J.B. Race to
W.J.K. Ritchie |
Race,
Jack Bernard
Son (with one sister) of John Bernard Race
(1890-1956), and Emma Sarah Stafford (1891-1940).
Married ((09?).1939, Hampstead district, London) Beryl Hilda Willis (28.02.1918
- 05.1995); one son, two daughters. |
01.02.1915
Guildford district, Surrey
-
01.1999
Windsor and Maidenhead district, Berkshire |
Prob. T/El.S.Lt. |
15.06.1942 |
T/El.Lt. |
15.10.1942 |
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. |
> 10.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 19.07.1946) |
|
Def M |
? |
? |
|
WM 39|45 |
? |
? |
|
(08.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
10.09.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties) |
03.1943 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for RN Air Station China Bay) |
(10.1944) |
- |
(01.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
12.02.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS
Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) |
Chartered engineer. FIEE, FIM/DE. Works
Director of E.N.V. Engineering Ltd., then General manager of the Cambridge
Instrument Co's factory at Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 1966-.... |
Radford,
Leslie Thomas
Married ((09?).1945, West Cheshire district,
Cheshire) Marjorie Lilian Barden; one daughter, one son. |
07.06.1909
Harlesdon, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
03.09.1965
Queensway General Hospital, Etobicoke,
Ontario, Canada
[Fairview Cemetery] |
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) |
01.06.1942 |
T/Lt. (A) |
01.09.1942 (reld 09.03.1946) |
|
Bus driver. Obtained civil aviator's licence (No.
17137) 19.02.1939, taken on a Taylor Cub Continental 40 at County Flying Club
Rearsby.
(06.1942) |
- |
(10.1942) |
no appointment listed |
09.11.1942 |
- |
(12.1943) |
pilot, 756 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr
Winchester)] |
15.01.1943 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
pilot, 745
Squadron FAA [HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS)] |
(10.1944) |
|
|
HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS)
* |
01.01.1945 |
- |
(04.)1945 |
pilot, 737
Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)] |
05.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Goshawk
(RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) (for disposal) |
Service representative with DeHavilland Aircraft.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rae,
Alexander Ronald
|
1924
Hamilton district, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
02.07.2011
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
02.08.1944
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 04.1946 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(01.1945)
|
HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said, Egypt) *
|
(03.1945)
|
|
|
British Naval Liaison Officer, "Pindos" (Greek escort destroyer)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rae,
Alistair Sutherland Livingston
|
11.02.1912
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
19.04.2006
Dundee, Scotland |
T/Sg.Lt.
|
03.09.1939 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
Education: George Watson's; Edinburgh School of
Medicine (...-1935); MB, BCh, DPH.
01.1940 |
- |
(04.1940) |
HMS Echo
(destroyer) |
(02.1941) |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said) * |
|
|
|
apparently
served on Admiral Cunningham's flagship & the hospital at Valetta, Malta |
11.09.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Begum
(escort carrier) |
17.01.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Ukussa
(RN Air Station, Katukurunda, Ceylon) |
Consultant psychiatrist, West Green Hospital (later:
Garvey House Hospital and finally the Liff Hospital), Dundee, 1951-1982.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rae,
Irving Dryden
Son of Harvey Dryden Rae (1892-1957), and
Betsy Gray Weir (1894-1987).
Married (1946, Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire,
Scotland) Emily Staniforth "Bunty" Menzies (1924 - 17.06.2020), daughter of
David Menzies (1896-1985), and Alice Staniforth Lockhart (1898-1983); one son,
two daughters. |
25.10.1923
Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
18.06.2002
Eastwood and Mearns, East Renfrewshire,
Scotland |
T/Midsh. |
23.04.1943 |
T/A/S.Lt. |
01.09.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
01.03.1944 |
T/Lt. |
01.03.1946 (reld 20.09.1946) |
|
(06.1943) |
- |
(02.1944) |
no appointment listed |
(04.1944) |
- |
(06.1944) |
HMS Royal Scotsman
(auxiliary landing ship) * |
09.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HMS Royal Scotsman
(auxiliary landing ship) |
21.12.1944 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HM LST 3 (landing ship,
tank) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
His daughter writes: "I’m sure my father joined under the “Y” scheme in 1940,
perhaps 1941. He was on Sheffield during the Battle of North Cape. He was aboard
Royal Scotsman in the Med, Algeria, Sicily etc .He was awarded the Arctic Star
posthumously." |
Raikes,
Robert Martin
Son of ... Raikes, and ... Evans.
Married Gillian (née ...); two sons.
|
18.11.1918
St George Hanover Square district, London /
Middlesex
-
07.05.2009
[aged 90]
Llangasty, near Brecon
|
T/S.Lt.
|
11.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
11.07.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
DSC |
23.10.1945 |
Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture of Okinawa
03/05.45) [decoration posted] |
|
11.01.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS
Campbell (destroyer)
|
01.08.1941
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
HMS
Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
|
12.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Staff Radar
Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier)
|
|
Rainey,
Thomas Andrew
Son (with one brother and two half-siblings) of
Thomas Rainey (?-1963), and Winifred Hilda Driver (1891-1954).
Married ...; one daughter, one son. |
08.07.1920
Braintree district, Essex
-
19.10.2011
Newtownabbey, Antrim, Northern Ireland |
T/A/S.Lt. (E) |
08.06.1944 (reld 05.06.1946) |
|
|
|
|
temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements: |
27.07.1944 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Prinses
Josephine Charlotte (landing ship infantry) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
HMS Battler (Archer class escort carrier)
* |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Ralphs,
Graham Russell
Son (with a twin brother) of ... Ralphs, and
... Russell.
Married ((09?).1944, Chelsea, London) Moira Audrey Parry; ... children (two
sons?). |
21.05.1920
Twickenham, Kingston district, Surrey
-
10.11.1985
Putney, Kensington & Chelsea district, London |
T/S.Lt. |
02.10.1941 |
T/Lt. |
02.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
(12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
(02.1942) |
- |
(04.1942) |
French Ship
Largs * |
20.04.1942 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Scarab
(river gunboat) |
(02.1944) |
- |
(04.1944) |
HMS
Seabelle (RN base, Persian Gulf) * |
(06.1944) |
- |
(04.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
18.06.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS
Flycatcher (for Mobile Naval Air Bases (MONABs)) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
Financial consultant.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Ramage,
Alfred John Vincent
Son of Stanley John Ramage (1875-1912), and Constance Minna Worts (1874-1946).
Married ((12?).1935, Ipswich district, Suffolk) Jessie May Harris (01.06.1906 -
(09?).1977); two daughters,
two sons. |
02.01.1904
Lewisham district, London
-
20.01.1978
Ipswich district, Suffolk |
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * |
10.03.1941 |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
10.06.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.,1946) |
* Special Branch officer employed on staff,
etc, duties ashore, who has not received any training of an executive
nature, but has undergone a short course at RN College, Greenwich |
(04.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
10.05.1941 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
Boom
Defences Department, Admiralty [HMS President] |
19.07.1943 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
Press
Division [later: Department of the Chief of Naval Information], Admiralty [HMS
President] |
(10.1945) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
Solicitor (admitted 1938), from 04.1970 barrister
(NSW Bar). |
Ramsay,
Alexander Robert
"Alec"
Eldest son and second child of seven to
Robert Christian Ramsay (1861-1957), and Olive Zillah Voss (1887-1957).
Married (15.03.1944) 2nd Officer Helen
McGregor Shaw, WRNS (died 2007); one son, two daughters.
|
12.05.1910
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
-
21.01.2004
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia |
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
20.09.1939
|
T/Lt. (A)
|
23.08.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
|
09.1943?
|
T/A/Cdr. (A)
|
04.1945? (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
DSC
|
08.01.1942
|
withdrawal from Crete [decoration posted]
|
|
DSC
|
01.01.1945
|
New Year 45 [decoration posted]
|
|
Education: started in Toowoomba, Queensland;
secondary school at Harrow; studied agriculture at Cambridge University.
Sport : Played rugby for Cambridge University, London Scottish, and just missed out on
playing for Scotland. Played golf off a low handicap.
Aeronautical engineer. Got his flying licence 03.04.1935.
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
06.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
pilot, HMS
Nile II (RN Air Station, Alexandria)
|
21.10.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
pilot, 803
Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria)]
|
09.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
HMS Emperor
(escort carrier)
|
06.09.1944
|
-
|
(01.1944)
|
HMS
Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
|
04.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Bambara
(RN Air Station, Trincomalee, Ceylon)
|
Bought & ran a plantation with his brother in
Tanganyika, c. 1948/49 to 1957. Went to Rhodesia to farm tobacco, cattle and
Maize at Umvukwes (now Umvurwe), north of Harare. Owned and managed a property
portfolio including two blocks of flats in Harare (essentially lost everything
following transition to independence and collapse of Zimbabwe). Moved back to
Australia c. 1987 (Adelaide, then Brisbane, then Toowoomba).
|
Ramseyer,
Leslie Frank
Son (with one brother) of John Frederick
Frank Ramseyer (1887-1961), and Elizabeth Harriett Vallee (1889-1972).
Married ((06?).1949, Wood Green district, Middlesex) Evelyn Mary Deacock
(23.03.1924 - 20.10.2020); three sons, one daughter.
|
02.02.1915
Epping, Essex
-
26.01.1966
London
[found dead in the gas-filled kitchen of his flat at Park West , Edgware Road,
Paddington] |
Prob. T/S.Lt. |
01.03.1940 |
T/S.Lt. |
11.05.1940 |
T/Lt. |
01.03.1941 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
> 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld 15.06.1946) |
|
DSC |
04.04.1944 |
services Leros 09-11.1943 [decoration posted] |
|
MID |
14.11.1944 |
Operation Tenement (attack on Simi
13-15-07.1944) |
|
MID |
14.08.1945 |
relief of Greece |
|
Electrical engineer 1st class certificate.
05.04.1938 |
- |
(02.)1940 |
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
(attached London Division RNVR) |
(04.1940) |
- |
(05.1940) |
no appointment listed |
11.05.1940 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
HMS Forfar (armed merchant cruiser) |
25.06.1940 |
- |
(07.)1940 |
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) |
19.07.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 24 (motor torpedo boat)
(4th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] |
01.10.1940 |
- |
(12.1940) |
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 24 (motor torpedo boat)
[HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] |
(02.1941) |
- |
(06.1941) |
no appointment listed |
18.07.1941 |
- |
(10.)1941 |
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 36 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)] |
17.11.1941 |
- |
(02.)1942 |
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) |
02.1942 |
- |
(06.)1942 |
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for motor
torpedo boats (MTBs)) |
08.06.1942 |
- |
(10.)1942 |
HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt)
(for motor torpedo boats (MTBs)) |
(12.1942) |
- |
(04.1943) |
no appointment listed |
01.05.1943 |
- |
11.09.1944 |
Naval Liaison Officer, Raiding Forces [HMS Nile (RN
base, Alexandria, Egypt)] (DSC, despatches) |
12.09.1944 |
- |
(10.1945) |
Staff Officer (Operations) to Senior British Naval
Officer, Greece [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] (despatches) |
Chairman of Lonsdale & Bartholomew , printers and
publishers. |
Rankin,
John Cooper
|
27.08.1924
Hamilton, Scotland
-
18.06.2016
Chichester, West Sussex |
T/Midsh.
|
1943?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
27.08.1944
|
T/Lt.
|
1946? (reld >
04.1946)
|
|
Education: University of Glasgow (1941; MA degree)
late
1943
|
-
|
autumn1944
|
Fifth
Officer, HMS Grey Goose (ex-Steam Gun Boat 9)
|
07.08.1944
|
-
|
14.11.1944
|
Third
Officer, HMS Grey Fox (ex-Steam Gun Boat 4)
[appointed, but never went to sea in it; joined at
Milford Haven and went on leave from there]
|
15.11.1944
|
-
|
05.1945
|
Third
Officer, HM MTB 781 (motor torpedo boat)
|
|
|
|
training as a Fleet Air Arm Bomb Range Officer at St Merryn in Cornwall
|
30.10.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Educational and Vocational Training duties,
serving in Braintree [HMS Cicero?] and Abbotsinch [HMS Sanderling?])
|
|
Rankine,
Hugh Gordon
Son of ... Rankine, and ... Hemsley.
Married Mary ...
|
06.09.1920
Birkenhead district, Cheshire
-
23.02.2016
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
T/S.Lt. (E) |
19.06.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
(temporary commission terminated on transfer to RCN(R) 26.04.1949) |
Lt. (E) RCN(R) |
27.04.1949 |
Lt.Cdr. (E) RCN(R) |
25.07.1959 |
|
08.1944 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Cooke (frigate) |
27.08.1952 |
- |
(07.1954) |
HMCS
Donnaconna (Montreal Naval Division) |
(01.1957) |
|
|
HMCS
Scotian (Halifax Naval Division) * |
(02.1963) |
|
|
HMCS
Carleton (Ottawa Naval Division) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Ransome
Wallis,
Patrick Leonard John Cosnett
Eldest son of Dr. Abraham Ransome Wallis (1877-1942), a general practitioner
surgeon, and Kate Cosnett Burslem (1872-1929), of Worksop.
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Ralph Wilson Gray Ransome
Wallis, RNVR.
Married 1st (01.1934, Godstone district, Surrey) Dr Petrusa De Beer "Toosie"
Clark, MB, BCh (1904? - 27.12.1980), eldest daughter of Lt.Col. Peter Skinner
Clark, DSO, JP, MB, ChM, BSc (1873?-1920), and Mrs Clark, of Cradock, South
Africa, and Edinburgh; two daughters.
Married 2nd Muriel Day.
|
10.01.1906
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
-
14.07.1985
Herne Bay, Kent |
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. |
? |
T/Sg.Lt. |
06.09.1939 |
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. |
08.06.1944? (reld
< 04.1946) |
|
Education: Bootham School, York; accepted as a pupil
at Doncaster locomotive works, but changed to medicine graduating from
Edinburgh University (MB, ChB, 1930).
General practitioner in Herne Bay, Kent, from 1933 onwards.
(04.1940) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
05.09.1940 |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Dido
(cruiser) (Mediterranean [Greece, Crete]) |
16.02.1942 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Osprey
(anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
[engaged in acoustic work and formulated the
acoustic standards for officers and ratings serving in this branch of the navy] |
08.06.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Osprey
(anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) |
17.07.1947 |
|
|
transferred to List II of permanent RNVR, with seniority as Lt.Cdr. of
10.01.1939 |
In addition to his general practice he worked as an
audiologist, first at St Mary's Hospital in London and,
from 1948, as medical officer to the audiology departments at the Kent and
Canterbury Hospital and at the hospitals of Ramsgate, Folkestone, Dover, and
Deal.
Published: The last steam locomotives of British Railways (1966) +
some 25 other titles on railways & locomotives. |
Ransome
Wallis,
Ralph Wilson Gray
Younger son of Dr. Abraham Ransome Wallis
(1877-1942), a general practitioner surgeon, and Kate Cosnett Burslem
(1872-1929), of Worksop.
Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. Patrick Leonard John
Cosnett Rasnome Wallis, RNVR.
Married (03.03.1934, Godstone district,
Surrey) Winifred H.M. Clark, daughter of Lt.Col. Peter Skinner Clark, DSO, JP,
MB, ChM, BSc (1873?-1920), and Mrs Clark, of Cradock, South Africa, and
Edinburgh; two daughters, one son. |
17.06.1909
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
-
13.04.2001
Peterborough General Hospital,
Northamptonshire |
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. |
12.12.1940 |
T/Sg.Lt. |
05.1941,
seniority 12.12.1940 |
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr. |
early 1944 (reld
14.05.1946) |
|
DSC |
25.08.1942 |
Murmansk convoys 03-05.44 [investiture 09.02.43] |
|
Education: MD (Edin 1946); MB, ChB (Edin
30.07.1932).
12.12.1940 |
- |
01.1941 |
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] |
01.1941 |
- |
16.05.1942 |
HMS London
(cruiser) |
17.05.1942 |
- |
06.1942 |
HMS Martin
(destroyer) (temporarily) (DSC) |
06.1942 |
- |
02.1943 |
HMS London
(cruiser) |
18.02.1943 |
- |
early 1944 |
Naval
Hospital Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire [HMS Spartiate] |
early 1944 |
- |
1945 |
Naval Party
[1763?] [HMS Royal Edmund] (based at Hampstead Heath, went to Antwerp 09.1944,
then in charge of Sick Quarters at Ostend) |
Practising country doctor, Rutland. Factory Doctor
for the Barrowden District, Rutland, 25.07.1951. Late Honorary Surgeon Swindon
and North Wiltshire Victoria Hospital.
Published: Two red stripes : a naval surgeon at war (1973). |
Ratcliffe,
Leonard *
Son of John Ratcliffe, waterman, and
Florence Turner, shop assistant.
Married (1922, Liverpool) Mary Mitchell Houston.
* sometimes registered with a second first name "Amarapoora", derived from one
of the ships he served on |
29.05.1895
Runcorn, Cheshire
-
24.12.1960
Liverpool
|
T/Midsh. RNR
|
03.12.1914 (reld 16.01.1916)
|
T/S.Lt.
|
02.03.1916
|
T/Lt.
|
02.03.1917 (reld 05.02.1919)
|
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
CdeG
|
17.05.1918
|
*
|
|
14|15 St
|
?
|
?
|
|
BWM 14|20
|
?
|
?
|
|
VM
|
?
|
?
|
|
DefM
|
?
|
?
|
|
WM 39|45
|
?
|
?
|
* The Citation à l'Ordre de l'Armée of 20.12.1917
showed him at trawler Brigadier, for having destroyed 100 German mines in a
year
|
Joined Merchant Navy as a Cadet, 1911.
08.12.1914
|
-
|
02.12.1915
|
HMS Oropesa (armed merchant cruiser)
|
02.03.1916
|
-
|
13.12.1918
|
HMS Halcyon (base ship, Lowestoft) (additional; for command of a group of
minesweeping trawlers)
|
29.03.1916
|
-
|
(04.1916?)
|
short gunnery course, HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)
|
14.12.1918
|
-
|
28.01.1919
|
HMS Zaria (Auxiliary
Patrol base for Orkney and the Shetlands) (for command
of minesweeping trawlers in the
4th and 5th Fast Sweeping Flotillas)
|
29.01.1919
|
-
|
05.02.1919
|
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for demobilisation)
|
Served Merchant Navy, 1919-c. 1925. In 1928 listed as a tailor with premises in
Liverpool.
|
29.01.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS
Cochrane II (supply & accounting base for tenders, Rosyth) (for duty at
Inchkeith)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
no
appointment listed
|
Occupation at the time of his death described as
fancy goods dealer.
|
Ratledge,
Kenneth Ward
Son of James William & Louisa Ann Ratledge, of Ainsdale, Lancashire. |
17.10.1909
Ainsdale, Ormskirk district, Lancashire
-
17.02.1979
Perran-Ar-Worthal, Truro district, Cornwall |
T/Lt. |
26.11.1939 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
17.12.1936 |
|
|
Royal
Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached Clyde Division RNVR] |
26.11.1939 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
HMS Pyramus (minesweeper & anti-submarine base,
Kirkwall, Orkneys) |
24.04.1940 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
HMS Fervent
(RN base, Ramsgate) |
(06.1940) |
|
|
First Lieutenant, HNethMS "Oranje" (one of 40 Dutch Schuits (Skoots))
(Dunkirk) |
12.06.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) |
30.11.1940 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)
(for Admiralty Berthing Officer) |
Manager at Coast Lines (British Channel Islands
Shipping Co Ltd). |
Rattenbury,
John
Son of John H. Rattenbury, and Alice K.
Hockey.
Married (26.01.1963, Lyme Regis, Dorset) Ann Caroline Reed; two sons, one
daughter. |
20.04.1918
Lyme Regis, Axminster district, Dorset
-
15.12.2006
Dorchester Hospital, Dorset |
Ord.Sea. |
? [M/X 65246] |
T/S.Lt. |
06.03.1941 |
T/Lt. |
20.04.1943 (reld 1946) |
|
39|45 St |
- |
- |
|
Atl S |
- |
- |
|
WM 39|45 |
- |
- |
|
03.1940 |
|
|
joined RNVR
as Torpedo- & Wireman |
|
|
|
HMS Akita
(minesweeping trawler) |
08.04.1941 |
- |
(08.)1942 |
HMS Forte
(RN base, Falmouth) (helping to plan convoys & the raid on St. Nazaire by HMS
Campbeltown and the Royal Marines) |
08.1942 |
- |
(08.)1943 |
Officer of
the Watch, HMS Wastwater (trawler) (served E. Coast USA, S. Atlantic & W. Coast
of Africa on convoy and anti-submarine duties, minesweeping in Home Waters) |
09.09.1943 |
- |
10.1943 |
HMS May
(cable ship) |
10.1943 |
- |
07.1945 |
HMS
Bankville (cable ship) |
07.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Retriever (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(Mediterranean) |
07?.1945 |
- |
10?.1945 |
HMS Bullfinch (cable ship) (Mediterranean) |
10.1945 |
- |
02.1946 |
HMS
St Margarets (cable ship) |
Left the navy in 1946 but returning to sea in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve six months later. Took part in the demolition of
German munitions & U-boat pens at Heligoland while serving in HMS Lasso in 1947.
Left the service in 1952. |
Raven,
John Giles
Son of Arthur Henry Raven (1871-1949), and
Kate Giles (1876-1965).
Married Lily Dorothy Gates (1898-).
From Yeovil, Somerset.
|
(06?).1901
Sudbury, Essex
-
18.07.1968
Weymouth, Dorset
|
T/Lt.
|
22.10.1939
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
16.02.1943? (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
DSC
|
01.09.1942
|
minesweeping Channel 06.42 [investiture 17.11.42]
|
|
MID
|
28.11.1944
|
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
|
|
09.11.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
HMS Hebe
(Halcyon class minesweeper)
|
10.01.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Ilfracombe (Bangor class minesweeper)
|
19.09.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 46 (motor minesweeper)
|
16.02.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Parrsborough (Bangor class minesweeper)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
10.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Commanding Officer, HMS Antares (Algerine class minesweeper)
|
|
Raven,
John Stanley
Son of Frederick William Raven.
Married (1935) Nancy, daughter of William Harold Murdoch; three sons.
|
05.10.1910
-
15.06.1987
[Coliingham, Yorks. ?]
|
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
01.10.1939
|
T/El.Lt.
|
30.01.1940
|
T/Lt.
|
30.01.1940
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
> 08.1942, < 02.1943
|
Cdr. (L) RN
|
02.01.1946
|
Capt. (L) RN
|
31.12.1954
|
R.Adm. RN
|
07.07.1962 (retd 1965)
|
|
CB
|
1964
|
?
|
BSc, FIEE
|
Education: Huddersfield College; Leeds University
01.10.1939
|
|
|
joined RNVR
|
14.10.1939
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS
Gloucester (cruiser)
|
01.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS
Gloucester (cruiser)
|
30.03.1942
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser)
|
22.06.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
staff, HMS
Vernon (training establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
|
01.1946
|
|
|
transferred to RN
|
21.01.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty
|
?
|
-
|
(01.1956)
|
HMS President (for miscellaneous services)
|
04.01.1960
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Director of Radio Division, Weapons Department (DWR), Admiralty [HMS President]
|
20.08.1962
|
-
|
1965
|
Director of Engineering and Training Division, Admiralty, and Deputy Chief Naval
Engineering Officer [HMS President]
|
|
Raven,
William John
Son of ... Raven, and ... Goring.
Married ...; two daughters. |
14.03.1915
Birmingham, Aston district, Warwickshire
-
08.01.2001
Chester, Cheshire |
T/S.Lt. |
28.09.1939 (reld 28.10.1940; medically unfit) |
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
02.11.1943 |
|
28.09.1939 |
- |
07.1940 |
HMS Rion (armed yacht for
anti-submarine duties) |
07.1940 |
|
|
hospitalized, before being invalided out |
(02.1944) |
- |
(04.1946) |
Sea Cadet
Corps |
|
Rawkins,
Dennis Hadlow
Son of Edwin Stanley Rawkins (1889?-1966), and Elsie May Hadlow (1887-1950).
Married 1st ((06?).1940, Lewisham district, London; divorced 1972) Winifred E. Todd; twin sons,
one daughter.
Married 2nd ((06?).1972, Merton district, Greater London) Vera K. Bowdidge
(? - 06.04.2013). |
01.05.1915
Lewisham district, London
-
08.05.2017
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham |
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * |
24.03.1942 |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
24.03.1943 (reld > 07.1946) |
* Special Branch officer who is employed on
mining or anti-submarine fixed defence duties |
1937 |
|
|
enlisted, RNVR |
(06.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
18.06.1942 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire)
(for Anti-Submarine Fixed Defence Instructional Section) |
10.07.1943 |
- |
(07.1946) |
HMS Curlew (anti-submarine fixed defence training establishment, Dunoon,
Argyllshire) |
|
Rayner,
Denys Arthur
Only son of Mr. A.B. Rayner, and Mrs. Rayner,
of West Kirby.
Married (11.03.1933, St Andrew's Church, West Kirby, Wirral district,
Cheshire) Isabelle Elizabeth Board, daughter of Mr. A. Vyvan Board and Mrs.
Board, of West Kirby; one daughter, two sons.
|
09.02.1908
Edmonton, London
-
16.01.1967
West Meon, Winchester district, Hampshire |
Prob. Midsh. |
26.10.1925 |
A/S.Lt. |
09.02.1928 |
S.Lt. |
09.02.1929 |
Lt. |
09.02.1931 |
Lt.Cdr. |
09.02.1939 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946) (retd 20.06.1949) |
|
DSC |
01.01.1940 |
New Year 40:"for unfailing courage, endurance and resource in H.M. Trawler
Loch Tulla in its hard and perilous task of sweeping the seas clear of enemy
mines, and combating submarines" [investiture 06.02.40] |
|
DSC |
29.05.1945 |
"for courage, skill and perseverance shown while serving in H.M. Ship
Pevensey Castle in successful operations against enemy submarines" (sinking
U-boat Western Approaches 11.11.44) [decoration posted] |
|
MID |
30.09.1941 |
"for good services in action against Enemy Submarines" (sinking U-boat
Western Approaches 21.05.41) |
|
VD |
03.1943 |
- |
|
Education: Repton School (1921-1924).
26.10.1925 |
|
|
joined RNVR, Mersey Division |
14.05.1930 |
|
|
Pangbourne |
(02.1936) |
- |
(09.1939) |
HMS
Irwell (RNVR drill ship) (Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead) [HMS Dryad 08.08.1936; HMS
Wishart, 17.07.1937; HMS Osprey 12.03.1939] |
(1939) |
|
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Loch Tulla (anti-submarine trawler) & Senior Officer, 14th
Anti-Submarine Group |
(04.1940) |
|
|
HMS
Boscawen (RN base, Portland) * |
09.1940 |
- |
05.11.1940 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Violet (corvette) (while under construction) |
14.11.1940 |
- |
09.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Verbena (corvette) ** |
15.03.1943 |
- |
10.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Shikari (destroyer) |
30.10.1943 |
- |
20.02.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Warwick (destroyer) (sunk) |
20.03.1944 |
- |
09.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Highlander (destroyer) |
09.1944 |
- |
12.12.1944 |
Senior
Officer, 30th Escort Group [HMS Pevensey Castle (corvette)] (11.1944-12.1944
also in command of the corvette) |
12.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Irwell
(trawler base, Birkenhead) |
28.01.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
on staff of
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth as Senior Officer of Escorts [HMS Victory] |
Writer, farmer and the designer and manufacturer of
small sailing yachts (Westerly Marine construction Ltd.).
Published: Escort; the battle of the Atlantic (1955; autobiography),
The enemy below (1956; novel), The long fight
(1958; novel), The small spark of courage (1959; American ed. under the
title: Valor); The crippled tanker (1960; novel); Safety in
small craft (1961); Small boat sailing (1962); The long haul
(1962; novel); Starting motor boating (1963); The great yacht race
(1966; with Alan Wykes).
* |
Indexed, but not listed as such. |
** |
(10.1940), (02.1941) & (12.1941) listed under HMS
Bannaret, which was the ex-drifter Verbena; it must have been assumed
(erroneously) that he served at Bannaret while he actually was in command of the
new corvette Verbena. When that finally was corrected in the Navy List his date
of appointment is (erroneously) given as 09.02.1939. |
|
Raynor,
Geoffrey
Son of Joe Raynor (1878?-1939), and Gertrude
Helen Killer (1886?-), of Barnsley.
Married ((03?).1938, Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire) Jean McLaughlan, of
Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. |
10.10.1908
Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
17.04.1943
Winchester district, Hampshire
[age 34]
[Barnsley Cemetery, Yorkshire, section B, grave 174] |
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) |
25.07.1941 |
T/Lt. (A) |
25.10.1941 |
|
26.08.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Merlin
(RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) |
(02.1942) |
- |
(04.1942) |
HMS Merlin
(RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) * |
10.05.1942 |
- |
17.04.1943 |
pilot, 756
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] (killed
in an air crash) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Read,
Geoffrey Gray
|
?
- |
T/Mdish.
|
?
|
T/A/S.Lt.
|
?
|
T/S.Lt.
|
16.06.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
MID
|
23.05.1944
|
Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings, 09.43)
|
|
(09.1943)
|
|
|
HM LCT 388
(landing craft, tank) [since 03.1944 borne on HMS Copra (Combined Operations
accounting base)]
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Read,
John Henry Francis
|
24.06.1917
-
05.12.1980
Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex |
T/S.Lt.
|
30.10.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
30.10.1942
|
|
(1941?)
|
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
02.01.1944
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HM ML 348 (motor launch) & as Senior Officer, 43rd ML Flotilla
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS
Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
09.11.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM ML 114 (motor launch)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HM ML 114
(motor launch) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Read,
Leslie Gustave
Son of Gustave Philip Read (1886-1962), and Mary Ann Elizabeth
Packer (1882-1968).
Married ((06?).1941, Epping district, Essex) Joyce E. Barker; two sons. |
04.08.1914
Epping district, Essex
-
22.11.1995
Southend on Sea district, Essex |
T/A/S.Lt. |
19.03.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
19.09.1943 |
T/Lt. |
19.09.1945 (reld 08.02.1946) |
|
MID |
17.10.1944 |
HMCS Regina sunk by torpedo Plymouth area 08.08.44 |
|
10.04.1942 |
- |
13.08.1942 |
HMS
Manchester (cruiser) [ship torpedoed & sunk by Italian motor boats off Tunisia;
captured] |
14.08.1942 |
- |
30.12.1942 |
POW in
Laghouat, Algeria |
02.08.1943 |
- |
17.04.1945 |
Commanding
Officer, HM LCT 644 (landing craft, tank) |
(07.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
|
Reade,
Arthur George Lawrence
Son of Arthur Edward Reade (1848-1912), and Mary Wood Burnard (1840-).
Married (28.04.1917, Wandsworth district, London) Violet Newmarch, MRCS, LRCP,
DHP (1891? - 06.08.1969), only daughter of Henry Newmarch, of Vancouver, British
Columbia; one daughter, two sons. |
05.06.1882
Upper Norwood, Lambeth district, London
-
14.08.1952
Henley district, Oxfordshire |
Sg. |
19.05.1914 |
Sg.Lt.Cdr. |
01.01.1921 |
Sg.Cdr. |
30.06.1927 (retd
05.06.1934) |
Sg.Capt.
(retd) |
05.06.1934 |
|
OBE |
12.09.1919 |
for valuable services at the R.N. Barracks,
Chatham |
|
VD |
? |
- |
|
Education: Sussex House School; Dulwich College
(04.1894-07.1900); Charing Cross Hospital (1900); MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond, 1905.
House Physician and Resident Obstetric Physician. Senior House Surgeon and
House Physician, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Senior Medical Officer, Queen
Mary's Hospital of Children, Carshalton 1909. Assistant Medical Officer Public
Health Department London County Council. Medical Superintendent New End
Hospital, Hampstead. ABA Boxing Referee.
1914 |
- |
1919 |
served Great War in London Division RNVR & Royal Navy; South Atlantic Squadron 2
months, Grand Fleet 14 months |
12.11.1942 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS King
Alfred (RN training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) |
(07.1945) |
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RN training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) * |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Redfern,
Philip Lawrence
Son (with two brothers) of Rev. Lawrence Redfern (1889-1967), and Eleanor
Rhodes (1890-1983).
Married ((12?).1943, Llanfyllin district, Montgomeryshire) Menai Bailey Williams
(11.02.1920 - 23.11.2013), daughter (with two sisters) of William Robert
Williams (1884-1961), and Anne Jane Bailey (1894-1974); two children. |
05.03.1920
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
07.09.1996
Poole, Dorset |
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
* |
24.04.1941 |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
24.10.1943 (reld
> 10.1946) |
* Special Branch officer who has
qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature
on shore |
(06.1941) |
- |
(10.1942) |
Admiralty
[HMS President] * |
02.11.1942 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
Trade
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
(10.1944) |
- |
(01.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
01.1945 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast) |
21.08.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(for Naval Pilotage Service) |
(10.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Redgrave,
Douglas
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
|
31.03.1921
-
09.08.1992
Teignmouth, Torbay district, Devon |
Ord.Sea. |
? [JX 243054] |
T/A/S.Lt. |
19.02.1942 |
T/S.Lt. |
31.03.1942 |
T/Lt. |
19.08.1944 (reld 21.07.1946) |
|
(04.1942) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
27.04.1942 |
- |
(09.)1942 |
HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton)
(for small craft) |
24.09.1942 |
- |
(05.)1943 |
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
(for motor launches) |
19.05.1943 |
- |
(02.)1944 |
First Lieutenant, HM ML 575 (motor launch) |
01.03.1944 |
- |
(10.1944) |
Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1146 (harbour defence
motor launch) |
(01.1945) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
12.03.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Ulster Queen (anti-aircraft ship) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
|
Reed,
Geoffrey Henry James
Married ((12?).1944, Basford district, Nottinghamshire) Kathleen May
Rosenthal. |
(03?).1917
Wellingborough district, Northamptonshire
-
31.01.1948
Nottingham |
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
?
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
22.11.1943 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
1943
|
|
|
qualified
as an observer at Blake 54th Naval Observers' Course, Class 6
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Reed,
Ronald Cambridge Montague
Son of ... Reed, and ... Cambridge.
|
09.03.1914
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
12.04.1995
Hayling Island, South East Hampshire district |
T/A/S.Lt. |
30.07.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
30.01.1944 |
T/Lt. |
30.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
(12.1943) |
- |
(02.1944) |
no appointment listed |
17.02.1944 |
- |
(04.)1944 |
HMS Ubiquity
(cable ship depot, Trinity Road, Edinburgh) |
15.05.1944 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Bullfrog (cable ship) |
|
Reekie,
James
|
04.02.1914
-
15.01.1975
[buried at Edinburgh, Scotland] |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
28.05.1945 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
Education: Edinburgh University (BSc 1935; PhD in
physics and electrical engineering).
|
|
|
Special Branch officer employed on scientific
duties: |
(07.1945) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
Professor of physics, Edinburgh University & St
John's College, Cambridge. FRSE, 03.03.1947. |
Rees,
David Griffith Williams
Son of David Rees, and Florence Marshall.
|
21.12.1921
South Shields district, Durham
-
20.09.1973
Choppington, Northumberland Central district,
Northumberland |
T/A/S.Lt. (E) |
29.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
|
|
|
temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements: |
29.09.1944 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Slinger (Archer class escort carrier) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
His sister writes: "ERA
David Griffith Williams Rees. His first ship unknown but took the 3rd Canadians
in to Normandy. He then served on Fleet Escort Carriers. HMS "Reaper" and HMS
"Slinger" for the duration of the war. I do know he was posted to the Pacific
Fleet out of Sydney via Trincomalee." |
Rees,
Eric Ivor
Son of ... Rees, and ... Prior.
|
(09?).1923
Wandsworth district, London
-
13.10.1995
Sutherland, NSW, Australia |
T/A/S.Lt. |
? |
T/S.Lt. |
21.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
27.02.1944 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) |
|
Rees,
Leslie Norman
Son of Edward Rees, and Catherine J. James.
Married ((06?).1940, Luton district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire) Dorothy
Mabel A. Greenwood (née Munson) (23.09.1918 - 09.1996), daughter of Thomas
E. Munson, and Isabel M. Sharpe; three sons, three daughters.
|
16.11.1916
Troed-y-rhiw, Merthyr Tydfil district,
Glamorgan
-
06.1987
Central Leicestershire district,
Leicestershire |
Ord.Sea. |
1942 |
T/A/S.Lt. |
02.09.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
02.03.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
39|45 St |
- |
- |
|
Atl St |
- |
- |
|
Bur St |
- |
- |
|
Def M |
- |
- |
|
WM 39|45 |
- |
- |
|
Education: Troedyrhiw Infants School; Quakers Yard
Grammar School, Glamorgan; Kesteven College of Education, Stoke Rochford.
1942 |
|
|
joined RNVR |
1942 |
- |
1943 |
10th Motor Launch Flotilla [HMS Black Bat (Coastal
Forces base, Devonport)] (served on ML 488) |
02.09.1943 |
- |
06.02.1945 |
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty) [at HMS
Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness) and HMS
Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) ] |
15.05.1945 |
- |
30.11.1945 |
Commanding Officer of an LCT (landing craft, tank)
[HMS Amzari (RN landing craft base, Vizagatapam, India)] |
Constable PC 18 Rutland Constabulary before and
after service. Then trained as a teacher at Kesteven College of Education.
Primary School Teacher in Uppingham. Primary School Headmaster at several
village schools in Rutland. Retired 1976. First Mayor of Uppingham.
|
Rees,
Noel
|
?
- |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
29.08.1942
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
OBE
|
14.08.1945
|
Aegean operations, relief of Greece
|
?
|
GkDSM
|
06.11.1945
|
services to Greece winter 44-45 [decoration posted]
|
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
(1944)
|
-
|
(1945)
|
HQ A Force
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rees,
Sir
Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu;
2nd Baronet
Only son (with one sister) of Sir John Davis Rees,
1st Bt., KCIE, CVO, MP (1854-1922), and Hon. Mary Catherine Dormer, sister of
14th Lord Dormer.
|
04.04.1900
Oxford, Headington district, Oxfordshire
-
24.07.1970
Kensington district, London |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
26.11.1941 |
T/A/Lt. |
1943, seniority 26.11.1941 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
17.02.1944 (reld
< 04.1946) |
|
CdeG |
1945? |
for liaison duties aboard "Duguay-Trouin" |
|
Education: West Downs School; Eton (1913.2-1918.2);
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA; 2nd Class History Tripos pt. II 1921).
Honorary Attaché, Berlin Embassy, 1922; Assistant Secretary in Cambridge
University Press, 1923; Honorary Treasurer and Lecturer, London District,
Workers' Educational Association, 1925-1927; Editor of The Adelphi, 1930-1936.
summer1940 |
|
|
enlisted
RNVR; trained as a gunner for assignment to merchant ships (Defensively Equipped
Merchants Ships or DEMS)
[spent time on three merchant ships in
British waters] |
1941 |
|
|
HMS King
Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
[because of his
Cambridge degree officer training, which was not of his own free will] |
06.08.1941 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
Naval
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
[assigned to some intense task at the
Admiralty for two years which he regarded as torture; when he learned that
liaison officers were needed for French ships in the Mediterranean, he applied
as a means of escaping the Admiralty paperwork] |
(04.1943) |
- |
(08.1943) |
no
appointment listed |
06.08.1943 |
- |
(02.)1944 |
HMS
Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services): |
17.09.1943 |
|
|
British Naval Liaison
Officer, French light cruiser "Jeanne d'Arc" (Algiers)
[In his reminiscences he describes tremendous anti-British sentiment among the
French officers and blatant harassment which gradually subsided once they
realized he did not hate the French Navy.] |
(04.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
no
appointment listed: |
(01.1944) |
- |
summer 1945 |
British Naval Liaison
Officer, French light cruiser "Duguay-Trouin" (left the ship at
Naples) |
02.08.1945 |
|
|
on leave
waiting new assignment |
Author. Has exhibited paintings at RA, RSA, London
Group, RSBA, etc.
Published: Brave Men, 1958; For Love or Money, 1960; (Ed.) J. Middleton
Murry; Selected Criticism, 1960; George Orwell, 1961; (Ed.) Simone Weil:
Selected Essays, 1962; A Theory of My Time: An Essay in Didactic Reminiscence [autobiography], 1963; (Ed.) Simone
Weil: Seventy Letters, 1965; Simone Weil: A Sketch for a Portrait, 1966; (Ed.)
Simone Weil: On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God, 1968; (Ed.) Simone
Weil: First and Last Notebooks, 1970; (Ed.) J. Middleton Murry: Poets, Critics,
Mystics, 1970.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rees,
William George
|
?
- |
T/S.Lt. |
22.05.1941 |
T/Lt. |
22.11.1943 (reld > 04.1946) |
Order of the White Eagle (Yugoslavia),
16.01.1945. |
(08.1941) |
- |
(06.1942) |
no
appointment listed |
(08.1942) |
- |
(04.1946) |
Liaison
Officer, Alexandria [HMS Nile] * |
05.1942 |
- |
(01.1945) |
British Naval Liaison Officer on Yugoslav MTBs "Durmitor" and "Kajmakcalan" |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Reeves,
Joseph Anthony
From Brighton. |
?
-
? |
T/S.Lt. |
26.06.1942 |
T/Lt. |
26.06.1943 (reld 17.03.1946) |
|
DSC |
14.06.1945 |
HM's birthday 1945 [investiture 11.12.1945] |
|
MID |
19.09.1944 |
Coastal Forces action Nore 06.1944 |
|
(08.1942) |
- |
(09.1942) |
no
appointment listed |
28.09.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) |
22.03.1943 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
First
Lieutenant [temporarily in command 10.1943], HM MTB 684 (motor torpedo boat)
[initially at
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)]
(despatches) |
09.10.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 713 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC) |
(04.1945) |
- |
(07.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
17.07.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Duckworth (Captain class frigate) |
|
Regout,
Hugues Edouard Olivier
Son (with ons sisters and five brothers) of Adolphe Eugène Hubert Regout
(1876-1952), and Jeanne Henriette Marie Laloux (1881-1971).
Married (06.03.1948, Brussels, Belgium) Nicole Fernande Marie van Derton
(07.08.1921 - 02.06.2007), daughter of George van Derton, and Maggie Nicaise;
two sons, two daughters. |
07.10.1918
Liège, Belgium
-
06.10.2009
Woluwé-St-Lambert, Belgium |
Signalman |
? [D/SB/JX 30] |
T/A/S.Lt. |
01.01.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
01.07.1943 |
T/Lt. |
01.11.1944 (reld
> 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
39|45 St |
- |
- |
|
It St |
- |
- |
|
Fr&G St |
- |
- |
|
Def M |
- |
- |
|
WM 39|45 |
- |
- |
|
Student. Degree financial and commercial and
economical.
01.1941 |
- |
08.1941 |
escape from Belgium; prisoner in Mascara (North of Oran); landing in Gibraltar |
15.11.1941 |
- |
13.03.1942 |
Royal
Navy Section Belge (HMS Royal Arthur) |
14.04.42 |
- |
? |
Depot
(Devonport) |
04.06.1942 |
- |
25.10.1942 |
HMS
Norfolk (cruiser)
[1942 escort of Russian convoys PQ 17, PQ 18 and QP 14] |
26.10.1942 |
- |
late 1942 |
passed A.S.B. for RNVR course at HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' trainng
establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) |
01.01.1943 |
- |
1943 |
HMS
St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) |
(02.1943) |
- |
(04.1943) |
no appointment listed |
05.04.1943 |
- |
08.1943 |
HM
MGB 659 (motor gun boat)
[07.1943 invasion of Sicily] |
(10.1943) |
|
|
HM
MGB 659 (motor gun boat) * |
04.10.1943 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HM
MGB 643 (motor gun boat)
[sent from Malta to take part in the Aegean operations] |
(02.1944) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
20.03.1944 |
- |
(10.)1945 |
HMS
Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory) |
20.10.1945 |
- |
? |
Naval Party 1501 [HMS Royal Athelstan (port party, Antwerp, Belgium)] (as
Intelligence Officer) |
Belgian Navy : Lieutenant de Vaisseau de 1ère classe
(R)
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Reid,
Alan
Married (1940, Hillhead district, Scotland)
Margaret Home (15.10.1919? - 01.03.1990?); four sons, one daughter. |
01.07.1911
Glasgow, Scotland
-
13.06.1993
Monewden, Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk |
A/S.Lt. |
01.07.1931 |
S.Lt. |
01.07.1932 |
Lt. |
01.07.1934 (resigned 24.05.1935) |
Prob. T/Lt. |
07.10.1939 |
T/Lt. |
29.04.1940, seniority 07.10.1939 (reld
12.08.1941) |
|
MID |
11.10.1940 |
Coast of Norway |
|
01.07.1931 |
- |
24.05.1935 |
RNVR
(Clyde Division) (in 1934 attached Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force) |
07.10.1939 |
- |
(02.)1940 |
HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow) |
14.02.1940 |
- |
01.05.1940 |
First Lieutenant (from
30.04.1940 Commanding Officer), HMS St Goran (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
[ship sunk by German aircraft in the Namsfjord, Norway;
report on loss] (despatches) |
(06.1940) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
17.06.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
(for miscellaneous services) |
(12.1940) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
12.1940 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
HMS Defiance (training establishment & base for minesweeping, anti-submarine &
auxiliary patrol vessels, Devonport) (additional; for miscellaneous services) |
(08.1941) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
|
Reid,
Forbes
Married ...; ... children (one son?). |
09.07.1909
-
25.12.1974
Minster Sheerness, Sheppey district, Kent |
T/Lt. (E) |
30.11.1942 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
(12.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
(02.1943) |
- |
(04.1943) |
HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)
* |
12.05.1943 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA)
(for B.A.M. 100 Class) |
01.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Jasper
(Catherine class minesweeper) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Reiners,
Norman Richard
Son (with two sisters and one brother) of
William Ludwig Reiners (1885-1962), and Hannah Elizabeth Baybut (1886-1961).
Married ((09?).1946, West Cheshire district) Rose Williams; one daughter, one
son. |
24.06.1919
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
11.09.1994
Watford, Hertfordshire |
T/A/S.Lt. |
18.02.1944 |
T/S.Lt. |
18.08.1944 (reld 10.05.1946) |
|
(04.1944) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
07.05.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Bluebell (Flower class corvette) |
31.03.1945 |
- |
(04.)1945 |
HMS Dianella (Flower
class corvette) |
(07.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
no appointment listed |
|
Reindorp,
[Rt. Rev.]
George Edmund
Son of Rev. Hector William Reindorp, and
Dora Lucy (née George), Goodmayes, Essex.
Married (1943) Alix Violet Edington, MB, ChB (died 1987), daughter of
Alexander Edington, MD, and Helen Edington, Durban, Natal; three sons, one
daughter (and one daughter deceased).
Married 2nd (01.1988) Bridget, widow of Sir William Mullens, DSO, TD.
|
19.12.1911
Romford district, Essex
-
20.04.1990
Westminster, Surrey
|
Prob. Chapl.
|
09.11.1938
|
Chapl.
|
11.12.1939, seniority 09.11.1938 (reld
16.06.1946)
|
|
Education: Felsted School; Trinity College,
Cambridge; Westcott House, Cambridge (MA Cantab, 1939)
Deacon, 1937; Priest, 1938; Curate, S Mary Abbots, Kensington, 1937-39.
1938
|
-
|
1946
|
Chaplain, London Division RNVR:
|
08.05.1940
|
-
|
03.1942
|
HMS Birmingham (cruiser)
|
03.1942
|
-
|
07.1944
|
HMS Afrikander IV, 01.11.1942 renamed HMS Kongoni (RN base, Durban, South
Africa) (for duty at Durban)
|
07.1944
|
-
|
31.01.1946
|
Dockyard Chaplain, HM Dockyard, Simonstown, South Africa & for general duties at
Simonstown [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)]
|
Vicar, St Stephen with St John, Westminster,
1946-57; Provost of Southwark and Rector of St Saviour with All Hallows,
Southwark, 1957-61; Bishop of Guildford, 1961-73; Bishop of Salisbury, 1973-81.
Member, House of Lords, 1970. With BBC Radio Religious Department, arranging and
performing Daily Service and arranging and producing Morning Service and other
programmes, 1982-83. Chaplain, RCGP, 1965. Hon. DD Lambeth, 1961; DUniv Surrey,
1971. An Assistant Bishop, Diocese of London, since 1982.
Published: What about You?, 1956; No Common Task, 1957; Putting it Over:
ten points for preachers, 1961; Over to You, 1964; Preaching Through the
Christian Year, 1973.
|
Rendle,
Peter Critchfield
Son of Martyn Fleetwood Rendle (1893-1936),
and Florence Ethel Critchfield (1892-).
Married (Sheerness) Helen Moyes, a cypher Wren; three sons. |
31.07.1919
Truro district, Cornwall
-
16.12.2011
Victoria Manor Nursing Home |
T/S.Lt. |
27.02.1941 |
T/Lt. |
27.08.1943 (reld
04.1946) |
|
1940 |
- |
1941 |
HMS Renown
(battlecruiser) |
(04.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
26.05.1941 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
HMS St
Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
[from 01.08.1941 actually at HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra
Leone)] |
1941 |
- |
1943 |
First
Lieutenant, HM ML 263 (motor launch) (Londonderry, then Gold Coast) (temporarily
in command late 1942, during which time they rescued survivors from the sinking
of SS New Toronto 05.11.1942) |
(08.1943) |
|
|
HMS
Pytchley (destroyer) * |
30.10.1943 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 689 (motor torpedo boat) |
(07.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
1945 |
- |
1946 |
Divisional
Officer, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
Worked for the Scottish Office.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Renny,
Charles John Derek
Married; three children. |
1911
Monifieth district, Angus, Scotland
-
22.05.1970
Saint Martin, Guernsey |
T/A/S.Lt. |
28.05.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
28.11.1943 |
T/A/Lt. |
> 04.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946) |
|
CdeG |
? |
for liaison services on French ships |
|
|
|
|
British Naval Liaison Officer on Norwegina, French & Greek ships: |
(08.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
09.09.1943 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Fox (RN
base, Lerwick) |
(02.1944) |
- |
(04.1944) |
HMS
Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) * |
(06.)1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) * |
04.1945 |
- |
05.1945 |
British Naval Liaison Officer on French destroyer escort "Hova" |
(04.1946) |
|
|
HMS
St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Renouf,
Stanley
|
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt.
|
01.03.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
01.05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Badger
(RN base, Harwich) (for rescue tugs)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
|
Revans,
Charles Richard
Son (with two sisters) of Charles Richard Revans
(1876-1949), and Rebecca Swanston
Married 1st (10.09.1924, Salford, Lancashire) Doris Whitehead (25.07.1902 -
1963); two sons.
Married 2nd ((03?).1964, Barton district, Lancashire) Joyce Hodgkiss (? -
12.09.2010). |
04.02.1898
Pendleton, Salford district, Lancashire
-
24.04.1968
Swinton, Salford district, Lancashire |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
25.06.1942 (reld
> 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
(08.1942) |
- |
(08.1943) |
HMS
Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) * |
15.09.1943 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS
Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (for Sea Transport duties, Algiers) |
02.01.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Byrsa
(RN base, Naples) (for Sea Transport duties) |
(10.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Revell,
Kenneth Osborn
Residence: (1945) Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire. |
24.01.1908
-
14.03.1988
Ipswich district, Suffolk |
|
Pre-war incorporated accountant at Pike, Rogers &
Co., London EC2.
|
|
|
inspector of degaussing including Clyde & Port
Said |
... |
- |
... |
... |
? |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) |
|
Reynolds,
Harry William
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt. |
10.06.1944 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
First
Lieutenant, HM ML 215 (motor launch) * |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Reynolds,
John Chappel
Son of Arthur Chappel Reynolds, and Bessie Reynolds.
Married (10.09.1942, Budock, Cornwall) Margaret Claire Dugon (23.03.1911 -
01.05.1994), daughter of Alexander Lamont Dugon (1872-1935), and Eileen Florence
Grundy (1875-1962); one daughter, one son. |
19.04.1908
Camborne, Redruth district, Cornwall
-
09.09.1988
Littlehampton, Worthing district, West Sussex |
Prob. T/S.Lt. |
31.05.1940 |
T/Lt. |
31.08.1940 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
> 02.1944, <
04.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
(08.1940) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
12.08.1940 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Forte
(RN base, Falmouth) (for Naval Control Service) |
|
Reynolds,
Leonard Charles
"Rover"
|
29.06.1923
-
18.04.2013 |
T/S.Lt. |
29.12.1943 |
T/Lt. |
01.03.1945 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
DSC |
11.12.1945 |
wind up Europe 45 [decoration posted] |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
01.03.1943 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
First
Lieutenant, HM MGB 658 (motor gun boat) |
20.12.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
Commanding Officer, HM
MGB 658 (motor gun boat) (DSC) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Reynolds,
Mark
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
14.02.1944
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
01.11.1945
|
|
03.1944
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
HMS Rushen
Castle (corvette)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Knaresborough Castle (corvette) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Reynolds,
Stanley
Son of Alfred Reynolds (1869-1947), and ... Livesey.
Married Elizabeth ... |
25.07.1912
Southend on Sea, Essex
-
22.02.1995
Weybridge, Surrey North-Western district,
Surrey |
Ordinary Seaman |
27.03.1941 [P/JX 263595] |
Able Seaman |
27.12.1941 |
T/S.Lt. |
12.06.1942 |
T/Lt. |
12.09.1942 (reld
03.05.1946) |
|
Insurance clerk.
27.03.1941 |
- |
04.06.1941 |
HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) |
05.06.1941 |
- |
20.06.1941 |
HMS Victory (RN base,
Portsmouth) |
21.06.1941 |
- |
11.07.1941 |
HMS Northney (landing craft base, Hayling Island) |
12.07.1941 |
- |
14.03.1942 |
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) |
15.03.1942 |
- |
11.06.1942 |
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) |
(08.1942) |
- |
(04.1945) |
HMS Ararat (Combined Operations training centre, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
* |
(07.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
[date of appointment shown as 12.09.1942] |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rhodes,
Arnold Granville
|
13.07.1918
-
02.02.1953 |
... |
... |
T/Lt. |
06.07.1943 |
Lt. RN |
09.01.1947,
seniority 06.07.1943 |
Lt.Cdr. RN |
06.07.1951 (emgcy
27.11.1951) |
... |
... |
|
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne? [unclear;
might concern RNR officer A.G. Rhodes].
... |
- |
... |
... |
? |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Wolfe |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Richards,
David
Son of Morgan T. Richards and Mary A. Richards, of
Crynant, West Glamorgan, Wales.
|
1912 ?
-
17.09.1942
[age 30]
[Maala Cemetery, Yemen, I.28]
|
T/S.Lt. (E)
|
20.09.1940
|
A/T/Lt. (E)
|
20.09.1941
|
T/Lt. (E)
|
?, seniority
20.09.1941
|
|
17.12.1940
|
-
|
(02).1941
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
|
01.04.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Hiniesta (twin screw steam yacht; anti-submarine, later calibration vessel)
|
?
|
-
|
17.09.1942
|
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
|
|
Richards,
Francis Charles
Son of ... Richards, and ... Stewart.
Brother of Lt. Kenneth Edwin Richards, RNVR.
Married Beatrice Ellen ...; ... children (one daughter?). |
15.04.1916
Wandsworth district, London
-
21.09.1967
Maidenhead Hospital, Berkshire |
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
* |
24.01.1941 |
T/Lt.
(Sp.Br.) |
24.01.1942 (reld
04.03.1946) |
* Special Branch officer who has
qualified for, and is undertaking general duties of an executive nature
on shore. Qualified in Specialist Course in Communications. |
07.02.1941 |
- |
(06.)1942 |
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(for Hove Establishment) |
(08.1942) |
|
|
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)
* |
(10.1942) |
- |
(08.1943) |
no
appointment listed |
(10.1943) |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
* |
17.01.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) |
24.02.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
on staff of
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)] |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Richards,
Kenneth Edwin
Son of ... Richards, and ... Stewart.
Brother of Lt. (Sp.Br.) Francis Charles Richards, RNVR.
Married Mary Winifred Lucas (19.04.1921 - 10.1982); three children. |
30.08.1920
Wandsworth district, London
-
30.12.2003
Hereford, Herefordshire |
T/S.Lt. |
18.09.1941 |
T/Lt. |
01.06.1943 (reld
> 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
MID |
05.10.1943 |
minesweeping Mediterranean 02-07.1943 |
|
(12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
29.12.1941 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
HMS Negro
(auxiliary minesweeping trawler) (despatches) |
(08.1943) |
- |
(04.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
29.06.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 1090 (motor minesweeper) |
1940s |
- |
1960s |
Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve |
|
Richardson,
Claude
|
?
-
|
T/Lt.
|
24.07.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
|
(12.1941)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1944)
|
|
|
British
Naval Liaison Officer, Greek ship "Kanaris" (escort destroyer)
|
(10.1944)
|
|
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richardson,
Godfrey Stuart
Son of Capt. James S. Richardson, and Winifred Spence Johnson (1891-1982).
Married 1st (06.05.1943, Brompton Parish Church, Kensington district, London)
Yelva Mary Danielsen (04.11.1919 - (06?).1981), of Westgate, daughter of Lauritz
Frederik Lieberoth Danielsen (1885-), and Dora Evelyn Watson (1878-1953); one
daughter. Yelva Danielsen remarried (1953) Charles Striddolph Willett & (1965)
Henry D.R. Smith.
Married 2nd (20.11.1952, Nelson district, Lancashire) Zoe Elizabeth Waddington
(08.02.1928 - 09.1986); two sons, two daughters,
|
24.07.1920
Warrington, Cheshire
-
23.07.1996
Staffordshire |
T/A/S.Lt. (E) |
20.04.1941 |
T/S.Lt. (E) |
? |
T/Lt. (E) |
20.10.1943 (reld
> 04.1946) |
|
Education: Uppingham School (09.1934-1938).
(12.1941) |
|
|
HMS Attack
(Coastal Forces base, Portland) * |
31.08.1943 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
HMS
Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) |
08.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) |
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Richardson,
John Keith
Son of William Graham Richardson, and Beatrice Muriel Blockley, of Odstone,
Leicestershire. |
21.08.1921
Odstone, Leicestershire
-
10.08.1943
(KIA) [age 21]
[Tanga European Cemetery, Tanzania, 11.A.3] |
T/A/S.Lt. (A) |
01.11.1941 |
T/S.Lt. (A) |
21.08.1942 |
|
Education: Dixie Grammar School.
(12.1941) |
|
|
HMS Heron
(RN Air Station, Yeovilton Somerset) * |
31.12.1941 |
- |
(02.)1942 |
pilot, 772
Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish,
Argyllshire)] |
05.03.1942 |
- |
(06.)1942 |
RN Air
Station, Wingfield [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)] |
06.1942 |
- |
(10.)1942 |
HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) |
28.10.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
pilot, 806
Squadron FAA [HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] |
03.02.1943 |
- |
10.08.1943 |
pilot, 803
Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanganyika)] (killed in an air crash) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Richardson,
Roland William *
Son of William Herbert Richardson (1899-?), and Lilian Bowen (1895-1957)..
Married ((09?).1942, Hull district, East Riding of Yorkshire) Marion E.
Pickering ((09?).1918 - ?); two daughters.
* First name also showing as Rowland |
27.05.1920
Hull, Sculcoates district, East Riding of
Yorkshire
-
02.08.2022
Malvern |
T/S.Lt. |
17.07.1941 |
T/Lt. |
01.12.1942 |
|
Education: Lancing College.
Milling engineers junior clerk. Assistant sea scout master.
|
|
|
HMS Cavina
(auxiliary ocean boarding vessel) |
(12.1941) |
- |
(04.1942) |
HMS Peterhead (Bangor class minesweeper)
* |
01.04.1942 |
- |
(10.)1942 |
HMS Blyth
(Bangor class minesweeper) |
09.10.1942 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
HMS Rhyl (Bangor class minesweeper) |
25.09.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HMS Hare (Algerine class minesweeper) |
23.10.1944 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
HMS Orestes
(Algerine class minesweeper) |
Head teacher of Naburn and Acomb Church of England
Primary Schools. Also an accomplished woodworker.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Richardson,
William Antoine
Son of William and Jeanne Richardson, of Waterloo, Crosby, Lancashire.
Married Dolina Rose "Dolly" MacKay (1912? - 17.01.1941), of Waterloo, Liverpool. |
19.01.1908
Maslacq, France
-
17.01.1941
(MPK) [age 32]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 6] |
Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) |
14.06.1940 |
T/Lt. (A) |
14.09.1940 |
|
Motor driver. Gained aviator's licence (no. 13848)
on 08.05.1936, taken on an Avian Gipsy II at the Liverpool Aero Club.
22.07.1940 |
- |
(10.1940) |
pilot, 755
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] |
? |
- |
17.01.1941 |
HMS Goshawk
(RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) [killed, together with his wife, while on
passage to Trinidad aboard s.s. "Almeda Star", being torpedoed by U-96] |
|
Riches,
Harry Gordon George Greatorex
|
09.04.1905
West Ham, Greater London
-
23.04.1979
Hartley, near Dartford, Kent
|
S.Lt.
|
06.09.1935
|
Lt.
|
01.04.1938
|
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
|
14.07.1943 ? (reld < 04.1946)
|
|
06.09.1935
|
|
|
joined Straits Settlements Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
|
21.01.1940
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Malacca (auxiliary minesweeper)
|
11.12.1940
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Panglima (harbour defence motor launch)
|
1942/43?
|
|
|
transferred
to RNVR [temporary commission]
|
14.07.1943
|
-
|
01.1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Verbena (corvette)
|
21.12.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM LST 173 (landing ship, tank)
|
Company director.
|
Riches,
Trevor Stanley
From Kingston.
|
24.04.1918
-
23.03.1994
Stroud, Gloucestershire
|
T/S.Lt.
|
17.07.1942
|
T/Lt.
|
17.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
MBE
|
14.06.1980
|
region Director NFBTE
|
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
12.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Rotherham (destroyer)
|
Director, South Western Region, National Federation
of Building Trades Employers (1970s).
|
Rickards,
Arthur James Hitcheson *
* in naval administration third Christian name
given as Hitcheson, which is in fact Aitcheson
Married The Hon. Patience French; two daughters.
|
16.06.1920
-
05.05.2005
Kendal district, Westmorland
|
T/S.Lt.
|
07.08.1941
|
T/Lt.
|
07.02.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
T/Lt.Cdr. ?
|
?
|
|
MID
|
19.12.1944
|
E-boat attack on allied convoy Dover Straits
|
|
12.1941
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 14 (motor torpedo boat) (1st MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive
(Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
|
12.1942
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 31 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base,
Felixstowe)]
|
14.09.1943
|
-
|
(12.1943)
|
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 359 (motor torpedo boat)
|
24.01.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Wasp
(Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTBs & MLs)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS President *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rickards,
Richard Millett
Son (with one sister) of Thomas Millett Rickards (1889-1958), and Mary Leburn
Alexander (1890-1940), of Wentworth, Surrey. |
22.07.1918
Lockside, West Byfleet, Chertsey district,
Surrey
-
27.02.1942
(KIA) [age 23]
[Malta (Capuccin) Naval Cemetery, Prot. Sec.(Officers'), plot E, coll. grave 16] |
A/S.Lt. |
14.12.1938 |
S.Lt. |
14.12.1939 |
Lt. |
14.06.1941 |
|
Education: Malvern College (Minor Scholar; House 4;
1932.3-1937; Sci. VI; School Prefect; F. XL).
Worked for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.
19.08.1939 |
- |
(03.)1940 |
HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for motor torpedo boats) |
04.1940 |
- |
(08.)1940 |
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 14 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for
RN Depot Felixstowe Dock)] |
24.08.1940 |
- |
(12.)1940 |
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) |
03.12.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 215 (motor torpedo boat) (10th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base,
Felixstowe)] |
03.02.1941 |
- |
(10.)1941 |
HMS Nile (RN
base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services) |
(1941?) |
|
|
possibly Commanding Officer, HM MTB 217 (motor torpedo boat) |
11.1941 |
- |
27.02.1942 |
HMS St
Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) (killed at the
bombing of HMS Xmas, ex-Italian motor torpedo boat Mas.452) |
|
Ridge,
Benjamin
|
?
- |
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) |
12.02.1942 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) |
< 10.1944 |
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Lanka
(RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * |
Connected with the Cardiff Sea Cadets at some point.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Ridler,
John William
Son of Albert William and Margaret Ridler,
of St. Andrews, Bristol.
|
24.04.1920
-
20.02.1941
(KIA) [age 20]
Winchester (Magdalen Hill) Cemetery, F.1.100]
|
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
23.09.1940
|
|
Education: St Michael's School, Horfield, Bristol
and Temple Technical College, Bristol.
King Scout in St Michael's Troop.
?
|
-
|
20.02.1941
|
755
Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, near Winchester)]
[killed together
with Naval Airman E.W.E. Burton when their Shark aircraft crashed near
Bristol
]
|
|
Rigby,
Clifford
From Lancashire.
|
?
-
|
T/S.Lt.
|
25.06.1942?
|
T/Lt.
|
25.06.1943
|
|
14.08.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Queen
Charlotte (anti-aircraft range, Ainsdale on Sea, Southport, Lancashire)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rigby,
Colin Elston
Son of Sidney Elston Rigby (1881-1935), and Ann
Metcalf.
Married ((12?).1937, Amounderness district, Lancashire) Gwennie Howard
(11.12.1913 - 02.1995), daughter of Tom Howard, and Mignonette Whitehead; two
sons, two daughters. |
12.02.1913
Preston district, Lancashire
-
05.07.1994
Preston and South Ribble district, Lancashire |
T/S.Lt. |
10.07.1942 |
T/Lt . |
12.02.1943 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll) * |
1942? |
- |
1945? |
Commanding Officer, HM LCI(L) 184 (landing craft,
infantry (large)) (Mediterranean) |
|
Rigby,
Duncan
|
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.11.1944
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
15.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
(01.1945)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS Saker
(British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC) *
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Rigby,
Derek Jackson
|
?
- |
T/A/S.Lt. (A)
|
02.06.1944
|
T/S.Lt. (A)
|
02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
06.07.1944
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Macaw
(RN Air Station, Bootle Station)
|
(01.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
|
Rigg,
Donal
Younger son (with one brother) of Arthur Rigg
(1886-1968), managing director of Messrs. A. Rigg and Co., Ltd., silk, rayon and
cotton manufacturers at Brierfield, and Jessie Nutter (1889-1965), of Wilmslow,
Cheshire.
Married 1st (13.10.1944, St Philips, Chorley, Alderley Edge, Cheshire; divorced
17.02.1972) Barbara Birchenall (02.04.1920 - 23.11.2012), daughter (with one
brother) of David Birchenall (1882-1967), and Hilda Walker (1896-1984); three
sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd (27.10.1979) Mrs Violet Ena Hyde (07.07.1913 - 10.1986). |
06.03.1919
Reedley Hallows, Lancashire
-
20.05.2003
Coventry, Warwickshire |
T/S.Lt. |
18.10.1940 |
T/Lt. |
01.09.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) |
|
Education: Canford College, Bournemouth; two years
at a textile college, Lyons (France).
Entered family textile business at Brierfield.
|
|
|
deck hand,
HMS Renown (battlecruiser) |
26.10.1940 |
- |
(08.)1942 |
Navigation
Officer, HMS
Aubrietia (corvette) |
(10.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
09.11.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
First
Lieutenant, HM MTB 628 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces
establishment, Fort William)] |
(04.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
19.04.1943 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 246 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces
base, Gosport)] |
05.07.1943 |
- |
10.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 254 (motor torpedo boat) & (09.1943) Senior Officer, 14th MTB
Flotilla [HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)] (DSC) |
30.10.1944 |
- |
(04.)1945 |
Commanding
Officer, HM MTB 778 (motor torpedo boat) |
(07.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
|
Riley,
Brian Turner
|
24.10.1907
Uckfield district, Sussex
-
10.1988
Uckfield district, Sussex |
T/S.Lt. |
1940? |
T/Lt. |
20.12.1940 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946) |
|
GM |
04.03.1941 |
mine disposal [investiture 17.06.41] |
|
Comdn |
09.06.1942 |
mine disposal |
|
29.10.1940 |
- |
(10.1944) |
Department
of the Director of Unexploded Bombs, renamed medio 1941/42: Department of the
Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, redesignated medio 1944: Bomb and Mine
Disposal Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty
[HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) |
(01.1945) |
- |
(07.1945) |
Combined
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * |
* indexed, but not listed as
such |
Riley,
Quintin
Theodore Petroc Molesworth
Youngest son of Athelstan Riley (1858-1945),
and Hon. Andalusia Louisa Charlotte Georgina
Molesworth (died 1912).
Married (21.08.1942, Kelvedon Parish Church, Essex) Dorothy Margaret Croft,
eldest daughter of the Rev. R.W. and Mrs Croft, of Kelvedon, Essex; one son.
|
27.10.1905
St Columb, Cornwall
-
25.12.1980
(motor accident)
Chelmsford district |
T/Lt. |
05.11.1939 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr. |
1944 (retd 1947) |
|
MID |
26.09.1940 |
Norwegian Coast |
|
Education: Pembroke College, Cambridge University (1924).
Polar explorer, 1931-1937 (British Arctic Air Route Expedition, 1931-1932;
Arctic expedition, led by Gino Watkins, Greenland, 1933; British Graham Land
Expedition, led by John Rymill, Antarctica, 1934-1937 [silver clasp]).
1938 |
|
|
joined Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
1939 |
- |
1940 |
served on intelligence missions in Finland and Norway |
(04.1940) |
|
|
HMS King Alfred (RNVR training establishment, Hove, Sussex) * |
1940 |
- |
1941 |
Instructor, Independent Companies (forerunners of the Commandos), UK |
(02.1941) |
|
|
HMS President * |
1941 |
- |
1942 |
Instructor, Winter Warfare School, Iceland |
1943 |
|
|
service with Combined Operations Command (participated
in Operation Avalanche, the Allied landings at Salerno, Italy, Sep 1943) |
1943 |
|
|
Commanding Officer,
30 RN Commando |
1943 |
- |
1944 |
Commanding Officer,
30 Assault Unit |
1944 |
|
|
served in Intelligence Division, Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander, South
East Asia (SACSEA), Ceylon |
1944 |
- |
1945 |
Staff Officer, G2 (Intelligence) Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied
Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), France, Germany and the Channel Islands |
1945 |
- |
1947 |
service in Germany |
Served on Essex County Council and Braintree Rural District Council.
Published: (with Richard Taylor) Discovery of the
poles (1957).
Literature: J.P. Riley, From pole to pole : the life of Quintin Riley
1905-1980 (1989).
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Rimmington,
Alfred Norman Victor
Son of Alfred Norman and Stella Eugene
Rimmington; husband of Rita Decima Rimmington, of Weston-super-Mare.
|
04.01.1907
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
13.03.1946
[age 39]
[Weston-Super-Mare Cemetery, section J, grave 371]
|
Petty Officer
|
(1940)
|
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
|
02.12.1942
|
|
DSM
|
01.01.1941
|
New Year 41 [investiture 18.03.41]
|
1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal; Long
Service and Good Conduct
|
(1940)
|
|
|
HMS Sealion
(submarine)
|
(07.1945)
|
-
|
13.03.1946
|
Sea Cadet
Corps
|
|
Ripley,
Henry Fremont
|
28.11.1904
Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippines
-
02.12.1960
San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
[commemmorated
at RN College, Greenwich] |
|
|
|
|
joined RNVR
as an American citizen |
(12.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
09.12.1941 |
- |
(08.1942) |
HMS
Nasturtium (corvette) |
Literature: Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White,
Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010). |
Rippon,
Wilberforce
Son (with one sister) of William Edward
Rippon (1872-), and Mary Jane Thornton (1877-).
Married (1920, Blythswood district,
Scotland) Jean Newcutter Shields Pollock (? - 21.07.1974); one daughter (Third
Officer Iris Margaret Rippon, WRNS). |
1899
Genoa, Italy
-
24.06.1964
Clinica Neurologica, Genoa, Italy |
Prob. T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) |
18.07.1940 |
T/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) |
06.01.1941, seniority 18.07.1940 (reld
27.12.1946) |
T/A/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) |
< 06.1944 |
T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.) |
? |
T/A/Capt. (Sp.Br.)
|
< 07.1945 |
|
OBE |
08.06.1943 |
Inshore Squadron with 8th Army advance [decoration presented] * |
|
CdeG |
? |
Operation Dragoon (invasion of S France 08.44) |
* For good services in maintaining, the flow of
supplies and reinforcements to the Eighth Army. |
18.07.1940 |
- |
(12.1941) |
Salvage
Officer, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President] |
15.02.1942 |
- |
27.07.1943 |
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria) [for the Inshore Squadron] |
28.07.1943 |
- |
09.07.1944 |
Principal
Salvage Officer, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)], renamed: |
10.07.1944 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Fleet
Salvage Officer, Mediterranean [HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples), later HMS St Angelo
(RN base, Malta)] |
After the war he ran a shipping line from Genoa to
Tripoli. |
Ritchie,
Hugh Robert James
Son of John Ritchie, and Maggie Gilmour Love.
Married Muirel Elizabeth Williams (14.12.1918
- 11.03.2011), daughter of William Mathias Williams, and Lilian Maria Brown
(1888-1975); ... children (one daughter, one son?). |
07.07.1917
Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland
-
04.07.2000
Luton, Bedfordshire |
T/Sg.Lt. |
10.09.1943 (reld 01.08.1946) |
|
Education: St Andrew's University (MB, ChB, 1943).
10.09.1943 |
- |
(10.)1943 |
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
16.10.1943 |
- |
(12.1943) |
HMS Spey
(River class frigate) |
20.01.1944 |
- |
(10.)1945 |
HMS Dovey
(River class frigate) |
12.11.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Ritchie,
William John Kenneth [Kipping]
Son of William Aloysius Ritchie (1903-1959),
and Vera Halliday Kipping (1899-1992).
Married ((12?).1951, Harrow district,
Middlesex) Marjorie Pamela Kenhope (21.03.1931 - 08.03.1993); ... children (one
daughter?). |
10.02.1923
-
06.10.1987
Hillingdon district, London |
T/A/S.Lt. |
19.02.1943 |
T/S.Lt. |
19.08.1943 |
T/Lt. |
19.08.1945 (reld 14.10.1946) |
|
(04.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
22.05.1943 |
- |
(12.)1943 |
HM MGB 93
(motor gun boat) |
26.12.1943 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HM MASB 26
(motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover), from 04.1944
HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)] |
06.11.1944 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) |
02.03.1945 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
HM ML 869
(motor launch) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |