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Skentelbury,
Charles Henry
C.H. Skentelbury
10.03.1912
Gosforth, Northumberland
-
12.1997
Northumberland
T/Lt. 15.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 01.1945
... - ... ...
18.02.1944 - (01.1945) on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)]
... - ... ...
Skerten,
Richard
"Dick"
E.J.S. Smith
Son of Richard Skerten, and May Richmond.
Married Jeannette ...; four children.
08.11.1921
Hampstead district, London
-
06.03.2003
[Torquay?], Teignbridge district, Devon
T/A/S.Lt. 04.12.1942
T/S.Lt. 04.06.1943
T/Lt. 04.06.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy) [decoration posted]
(02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed
(08.1943) - (07.1945) HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
(06.1944) - (11.1944) 550th LCA Flotilla (Normandy [DSC] & Walcheren)
04.06.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
1952? - (05.)1953 recalled for an 18-month posting to Hong Kong [T/Lt. with seniority 25.12.1950]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Skinner,
Dennis Charles Edwin
D.C.E. Skinner
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Albert Edwin Skinner (1888-1946), and Bessie Haines (1890-1973).
Married 1st ((03?).1948, Hammersmith district, London) Vera Beatrice Townsend (09.1924 - 15.02.1966).
Married 2nd ((06?).1967, Easthampstead district, Berkshire) Freda Smith.
13.05.1918
Camberwell district, London
-

05.05.2004
Bracknell, Slough district, Berkshire
T/A/S.Lt. 10.09.1943
T/S.Lt. 10.03.1944
T/Lt. 01.12.1945 (reld 13.11.1946)
(10.1943) - (02.1944) no appointment listed
08.02.1944 - (07.1946) HMS Fernie (Hunt class destroyer)
Skrine,
Godfrey Higginson
G.H. Skrine
1909 ?
-

09.1995
T/S.Lt. 19.02.1942
T/Lt. 19.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Education: Oxford University.
(10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Inver (frigate) *
10.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Borage (corvette)
Solicitor, Dublin, Ireland.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sladdin,
Robert Theodore
G.H. Skrine

Only son of late Robert Sladdin, of Cape Town, South Africa, and Mrs Fernie, of Hassocks.
Married 1st ((06?).1940, Brentford district, Middlesex) Frances M. Thompson.
Married 2nd ((12?).1945, Hampstead district, London) Mary Bennett W. Radcliffe (née Taylor).
1913 ?
-

28.12.1952
The Tarner Home, Brighton, Sussex (formerly of Hassocks, Sussex)
T/S.Lt. 27.03.1941
T/A/Lt. 27.03.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
16.04.1941 - (06.)1944 HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed
Slade,
Allan Douglas
A.D. Slade
?
-

T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
11.06.1943
T/Lt.
01.07.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
15.03.1943
-
(06.1943)
HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for motor launch duties)
15.03.1943
-
(10.1943)
First Lieutenant, HM ML 106 (motor launch)
(10.1944)
 
 
no appointment listed
04.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Rame Head (repair ship)
Slate,
Wilfred Sidney
W.S. Slate
Son of ... Slate, and ... Loydall.
Married ((03?).1940, Taunton district, Somerset) Joan M. De Salis Kelly.
(09?).1916
Edmonton district, Hertfordshire / Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire / Middlesex
-

T/S.Lt. 1942?
T/Lt. 12.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Officer of Customs and Excise, customs and Excise Department, 08.1936.
24.08.1942 - (01.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM ML 1238 (motor launch) / HDML 1238 (harbour defence motor launch)
26.03.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HM ML 215 (motor launch)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Slemeck,
Arthur Geoffrey
A.G. Slemeck

Brother of Lt. R.H. Slemeck, RNVR, and of Maj. D.C. Slemeck.
25.11.1917
-
01.1984
Surrey South-Western
Prob. T/S.Lt.
10.11.1939
T/S.Lt.
1940, seniority 10.11.1939
T/Lt.
10.05.1942
?
-
03.1940
HMS Thuringia (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
18.03.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Leicester City (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
04.09.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Foxhound (destroyer)
07.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Impulsive (destroyer) (eventually First Lieutenant)
(04.1946)


HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Slemeck,
Roland Hugh
R.H. Slemeck
Brother of Lt. A.G. Slemeck, RNVR, and of Maj. D.C. Slemeck.
Married; children.
09.10.1920
Alderholt, Dorset
-
1983
Ord.Sea.
20.10.1940 [FX/84857]
T/S.Lt.
16.04.1942
T/Lt.
16.10.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
23.01.1945
coastal actions Genoa 08-09.44
20.10.1940


joined RNVR
1942
-
16.04.1942
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
29.11.1943
-
(09.1944)
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 419 (motor torpedo boat)
(27.10.1944)


HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
23.05.1945
-
?
HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
(07.1945)


no appointment listed
14.03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
Smart,
John Elliott
"Jack"
J.E. Smart
Married 1st; one son.
Married 2nd; one son.

01.03.1916
Northumberland
-
03.02.2008
Victoria, BC, Canada
Prob. S.Lt.
03.10.1938
S.Lt.
03.10.1939
T/Lt.
01.03.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.
01.03.1949 (retd 08.03.1954)

Member of the Order of the British Empire

MBE
21.12.1943

for courage and undajunted devotion to duty: Operation Source (midget submarine attack on Tirpitz, 22.09.43) [investiture 26.02.46]

Distinguished Service Order DSO
13.11.1945
Operation Struggle (midget submarine attack Johore Strait, 31.07.45) * [investiture 26.02.46]

Officer of the Legion of Merit (USA)

LM
15.10.1946

for services to the United States of America during the War

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD
30.04.1953
?
* Lieutenant Smart was in command of His Majesty's Midget Submarine XE-1 and accompanied XE-3 m the successful attack on a heavy Japanese cruiser [Takeo] in Johore Strait, Singapore. Like XE-3, Lieutenant Smart also left the believed safe channel during his long approach up the Singapore Straits and entered mined waters to avoid suspected hydrophone posts. XE-1's target was a heavy cruiser of the Nachi class berthed about two miles beyond the Atago cruiser which XE-3 was to attack. Unfortunately XE-1 was delayed in her attack owing to several encounters with surface craft and instead of passing the boom ahead of XE-3 as planned, actually passed it go minutes after XE-3. This robbed Lieutenant Smart of the necessary margin of time to reach his target and withdraw before dark and he accordingly decided to attack the Atago class cruiser. Unable to get his craft underneath the target he dropped his main charge close alongside it and withdrew. The passage involved the same great hazards as those faced by XE-3 and Lieutenant Smart displayed great courage throughout this hazardous operation.
03.10.1938


joined RNVR, Tyne Division
19.08.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Malaya (battleship)
(02.1941)


HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said) *
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
01.02.1943
-
(12.1943)
12th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)]:
(09.1943)


Commanding Officer, HMS X-8 (midget submarine) (Tirpitz action)
01.03.1944
-
(06.1944)
12th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne)]:
(06.1944)


Commanding Officer, HMS X-25 (midget submarine)
07.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Bonaventure (midget submarine depot ship, Loch Striven):
(07.1945)


Commanding Officer, HMS XE-1 (midget submarine) (Takeo action)
Stockbroker with Pemberton Securities, a Vancouver firm. Became a director and an outstanding expert in bond trading before transferring to the firm's Victoria office in the 1980s.
Smeaton,
Ian Alistair Menzies
I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay) I.A.M. Smeaton (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberly J. Lindsay)
03.12.1924
Calcutta, India
-
18.05.2004

Hellingly, Eastbourne district, East Sussex
Ord.Sea. 13.09.1943 [P/JX 625744]
T/Midsh. 02.06.1944
T/A/S.Lt. 1944, seniority 03.06.1944
T/S.Lt. 03.12.1944 (reld 01.10.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - & clasp France & Germany
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
40th Anniversary Comvoy Medal (Russia) RsnConv 1985 -
13.09.1943     enlisted RNVR (Port Division Portsmouth)
13.09.1943 - 28.11.1943 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
29.11.1943 - 30.12.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
31.12.1943 - 02.03.1944 HMS Whippingham (auxiliary paddle minesweeper)
02.03.1944 - 01.06.1944 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
03.06.1944     HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
[was paid off 15.05.1944...]
10.08.1945 - 20.12.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
21.12.1945 - 19.01.1946 HMS Mayina (transit camp, Colombo, Ceylon)
20.01.1946 - 27.01.1946 HMS Chinkara (landing craft base, Cochin)
28.01.1946 - 19.04.1946 HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel serving at Keppel Harbour, Singapore)
20.04.1946 - 1946 HMS Chinkara (landing carft base, Cochin)
1946 - 1946 HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel serving at Keppel Harbour, Singapore)
1946 - 01.10.1946 HMS Derby Haven (Coastal Forces depot ship, East Indies)
Chartered accountant.
Smellie,
Michael Kennedy
M.K. Smellie

Married Muriel Roberts (died 22.04.2005).
1922
Grange (Edinburgh) district, Edinburgh City, Scotland
-
1998

Ballater district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
T/A/S.Lt.
04.12.1942
T/S.Lt.
04.06.1943
T/Lt.
04.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
28.03.1943
-
(04.)1944
First Lieutenant, HM ML 100 (motor launch)
01.06.1944
-
(10.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM ML 110 (motor launch)
04.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
20.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for Sea Transport and Naval Control Service)
Smith,
Albert
"Andy"
A. Smith
12.07.1913
-
09.1986
Richmond, Surrey
T/S.Lt. 18.09.1941
T/A/Lt. 18.09.1942 (reld 1946)
1940 - 1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
1940 - 1941 HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
1941 - 1941 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
1941? - 1941? HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
1941? - 09.1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(12.1941) - (02.1942) no appointment listed
06.02.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for staff of Maintenance Captain, Colombo)
(04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)?]
01.01.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
? - 1946 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)
Smith,
Albert William
A.W. Smith
Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).
09.04.1913
-
29.02.1972
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
T/S.Lt. 26.03.1942
T/Lt. 26.03.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
(04.1942) - (12.1943) no appointment listed
(02.1944) -   HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary) *
03.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Allen Kent
"Kentie"
A.K. Smith (Photo from website of Royal British Legion of Scotland)

Son of Peter and Betsy M. Smith (née Miller), of Stronsay, Orkney.

memorial entry
22.01.1915
Hunday, Stronsay
-
15.11.1942
(KIA) [age 27]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 7]
T/A/Lt.
14.11.1940
T/Lt.
10.1941, seniority 14.11.1940
Education: South and Central Schools on Stronsay; Edinburgh University (MA)
After spending a year at Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre to qualify as a teacher, he did not seek a teaching post, but travelled out to Malaya, where he worked in rubber production.
(12.1941)
 
 
HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
(06.1942)


attended FAA Fighter School Yeovilton (759 & 760 Squadrons)
[record of a forced landing made by him 17.06.1942 while flying a Sea Hurricane lb]
?
-
15.11.1942
HMS Dasher (escort carrier)
[as a Sea Hurricane pilot he would have been part of either 804 or 891 Squadrons FAA]
[killed while taking passage on the escort carrier HMS Avenger that was torpedoed & sunk near Gibraltar]

* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Angus
A. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Penuel Ellis-Brown)
Second son (with one sister and two brothers) of Angus Peter William Smith (1884-1947), and Jane McMillan Johnstone (1888-1970), of Glasgow, Scotland, from 1926 Greenhithe, Kent.
Married ((06?).1955, Hampstead district, London) Dr Lena W. Williams; no children.
17.05.1915
Glasgow, Scotland
-
23.05.1974

Hampstead district, London
T/S.Lt. 30.10.1942
T/Lt. 30.10.1943 (reld 28.07.1946)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
30.11.1942 - (07.)1945 HMS Ulster Monarch (landing ship, infantry)
(10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
A relative writes: "After the war he served as a member of the Control Commission in Germany and later worked at the International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Trade."
Smith,
Arthur Valentine
A.V. Smith A.V. Smith
A.V. Smith A.V. Smith
A.V. Smith A.V. Smith
Son of Arthur Roe Smith (1874-1917), and Louisa Brand (1883-1961).
Married ((03?).1956, Barnet district, Hertfordshire) Elizabeth C. Muir; three children.
14.02.1917
Edmonton, Essex
-
12.04.1979
Enfield district, London N9
AB Sea. ?
T/S.Lt. 15.05.1941
T/A/Lt. 15.05.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
? - ? HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
(07.1941)     no appointment listed
21.07.1941 - (10.1944) Gunnery Officer, Instructional Staff, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (in lieu of specialist Gunnery Officer)
(01.1945) - (10.1945) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Charles Eric
C.E. Smith

Son of William and Amelia Smith.
Husband of Kathleen Smith, of Putney Hill; one daughter.
18.11.1893
Fulham district, London
-
13.01.1944

(died of illness) [age 50]
[Wandsworth (Putney Vale) Cemetery and Crematorium; cremated; screen wall panel 3]
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.04.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) < 02.1941
Kinght, Order of St Olav 1st class (Norway) StOlav 11.08.1942 ?

War Medal (Norway)

NorWM 11.08.1942

?

(10.1940) - (02.1941) Assistant to Naval Attaché, Oslo [HMS President] *
(12.1941)     no appointment listed
      British ADC to exiled King Haakon VII of Norway
? - 13.01.1944 Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Donald Hector Tresham
D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith) D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith)
D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith) D.H.T. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Don Smith)
Son of Robert Fergus Smith and Anna Dora Amy Smith, of Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.
18.07.1919
Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland
-
09.01.1944
(died from illness) [age 24]
[Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, 6.A.10]
Midsh. (A) RN 01.05.1939
T/A/S.Lt. 31.05.1940
T/S.Lt. 18.07.1940
T/Lt. 30.11.1942
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & clasp North Africa 1942-43
Italy Star It St - -
Defence Medal DefM - -
18.04.1939 - 09.08.1939 HMS President (additional; for training, Pilot Course No. 6 at RN College, Greenwich)
10.08.1939 - 08.1939 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
08.1939 - 26.10.1939 No. 23 Elementary Flying Training School (Belfast)
27.10.1939 - 30.05.1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for No. 1 Flying Training School, 11.1939-03.1940; wings awarded; transferred to RNVR following two crashes)
31.05.1940 - 16.06.1940 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex) [volunteered for service at the Dunkirk evacuation]
17.06.1940 - 20.08.1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (lent for special service)
21.08.1940 - 27.08.1940 course, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown)
28.08.1940 - 01.09.1940 course, HMS Defiance (torpedo school, Plymouth)
02.09.1940 - 18.11.1940 HMS Forester (destroyer) (Dakar assault)
19.11.1940 - 02.12.1941 HMS Foresight (destroyer) (Malta convoys)
03.12.1941 - 06.01.1942 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
07.01.1942 - 09.01.1944 HMS Penn (destroyer) [tender to HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)] (as gunnery officer in the transmitting station) (landings in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno and supporting operations in the Aegean late 1943)
Smith,
Edmund Kidson
E.K. Smith
From Leeds.
26.02.1917
-
11.1987
Claro, North Yorkshire
T/Lt.
14.08.1942 (reld 1946?)
Mention in Despatches MID
14.06.1945
HM's birthday 45
28.10.1942
-
(08.1944)
Commanding Officer, HM RML 520 (rescue motor launch)
(07.1945)


HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) *
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Edward Ian
E.I. Smith
Son of John Smith, second master at Hyndland Secondary School, and Jessie Smith (née Smith), of Sutton, Surrey.
14.05.1909
Glasgow, Scotland
-
04.07.1940
(MPK) [age 31]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]
Prob. T/Sg.Lt. 05.01.1940
Education: University of Glasgow (MB, ChB 1934).
Gained experience as a house surgeon and a house physician at hospitals in England. After a period in the Merchant Navy he took a private practice in Lancashire.
05.01.1940 - (02.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake]
19.02.1940 - (04.)1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
24.04.1940 - 04.07.1940 Medical Officer, HMS Foylebank (anti-aircraft ship) [sunk by German bombing at Portland]
Smith,
Edward Thomas
E.T. Smith
?
-
Lt. (Sp.Br.)
23.12.1942
18.08.1942
-
(1945)
radar officer, HMS Bee (Holyhead)
Smith,
Eric James Stanley
E.J.S. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt.
11.07.1940
T/Lt.
22.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
? (reld < 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC
02.06.1943
HM's birthday 43 [investiture 28.09.43]



initially based at Harwich with the new magnetic minesweeping section
15.01.1941
-
(06.1944)
French Ship "Charles Vaillant" (auxiliary minesweeping trawler)
?
-
(07.1945)
HMS Nadia (tug; depot ship) *



perhaps: HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Francis William Thomas
F.W.T. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt. (E) 14.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
29.08.1944 - (04.1946) Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Smith,
Frederick
F. Smith
Son of Albert and Ella Smith, of Knysna, Cape Province, South Africa.
1925 ?
-
17.10.1945
[age 20]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 90, column 2]
T/A/S.Lt.
19.03.1945
21.05.1944
-
17.10.1945
HM LCT 7020 (landing craft, tank) [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
Smith,
Frederick Martin
F.M. Smith
Son of William Thomas
Smith, and Gertrude Smith (née Norris), of Cheltenham.
Husband of Margaret Lucy Smith, of Cheltenham.
(09?).1911
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
-
15.12.1943
hospital, Glasgow
(DOW) [age 32]
[Leckhampton (St Peter) Churchyard, block A, vault 13]
T/S.Lt.
31.07.1941
T/Lt.
?
15.10.1941
-
08.1943
HMS Boston (Bangor class minesweeper)
08.1943?
-
15.12.1943
HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow)]
Smith,
Geoffrey Francis
G.F. Smith
28.02.1919
-
06.1999
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
T/Lt. (E)
07.12.1944 (reld 1947)



will have served on MTB's at sometime, and went to America, Bermuda, the Mediterranean, North Africa and Ceylon:
18.03.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Dunoon) (for landing craft infantry (LCI))
(12.1945)


HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)
(04.1946)


no appointment listed
Smith,
George Derek Stanley

G.D.S. Smith (© Imperial War Museum (A 30128)) G.D.S. Smith (© Imperial War Museum (A 29480))
G.D.S. Smith (© Mary Evans Picture Library Media ID 1438544) G.D.S. Smith (© Imperial War Museum (A 20692)) 
Son of Col. George Edward Stanley Smith, DSO (1873-1950), and Joan de Corlies Blackader (1893-1957), of Trevella, St Erme, Co. Cornwall.
Married (12.04.1948, Westminster, London; divorced 1952) Hon. Juliana Eveline Curzon (04.08.1928 - 16.07.2006), daughter of Richard Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Viscount Scarsdale (1898-1977), and Mildred Carson Dunbar (?-1969); two daughters, one son. Juliana Smith remarried three times
15.04.1920
Chelsea, London
-
12.07.1963
Cointrin Airport, Geneva, Switzerland
T/A/S.Lt. 15.01.1943
T/S.Lt. 15.07.1943
T/A/Lt. 10.09.1943 (reld 28.09.1946)
Education: Eton (1938; J.F. Crace House & A.K. Wickham House); Cambridge.
20.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Devonport)
06.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Devonport)
10.09.1943 - 01.1945 Flag Lieutenant to Flag Officer Commanding, Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]
19.01.1945 - 07.1945 Flag Lieutenant to Allied Naval Commander Allied Expeditionary Force [HMS Royal Henry]
07.1945 - 03.1946 Flag Lieutenant British Naval Commander-in-Chief, Germany [HMS Royal Henry]
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
Smith,
Gordon Henry
G.H. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt. (A) 10.09.1944
... - ... ...
10.1944 - (01.)1945 pilot, 757 Squadron FAA [HMS Rajaliya (RN Air Station, Puttalam, Ceylon)]
... - ... ...
Smith,
Guy Hendry
G.H. Smith

Son of Charles Hendry Smith (1875-1939), and Florence Clara Anderson (1876-).
Married Rita Birte ...; ... children (one daughter?).
(09?).1903
Fulham, London
-
18.02.1964
Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, Yorkshire
Prob. T/S.Lt. 08.11.1940
T/Lt. 08.02.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
10.01.1941 - (04.)1941 HMS May II (cable ship?)
24.05.1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Sulara (auxiliary yacht; harbour defence patrol craft)
(12.1943) - (04.1945) HMS Sulara (auxiliary yacht; harbour defence patrol craft) *
(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
* indexed, but not listed as such
A son-in-law indicates he served at HMS Royal Philippa (port party, Copenhagen, Denmark), most likely in 1945.
Smith,
Henry Rae
see: RN officers' section  
Smith,
Howard MacLaughlin
J.D. Smith
Son of Claude Smith, and Sibyl MacLaughlin Wilcockson (1894-).
10.02.1924
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
-
Prob. T/Midsh. (Sp.Br.) 13.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 18.10.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 14.03.1945
      Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties:
(10.1944)     no appointment listed
02.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Campania (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
1945 - 1945 HMS Vindex (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
25.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Patroller (escort carrier) (for radar duties)
Smith,
Ivor Ferguson
J.D. Smith
18.02.1914
-
22.03.1999
Swanage, South Dorset district, Dorset
T/El.S.Lt. (prob)
07.10.1940
T/El.Lt.
07.02.1941 (reld < 04.1946)
21.10.1940
-
06.02.1941
HMS Vernon II (trawler base, Portsmouth)
07.02.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth)
23.08.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
Electrical engineer.
Smith,
Jack
J. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)
Son of Arnold and Alice Smith.
Husband of Alethea May Smith, of South Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire.
1916 ?
-
02.07.1944
(KIA) [age 28]
[Bayeux War Cemetery, II.E.7]
T/S.Lt.
23.10.1941
T/Lt.
23.10.1942?
(12.1941)
 
 
no appointment listed
18.07.1942
-
(08.)1943
HMS Middleton (destroyer)
08.08.1943
-
02.07.1944
First Lieutenant, HM MMS 1019 (motor minesweeper) (ship blown up on a mine off Cherbourg harbour; picked up by HM MMS 214, but died on board)
Smith,
John Alexander
"Jack"
J.A. Smith (Photo courtesy of Alastair Smith) J.A. Smith (Photo courtesy of Alastair Smith)
Son of John Smith (1878-1957), and Isabella Nicoll Jack (1884-1975).
Married (1948, Coupar Angus, Perth and Kinross district, Scotland) Sec.Offr. Kathleen Emily Robertson, WAAF (10.05.1922 - 2012), daughter of Walter Bell Robertson, and Annie E. Musgrove; two sons, one daughter.
Residence: (1944) 13 Shamrock Street, Dundee, Scotland.
10.05.1922
St Andrew district, Dundee, Scotland
-
26.11.2011
Dundee, Scotland
Coder ? [P/JX 357006]
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 26.02.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

03.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
A son writes: "I know he was in Durban (HMS Good Hope) and Colombo (HMS Haitan; ran the docks there, I think, with a fellow officer called Lindsay), served on a corvette for a period and was commissioned in 1944. He was a coder, amongst his colleagues known as the Star Coder of the Eastern Fleet."
Smith,
John Dennis
J.D. Smith
?
-
T/S.Lt. 26.10.1943
T/Lt. 26.10.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
28.06.1943 - (12.1943) First Lieutenant, HM MGB 88 (motor gun boat)
24.01.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 4th MTB Flotilla):
28.12.1943 - 04.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 457 (motor torpedo boat)
04.1944 - 06.1944 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 470 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1944 - 05.1945 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 458 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
11.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
Smith,
John Whitby
J.W. Smith
Residence: (1945) Colchester, Essex.
?
-
... ...
T/El.Lt. 18.11.1944
Pre-war articled pupil, Colchester Corp. Elec.
      minesweeping electrical officer Granton, Suez, Force 60 (specializing in metering and distribution)
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
Smith,
Keith Everard Norman
K.E.N. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Minnaar) K.E.N. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Minnaar)
K.E.N. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Celia Minnaar)
Married (21.08.1952, English Church, Lausanne, Switzerland) Myriam Chevalley, of Cully, Switzerland; one son, one daughter.
17.06.1924
Hendon district, Oxfordshire
-
T/Midsh. 08.10.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 17.12.1943
T/S.Lt. 17.06.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Lt. 17.06.1946 (dispersal 19.07.1946) (reld 01.10.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Arctic Star Arc St - -
Pacific Star Pac St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - & clasp
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Cadet Forces Medal CFM - & clasp
40th Anniversary Comvoy Medal (Russia) RsnConv - -
01.1943 - 03.1943 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
03.1943 - 04.1943 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
04.1943 - 08.1943 HMS Snowflake (corvette)
08.1943 - 12.1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
18.12.1943 - 12.1944 HMS Ulysses (destroyer)
12.1944 - 02.1945 HMS Zenith (destroyer) (decommissioned after her engine failed on trails up at Scapa Flow)
02.1945 - 04.1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) [03.1945 passage on troop ship "Empress of Scotland" via Panama Canal to Sydney]
16.04.1945 - 09.1945 HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
09.1945 - 11.1945 HMS Quality (destroyer)
17.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) (for disposal)
After the war he went to Cambridge University to study Maths, then joined Eastbourne College Public School for Boys as maths teacher and head of the Naval section of the CCF and sailing club. He stayed there all his working life. House master of Wargrave House.
Smith,
Kenneth Hew
K.H. Smith
Youngest son of Mr and Mrs F. Macpherson Smith, of 21 Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells, and Pitlochry, New Brunswick, Canada.
08.11.1916
Perth
-
08.05.1941
(MPK at Battle of Cape Matapan) [age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 7]
T/S.Lt. (A) 25.09.1939
Mention in Despatches MID 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan
Education: Macdonald College (...-1938).
Accountant (clerk). Obtained civil aviator's certificate (No. 18789) taken on a D.H. 60 Gipsy 80 at Redhill Flying Club, 21.06.1939.
(12.1939)     Fleet Air Arm
15.12.1939 - (06.)1940 pilot, 753 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
19.06.1940 - 11.1940 pilot, 829 Squadron [HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex), from 01.10.1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
24.11.1940 - 08.05.1941 pilot, 819 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)]
Smith,
Leonard Calland
L.C. Smith
Residence: (1945) Old Colwyn, North Wales.
10.05.1907
Leigh, Lancashire
-
03.1994
Bolton district, Lancashire
... ...
T/El.Lt. 20.02.1941
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. < 07.1945
Pre- & post-war development engineer, Lancaster Elec. Power  Co., Manchester.
      general degaussing duties including Glasgow, Port Said, Alexandria (DSIDG)
... - ... ...
? - (07.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)
Smith,
Leonard Walter
L.W. Smith
?
-
 
T/S.Lt. 09.06.1944
T/A/Lt. < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
09.12.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for beach duty)
Smith,
Leonard William
L.W. Smith

?
-
 
T/S.Lt. 01.07.1943
T/A/Lt. 01.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
15.08.1943 - late 1945 British Naval Liaison Officer, "Samos" (Greek landing ship, tank)
(04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Peter Fenwick
P.F. Smith (Photo courtesy of Sally Oldfield)
1923
-
31.07.2008
... ...
T/S.Lt. 01.03.1944
... - ... ...
24.01.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 4th MTB Flotilla)
1940s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
Smith,
Richard Routledge
"Stinker"
R.R. Smith
Son (with one sister) of John W. Smith and Elizabeth "Lily" Routledge.
Married (16.06.1945) Margaret Emily "Peggy" Bray ((12?).1916 - 11.04.2008), daughter of William M. Bray, and Ann F. Coutts, of Ipswich; four sons.
26.12.1918
Rangoon, Burma
-
?
Ontario, Canada ?
A/S.Lt. 26.12.1938
S.Lt. 26.12.1939
Lt. 26.06.1941 (reld 06.05.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 06.07.1943 attack convoy Cape Zebib 01.04.1943 &tc [investiture 19.10.1943]
Mention in Despatches MID 30.05.1944 coastal forces action Nore 09.03.1944
Mention in Despatches MID 14.05.1946 attack 11.07.1943
Education: Shoreham Grammar School.
26.12.1938     commissioned RNVR (Severn Division)
19.08.1939 - (03.)1940 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for MTBs)
04.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) (for RN Depot Felixstowe Dock for service with 1st MTB Flotilla):
04.1940 - (06.)1940 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 15 (motor torpedo boat)
03.07.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for 10th MTB Flotilla):
03.07.1940 - (06.)1941 First Lieutenant, HM MTB 104 (motor torpedo boat)
06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for MTBs):
06.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 68 (motor torpedo boat)
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
22.02.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for MTBs):
(04.1943) - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 266 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC)
06.1943 - 25.07.1943 HMS Razorbill (Coastal Forces base, Algiers):
? - 25.07.1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 640 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
26.07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
18.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 629 (motor torpedo boat) (despatches)
03.08.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 775 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(10.1945)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) *
Brewery executive. Comptroller, Fur Trade Department, Hudson's Bay Co., 1947-1953. Vice-President Finance, O'Keefe Brewing Co. Ltd., Toronto, Ont., 1953-1961. Executive Vice-President, Canadian Breweries (Que.) Ltd., 1961-1962. Director, International Division, Canadian Breweries Ltd., 10.1962-(1963). Vice-President, Dow Breweries Ltd. (1969).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Robert Alexander
R.R. Smith
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
?
-
?
Prob. T/Midsh. 12.01.1940
T/A/S.Lt. 06.03.1940
T/S.Lt. 06.03.1941
T/Lt. 06.09.1943 (reld 20.05.1946)
(03.1940) - (04.1940) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) *
27.04.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Aurania (armed merchant cruiser)
(07.1940)     no appointment listed
30.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Watchful (anti-submarine & minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)
(04.1941)     no appointment listed
(06.1941) - (08.1941) HMS Burra (Isles class minesweeping trawler) *
26.08.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Western Isles (work up base, Tobermory)
08.10.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Arab (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
03.05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
28.08.1943 - (11.)1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria) (additional; for miscellaneous duties)
06.11.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Unst (Isles class trawler)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Ronald Sydney
R.S. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ivy MacMahon)
Son of William Robert Smith (1870-), and Ellen Rosa Munt.
30.01.1909
Islington district, London
-
24.07.1991
Westbury, Isle of Wight
Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 17.11.1939
A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) > 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) 17.11.1947 (retd 30.01.1954)
Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration VRD 30.10.1953 -

* Special Branch officer employed on meteorological duties

Education: BSc.
02.11.1939 - (10.)1942 HMS Afrikander IV (RN Air Station, Durban) (for meteorological staff at Pretoria)
(12.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) *
13.04.1943 - (06.)1944 a Naval Assistant, Naval Meteorological Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
04.08.1944 - (07.1945) a Naval Assistant, Naval Meteorological Branch, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
17.11.1947 - 30.01.1954 Permanent RNVR (Solent Division, List 2)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
Samuel
S. Smith
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
04.04.1917
-
?
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 08.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (A) 08.07.1943
T/Lt. (A) 08.07.1945 (reld 25.03.1946)
12.02.1943 - (04.)1943 observer, 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twatt, Orkney)]
21.04.1943 - (12.)1943 observer, 835 Squadron FAA [HMS Battler, HMS Argus & shore stations]
10.12.1943 - (01.)1945 observer, 811 Squadron FAA [HMS Biter & HMS Vindex]
06.02.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
Smith,
Shirley Carr
S.C. Smith (Photo courtesy of Mr Dominique Henrard)
Originally: Shirley Charles Smith, but due to clerical error upon joining the Navy his second Christian name became Carr, which in later life he even used as part of his surname as Carr-Smith.
Son of ... Smith, and ... Bright.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).
03.12.1918
Wandsworth district, London
-
10.1996
Pool district, Dorset
T/S.Lt. 10.01.1941
T/Lt. 10.07.1943
Lt. RN 1947?, seniority 10.07.1943
Lt.Cdr. RN 10.07.1951 (emgcy 09.12.1951) (reverted to emgcy 1957)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
16.07.1941 - 05.1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)
(1942) - (1943) HM LCT 302 (landing craft, tank) (Dieppe, Salerno, Anzio)
05.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft)
(1944)     HM LCT 856 (landing craft, tank) (Normandy)
05.02.1948 - (07.)1948 HMS Protector (training ship, Reserve Fleet)
13.12.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
18.02.1950 - (05.)1953 HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford)
21.07.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Glory (aircraft carrier)
28.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Bellerophon (Reserve Fleet base, Portsmouth)
Smith,
Stanley Clifford
[= Clifford-Smith, Stanley]
S.C. Smith
Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Percy Clifford-Smith (1873-1958), and Ada Matley (1875-1938).
Married 1st (22.12.1932, Conway district, Caernarvonshire, North Wales; divorced 1943) Phylis Sue Taylor (18.03.1908 - 07.1999), daughter (with six siblings) of George Stanley Taylor (1866-1938), and Lily Norton (1869-1921); one daughter. Phylis Clifford-Smith remarried (1961) Alin Firth Whittaker.
Married 2nd ((12?.1946, Newmarket district, West Suffolk) Elizabeth Joan Glass (07.04.1915 - 10.2000), daughter of John Pomeroy Glass (1894-1959), and Edith Mary Muirhead (1893-1971); six sons.
(03?).1906
Reddish, Stockport district, Lancashire
-
(03?).1968
Chelmsford district, Essex
Ord.Sea. ? [C/JX 402002]
T/A/S.Lt. 22.10.1943
T/S.Lt. 22.04.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
(12.1943)     no appointment listed
06.12.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Thalaba
23.08.1945 - (04.1946) Office of Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President]
Smith,
Stanley Cyril
"Stan"
S.C. Smith
  S.C. Smith
S.C. Smith S.C. Smith
S.C. Smith S.C. Smith

Married Emily ...; two daughters, one son.

26.07.1925
Highbury, north London
-
12.05.2024
Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire
T/Midsh. 22.12.1943
T/S.Lt. 26.07.1945
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 16.09.1979 HM's birthday 1979
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
France & Germany Star F&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
GenSM - -
Légion d'Honneur (France) LegH 01.2016 -
1943     joined RNVR
22.12.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
(06.1944)     First Lieutenant of LCT 442 (landing craft, tank) (Normandy) *
11.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
Rose to rank of Lt.Cdr. Transferred 18.06.1956 to RAF (Marine Branch) as F/Lt. [504824] on a short service commission, from 01.12.1958 on a permanent commision, retiring in 26.07.1979 as Sq.Ldr. (01.01.1972). MIIM, MIMgt. R.A.E. Aberporth (1979-1990).

* Stan Smith remembered: "On D-Day, as a Midshipman RNVR, I was the 1st Lieutenant (second-in-command) of LCT 442, a vessel of the 15th LCT Flotilla in D Squadron of G Force. The captain was Sub Lieutenant E C Lane, RNVR. We sailed from Southampton at 1700 on 4 June, expecting to beach in France the next morning. However, the weather was bad and we were recalled as we were passing the Needles. We secured for the night alongside an American LST in the Solent, and sailed again on the evening of 5 June. The original plan was that we should carry nine British-built Valentine DD (swimming) tanks, but after a disastrous exercise in Studland Bay earlier in the year, in which several Valentines were lost, it was decided that we should carry American-built Sherman DD tanks. Owing to their greater size, we could only accommodate five. Also, because they were heavier than the Valentines and needed a greater depth of water in which to float off, we had to have extensions fitted to the ramp in the form of shallow U-shaped angle-iron channels into which the tanks’ tracks fitted. When the ramp was in the raised position, they stuck up like two huge horns. When the ramp was horizontal, approaching the beach, they had the potential to trap and detonate any obstacles that got in the way. Our tanks belonged to the Sherwood Rangers (troop commander Captain W Eldridge), part of the 50th Northumbrian Division, and we were supposed to launch them three miles off Jig Green beach at H-Hour minus thirty minutes. On our arrival at the launch position the sea conditions were unsuitable to launch so, in accordance with sealed orders, which we were not allowed to open until we were well out to sea, we beached over the obstacles at H-Hour at Asnelles-sur-Mer. My job was to supervise the lowering of the ramp, then to stand on the end of it, very mindful of the ‘horns’, and measure the depth of the water with a sounding pole. It was sufficiently shallow here to allow the first three tanks to swim a few yards before touching down on the sand. Then a mortar bomb exploded about thirty feet behind me on the tank deck. I was unhurt, but one of my sailors was wounded, and the flotation screens of the two remaining tanks were ripped. The captain therefore had to drive the landing craft in closer so that these tanks could leave dry-shod. As they did so, another mortar bomb exploded alongside the last tank. Captain Eldridge was riding on the turret directing operations, and must have been mortally wounded. He still managed to get his troop ashore, but we lost sight of them as they made their way up the beach. By then we were busy with our own problems. Our landing craft was badly damaged by the first mortar bomb and by Teller mines, which had blown a 10-foot hole in the port side, opened up the plating of the port bow and twisted the port rudder hard-a-starboard. Also, another LCT had broached to across our stern and severed the stern anchor wire. Having driven the ship so far up the beach, the captain was having great difficulty getting her off without the stern anchor to heave on. I was busy raising the ramp, and, with the aid of the coxswain, Leading Seaman Armstrong, taking care of our casualty. Eventually, our landing craft slid back into deeper water and floated off. As she moved astern, a stick of three mortar bombs exploded in the water immediately ahead of us – just about where I had been standing a few moments before. We made our way to a hospital ship lying off shore and transferred Able Seaman Laurence into their care. We then proceeded to a pre-arranged collecting area for damaged vessels and joined an ‘old crocks’ convoy for a night passage home."

Smith,
Thomas Keighley
T.K. Smith
 
09.11.1910
Keighley, Yorkshire
-
08.1990
Chesterfield district, Derbyshire
T/S.Lt. 07.05.1942
T/Lt. 07.08.1942
T/Instr.Lt. RN 1945?, seniority 07.08.1942
Education: University of Manchester (BA in history 1932).
17.05.1942 - (04.)1945 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for landing craft, tank)
1945?     transferred, RN
(07.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Smith,
William Ezra
"Bill"
W.E. Smith (photo courtesy of Mrs Susannah Baring-Tait) W.E. Smith (photo courtesy of Mrs Susannah Baring-Tait)
Son of William Smith, and Beatrice Emily Drake.
Married ((03?).1942, Plymouth district, Devon) Cynthia Desirée "Cinders" Oliver (died 06.02.2015, aged 97), a VAD nurse/radiographer; one daughter, one son. W.E. Smith (photo courtesy of Mrs Susannah Baring-Tait)

05.06.1920
New Barnet, Greater London
-
14.05.1992
Alderney
Ordinary Seaman 1939?
T/S.Lt. 28.08.1941
T/Lt. 28.02.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Africa Star Afr St - -
Pacific Star Pac St - -
Italy Star It St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Education: King Edward VI Grammar School, Bury St Edmunds; Bristol University (MB, ChB, 1954).
(1939)     HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer)
(1940/41?)     HMS Argus (aircraft carrier)
(1941)     HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1941)     no appointment listed
04.11.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Susannah Jane (harbour defence patrol craft) [tender to HMS Paris (small craft base, Plymouth)]
(06.1943)     HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) *
10.06.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Lauderdale (escort destroyer)
28.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Ledbury (escort destroyer)
(10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed
09.02.1945 - (04.)1945 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)
(07.1945) - (10.1945) Signal Officer, HMS Beaconsfield (RN base, Seaman's Mission, Port Melbourne, Australia) *
Assistant and then partner in a general practitioner's practice in Chew Magna, Somerset, mid 1950s-mid 1960s, then 6 years with the Oil Industry Medical Society in Libya, and finally accepting a partnership in Bashaw, Alberta, Canada, later moving to a hospital based practice, where he did the surgery and obstetrics. Retired 1982 to Alderney.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Smith,
William George
W.G. Smith
Married Judi (née ...).
1915 ?
-
21.03.2007
[aged 92]
... ...
Capt. ?

Royal Naval and Royal Marine Forces Volunteer Reserve Decoration

VRD ? ?
? - ? ?
Smyth,
Robert John
"Jack"
R.J. Smyth
Son of R. Crawford Smyth and Anna Smyth, of Rasharkin, Co. Antrim.
(03?).1920 ?
Londonderry district, Ireland ?
-
06.02.1945
(KIA) [age 25]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 3]
T/S.Lt. (A) 14.08.1942
T/Lt. (A) 14.08.1944?
(10.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
01.03.1943 - (08.)1943 pilot, 792 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)]
01.08.1943 - 01.06.1944 pilot, 1832 Squadron FAA [HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry), from 20.09.1943 at Speke, nr Liverpool, from 09.12.1943 HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire), from 02.02.1944 HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)]
06.1944? - 06.02.1945 pilot, 842 Squadron FAA [HMS Campania (escort carrier)]
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sneath,
Graham Rupert
G.R. Sneath G.R. Sneath
Son (with one brother) of Rupert Ernest Fowler Sneath (1894-1966), and Doris Leake (1896-1967), of Argentina.
29.12.1924
Hendon district, London
-
07.03.1995
Bath, Avon
T/Midsh. 03.03.1944
T/A/S.Lt. 29.06.1944
T/S.Lt. 29.12.1944 (reld 23.11.1946)

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

OBE 01.01.1973

New Year 1973

Education: Wellington College (1938.2-1940.2); Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada (1941-1942); Pembroke College, Cambridge University (1946-1949; 2nd Class degree in History and Law; BA 1948, MA 1956).
1943     enlisted service, RNVR (Ordinary Seaman)
(04.1944)     no appointment listed
08.04.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Hotspur (H class destroyer)
(01.1945)     no appointment listed
09.01.1945 - (07.1946) HMS Barfleur (Battle class destroyer)
1940s - 1950s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve
QC, JP. Student of Inner Temple 1947. Admitted to the Bar, 06.1950. HM Overseas Legal Service. Acting Attorney-General (Solicitor-General), Legislative Council, Hong Kong, 12.04.1967-13.12.1972. Senior Law Lecturer, Birmingham University.
Snelgar,
[Revd.] Douglas John
D.J. Snelgar
Son of John Thomas Snelgar (1887-), and Verona Rebecca Russell (1895-).
(09?).1917
Paddington district, London / Greater London / Middlesex
-
18.06.2008
Petersfield, Hampshire
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
15.07.1943
T/Lt.
06.05.1946, seniority 15.07.1945

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
14.08.1945
relief of Greece [decoration handed]
Mention in Despatches MID
01.01.1945
New Year 45
15.12.1943
-
(01.)1945
HM HDML 1051 (harbour defence motor launch) [HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria)]
(07.1945)
 
 
no appointment listed
(04.1946)
 
 
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
Vicar of Steep (1957-92); Priest-in-Charge of Froxfield with Privett (1988-92); Hon. Canon of Portsmouth Cathedral (1985-92).
* indexed, but not listed as such
Snelgrove,
Reginald George
R.G. Snelgrove
(12?).1894
Clutton district, Somerset
-
07.11.1966
Instow, Devon
Skpr. RNR
?
Prob. T/Lt.
29.07.1940
T/Lt.
04.1941, seniority 29.07.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
27.08.1940
Belgian, Dutch & French coasts 05.40 [investiture 11.03.41]
(06.1940)


Commanding Officer, HMS Conidaw (yacht) (Dunkirk)
29.07.1940


transferred, RNVR
09.08.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)
07.07.1941
-
(02.1943)
HMS Miranda (minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)
19.09.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
Retired foundry superintendent.
Snelle,
William
W. Snelle (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Snelle)
From Swinton, Lancs.
06.06.1914
Salford, Lancs.
-
18.12.1997
Edinburgh
Ord.Sea.
13.08.1940 [PO/JX213252]
A/AB Sea.
19.11.1940-26.02.1941
T/S.Lt.
05.06.1941
T/Lt.
05.06.1942 (reld 31.01.1946)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC
21.12.1943
Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43) [investiture 10.07.45]
1939-45 Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45
Textile designer & salesman.
13.08.1940
-
17.10.1940
HMS Ganges (new entry training establishment, Shotley)
18.10.1940
-
28.11.1940
HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
29.11.1940
-
26.02.1941
HMS President III (accounting base of DEMS personnel)
27.02.1941
-
20.06.1941
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
21.06.1941
-
26.11.1941
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) ?
27.11.1942
-
29.08.1943
HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary):
30.08.1943
-
31.01.1946
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
21.06.1941
-
10.02.1943
Gunnery Officer, HMS Northney (training centre for landing craft, Hayling Island)
(07.1943)


Flotilla Officer, 128th LCA Flotilla (landing craft, assault) & Senior Naval Officer Landing (S) (Sicily)
31.05.1944
-
31.01.1945
Flotilla Officer, HMS Hamilcar (Combined Operations base, Djedjelli [Algeria] & Messina [Italy])
08.04.1945
-
30.11.1945
HMS Mylodon (Combined Operations base, Lowestoft)
05.12.1945
-
31.01.1946
HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire)
Snow,
Peter Barton
P.B. Snow
Son of ... Snow, and ... Barton.
Married (13.12.1949, Chelsea district, London) Jean E. Mackie (26.06.1920 - ); one son, one daughter.
20.04.1912
Croydon district, Surrey
-
01.12.1988
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (formerly of Wendens Ambo, Saffron Walden, Essex)
T/S.Lt. 27.12.1940
T/Lt. 27.12.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr. < 04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily landings 07.1943) [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 08.1942)
(02.1941) - (04.1941) HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) *
(06.1941) - (10.1942) no appointment listed
(08.1942)     HMS Princess Astrid (landing ship, infantry) (despatches)
09.10.1942 - (01.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
(07.1943)     with Senior Naval Officer Landing (P), Sicily (DSC)
(04.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
* indexed, but not listed as such
With Gainsborough silk company Sudbury, Suffolk.
Snow,
Ronald Leonard
R.L. Snow
Son of ... Snow, and ... Lambert.

A relative writes: "According to family history, he trained at HMS King Alfred and he rose to the rank of 2nd Lt and commanded an LCT in Malaya and was in Singapore at the time of the Japanese surrender. He also thought to have served on frigates in the Mediterranean hunting submarines."

(12?).1925
West Hams district, Essex / Suffolk
-
 
T/A/S.Lt. 08.03.1945
T/S.Lt. 08.09.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
(07.1945)     HMS Gorleston (sloop escort) *
12.01.1946 - (04.1946) HM LST 3001 (landing ship, tank)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Solomon,
Martin Herbert Bernard
M.H.B. Solomon
Only son (with four sisters) of Col. Robert Bernard Solomon, MC (1889-1948), attorney, and Ethel Julia Cohen (1888-1922).
Married 1st (25.08.1949, London) Mrs Joan Calder (née Vrint), of London W2, daughter of Mr & Mrs P.J.J. Vrint, of London SW3.
Married 2nd (03.1956) Vida Wasteson Bendix (03.04.1926 - 24.10.2005).
Residences: (1945) Beaulieu, Hampshire; (1949) London SW10.

10.10.1915
Kensington district, London
-
19.05.1956
Madrid, Spain (lately of Chelsea, London)
Prob.S.Lt. 05.08.1939
S.Lt. 29.04.1940, seniority 05.08.1939
A/Lt. 10.10.1940?
Lt. 06.1941, seniority 10.10.1940 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
Member of the Order of the British Empire MBE 14.08.1945 Aegean operations, relief of Greece [decoration handed]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.40 [investiture 11.03.1941]
Distinguished Service Cross DSC 10.11.1942 rescue from Tobruk autumn 1942 [decoration posted]
Mention in Despatches MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations 09-11.1943
Education: Rugby (1929.3-1932.3; Michell House); Christ's College, Cambridge.
Theatrical manager and producer to 1939.
19.10.1938     enrolled, Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)
17.09.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham):
06.1940     in command of the Cockle Bawley boats participating in the Dunkirk evacuation (aboard "Defender"); returning in MTBs & tug "Fossa"  (DSC)
(08.1940)     HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) *
09.1940 - (12.)1940 First Lieutenant, HM MASB 71 (motor anti-submarine boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
[letter published in Motor Boating Aug. 1941]
17.12.1940 - (08.)1941 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 218 (motor torpedo boat) (6th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
20.08.1941 - (10.)1941 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 54 (motor torpedo boat) (6th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)]
11.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (for MTBs)
19.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt):
(Autumn 1942)     HM MTB 260 (motor torpedo boat) (Bar to DSC)
(10.1942) - (06.1944) HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) * [concerned with taking supplies to the besieged garrison of Tobruk]
12.08.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional; for various services [possibly for service on staff of Staff Officer (Intelligence), Eastern Mediterranean]) (MBE & despatches)
1950     re-engaged for active service in the Korean campaign
Exporter and director of companies, including Pye Marine Radio. Stood as Conservative candidate twice for Parliament for the borough of Stepney, 1950/51.
* indexed, but not listed as such
Somerset,
Henry Robert Somers Fitzroy de Vere
R.H.F. de V.S. Somerset
known in the Navy as:
Somerset, Robert Henry Fitzroy de Vere Somers
otherwise as:
Somerset, Henry de Vere Fitzroy

Son of late Henry Charles Somers Augustus Somerset (1874-1945), and Lady Katherine de Vere Beauclerk (1877-1958).
Heir­presumptive to 10th Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC, GCVO.
Married (02.12.1922), Bettine Violet, daughter of late Hon. Mrs Sopwith and late Major C.E. Malcolm; one son, one daughter (and elder son, Lt. John Alexander Somerset, killed in action, 15.04.1945).
03.03.1898
Chester Terrace, London
-
27.02.1965
drowned off the Island of Rhodes
British Army:

2nd Lt.
20.10.1915
Lt.
25.10.1915 (reld 27.08.1920)
Capt. RARO
?
RNVR:

T/Lt.
16.11.1940
Distinguished Service Order DSO
18.02.1918
*
Mention in Despatches MID
23.05.1918
?

World War I: British War Medal; Victory Medal

* For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his men with great dash and determination in an attack, and, having captured the final objective, he organised and led an attack on a strong point, which he captured. He was driven out by heavy shell fire, but at once led another attack and regained and held the position and captured a field gun. He set a magnificent example of courage, initiative, and leadership.

Education: Eton; Royal Military College, Sandhurst (...-20.10.1915)



served World War I in the British Army (The Coldstream Guards)



transferred to the Royal Air Force and learned to fly



a noted yachtsman in both British and
American waters and had become a boat builder and joined the RNVR
11.1940
-
(02.1941)
Navigating Officer, HMS Montgomery (destroyer)
Souter,
David Cowley
D.C. Souter
?
-
S.Lt. 13.06.1939
Lt. 01.12.1940 (reld < 04.1946)
12.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
09.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 68 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
22.02.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 268 (motor torpedo boat)
09.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Arbella (Combined Operations base, Boston, Lincs.)
Southcott,
James Sidney
"Jimmy"
J.S. Southcott (Photo courtesy of Mr James Oliver)
Son (with one brother) of James Ratcliffe Southcott (1892-1964), and Victoria Priscilla Moore (1897-1978).
Married ((12?).1941, Leeds district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Evelyn Isobel Pamela Smart (26.07.1921 - 11.01.2006); four daughters.
24.01.1921
St Helens, Isle of Wight
-
01.11.1974
Southampton, Hampshire
T/S.Lt. 01.10.1939
T/Lt. 01.02.1942 (reld > 10.1946, < 04.1947)

Distinguished Service Cross

DSC 09.11.1943 action Channel 04.09.43 [investiture 09.05.44]
Mention in Despatches MID 02.12.1941 air sea rescue
Mention in Despatches MID 28.09.1943 action in enemy waters Channel 26.07.43
Legionnaire of the Legion of Merit (USA) LM 20.03.1945 Bay of Seine 06.44
(12.1939) - (08.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *
13.08.1940 - (10.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for motor launches):
(1941)     HM ML 138 (motor launch) (despatches)
(12.1941) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
04.01.1943 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HM SGB 3 (steam gun boat) [renamed c. 11.1943 HMS Grey Seal] [initially based at HMS Aggressive (Coastal Forces base, Newhaven)] (DSC, despatches, Legion of Merit)
01.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
* indexed, but not listed as such [from 01.10.139 a T/S.Lt. J. Southcott RNVR is shown under HMS Viva II (auxiliary anti-submarine yacht)]
Southey,
Leslie Richard
"Les"
D.C. Souter
Son of Richard Southey (1876-1949), and Mary Elizabeth Bedder (1879-1962).
Married ((09?).1939, Falmouth district, Cornwall) Mary Kate Cronin (28.09.1910 - 09.1986), daughter of John James Cronin (1880-1936), and Mary Edith Sullivan (1884-1971), and sister of Lt. (S) Richard John Percival Cronin, RNVR.
13.05.1913
St Germans district, Cornwall
-
01.1997
Ipswich district, Suffolk
T/Paym.S.Lt. 25.08.1939
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S) 25.08.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
25.08.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth)
(10.1942) - (12.1942) no appointment listed
01.01.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, later Flag Officer Western Mediterranean)
11.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for duty in Admiral's office of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth)
Sowden-Schrier,
George William
G.W. Sowden-Schrier
Son of William Arthur Schrier, and Charlotte Emily Sowden, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
Married ((03?).1932, Rochford district, Essex) Evelyn Blanche Webb, of Pinner, London; one daughter.
Evelyn Sowden-Schrier remarried (1943) Lt. (A) Robert Trovan Hargreaves, RNVR.
27.04.1909
Rochford district, Essex
-
24.02.1942
[age 32]
[Port of Spain (St. James) Military Cemetery, Trinidad, Western portion, grave 41]
T/S.Lt. (A) 31.03.1941
T/Lt. (A) 30.06.1941
31.03.1941 - 08.06.1941 pilot, 708  Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] (for full flying duties & conversion course)
09.06.1941 - 26.07.1941 pilot, 755 Squadron FAA [HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)] (for full flying duties)
27.07.1941 - 18.08.1941 HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) (additional)
19.08.1941 - 24.02.1942 pilot, 752 Squadron FAA [HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)] (for full flying duties)
[piloting a Grumman Goose Amphibian, accompanied by his United States Navy Instructor; a collision occurred whilst coming in to land, killing them both]
Sparkes,
Ernest Henry
E.H. Sparkes
?
-
T/Lt. 01.09.1939 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)
01.09.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(05.1940) - (04.)1943 Commanding Officer, "Ankh" (motor yacht) (Dunkirk)
22.04.1943 - (10.1945) Small Vessels Pool, Admiralty [HMS President]

Of events on the 31 May 1940, Sparkes wrote in his official report:
‘0530 - beaches in sight. 0610 - approached to within the two fathom line. Hailed by launch. Captain Howson, R.N., Naval Officer in Charge of the beaches, came on board and said we were to be his flagship. We were used throughout the day at Bary, towing loaded boats to the destroyers and, on the return journey, taking empty boats in to the vicinity of the pier, and letting them drift ashore for a fresh load. On some occasions, this was varied by embarking troops on board us, letting the boats drift ashore while we steamed to the destroyers to transfer our load. Our own launch was lowered and, under F. Barter, Yacht Engineer, and Able Seaman W. F. Lunn, was employed towing loaded whalers to destroyers. This routine was maintained throughout the day. It is impossible to give an accurate figure of the number of men helped, but it is estimated that between 900-1000 were ferried off. 1930 - heavy bombing raid, four bombs fell very close to us, causing leaks forward and in the stern tubes. 2000 - left Bray on instructions from Captain Howson and proceeded to Dover. 0815 - berthed Dover. Special mention is made of the work of Yacht Engineer F. Barter and Able Seaman W. F. Lunn, who ran the launch until it was swamped, most of the time under fire and bombing.’

Sparks,
Bruce Wilfred
B.W. Sparks B.W. Sparks
B.W. Sparks B.W. Sparks
Son of Percy William Sparks (1890-1973), and Dorothy Isabel Ware (1892-1949).
Married (18.12.1946, Sutton Congregational Church, Surrey) Margaret Kathleen Pearn (13.12.1922 - 30.07.1999); three sons, one daughter.

19.02.1923
Kennington, Lamberth, London
-
05.12.1988
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire
Midsh. (Sp.Br.) * 23.11.1942
T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 19.02.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 19.08.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 01.06.1945 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

* Special Branch officer employed on meteorological duties

Education: University College, London.
(02.1943) - (04.1943) no appointment listed
04.1943 - (06.)1944 on staff of Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)]
06.1944 - (10.1945) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
Geomorphologist. Geography Department, University of Cambridge, 1949-1962. Fellow of Jesus College, 1962, from 1964-1970 Steward, from 1970-1982 Senior Tutor.
Published
: Geomorphology (1960); Rocks and relief (1971); The ice age in Britain (1972; with Richard West); etc. etc.
Sparks,
Geoffrey Oliver
G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks) G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks)
G.O. Sparks (Photo courtesy of Mr Tony Sparks)  
Married 1st Sylvia Frances Lower (died); two sons.
Married 2ns Kathleen Cecilia Costello.
Residence: Mill Hill, NW London (from 1945), later Leicester, later St Albans.
04.09.1911
St Pancras, Greater London
-
08.08.1974
St Albans, Hertfordshire
T/S.Lt.
09.10.1939
T/A/Lt.
14.09.1940?
T/Lt.
10.1941, seniority 11.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
07.07.1943? (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID 
12.06.1945
offensive sweep Genoa 12.44
01.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Warrior II (armed yacht)
07.08.1940
-
25.09.1940
HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) (while under construction)
07.01.1941
-
(02.1941)
HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) (additional for miscellaneous services)
10.08.1941
-
18.10.1941
HMS Breda (armed yacht; submarine tender)
18.10.1941
-
15.04.1942
Commanding Officer, HM ML196 (motor launch)
15.04.1942
15.04.1942
23.12.1942
-
-
-
(06.1943)
23.12.1942
(06.1943)
HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)]:
Commanding Officer, HM ML 347 (motor launch)
Commanding Officer, HM ML ... (motor launch)
07.07.1943
-
12.10.1944
Commanding Officer, HM ML 176 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 19th ML Flotilla [HMS Iskra (Coastal Forces base, Gibraltar)]
12.10.1944
(12.1944)
-

(07.1945)

HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta):
3rd Minesweeping Motor Launch Flotilla
Sparshott,
William Harold
W.H. Sparshott
Son (with one sister) of William Thomas Henry Sparshott (1872-1931), and Hannah Mary Moring (1871-1941).
Married Dorothy Alice Colgate (1914 - 2005), daughter of Ernest Colgate (1881-), and Augusta Brown (1891-); one son.
26.11.1909
Newhaven, Sussex
-
27.01.1987
East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, Surrey
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 10.01.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

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

Shipping broker.
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
10.01.1944 - (02.)1944 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (for service at Newport)
18.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Leonidas (RN base, Takoradi, Gold Coast)
30.08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)
(01.1945) - (07.1945) HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
(04.1946)     HMS Victory III (accounting section, Portsmouth) *
* indexed, but not listed as such
Speedy,
Gordon Maxwell Edward
G.M.E. Speedy
Married ((09?).1938, Surrey South Eastern district) Enid Muriel Hearn (29.06.1913 - 01.1998).
31.10.1908
Croydon district, London
-
27.01.2002
Hitchin and Stevenage district, Hertfordshire
P/O (prob) RAFO 16.03.1931 (terminated on cessation of duty 23.05.1931)
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) ?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 04.04.1940, seniority 13.02.1940
T/El.Lt. 13.02.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. < 12.1941
T/El.Cdr. 1946?
Cdr. (L) RN 02.02.1946, seniority 31.07.1945 (retd 31.10.1958)
Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46
16.03.1931 - 23.05.1931 commissioned, Reserve of Air Force Officers (General Duties Branch) (Class AA (ii))
24.06.1941 - 23.06.1941 staff, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
24.06.1941 - 06.09.1942 Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [06.1942 travelling from Cairo to Aden for HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya)]
07.09.1942 - (07.1945) staff, Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (OBE)
02.02.1946     transferred to RN
24.05.1948 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)
22.09.1952 - (01.)1956 Officer of Admiral Commanding Reserves (Westminster, London) [HMS President]
05.03.1956 - (01.1957) Staff Electrical Officer, Reserve Fleet, Plymouth [HMS Orion]
24.07.1958     HMS Collingwood (naval electrical school, Fareham, Hampshire)
MIEE.
Speirs,
William
W. Speirs
?
-
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.12.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) 25.03.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) (04.1944)-(06.1944)
(02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed
07.1942 - (04.)1943 RN Barracks, Simonstown [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)]
04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Ironclad (RN base, Diego Suarez, Madagascar)
(10.1943)     HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) *
(12.1943) - (06.1944) HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) *
28.11.1943 - ? British Naval Liaison Officer, French light cruiser Gloire
(10.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed
16.06.1945 - (07.1945) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]
Spence,
Arnold Kinnoul Routledge
A.K.R. Spence
Son of Arnold K.R. Spence (1887?-1959), and Maud Lilian Amey (1895-1987).
Married ((06?).1949, Ilford district, Essex) Beryl C. White; ... children (one daughter?).
(09?).1924
Romford district, Essex
-
T/A/S.Lt. 11.02.1944
T/S.Lt. 11.08.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
1941     joined RNVR
1941 - 1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
      HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (as Control Rating 3rd Class)
      HMS Alynbank (North Russian convoys)
      HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
26.03.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
      HM LCT(R) 167 (landing craft, tank (rocket))
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
His son-in-law Martin D. Jeffes writes: "When my father-in-law was doing his basic training he was selected as potential officer material, and told that he would be commissioned after a six-month basic training period. This is what he served aboard the Alynbank, which, after having its bomb removed at Portsmouth, after PQ18, was sent to rendezvous with the Queen Mary off Dakar, to provide a link in the escort of this vessel, which was en-route from Cape Town to Britain with troops. The Alynbank then went to Gibraltar to work with the Malta convoys, he thinks, and he left the ship about this time, at Alexandria, and was flown home in a Dakota, to begin his officer training at King Alfred. From there he went to a two week navigation course at Greenwich, before going to Troon to join a group being organised by Lord Mountbatten, which he calls the Inshore Squadron, consisting of landing craft and MTB's, and which is where he joined LCT(R)167, and went in it to the Mediterranean."
Spencer,
Herbert James Calkin
"Jim"
H.J.C. Spencer (Photo courtesy of Mr Kimberley Lindsay)

Son of Ernest Calkin Spencer (1894-1961), and Helen Selina Brain (1896-1965).
Married ((03?).1951, Eton district, Buckinghamshire)  Pamela A. Westcott.
24.04.1920
Cheadle district, Staffordshire
-
22.03.2005
Windsor and Maidenhead district, Berkshire
T/A/S.Lt. (A) 30.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (A) 30.07.1943
T/Lt. (A) 30.07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
30.01.1943 - (12?).1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for miscellaneous duties)
01.12.1943 - (10.)1944 pilot, 853 Squadron FAA
02.12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)
19.06.1945 - (07.)1945 pilot, 768 Squadron FAA [HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch)]
30.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Premier (Ruler class escort carrier)
Published: Ordinary naval airmen (1992).
Spencer,
Percival John Burnett
P.J.B. Spencer
?
-
T/A/S.Lt.
?
T/S.Lt.
12.09.1943 (reld < 04.1946)
Mention in Despatches MID
28.11.1944
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
09.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll)
(06.1944)


HM LCT 455 (landing craft, tank)
Spilsbury,
Charles Alexander
C.A. Spilsbury (Photo courtesy of Sarah Spilsbury)
Son of Thomas and Emily Florence Spilsbury.
Married ((06?).1934, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Gladys Britton (12.05.1909 - 22.01.1995); one son, one daughter.
08.08.1909
Weston-super-Mere, Axbridge district, Somerset
-
06.1996
North Somerset district, Somerset
T/S.Lt. 13.11.1941
T/Lt. 13.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 05.1945, < 09.1945 (reld 02.01.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & bar (N Africa 1942-43)
Atlantic Star Atl St - & bar (France & Germany)
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
09.04.1940     enlisted RNVR
(02.1942)     no appointment listed
21.03.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt)
      HM LCT 120 (landing craft, tank)
02.09.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft):
(06.1944)     Flotilla Officer, 39th Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) Flotilla ("T" LCT Squadron) (despatches)
Spooner,
[Prof.] Frank Clyffurde
F.C. Spooner (Photo courtesy of Mr David Levitt) F.C. Spooner (Photo courtesy of Mr David Levitt)
Son of Harry Gordon Morrison Spooner.
05.03.1924
-
23.06.2007
Bromley, Kent
T/A/S.Lt. (S)
29.02.1945
T/S.Lt. (S)
28.08.1945 (reld late 1946)
Education: Bromley Grammar School; Christ's College, Cambridge University (Hist. Tripos, 1st cl., Pt I 1947 and Pt II 1948; MA 1949; PhD 1953; LittD 1985)
1943
-
1945
served as a rating in the RNVR
01.1945
-
02.1945
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
28.05.1945
-
(07.)1945
HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
11.1945
-
(04.)1946
HMS Swiftsure (cruiser)
1946
-
1946
possibly HMS Newfoundland (cruiser)
Bachelor Research Scholar, 1948; Chargé de Recherches, CNRS, Paris, 1949-1950; Allen Scholar, 1951; Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1951-1957; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, 1955-1957 at Chicago, Columbia, New York, and Harvard Univs; Ecole Pratique
des Hautes Etudes, VI Section, Sorbonne, 1957-1961; Lecturer, University of Oxford, 1958-1959; Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Harvard University, 1961-1962; Irving Fisher Research Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1962-1963; University of Durham: Lecturer, 1963; Reader, 1964; Resident Tutor-in-charge, Lumley Castle, 1965-1970; Professor of Economic History, University of Durham, 1966-1985, now Emeritus. Director, Institute of European Studies, 1969-1976; Leverhulme Fellow, 1976-1978; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, 1985-1986. FRHistS 1970; FSA 1983. Prix Limantour de l'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 1957; West European Award, British Academy, 1979; Ernst Meyer Award, 1983.
Published: L'économie mondiale et les frappes monétaires en France, 1493-1680, 1956, revised edn The International Economy and Monetary Movements in France, 1493-1725, 1972; Risks at Sea: Amsterdam insurance and maritime Europe 1766-1780, 1983;
contributions to joint works and to journals.
Spriggs,
Thomas Frank
F.H. Squier
Married Joyce Lancaster one daughter, one son.
26.09.1920
-
13.01.2015
Petersfield, Hampshire
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) * 17.08.1942
T/S.Lt. (A) 22.05.1943, seniority 17.08.1942
T/A/Lt. (A) > 04.1944, < 06.1944
T/Lt. (A) 17.02.1945

* Special Branch officer who is employed on scientific duties

Skilled Workman Post Office Engineering Department Telegraph.
(10.1942) - (02.1943) no appointment listed
08.02.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
30.05.1944 - 14.01.1946 HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
His son writes: "Trained at Telecommunications Research Establishment, Malvern. Obituary in Fly Navy vol 43(2), pp. 38-39."
Spring,
David Howard
D.H. Spring

Younger son of Robert Howard Spring (1889-1965), author, and Marion Ursula Pye (1890-1976).
Brother of Lt. Michael Burton Spring, RNVR.
Married (15.09.1949, St Gerrans Church, Cornwall) Runa B. Williams; one son.
09.01.1921
Chorlton, Lancashire
-
04.1997
Truro, Cornwall
T/S.Lt. 19.02.1942
T/Lt. 19.08.1944 (reld 15.03.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Atlantic Star Atl St - -
Defence Medal DefM - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
Mention in Despatches MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe 08.1942)
(04.1942) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
(08.1942)     HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton) (despatches)
19.08.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)
Spring,
Michael Burton
M.B. Spring (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)

Younger son of Robert Howard Spring (1889-1965), author, and Marion Ursula Pye (1890-1976).
Brother of Lt. David Howard Spring, RNVR.
Married (24.07.1948, King’s Chapel of the Savoy, Westminster, London) Jean Gilchrist, younger daughter of Mr & Mrs J.A. Gilchrist, of Seaview, Isle of Wight; two sons.
(09?)1923
Chorlton, Lancashire
-
03.09.2016
Dorking, Surrey
T/Midsh. 13.03.1943
T/A/S.Lt. 25.06.1943
T/S.Lt. 25.12.1943
T/Lt. 25.12.1945 (reld 01.08.1946)
1939-19145 Star 39|45 St - -
Africa Star Afr St - & clasp North Africa 1942-43
Italy Star It St - -
France & Germany Star Fr&G St - -
War Medal 1939-1945 WM 39|45 - -
(04.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed
11.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Quantock (Hunt class destroyer)
1950s - 1960s Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached London Division RNVR)
Schoolmaster.
A collector writes: "One of Marion Spring’s books shows that Michael Spring was appointed in 1943 to the Anchor Line ship Circassia, which had been taken from the Mediterranean trooping service for conversion to a landing ship. That is how he earned his Africa Star and clasp."
Spring Rice,
Stephen Edward
"Sprice"
S.E. Spring-Rice (Photo courtesy of Mr Stephen Robertson)
Son (with one sister and two half-brothers) of Edward Dominick Spring Rice (1891-1940), and Margery Lois Jones (née Garrett) (1887-1970), of Iken Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
24.02.1920
Kensington district, London
-
25.12.1942 *
(MPK) [age 22]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 80, column 1]

* date of death according to CWGC is 05.01.1943, the date due to return for this patrol; Eton memorial register has 31.1.2.1942
Prob. T/A/S.Lt. 24.02.1940
T/S.Lt. 24.02.1941
T/Lt. 01.03.1942
Education: King's Scholar, Eton College (1938); Exhibitioner, King's College, Cambridge.
24.02.1940 - (07.)1940 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
27.07.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Garth (Hunt class destroyer)
(12.1940) - (06.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) *
07.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Ursula (U class submarine)
24.02.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS P 615 (P 611 class submarine)
11.05.1942 - 25.12.1942 First Lieutenant, HMS P 48 (U class submarine) (sunk by Italian surface craft off Tunis)
* indexed, but not listed as such
Sprunt,
William Deans
W.D. Sprunt
Son of Arthur Sprunt (1877-1944), and Jeanie D. Sprunt (1872-1965).
Married (04.1943, Ilford, Essex) Cecilia H.O. Trainer (1906-1980), daughter of George Christie Trainer and Cecilia Templeton; one child.
1900
Monifieth district, Angus, Scotland
-
1975
Eastwood district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.11.1943
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
03.11.1945
WW I
 
 
served in the RAF
07.06.1943
-
(07.1945)
HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset)
Came back to Glasgow and was involved in the founding of HMS Carrick (19th Century tea clipper and sister ship to the Cutty Sark) being moved from RNR Greenock to the River Clyde in Glasgow which subsequently became the a RNVR members club until it closed in the early 1980s.
Squier,
Francis Harry
F.H. Squier
Son of Charles Westwood Squier and Hilda Mary Squier (née Tuckett), of Newton St. Cyres.
(03?).1922
Romford district, Essex
-
27.10.1942
[age 20]
[Cowley (St Anthony) Churchyard]
T/S.Lt. (A) ?
? - 27.10.1942 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton)
Squire,
George Henry Noble
G.H.N. Squire
Son of ... Squire, and ... Noble.
Married ((09?).1947, Sheffield district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Mary Burrows.
(06?).1924
Ecclesall Bierlow district, Yorkshire
-
11?.2007
T/A/S.Lt. ?
T/S.Lt. 23.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
T/Lt. 23.03.1946
Lt. 18.01.1956, seniority 11.02.1955
Lt.Cdr. RNR 11.02.1963 (retd 01.07.1981)
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD 10.10.1967 -
Royal Naval Reserve Decoration (pre-1941 model) RD ? -
29.09.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Cutty Sark (yacht; submarine escort vessel)
10.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Hastings (sloop)
(07.1945)     no appointment listed
(04.1946)     no appointment listed
18.01.1956     transferred to Permanent RNVR (from late 1950s RNR)
02.12.1966     transferred, RNR (Special Branch)
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