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1939-1945

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J.B. Race to W.J.K. Ritchie

Race,
Jack Bernard
J.B. Race

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
L.T. Radford

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
A.R. Rae

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
A.S.L. Rae

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
I.D. Rae (Photo courtesy of Crawford Rae)

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
R.M. Raikes

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
T.A. Rainey

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
G.R. Ralphs

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
A.J.V. Ramage

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"
A.R. Ramsay (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Ramsay)

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
L.F. Ramseyer
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
J.C. Rankin (Photo courtesy of Mr Danny Mercer)

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
H.G. Rankine
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
P.L.J.C. Ransome Wallis

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
R.W.G. Ransome Wallis

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 *
L. Ratcliffe (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)

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
K.W. Ratledge

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
J. Rattenbury (Photo courtesy of Mr Vernon Rattenbury)

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
J.G. Raven

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
J.S. Raven

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)

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
W.J. Raven (Photo courtesy of Mrs Rosemary Pearson)

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
D.H. Rawkins (Photo courtesy of Mr Doug Rawkins)

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
G. Raynor

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
G.G. Read

?
-

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
J.H.F. Read

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
L.G. Read

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
A.G.L. Reade

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
P.L. Redfern (Photo courtesy of Prue Baker)

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
D. Redgrave
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
G.H.J. Reed (Photo courtesy of Mr Ray A. Purton)

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
R.C.M. Reed (Photo courtesy of Kate Saunders, Museum and Heritage Officer/Press Officer, THE SPRING Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant, Hants)
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
J. Reekie (Photo courtesy of Mr Olivier Richard)

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
D.G.W. Rees
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
L.N. Rees
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
L.N. Rees (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark E.J. Rees)
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
N. Rees

?
-

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
R.L.E.M. Rees

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
W.G. Rees

?
-

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
J.A. Reeves

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
H.E.O. Regout (Photo courtese of Mr Dominique Henrard)

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
A. Reid (Photo courtesy of Andrew Reid)

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
W.G. Rees

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
N.R. Reiners

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
G.E. Reindorp
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
P.C. Rendle (Photo courtesy of Mr Martyn Rendle)

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
C.J.D. Renny

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
S. Renouf

?
-

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
C.R. Revans

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
K.O. Revell

Residence: (1945) Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire.

24.01.1908
-
14.03.1988
Ipswich district, Suffolk

...	...
T/Lt.	27.01.1940

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
H.W. Reynolds

?
-

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
M. Reynolds

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"
L.C. Reynolds

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
M. Reynolds

?
-

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
S. Reynolds

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
A.G. Rhodes

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
D. Richards

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
F.C. Richards

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
K.E. Richards

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
C. Richardson

?
-

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
G.S. Richardson

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
J.K. Richardson (Photo courtesy of Mr Ian Vickers)

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 *
R.W. Richardson (Photo courtesy of Mr Gareth Williams)

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
W.A. Richardson

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
H.G.G.G. Riches

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
T.S. Riches

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 *
A.J.H. Rickards

* 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
R.M. Rickards (Photo courtesy of Mr Tom Pearson-Chisman)

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
B. Ridge (Photo courtesy of Janet Ridge)

?
-

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
J.W. Ridler (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Ridler)

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
C. Rigby (Photo courtesy of Linda-Jane Rigby)

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
C.E. Rigby (Photo courtesy of Mr Colin Howard Rigby)

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
D. Rigby

?
-

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
D.J. Rigby

?
-

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
D. Rigg (Photo courtesy of T. Freeman)

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)

DSC	02.11.1943	attack 2 armed trawlers & 3 patrol vessels Channel 07/08.09.43 [investiture 07.03.44]
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl S	-	& France & Germany clasp
WM 39\|45	-	-

D. Rigg (Photo courtesy of T. Freeman)

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
B.T. Riley

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,
John Duncan
J.D. Riley

Third of five sons of Arthur Riley (1886-1941), and Helena Jameson "Lena" Liggett (1891-1945).
Married (31.03.1951, Crosby district, Merseyside) Marion Novello Evans; two daughters.

12.02.1924
Bootle, Liverpool, West Derby district, Lancashire
-
11.11.1989
Admaston, Telford, Wrekin district, Shropshire

T/A/S.Lt.	01.09.1943
T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.03.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

19.08.1943	-	(10.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon; tank landing craft HQ) (for major landing craft)
?	-	05.11.1944	HM LCT(R) 457 (landing craft, tank (rocket)) (craft mined while on passage from Ostend to Dumpton Buoy after the Walcheren operation; wounded)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Riley,
Quintin Theodore Petroc Molesworth
Q.T.P.M. Riley

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
A.N.V. Rimmington

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
H.F. Ripley (Photo courtesy of Mr Eric Dietrich-Berryman)

28.11.1904
Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippines
-
02.12.1960
San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
[commemmorated at RN College, Greenwich]

T/Lt.

08.09.1941

			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
H.R.J. Ritchie

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]
W.J.K. Ritchie

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

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