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1939-1945

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Hackett,
Vernon Arthur
D.C. Haig
Son of ... Hackett, and ... Addison.
Married ((09?).1945, Weymouth district, Dorset) Betty Flower.
09.05.1921
Leicester district, Leicestershire
-
01.01.1996
Leicester, Leicestershire
 
T/S.Lt. (E) 30.06.1945 (reld 17.08.1946)
(10.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Haddock,
John Vivian
J.V. Haddock
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
12.10.1921
Argentina
-
20.11.2013
Dartmouth
T/A/S.Lt. 21.05.1942
T/S.Lt. 12.10.1942
T/Lt. 01.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. RN 1947?, seniority 01.08.1944 (emgcy 29.10.1951)
Lt.Cdr. RN (emgcy) 01.08.1952
(08.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
12.10.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton)
(08.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
01.12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Anson (King George V class battleship)
1947?     extended service commission in the RN
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hadfield,
Douglas
D. Hadfield (Photo courtesy of Rosemary Hadfield) D. Hadfield (Photo courtesy of Rosemary Hadfield)
Son (with two brothers) of James Arthur Hadfield (1882-1967), psychoanalyst, and Grace Sherwood Calver (1897-1983).
Married ((09?).1951, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Joan M. Havers ((09?).1927 - ), daughter of ... Havers, and ... Reynolds; two sons, one daughter.

Douglas Hadfield remembers: "When I was at Cambridge University in 1942 studying physics, I and the others had to spend six weeks of the long summer vacation studying electronics; no-one knew why. When I left in 1943 I chose to join the Navy, as my famly were all keen on sailing and other watersports. "Right. Just the man we were waiting for. You can be a Radar Officer." That probably saved my life. From April 1944 to May 1945 I shuttled between half a dozen ships in mid-Atlantic to fix their radar whenever the mechanic on board couldn't fix it; I was never in any ship as long as a week before being rowed across to another in trouble. Except on the last Russian convoy, when I travelled all the way in HMS Goodall; the sea was too cold for rowing. When we were anchored near Murmansk our Group Commander heard that we might have trouble. So a few hours before we sailed he got me transferred to his ship the Loch Shin, to make sure that he could "see" the positions of all the other ships of our group. We were sent out ahead of the convoy to clear the U-boats away. (The excellent German U-boat website tells me there were fourteen of them waiting for us.) We had only just started, and were only a mile or two from land, when the Goodall was torpedoed amidships, and more than half the crew were lost. I should most likely have been one of them, in the radar cabin amidships. Seeing it happen a mile away was the only time I remember panicking, fortunately for only 15 seconds or so. So that wavy green stripe saved my life. Ships of our Group sank two of the U-boats, including U-286, which sank the Goodall."

31.12.1922
Beaconsfield, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire
-
01.12.2021
Brackley, Northamptonshire
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 05.07.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.01.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 05.01.1946 (reld 10.10.1946)

* Special Branch officer who is employed on scientific duties

05.07.1943 - 13.01.1944 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for divisional course), then HMS Mercury (signal school, nr. Petersfield) (for RDF course)
"Learning about Radar and how to be an officer!"
14.01.1944 - 17.06.1945 HMS Defender (ocean escort base, Liverpool)
"Learning on the job, on escort vessels coming into Gladstone Dock."
17.04.1944 - 22.01.1945 Group Radar Officer, B2 Escort Group [HMS Hesperus (destroyer)]
23.01.1945 - 17.05.1945 Group Radar Officer, SG 19 Support Group [HMS Loch Shin (frigate)]
"Took part in the last sea battle of the Atlantic War near Murmansk 29.04.1945"
18.06.1945 - 13.07.1945 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) (for radar duties)
14.07.1945 - 12.1945 HMS Odyssey (naval parties accounting base, London) (additional; for Naval Party 2411)
"Operation Zipper (Malaya). Landed in Malaya from Madras unopposed in Sept 1945, and returned to Madras. Landed in Belawan-Deli from Madras Oct 1945 till 22(?).12.1945 (Naval port Party)."
11.02.1946 - 26.06.1946 HMS Glasgow (light cruiser)
"Quelled Indian Naval mutiny Feb 1946. Went to Simonstown for refit."
Post-war a career in the steel industry (such as in charge of the new steel plant at Ravenscraig in Scotland from 1957 onwards for a few years).
Hafner,
John Charles
J.C. Hafner
Son of ... Hafner, and ... Spooner.
Married ((09?).1952, Luton district, Bedfordshire) Joyce A. Rudd; three sons.
12.06.1919
Luton district, Bedfordshire
-
19.02.2004
Beaminster, South & West Dorset district
T/S.Lt. 10.07.1941
T/A/Lt. 10.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Norwegian War Medal Nor WM

22.05.1945

services to Royal Norwegian Navy (for service aboard corvette "Rose")
(08.1941) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
(08.1942)     served on a Norwegian ship
? - 17.11.1944 British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian corvette "Rose"
20.12.1944 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, Norwegian corvette "Buttercup"
(01.1945)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
(04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
01.09.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Cochrane II (for duty at Inchkeith)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hague,
Peter Birkett
P.B. Hague (Photo courtese of Mr Rod White)
Only son of Cecil Telford Hague (1884-1970), and Edith Birkett, of Ulverston.
Married ((09?).1939, Chelsea district, Middlesex) Rosemary Frances Dickens Shuckburgh (26.01.1915 - 09.10.2007), of Chelsea, London, daughter (with one brother) of Robert Shirley Shuckburgh (1882-1954), and Olive Nina Dickens (1881-1963); one daughter. She remarried Cyril Hugh Danby (1907-1981); three daughters, one son.
06.12.1916
Ulverston, Cumbria
-
04.04.1942
(KIA) [age 25]
[Imtarfa Military Cemetery, Malta, joint grave 1.1C.4]
S.Lt. 04.08.1939
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

11.06.1942

HM's birthday 1942 [presented to next-of-kin]
Education: Ulverston Grammar School; Emmanuel College, Cambridge (MA; President, Cambridge Union); Inner Temple, London.
Barrister-at-Law.
(11.1939)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
27.11.1939 - 04.04.1942 HMS Kingston (destroyer) (died of wounds after ship was bombed by German aircraft in Malta drydock)
Haig,
David Cameron
D.C. Haig
Son of ... Haig, and ... Wilkie.
Married (1951, Newington district, Scotland) Irene Doris McKechnie; one son, three daughters.
1920
Morningside district, Scotland
-
03.11.2015
Annfield House, Stirling
T/Sg.Lt.
02.04.1943

MB, ChB

Education: MD 1942 (High. Commend. 1950) (Edin); MB, ChB (Edin) 1942; FRCP (Edin) 1962.
24.07.1943
-
(06.1944)
Medical Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer)
31.10.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Pembroke (parent ship Chatham)
Late House Surgeon Peel EMS Hospital Galashiels. JP District of Stirling.
Haigh,
Norman
N. Haigh
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A)
22.03.1945

 

21.05.1945
-
(07.)1945
pilot, 757 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)]
22.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon)
Haighton,
Sam Preston *
S.P. Haighton
Son of Ernest Haighton, and Mildred Preston, of Colne, Lancashire.
Married ((12?).1939, Burnley district, Lancashire) Mary Elizabeth Ritchie, daughter of Mr & Mrs G.S. Ritchie, of Burnley, Lancashire; one son.
* In Navy Lists shown with first names Samuel Preston
12.03.1917
Burnley district, Lancashire
-
05.01.1981
Warsash, South East Hampshire
Seaman RNPS ? [LT/JX 210778]
T/S.Lt. 24.04.1941
T/Lt. 24.04.1942
George Medal GM 14.01.1941 rescue of a number of casualties during an enemy air attack [investiture 21.10.41]
(1940)     HMS Jake II (GM)
(06.1941)     no appointment listed
18.06.1941 - 10.1941 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
10.1941 - 03.1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
[took part in the raid on St Nazaire 28.03.1942; captured]
1942 - 1945 POW (No. 18668) in German captivity (Marlag & Milag Nord, Westertimke (Tarnstedt), Poland)
Merchant shipper.
His son writes: "He had wished to join the Navy, but was prevented because he had a fused backbone and thus considered medically unfit. Through a family connection, he was alerted to the fact that the Thames Patrol of the Port of London Authority was to be incorporated into the RNPS. So he joined the PLA as a seaman, and duly joined the Navy automatically (with a cursory medical exam) where he was transferred to Coastal Forces. It was as a seaman and PLA employee that he earned his George Medal."
Haill,
Charles Frederick
C.F. Haill
26.07.1908
Gravesend, Kent
-
13.05.1965
Middlesex Hospital, London
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
02.12.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
1944?
-
1944?
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officer training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
Worked for Shell-Mex before the war, and rejoined post-war.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hale,
Charles Walter
C.W.A. Hale
?
-
T/S.Lt.
13.12.1940
T/Lt.
01.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
(02.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
10.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
(1941?)
 
 
First Lieutenant, HM ML 114 (motor launch)
(10.1944)
 
 
HM ML 290 (motor launch) *
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Albert Mackay
A.M. Hall
Son (with three sisters) of Albert Martin Hall (1869-1928), and Wilhelmina Elizabeth Grace Mackay (1866-1945).
Married ((12?).1935, Easington district, Durham) Annie Weightman (08.04.1909 - 1975), daughter of Edward and Margarita Weightman; two daughters.
28.04.1904
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
-
25.06.1996
Nafferton, Bridlington district, Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 31.03.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 30.09.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who has qualified and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

(06.1944)     HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
26.06.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for service at Bari)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Christopher Horace
C.H. Hall (© Imperial War Museum (A 13863))
02.09.1908
Portsmuth district, Hampshire
-
31.10.1990
Waterlooville, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt. (E) 30.01.1940 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 22.06.1943 services to Dutch ships
      temporary officer serving under T.124 Agreements:
16.06.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire)
(12.1942)     Chief Engineer, HMS Prosperous (rescue tug) (despatches)
01.01.1943 - (02.1943) HMS Cannae (RN base, Bone, Algeria)
... - ... ...
Hall,
Douglas Arthur
D.A. Hall
Son of Arthur H. Hall, and Hilda M. Cannon.
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
17.04.1921
Hitchin district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
06.2001
Carlisle, Cumbria
T/A/S.Lt. 28.01.1942
T/S.Lt. 17.04.1942
T/Lt. 29.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 23.01.1945 topedo attack heavy escorted convoy 30.09.1944
(04.1942)     no appointment listed
24.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for small craft)
08.06.1942 - (02.)1943 First Lieutenant, HM MGB 65 (motor gun boat)
27.03.1943 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 59 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
17.06.1943 - 23.01.1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 360 (motor torpedo boat)
24.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe):
24.01.1944 - (09.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 360 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)     HMS Marshal Soult (depot ship) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Frank James Ryman
F.J.R. Hall
Son (with two sisters) of Percival James Ryman "Percy" Hall (1873-1960), and Elizabeth Adams Howard Norton (1874-1940).
Married ((09?).1939, Oxford, Oxfordshire) Ruth M. Vine (1912 - 1962); one son, two daughters.
16.04.1913
Oxford, Oxfordshire
-
19.08.2008
Oxford, Oxfordshire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 16.10.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 16.01.1942 (reld 23.05.1946)

* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

11.11.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
08.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM ML 269 (motor launch)
(12.1943)     HM ML 269 (motor launch) *
03.01.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Seaman's Mission, Port Melbourne, Australia) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Frederick David
F.D. Hall (Photo courtesy of Dino Hall)
Son (with two sisters) of David Hall (1886-1957), and Florence Simmonds (1887-1965).
Married 1st (01.1941, Wandsworth district, London) Edna Harvey Fitzgerald (29.03.1912 - 10.2002), daughter of Edward Fitzgerald (1890-1975), and Florence Edith Harvey (1890-1958); one son. Edna Hall remarried ((1954) Lionel George Piper (1900-1964).
Married 2nd (06.1958, Maidstone district, Kent) Meryl Ira Mitchell.
Married 3rd (04.1971, Hendon district. London) Barbara Doherty.
06.01.1920
Maidstone, Kent
-
23.05.1981
Mill Hill, London
T/S.Lt. 05.06.1942
T/Lt. 05.12.1944 (reld 17.04.1946)
(08.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dartmouth III (Combined Operations training establishment, Dartmouth)
(08.1943)     HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
(10.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
(04.1944)     HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) *
19.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Supreme (submarine)
(10.1944)     HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) *
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancs) *
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
John Patrick
J.P. Hall
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
24.01.1903
Limerick district, Ireland ?
-
06.1982
Wayland district, Norfolk
Prob. T/S.Lt. 15.11.1940
T/Lt. 15.02.1941 (reld 16.05.1946)
(12.1940)     no appointment listed
23.01.1941 - 29.07.1941 Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
30.07.1941 - (04.)1943 Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
10.06.1943 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1024 (motor minesweeper)
19.09.1944 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 87 (motor minesweeper)
Hall,
John Spencer Selkirk
J.S.S. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominic P.S. O'Reilly)
Son of Edward Spencer Hall, and Eugenia Selkirk.
Married (17.04.1943, Newcastle, Staffordshire) Doris Joan Riley (10.01.1924 - 30.03.1981); one son.
Residences: (1943) Hay Hereford, Rottingdean; (1944) Newcastle-under-Lyme.
10.07.1920
Bromley district, Greater London / Kent
-
01.05.2015
Prob. T/A/El.S.Lt. 25.01.1943
T/El.S.Lt. 25.07.1943
T/A/El.Lt. < 07.1945
T/El.Lt. 1946? (reld 13.07.1946)
22.02.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for minesweeping department)
(06.1943) - (08.1943) HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) *
04.08.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Angle, from 05.09.1943 Dale, Pembrokeshire)
10.07.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch)
19.02.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Richard Mallock
R.M. Hall
04.05.1909
Staines district, Middlesex
-
(12?).1975
Ringwood district, Hampshire
T/Lt.
07.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld 1945?)
Mention in Despatches MID
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee (Dieppe)
Legionnaire of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM
20.03.1945
E-boat patrols Channel 06-07.44
(1943)
-
(1944)
Commanding Officer, HM SGB 5 (steam gun boat) (HMS Grey Owl)
Hall,
Robert
"Robin"
R. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mrs Judy Rapp) R. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mrs Judy Rapp)
Elder son of Dr. Robert Hall, a clinical teacher, and Mary Ann Hall.
Married; two daughters.
Of Barmeen, Cushendun, Co. Antrim.

1893
Belfast
-
25.07.1965
Belfast City Hospital
Sg.Lt. 28.12.1921
Sg.Lt.Cdr. 28.12.1927
Sg.Cdr. 30.06.1931
A/Sg.Capt. > 12.1941, < 08.1942
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Decoration VD

1939

-
Education: Royal Belfast Academical Institution; Queen's University (MB, BCh, BAO, 1918).
Irish long-jump champion, 1912. After holding house appointments in the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Belfast Municipal Sanatorium he became medical officer to a city dispensary district and to the Treasury Medical Service. He was a founder-member of the Ulster Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and for many years its principal medical officer.
(04.1940)     HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) *
19.08.1940 - (12.1943) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
08.02.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)
(04.1946) - (07.1946) Senior Medical Officer, Dalditch Camp Staff (Royal Marine Training Group Devon)
President, Ulster Medical Society, 1950-1951. Judge for Irish Wolfhounds at Cruft's Dog Shows, Kensington, 1954/1955.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hall,
Thomas George Stanley
T.G.S. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr Mikhail Petukhov)
16.04.1901
Cuckney, Worksop district, Nottinghamshire
-
04.06.1974
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 22.11.1940
T/Lt. 22.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44
Education: HMS Conway (1916-1918).
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
(12.1941)     HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) *
      HMS Righto (minesweeping trawler) (despatches)
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
10.01.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM MMS 183 (motor minesweeper)
Hall,
William Nowell
W.N. Hall (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Mumford)
Son of William Hall, and Esther Hall.
Married ...; ... children.
13.03.1906
Lowestoft, Mutford district, Suffolk
-
10.08.1978
Melton Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk
Prob. T/S.Lt. 06.09.1940
T/Lt. 06.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 10.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

08.02.1944

minesweeping Nore Command [investiture 09.05.44]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.01.1944 New Year 44
(02.1941)     HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) *
16.04.1941 - (06.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Mist (minesweeping trawler)
22.08.1942 - 01.07.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Chalcedony (minesweeping trawler)
01.07.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS British (minesweeping trawler) (DSC, despatches) **
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
11.1944 - (07.1945) staff officer, British Admiralty Delegation Representative (Pacific Coast), Vancouver, British Columbia [HMS Saker]
Published: (under pseudonym Robert Fane) We clear the way (1943); Ships may proceed : more tales of a minesweeper (1943) [some of the stories first appeared in The Daily Mirror].
* indexed, but not listed as such
** up till 12.1945 (erroneously?) shown in this position
Hallett,
Harry Alfred Robert
H.A.R. Hallett
Married Mona ...
08.12.1908
Newport, Wales
-
08.09.1985
Newport, Wales
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
06.03.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
06.06.1941 (possibly invalided out early 1944)
24.03.1941
-
(08.)1942
HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere)
[involved in Radio Counter Measures (RCM) in "Y" Section under Lt.Cdr. F.H.G. Allen]
1942
-
06.11.1942
Eastern Fleet RCM Officer [HMS Lanka (?)] (Colombo, Ceylon)
07.11.1942
-
17.03.1943
HMAS Rushcutter (training establishment & reserve depot, Edgecliff, Sydney) (additional)
18.03.1943
-
05.05.1943
HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville) (additional; for Area RCM duties)
06.05.1943
-
14.05.1943
HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay) (for RCM duties)
15.05.1943
-
16.05.1943
HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
17.05.1943
-
03.06.1943
HMAS Moreton (base staff, Brisbane)
04.06.1943
-
27.07.1943
HMAS Leeuwin (base staff, West Australia)
28.07.1943
-
08.08.1943
Navy Office, Melbourne
09.08.1943
-
10.08.1943
HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
11.08.1943

24.08.1943
HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay)
25.08.1943
-
16.10.1943
HMAS Magnetic (base staff, Townsville)
17.10.1943
-
03.11.1943
HMAS Basilisk (base staff, Port Moresby & Milne Bay) (2/5th AGM)
04.11.1943
-
03.12.1943
HMAS Penguin (Balmoral naval depot) (113 AGM, Concord, NSW)
04.12.1943
-
26.01.1944
HMAS Penguin (Balmoral naval depot)
27.01.1944


embarked "Nieuw Amsterdam" for return passage to UK
[while suffering from extensive injury on the right arm, possibly due to a motor vehicle accident in Port Moresby some months earlier]
Halliday,
[Edmund Walter] Higley
H. Halliday (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Davis)
Married ((12?).1915, Richmond district, Surrey) Dorothy L. Talbot.
28.01.1875
Reading, Berkshire
-
27.12.1962
The Royal Masonic Hospital, Hammersmith district, London
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 14.07.1942

* Special Branch officer employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature

MRINA, MIAE, MI Mech. E. , FRGS, engineer & naval architect, London.
(08.1942) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Halliday,
[Sir] Roy William
"Gus"
R.W. Halliday R.W. Halliday
Son of Essex James Halliday (1889-1962), and Florence E. Richardson.
Married ((12?).1945, Westminster district, London) Dorothy Joan "Polly" Meech (24.02.1920 - 11.02.2010).

27.06.1922
Edmonton district, Essex
-
23.11.2007
Bank nr Lyndhurst, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 17.09.1942
T/S.Lt. (A) 17.03.1943
T/Lt. (A) ?
Lt. (A) 16.03.1946, seniority 17.03.1945
Lt.Cdr. 17.03.1953
Cdr. 31.12.1958
Capt. 30.06.1966
Cdre. 1971
R.Adm. 07.07.1975
A/V.Adm. ?
V.Adm. 14.03.1978 (retd 04.04.1981)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire KBE 14.06.1980 HM's birthday 1980 [investiture 23.07.1980]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 01.05.1945 Operation Meridian
Education: William Ellis School; University College School.
1941     joined RN: served in Fleet Air Arm (fighter pilot) in World War II, in HMS Chaser, HMS Victorious and HMS Illustrious
(12.1942)     no appointment listed
(02.1943)     HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) *
18.02.1943 - (10.)1944 pilot, 845 Squadron FAA
13.10.1944 - (07.)1945 pilot, 849 Squadron FAA
18.09.1945 - (04.1946) pilot, 703 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)]
16.03.1946     transferred, RN
      test pilot, Boscombe Down, 1947-1948; Commanding Officer 813 Squadron (Wyverns, HMS Eagle), 1954; Army Staff College, Camberley; Executive Officer Coastal Forces Base (HMS Diligence), 1959; Senior Officer 104th Minesweeping Squadron, Far East Fleet, in command (HMS Houghton), 1961-1962; Naval Assistant to Chief of Naval Information, 1962-1964; commander (Air) HMS Albion, 1964-1966; Deputy Director Naval Air Warfare, 1966-1970; HMS Euryalus in command and as Captain D3 Far East Fleet and D6 Western Fleet, 1970-1971; Commodore Amphibious Warfare, 1971-1973; Commodore Intelligence, Defence Intelligence Staff, 1973-1975; Commander British Navy Staff, Washington, Naval Attaché, and UK National Liaison Representative to SACLANT, 1975-1978; Dep. Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence), 1978-1981. Naval ADC to the Queen, 07.01.1975-07.07.1975.
Director General of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1981-1984.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Halliday,
William Montgomerie Wilson
B.R. Ham
Son (with two brothers and one sister) of William Wilson Halliday (1887-1965), and Ann Campbell Hawksby (1891-1968).
Married ((12?).1949, Ealing district, London) ... Halliday (née Luffman); two daughters.
13.01.1923
Glasgow, Scotland
-
13.11.1994
Fraserburgh, Scotland
T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) * 25.09.1942
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 13.07.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

(12.1942) - (08.1943) no appointment listed
08.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for duty at Calcutta)
01.01.1944 - (10.1945) in charge of Combined Aircraft Recognition School [HMS Braganza III (landing craft signal and navigation training establishment, Bombay, India)]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Ham,
Bryan Robert
B.R. Ham
Son of Thomas William Ham, incorporated secretary, Marie Elizabeth Edwards.
Married ((12?).1943, Sudbury district, Suffolk) Eileen M. Horton, daughter (with one sister) of George Charles Dunbar Horton, BA (1871-1958), and Kate Mary Barker (1886-1971); ... children (one son?).
30.11.1923
Nairobi, Ukumba, Kenya
-
02.1994
Stroud district, Gloucestershire
T/Midsh. 30.04.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944
T/Lt. 01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946) (commission terminated on transfer to Army)
Army:  
Lt. 01.03.1952, seniority 20.11.1950 [421607] (reld 01.03.1960)
Education: Lancing College.
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(06.1943) - (10.1944) no appointment listed
24.10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Campania (escort carrier)
(04.1946)     HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) *
01.03.1952 - 01.03.1955 commissioned, British Army - General List (Infantry) [short service commission]
01.03.1955 - 01.03.1960 Regular Army Reserve of Officers
* indexed, but not listed as such
His son writes: "I know he enrolled at HMS King Alfred as soon as he left Lancing in December 1942. I have also found medallions and a ships crest for HMS Taff a river class frigate which was commissioned early in 1944 and undertook anti-submarine training at Tobermory in Feb/March 1944 which is coincides with my fathers temporary commission as a sub lieutenant. He also told me he did the anti-sub course at Tobermory. He also told me he served under Peter Scott in coastal forces during D day and beyond. As a navigator he was moved around a great deal."
Hamblin,
Geoffrey Roy
G.R. Hamblin (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Hamblin) G.R. Hamblin (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Hamblin)
Son of Ernest Edwin Hamblin, and Dorothy Eleanor Edgell.
Married ((06?).1945, Cleethorpes district, Lincolnshire) Margaret J. Thomas; ... children.
05.01.1920
Long Ashton district, Somerset
-
24.05.2011
Norwich, Norfolk
T/S.Lt. 19.03.1942
T/Lt. 01.11.1943
Lt. 02.06.1949, seniority 04.07.1946
Mention in Despatches MID 04.09.1945 for courage, resolution and skill in minesweeping operations clearing a channel from the Humber to Heligoland and thence along the North German Coast to Cuxhaven, Hamburg and Bremerhaven 05.45
01.04.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 211 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     HM BYMS 2189 (British yard minesweeper) *
02.06.1949     transferred, Permanent RNVR (List I)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hamblin,
Walter
W. Hamblin (Photo courtesy of Mr Simon Hamblin)
Son of Walter J. Hamblin, and Olive C.G. Barnes.
26.05.1922
Steyning district, Sussex
-
31.05.2014
T/S.Lt. 07.02.1943
T/Lt. 07.02.1945 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
03.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
07.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hamilton,
Gavin Naismith
G.N. Hamilton
1920
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
-
06.09.1959
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 23.02.1945
T/Sg.Lt. 1945?, seniority 23.02.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: MB, ChB (University of Edinburgh, 1944).
24.03.1945 - (04.1946) Medical Officer, HMS Widemouth Bay (frigate)
General practitioner, Falkirk.
Hamilton,
George Cecil Hans
G.C.H. Hamilton
Younger son of Henry B.H. Hamilton & Margaret G. Bond-Cabball.
Brother of Sq.Ldr. Benjamin Henry Noel Hans Hamilton, DSO, RAF.

Married (1916) Eva Marjorie Hornby.

13.02.1888
Kensington district, Greater London
-
01.10.1960
Somersby, Lincolnshire
Army:
 
2nd Lt.
30.12.1913
T/Lt.
?
Lt.
12.06.1915 (reld 14.05.1916; ill-health)
RNVR:
 
T/Lt.
28.06.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: King's College School, Wimbledo; King's College, Cambridge (studied law)
Called to the bar, 1910, practicing in Manchester.



late Cadet Lance-Corporal, Inns of Court Officers Training Corps

30.12.1913


commissioned, 7th Battalion The Manchester Regiment
WW I


served as a Lieutenant at Khartoum [Sudan], Egypt and in the Gallipoli landings
Joined Close Brothers banking firm.
1940
-
1945
trained assault troops, advised on the North Africa landings and planned the Normandy landings
01.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Victory III (accounting section, Portsmouth)
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
13.10.1943
-
(10.1944)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
Lawyer & businessman. Chairman and then Director of the Expanded Metal Company until his retirement in 1956. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Lincolnshire, 02.06.1959. Honorary Colonel, 116 Water Transport Group, RASC (Army Emergency Reserve of Officers; 434179), 06.03.1954-27.07.1957.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hamilton,
Mervyn Ian Guy
M.I.G. Hamilton M.I.G. Hamilton
Married ((12?).1953, Chelsea district, London) Naomi A.K. Freeman.

16.09.1922
Paris, France
-
20.04.2016
Majorca, Spain
Ord.Sea.
1941
T/A/S.Lt.
1942?
T/S.Lt.
22.07.1943
T/Lt.
01.02.1945
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

11.12.1945

wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted]
(1941)


HMS Eskimo (destroyer)
(1942)


HM MTB 673 (motor torpedo boat)
03.05.1943
-
01.1944
Third Officer, HM MTB 515 (motor torpedo boat)
20.01.1944
-
(06.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 718 (motor torpedo boat)
08.1944
-
(07.1945)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 718 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


Admiralty [HMS President] *
Film director.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hamilton,
Philip Francis George
P.F.G. Hamilton
Son of Philip Christian Hamilton (1868-1944), and Ellen Louise Hamilton, of Banstead, Surrey.
1906 ?
-
16.02.1941
[age 35]
[Edinburgh (Seafield) Cemetery, sec. P, grave 713]
Prob. T/S.Lt. 04.10.1940
T/Lt. ?
(12.1940)     no appointment listed
01.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Suma (minesweeping trawler)
02.1941 - 16.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Ormonde (minesweeping trawler)
Hammerton,
Norman Leslie
N.L. Hammerton
Son of John Francis Hammerton, shipping passenger manager, and Kathleen Wellbelove, of New Malden, Surrey.
(09?).1924
Kingston district, Surrey
-
01.06.1945
(MPK) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 4 & Lloyd's of London Memorial]
T/Midsh. (A) 29.12.1943
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 28.02.1944
T/S.Lt. (A) 20.08.1944
(02.1944)     no appointment listed
18.02.1944 - (06.)1944 observer, 796 Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika)]
23.07.1944 - (01.)1945 observer, 834 Squadron FAA
27.01.1945 - 01.06.1945 observer, 836 Squadron FAA [MV Empire McKendrick (merchant aircraft carrier)] *
* CWGC lists HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland) as last appointment
Hammond,
Leslie William
L.W. Hammond
Son of John Henry Hammond, and Ellen Selina Stevens, of Dagenham, Essex.
02.11.1925
Romford district, Essex
-
12.05.1945
(MPK) [age 19]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Hampshire, bay 6, panel 5]
 
T/Midsh. (A) 22.09.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 1945?
24.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Macaw (FAA training establishment, Wellbank, Cumberland) (for pilot duties)
19.01.1945 - (04?).1945) HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) (for pilot duties)
1945 - 12.05.1945 pilot, 768 Squadron FAA [HMS Battler (Archer class escort carrier)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)
Hammonds,
Godfrey
G. Hammonds
Son of Walter Hammonds (1883-1957), and Mary Jefferson Pollard (1883-1956).
Married ((09?).1939, St Marylebone district, London) Hilda Lovel Smith (06.09.1901 - 04.2003).
12.01.1914
Stockton district, Durham / North Riding of Yorkshire
-
05.1984
Westminster district, London
Army:  
2nd Lt. 10.02.1934
Lt. 27.06.1937 (reld 07.02.1938)
RNVR:  
T/S.Lt. (A) 13.01.1941
T/Lt. (A) 13.01.1942 (reld 21.05.1946)
RN:  
Lt. (A) 22.05.1946, seniority 13.01.1942 (emgcy 25.03.1950)
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 30.03.1950, seniority 13.01.1950 (commission terminated on transfer to the Army 15.01.1952)
Army:  
Lt. 21.01.1952, seniority 14.10.1944 [62281]
Capt. 21.01.1952, seniority 01.11.1947 (reld 23.03.1953; disability)
Hon. Capt. 23.03.1953
10.02.1934 - 07.02.1938 commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals - Territorial Army (50th (Northumbrian) Divisional Signals)
01.1941 - 05.1941 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
05.1941 - 11.1941 751 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
11.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
05.1942? - 11.1942? 751 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] ?
12.11.1942 - (12.)1943 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
01.07.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Valluru (RN Air Station, Tambaran, Madras, India)
01.01.1945 - (01).1945 HMS Nabswick (Mobile Naval Air Base V, Ludham, Norfolk) (for Flight Control Officer duties)
19.02.1945 - (07.1945) Senior Flight Control Officer, HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus)
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
22.05.1946     transferred RN
018.01.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Nuthatch
04.02.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose)
21.01.1952 - 23.03.1953 commissioned, Royal Corps of Signals [short service commission]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hampshire,
Kenneth George
K.G. Hampshire
Son of Robert George Hampshire, and Maud Harriott Bellis, of South Ockendon, Essex.
(06?).1919
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
28.03.1942
St Nazaire
(KIA) [age 22]
[Escoublac-la- Baule War Cemetery, France, 2.C.16]
T/S.Lt. 15.11.1940
Education: West Ham Secondary School, Stratford (played Old Westhamians' Football Club).
09.01.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Helvellyn (paddle minesweeper)
25.04.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) (for motor launches)
(10.1941)     HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) *
11.1941 - 28.03.1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches):
? - 28.03.1942 HM ML 457 (motor launch) [sunk by gunfire from German shore batteries]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hampshire,
Maurice Eric
M.E. Hampshire
Son of George Eric Hampshire (1890-1967), and Florence Sarah Swindells (1889-1976).
17.08.1908
Ilkley, Wharfedale district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
12.05.1985
Ilkley, Leeds district, West Yorkshire
T/S.Lt. 05.06.1942
T/Lt. 05.09.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(08.1942)     no appointment listed
04.09.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Whalsay (minesweeping trawler)
08.10.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Lusitania II (RN base, Faval/Horta, Azores)
08.05.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Braemar (auxiliary patrol vessel)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
Hampson,
John Edward
"Jack"
J.E. Hampson
20.09.1907
Bardsdale, California, USA
-
25.01.1983
Los Angeles, California, USA
[named on memorial in Greenwich]
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 06.10.1941
06.10.1941     joined the RNVR (as an American citizen): served also with 780 Squadron FAA, HMS Goshawk & probably 750 Squadron FAA
06.11.1941 - (12.1941) pilot, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).
Hampson,
Norman
N. Hampson
Son of Frank Hampson, in local government, and Elizabeth Jane Fazackerley.
Married (22.04.1948) Jacqueline Gardin, a teacher; two daughters.

08.04.1922
Leyland, Lancashire
-
08.07.2011
York, North Yorkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 31.07.1942
T/S.Lt. 31.01.1943
T/A/Lt. > 06.1944, < 10.1944
T/Lt. 31.01.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Manchester Grammar School; University College, Oxford (BA, 1941; MA, 1947); University of Paris (D.Univ., 1955).
06.1941     volunteered for naval service: trained at RN Barracks Portsmouth as "Commission Warrant" rating [HMS Victory]
      HMS Carnation (corvette) (based at Liverpool for Gibraltar-UK convoys)
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
10.1942 - 17.08.1943 HMS Easton (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
(10.1943)     HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(12.1943) - (04.1945) HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) *
late 1943 - 11.09.1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, "La Moqueuse" (French minesweeper)
(07.1945)     HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *
Lecturer (1948-1962) & senior lecturer in French history (1962-1967), University of Manchester. Professor of modern history, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1967-1974. Professor of History, University of York, 1974-1989 (professor emeritus from 1989). Hon. D.Litt. (University of Edinburgh, 1989). Fellow, British Academy (1980). Fellow, Royal Historical Society.
Published: La Marine de l'an II : mobilisation de la flotte de l'Océan, 1793-1794 (1959); A social history of the French Revolution (1963); A cultural history of the Enlightenment (1968); The first European revolution, 1776-1815 (1969); The life and opinions of Maximilien Robespierre (1974); A concise history of the French Revolution (1975); Danton (1978); The terror in the French Revolution (1981); Will and circumstance : Montesquieu, Rousseau, and the French Revolution (1983); Prelude to terror : the Constituent Assembly and the failure of consensus, 1789-1791 (1988); Saint-Just (1991); The perfidy of Albion: French perceptions of England during the French Revolution (1998); Not really what you'd call a war (2001; wartime memoirs)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hanbury,
Maurice Arthur
M.A. Hanbury
04.06.1920
-
27.04.1995
Canterbury, Kent
T/S.Lt.
03.07.1941
T/A/Lt.
03.01.1944
T/Lt.
?, seniority 03.01.1944
Mention in Despatches MID
08.04.1942
gallantry under fire 05.42
Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of the Valorous) (Poland) KW
22.12.1942
as liaison officer ORP Jastrzab
(12.1941)


HMS Laguna Belle (paddle minesweeper) *
03.04.1942
-
02.05.1942
British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Jastrzab (Polish submarine) (sunk; wounded; transferred to HMS Edinburgh, but again sunk) 
01.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi)
(04.1946)


HMS Postillion (minesweeper) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hanbury,
Peter Francis Gerard
P.F.G. Hanbury
Son of ... Hanbury, and ... Franklin-Adams.
07.08.1923
St Marylebone district, Greater London / London
-
04.08.1987
T/S.Lt.
07.02.1944
Lt.
07.02.1946
Lt.Cdr.
07.02.1954 (retd 1963/64)
11.10.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Tapir (submarine)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed



transferred to Permanent RNVR (London Division)
Hanchard-Goodwin,
Garth John Grahame

G.J.G. Hanchard-Goodwin
Son of ... Hanchard-Goodwin, and ... Triana.
?
-
09.11.2000
Edinburgh, Scotland
... ...
T/S.Lt. (A) 26.02.1945
S.Lt. (A) RN 09.1947, seniority 03.07.1945
Lt. RN 03.07.1947
Lt.Cdr. RN 03.07.1955 (retd 06.11.1964)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... - ... ...
(10.1945)     no appointment listed
... - ... ...
Hancock,
Derek Norman Archie
D.N.A. Hancock
Son of ... Hancock, and ... Hayward.
07.12.1923
Fulham district, London
-
10.09.2006
Lewes, East Sussex
T/S.Lt. 
01.03.1944
T/Lt.
01.03.1946



served in MGBs and MTBs in the
Channel
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
30.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Fencer (escort carrier)
Hancock,
John Watson
"Jimmy"
J.W. Hancock
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
29.09.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
29.03.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
> 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
06.01.1941
-
(02.)1941
HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)
01.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria, Egypt)]
27.10.1942
-
(02.1943)
pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Dasher (escort carrier)]
12.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Striker (escort carrier)
(04.1946)


HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Handcock,
Roy William
R.W. Handcock
1922 ?
-
20.03.2012
... ...
T/El.Lt. 09.03.1945
... ...
Capt. (E) RN 31.12.1965 (retd)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE ? ?
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Nile
... - ... ...
Handforth,
Walter Roy
W.R. Handforth
Son of ... Handforth, and ...Lamsdale.
Married; 1 son?

His son Christopher writes: "On D-Day, whilst standing on the bridge of his ship, my father was shot in the chest three times by marksmen from the lighthouse that stood on Arromanches beach. He was knocked down each time and only survived because he was wearing a bullet proof vest given to him as a 21st birthday present by his mother. The lighthouse was levelled by fire from his Oerlikon heavy machine guns. I only discovered this when he produced the same bullet proof vest, complete with holes, about 9 months before he died. He was a fiercely independent, cavalier but highly intelligent character who went on to have a successful career as a barrister and then as a Chairman of Industrial Tribunals."

25.05.1920
Stoke upon Trent district, Staffordshire
-
29.04.1980
T/S.Lt.
27.11.1941
T/Lt.
01.12.1943 (reld 08.02.1946)



served on White Aster (auxiliary armed yacht; his father's) (Anglesey area)



trained & served at Inverary, Oban, Weymouth
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM LCT ... (landing craft, infantry) (Normandy) [HMS Copra ?]
(07.1945)


no appointment listed



HM LCT 22 (landing craft, tank) [same as on 06.1944 ?]
?
-
08.02.1946
HM LCI (L) 509 (landing craft, infantry (large))
Handley,
Walter Eric
W.E. Handley (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher J. Handley) W.E. Handley (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher J. Handley)
Son (with one brother and one sister) of Cdr. Walter James Burberry Handley, RN (1894-1944), and Annie Evelyn Hewlett (1898-1979).
Married Rene Turner (12.12.1919 - 12.1996), Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, daughter of Frederick Walter Turner (1887-1957), and Rose Croft (1891-1977); one son, one daughter.

01.01.1920
Fareham district, Hampshire
-
08.11.1983
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
Prob. T/A/Paym.S.Lt. 09.08.1940
T/Paym.S.Lt. 01.01.1941
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 01.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 10.1945, < 04.1946
Lt. (S) RN 01.01.1947, seniority 01.01.1944
A/Lt.Cdr. (S) RN ?
Lt.Cdr. (S) RN 01.01.1952
Cdr. (S) RN 31.12.1958 (retd 01.01.1970)
22.08.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) (for duty in Admiral's office of Flag Officer Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands)
31.10.1940 - (10.)1942 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)
26.10.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
(12.1943)     no appointment listed
06.12.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS St Clement (Combined Operations base, Coal House Fort, Tilbury, Essex)
15.10.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (manning depot, Sydney, NSW) (for disposal)
(04.1946)     HMS Aorangi (Fleet Training Accommodation Ship, Far East) *
01.01.1947     transferred, RN
... - ... ...
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hands,
Thomas Henry
T.H. Hands
Son (with six siblings) of Thomas William Hands (1885-1967), and Florence Elizabeth Wort (1891-1960).
Married ((09?).1944, Edmonton district, Essex) Helen Joyce Smith (20.10.1920 - 09.2002), daughter (with two brothers) of Philip Warton Smith (1874-1956), and Jessie Mabel Gowland (1881-1980); three sons.
06.09.1921
Edmonton district, Essex
-
03.2005
Torbay district, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 06.12.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 06.09.1942
T/A/Lt. (A) < 10.1944
T/Lt. (A) 06.06.1944 (reld 08.06.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC

26.01.1943

destroying enemy submarine 21.11.1942 [investiture 23.11.1943]
(02.1942)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
28.04.1942 - (06.)1944 pilot, 817 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier), from 21.11.1942 HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire), etc.]
(10.1944)     HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) *
30.10.1944 - (07.)1945 pilot, 714 Squadron FAA [HMS Merganser (RN Air Station, Crimond/Rattray, Aberdeenshire)]
(10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hankin,
William Clifford
W.C. Hankin
Son (with four sisters and two brothers) of Harry Reginald Hankin (1883-1960), and Lucy Crickmore (1883-1965).
Married ((06?).1939, Camberwell district, London) Gladys Winifred Brackley (05.01.1915 - 21.03.2007), daughter (with six siblings) of George brackley (1886-1975), and Beatrice Louise Brackley (1888-1975); three children.
11.06.1913
South East Hackney, London
-
30.09.1982
West Wickham, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. 02.06.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 02.12.1944 (reld 17.03.1946)

* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

Police constable.
(10.1944)     HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth) *
12.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hanna,
William Swanston
W.S. Hanna
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
(06?).1916
Belfast, Ireland
-
01.1988
T/Sg.Lt. 26.02.1943
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. 02.08.1945? (reld > 04.1946)
Education: Queen's University of Belfast (MB, BCh).
27.03.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Tyrian (T class destroyer)
06.01.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
02.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship)
Hannen,
Eric Charles
E.C. Hannen (Photo: www.mcdoa.org.uk) E.C. Hannen (Photo: www.mcdoa.org.uk)
Married Betty (née ...); two sons, one daughter.
18.06.1919
Lee-on-Solent, Fareham district, Hampshire
-
25.04.2005
Lee-on-Solent, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
T/S.Lt.
04.09.1941
T/Lt.
01.07.1943
Lt. RN
09.01.1947, seniority 01.07.1943
Lt.Cdr. RN
01.07.1951
Cdr. RN
30.06.1954 (retd 18.06.1969)
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
(12.1941)


HMS Duke of York (battleship) *
(07.1945)


HMS Marlborough (torpedo school, Eastbourne) *
19.09.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
09.01.1947


transferred to RN
14.12.1954
-
(01.1957)
Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
07.01.1960
-
(07.)1961
Admiral Commanding Reserves' Office [HMS President]
1961
-
1966
Superintendent of Diving (SofD), Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit [HMS Vernon] *
20.06.1966
-
(02.1968)
Commanding Work Study Officer and in charge of FWST No. 7 [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
(02.1969)


HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hanslip,
John Aubrey
J.A. Hanslip J.A. Hanslip
J.A. Hanslip
Son of James Hanslip, and Elizabeth Sharp.
(06?).1924
West Ham district, London
-
20.03.1963
Italian-French Alps
T/A/S.Lt. (A) ?
T/S.Lt. (A) 11.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944)     HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) *
25.10.1944 - (07.1945) pilot, 896 Squadron FAA
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
De Havilland development test pilot at Hatfield, having rejoined the company as a test pilot in 1947. Had previously been with De Havilland at Leavesden, then trained as a pilot in the RNVR and served in the FAA from 1942 to 1945. Before going to Hatfield was at the Chester (1948-53) and Christchurch (1953-58) factories of de Havilland. Killed in the crash of King Saud's Comet 4c on 20.03.1963.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hanson,
John Melvin
J.M. Hanson
Son of ... Hanson, and ... Earl.
(09?).1917
South Shields district, Country Durham / Tyne and Wear
-
11.04.2009
[age 91]
[Bognor Regis, West Sussex ?]
T/Sg.Lt.
24.12.1943
...
...
Sg.Capt. RN
30.06.1967 (retd)
Education: LMSSA
26.01.1944
-
(01.)1945
HMS Spey
23.05.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Taff
04.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
...
-
...
...
Hanson,
Noel Gordon
N.G. Hanson (Photo courtesy of Mr Rob Wallace) N.G. Hanson (Photo courtesy of Mr Rob Wallace)

Son (with five sisters and three brothers) of Joseph Hanson (1874-1932), and Marjorie Clare Stubbs (1885-1978).
Married 1st (03.01.1944, Solihul district, Warwickshire) Maureen P. Hull; three daughters.
Married 2nd ((12?).1955, Chorley district, Lancashire) Sonia Alberta Haydock (11.12.1929 - 18.08.2004); one son, two daughters.
12.01.1921
Rochdale district, Lancashire
-
10.03.2002
Weymouth, South and West Dorset district
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 27.09.1941
T/S.Lt. (A) 12.01.1942
T/Lt. (A) 12.08.1944 (reld 26.05.1946)
Education: King Edward VII School, Lytham St Annes.
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
(02.1942)     HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *
10.03.1942 - (04.)1942 pilot, 782 Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
(06.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
11.1942 - (02.)1943 pilot, 796 Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika)]
29.03.1943 - 06.1943 pilot, 826 Squadron FAA [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria)]
06.1943 - (08.)1943 pilot, 826 Squadron FAA [Hal Far, Malta]
27.09.1943 - (12.)1943 pilot, 784 Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)]
12.1943 - 31.01.1944 pilot, 775 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
01.02.1944 - (06.)1944 pilot, 775 Squadron FAA [HMS Cormorant II (RN Air Station, Gibraltar)]
28.07.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
16.10.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
29.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Ludham, Norfolk)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Chartered Accountant (FCA), Financial director (1963), secretary (1958) & assistant secretary (1950) S. & W. Berisford Ltd.
Hanson,
Norman Stanley
N.S. Hanson
13.01.1914
Keighley district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
05.05.1980
Birkenhead district, Merseyside
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/Lt. (A)
28.01.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
31.10.1944
Operation Crimson [award posted]
Mention in Despatches MID
15.08.1944
air strikes Sabang & Surabaya 04-05.44
1940


joined RNVR



training (UK & USA)



served Middle East
06.1943
-
(07.1945)
1833 Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier)] (Indian & Pacific Oceans)
06.1943
-
(06.)1944
Second-in-Command
(10.)1944
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer
Published: Carrier pilot : an unforgettable true story of wartime flying (1979)
Harbud,
Robin Frederick Andrew 

R.F.A. Harbud R.F.A. Harbud
From Baling, London.
14.12.1923
-
04.12.1993
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
01.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
14.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [award posted]
03.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office)
(06.1944)


Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 1
Hardaker,
Alan
A. Hardaker A. Hardaker
Son of John Hardaker and Emma Hardaker.
Married (1937) Irene Mundy; four daughters.
29.07.1912
-
04.03.1980
Prob. Paym.Lt.
12.06.1939
Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)
> 08.1939, seniority 12.06.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (S)
< 07.1945 (reld 23.04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (S)
12.06.1947 (removed from active list RNVR at own request 10.02.1950)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)

OBE
12.06.1971
HM's birthday 71: for service as Secretary of the Football League
Education: Constable Street Elementary School; Riley High School, Hull
Entered Town Clerk's Department, Hull, 1929; Lord Mayor's Secretary, Hull, 1936-1939.
12.06.1939


joined RNVR, Humber Division
25.09.1939
- (02.1941) HMS Newcastle (cruiser)
12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)
Lord Mayor's Secretary, Portsmouth, 1946-1951. Joined Football League staff, 1951 (General Secretary, 1957-1979; Director­General, 1979-1980).
Published: (with Bryon Butler) Hardaker of the League (1977)
Hardiman,
Kenneth Walter
"Ken"
K.W. Hardiman
Son of Percy Charles and Martha Hardiman (née Hooper), of Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
(06?).1924
Melksham district, Wiltshire
-
17.05.1945
(KIA) [age 21]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 4]
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
?
T/S.Lt. (A)
08.05.1944
?
- 17.05.1945 HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)
Harding,
Geoffrey George
"Jo" / "Geoff"
G.G. Harding
09.12.1923
-
01.08.2006
Welford on Avon, Warwickshire
T/Midsh. (09.1943)
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.03.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 11.01.1944 Operation Source (midget submarine attack on "Tirpitz" 22.09.43)
11.06.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)
(22.09.1943)     HMS X 10 (midget submarine) (despatches)
07.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Bonaventure (midget submarine depot ship, Loch Striven)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Hardy,
Alexander
"Alec"
A. Hardy
Son (with four brothers and five sisters) of William Hardy (1886-1952), and Jane Stewart Coser (1885-1978).
Married (24.03.1938, South Shields, Durham) Cecilia Gertrude "Gertie" Nisbet (03.03.1915 - 30.08.1977), daughter (with one brother and one sister) of John William Nisbet (1891-1932), and Mary Ann Bryson Taylor (1898-1935); one son.

 
12.08.1913
South Shields district, Durham
-
09.05.1972
Normanby, Middlesborough, North Yorkshire
T/Wt.Eng. RNR 07.09.1942
T/Lt. (E) 04.05.1944 (reld 29.08.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 05.12.1944 shuttle service to France [decoration posted]
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
(12.1942)     HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
15.01.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for Landing Ship, Tank (LSTs))
09.1943 - (12.)1943 HM LST 366 (landing ship, tank)
10.12.1943 - (04.)1944 HM LST 9 (landing ship, tank)
05.1944 - (01.)1945 HM LST 9 (landing ship, tank) (DSC)
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
10.04.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Blackpool (Bangor class minesweeper)
(10.1945) - (07.1946) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hardy,
Alexander North
A.N. Hardy
Son of Samuel John Hardy (1879-), and Jeannie Mulholland Hutchinson (1880-).
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
24.09.1907
Belfast
-
(12?).1977
Chester & Ellesmere Port district, Cheshire
T/A/S.Lt. 26.03.1943
T/S.Lt. 26.09.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
(04.1943) - (07.1945) no appointment listed [may have served at HMS Valena (armed yacht)]
Hardy,
Frank Hastings
F.H. Hardy
Son of Harold Hastings Hardy (1880-), and Nora Harman.
Married ((12?).1943, Blackpool, Lancashire) Elizabeth Howarth, of Blackpool, Lancashire.
(03?).1919
Romford district, Essex
-
06.06.1944
(KIA) [age 26]
[Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France, 67.I.1]
T/A/S.Lt. 28.05.1943
T/S.Lt. 28.11.1943
(08.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) *
? - 06.06.1944 HM LCI(S) 524 (landing craft, infantry (small)) (killed in action when ship was lost off Sword Beach, Normandy)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hardy,
George Gordon
G.G. Hardy G.G. Hardy
18.01.1912 ?
Leicestershire ?
-
(06?).1976 ?
Nuneaton district, Warwickshire ?
Prob. S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 08.05.1939
S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 02.1940, seniority 08.05.1939
Lt. (Sp.Br.) 10.1940, seniority 17.08.1940
Lt. 11.1941, seniority 17.08.1940 (demobilized > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 17.08.1948 (removed from Active List 31.12.1952)
Mention in Despatches MID 10.10.1944 HMS Splendid sunk on 6th war patrol

* Special Branch officer for meteorological duties

Education: BA; qualified in meteorology after 12 weeks course.
08.05.1939     joined RNVR (London Division) (List 2)
(12.1939) - (01.1940) no appointment listed
31.01.1940 - (05.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
07.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
21.02.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)
16.06.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Berwick (Kent class cruiser)
(06.1942)     no appointment listed
07.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
12.08.1942 - 21.04.1943 Navigating Officer, HMS P 228 [renamed 01.1943: HMS Splendid] (S class submarine) (tender to HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship), Gibraltar & Algiers; damaged off Corsica & scuttled)
04.1943 - 1945 no appointment listed while being a POW in Italian & German captivity
Hardy,
Herbert Ronald
H.R. Hardy
Only son of Guy Charles Hardy (1873-1904), JP of Danehurst, and Eva Kathleen, daughter of Sir Spencer Maryon-Wilson, 11th Bt.
Married (1923) Beryl, daughter of late Col St J. Loftus, 60th Rifles; two sons, one daughter.
22.04.1900
Uckfield, East Sussex
-
12.05.1954
Keysford, Horsted Keynes, Sussex
Prob. T/S.Lt.
08.03.1940
T/Lt.
23.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
11.12.1940? (reld < 04.1946)
Education: HMS Conway; Cheltenham College; Trinity College, Oxford
1917
-
1918
served as Midshipman RNVR, Rhine Flotilla
1921
-
1922
RNVR First expedition to Ivory Coast for Natural History Museum
05.10.1938
 
 
joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached Sussex Division RNVR)
(04.1940)
 
 
no appointment listed
11.12.1940
-
(07.)1945
Flag Lieutenant to the Board of Admiralty [HMS President]
Mid-Sussex Boy Scouts Association, 1923-1943 (Medal of Merit, 1952); Chairman, Haywards Heath Housing Society Ltd, 1932-1953; Chairman, Home Counties Area, National Federation of Housing Societies, 1935-1945. High Sheriff of Sussex, 1951; Vice-Chairman Conservators of Ashdown Forest, 1940-1953; Life­Member Royal Society of St George. General Commissioner of Income Tax, Pevensey Division; Member
East Sussex County Council.
Hare,
Alexis Alfred
A.A. Hare
Son (with one brother) of Marmaduke Edward Hare (1884-1974), and Kataline/Kathleen Gossevsky (1885-).
Married 1st (16.11.1946, St Andrew's church, Aldingham, Suffolk; divorced 11.04.1956) Jill Konwles (28.02.1920 - 02.01.2000); one daughter.
Married 2nd (23.02.1957, Willesden, Middlesex)
09.10.1916
Blything district, Suffolk
-
27.02.1976
Hammersmith district, London
A/S.Lt.
01.01.1940
S.Lt.
31.03.1940
Lt.
09.10.1941
      served in Straits Settlements RNVR
21.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Pahlawan (harbour defence motor launch)
? - 15.02.1942 serving on HMS Siang Wo; Captured at Muntoic Banka Island. Initially held on Sumatra in the Palembang camp until 26 May 1945 then at Changi from 1June to release.
(02.1942) - (04.1946) no appointment listed [POW in Japanese captivity (Palembang Camp, Sumatra until 26.05.1945, then Changi from 01.06.1945]
Hargest,
William George
W.G. Hargest
28.12.1905
Middlesborough, North Riding of Yorkshire
-
04.1977
Bournemouth, Dorset
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
08.07.1943
T/A/Lt.
< 07.1945
(10.1944)
-
(07.1945)
HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *



British Naval Liaison Officer, "Piorun" (Polish destroyer)



British Naval Liaison Officer, "Burza" (Polish destroyer)



British Naval Liaison Officer, "Dragon" (Polish cruiser)
Hargreaves,
Harold
H. Hargreaves
Son of ... Hargreaves, and ... Thompson.
Married; ... children (one son?).
27.07.1920
Burnley, Lancashire
-
05.11.1992
Burnley, Lancashire
T/A/S.Lt. 10.01.1941
T/S.Lt. 27.07.1941
T/Lt. 01.03.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Overlord (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 16.03.45]
Cotton salesman from Burnley.
(02.1941)     no appointment listed
(04.1941) - (06.1941) HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
16.07.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
25.08.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)
09.05.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)
05.02.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty):
(06.1944) - (11.1944) Officer Commanding, No. 3 Landing Craft Obstacle Clearing Unit (Normandy 06.1944, Walcheren 11.1944) (DSC)
Literature: T.J. Waldron, & James Gleason, The frogmen : the story of the wartime underwater operators (1950).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hargreaves,
Howard Roy
H.R. Hargreaves (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Bujak)
Married; ... children (one daughter?).
05.06.1917
-
10.1989
Sutton district, Surrey
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. 08.04.1940
T/El.S.Lt. 1941, seniority 08.04.1940
T/El.Lt. 05.06.1942 (reld 09.05.1946)
Education: Dipl Faraday House, London; MIEE; Member American IEE.
(05.1940) - (06.1940) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
07.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
09.09.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
10.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa)
01.10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Medway II (base for 1st Submarine Flotilla, Malta)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) *
(04.1945)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
09.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (as Port anti-Submarine Officer)
(04.1946)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) *
01.03.1946 - (04.)1946 HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
His personal effects also show him at: HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) & SS Strathaird (troop ship).
With Johnson & Philips Ltd., 1946-1953. With Balfour-Williamson & Co. Ltd., 1953-1959. With Mead-Carney International, 1960-1962. Senior Consultant/Project Manager, Metra Consulting Group Ltd., Coydon, Surrey, 1963-(1970).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harkin,
William John
W.J. Harkin (© Imperial War Museum (A 27003)) W.J. Harkin (© Imperial War Museum (A 27004))
28.02.1911 ??
-
01.1989 ??
Torbay district, Devon ??
T/A/Lt. 13.08.1943
... - ... ...
01.01.1944 - (01.1945) on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)]
... - ... ...
Harling,
Henry Robert
H.R. Harling H.R. Harling
Son of Henry Robert Harling (1876-1954), and Adelaide Levinia Thomas (1876-1949).
Married 1st ((12?).1930, Edmonton district, Middlesex) Mary Adelaide Homer (03.11.1909 - 09.06.2002).
Married 2nd((06?).1945, London) Phoebe Pauline Helen Kohnstamm (17.12.1910 - 10.11.2006); three children.
27.03.1910
Islington district, London
-
01.07.2008
Godstone, Surrey
Prob. T/S.Lt. 12.07.1940
T/Lt. 12.10.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Journalist & editor (Typography, 1936-1939, Alphabet & Image, from 1946).
(08.1940) - (10.1940) no appointment listed
01.11.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)
(02.1941) - (04.1943) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
04.1943 - (10.1945) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Typographer.
Published: The London miscellany : a 19th Century scrapbook (1937); Home : a Victorian vignette (1938); Amateur sailor (1944); The steep Atlantic stream (1946); etc.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harmer-Elliott,
Sydney Frederick
S.F. Harmer-Elliott
31.12.1899
-
08.11.1985
Ashford, Kent
T/Lt.
10.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
25.10.1940
Operation Dynamo (Dunkirk 06.40)
Mention in Despatches MID
28.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
Croix de Guerre (France) CdeG
?
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
10.10.1939
-
29.05.1940
HMS Waverley (paddle minesweeper) [during the Dunkirk evacuation Commanding Officer & also Senior Officer, ... Minesweeping Flotilla] [ship sunk off Dunkirk]
[ (06.1940)


HMS Verity (destroyer) ?]
22.10.1940
-
(12.1941)
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Clyde, Glasgow)
18.06.1943
-
(06.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Beaumaris (minesweeper)
(10.1944)
 
 
HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, Canada) *
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harmsworth,
St John Bernard Vyvyan
St.J.B.V. Harmsworth
Eldest son of Vyvyan George Harmsworth and Constance Gwendolen Mary Catt.
Married (1937) Jane Penelope (died 1984), elder daughter of Basil Tanfield Berridge Boothby;
three daughters.
28.12.1912
-
13.06.1995
T/S.Lt.
21.10.1939
T/A/Lt.
06.10.1940
T/Lt.
1942?, seniority 06.10.1940 (reld 02.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
1945?
Education: Harrow; New College, Oxford
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 1937.
21.10.1939
-
(04.)1940
HMS Iron Duke (depot ship)
05.12.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Campanula (corvette)
(12.1941)


no appointment listed
07.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden)
A Metropolitan Magistrate, 1961-85.
Harper,
Stanley George Anthony
see: RINVR officers' section  
Harrington,
Albert Thomas Joseph
A.T.J. Harrington
Son of ... Harrington, and ... Fitch.
03.05.1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
22.02.2003
Bromley district, Kent
T/S.Lt.
12.02.1942
T/Lt.
01.04.1944

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
10.10.1944
action Dutch coast 08.07.44 [investiture 06.03.45]
Mention in Despatches MID
26.06.1945
action against E-boats 06.04.45
01.09.1942
-
10.11.1943
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 222 (motor torpedo boat) [based at HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
24.01.1944
-
(10.)1944
HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for MGBs, MTBs, etc.)
(07.1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 88 (motor torpedo boat)
23.11.1944
-
(04.)1945
Commanding Officer, HMS MTB 497 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Harris,
Anthony Max Leslie
A.M.L. Harris
Son of Arthur Leslie Harris, and Olga Kathleen Hopkins, of Weybridge, Surrey.
19.01.1923
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
14.06.1943
(air crash) [age 20]
[Newport (Island) Cemetery, Rhode Island, NY, USA, Navy Sec. Plots 172-177. Grave 17]
T/S.Lt. (A)
?
?
-
14.06.1943
pilot, 1830 Squadron FAA [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, USA)]
Harris,
Arthur Laban
A.L. Harris
Son (with three sisters and two brothers) of Arthur George Harris (1873-1929), and Ada Poole (1879-1969).
Married ((09?).1930, Isle of Wight) Hilda Florence Bartlett (08.02.1900 - (03?).1992); two sons, one daughter.
15.06.1907
Isle of Wight
-
15.01.1995
Ryde, Isle of Wight
T/S.Lt. 10.07.1942
T/Lt. 10.10.1942 (reld 10.10.1946)
(08.1942) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
11.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Winchester (W class destroyer)
(04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Winchester (W class destroyer) *
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
(01.1945) - (04.1945) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
18.04.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Cheviot (C class destroyer)
* indexed, but not listed as such
A granddaughter writes: "In 1940 Arthur, already a Merchant Seaman, was keen to join the RN. He was called up into the Navy for training in Skegness as a Telegraphist and was then deployed to the Atlantic on HMS Boadicea where his job was to monitor the radar, a recent development at the time. He once reported an echo from dead-ahead and informed the Captain who took no action. The echo got stronger, & he reported it again, the Captain ordered a change of course, & just missed colliding with a destroyer! The Captain commended Arthur & let him train to be an Officer. After training, Arthur Harris was appointed as a Gunnery Officer on HMS Winchester, a former WW1 destroyer, protecting the convoys on passage along the East Coast. He claimed to have only encountered the enemy once, an E-Boat, but it disappeared before anything happened. During the build-up to D-Day, Arthur had a job at Whale Island which involved sending items to ships in the invasion fleet. He was eventually deployed on HMS Cheviot to join the war in the Far East. Although once the ship had reached the Mediterranean, the war had ended."
Harris,
Douglas Hazard
D.H. Harris
Married 1st ((06?).1936, Exeter district, Devon) Hilda Winifred Gloyens (03.02.1909 - 03.2004), daughter (with one sister) of Alfred Gloyens (1876-), and Edith Townsend (1878-); two daughters.
Married 2nd (1940s?) ...; three daughters.
Married 3rd (19.11.1960, Woking, Surrey) Joan Anthonia Gardner (21.02.1916 -17.03.2014), daughter of George Anthony Gardner (1887-1973), and Minnie Edith (Minno) Church (1892-1955).
13.06.1911
Wimbledon, London
-
21.01.1993
Berryfield, Steep, Petersfield, Wiltshire
T/Paym.S.Lt. 25.08.1939
T/Paym.Lt. 25.08.1940
T/A/Paym.Lt.Cdr. = T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 27.07.1946; medically unfit)
T/A/Cdr. (S) > 07.1945, < 10.1945
25.08.1939 - (08.)1941 HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser)
06.09.1941 - (12.1943) HMS Northney (landing craft base, Hayling Island)
13.01.1944 - (06.)1944 Combined Operations Personnel, Admiralty [HMS President]
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
01.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Diligence (aircraft depot and repair ship) [10.1945 Member, Standing Military Court, Hong Kong]
(04.1946)     HMS President (Admiralty) *
Solicitor.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harris,
Frederick George
F.G. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Scott)
?
-
... ...
T/Lt. 21.08.1942
... - ... ...
22.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
23.11.1943 - (04.1944) HMS Seraph (submarine)
(06.1944)     HMS Seraph (submarine) *
08.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Tribune (submarine)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harris,
Horace Daniel Gibson
"Dan"
H.D.G. Harris
Son (with three sisters and one brother) of James Gibson Harris (1874-1952), and Elisabeth "Bessie" Miles (1882-1960).
Married Hanna Alfhild Marianne Syk (10.07.1920 - 15.04.2018); one son, one daughter.



 
10.12.1915
Great Missenden, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire
-
19.11.2007
Ottawa, Canada
Prob. T/S.Lt.
23.02.1940
T/S.Lt.
01.04.1940
T/A/Lt.
< 02.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
25.11.1944, seniority 01.04.1941
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RCN(R)
?, seniority 18.06.1946
30.11.1936


joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to London Division, RNVR]
01.04.1940
-
16.11.1941
Assistant to Naval Attaché, Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President]
17.11.1941

25.11.1944
- (07.1945) Assistant Naval Attaché, Stockholm (Sweden) [HMS President]
transferred to Special Branch
01.10.1950


commission terminated on transfer to RCN(R)
02.10.1950
-
(05.1953)
HMCS Nonsuch (Edmonton Naval Division)
14.12.1952
-
(01.1956)
HMCS Tecumseh (Calgary Naval Division)
Published: A pierhead jump. In: Soundings / The Ottawa Branch, The Naval Officers Association of Canada (Nov. 2003)
Harris,
John Anthony
J.A. Harris (Photo courtesy of Kate Harris) J.A. Harris (Photo courtesy of Kate Harris)
Son (with two brothers) of R.Adm. Charles Frederick Harris, CB (1887-1957), and Winifred Amy Weekley, of Betchworth, Surrey.
08.03.1917
Ewell, Epsom district, Surrey
-
13.06.1940
(KIA) [age 23]
[Trondheim (Stavne) Cemetery, Norway, A IV British L 9]
Prob. S.Lt. (A) 21.02.1939
21.02.1939     joined RNVR (London Division, List 2)
? - 13.06.1940 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]
[Flying Skua L2992 "7L" with Naval Airman S.R.D. Stevenson, the aircraft was lost during the attack on the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst at Orkanger, Tømmeråsen, Norway. It crashed into the hillside above the farm at Kjøra. The two aircrew were brought to Orkdal hospital, but Harris died just after arrival. Naval Airman Stevenson died at the hospital a year later on 31.05.1941.]
Harris,
John McPherson
J.M. Harris (Photo courtesy of Mr Alastair Harris)
28.05.1921
Paisley, Scotland
-
12.11.1951
Worthing district
(died eventually as a result of his war wounds) [age 30]
T/S.Lt. 07.08.1942
T/A/Lt. 07.02.1945 (reld > 04.1945, < 07.1945)
(10.1942)     no appointment listed
09.11.1942 - (04.)1943 Third Officer & Navigating Officer, HM SGB 6 (steam gun boat) [HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)]
(06.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven) *
07.1943     received wounds in an action with German E-boats north of Cherbourg in the night of 26/27.07.1943 which incapacitated him for further service
(12.1943) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harris,
Kenneth Ernest
"Ken"
K.E. Harris
?
-
T/S.Lt.
26.03.1942
T/Lt.
26.09.1944 (reld 1946?)
Mention in Despatches MID
11.12.1945
wind up Europe 45
09.11.1942
-
(02.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
19.04.1943
-
(06.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 72 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
08.08.1943
-
(10.1943)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat)
(1944)


Commanding Officer, HM MTB 349 (motor torpedo boat)
05.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 505 (motor torpedo boat)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Harris,
Norman
N. Harris
?
-
T/Sg.Lt.
25.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Education: MRCS, LRCP
07.06.1945
-
(04.1946)
Medical Officer, HMS Rushen Castle (corvette)
Harris,
Paul Austin George
P.A.G. Harris
Son of ... Harris, and ... Stacey.
Married ...; one son, one daughter.
05.01.1924
Christchurch district, Hampshire
-
27.11.1988
Poole district, Dorset
T/Midsh. 30.04.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(06.1943) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
(07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base & training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore) *
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harris,
Reginald Norman
see: SANF(V) section  
Harris,
Thomas Frank Wyndham
see: SANF(V) section  
Harris,
Victor Hickman
V.H. Harris
?
-
T/S.Lt.
07.05.1942
T/Lt.
07.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
20.07.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for ML duties)
03.05.1943
-
(08.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM MGB 112 (motor gun boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
12.01.1944
-
(10.1944)
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
28.03.1945
-
(07.1945)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 115 (motor launch)
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Harrison,
Alan George
A.G. Harrison
?
-
 
T/S.Lt. 28.08.1941
T/Lt. 01.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
17.11.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Algerine (Algerine class minesweeper)
16.12.1941 - (07.1945) HMS Worthing (Bangor class minesweeper)
Harrison,
Arthur Graham
A.G. Harrison
Son of Arthur Harrison, chief clerk in the town clerk's department, Birkenhead, and ... Byrne.
Married (1941) Joan Margaret Spry(died 24.09.2009, aged 90); two sons.

13.12.1913
Birkenhead
-
01.09.2007
Wallasey
Able Seaman ?
T/S.Lt. 04.12.1941?
T/Lt. 04.12.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) OBE 01.01.1972 New Year 72: Town Clerk, Wallasey
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 01.01.1945 New Year 45 [investiture 16.03.45]
Education: Birkenhead School; trained to be a solicitor.
      HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William)
      HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)
06.03.1942 - (08.)1942 HM ML 104 (motor launch) (at first supernumerary, then First Lieutenant)
15.08.1942 - 12.07.1944 Commanding Officer, HM ML 101 (motor launch) (DSC) [acting Senior Officer, 50th MTB Flotilla for the Normandy invasion]
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
Town Clerk, Wallasey County Borough Council, 1950-1974.
Harrison,
David
D. Harrison (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony Harrison)
Son of ... Harrison, and ... Shann.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
05.03.1918
Wetherby district, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
12.1983
Deben district, Suffolk
T/S.Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Lt. 05.03.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. 14.08.1960 (retd 05.03.1968)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 29.10.1962 -
(10.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed
25.01.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Darwen (minesweeping trawler)
10.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Darwen (minesweeping trawler)
09.10.1943 - (12.1943) HM BYMS 233 (British Yard minesweeper)
20.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Arcturus (Algerine class minesweeper) (Mediterranean)
      joined Permanent RNVR, from late 1950s RNR
Harrison,
Edward Stuart Pierce
E.S.P. Harrison
(09?).1908
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
(06?).1968
Lewes district, Sussex
Prob. S.Lt. 11.06.1929 (London Division, later Sussex Division)
S.Lt. 28.06.1930
Lt. 28.06.1933
Lt.Cdr. 28.06.1941 (reld 25.11.1945) (retd 26.10.1949)
T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 13.01.1949, seniority 28.10.1948
Member of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division) MBE 01.01.1960 New Year 60: Sea Cadet Corps
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 1948/49? -
31.07.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
29.12.1940 - (08.)1941 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.08.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS Mercury (signal establishments, Haslemere)
(08.1942)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
01.09.1942 - (07.)1945 Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
13.01.1949     temporary commission as Special Branch officer for service with the Sea Cadet Corps (MBE)
Harrison,
Frederick William
F.W. Harrison
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
25.10.1913
Devonport, Devon
-
10.2003
Manchester district, Lancashire
Ord.Sea. 10.1940
T/S.Lt. 11.12.1941
T/A/Lt. 11.12.1942
10.1940 - 12.1940 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk)
12.1940 - 02.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
02.1941 - 08.1941 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser)
08.1941 - 09.1941 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
09.1941 - 12.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
12.1941 - ? HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) (additional)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
02.03.1942 - 01.1943 HMS Safeguard (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships base, Calmore, Southampton)
27.01.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS President III (accounting base for personnel allocated to Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships)
(10.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
(02.1944)     HMS Glen Strathallan *
14.02.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Troubadour (armed yacht for anti-submarine duties)
20.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HM LST 65 (landing ship, tank)
08.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for miscellaneous services)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harrison,
Jack Frederick Wynn
J.A.P. Harrison
Married ((03?).1941, Hertford district, Hertfordshire) Margaret J. Campbell.
15.05.1906
Hackney district, London
-
03.07.1983
Harlow district, Warwickshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 08.03.1940
T/Lt. 08.06.1940 (reld 12.06.1945; medically unfit)
(04.1940)     no appointment listed
(10.1940)     HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) *
16.10.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Suma (minesweeping trawler)
16.07.1943 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Beacon
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harrison,
John Anthony Peter
J.A.P. Harrison
04.09.1923
-
15.12.1971
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

T/S.Lt. (A)
24.06.1944
11.07.1944
-
(10.1944)
pilot, 882 Squadron FAA
22.06.1945
-
(07.1945)
pilot, 730 Squadron FAA [HMS Sanderling]
(04.1946)
 
 
no appointment listed
Harrison,
Kennedy William
J.A.P. Harrison
(09?).1907 ?
Basford district, Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire ?
-

T/Lt.
06.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
06.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties)
13.10.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Portia
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.10.1944
-
(01.1945)
HMS Squid (Combined Operations base, Southampton)
(07.1945)


HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) *
Harrison,
Lancelot Robert
"Lance"
L.R. Harrison
Son of William and Hannah Mary Harrison.
Married (12?).1931, Lincoln district, Lincolnshire) ... Dason.
19.01.1905
Ingham, Lincoln district, Lincolnshire
-
(12?).1977
Hastings and Rother district, Sussex
T/Wt.Eng. RNR 30.11.1942
T/Lt. (E) 21.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(12.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed
20.04.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for LSTs)
20.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HM LST 163 (landing ship, tank)
24.07.1944 - (07.1945) HM LST 163 (landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Harrison,
William John Cuthbert
W.J.C. Harrison
Residence: (1945) Standish, Lancashire.
18.05.1906
-
28.01.1982
Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire
T/S.Lt. 23.02.1940
T/Lt. 04.04.1940
Pre- & post-war employed as manager contracts & winding department, at Corbett Electr. Eng. Co., Wigan.
      in command of HM ships & degaussing duties at Alexandria (specializing in general electrical installations, colleries & foundries, and motor rewinding)
... - ... ...
25.09.1941 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Burra (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
Harrop,
James Kilworth
"Jim"

J.K. Harrop (Photo courtesy of Mr Howard R. Gray)
Son (with one brother) of Frederick Samuel Harrop (1887-1969), and Florence Edith Keyes (1890-1980).
Married (1941, Hendon ditrict) Yvonne A. Danon.
10.05.1920
Rochford, Essex
-
01.10.1945
[age 25]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
T/S.Lt. (A) 17.01.1942
T/Lt. (A) 17.07.1944
(04.1942)     HMS Saker II (accounting base, Washington, DC, USA) *
09.05.1942 - (06.)1942 pilot, 762 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)]
(08.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh) *
13.12.1942 - (04.)1943 pilot, 892 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
06.1943 - (12.)1943 pilot, 888 Squadron FAA
07.12.1943 - (04.)1944 pilot, 1832 Squadron FAA
06.04.1944 - (06.)1944 pilot, 890 Squadron FAA
09.1944 - (01.)1945 pilot, 757 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)]
(04.1945)     no appointment listed
19.04.1945 - 01.10.1945 pilot, 704 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Harrop,
Walter
 "Bob"

W. Harrop W. Harrop
W. Harrop W. Harrop (© Photo: Peter Scott, "The battle of the narrow seas")
Son of Walter Harrop, and Minnie Blackshaw.
Married ((12?).1940, Manchester district, Lancashire) Elaine Gabrielle M.M. Ryder (04.03.1915 - 02.06.1996), daughter of Fred Ryder (1882-), and Elizabeth Jackson (1882-); one son, one daughter.
24.08.1908
St Annes on the Sea, Fylde district, Lancashire
-
18.09.1966
Brompton Hospital, Chelsea, London (formerly of Bracknell, Berkshire)
T/S.Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Lt. 04.12.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. 23.05.1945? (reld > 10.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 21.12.1943 action Nore Command 19.10.1943 [investiture 15.02.1944]
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
27.10.1941 - (06.)1942 HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
(08.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) *
24.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) (for motor launches)
(08.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Midge (Coastal Forces base, Great Yarmouth) *
(10.1943?) - 07.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MGB 680 (motor gun boat) (DSC)
08.11.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 680 (motor torpedo boat)
(02.1944) - (04.1944) HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *
(06.1944)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
11.08.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for communication duties with Coastal Forces)
23.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Watchful (anti-submarine & minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)
26.09.1945 - (10.1946) HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hart,
Charles John
C.J. Hart
?
-
?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.04.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.07.1942 (reld 14.06.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 10.1945, < 04.1946

* Special Branch officer who is employed on staff, etc., duties ashore, but has not received any training of an executive nature

26.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
06.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Ironclad (RN base, Diego Suarez, Madagascar)
(06.1943)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(08.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) *
01.06.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(04.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
(04.1946)     HMS President *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hart,
Frederick John
"Fred"
F.J. Hart (Photo courtesy of Mr John Hart)
Son of John Hart (1879-1926), and Amy Wood Lewin (1880-).
Married (15.05.1944, Alexandria, Egypt) Peggy Powell; one son.
14.11.1916
Coquimbo, Chile, South America
-
09.11.1965
National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, St Marylebone, London (after a major heart operation)
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 29.05.1940
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. 01.10.1940
T/El.Lt. 14.11.1941 (reld 04.07.1946)
Studied Concepcion left Chile for UK 1936.
29.05.1940 - 16.06.1940 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) & HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for degaussing duties)
17.07.1940 - 01.08.1940 HMS Ocean Guide, for duty as Assistant Degaussing Wiping Officer (DGWO), London No. 2 [based at HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)]
02.08.1940 - 13.11.1941 HMS Amiable (degaussing vessel), for duty as Assistant to Degaussing Wiping Officer (DGWO), Portland Mobile Wiping Unit [based at HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)]
14.11.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for degaussing duties)
1944 - 14.07.1944 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (for degaussing duties)
15.07.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (as Degaussing Wiping Officer (DGWO), Leith Fixed Wiping Station)
1945 - 1946 HMS Bushwood (minesweeping degaussing vessel)
(04.)1946 - 04.07.1946 HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel at Keppel Harbour) (as Range Officer, Singapore & for deperming duties)
Arrived UK 1936 working for Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) to which he returned in 1946 and was posted to Buenos Aires. Subsequently, worked for Phillips in Holland and Chile and rejoined STC in Santiago, Chile 1960. Chairman British Legion Branch Santiago Chile 1960. Founder member of the British Fire Brigade Unit No.14 of the Santiago, Chile Fire Service 1961.
Hart,
Gerrard
G. Hart
Married ((06?).1930, Wigan district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire) Marcia H. Milton; ... children (one daughter?).
29.11.1904
Wigan district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire
-
26.03.1976
Appleby district, Leicestershire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 18.10.1940
T/Lt. 18.01.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
18.10.1940 - 03.12.1940 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
04.12.1940 - 09.1941 HMS Lily Oak (Auxiliary Patrol, Scapa)
09.1941 - 07.11.1941 HMS Grateful (Auxiliary Patrol, Scapa)
03.12.1941 - 21.09.1942 HMS Sandhurst (repair ship)
11.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Thalassa (armed yacht)
11.01.1943 - (04.)1943 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
19.04.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Thames Local Defence Flotilla)
19.10.1943 - (04.)1944 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)
(06.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Pyramus (RN base, Kirkwall) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hart,
John
J. Hart
Married (11.09.1943) ...; ... children (one daughter?).
11.06.1920
-
29.10.1989

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 01.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.07.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.05.1944 (reld 21.04.1946)

* Special Branch officer who has qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature on shore

15.02.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Dartmouth III, from 19.07.1943 HMS Effingham (Combined Operations base, Dartmouth)
(12.1943)     HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *
(02.1944)     Combined Operations Headquarters *
(04.)1944 - (10.1945) Signal Section (later Signal Branch), Combined Operations Headquarters
* indexed, but not listed as such
His son-in-law writes: "Previous to commissioning served on HMS Kingston at time of Crete evacuation. Also served in Indian Ocean where ship was sunk. Was signaller."
Hartill,
Richard James
"Dick"
R.J. Hartill
23.03.1905
Solihull, West Midlands
-
21.12.1982
Wellington, New Zealand
T/Paym.S.Lt. =
T/S.Lt. (S)
?
T/Lt. (S)
01.11.1944
Mention in Despatches MID
01.08.1944
Operation Shingle (landing at Anzio 22.01.44)
09.06.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) (for duty at Civita Vecchia)
01.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
Hartley,
Allan Masefield
A.M. Hartley
26.08.1912
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
24.03.1984
Macclesfield district, Cheshire
T/S.Lt.
?
T/Lt.
26.08.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
19.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
Plans Division (Q), Admiralty [HMS President]
Hartley,
Kenneth
"Ken"
K. Hartley
?
-
T/S.Lt. 04.09.1941
T/Lt. 16.03.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
10.12.1942 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 244 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
(10.1944) - (07.1945) HM MTB 392 (motor torpedo boat) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Hartley,
Victor
V. Hartley
?
-
T/A/S.Lt. 18.02.1943
T/S.Lt. 18.08.1943
T/Lt. 18.08.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
25.03.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for motor landing craft)
His son writes: "My dad enlisted about 1941. He trained at Pwllheli in Wales & Locheylet in Scotland. He was engaged in the invasion of Sicily in HM LCG 03 (landing craft, gun) and served on D-Day (06.06.1944) in HM LCT 7050 (landing craft, tank)."
Hartwell,
Peter William Beresford
P.W.B. Hartwell (Photo courtesy of Mr Geoffrey Hartwell)
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Frank Leslie Hartwell and Dorothy Gwendolen Ellis, of Sanderstead, Surrey.
Residence: 28, Crichton Road, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey.
22.05.1923
Camberwell district, London
-
05.06.1943
[age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 1]
T/Midsh. (A) 30.12.1942
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 05.1943
Education: Whitgift School; Eastbourne College.
22.02.1943 - 05.06.1943 HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (additional; for full flying duties and training)

Eastbourne College War Service Record 1939-1946:
P.W.B. Hartwell

 
Harvey,
Arthur Henry
A.H. Harvey (Photo courtesy of Mr Nick Harvey)
Son (with one brother) of Frederick William Harvey (1901-1981), and Francis Mabel Coles (1898-1946).
Married ((12?).1942, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire) Catherine Brenda Hunt (02.01.1921 - 22.02.2007), daughter (with three sisters) of Arthur Ernest Hunt (1881-1963), and Charlotte Wasley (1887-1978); two sons,

29.04.1923
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
15.02.2000
Waltham Forest district, Greater London
T/A/S.Lt. 11.06.1943
T/S.Lt. 11.12.1943
T/Lt. 11.12.1945 (reld 16.08.1946)
26.07.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Gunner (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)
29.03.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Worthing (Bangor class minesweeper)
18.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Grecian (Catherine class minesweeper)
Harvey,
Herbert Frank
H.F. Harvey
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Charles Henry Harvey (1878-1964), and Clara Adams (1885-1961).
Married (1935, Leominster disatrict, Herefordsahire) Alice Hilda Bach (18.06.1906 - 06.01.1972); two daughters.
24.02.1912
Hereford district, Herefordshire
-
16.03.1975
Ludlow district, Shropshire
T/S.Lt. 16.04.1942
T/Lt. 16.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 44
(06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed
14.08.1942 - (12.)1942 First Lieutenant, HM MMS 82 (motor minesweeper)
29.12.1942 - (04.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MMS 56 (motor minesweeper)
01.06.1944 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2047 (British Yard minesweeper)
08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)(for duty with Captain Minesweeping, Mediterranean)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Harvie,
Andrew McDonald
A.M. Harvie
Married ...; one daughter.
23.03.1924
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
29.04.2008
Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire
T/A/S.Lt. 23.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 23.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
27.09.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Rion [renamed 1944: HMS Noir] (armed anti-submarine yacht)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Mayina (transit & holding camp, Colombo, Ceylon) (for disposal)
03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Bushwood (degaussing vessel)
Haseler,
Colin Rabone
C.R. Haseler
Son (with three brothers) of William Rabone Haseler (1860-1936), and Florence Ryland (1865-1953).
Married 1st ((09?).1940, Hendon district, Middlesex; divorced) Alice May Diane Ross (name change 1930 from Rowbottom) (09.02.1911 - ), daughter (with two sisters and two brothers) of Charles Henry Rowbottom (1887-1969), and Emily Annie Tompkins (1884-1971); one daughter. Alice Haseler remarried (1954) Richard Henry Peacock Seymour.
Married 2nd (1954?) Alexandrina Jean Benzie Webster (07.09.1924 - 2017), daughter (with two sisters and one brother) of Joseph Webster (1893-1969), and Annie Kesson Bennett (1892-1981); two daughters.
28.02.1911
Handsworth, Staffordshire
-
24.01.1974
Culross nr. Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
T/S.Lt. (E) 28.07.1941
T/Lt. (E) 28.12.1941
Planning engineer, Special Constabulary Second Reserve, Birmingham, 06.09.1939-19.04.1940.
(08.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed
03.11.1941 - (08.)1942 Torpedo Depot, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(10.1942) - (12.1942) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) *
(02.1943)     Combined Operations Headquarters *
03.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria) (additional; for miscellanous duties)
05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(10.1943) - (04.1944) HMS Phoeicia (landing craft base, Manoel Island, Malta) *
(06.1944) - (10.1946) no appointment listed
19.02.1954     T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNVR for duty with Sea Cadet Corps
* indexed, but not listed as such
       


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