cemetery, 1.D.12]]	T/Lt. ?	(03.1942) Commanding Officer, HM ML 267 (motor launch) (killed in action, St. Nazaire raid)
Beauchamp, Roger Meyrick Son of Charles Herbert Beauchamp, and Jane West Merrick.	22.09.1912 Bristol district, Gloucestershire - 06.1993 Bristol district, Gloucestershire	T/S.Lt. 26.06.1942 T/Lt. 1944?, seniority 26.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946) DSC 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]	Education: Cambridge University (MA). (08.1942) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 07.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (1945)     Commanding Officer, HM LCT 357 (landing craft, tank) (DSC) Went into teaching in a private school in Scotland (Carlekemp Preparatory School, North Berwick, East Lothian) after the war.
Beaumont, Ronald Walton Son of ... Beaumont, and ... Walton.	29.12.1920 Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 11.1987 Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire	T/S.Lt. 29.12.1941 T/Lt. 20.05.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	(02.1942)     no appointment listed 03.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) 15.03.1943 - (12.)1943 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 268 (motor torpedo boat) 19.12.1943 - 30.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 260 (motor torpedo boat) 31.08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 315 (motor torpedo boat)
Beausire, Robert Stewart "Bob" Son of Robert Ernest Beausire (1886-). Married Rae...; one son, one daughter.	10.11.1924 Chile - 05.01.2015 Bob Owens Retirement Home, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand	Ord.Sea. 1943 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. ?	Education: Cheltenham College (09.1938-12.1942). 1943     enlisted, RNVR (06.1945) - (03.)1946 HMS Ferret IV (Captain Submarines surrendered U-boats, Londonderry) * 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Moved to South America, working for a variety of international companies in Peru. Then a brief stint back in the UK at Royal Doulton in Ipswich. Then moved to Mexico City, where he became general manager of Ransoms, a British firmthat manufacture lawn mowers and farming implements. * indexed, but not listed as such
Beaver, Harold	1915 - 2010	T/S.Lt. 17.01.1941 T/Lt. 17.01.1942 (reld > 07.1946)	(04.1941) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (10.1943)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) * 10.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for Mobile Training Units) (in lieu of specialist Anti-Submarine Officer) 28.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Caroline II (trawler base, Belfast) (in lieu of specialist Anti-Submarine Officer) 20.08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties) 06.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Caradoc (Caledon class cruiser) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) 15.08.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for duty in office of Flag Officer Ceylon) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beck, Paul Thomas William	19.11.1913 - 08.02.1988 Bradley, Stafford district, Staffordshire	T/Lt. 05.03.1943 MID 11.12.1945 wind up, Europe 45	(06.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 415 (motor topedo boat) 22.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
Beckerman, Wilfred Son (with five siblings) of Morris "Moische" Beckerman (1889-1950), and Mathilda "Mattl" Pavilotsky (1892-1964). Married 1st (1952) Nicole Geneviève Ritter (13.05.1929 - (09?).1979); one son, two daughters. Married 2nd (02.1991, Kensington and chelsea district, London) Joanna Pasek; one daughter.	19.05.1925 Croydon district, Greater London / Kent / Surrey - 18.04.2020	T/Midsh. 19.05.1944 T/A/S.Lt. 19.11.1944 T/S.Lt. 19.05.1945 (reld 09/10.1946)	Education: Ealing County School; Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, PhD); MA, DPhil Oxon. 1943 - 1946 served RNVR: 17.07.1944 - 02.1945 midshipman, HMS Venomous (destroyer) 02.1945 - (05.)1945 HMS Oribi (destroyer) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 1945 - 1945 HMS Burghead Bay (frigate) (04.1946)     HMS Bulldog (destroyer) * 05.1946 - 09/10.1946 HMS Onslaught (destroyer) Trinity College, Cambridge, 1946-1950; Lecturer in Economics, University of Nottingham, 1950-1952; OEEC and OECD, Paris, 1952-1961; National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 1962-1963; Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1964-1969; Economic Adviser to Pres. of BoT (leave of absence from Balliol), 1967-1969; Professor of Political Economy, University of London, and Head of Dept of Political Economy, UCL, 1969-1975. Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1970-1973. Member: Executive Committee, NIESR, 1973-; Council, Royal Economic Society, 1990-1993. Elie Halévy Visiting Professor Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1977; Resident Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1982. Consultant: World Bank; OECD; ILO. Pres., Section F (Economics), BAAS, 1978. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1975-1992, Emeritus Fellow 1992-2020; Reader in Economics, Oxford University, 1978-1992. Published: The British Economy in 1975 (with associates), 1965; International Comparisons of Real Incomes, 1966; An Introduction to National Income Analysis, 1968; (ed and contrib.) The Labour Government's Economic Record, 1972; In Defence of Economic Growth, 1974; Measures of Leisure, Equality and Welfare, 1978; (ed and contrib.) Slow Growth in Britain: Causes and Consequences, 1979; Poverty and the Impact of Income Maintenance Programmes, 1979; (with S. Clark) Poverty and the Impact of Social Security in Britain since 1961, 1982; (ed and contrib.) Wage Rigidity and Unemployment, 1986; Small is Stupid, 1995; Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes, 1995; articles in Economic Jl, Economica, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, etc. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bedding, Arthur John Son of ... Bedding, and ... Partington.	09.07.1923 Fulham district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 23.06.2004 Chichester, Sussex	T/S.Lt. (A) 12.01.1945	(07.1945) 808 Squadron FAA * (04.1946) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Beech, Samuel James Son (with one brother) of Samuel William Beech (1883-), and Maria Alice Whittaker (1885-1970). Married ((03?).1932, Bethnal Green district, Middlesex) Doris Annie Raymond (21.07.1908 - 01.1988); ... children (three sons?).	21.01.1906 Bethnal Green, Middlesex - 14.02.1992 Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend on Sea district, Essex	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 17.04.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.10.1944 (reld 19.04.1946) * Special Branch officer for scientific duties	HMS Empire Tide (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship) (06.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 04.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) 01.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for RMTB [= Royal Marine Training Barracks/Battalion?])
Beeny, Eric Wallace Son of ... Beeny, and ... Long.	03.07.1913 Bromley district, London / Kent - 30.07.1976 Blackheath, London	T/S.Lt. (A) 12.12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 08.10.1944 - (07.1945) observer, 857 Squadron FAA
Beesley, James	? -	T/S.Lt. 15.07.1943	05.04.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Bann (frigate)
Beesly, Patrick Youngest son of Gerald Beesly, and Helen Chamberlain, of Seacroft, Milford-on-Sea. Married (01.09.1939, All Saints', Milford-on-Sea, New Forest district, Hampshire) Pamela Mary Wildman, second daughter of W. Stanley Wildman, FRCS, of Rotherham; ... children (two daughters?).	27.06.1913 Bromsgrove district, Hereford and Worcester / Shropshire / Staffordshire - 16.08.1986	S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 06.1939 Lt. (Sp.Br.) 04.12.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 10.1944 (reld 12.1945) LM 13.01.1948 tracking U-boats	Education: Oundle School (1927-1930); Trinity College, Cambridge.       Was appointed to NID 2, the French, Spanish and Low Countries Section. In July 1940 he transferred to the Operations Intelligence Centre (OIC) as Assistant to Lieutenant-Commander (later Vice-Admiral Sir Norman) Denning. There he first specialised in the field of Armed Merchant Raiders, but in 1941 he moved to the critically important Submarine Tracking Room as Deputy to Commander (later Lord Justice) Rodger Winn with whom he remained until the end of the war. After the defeat of Germany he was appointed Staff Officer Intelligence to the Commander-in-Chief, Germany, and served at Flensburg and Minden in the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. 04.12.1939 - (01.)1945 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945)     no appointment listed Published: Very special intelligence : the story of the Admiralty's operational intelligence centre in World War II (1977); Very special admiral : the life of J.H. Godfrey (1980); Room 40 : British naval intelligence 1914-18 (1982).
Beever, Colin	(12?).1904 ?? district Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire ?? -	T/Lt. 08.08.1943 DSC 20.02.1945 minesweeping & enemy human torpedo attack [decoration posted]	06.12.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 304 (motor launch) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Bell, Charles Albert Son (with one brother) of Charles William Bell (1890-1982), and Johanna Pearson (1890-1945). Married (26.08.1939, Isleworth, Brentford district, Middlesex) Elsie Ada Morley (01.07.1917 - 04.03.2003), daughter (with one sister) of George Edward Morley (1889-1960), and Ethel Grace Hathaway (1890-1980); one son, two daughters.	28.05.1916 Leicester, Leicestershire - 21.08.2005 Kirby Grange, Leicestershire	T/Paym.S.Lt. 29.01.1942 T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 29.01.1943 (reld 22.08.1946)	(03.1942)     no appointment listed 26.03.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 10.08.1942 - (12.)1942 HMS Melampus (RN base, Bathurst, The Gambia) 01.12.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 01.11.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Melampus II (RN base, Dakar, Senegal) 29.06.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for Mechanical Training Establishment) His daughter writes: "After Dakar, Senegal sent on Arctic convoy to Archangel. One of first into Bergen at liberation."
Bell, Edward George Anthony "Tony" Son (with one brother) of Arthur E. Bell (1876-), and Nellie Bainbridge (1878-). Married (02.03.1945, Wandsworth district, London) Eileen Muriel Quertier (06.11.1915 - 12.08.2006), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of Reginald Laurence Quertier (1883-1958), and Gweneth Muriel Wright (1894-1978); two sons, one daughter.	02.04.1914 Chertsey district, Surrey - 03.05.2008 Galsworthy Home [age 94]	T/A/Lt. 27.10.1939 T/Lt. 27.10.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 01.1945 (reld < 04.1945) DSC 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 42 [investiture 28.07.42] MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 40 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 42	Typographer & lay out man. 01.05.1938     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR) 27.11.1939 - (10.1940) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) 15.01.1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Etruscan (minesweeping trawler) 24.10.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1081 (motor minesweeper) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 16.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Epping (minesweeping base, Harwich)
Bell, Frederick George	? - ?	Paym.S.Lt. 17.08.1939 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 17.08.1940 Lt.Cdr. (S) 17.08.1948 (retd 05.12.1960) MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943	23.08.1939 - (04.1943) for duty in Admiral's Office with Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson, then HMS King George V, then HMS Duke of York, then HMS King George V] ... - ... ...
Bell, George Henry Gordon Married (12.07.1934, Surrey North Eastern district) Megan Elizabeth Jenkins (24.04.1911 - 12.2004).	16.12.1910 - 28.02.1998 Mid Surrey district, Surrey [Saint Peter and Saint Paul Churchyard, Great Missenden]	T/A/S.Lt. * 12.02.1943 T/S.Lt. 12.08.1943 T/A/Lt. 01.05.1945 (reld 01.04.1946) * An officer who is a confirmed Fighter Directing Officer, and who has qualified as a Night Fighter Directing Officer	(04.1943)     no appointment listed (06.1943)     HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) * 27.06.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Palomares (fighter direction ship) (for Deputy Fighter Direction Officer and AP duties) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 06.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Stuart Prince (fighter direction ship) 04.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (as a station officer) 13.03.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (as a station officer) Actor, businessman, writer, raconteur.
Bell, Gordon Hamilton Son (with two brothers and one half-brother) of Charles Hugh Bell (1890-1959), and Margaret Harvey Sloan (1896-1978). Brother of S.Lt. James Black Bell, RNVR.	05.04.1922 Islington district, London - 12.05.1945 (MPK) [age 23] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 95, column 3]	T/Midsh. 18.12.1941 T/A/S.Lt. 05.04.1942 T/S.Lt. 01.12.1942 T/Lt. 05.10.1944	(02.1942)     no appointment listed (04.1942)     HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven) * 13.04.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Forte IV (Coastal Forces base, Falmouth) (for motor launches) 04.01.1943 - 04.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MA/SB 36 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth)] 10.04.1944 - (10.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 318 (motor gun boat) 30.10.1944 - 12.05.1945 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 502, in 1945 renamed: HM MGB 2002 (motor gun boat) (ship loss) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Herbert Henry	? -	T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.12.1940 (reld > 06.1944 ?)	26.09.1939 - (06.1944) Department of Unexploded Bombs [later: Bomb Disposal] [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Bell, [Sir] Hugh Francis; 4th Baronet Elder son of Rev. Hugh Lowthian Bell (1878-1926), second son of 2nd Baronet, and Frances Helena Morkill. Succeeded uncle,17.11.1944. Married 1st (17.10.1947; divorced 1958) Mary Helen Mathieson, daughter of Archibald Mathieson, of London NW. Married 2nd (11.08.1959) Dr. Mary Howson, MB, ChB (1924? - 18.02.2000), daughter of George Howson; four sons. She remarried (1991) Dominick Stuart Graham.	07.12.1923 Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa - 06.08.1970 Ingleby Cross, Northallerton, Yorkshire	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.03.1944 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)	Education: Bryanston School, Blandford, Dorset.       indicated as RNVR Special Branch officer undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore (EX.S) 18.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) (04.1946)     HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, James Black Son (with two brothers and one half-brother) of Charles Hugh Bell (1890-1959), and Margaret Harvey Sloan (1896-1978). Brother of Lt. Gordon Hamilton Bell, RNVR.	12.05.1918 - 21.06.1940 (MPK) [age 22] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]	T/S.Lt. 18.09.1939	09.10.1939 - 21.06.1940 HMS Cape Howe ("Q" ship; special service vessel) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-28)
Bell, John Alan	? -	Prob. Paym.S.Lt. 14.03.1932 Paym.Lt. 14.03.1934 Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 14.03.1942 A/Cdr. (S) < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946) Cdr. (S) 1946?, seniority 31.12.1941 (retd 15.09.1952) RD ? -	14.03.1932     joined RNVR (Mersey Division) (List 2) 26.08.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney) 02.06.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 10.05.1943 - (01.)1945 Staff Supply Officer on staff of Flag Officer Carrier Training and Administration [HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs)] (07.1945)     HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, John Liddon Son of John Norman Bell (1879-1964), and Ida Cicely Liddon Vines (1890-1976). Married ((06?).1952, Blackpool, Lancashire) Kathlene Stewart.	(09?).1922 Nantwich, Congleton district, Cheshire - 16.10.2010 Nantwich, Cheshire	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 13.11.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946) * Special Branch officer who is employed on cypher duties	02.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal by Commander-in-Chief, East Indies) 04.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) (for miscellaneous duties at Aden) (04.1946)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Norman George Burnby Son (with one sister and one brother) of Charles Burnby Bell (1876-1919), and Jessie Trimmer (1876-1965)., of Iver, Buckinghamshire. Married ((06?).1945, Chelsea district, London) Cecil Anne Kyffin Raymond (née Fortescue)(12.03.1918 - 22.04.2006), daughter of Col. Arthur Fortescue, Indian Army, and Cecil Ester Kyffin Smyth (1894-1972); three sons.	06.07.1912 Burma - 06.01.1989 Bloxham, Banbury, Oxford district, Oxfordshire	S.Lt. SSRNVR(S) 01.07.1938 Lt. SSRNVR 31.07.1940 T/Lt. 23.05.1942, seniority 31.07.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: Haileybury College (1926.3-1931.2); Christ's College, Cambridge (BA 1934, MA 1946). Employed by Hovis Singapore, 1934-1939. 06.11.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Tien Kwang (auxiliary patrol vessel) 18.08.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Dauntless (D class cruiser) 08.05.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Pengail (motor launch) 18.06.1942 - 30.08.1943 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) 30.08.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty) Secretary, Locomotors Ltd., S.W. 1, motor engineers. Retired 1973. His son writes: "MRNVR 1940-1942.Singapore RNVR 42-45    RN Commando Unit J  46th and 122nd LCT Flotilla."
Bell, Peter Roocroft Kenyon Youngest son (with one brother) of Guy Kenyon Bell (1887?-1972), and Helen Beatrice Roocroft (1889-1974), of Hilldale, Tring. Brother of Capt. John Mitchell Kenyon Bell, Royal Signals. Married (04.09.1947, Parish Church, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Hendon district, Middlesex) Margaret I. Coulson, daughter of H.W. Coulson, MBE.	12.06.1925 Wigan district, Lancashire - 26.03.2000 North Devon district, Devon	T/Midsh. 24.12.1943 T/S.Lt. 12.06.1945 S.Lt. 06.12.1946, seniority 12.06.1945 Lt. 12.06.1947 Lt.Cdr. 12.06.1955 (retd 27.02.1965; own request) 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France & Germany Def M - - BWM 39|45 - - NavGSM - & clasp Minesweeping 45-51	12.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Third Officer, HM MTB 764 (motor torpedo boat) 08.10.1945 - (04.)1946 HM MTB 2013 (motor torpedo boat) 06.1946     HM MTB 2016 (motor torpedo boat) 06.12.1946     transferred, RN 22.12.1947 - (05.)105- HMS Sursay (trawler) 19.06.1950 - 1950 HMS Resource (depot ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 01.07.1950 - 1951 HMS Bellerophon (depot ship) 23.05.1951 - 1951 HMS Reward (fleet tug) 06.09.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) 07.12.1953 - (04.)1955 on staff of Flag Officer Training Squadron Home Fleet [HMS Theseus (light fleet aircraft carrier)] 12.12.1955 - (01.)1956 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 23.04.1956 - (01.)1957 HMS Bellerophon (depot ship) 07.1957 - 1958 HMS Acute (Algerine class minesweeper) 13.06.1958 - 19.09.1960 First Lieutenant, HMS Caprice (destroyer) 1960 - (07.1961) HMS Royal Arthur (RN Petty Officers' school, Corsham, Wiltshire) 08.02.1963 - (02.1964) First Lieutenant, 1st Submarine Squadron [Fort Blockhouse, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)]
Bell, Robert Graham	? - ?	T/A/S.Lt. 12.04.1940 T/S.Lt. 12.03.1941 T/Lt. 12.10.1942 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 30.05.1944 Operation Antidote (minesweeping Galita to Sousse, Tunisia 05.43) [investiture 07.11.44] MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings 09.43)	(04.1940)     no appointment listed 04.05.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Letitia (armed merchant cruiser) (08.1940)     no appointment listed (12.1940) - (12.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 25.12.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for special service) 16.06.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for 3rd Motor Launch Flotilla)  (05.1943) - (09.1943) Commanding Officer, HM ML 121 (motor launch) (DSC, despatches) 24.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 905 (motor launch) 08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 107 (motor launch) (10.1945)     HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, [Sir] Ronald McMillan Younger son of John Bell (1869-1950), and Marion Alston McCallum (1880-1957), of Cardiff. Married (06.1954, Westminster, London) Elizabeth Audrey Gossell, eldest daughter of Kenneth Gossell, MC, of Burwash, Sussex; two sons, two daughters.	14.04.1914 Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales - 27.02.1982 Westminster, London	Prob. S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 08.05.1939 Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.08.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 12.1943, < 02.1944 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 04.1946) * Special Branch Officer who is employed on meteorological duties Kt 1980; QC 1966	Education: Cardiff High School; Magdalen College, Oxford (Demy). BA 1936; MA 1941. Secretary and Treasurer, Oxford Union Society, 1935. President, Oxford University Conservative Association, 1935. Called to Bar, Gray's Inn, 1938; practised in London and on South-Eastern circuit. 08.05.1939     joined RNVR (London Division) (List 2) 25.10.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Albatross (repair ship) (12.1940) - (02.1941) no appointment listed 13.03.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall) 25.04.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) (08.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) * 01.10.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 13.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Abingdon) (for RN Air Station Halesworth) Member of Parliament (MP) (C) for Newport (Monmouth), May-July 1945. Contested Caerphilly Division of Glamorgan at by-election 1939, Newport, Monmouth, July 1945. MP (C) South Buckinghamshire, 1950-74, Beaconsfield, 1974-1982. Member Paddington Borough Council, 1947-49. Member, Select Committee on European Legislation, 1974-1982. Member Court, University of Reading, 1975-1982 Published: Crown Proceedings, 1948. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bellairs, Frank Alfred Son of John and Emma Bellairs; husband of Mildred Ethel Bellairs, of Lee, London.	24.04.1899 St Olave Southwark district. London / Surrey - 09.06.1942 (KIA) [age 43] [Beirut War Cemetery, 1.K.7]	T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?	? - 09.06.1942 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)
Bellenger, Gerald Son (with two brothers) of Joseph Bellenger (1893-1951), and Elizabeth Mary Wall (1892-1992). Married ((09?).1949, Westminster district, London) Kathleen Patricia O'Donnell (23.11.1926 - 22.04.2017); two sons, one daughter.	03.11.1925 Wandsworth district, London - 08.09.2006 Hatfield, Hertfordshire	T/Midsh. 10.03.1944 T/A/S.Lt. 03.05.1945 T/S.Lt. 03.11.1945 (reld > 10.1946)	(04.1944)     no appointment listed 16.04.1944 - (04.)1946 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) 1946 - (07.)1946 HMS Dartmouth (RN base, Dartmouth) 10.07.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Saxifrage (Flower class corvette) Advertising salesman.
Bellis, Nigel Leslie Son of ... Bellis, and ... Leigh.	17.03.1919 Leicester district, Leicestershire - 17.03.2000 Haverfordwest, Dyfed	T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940 T/Lt. 04.04.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	(02.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed (08.1942)     British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship  Chasseur 10 [Dieppe operation] (12.1942) - (08.)1943 British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Audierne" * 1943 - (12.1943) British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Bayonne" (chasseur) * (02.1944) - (10.1944) British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Malin" * (1944?)     British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Le Terrible" (destroyer) (01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] * * indexed, but not listed as such
Benbrook, Alexander George Jameson * Married (1931?) Isobel Maud (née ...). Lived at Dulwich, London (1939). * Used as last name in later life: Jameson-Benbrook.	05.09.1902 - 01.01.1960 Arundel, Worthing district, Sussex	T/Lt. 31.05.1940 (reld < 04.1946) Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison in Norwegian ships Draug & Glaisdale	Assistant District Officer, London County Council (1939). 31.05.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) (02.1941)     HMS Radiant * 21.09.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa Flow)       British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Draug" (torpedo boat)       British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Glaisdale" (escort destroyer) 09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Amzari (RN landing craft base, Vizagatapam, India) Bookseller. * indexed, but not listed as such
Benedictus, Hubert Henry Married ((06?).1941, Cuckfield district, Sussex) Marguerite Elizabeth Scardeville Bull (née Fleming) (03.11.1905 - 08.05.1978).	27.02.1908 Belgium - 20.07.1977 Appleby, Cumbria	T/Lt. 05.10.1939 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	Merchant seaman. Certified wireless watcher, British Postal Service, 03.1924. 20.05.1937     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (London Division) 05.10.1939 - (07.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS St Mirren (auxiliary trawler?) 21.07.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 23.03.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Excalibur (new entry seaman training establishment, The Brunds, Alsager, Stoke on Trent) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 01.12.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Bluebird (armed yacht) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 20.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
Bengtsson, Per Edward Lennart Son (with two brothes) of Bror Adolf Tritiof Bengtsson (1880-1964), and Annie E. Crowhurst (1880-). Married ((09?).1938, Southampton district, Hampshire) Margaret Ruth Ferraby (15.03.1914 - 01.2002); two sons, one daughter.	31.07.1910 Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of Yorkshire - 19.04.1958 Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, Poole district, Dorset	T/S.Lt. 01.11.1940 T/Lt. 01.02.1941 (reld > 04.1946)	15.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) 14.02.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (for service at Poole) 12.1941 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Roger Robert (armed patrol vessel) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Foula (minesweeping trawler) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Anthony Vilat Waters Son of ... Bennett, and ... Waters. Married ((06?).1943, Kensington district, Middlesex) ... Smith.	(12?).1919 Weymouth district, Wiltshire - 05.11.1949 Aberdeen, Scotland	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.07.1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.01.1944	20.10.1941 - (02.)1943 base radar officer, HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) * 15.04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven) 15.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Black Bat (Coastal Forces base, No. 13 wharf, Devonport) (04.1946)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) ** * initially shown as "for Y Coy. R.M. Aux.Bd." ** indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Bayford Donald Patrick Married ((03?).1940, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Rosamond S. Morgan.	27.01.1915 - 24.09.1975 Brockenhurst, New Forest district, Hampshire	T/S.Lt. 13.12.1940 T/Lt. 13.12.1941 (reld < 04.1946) MID 20.04.1943 HMS Jasper, ship torpedoed and sunk 01.12.1942	qualified for anti-submarine duties (02.1941) no appointment listed 04.02.1941 - (06.1944) HMS Abelia (corvette) [apparently aboard HMS Jasper (anti-submarine trawler) when sunk in the English Channel)] (1944?) - (1944/45?) HMS Loch Killin (frigate) (1944/45?) - (1945?) HMS Lioness (Algerine class minesweeper) 25.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon) (for miscellaneous duties) (1945?) HMS Louis (frigate)
Bennett, Derrick Kyrle Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Edward Osborne Bennett (1883-1944), and Aimée Annie Patten Collins Sherlock (1882-1969). Married ((09?).1943, Cardiff district, Glamorgan) Kate Williams (née Farmer); ... children (one son?).	27.07.1914 Hartlepool, Durham - 12.08.2011 hospital	T/S.Lt. 16.10.1939 T/Lt. 16.10.1940 (reld 01.03.1946) DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 01.05.45]	12.11.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Beauly (decoy ship) 01.01.1941 - 12.06.1944 HMS Preston North End (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (from early 1943 Commanding Officer) (DSC) 26.06.1944 - (10.1945) Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bennett, Ernest John "Jack" / "Wiggy" Son of ... Bennett, and ... Lowe. Married; ... children (one son?).	10.04.1914 St Pancras district, Greater London / London - 19.02.1970	T/A/S.Lt. 16.06.1944 T/S.Lt. 16.12.1944 T/Lt. 27.01.1947, seniority 16.12.1946 Lt. RN 1946/47?, seniority 16.12.1946 (emgcy 10.03.1952) Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy) 14.02.1955, seniority 16.12.1954 (reld 08.1955)	Constable, London Metropolitan Police. late 1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 09.09.1944 - 03.1945 HMS Queen of Kent (paddle minesweeper) (as Watchkeeping, CB & Corres Officer) (07.1945)     HMS Aristocrat (paddle minesweeper) * ? - 03.1946 HMS Aristocrat (paddle minesweeper) (as Watchkeeping Officer) 05.1946 - 07.1948 First Lieutenant, HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) 1948 - 11.1948 HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship, Reserve Fleet, Harwich) (Assistant to Commanding Officer Extended Reserve Group & OOD HMS Tyne) 20.01.1949 - 05.1949 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Assistant to Commanding Officer Extended Reserve Group) 05.1949 - 09.1951 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (as First Lieutenant Dodman T Group) 1951 - 03.1952 Commanding Officer, HM ML 2586 (motor launch) 07.02.1953 - 01.03.1954 First Lieutenant, HMNZS Tui (minesweeper) ** 01.03.1954 - 08.1955 Divisional Officer, HMNZS Philomel (RNZN depot, Auckland) Remained in New Zealand. Organisational/Stewardship assistant to the Bishop of Aotearoa (NZ). * indexed, but not listed as such ** (05.1953) indexed under HMS Philomel, but not listed as such
Bennett, Ernest Samuel Son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Rupert Wellesley Bennett (1886-1952), and Ella May Lancaster (1889-1967). Married (1937) Elizabeth Jane Rickley (1917 - 1998); three sons.	11.05.1911 Bristol, Gloucestershire - 05.10.1971 Banstead, Surrey	T/S.Lt. 01.01.1940 T/Lt. 01.04.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)	(06.1940)     no appointment listed 27.06.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Beaver (RN base, Hull) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 11.1940 - 20.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ophelia (minesweeping trawler) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 03.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Baffin (minesweeping trawler) (04.1943)     no appointment listed (06.1943)     HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn) * 07.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Canada (RN base, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS) (for miscellaneous duties) 01.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Lightfoot (minesweeper) (06.1944) - (10.1944) HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS) * 21.11.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Lysander (minesweeper) 18.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Combatant (minesweeper) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Gordon From Lockerley, Hampshire.	? -	T/S.Lt. (A) 12.07.1941 T/Lt. (A) 12.07.1942 (reld 1945/46) T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 06.1945 DSC 05.12.1944 passage convoys JW59 & RA59M [decoration posted] MID 20.06.1944 2 attacks on U-boats 04.44	Metallurgist and representative for an alloy steel firm of Sheffield. 1940     training at HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth) ?     HMS St Vincent (training establishment, Gosport) (initially training for telegraphist/air-gunner, later for pilot) ?     flying training, Elmdon Airport ?     advanced flying training, Kingston, Ont. (Canada) ?     promotion course, RN College, Greenwich ?     torpedo school, Crail 05.01.1942 - (10.1944) pilot, 825 Squadron [18.12.1943 to 07.09.1944 at HMS Vindex (escort carrier)] (01.1945)     no appointment listed 28.06.1945 - 29.10.1945 Commanding Officer, 769 Squadron FAA [HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus)]
Bennett, Leslie Son (with five brothers and two sisters) of John William Bennett, I BChem (1884-1969). and Mary Ann Randall (1885-1929). Unmarried.	19.12.1917 Parkgate, Rotherham, South Yorkshire - 11.06.1968 Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands	Electrical rating ? 1939? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.12.1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 31.12.1942 (reld 14.04.1946) * Special Branch officer for scientific duties	(02.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty experimental signal establishment, Haslemere) * 01.11.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties [worked on fleet radar equipment]) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Morris	? - 15.07.1975	T/Sg.Lt. (D) 06.08.1942 Sg.Lt. (D) 19.01.1953, seniority 05.05.1948 Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) 23.02.1954, seniority 12.07.1953 Sg.Cdr. (D) 31.12.1959 Sg.Capt. (D) 30.06.1965 (retd 30.06.1968) VRD 16.08.1963 -	Education: BA, LDS, RCS Edin 15.04.1942. 06.08.1942 - (10.)1942 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 12.10.1942 - (01.)1945 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich) 14.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Flycatcher (for Mobile Naval Air Bases) (04.1946)     HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) * 19.01.1953     Permanent RNVR (Ulster Division), from 1958 RNR 01.01.1968 - 01.07.1968 Honorary Dental Surgeon to HM The Queen Dentist, Castle Chambers, Lisburn, Co. Antrim. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Norman Harold	? -	T/Lt. 23.10.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 10.10.1945)	23.10.1939 - 06.1940 HMS Chico (echo sounding yacht) 05.06.1940 - 02.1941 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) 28.02.1941 - 06.1943 staff, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 07.06.1943 - 10.1945 HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
Bennett, [Sir] Reginald Frederick Brittain Eldest son of Samuel Robert Bennett (1876-1964), and Gertrude Brittain (1883-1946). Married (28.11.1947) Henrietta Margaret Elizabeth Crane (04.09.1926 - 04.12.2018), daughter of Capt. Henry Berwck Crane, CBE, RN (1894-1987), and Pauline Stella Grenfell (1896-1969); one son, three daughters.	22.07.1911 Sheffield, Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 19.12.2000 Hammersmith, London	Prob.Sg.S.Lt. 04.12.1934 Sg.S.Lt. 30.01.1936, seniority 04.12.1934 Sg.Lt. 23.02.1937 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 23.02.1943 (reld 17.11.1946) (retd 26.02.1948) Kt 16.06.1979 HM's birthday 1979 VRD 1944 -	Education: Winchester College; New College, Oxford (sailing Blue, 1931-1934; BM, BCh (Oxon) 1942, MA); St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW1 (LMSSA (Lond) 1937); DPM 1948. 1931 - 1934 Oxford University Air Squadron 04.12.1934     joined RNVR (London Division List 2) WW II     Fleet Air Arm, Medical Officer and Pilot; torpedoed twice: 12.09.1939 - (12.1939) HMS Cheshire (armed merchant cruiser) 08.01.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Springbank (anti-aircraft ship) 26.11.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) (06.1942)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * 16.07.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Kipanga (RN Air Station, Kilindini, Kenya) 01.10.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika) 04.07.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) 22.11.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed 06.09.1945 - (07.1946) RN Auxiliary Hospital, Knowle [HMS Victory] Company director and wine consultant: formerly psychiatrist and politician. Maudsley Hospital, SE5, 1947-1949. Member of Parliament (Conservative) (MP (C)), Gosport and Fareham, 1950-1974, Fareham, 1974-1979: Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Rt Hon. lain Macleod, 1956-1963; Chairman: House of Commons Catering Sub-Committee, 1970-1974, 1976-1979; Anglo-Italian Parliamentary Group, 1971-1979 (Honorary Secretary, 1961-1971); Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 1959-1962. Vice-President, Franco-British Parliamentary Relations Committee, 1973-1979; Member Council, lnternational Institute of Human Nutrition, 1975-1996. Helmsman: Shamrock V, 1934-1935; Evaine, 1936-1938: Olympic Games (reserve), 1936; in British-American Cup Team, 1949 and 1953 in USA; various trophies since. Chairman: Amateur Yacht Research Society, 1972-1990; World Sailing Speed Record Council, ISAF (formerly IYRU), 1980- ; Portland/West Kirby Speed Sailing Committee, RYA, 1980-1992; RYA National Match-Racing Championship Committee, 1989- 1994. RYA Yachtsman 's Award, 1999. Hon. Lt-Col, Georgia Militia, 1960; Hon. Citizen: Atlanta, Ga, 1960; Port-St Louis-du Rhöne, France, 1986. Grand Officer, Italian Order of Merit, 1977. Commandeur du Bontemps-Médoc, 1959; Chevalier du Tastevin, 1970; Galant de la Vene Marennes; Chevalier de St Etienne, Alsace, 1971; Chevalier Bretvin (Muscadet), 1973; Legato del Chianti, 1983. Published: Three chousing reers (memoir), 1997; articles on wine, medicine, psychiatry, politics and yacht racing; videotapes of yacht racing in Shamrock V. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Samuel Brittain "Tim" Son of Samuel Robert and Gertrude Bennett, of Leatherhead, Surrey.	25.05.1918 - 20.04.1942 (KIA) [age 23] [Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery, section 25, grave 506]	Prob. Midsh. 01.07.1936 A/S.Lt. 18.08.1938 S.Lt. 18.08.1939 Lt. 18.02.1941 DSC 05.05.1942 action against E-boats 15.03.42 [decoration presented to next-of-kin]	Trained as an architect (Scholar of Winchester College). M.R.I.B.A. Editor of Focus. 01.07.1936 joined RNVR, London Division 14.02.1940 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Cornelian (anti-submarine warfare trawler) 13.11.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HM MASB 47 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland)] 15.05.1941 - 20.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 87 (motor gun boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
Bennett, William Donald	? -	Prob. T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) 05.06.1944 T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.12.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	(10.1944)     no appointment listed 19.12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Duke of York (battleship) 03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Newfoundland (cruiser) (for radar duties)
Bennett, William Norman	? -	T/Lt. 17.07.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 GM 16.06.1942 mine disposal [investiture 22.09.42]	01.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth) > 07.1945 - (04.1946) Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Bennett, William Reginald Cambrai "Bill" Married Eddie ... ; one daughter, one son.	(12?).1918 Plymouth district, Devonshire - 15.01.2014 Liskeard, Cornwall	... ... T/Lt. 13.09.1943 Lt.Cdr. RN 13.09.1951 (retd) Hon. Cdr. RN ?	... - ... ... 04.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tyne ... - ... ...
Bennett de Barnesfold Peters, Lynn Haydn	see:	Peters, Lynn Haydn
Bennett-Levy, Richard Angelo Only son of Dr Leonard Angelo Levy (1885-1971), and Annie S. Samson, of St John's Wood, London NW8. Changed surname by deed poll of 05.12.1935 from Levy to Bennett-Levy. Married (21.12.1939, Kensington district, London) Valerie Moreton Sinauer (23.02.1917 - ), second daughter of Lt.Col. Esmond Moreton Sinauer (1885-1946), and Gwendoline Osborne Nathan (1890-1968), of London W14; one daughter, two sons.	05.12.1914 Willesden district, London - 08.09.1999 Haslemere, Alton district, Hampshire	Prob. S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 26.01.1939 S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 26.01.1940 Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.08.1940 Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 10.08.1948 (retd 02.02.1954) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Bur St - - It St - - Def M - - BWM 39|45 - - VRD 02.08.1951 - * Special Branch officer employed on meteorological duties	Education: Clare College, Cambridge University (MA 1940, BA 1936). 26.01.1939     joined RNVR (London Division, List 2) 25.10.1939 - (12.)1939 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex) 11.12.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton) 05.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 19.08.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Duke of York (battleship) (06.1942)     Naval Meteorological Branch, Admiralty [HMS President] * 03.06.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester) 09.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Unicorn (aircraft repair & supply ship) (02.1943)     no appointment listed (04.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Unicorn (aircraft repair & supply ship) * 16.11.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Unicorn (aircraft repair & supply ship) 04.1944 - (01.)1945 Staff Meteorological Officer on staff of Flag Officer Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] (07.1945)     no appointment listed Director, Potter & Clarke, Ltd., Barking, Essex (1960s). * indexed, but not listed as such
Benning, Albert Henry Son of Edward Ernest Benning (1896-...), and Lilian Charlotte Blackman (1893-...). Married Evelyn Violet Shepherd (born 1920), daughter of Edwin Shepherd and Annie Cecilia Douse; one daughter, two sons.	31.10.1918 Cuxton, Strood district, Kent - 14.12.2008	T/S.Lt. 02.10.1942 T/Lt. 31.10.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	(1941?) - (1942?) HMS Harrier (Halcyon class minesweeper) 01.11.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Queenborough (Halcyon class minesweeper) 03.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
Bennion, Charles George   Son (with one sister and one brother) of Claude Bennion (1886-1976), and Nora Grace Jarvis (1888-1967). Married (25.03.1941, Billesdon, Leicestershire) Biddy Chichester-Smith (02.02.1919 - 05.06.2014); one daughter, one son.	13.06.1913 Birstall, Leicestershire - 07.07.1994 Leicester, Leicestershire	T/S.Lt. 20.10.1939 TA//Lt. 20.10.1940 T/Lt. 17.12.1941, seniority 20.10.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 30.09.1944 (reld 22.03.1946) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - It St - - WM 39|45 - -	Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge University (BA, 1934). 21.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Ausonia (armed merchant cruiser) (04.1941)     no appointment listed 16.05.1941 - (01.)1945 HMS Prinses Astrid (landing ship, infantry) (Dieppe, Sicily, Normandy) 03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS, Canada) (for miscellaneous services) 26.05.1945 - 02.1946 Commanding Officer, HM LST 3504 (landing ship, tank) Shoe machinery company executive. Director, British United Shoe Machinery Co. Ltd., Leicester, 1946-1950 (assistant managing director, 1950-1954; deputy managing director, 1954-1956; managing director/director, 1956-1964; chairman, from 1964). Director of United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Boston, from 1961. Also director of associated companies in England, Australia and South Africa.
Benson, Alan Newhouse Son of William Haigh and Lily Benson. Married (1937, Bothwell district, Scotland) Jessie Jack McCready.	(09?).1903 Chesterfield district, Derbyshire - 25.10.1968 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland	S.Lt. 07.03.1927 Lt. 07.03.1930 Lt.Cdr. 07.03.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) Capt. 31.12.1949 (retd 31.12.1954) CBE 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 1954: Clyde RNVR [investiture 13.07.1954] VRD 13.02.1943 -	18.11.1939 - (12.1939) HMS Pembroke X (RN Patrol Service base, Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft) 20.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for various services) 06.04.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) (for anti-submarine warfare trawlers): 06.04.1940 - 25.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Stella Sirius (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (02.1941) - (04.)1941 HMS President (Admiralty) * (06.)1941 - (12.1943) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships) * (02.1944)     no appointment listed 25.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for Major Landing Craft Squadron duties) 11.09.1944 - (10.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Protector (net layer) 30.12.1944 - (04.)1945 Base Executive Officer, HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin, Kerala, India) 04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty at Madras) (10.1945)     HMS President (Admiralty) * Director and Secretary, Naismith & Co. Ltd., 1028 Argyle Street, Glasgow. * indexed, but not listed as such
Benson, Gerald Edward Meade Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Rev. Edward Ernest McGowan Benson (1871-1935), and May Meade (1884-1967), later of Market Lavington, Wiltshire. Married (07.1938, Honiton district, Devon) Stella Gabrielle Mary Hollis (05.01.1914 - 03.09.1993), younger daughter of the Rev. A.H. Hollis, of Beer, South Devon; two sons, three daughters.	04.06.1906 Exeter district, Devon - 03.10.1982 St Albans, Hertfordshire	Prob. Sg.Lt. 04.08.1933 Sg.Lt. 17.06.1935, seniority 04.08.1933 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 04.08.1939 (demobilized < 04.1946) (retd 04.06.1951) VRD 03.03.1948 -	Education: Keble College, University of Oxford & St Thomas's Hospital; MB, ChB, 17.07.1933; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond ,1933; BA (Oxon), MA. 04.08.1933     joined RNVR (London Division) (List 2) (12.1939) - (06.1940) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * 08.07.1940 - (08.)1940 RN Barracks Devonport [HMS Drake] 14.08.1940 - (08.)1942 HMS Coventry (cruiser) 14.09.1942 - (12.)1942 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) 07.12.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Arethusa (cruiser) 03.06.1943 - (04.)1945 HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake] & as Certifying Factory Surgeon 14.04.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for special service) 23.08.1945 - (10.1945) RN Sick Quarters Messina [HMS Hamilcar] * indexed, but not listed as such
Benson, John Cecil	04.05.1908 Chesterfield district, Derbyshire - 08.12.1990 Normanton on the Wolds, Rushcliffe district, Nottinghamshire	Midsh. 04.03.1926 S.Lt. 04.05.1929 Lt. 04.05.1931 Lt.Cdr. 04.05.1939 A/Cdr. 14.10.1943? Cdr. 31.12.1944 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 31.12.1952) DSC 06.06.1941 minesweeping operations QZX314 [investiture 18.07.1941] DSC 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.44 [award posted] MID 01.01.1943 New Year 43  VRD 17.09.1943 -	1926? joined RNVR (Clyde Division, later Mersey Division, List 2, later Humber Division, List 2) 06.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) 08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Darthema (minesweeping trawler) 26.08.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper) 14.10.1943 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Lyme Regis (Bangor class minesweeper) & as 2nd Senior Officer, 15th Minesweeping Flotilla 14.11.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Epping (minesweepers base, Harwich)
Benson, Joseph Maxwell Robertson	08.12.1916 Glasgow, Scotland - 16.08.2007 Bearsden, nr Glasgow, Scotland	T/S.Lt. 22.11.1939 T/Lt. 08.12.1941 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)	14.10.1938     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to Clyde Division RNVR) 22.11.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Seafarer 15.06.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Heliopolis (armed yacht) 04.01.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for miscellaneous duties) 21.08.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Malcolm (destroyer) (for anti-submarine duties) 14.08.1944 - (01.)1945 Port Anti-Submarine Officer and for duty with Rosyth Escort Force, HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) 28.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for miscellaneous duties)
Benson, Richard	19.02.1916 - 26.05.2014 Ilkley, West Yorkshire	T/S.Lt. 12.11.1942 T/Lt. 12.11.1943 (reld 22.10.1945)	(12.1942) - (06.1943) HMS Helder (Combined Operations base, Brightlingsea) * 06.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bentley, James Peter	? -	... ... T/Lt. 24.07.1944 MID 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 45	... - ... ... 19.06.1944 - (01.1945) Accounts Officer, HMS Cassandra (destroyer) (despatches) ... - ... ...
Bentley-Buckle, Noel William "Box" Son (with three sisters) of Arthur William Bentley Buckle (1860-1923), and Mary Eliza Bunbury (1861-1936). Married 1st ((06?).1911, Liverpool, Lancashire) Mary Josephine Rankin (24.02.1885 - 22.10.1938), daughter of Richard Rankin (1850-1920), and Emily Stanley Copeland (1859-1922); one daughter, one son [Lt.Cdr. Anthony William Bentley-Buckle, RN]. Married 2nd ((03?).1948, Westminster district, London) Dorothy Celia Timms (02.11.1913 - 1996).	26.12.1899 Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland - 09.06.1974 Mahé, Seychelles (formerly of Mombasa, Kenya)	T/Paym.Lt. 07.12.1939 T/Lt. 1941?, seniority 07.12.1939 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 12.1940, < 02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	Tea planter, Ceylon. 07.09.1939 - (07.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (from about 1942/43 for Sea Transport Duties at Colombo)
Beresford-Jones, Michael Longford Son of Arthur Beresford-Jones (1882-1974), and Evelyn Annie Freeman (1894-1983). Married ((03?).1943, Canterbury district, Kent)  Elizabeth Purefoy Chamberlain (? - 02.05.2010), of Kingstown, Co. Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Elizabeth Beresford-Jones remarried (1945) Alfred D. Parsons, later Peter Dobbs.	08.04.1919 Canterbury district, Kent - 28.05.1943 [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Hampshire, bay 4, panel 6]	T/S.Lt. (A) 07.04.1941	(06.1941)     no appointment listed 14.07.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 774 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 07.01.1942 - 24.02.1942 pilot, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh)] 25.02.1942 - 18.02.1943 pilot, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] 19.02.1943 - 28.05.1943 pilot, 810 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire)]
Berntsen, Peder James Perhaps same as: Peder James G C P Berntsen 13.02.1906 - (09?).1973 Brighton district, Sussex	? -	T/A/Lt. 20.08.1943 (reld < 04.1946) Hkn 26.08.1947 liaison in Norwegian ships Sleipner & Draug	British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Sleipner" (torpedo boat)       British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Draug" (torpedo boat) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * 06.06.1945 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian ship "Acanthus" (covette) * indexed, but not listed as such
Berry, Edward George le Gassick Son of ... Berry, and ... Arundel. Married ((06?).1935, Surrey Mid Eastern district) Constance Elizabeth Finn (04.02.1913 - 11.1994); one daughter. Residence: (1944) Claygate, Surrey.	30.05.1911 West Ham district, Essex / Greater London - 08.1991 Worthing district, West Sussex	T/S.Lt. 27.06.1940 T/Lt. 30.05.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 19.12.1951, seniority 30.05.1947 (retd 31.10.1963) DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 44 [investiture 23.05.44] 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France & Germany Pac St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - Cor M 1953 - VRD 1958 -	13.08.1940 - 10.1944 HMS Sapphire (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (from about 1942 as Commanding Officer) 10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Diligence (aircraft depot & repair ship) 19.12.1951     transferred to List II of Permanent RNVR (later RNR)
Berry, Edward William Severs Son of Noel William Berry, and Beatrice Mary Francis, of Alverstoke, Hampshire.	(06?).1920 Bridgnorth district, Shropshire - 08.05.1943 (air crash) [age 23] [Newport (Island) Cemetery, Rhode Island, NY, USA, Navy Sec. Plots 172-177. Grave 15]	T/S.Lt. (A) ?	01.04.1943 - 08.05.1943 pilot, 738 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]
Berry, John William Henry "Jack" Son of John Berry, and ... Southwell, of Southampton.	21.06.1916 Southampton, Hampshire - 04.1999 Southend on Sea district, Essex	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 01.09.1944 (reld < 04.1946) LegH 1994 ? 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France & Germany BWM 39|45 - - CorM 53 - - CoH - - Citizen of Honor of Coleville-Montgomery (France) in 1993.	Civil servant. 31.07.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (1941?) - (1945?) borne on HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) & HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) HM LCT 2307 (landing craft, tank) 03.08.1943 - ? First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2037 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)] HM LCI(S) 505 (landing craft, infantry (small)) (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HM LCI(S) 523 (landing craft, infantry (small)) (Normandy) 18.09.1944     Astral Navigation Course, Troon [HMS Dinosaur] 24.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HM LCI(L) 310 (landing craft, infantry (large))
Berry, William Jack	13.02.1910 ? East Ashford district, Kent ? - 10.1986 ? Ashford district, Kent ?	T/S.Lt. ? T/A/Lt. 01.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	02.08.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Berthon, Paul Alfred Son of ... Berthon, and ... Black. Married ((09?).1944, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Pamela Mary Philippa Corballis (died 23.02.2010, aged 91); ... children.	18.05.1914 Beverley district, East Riding of Yorkshire - 25.06.2005 North Devon district, Devon	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 15.03.1941 DSC 20.01.1942 action with enemy 27.11.41 MID 23.01.1941 sinking of Santos 13.11.40	(11.1940) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 31 (motor torpedo boat) (11.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 219 (motor torpedo boat) (1945) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
Best, John Roff Finlay Son (with one sister) of Alexander Finlay Harrower Best (1871-1918), and Lillian Annie Batterbury (1879-1962). Married (06.1937, Westminster district, London) Mary Dorothy Kean (17.08.1912 - 20.09.2000), daughter of George Capon Kean (1881-1968), and Margaret Adeliza Waldegrave (1887-1959); two sons, two daughters.	12.07.1912 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 18.09.2004 St Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands	T/S.Lt. 13.11.1941 T/Lt. 12.07.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) DSC 10.09.1944 coastal actions 23.03 & 23.05.1944 [investiture 16.10.1945] MID 05.05.1942 action E-boats 15.03.1942 MID 15.09.1942 engagement with convoy & escort 01.07.1942	Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA 1933, MA 1963). (02.1942)     no appointment listed 10.03.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Minos II * (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 5th MGB Flotilla): (03.1942)     Commanding Officer, HM MGB 91 (motor gun boat) (07.1942)     Commanding Officer, HM MGB 83 (motor gun boat) (02.1943) - (06.)1943 HMS Mantis * (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 7th MGB Flotilla) 10.07.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 698 (motor torpedo boat) 14.08.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Holyhead) Rowing coach. * HMS Minos II was renamed HMS Mantis on 26.07.1942; Navy List keeps on showing HMS Minos II until Dec 1942 list
Best, Wilfrid	(03?).1912 ? Croydon district, London ? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 1943? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 27.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc. duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature: 09.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty in Barracks, Bombay) (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Bethune-Williams, Denis Eustace	18.03.1909 - 25.01.1942 [Chatham Naval Memorial, 66,1]	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.09.1940 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 04.01.1941, seniority 29.12.1940	26.09.1940 - (02.1941) Department of Unexploded Bombs [HMS President] (for duty inside Admiralty) ? - 25.01.1942 HMCS Bytown (RCN HQ, Ottawa, Ont.)
Betts, Michael William Peto	02.04.1923 Tynemouth district, Northumberland - 31.01.2007 Isle of Wight	T/S.Lt. (A) 03.03.1944 Lt. RN 03.03.1946 Lt.Cdr. RN 03.03.1954 (retd)	(07.1945) HMS Drake * transferred to RN ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Bevan, Christopher Martin Son of ... Bevan, and ... MacKenzie. Married (1948) Patricia C. Bedford; one son, three daughters.	22.01.1923 Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex - 13.04.2008 [London?]	Ord.Sea. 1942 T/S.Lt. 07.11.1943 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1945 Lt. (L) 1946?, seniority 04.07.1944 ... ... R.Adm. RN 07.07.1976 (retd 1978)	1941 Trooper in Canterbury Yeoman Cavalry (NZ Mounted Rifles) 1942 joined RN as Ord. Seaman served remainder of 1939-1945 war, Mediterranean and N Atlantic 01.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) transferred to RN ... - ... ...
Bevan, Robert Alexander Polhill "Bobby" Son of late Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925), painter, and late Stanislawa, daughter of Alexander de Karlowski. Married (1946) Natalie, daughter of Court Denny.	15.03.1901 Cuckfield district, Sussex / West Sussex - 20.12.1974 Colchester, Essex	T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 30.07.1940 T/A/Capt. 1944? (reld < 04.1946) CBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63: Chairman S.H. Benson OBE 11.03.1941 for enterprise and devotion to duty as Liaison Officer to the French	Education: Westminster (King's Scholar); Christ Church, Oxford (Scholar) Joined S.H. Benson Ltd (advertising agents), 1923. 1940 Director of General Production, Ministry of Information 1940 - 1945 served RNVR: (1940/41?) Liaison Officer to the Free French Ship "Commandant Domine" (02.1941) no appointment listed 1944 - 1945 Deputy Chief of Naval Information, Washington * Chairman, S.H. Benson Ltd, 1954-1964. UK representative on UN Committee on Public Information, 1958. Member: Advisory Council on Middle East Trade, 1958-1963; Export Publicity Council, 1959-1963; National Advisory Council on Art Education, 1960-1964; Advertising Standards Authority, 1962-1966. FIPA (Pres., 1961). * (07.1945)  indexed as DCNI, but not listed under the Department of the Chief of Naval Information
Beveridge, John Cron Son of James & Frances Cron Beveridge. Married ...; ... children (one son?).	20.07.1919 Harbor Grace, Newfoundland - 07.02.1996 Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland	T/Sg.Lt. 11.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	Education: University of Glasgow (MB, ChB 26.10.1942). 04.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 25.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
Bevis *, Charles Gordon Scott Son of Charles Thomas Bevis (1881-1919), and Gertrude Enid Scott (1890-). Married ((12?).1948, Gosport district, Hampshire) Joan M. "Bunny" Piddocke; two sons, one daughter. * Also used as: C.G. Scott-Bevis.	10.02.1915 York district, Yorkshire - 31.10.2010 Modbury, Devon	Prob. T/S.Lt. 08.03.1940 T/A/Lt. 31.08.1940 T/Lt. 11.1942, seniority 31.08.1940 Lt. RN ?, seniority 31.08.1940 Lt.Cdr. RN 31.08.1948  (emgcy 01.11.1951) (reld 07.05.1956) F/Lt. RAF 07.05.1956 [504811] (retd 30.09.1967; own request)	(04.1940)     no appointment listed 17.04.1940 - (12.1940) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (05.1940)     4 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion ... (Boulogne) (02.1941)     no appointment listed (04.1941) - (06.1941) HMS Southdown (destroyer) * 14.07.1941 - (10.)1943 HMS Southdown (destroyer) 01.11.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Terpsichore (destroyer) (04.1946)     HMS Terpsichore (destroyer) * 16.12.1947 - (05.)1950 HMS Resource 01.07.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Bellerophon 07.05.1956     commissioned, RAF (Marine Branch) [short service commission] 01.12.1958     permanent commission, Supplementary List
Beynon, William "Bill" Married Patricia (née ...) (predeceased him).	? - 03.12.2007 [Easthampstead Park Crematorium]	T/S.Lt. 18.09.1941 T/Lt. 18.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 29.08.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted] MID 20.10.1942 attack on convoy 17.08.42 MID 21.12.1943 action 19.10.43	(12.1941)     no appointment listed 27.01.1942 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HM MTB 43 (motor torpedo boat) 11.10.1943 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 682 (motor torpedo boat) 18.10.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 741 (motor torpedo boat) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Bibby, Raymond Austin	(03?).1920 ?? Epsom district, Surrey ?? -	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 28.08.1942 T/Lt. 07.01.1945	01.10.1944 - (1945?) HMS Puffin (sloop) 30.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Rother (frigate) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Bibby, Robert Edgar Married Gillian Marigold (widow of Lt. C.W.R. Peever, RN); two daughters.	29.05.1913 - 01.1991 Lancaster district, Lancashire	T/S.Lt. (A) 08.09.1939 T/Lt. (A) 08.09.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A) < 07.1945 DSO 20.01.1942 Mediterranean flights MID 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan 03.41	Learned to fly before joining the RNVR. (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm [possibly at HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] ? - ? pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 24.11.1940 - (03.1941) pilot, 819 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) 06.1941 - 12.1941 830 Squadron [HMS St Angelo (for RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)] [(01.1944) Commanding Officer, 835 Squadron FAA ?] 12.11.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, 787 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton Warrington, Lancashire)]
Bickerton, Frank Donald Son of Frank McDowell Bickerton (1889-1972), and Alice Ann Hibbert (1887-1965), of Liverpool. Married (14.07.1945, Penzance, Cornwall) Cpl. Linda Ruby Russell, WAAF (22.05.1920 - 31.05.2009), daughter of Stanley Russell (1885-1951), and Linda Cheverton (1886-1978), of Totland Bay, Isle of Wight; two sons.	22.06.1917 West Derby district, Lancashire - 12.04.2008 Totland Bay, Isle of Wight	Ord.Sea. 26.06.1940 [JX 203168] T/S.Lt. 11.09.1941 T/Lt. 11.09.1942 (reld 28.12.1945) CBE 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 65: Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Transport	Education: Liverpool Collegiate School. Entered Clerical Class, Ministry of Health, Public Relations Division, 08.1935-1940. 26.06.1940 - 02.09.1940 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) 03.09.1940 - 28.10.1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 29.10.1940 - 09.05.1941 HMS Mauritius (cruiser) [until 13.12.1940 tender to HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)] 10.05.1941 - 04.07.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 05.07.1941 - 10.09.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (10.1941)     no appointment listed 03.11.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches) 07.1942 - 09.1942 HM ML 280 (motor launch) * 07.10.1942 - 31.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 338 (motor launch) [involved in the invasions of Algiers, Sicily and Italy and South France and based in Gibraltar, Algiers, Malta, Leghorn and Ischia in 25th & 3rd ML Flotillas] (07.1945)     no appointment listed Ministry of National Insurance (later Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance), 1946-1961: initially Assistant Press Officer and in charge of Information Division, 1952-1961; Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Transport, 1961-1968; Controller (Home), Central Office of Information, 1968-1971.Director General, Central Office of Information, and Head of Government Information Service, 1971-1974. * from external source; the Navy List has no appointment for this period
Biddle, Robert Henry	? - 1993	T/S.Lt. 15.07.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Biddlecombe, Lewis Gordon Son (with one brother) of Albert Francis Biddlecombe (1887-1961), and Katherine Whitton Box (1887-1965). Married ((12?).1942, Surrey North Eastern district) Enid Mary Jenkins (10.04.1920 - 25.10.2006), daughter of Arthur Jenkins, and Alice Stilwell; one daughter, one son.	30.04.1921 Brentford district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex - 02.1997 Petersfield district, Hampshire	T/S.Lt. 31.07.1942 T/Lt. 31.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)       HMS Carnation (corvette) 03.11.1942 - (02.)1943 HM ML 2048 (motor launch) [based at HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)] 19.04.1943 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HM ML 273 (motor launch) (07.1945)     HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) * 21.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bielski, Anthony Edward Youngest son (with one brother) of Charles Bielski (1875-1957), and Muriel Helen Seaholme (1891-1975). Married (30.11.1955, Cardiff district, Glamorganshire) Alison Joy Prosser (24.11.1925 - ), poet, writer & lecturer, formerly married (1948) to Dennis Ford Treverton Jones (1914-1950) [with one son], daughter of Ronald Morris Prosser, and Hilda Florence Mugford; one daughter.	21.10.1925 Cardiff district, Glamorganshire - 22.03.1983 Kensington and Chelsea district, London	T/Midsh. 30.09.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 20.05.1945 T/S.Lt. 20.11.1945 S.Lt. 19.09.1947, seniority 20.11.1945 Lt. 20.05.1948 Lt.Cdr. 20.05.1956 (retd 01.07.1973) 39|45 St - - Bur St - - WM 39|45 - - VRD ? - VRD 12.01.1971 -	30.09.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty) [served in Burma] 19.09.1947     transferred to List I of Permanent RNVR (South Wales Division)
Billany, Reginald Howard Son of ... Billany, and ... Bowers. From Hessle near Hull. Married ((09?).1940, Holderness district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Mary E. Nicholson.	14.05.1913 Hessle, Sculcoates district, Yorkshire - East Riding - 16.02.1966 South Shields, Durham	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. 26.05.1944 T/Lt. 01.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	14.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Rushen Castle (corvette) 11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Northmark (ex-German fast fleet attedendant oiler)
Billing, Walter	? -	T/S.Lt. 02.04.1942 T/Lt. 02.07.1942 (reld < 04.1946)	25.04.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Traveller (submarine) (02.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed 01.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Roseden (RNPS trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Billington, Robert Edward Son (with one sister and two brothers) of Edward Eric Billington (1889-1950), and Edith Roberta Wilson (1888-1967). Married 1st ((03?).1943, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Marjorie Elaine H. Burrell ((09?).1921 - ); ... children (three daughters?). Married 2nd (07.1985, Congleton and Crewe district, Cheshire) Ilona Barbara Morris (02.1922 - 08.1988).	10.06.1917 Wirral district, Cheshire - 01.1999 Birkenhead district, Cheshire	Prob. S.Lt. 19.01.1939 A/Lt. 19.07.1941 (reld 05.04.1946) DSC 29.08.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted] DSC 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon (South of France 08.44) [decoration posted]	19.01.1939     joined RNVR (Mersey Division) 1939     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (12.1939) - (03.1940) no appointment listed 28.03.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Vindictive (fleet repair ship) (04.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed (10.1942)     HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) * (12.1942) - (02.1943) Admiralty [HMS President] * 20.03.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 20.08.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for Boom Commando Duties) (in charge of Boom Defence Commando Party): (06.1944) - (08.1944) Landing Craft Obstacle Clearing Unit No. 1 (LCOCU 1) (DSC and Bar) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Bincham, Leslie Wilfred Son of ... Bincham, and ... Allen. Married ((06?).1939, Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire) Lana I. Priest; ... children (one son?).	24.09.1914 Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire - 19.04.2007 Newbury, Berkshire	T/A/S.Lt. (E) 14.10.1942	temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements 03.02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Ruler (escort carrier) 02.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Neston Camp, Wirral)
Birch, Charles Richard	? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 03.09.1943 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 03.03.1944 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) > 12.1943, < 02.1944 (reld 02.01.1945; medically unfit) * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	13.09.1943 - (10.1944) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
Birch, Walter Lees Son (with one younger sister) of Walter Metcalfe Birch (1871-1957), and Alice Hyde Lees (1876-1952). Married ((12?).1954, Birkenhead, Cheshire) Ann Muriel Forrest (12.04.1905 - 27.12.1988).	27.06.1898 Chorlton district, Lancashire - 18.12.1965 Clatterbridge General Hospital, Bebington, Wirral, Cheshire (formerly of Noctorum, Birkenhead)	2nd.Lt. 11.03.1915 Lt. 12.03.1917 Capt. 13.05.1925 Prov. Maj. 10.10.1925 Maj. 21.09.1926, seniority 10.10.1925 (dismissed the service by sentence of a General Court Martial 27.07.1930) T/S.Lt. 13.03.1941 T/Lt. 13.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946) A/T/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1942, < 12.1942 to 15.04.1943	11.03.1915 - 27.07.1930 commissioned, 6th Battalion The Cheshire Regiment - Territorial Army Silk agent employer. (04.1941)     no appointment listed 15.04.1941 - (10.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Waterfly (auxiliary minesweeping trawler) 09.10.1941 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Oku (minesweeping trawler) (02.1942)     no appointment listed (04.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) * 30.01.1943 - 15.04.1943 HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) 16.04.1943 - (04.1946) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] The son of a wealthy Manchester merchant and agent, Walter Birch enjoyed the thrill of fast sports and, riding a Sunbeam motor cycle, took part in the inaugural Manx Grand Prix in 1923 (then known as the Manx Amateur Road Races). Birch competed in the Isle of Man TT three times, with his best finish being 16th in the 1927 Senior TT. However, in the amateur Manx Grand Prix, he finished second in the 1928 senior race, behind the defending champion Tim Hunt. That same year he was pipped for third place in the junior GP by two seconds. He competed in the Manx GP eight times, finishing in the top eight on four occasions. It was with a touch of irony that in 1922, Birch had been fined ten shillings (50 pence), by the Morecambe Borough Court, for riding a motor cycle - without a driving licence! The same year that Birch enjoyed his best Isle of Man finish, 1928, he teamed up with Henry Martineau, Eddie Hall, John Gee and John, Earl of Stair in the Great Britain II bobsleigh at the St. Moritz Olympics. They finished ninth, one place above the Great Britain I team. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bird, Geoffrey Robert "Dickie" Son of Edward R. Bird, and Beatrice E. Lawrence. Married (27.09.1985, Wheatley, Bullingdon, Oxfordshire) Mrs Jean C. Judd (21.05.1940 - ), daughter of Ronald Charles Cadell Macdonald, and Ethel Mary Armstrong.	02.02.1922 Mutford district, Norfolk / Suffolk - 24.03.2011	T/S.Lt. (A) 09.04.1943 T/A/Lt. (A) < 01.1945 T/Lt. (A) 09.04.1945 (reld < 04.1946) 39|45 St - - Atl St - - It St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - MaltGC M - - Rsn Con - -	pilot, 785 Squadron FAA       pilot, 767 Squadron FAA       pilot, 766 Squadron FAA       pilot, 813 Squadron FAA       pilot, 815 Squadron FAA       pilot, 826 Squadron FAA       pilot, 798 Squadron FAA 10.01.1944 - (04.)1944 pilot, 822 Squadron FAA       pilot, 747 Squadron FAA       pilot, 758 Squadron FAA 08.04.1944 - (01.)1945 pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)] [took part in raids on German battleship Tirpitz 08/09.1944] (07.1945)     no appointment listed Post-war in Royal Naval Supplementary Volunteer Reserve.
Bird, Grahame Henry	18.02.1912 - 30.11.1968 Bitton, Gloucestershire	Prob. Midsh. 10.12.1931 A/S.Lt. 03.08.1933 S.Lt. 17.09.1934 Lt. 14.08.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944 Lt.Cdr. 14.08.1945 (retd 02.03.1950) DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 03.07.45] VRD 28.09.1945 -	10.12.1931     joined RNVR (Severn Division) 19.08.1939 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant [then Commanding Officer ??], HMS Harrow (Hunt class minesweeper) 10.09.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Blackpool (Bangor class minesweeper)
Bird, John Samuel	? -	Midsh. (A) ? T/S.Lt. (A) 11.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)	05.12.1942 flying Hurricane Mk I (Z4702), he collided mid-air with another Hurricane near Godney; both aircraft lost, pilots survived 06.1943 - 08.1944 pilot, 1834 Squadron FAA 31.08.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, HMS Garuda (RN aircraft repair yard, Coimbatore, India)
Bird, Ralph Anthony "Tony" / "Dickie" Son of Bruce Stanley Bird, and Lilian Mary Mason. Married (01.1949, Randwick, Stroud district, Gloucestershire) Third Officer Florence Jessie Paul, WRNS (21.08.1921 - 20.05.1982); three children.	02.04.1924 Cowbridge, Bridgend district, Glamorganshire - 04.2022 still alive	T/A/S.Lt. 02.03.1945 T/S.Lt. 02.09.1945 (reld 05.08.1946)	Education: Wycliffe College, Stonehouse (School House, 1940-1942). 1942     HMS Raleigh (for training)       HMS Escapade (destroyer) (Atlantic convoys & N Africa) (06.1944)     HMS Clematis (Flower class corvette) 31.03.1945 - (04.)1946 HM LST 3037 (landing ship, tank) An evacuee sent to Lampeter in Ceredigion. He went onto join the Royal Navy in 1942 serving on a destroyer in the Mediterranean and English Channel. He was then reassigned to Fleet Air Arm cadet training in the US before his training was cut short and he was sent to take part in D Day. After the defeat of Germany he was sent to the Far East where he aided the repatriation of civilian prisoners of war from Sumatra as well as British and Indian troops from Burma. Post-war Tony joined the family agricultural engineering business in Gloucester, Cowbridge and Stafford dealing in Ferguson and Massey-Harris equipment of all types.
Bird, Robert	? -	Prob. S.Lt. 03.10.1938 S.Lt. 03.10.1939 Lt. 01.08.1941 (reld < 04.1946) Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1952 (retd late 1950s) MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44 VRD ? -	03.10.1938 joined RNVR (Tyne Division) 01.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (12.1941) anti-submarine course * (1942) HMS Onslow (destroyer) (1944?) HMS Musketeer (destroyer) 18.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for miscellaneous duties) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bird, Robert Alister	1924 Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, Scotland - 1980 Johnstone district, Renfrewshire, Scotland	T/A/S.Lt. 1943? T/S.Lt. 09.04.1944	11.09.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Bird, Timothy Joseph	1911 ? - (12?).1968 ? Barnsley district, West Riding of Yorkshire ?	T/Sg.Lt. 27.12.1939 T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: MB, BCh (06.04.1939; National University of Ireland), BAO. 16.01.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) 15.11.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for various services) 10.05.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Garuda (RN aircraft repair yard, Coimbatore, India) (07.1945)     HMS Garuda (RN aircraft repair yard, Coimbatore, India) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bird, William Leslie Son of ... Bird, and ... Eccles. Married ...; ... children (one son?).	01.02.1925 Southampton district, Hampshire - 03.01.2009 Launceston	T/Midsh. 07.04.1944 T/A/S.Lt. 01.08.1944 T/S.Lt. 01.02.1945 (reld > 07.1946)	25.05.1944 - (04.)1945 HM LST 65 (landing ship, tank) 21.06.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) (for miscellaneous services) 15.09.1945 - (10.1945) HM LST 3511 (landing ship, tank) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 06.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Antares (Algerine class minesweeper)
Birkett, Dennis Albert Son of ... Birkett, and ... Hawley. Married ...; ... children (one son?).	06.02.1925 Lambeth district, London - 21.08.1995 Barnstaple, Devon	T/Midsh. 19.08.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 06.08.1944 T/S.Lt. 06.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	19.08.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft) 06.02.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Birkett, Kenneth Jack	(03?).1913 ?? Mile End Old Town district, London / Middlesex ?? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.09.1943 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1945 MBE 18.04.1944 mine disposal	29.03.1943 - (06.1944) Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) 01.12.1944 - (04.1946) Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Birkin, David Leslie Son (with two brothers) of Harry Lawrence Birkin (1872-1951), and Olive Isobel Russell (1882-1960). Married (09.11.1943) Judy Mary Campbell (31.05.1916 - 06.06.2004); one son (director Andrew Birkin), two daughters (one of which is actress Jane Birkin).	12.11.1914 Chilwell, Basford district, Nottinghamshire - 06.03.1991 Chelsea, London	T/S.Lt. 14.01.1942 T/Lt. 14.01.1943 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 09.03.1945 DSC 15.08.1944 special operations with 15th MGB Flotilla [investiture 24.10.1944]	Education: Harrow School (1928-1929); Trinity College, Cambridge. (06.1942) - (12.1942) HMS President (additional; for Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty) * 14.01.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS President (additional; for Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty) (08.1943) - (01.1945) HMS President (additional; for duty with Deputy Director of Operations Division (Irregular)) * 09.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS President (additional; for duty with Operations Division, Admiralty; for duty outside Admiralty and for liaison with Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD)) 1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Farmer. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bishop, Robert Anthony "Robbie" Married ...; five children.	17.02.1921 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 14.08.2016 Bouncers Farm, Wickham Bishops, Maldon, Essex	T/S.Lt. 14.05.1942 T/Lt. 14.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946) MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations 09-11.43	Education: Oxford University (1939-1940, 1946-1948; BA, MA). (08.1942)     no appointment listed 01.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for motor torpedo boats) 08.03.1943 - (02.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM ML 354 (motor launch) (despatches) 07.03.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for motor launches) 16.08.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 348 (motor launch) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Diplomat, Official. Deputy Director, Investment Center, Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bisset, Alexander Hitchon Son of James Milne Bisset, and Hilda Kathleen Baillie (1886-1971). Married (10.12.1938, St Augustine's, Honor Oak Park, Camberwell district, Surrey) Elizabeth Williamson Park (08.10.1910-05.08.2000), daughter of James Harvey Williamson Park, OBE (1867-1939), civil engineer for the main Post Office in Singapore, later of London SE23; two sons, one daughter.	21.10.1913 Glasgow, Scotland - 18.04.2000 Winchester, Hampshire [ashes interred in the Garden of Remembrance at Compton Parish Church, Winchester]	T/S.Lt. 18.12.1941 T/A/Lt. 18.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)	HMS Birmingham (cruiser) 23.02.1942 - (07.1945) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bittleston, Hugh David Married ((03?).1935, Westminster district, London) Gerda J. Byford (née Meyer).	31.03.1901 Charlton, Woolwich district, London - 31.12.1955 Mashonaland, South Africa	Army:   Pte. ? 2nd Lt. 21.08.1940 [144249] (reld 10.02.1941; on appointment to a commission in the RNVR) RNVR:   T/Lt. 10.02.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	Merchant, Java. 21.08.1940     commissioned, Royal Fusiliers [emergency commission] (12.1941)     HMS Nonpareil (destroyer) * 06.09.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM LST 412 (landing ship, tank) 11.09.1945 - (04.1946) an Assistant to Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Bittlestone, John	(06).1909 ? Sunderland district, Co. Durham / Tyne and Wear ? -	T/Lt. 12.09.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	04.09.1941 - 09.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Edwina (minesweeping trawler) 11.11.1942 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ben Torc (minesweeping trawler) (07.1945)     no appointment listed
Black, Allan William	? -	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.02.1943	26.10.1942 - (04.1946) Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, redesignated 01.02.1946: Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
Black, William George Berry Married ...; ... children (one son?).	14.09.1924 - 27.07.2003 East Dorset	T/A/S.Lt. (A) 21.11.1944 T/S.Lt. (A) 21.05.1945 S.Lt. (A) RN 22.05.1946, seniority 21.05.1945 Lt. RN 22.09.1949, seniority 21.05.1947 Lt.Cdr. RN 21.05.1955 Cdr. RN 31.12.1959 (retd 01.05.1975; own request) OBE 01.01.1975 New Year 1975	(01.1945)     no appointment listed 15.03.1945 - (10.1945) pilot, 1791 Squadron FAA 01.03.1946 - (04.)1946 pilot, 784 Squadron FAA [HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Dale, Pembrokeshire)] 22.05.1946     extended service commission, RN 08.1946 - (10.1946) pilot, 816 Squadron FAA ... - ... ... 22.09.1949     permanent commission, Executive Branch RN ... - ... ..
Blackburn, David Randall Married ((03?).1936, Pontefract district, Yorkshire) Margaret Sadie Backhouse ((09?).1909 - ).	07.05.1910 Pontefract, Yorkshire - 01.2001 East Dorset	T/A/S/Lt. 17.09.1943 T/S.Lt. 17.03.1944 T/Lt. 01.06.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	18.10.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier)
Blackie, John Stuart	? -	T/A/S.Lt. ? T/S.Lt. ? T/Lt. 27.08.1944 MID 20.10.1942 sinking U-boat 04.08.42	27.02.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 15.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Caesar (flotilla leader) 03.1946 - (04.1946) HM LST 2 (landing ship, tank)
Blackman, Cyril William Thurza Son of Thomas Walter Blackman, and .... Eaton. Married 1st ((06?).1943, Loughborough district, Leicestershire) Bessie J. Gilks. Married 2nd ((12?).1969, Wolverhampton district, Staffordshire) Edith A.S. "Nancy" Vincent.	20.12.1914 Loughborough, Market Harborough district, Leicestershire - 09.1994 Telford, Shrewsbury district, Shropshire	T/Lt. 15.01.1943 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1944, < 01.1945	02.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs) 08.12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
Blackmore, Cuthbert "Bert"   Married Mary ...; two sons, two daughters.	01.07.1917 Londonderry, N. Ireland - 07.08.2008 St Catherine's hopice, Scarborough	T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 15.09.1941 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 1941 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.09.1942 (reld 09.1946)	Started work in the branch office of a London company engaged in the manufacture of engineering supplies. 06.1940 - 1940 training, HMS Collingwood 1940 - 1941 Ordinary Seaman, HMS Jersey (destroyer) (Atlantic & Mediterranean) 1941 HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (commissioned) 20.10.1941 - 03.1944 Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty): based at Immingham, Belfast, Tyne & training courses at HMS Volcano (Bomb Disposal Training Establishment, Holmrook, Cumberland)  03.1944 - 09.1945 HMS Nile (base, Alexandria) (mine disposal duties) (Turkey; BYMS 2075 (British Yard minesweeper); Greece and Dodecanese) 09.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Sultan (base, Singapore) Returned to work for his old employer in Hull , in due course taking over management of the branch. Theological training at The Queens College, Birmingham. Ordained into the Priesthood of the Church of England in York Minster 1959. Vicar St. Martin's, Seamer 1966-1984. Retired from active ministry 1984. Manuscript: The explosive years : exploits of a Royal Navy bomb and mine disposal officer, 1940-1946 (1994)
Blackwall, Richard Eaton "Dick" Only son (with one sister) of Charles Victor Henry Cheetham Blackwall, TD, and Elsa Steere Blackwall, of Dôlhyfryd, nr Denby, North Wales. Married (04.12.1942, Russian Cathedral, New York, USA) Tatania Irena Djeneeff (30.05.1922 -12.09.1995), daughter of Ivan A. & Olga Djeneeff, of New York, USA; one son, one daughter. Tatiana Blackwall remarried Frank Waldron, with whom she had children (two daughters?).	09.06.1920 Chorlton district, Lancashire - 24.06.1948 Mount Kenya Hospital, Nyeri, Kenya	T/S.Lt. 01.01.1942 T/Lt. 01.07.1944 (reld 25.05.1946)	may have been in command of an LCI(L) (landing craft, infantry (large)) of 1st LCI(L) Flotilla at some point (02.1942) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (10.1944)     HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) * (01.1945)     no appointment listed 03.1945 - 04.1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) 14.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Monck (HQ Combined Training, Largs & RN Barracks and landing craft base, Port Glasgow) (for disposal) * indexed, but not listed as such
Blair, James "Jimmy"	02.12.1913 - 13.03.2006 Stranraer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland	Ord.Sea. 11.1940 [C/JX 229285] T/S.Lt. 06.11.1941 T/Lt. 06.11.1942 (reld 18.03.1946) - Gk 03.04.1945 Medal for Outstanding Acts (Greece): Sicilian operations 09.43	11.1940     HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 29.03.1941     HMS Royal Eagle (paddle steamer) 1941     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Lancing, Sussex) 11.1941     anti-submarine course, Campbeltown (12.1941) - (02.1942) no appointment listed 10.02.1942 - 19.03.1943 HMS Derwent (destroyer) [under construction at Barrow; commissioned 03. 1942; left UK 02.08.1942; convoy escort Freetown, Gibraltar, escort carriers to Malta, Operation Pedestal; torpedoed and sunk at Tripoli] 14.04.1943 - (04.)1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, HHMS Kanaris (Greek ship) [anti-aircraft support for landings at Augusta, Sicily; collision with HMS Hawkins, docked at Massawa] 05.1944 - 11.1944 HMS Exmoor (destroyer) [given "qualified officer" status] 09.02.1945 - 06.1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Venomous (destroyer) [Operation Apostle, Kristiansand South, Norway] 07.1945 - (10.1945) joined HMS Havelock (destroyer) with Captain and crew of HMS Venomous [towed to Grangemouth to await scrapping]
Blair, Matthew Goldie Son of Capt. William Robert Blair, MC, M.A., LL.B., The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (?-1947?), and Sarah Band Murdoch. Married (04.04.1952) Edith Margarethe Hansen, from Norway; two sons.	17.09.1924 Cambuslang, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 18.11.2008 Cromwell Hospital, London (formerly of Helsmdale, Highland, Scotland)	Ord.Sea. 19.11.1942 [C/JX 375770] T/Midsh. 10.09.1943 T/A/S.Lt. 17.03.1944 T/S.Lt. 17.09.1944 T/Lt. 01.06.946 (reld > 07.1946) Lt. 29.04.1947, seniority 01.06.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1954 (retd 01.06.1966) VRD 15.10.1958 -	Junior clerk. 19.11.1942     enlisted, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich) [released to unpaid reserve] 29.12.1942 - 19.03.1943 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich) 20.03.1943 - 30.03.1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 31.03.1943 - 18.06.1943 HMS Anemone (corvette) [tender to HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)] 19.06.1943 - 19.06.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 20.06.1943 - 09.09.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (10.1943)     no appointment listed 15.11.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Fort York (Bangor class minesweeper) 03.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS) (for miscellaneous duties) 01.06.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Mariner (Algerine class minesweeper) 18.06.1946 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 1008 (motor minesweeper) 29.04.1947     transferred, Permanent RNVR (List I) (from 1958 RNR)
Blampied, John Edward de Faye Son of Harold John Blampied, MB, BS (1893-1949), and Katherine Mary Blampied (née ...).	1924 Jersey - 2007	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.05.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.11.1944	Education: Sherborne School, Dorset (1938-1942). Farmer. (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945)     no appointment listed 27.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire) (04.1946)     HMS Scalpay (minesweeping trawler) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bland, Edwin   Son of ... Bland, and ... Waite. Married; one son (Col Richard Edwin Bland, Royal Military Police, who served 1960-1990).	20.01.1913 Sutton-in-Craven, near Kildwick, Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire - 10.05.1981 Walton, Wakefield, Yorkshire	Ord. Coder 04.05.1943 [P/JX 508522] T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 16.12.1943 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 17.06.1944 T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.) < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)	Education: Thornes House School, Wakefield 04.05.1943 enlisted & served in the ranks as a Coder 16.12.1943 commissioned in the RNVR as a specially selected rating 06.03.1944 joined Submarine Service 06.03.1944 - 25.05.1944 HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) (additional for submarine BNLO course) 26.05.1944 - 12.08.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Dzik [Polish submarine] (9th Submarine Flotilla) [HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Holy Loch)] 13.08.1944 - 30.03.1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Dzik [Polish submarine] (9th Submarine Flotilla) [HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee)] 31.03.1945 - 1946? British Naval Liaison Officer, Attilio Regolo [Italian light cruiser] (Mediterranean) [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *] Working life, from 14 years old until his death, less war service, spent as a worsted spinner in Yorkshire (A. Haley and Co. Ltd., Managing Director since 1967). Member of the Board, Worsted Spinners' Federation. Chairman, Wakefield and District Master Spinners' Association. Chairman, Wool (& Allied) Textile Employers' Council. President, Leeds Polyglot Society. * appointment to HMS Fabius dated 31.03.1945 and again 12.04.1945; second date might be actual posting to the Italian cruiser
Blandy, Walter Frederick	27.02.1906 - 22.11.1984 Grand Canary, Spain	T/Lt. 16.12.1939 T/A/Cdr. ? Cdr. 1950s OBE 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon	HMS Byrsa 01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Stag (base, Port Said) (for sea transport duties)
Blaschek, Alexander Charles Married (Sussex) ... Robeon; ... children (one daughter?).	21.10.1911 - 1979 Eastbourne, Sussex	T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 19.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	Worked for Asiatic Petroleum Company. (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed [sent out to Australia and sailed on a ship from Australia to Hong Kong just after Hiroshima and went in as part of the Rehabilitation Force]
Blaxell, Lionel Henry Son of Henry May Blaxell, and Emily E. Drake. Married; ... children (one son?). From Stockton-on-Tees.	01.09.1920 Rochford district, Essex - 28.12.2007 Stockholm, Sweden	T/A/S.Lt. 17.04.1941 T/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 T/Lt. 17.10.1943 (reld 29.06.1946) OBE 11.06.1977 HM's birthday & silver jubilee: as Senior Commercial Officer, H.M. Embassy, Stockholm DSC 15.09.1942 action 20.07.42 [investiture 03.11.42] 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp Afr St - & clasp It St - - WM 39|45 - - MID 03.04.1945 attack enemy convoy Aegean 08.11.44	01.04.1940 - 06.1940 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 07.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Witherington (modified W class destroyer) 01.1941 - 05.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 28.06.1941 - 06.1942 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for various services):       First Lieutenant, HM MGB 55 (motor gun boat) (4th MGB Flotilla) 06.1942 - 20.07.1942 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 322 (motor gun boat) (wounded in action) 07.1942 - 11.1942 convalescence in a hospital near London 29.10.1942 - 08.1943 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 638 (motor torpedo boat) (Mediterranean) 09.1943 - 11.1943 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 667 (motor torpedo boat) (Malta & La Maddalena) 29.12.1943 - 20.02.1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 307 (motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla) (Alexandria and Castelorizzo) * 02.1945 - 05.1945 HMS Easton (Hunt class destroyer) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 01.08.1945 - 04.1946 HMS Offa (O class destroyer) (Home Waters, Germany, Sweden) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 1950 - 1970 Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve Founder Member and Honorary Member of the the Association of British and Commonwealth Servicemen & Women in Sweden. Published: Through the hawse pipe 1939-1946 : memoirs of Lionel H. Blaxell, OBE, DSC (privately printed, 1992) * date of appointment according to family records 20.11.1943
Bleck, Basil	? -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 22.11.1940 T/Lt. 22.02.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 T/A/Cdr. < 07.1945	(02.1941)     no appointment listed 20.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS California (armed merchant cruiser) 11.06.1942 - (02.1943) on staff of Principal British Naval Liaison Officer to Allied Navies [HMS President] (10.1944)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Bligh, [Sir] Timothy James "Tim" Elder surviving son of Sir Edward Bligh; married 1945, Ruth Pamela Robertson; two sons, one daughter.	02.09.1918 - 12.03.1969 [Swanley Village, Kent ?]	Prob. T/S.Lt. 08.12.1939 T/S.Lt. 10.1940, seniority 08.12.1939 T/Lt. 08.06.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 1944 KBE 22.10.1963 ? OBE 11.09.1945 surrender of German naval forces Adriatic DSO  13.02.1945 attack enemy convoy 11.10.44 DSC 11.07.1944 E-boat sunk 04.04.44 DSC 05.12.1944 Adriatic & Aegean coastal operations MID 15.06.1943 attack enemy convoy 15.02.43 MID 14.09.1943 action off Kelibia 08.05.43 MID 02.05.1944 action 29.01.44 MID 21.11.1944 Coastal Forces West coast Italy & Dal... 06.44	Education: Winchester; Balliol College, Oxford (Scholar; BA) 1939 - 1945 twice wounded; served in destroyers (Norway and Western Approaches), in motor launches (Channel Convoys, 1941) and motor torpedo boats and motor gun boats (Mediterranean): 26.02.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Electra (destroyer) 07.01.1941 - (02.1941) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for Fort Blockhouse) (02.1943) - (05.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 61 (motor torpedo boat) 04.07.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat) & Senior Officer, 57th MGB Flotilla (1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 634 (motor torpedo boat) Assistant Principal, HM Treasury, 1946; Principal, 1947; Secretary to Three Advisers, 1948; Private Secretary to Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Official Head of HM Civil Service, 1949; Assistant Secretary, 1954; Under­Secretary, 1959; Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1959-1964; Deputy Under­Secretary of State (Air) during August 1964. Assistant Managing Director, Thomson Organisation since 1966 (Director, 1964-1966). Alderman, GLC 1967.
Bloomfield, William Husband of Florence May Bloomfield, of Thornton, Blackpool.	1895 ? - 02.05.1944 (died of illness) [age 49] [Thornton-le-Fylde (Christ Church) Churchyard, Lancashire, plot F.L.4, grave 107]	Chief Engineman ? [LT/258EU] T/S.Lt. (E) ? BEM 01.01.1941 New Year 41 [investiture 17.06.41]	(1940)     HMS Regal (anti-submarine warfare trawler) ? - 02.05.1944 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
Bloor, Frank	? -	Prob. T/S.Lt. 11.07.1940 T/S.Lt. 1941?, seniority 11.07.1940 T/Lt. 08.04.1941 (reld < 04.1946)	17.08.1940 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, "Honningsvåg" (Norwegian patrol craft) (10.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     no appointment listed (12.1941)     no appointment listed (10.1944)     no appointment listed 10.11.1944 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cape Mariato (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (07.1945)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Bloor, Frank	? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 21.10.1944	08.05.1944 - (06.1944) Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (07.1945)     Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining [HMS President] * 01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Bomb and Mine Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) * indexed, but not listed as such
Blore, Trevor George Vernon "Digger" Son (with one sister) of George Thomas Blore (1880-1917), and Esther Grace Lyons (1881-1934). Married 1st ((12?).1928, St Marylebone district, London; divorced) Marise De La Force. Married 2nd ((06?).1937, Holborn district, London) Gizi (Gisella) De Zsemley (25.03.1879 - 1973); two daughters (one of which adopted).	13.07.1905 Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - 19.11.1972 Hammersmith, London	Prob. T/S.Lt. 05.08.1940 T/Lt. 05.11.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 08.1942, < 10.1942 (reld 28.02.1945; medically unfit)	01.01.1919 - 22.03.1921 Cadet Midshipman, Permanent Naval Forces (Australia) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 02.11.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) 01.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Arab (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (06.1941) - (02.1942) Press Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * 11.03.1942 - 28.02.1945 Press Division, Admiralty [HMS President] Journalist. Overnight editor of Reuters News Agency & radio commentator on maritime affairs. Published: Terriers of the fleet : the fighting trawlers (1943); Turning point - 1943; (1945); Commissioned bargees : the story of the landing craft (1946); Escape to hilife ; a gourmet goes to sea (1964). Fiction: The house of living death (1946). * indexed, but not listed as such
Blount, [Sir] Walter Edward Alpin; 12th Baronet Son of Sir Edward Robert Blount, 11th Bt (1884-1978), and Violet Ellen Fowler (1884-1969). Succeeded father, 21.01.1978. Married (25.06.1954, St Maylebone district, London) Eileen Audrey Carritt, daughter of late Hugh Blasson Carritt and Audrey Browning; one daughter.	31.10.1917 Farnham district, Surrey / Kent - 18.12.2004 Haywards Heath district, West Sussex	T/S.Lt. 22.11.1939 T/Lt. 20.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946) DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 43 [investiture 09.03.43] DSC 13.02.1945 attack enemy convoy 11.10.44 [decoration posted] DSC 24.07.1945 action Istrian Coast 13.02.45 [decoration posted]	Education: Beaumont College; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (MA). 09.02.1937     joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR) 1939 - 1939 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 22.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Escalonia (motor fishing vessel) (Scapa Flow) 1941 - 1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) 15.09.1941 - 14.09.1942 First Lieutenant, then Commanding Officer, HM MASB 24 (motor anti-submarine boat) (air/sea rescue duties)  [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)] (DSC) 18.03.1943 - 23.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 577 (motor launch)       spare Commanding Officer, HM MTB 662 (motor torpedo boat) 02.06.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 634 (motor torpedo boat) (Mediterranean) (two bars to DSC) (04.1946)     HM BYMS 2257 (British yard minesweeper) * Resumed his career as a solicitor, in the Isle of Wight. He worked in Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from 1951 to 1952. Worked for Underwood & Co of Welbeck Street in London, becoming a senior partner, until succeeding to the baronetcy as 12th baronet in 1978 and taking up farming at Tilkhurst, East Grinstead, Sussex. * indexed, but not listed as such
Blows, John Norman Son of Harold John Blows (1892-1962), and Kathleen Lily Reeve (1898-1989). Married ((06?).1948, Chichester district, Sussex) Gillian Evelyn K. Beacham (05.06.1927 - 02.1997), a Wren; ... children (one daughter?).	12.10.1924 Croydon district, London - 01.1992 Southampton district, Hampshire	T/A/S.Lt. 12.04.1944 T/S.Lt. 12.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	10.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HM MTB 619 (motor torpedo boat) 10.1944 - (01.)1945 HM MTB 767 (motor torpedo boat) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 16.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Ringtail (RN Air Station, Burscough, nr Ormskirk, Lancashire)
Blundell, Charles Sydenham Elder son of Bt. Col. Charles Wilson Blundell, OBE, TD (1864-1939), and Annie Kate Sydenham (1872-?), of Plymouth, Devon. Brother of F/Lt. Geoffrey Norman Blundell, RAFVR. Married (15.04.1939, Ugborough Parish Church, Totnes district, South Devon) Joan Gladys Hutchison ((09?).1914 - 1999), of Fleet, Hampshire, later of Topsham Bridge, Loddiswell, Devon, elder daughter of Adm. John de Mestre Hutchison (1862-1932), and Dorothy May Yonge (1882-1940), of Wrangaton, South Brent, Devon ; ... children (one son?).	(03?).1913 Plymouth district, Devon - 09.10.1943 (KIA) [age 30] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 84, column 1]	T/A/Lt. 12.04.1941 T/Lt. 02.1942, seniority 12.04.1941 T/A/Lt.Cdr. 1943?	Education: Sherbourne College (1927-1931; 6th, xv 29,30); Trinity College, Cambridge (BSc, Vintners Scholar, 1935). Wine merchant. 16.12.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 07.1943 - 09.10.1943 Gunnery Officer, HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (killed in action during a bombing by German aircraft whilst she was providing escort for the support force for the Allied landings in Sicily)
Blunt, Evelyn Powlett Clavell	29.11.1924 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 2006 Australia	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.11.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR 23.05.1964 (retd 31.10.1972) RD ? - * (EX.S)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.09.1938-(05.1941); Admiralty No. 1915) [he probably did not complete his education, as he was not commissioned in the RN; later joined RNVR]. ... - ... ... 04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for Aircraft Recognition duties)
Blyth, John Douglas Morrison Son of William Naismith Blyth (1895-1968), and Jean Morrison. Married 1st ((09?).1949, Westminster district, London) Gabrielle Elodie M. Belloc (29.07.1928 - (12?).1971), daughter of Peter Belloc (1904-1941), and Stella Benson (1901-1995); three sons, two daughters. Married 2nd ((06?).1973, St Albans district, Hertfordshire) Lucy Anne Alcock, JP (22.04.1946 - 14.04.2013), daughter (with two siblings) of John A. Alcock (1903-1985), and Hazel Jean Johnston Speedy (1907-1988); one son, one daughter.	23.07.1924 Kingston district, Surrey - 08.2011 Walsham le Willows, Suffolk	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.03.1944 T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.09.1944 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.09.1946 (reld > 10.1946) Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.08.1947, seniority 30.09.1946 Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 23.06.1955, seniority 30.09.1954 CMG 13.06.1981 HM's birthday 1981 * Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore	Education: Christ's College; Lincoln College, Oxford (MA); Downing College, Cambridge (MA).       HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 25.09.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for miscellaneous duties) 01.03.1945 - (04.)1945 a Rail Transport Officer, Naval Store Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945) - (10.1946) no appointment listed 14.08.1947     transferred, Permanent RNVR (List 2) HM Diplomatic Service. Editor, The Polar Record (published by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge), 1949-54; joined Foreign Office, 1954; served: Geneva, 1955; Athens, 1959; Leopoldville, 1963; Accra, 1964; Foreign Office, 1966; Athens, 1968; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1972; Vienna. 1974; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1977. President, Hélène Heroys Literary Foundation, 1975-2004. Honorary Secretary, Suffolk Preservation Society, 1985-1994. Published: articles in The Polar Record.
Blyth, Roy	? -	T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ? T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.06.1943 T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 11.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)	10.01.1943 - (10.1944) Department of the Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) (07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Blyth, Stanley Son of ... Blyth, and ... Beverley. Married ...; three sons.	01.09.1913 Scunthorpe, Glanford Brigg district, Lincolnshire - 08.1996 West Sussex	T/A/S.Lt. 12.05.1944 T/S.Lt. 12.11.1944 (reld < 04.1946)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 17.08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven) (for minesweeping force) 13.11.1944 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HM MMS 298 (motor minesweeper) * indexed, but not listed as such
Blyth, William Norman Son of ... Blyth, and ... Grist.	05.06.1924 Swansea, Wales - 12.1985 Swansea, Wales	T/S.Lt. (A) 05.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)	(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) * (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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