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Taggart,
Redmond Thibeaudeau
"Bodo"

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01.10.1903
-
1987
[age 84]

Prob. S.Lt.	26.08.1927
S.Lt.	20.09.1928
Lt.	03.10.1931
Lt.Cdr.	03.10.1939
Cdr.	31.12.1943 (reld early 1946)

VRD

13.02.1945

ASI, BA, BAE

26.08.1927	-		joined RNVR; Ulster Division [HMS Caroline, Belfast]; qualified in navigation & pilotage, later in gunnery
19.02.1940	-	04.07.1940	Gunnery Officer (?), HMS Foylebank (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship)
25.11.1940	-	(08.1942)	Assistant Gunnery Officer, later Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)
late 1942	-	08.1943	merchant ship contraband inspector, Swansea
08.1943	-	04.1944	HMS Saker (RN establishment in the USA)
07.04.1944	-	early 1946	HMS Excellent (at first for gunnery duties, later for bookwriting duties [wrote the Admiralty manual on 15" guns])

Family firm WDR & RT Taggart (Architects & Civil Engineers), 1946 till late 1960s.

Tait,
David Gregory
D.G. Tait

?
-

T/S.Lt.	13.12.1939
T/Lt.	24.11.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

13.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)
07.05.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS Sharpshooter (Halcyon class minesweeper)
10.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (additional; for various services)
(09.1942)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed [probably captured & POW in Japanese captivity]

Talbot,
Aubrey John Gwatkin
A.J.G. Talbot (Photo courtesy of Thea Adair)

Married ((01.09.1940, Chiswick, Brentford district, London) Elsie Brown; ... children (one daughter?).

21.10.1905
Bristol district, Gloucestershire
-
06.02.1982
Hove, East Sussex

T/S/Lt. (E)

21.08.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

Sales manager (J. Lyons & Co. Ltd.).

09.1944	-	(10.1945)	RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Wingfield [HMS Malagas (RN Air Station, Wingfield, nr Capetown, South Africa)]
1940s	-	1950s	Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve

Talbot,
George Richard
G.R. Talbot

?
-

T/S.Lt.	14.02.1941
T/A/Lt.	?
T/Lt.	14.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

05.12.1944

Adriatic & Aegean coastal operations [award posted]

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
28.04.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inverary), from late 1943 HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for TLC)
04.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer & as CO Personnel)
			staff COPP 10

Talbot,
Peter William
P.W. Talbot

Son of ... Talbot, and ... Stone.
Married ...; ... children (one son?).

20.08.1924
Hammersmith district, London
-
17.02.1995
Caernarfon district, Gwynedd, Wales

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	20.02.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	20.08.1944 (reld 26.07.1946)

07.02.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Macaw (training establishment, RN Air Station, Bootle, Cumberland)
(06.1944)			HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) *
07.1944	-	(10.1945)	pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Malagas (RN Air Station, Wingfield, nr Capetown, South Africa), from 01.1945 HMS Ameer (escort carrier)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tandy,
Frank Ernest
F.E. Tandy (Photo courtesy of Mr David Tandy)

Married; two sons.

03.10.1908
Warwick district, Warwickshire
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07.1966
Lewes district, East Sussex

Ord. Signalman	12.1941 [JX 295330]
T/A/S.Lt.	11.12.1942
T/S.Lt.	11.06.1943
T/Lt.	01.02.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

Teacher.

15.09.1942			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
01.02.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Yarta (armed yacht)
(07.1945)			HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) *

Post-war an Inspector of Schools.
* indexed, but not listed as such

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Tanner,
Harold Thomas
H.T. Tanner

Son of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Tanner, of Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa.

?
-
15.06.1942
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 76, column 3]

Prob. Lt.	01.05.1939
Lt.	1940?, seniority 01.05.1939

01.05.1939			joined RNVR (Unattached List)
16.10.1939	-	(02.)1941	HMS Fortune (destroyer)
04.08.1941	-	15.06.1942	HMS Aldenham (destroyer)

Tapper,
Vernon Horace
V.H. Tapper

Son of John Edmund and Gertrude Ethel Tapper, of Horsell, Woking, Surrey.

(09?).1924
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
24.01.1945
(MPK, air crash) [age 20]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6, panel 5]
[commemorated at Horsell Village Memorial & Woking Grammar School Memorial & Woking Book of Remembrance]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)

05.08.1944

(10.1944)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
?	-	24.01.1945	786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tate,
David George
D.G. Tate

?
-

T/S.Lt.	23.04.1940
T/Lt.	12.05.1941

04.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats) *
09.1940	-	(02.)1941	HM MTB 17 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] *
(09.1941)			[acting?] Commanding Officer, 6th MTB Flotilla
24.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 72 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)]
03.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
20.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 201 (motor launch)

* (02.1941) listed under both HMS Hornet and HMS Beehive

Tattersall,
Michael Dent
M.D. Tattersall

Son of ... Tattersall, and ... Dent.
From St. Anne's on Sea.

22.11.1919
Fylde district, Lancashire
-
29.05.2004
[age 84]
Kendal, Westmorland

Prob. Midsh.	11.12.1939
T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	22.11.1940
T/Lt.	01.02.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	? (reld 1945/46)

DSC

19.06.1945

war patrols Mediterranean 03-10.44

11.12.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)
30.09.1940			joined submarine service
19.11.1940	-	10?.1941	HMS Tuna (submarine)
10?.1941	-	04.1942?	British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNorS Uredd (P. 41) (Norwegian submarine) [HMS Dolphin]
04.1942	-	02.1943	HMS P 43 (submarine)
14.02.1943	-	05.1943	submarine Commanding Officers' qualifying course
07.05.1943	-	07.1943	Commanding Officer, HMS Ursula (submarine)
21.07.1943	-	05.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Unswerving (submarine)
21.05.1945	-	06.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine)
30.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Trespasser (submarine)

Taylor,
Charles Louis Patrick Swayne
C.L.P.S. Taylor

Son of Charles Joseph G. Taylor (1885-1977), and Annette J. Mockler (1885-1974).
Married (06.05.1953, Bridge, Kent) Third Officer Cicely Etheldreda Butterworth, WRNS (23.06.1915 - 10.09.1994), daughter (with two brothers) of Joseph Leonard Butterworth (1887-1949), and Cicely Ellen Fenn (1885-1962); one daughter.

17.03.1920
Hampstead district, London
-
26.12.1992
Cottingham, Beverley district, Humberside

Prob. Midsh.	21.06.1939
A/S.Lt.	17.03.1940
S.Lt.	17.03.1941
Lt.	17.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp France & Germany
WM 39\|45	-	-
Rsn Jub M	-	-

Education: Ampleforth.
Solicitor's articled clerk.

21.06.1939			joined RNVR (Humber Division)
(12.1939)	-	(02.1940)	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) *
10.02.1940	-	(02.)1942	HMS Fleetwood (Aberdeen class sloop)
(04.1942)	-	(08.1942)	HMS Bulldog (B class destroyer) *
(10.1942)	-	(06.1943)	HMS Plinlimmon (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship) *
(08.1943)			no appointment listed
08.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Bligh (Captain class frigate)
14.10.1943	-	(07.)1945	HMS Gore (Captain class frigate)
08.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Beaufort (Hunt class destroyer)
(04.1946)			HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

Solicitor, 10.1950.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
George Godfrey
G.G. Taylor

21.03.1915
-
03.1996
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

T/S.Lt.	18.09.1941
T/Lt.	18.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

	MID	11.07.1944	successful patrols Mediterranean
	KW	08.12.1942	as liaison officer ORP Sokol

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
(1942)	-	(1944)	British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Sokol (Polish submarine)
20.08.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship)

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Taylor,
Rev. Gordon Clifford
G.C. Taylor

Younger son of William Taylor, and Elizabeth Ellison, of Southport.
Married ((06).1948, Westminster district, London) Audrey Constance Rowse (14.10.1917 - (03?).1981), second daughter of Arthur Albert Rowse, CBE (1885-1959), and Julia Liley Atkins (1885-), of Oxford, Oxfordshire; two daughters.

24.10.1915
Wigan, Manchester, Lancashire
-
27.06.2009
St Giles-in-the-Fields, London ?

T/Chaplain	01.05.1940
Chaplain	09.09.1947, seniority 01.05.1940 (retd 24.10.1970)

VRD	1956	-
VRD	25.03.1966	1st clasp
Arc St	-	-

Education: Christ's College, Cambridge (2nd class English tripos, pt I 1936 BA; 2nd class geography tripos, pt II 1937; MA 1941; also rowed); Ripon Hall, Oxford 1937.
Deacon 1938, priest 1939 (Church of England). Curate, St Stephen's, Ealing, 1938-1940.

01.05.1940	-	10.07.1940	HMS Pembroke (RN barracks, Chatham)
11.07.1940	-	12.03.1941	HMS Royal Arthur (new entry training establishment, Skegness)
13.03.1941	-	(06.)1941	HMS Inglefield (additional; and for duty with 3rd Destroyer Flotilla)
03.1941	-	04.1941	seconded to HMS Arrow (destroyer)
(08.)1941	-	20.11.1941	RM Barracks, Portsmouth
21.11.1941	-	09.1942	HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (for service with armed merchant cruisers (South Atlantic))
			seconded to armed merchant cruisers HMS Pretoria Castle, HMS Canton, HMS Cheshire, and from 23.06.1942-25.09.1942 HMS Alcantara
09.1942	-	11.1942	HMS Afrikander IV (RN base, Durban, South Africa) (for duty at Pietermaritzburg)
11.1942	-	06.1944	HMS Korongo (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Nairobi, Kenya)
06.1944	-	1946	HMS Rodney (battleship) (Normandy & flagship Home Fleet) [joined the ship actually 26.07.1944]
1946	-	(04.1946)	RM Barracks, Chatham
09.09.1947	-	24.10.1970	transferred to List II of the Permanent RNVR, from 1958 RNR (Chaplain of the London Division for over 15 years; twelve peacetime appointments to ships & establishments, including HMS Vanguard (battleship), HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) & HMS Neptune (nuclear submarine))

Assistant master, Eton College, 1946-1949 (taught classics). Rector of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, 1949-1999. Also rural dean of Finsbury and Holborn, 1954-1967. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA), 1961. Honorary Chaplain Royal Naval Division Association and North Russia Club, Past Master the Art Workers Guild and Vice-President Middlesex County Association and London Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers.
Published: The sea chaplains : a history of the chaplains of the Royal Navy (1978).

Taylor,
Harold
H. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Mr Alan Buchan)

Son of Herbert Henry Taylor, and Ada Evelyn Gough.

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	08.11.1941
T/Lt. (A)	08.05.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

26.01.1942	-	(04.)1942	acting observer, 814 Squadron FAA [HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)]
25.05.1942	-	(12.)1942	observer, 834 Squadron FAA [HMS Archer (escort carrier)]
05.12.1942	-	(04.)1943	observer, 834 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)]
25.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	observer, 834 Squadron FAA
(10.1944)			HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch) *
30.10.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) (for Naval Air Signal School)
30.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Jack
J.B. Taylor

?
-

T/S.Lt. (A)	02.07.1943
T/Lt. (A)	02.01.1944

01.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	observer, 853 Squadron FAA
16.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nightjar (for compass duties)
(04.1946)			HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man) / HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Jack
J.B. Taylor

?
-

T/Lt. (A)

15.11.1942 (reld 13.05.1946)

(10.1944)

(07.1945)

Admiralty [HMS President] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
John Barnard
J.B. Taylor

01.04.1923
-

T/S.Lt.	01.10.1943
A/T/Lt.	01.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC

14.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [investiture 16.03.45]

(06.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) *
(06.1944)			Landing Craft Obstacle Clearance Unit No. 4
09.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Myrmidon (Algerine class minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such

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Taylor,
John Ford
J.F. Taylor

?
-
?

T/A/S.Lt.	01.01.1943
T/S.Lt.	01.07.1943
T/Lt.	01.10.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

(02.1943)			no appointment listed
08.02.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Rodney (battleship)
01.07.1943	-	(10.1945)	HMS Rodney (battleship)

Taylor,
John Gibson
J.G. Taylor

?
-

T/Sg.Lt.

02.10.1942

MRCS, LRCP, MB, BS

15.11.1943	-	(06.1944)	HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Peewit (RN Air Station, East Haven, Angus) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Kenneth Morton
K.M. Taylor

Son of George William Taylor, and Florence M. Shaw.

(03?).1920
Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
-
13.07.2009
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	14.11.1943
T/Lt.	14.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

31.10.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Byron (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Taylor,
Laurence Martin
L.M. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Kathryn Gillioz née Taylor)

Son of ... Taylor, and ... Culmer.
L.M. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Kathryn Gillioz née Taylor)

Married (12.07.1941, Dartmouth, Totnes district, Devon) Joan Margretta Tolman, WRNS (03.05.1920 - 01.2002); three sons, one daughter.

06.08.1913
Bexley, Dartford district, Kent
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10.11.1995
Exeter district, Devon

Seaman Stoker [Second Hand Stoker]	17.06.1940 [JX 200673]
T/S.Lt.	09.04.1942
T/Lt.	09.04.1943 (reld 25.02.1946)

Estate agent & surveyor.

17.06.1940	-	28.07.1940	HMS Europa (RN Patrol Service Central Depot, Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft)
29.07.1940	-	23.09.1940	HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Hamble, Southampton)
24.09.1940	-	10.03.1941	HMS Faraday (Combined Operations base ship, Dartmouth) [tender to HMS Britannia II (base, Dartmouth)]
11.03.1941	-	28.12.1941	HMS St Helier (landing ship, infantry) [tender to HMS Britannia II (base, Dartmouth), from 01.07.1941 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary)]
29.12.1941	-	08.04.1942	HMS King Alfred (RNR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(06.1942)			no appointment listed
06.07.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services)
03.09.1942	-	(04.)1943	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
12.05.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Defiance (training establishment, Devonport) (for motor launches)
09.06.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 1283 (motor launch)
17.01.1944	-	14.05.1944	Commanding Officer, HM HDML 1028 (harbour defence motor launch)
14.05.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for motor launches)
(04.1945)			HM HDML 1046 (harbour defence motor launch) *
11.05.1945	-	11.1945	Commanding Officer, HM ML 175 (motor launch) [offensive patrols, Yugoslav Coast and later minesweeping from Ancona to Venice, and from Split and Zara to Pola and Trieste; later to Malta; paid-off in Messina, Sicily]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Leslie Fernandes
L.F. Taylor

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Harold Dennis Taylor (1862-1943), and Charlotte Fernandes Barff.
Married 1st (03.10.1917, Bassein, Bengal, India) Maria Conception Mezzino.
Married 2nd (14.02.1931, Kalaw, Bengal, India) Winnie Kyaw.
Married 3rd (19.12.1934, St Paul's Church, Edmonton, North London) Nora Henrietta Todd.

21.08.1889
York, East Riding of Yorkshire
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St Kitts/Nevis ?

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	01.09.1939
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.12.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 12.1942, < 02.1943

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

Education: Clare College, Cambridge University (1909-1912; BA 1912; MA 1926).
Served Indian Educational Service (Principal, Government High School, Bassein, 18.04.1915). Conducted a linguistic and ethnographical survey of Burma, 1920s (see article). Officiating as research lecturer in Indo-Chinese ethnoogy and linguistics, University College, Rangoon, 05.1926. Retired, 11.1930.

01.09.1939	-	(06.)1944	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
(04.1945)			HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) *
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Neil William Gilchrist
N.W.G. Taylor

17.02.1921
-
02.2006
Chester, Cheshire

T/Lt.

17.08.1943

	DSC	14.06.45	HM birthday 45
	MID	21.11.44	series of actions, Channel

			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 700 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 211 (motor torpedo boat)
18.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 703 (motor torpedo boat)

Taylor,
Noel Hugh Aldersey
N.H.A. Taylor

Son of Capt. Hugh Aldersey Taylor, RN (1893-1982), and Edith May Chambers.
Married 1st ((09?).1946, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Patricia Aleida Victoria Bowring (01.06.1924 - ), daughter of Wilfrid Joseph Bowring (1879-1955), and Rosina J.H. Rikkert; three sons, one daughter.
Married 2nd ((03?).1962) Jean Awdry Cadwallader Wieser (née Adams) (1923 -).
Married 3rd ((09).1973, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Lucila A. Patrikios.

16.10.1920
Camberley, Surrey
-
12.04.1991
Havant, Portsmouth district, Hampshire

Prob. T/El.S.Lt.	11.05.1942
T/El.S.Lt.	09.1942, seniority 11.05.1942
T/El.Lt.	11.11.1944
Lt. (L) RN	25.08.1946, seniority 11.11.1943
Lt.Cdr. (L) RN	11.11.1951 (retd 16.04.1966)

26.05.1942	-	(02.)1943	HMS Colonsay (minesweeper base, Grimsby)
01.03.1943	-	(04.)1945	HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for BYMS's)
(07.1945)			HM BYMS 2181 (British Yard minesweeper) *
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
25.02.1946	-	(07.)1946	HMS Marmion (Algerine class minesweeper) (and for flotilla duties)
02.09.1946	-	(10.1946)	HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Raymond Warren
R.W. Taylor

Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of Warren Taylor, and Edith J. Drewett.
Married Cynthia M. Jones (1920 - 2005); two sons, two daughters.

11.11.1918
Chepstow district, Monmouthshire
-
22.06.2002
Christchurch, New Zealand

Prob. T/S.Lt. (A)	01.07.1940
T/Lt. (A)	01.01.1943

Education: Eveswell Elementary School; Newport High School.
Under-manager at a clothier's establishment at Newport.

(08.1940)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
01.09.1940	-	24.09.1940	pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
25.09.1940	-	20.04.1941	pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
21.04.1941	-	30.06.1941	pilot, 753 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]
01.07.1941	-	25.07.1941	pilot, 816 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]
26.07.1941	-	11/12.11.1941	pilot, 830 Squadron FAA [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] [on a torpedo roam in his Swordfish, he force-landed on the Sicilian coast at Cefalu; captured]
11.1941	-	05.1945	POW (No. 3361/4) in Italian & German captivity (from 09.1943 Marlag und Milag Nord, Westertimke) **

Architect. Emigrated to New Zealand, 1953.
* indexed, but not listed as such
** in Navy Lists borne on the books of HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)

Taylor,
Ronald Edwin Elliston
R.E.E. Taylor

Son of Albert E. Taylor, and Violet A. Elliston.
Married ((03?).1948, Cardiff district, Glamorgan / Monmouthshire) Doreen V. Brain; one daughter, one son.

(06?).1925
Camberwell district, London
-
12.07.1994
Nueces, Texas, USA

T/Midsh. (A)	?
T/A/S.Lt. (A)	25.08.1944
T/S.Lt. (A)	25.02.1945
S.Lt. (A) RN	03.12.1946, seniority 25.02.1945
Lt. (A) RN	25.02.1947
Lt. RN	1949?, seniority 25.02.1947
Lt.Cdr. RN	25.02.1955 (retd 31.01.1959)

MBE

01.01.1952

New Year 52 [investiture 19.03.52]

23.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Urley (RN Air Station, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man)
28.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, 810 Squadron FAA
(04.1946)			HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington, Lancashire) *
03.12.1946			transferred, RN [extended service commission]
02.1948	-	(07.1948)	HMS Nuthatch (RN Air Station, Anthorn, Cumberland)
09.03.1949			permanent commission
(05.1949)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
26.08.1949	-	(05.1951)	HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Halfar, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties)
29.10.1952	-	(05.)1953	HMS Simbang (RN Air Station, Sembawang, Singapore) (for miscellaneous duties)
07.09.1953	-	(01.)1955	HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth, Morayshire)
(04.1955)			HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth, Morayshire) *
25.04.1955	-	(01.1956)	HMS Ark Royal (fleet aircraft carrier)
?	-	(01.1957)	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) *
?	-	(01.)1959	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
Stanley Bracy
S.B. Taylor

Son of ... Taylor, and ... Watson.

21.07.1913
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-

T/S.Lt.	21.05.1942
T/Lt.	21.05.1943

DSC

21.11.1944

Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44) [decoration posted]

12.05.1943	-	(1944?)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 524 (motor torpedo boat)
(06.1944)			First Lieutenant, HM MTB 693 (motor torpedo boat) (DSC) *
(01.1945)			HM MTB 693 (motor torpedo boat) **
21.02.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 793 (motor torpedo boat)

* (06.1944), (10.1944) & (01.1945) still shown under MTB 524
** indexed, but not listed as such

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Taylor,
William Charles
W.C. Taylor (Photo courtesy of Teresa Taylor)

20.06.1909
Gravesend, Kent
-

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	22.01.1943
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.07.1943 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	28.03.1951, seniority 19.06.1944
Lt.Cdr.	23.02.1952, seniority 19.06.1944

* Special Branch officer employed on mining or anti-submarine fixed defence duties

(04.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed
(02.1944)	-	(04.1944)	HMS Elissa (Combined Operations base, Messina) *
05.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Elissa (Combined Operations base, Messina)
(07.1945)			HMS Curlew (anti-submarine fixed defence training establishment, Dunoon, Argyll) *
28.03.1951			transferred to Permanent RNVR (Solent Division, List 2)
23.02.1952			transferred to Executive Branch of Permanent RNVR
(05.1953)			HMS Osprey *
19.12.1953			reverted to Temporary RNVR (T/Lt. (Sp.Br.))

* indexed, but not listed as such

Taylor,
William Erwin Gibson
"Bill"
W.E.G. Taylor

Son of a US Army officer.

04.07.1905
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
-
09.06.1991
Pinellas County, Florida, USA

T/S.Lt. (A)	10.09.1939
T/Lt. (A)	22.12.1939 (reld 02.10.1940)
RAFVR:
F/Lt.	03.10.1940 [86597] (reld 18.07.1941)

Taylor enrolled at the Guggenheim College of Aeronautical Engineering at New York University, but left to join the Naval Reserves in 1925. He received his Naval pilot's license in 1927 and was assigned to Fighting Squadron Five, Scouting Fleet. He resigned in 1928 when his squadron was ordered to inactive status and he then joined the US Marine Corps Reserve, where he was an aviator from 1928-1933. In 1933, he was again ordered to inactive status. At this point Taylor left the Armed Services and became a pilot for United Airlines and later owned a New York City based travel agency.

14.09.1939			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for refresher course in flight training)
			training, Fighter School
			fighter pilot, 769 Squadron FAA [HMS Argus (Mediterranean)]
(04?).1940	-	(06?).1940	fighter pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS ... (RN Air Station Hatston, Orkney Islands), from 04.1940 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier); the Squadron had disembarked before the ship was lost on 08.06.1940, then HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]
07.09.1940	-	(10.1940)	Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
02.10.1940			commissioned, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (General Duties Branch) [emergency commission]
01.1941	-	06.1941	first Commanding Officer of 71 (Eagle) Squadron, Royal Air Force

In June 1941, Taylor left the Eagle Squadron and rejoined the United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1951 where he served on the following vessels: Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, Enterprise, Saratoga, and Ranger. After the war, Taylor was, among other posts, the commanding officer of Project Afirm and the commanding officer for the Night Attack and Training Unit, Atlantic (NACTU). In 1951 Taylor resigned from the Navy Reserves and worked first for Braniff Airlines in Panama, and then as a Vice President for Scandinavian Airlines System.
Literature: An eagle with wings of gold : the remarkable career of Bill Taylor. In: Air Power History, Vol. 48, 2001; Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond & R.E. White, Passport not required : U.S. volunteers in the Royal Navy, 1939-1941 (2010).

Taylor,
William Horace
W.H. Taylor

23.10.1908
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
16.01.1999
[Banchory, Kincardineshire ?]

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.12.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	? 08.1942, < 02.1943
Lt. (Sp.Br.)	16.12.1949
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	16.12.1957 (retd 1963)

GC	14.01.1941	mine disposal RAF depot Uxbridge 09-10.40 [investiture 08.07.41]
MBE	1973	services to scouting
Comm	27.06.1941	mine disposal

Education: Manchester Grammar School (1923-1925).
Junior partner and then (1937) managing director of a firm promoting stands for exhibitions, 1929-1939?. Staff of Manchester Central Docks, 1939-1940.

15.11.1940	-	(06.1944)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty
1944			Founder Member, Naval Clearance Divers, HMS Vernon (D)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
1949	-	1963	Permanent RNVR, then RNR

Travelling Commissioner for the Sea Scouts, 1946-1951. Field Commissioner for South-West England, Scout Association, 1952-1974. Managed an estate at Blanefield, near Glasgow, 1975-1984.

Taylor,
William Leslie
W.L. Taylor

?
-

T/Paym.S.Lt.	24.07.1941
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	24.10.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

13.08.1941

(07.1945)

Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

Teacher,
Ronald McNairn

07.12.1900
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
-
1976
Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland

T/Lt.	07.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	? (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

...	-	...	...
14.03.1942	-	(12.1942)	Commanding Officer, HMS Sister Anne (armed yacht)
...	-	...	...
01.03.1945	-	(10.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Hornpipe (anti-submarine warfare trawler)

Teal,
Roy Harry George
R.H.G. Teal (Photo courtesy of Mr Anthony R. Teal)

08.11.1910
Peckham, South London
-
26.01.1972
Guildford, Surrey

Ord.Sea.	28.08.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	21.05.1943
T/S.Lt.	21.11.1943
T/Lt.	21.11.1945 (reld 01.07.1946)

Education: St Dunstan’s College, Catford, South London (17.01.1922-26.07.1927)
Joined Boots, the Chemists, 1928. Qualified as a Pharmaceutical Chemist (M.P.S.), 26.07.1934. Manager of Thornton Heath branch of Boots, the Chemists, 1939-1942.

28.08.1942	-	11.11.1942	basic training, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth) [Certificate of Progress of Ordinary Seaman achieved 12.12.1943]
12.11.1942	-	11.12.1942	CW Candidate, HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [Dockyard duties awaiting draft to a ship]
12.12.1942	-	23.02.1943	HMS Campanula (corvette) (escort duties convoy SC 118) [based at HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]
24.02.1943	-	20.06.1943	officer training, HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
21.06.1943	-	27.06.1943	minesweeper gunnery course, HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
28.06.1943	-	15.08.1943	minesweeper course No. 39/43, HMS Lochinvar (minesweeping base, Port Edgar) [including three weeks on trawlers]
16.08.1943	-	31.08.1943	minesweeper training, HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith)
01.09.1943	-	09.09.1943	spare minesweeper First Lieutenant, HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness) [based at HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness)] [Probably served on HM MMS 51 but re-assigned after this.]
10.09.1943	-	05.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 57 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] *
05.1944	-	10.09.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 181 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] [Operation Neptune (Normandy landings)] *
11.09.1944	-	16.12.1945	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 81 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)] [Operation Calendar (Scheldt sweeping)]
17.12.1945	-	03.02.1946	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 69 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS St Tudno (minesweeper depot ship, Sheerness)]
04.02.1946	-	05.05.1946	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 69 (motor minesweeper) [tender to HMS Eskimo (accommodation ship, Chatham)]
06.05.1946	-	01.07.1946	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for release from naval service)

Manager of the following pharmacy branches of Boots, the Chemists: West Hendon, Greater London (1946-1948), Southampton Row, London (1948-1954), Chelsea, London (1954-1959), Guildford, Surrey (1959-1971). Retired 03.04.1971.
Freeman of City of London (by Patrimony) and Clothworker, 06.02.1935.
* personnel records seem to suggest that appointment to HM MMS 57 was intended, but cancelled, and replaced by appointment to HM MMS 181; the Navy List seems to suggest otherwise

Tedford,
Alfred Robert Hetherington
A.R.H. Tedford (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)

Son of Alfred and Mary Winifred Tedford, of Belfast, Ireland.

(03?).1920
Belfast district, Ireland
-
17.04.1946
[age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 90, column 3]

Midsh.	27.08.1937
A/S.Lt.	15.01.1940
S.Lt.	15.01.1941
Lt.	15.07.1942

27.08.1937			joined RNVR (Ulster Division)
06.09.1939	-	(12.1939)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
15.01.1940	-	(12.1940)	HMS Revenge (battleship)
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
24.02.1941	-	(01.)1945	HMS Westminster (W class destroyer) (eventually First Lieutenant)
30.04.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Urania (destroyer)

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Tee,
Gerald Henry [Ypres]
G.H. Tee

Son of ... Tee, and ... Bradley.
Married ((12?).1943, Pontypridd district, Glamorgan) Margaret H. Capron.

26.08.1917
Dudley district, Staffordshire
-
06.02.2007
Lincoln district, Lincolnshire

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

31.05.1941 (reld 10.07.1942)

			officer holding temporary commission under T.124X agreements:
31.05.1941	-	(12.)1941	HMS Audacity (escort carrier)
22.12.1941	-	(06.)1942	HMS Mersey (T124X depot, Liverpool)

Tees,
David John
D.J. Tees

Son of Mr. and Mrs. David Tees, of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1905 ?
-
30.10.1942 *
(killed) [age 37]
[Knockbreda Cemetery, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, section F, grave 153]

* Death registered in the Aylesbury district of Buckinghamshire.

Prob. S.Lt.	21.07.1930
S.Lt.	29.09.1931
Lt.	29.09.1934
Lt.Cdr.	29.09.1942

21.07.1930			joined RNVR (Ulster Division); pre-war appointments all for a few weeks only for training purposes:
16.09.1930			HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
24.06.1932			HMS Skate (destroyer) (Portsmouth)
21.01.1933			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
16.06.1934			HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
21.06.1936			HMS Ramillies (battleship)
18.09.1938			HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
31.07.1939	-	summer1942	HMS Durban (cruiser)
(08.1942)			HMS Durban (cruiser) *
summer1942			First Lieutenant at a Sea Cadets' course (for one month)
?	-	30.10.1942	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (killed on his way to his new appointment at Malta)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Telford,
Robert Henry
D.J. Tees

?
-
?

T/A/S.Lt.	27.11.1941
T/S.Lt.	18.01.1942
T/Lt.	27.05.1944 (reld 01.06.1946)

(02.1942)			no appointment listed
26.03.1942	-	(02.)1944	HMS Worcester (destroyer)
18.02.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Calder (frigate)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
17.10.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Philoctetes II (accounting base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) (as anti-submarine training officer) (in lieu of specialist anti-submarine officer)
03.10.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) (for mobile training units) (in lieu of specialist anti-submarine officer)

Templeton,
John Atrill
[later:Templeton-Cotill]
J.A. Templeton

Son of late Captain Jack Lionel Cottle, Tank Corps.

04.06.1920
-
23.05.2011
Laudun, Avignon, France

T/A/S.Lt.	28.06.1940
T/S.Lt.	04.06.1941
T/A/Lt.	< 12.1941
Lt. RN	?, seniority 02.08.1943
Lt.Cdr. RN	02.08.1951
Cdr. RN	30.06.1955
Capt. RN	31.06.1961
R.Adm. RN	07.01.1970 (retd 07.10.1973)

1972

Education: Canford School; New College, Oxford

1939			joined RNVR
1940	-	1941	HMS Crocus
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
1941	-	1942	British Naval Liaison Officer, French warship Chevreuil
1942			staff, General Officer Commanding New Caledonia (US)
1943			US Embassy, London
1943?	-	1944?	Flag Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
01.12.1944	-	(07.)1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 421 (motor torpedo boat)
1945	-	1946	ADC to Governor of Victoria
1947	-	1955	served in HMS London, Loch Quoich, Whirlwind, Jutland, Barrosa and Sparrow
19.05.1947	-	(10.)1947	HMS London
10.1947	-	(07.1948)	HMS Loch Quoich
(05.1949)			HMS Loch Quoich *
20.06.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Whirlwind
(05.1953)			no appointment listed
(07.1954)			no appointment listed
(04.1955)			HMS Sparrow *
18.07.1955	-	(01.)1956	Commanding Officer, HMS Sefton & Senior Officer, 108th Minesweeping Squadron
1956			jssc
(01.1957)			HMS President *
1957	-	1959	Commander-in-Charge, RN School of Work Study
1959	-	1961	Commanding Officer, HMS Tiger
(07.1961)			HMS President *
18.05.1962	-	1964	British Naval Attaché, Moscow [HMS President]
1964	-	1966	Commanding Officer, HMS Rhyl and Captain (D), 23rd Escort Squadron
1966	-	1968	Senior Naval Member, Defence Operational Analysis Establishment
01.05.1968	-	(02.)1969	Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark
1970	-	1971	Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet
1971	-	1973	Flag Officer, Malta, and NATO Commander, SE Area Mediterranean
1972	-	1973	Commander, British Forces Malta

Director: Sotheby Parke Bernet (France), 1974-1981; Sotheby Parke Bernet (Monaco), 1975-1981.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tennant,
James Gaston
J.G. Tennant

Married ...; ... children (one daughter?).

06.10.1925
-
09.1985
Chichester district, Sussex

T/Midsh.	05.05.1944
T/A/S.Lt.	06.05.1945
T/S.Lt.	06.10.1945
S.Lt.	14.10.1947, seniority 06.10.1945
Lt.	06.10.1947
Lt.Cdr.	06.10.1955 (retd 31.12.1973)

	VRD	19.12.1963	-
	VRD	25.11.1969	1st clasp

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1944)	-	(12.1944)	HMS Burong (RN minesweeper base, Mandapam, India) *
12.12.1944	-	(04.1946)	HM BYMS 2232 (British Yard minesweeper)
14.10.1947			transferred, Permanent RNVR (List I) [from 1958 RNR]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tenquist,
Victor Magnus Tunstall
V.M.T. Tenquist (Photo courtesy of Mr John Tenquist)

Born with a twin sister (Ada).
Married Louise Roper; two sons (one of which died as an infant), one daughter.

09.02.1900
Crossmyloof, Scotland
-
14.08.1956
Bricket Wood, St Albans, Hertfordshire

T/Midsh.	17.05.1918
T/S.Lt.	1919?
T/Lt.	25.11.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1944, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

St Stan	WW I	for actions at Archangelsk
BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Afr St	?	?
Def M	?	?
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: Hillside College

(1917?)	-	(1918?)	HMS Hermoine (went to Archangelsk; spoke Russian & Arabic fluently)
(01.1919)			no appointment listed
Civil service [such as night telephonist and call office attendant (Post Office, London), from 17.03.1938].
(04.1940)			HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate) *
11.09.1940	-	(08.1943)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
19.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (for Naval Control Service duties)
06.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)

Civil servant.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Terdre,
Ronald Lewis
R.L. Terdre

Married ((09?).1934, Wandsworth district, London) Iris Estelle Blois Beeton (27.08.1909 - 04.01.2011), daughter (with two brothers) of Lionel Wilfrid Paul Beeton (1874-1957), and Florence Smith (1872-); one son, two daughters.

01.05.1905
West Besford, Romford district, Essex
-
03.1984
Yeovil district, Somerset

T/A/S.Lt.	20.08.1943
T/S.Lt.	20.02.1944 (reld 14.06.1946)
T/A/Lt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944

(10.1943)			HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) *
(12.1943)	-	(04.1944)	HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *
03.1944			British Naval Liaison Officer, French minesweeper "Annamite"
(06.1944)	-	(10.1944)	HMS Fann (RN base, Dakar, Senegal)*
20.08.1944			British Naval Liaison Officer, French minesweeper "Gazelle"
(01.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed
1940s	-	1960s	Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (attached to London Division RNVR)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Terretta,
Frederick
"Fred"
F. Terretta (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son (with one brother and three sisters) of Capt. Joseph Frederick Terretta (1900-1990), Merchant Navy, and Edith Cudlip (1901-1988).
Married ((06?).1950, Fylde district, Lancashire) Gertrude A. "Trudie" Barnes.

18.09.1922
Runcorn district, Cheshire
-
06.2010 still alive

T/A/S/Lt.	02.06.1944
T/S.Lt.	02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Bur St	-	& clasp Pacific
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

			special telegraphist at Gibraltar, one of twelve "Y Stations" receiving coded signals morse signals from German shore stations, surface ships and U-boats; signals sent to "X station" (Bletchley) for decoding and pinpointing position of German forces
			CW candidate on HMS Starling (sloop)
			sent to Lancing for commissioning
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
11.1944?			HMS Cooke (frigate)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
17.01.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Termagent (destroyer)

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Terry,
Cecil Henry
C.H. Terry (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Taylor)

Son of Henry George Terry (1858-1932), surgeon, and Florence Terry.
Married (1949/50?) Mrs Jones, a doctor's widow (died 1967).

14.03.1892
Bath, Somerset
-
01.02.1971
Bath, Somerset

T/Sg.Lt. RN	21.10.1916
T/Sg.Lt.	21.09.1939
A/T/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	01.07.1940
T/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	31.07.1944
T/A/Sg.Cdr.	1946? (reld 15.11.1946)

BWM 14\|20	?	?
VM	?	?
39\|45 St	?	?
Atl St	?	?
It St	?	possibly
WM 39\|45	?	?

Education: Oundle School (1906-1911); Balliol College, Oxford (1911-1914)
MRCS (1916, Eng), LRCP (1916, Lond), MA (1921), MB (1921), BCh (1921, Oxon), FRCS (1925, Ed)
House surgeon, St Bart's Hospital, 1914.

21.10.1916	-	05.1919	HMS Lupin (sloop)
20.05.1919	-	06.1919	Admiralty [HMS President]
19.06.1919	-	1919	RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]
Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Bath, 1921. Assistant surgeon (1922), then senior surgeon (1925-1945), Royal United Hospital, Bath. Visiting surgeon to several cottage hospitals in the area.
21.09.1939	-	11.1941	HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
30.11.1941	-	(04.)1944	HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship)
22.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	Royal Marine Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Victory IV (accounting base) (known to have served as Senior Medical Officer, RM Barracks, Eastney)

Terry,
Elton Cedric
E.C. Terry

Son (with four sisters and two brothers) of John William Terry (1864-1942), and Annie Maria Bennett (1872-1954).
Married 1st ((09?).1934, Romford district, Essex) Mavis Gwinnell Hill (10.03.1909 - 10.06.1985); two sons.
Married 2nd (04.1993, Worthing district, West Sussex) Marjorie A. Willoughby.

05.12.1908
Beehive, Barkingside, Romford district, Essex
-
09.1999
Worthing district, West Sussex

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) *

22.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

MBE

05.12.1944

firefighting air raid Barletta 21.07.1944

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

22.02.1943	-	(03).1943	HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
23.03.1943	-	(01.)1944	HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
01.01.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for duty at Barletta)
01.1945	-	(10.)1945	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) (for duty at Ancona)
06.10.1945	-	(02.)1946	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for Naval Control Service duties)
01.02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for Sea Transport duties)

Thackery,
Edward Peter
E.P. Thackery (Photo courtesy of Robert Thackery)

Son of Edward Alexander Thackery (1898-1968), and Isabella Dockray (1896-1989).
Married ((09?).1949, Watford district, Hertfordshire) Enid Kathleen Brailey ((12?).1924 - 22.05.2012), daughter of Alfred J.P. Brailey, and Ethel Tucker; two daughters, one son.

21.07.1923
Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire
-
01.1994
Watford, Hertfordshire

T/A/S.Lt.

03.06.1943 (reld 21.06.1945; medically unfit)

			temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement:
19.05.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy) (for duty with rescue tugs)
11.06.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for rescue tugs)
(04.1945)			HMS Oriana (BAT class tug)

Thirlaway,
William
"Billy"
W. Thirlaway

Only son of ...

1922 ?
-
22.10.1943
Garstang district, Lancashire
(air crash) [age 21]
[Blackpool (Carleton) Crematorium, Poulton-Le-Fylde, panel 5]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	05.11.1943, seniority 02.10.1943

20.09.1943

22.10.1943

pilot, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)]

Thomas,
Albert Gordon
A.G. Thomas

15.01.1910
-
06.1981
Poole district, Dorset

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	29.05.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	29.08.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

29.05.1942	-	(07.1945)	HMS Baldur (RN base, Reykjavik, Iceland)
(10.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Thomas,
Alfred James
A.J. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Etherton)

?
-

Steward	? [P/SR 58974]
T/A/S.Lt.	17.02.1944
T/S.Lt.	17.08.1944

DSM	31.03.1942	withdrawal from Crete [investiture 29.09.42] *
DSM	07.12.1943	special reconnaissance Sicily & Italy 05.43
39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
Afr St	-	-
Bur St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	11.11.1941	Greek withdrawal 04.41
MID	23.10.1945	beach reconnaissance Far East 09.06.45 **

* For outstanding gallantry, fortitude and resolution whilst in serving in HMS Salvia during the Battle of Crete. This rating has continuously shown great devotion to duty, manning his guns during all attacks and was one of the two ratings who volunteered to remain and man the guns whilst the vessel was at the quay, permission having been given by the Naval Officer in Charge, Suda Bay for the remainder of the crew not necessary on board to go the shelters near the quay during machine gunning and bombing attacks.
** For bravery, skill and coolness of judgement in completing a hazardous reconnaissance of an enemy beach on the night of 9/10 June, 1945. This officer was in charge of a canoe on a recent operation. He was responsible for maintaining contact with the submarine in addition to obtaining information and these duties be carried out efficiently under difficult circumstances. Throughout the operation he displayed a high degree of courage.

(1941)	-	(1942)	HMS Salvia (DSM, despatches)
(1943)			Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 5 (DSM)
17.02.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(1945)			Combined Operations Pilotage Party 3 (2) [Naval Party 775] (despatches)

Thomas,
Benjamin Ieuan
B.I. Thomas

Son (with one brother and two sisters) of Benjamin Arthur Thomas (1894-1941), and Elizabeth Ellen Jones (1890-1944).
Married (10.07.1948, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire) Pearl Davies (29.07.1924 - 18.03.2006), daughter of James Percy Davies (1896-1967), and Emmeline Mildred Price (1900-1982); one daughter.

02.10.1919
Sarnau, Cardiganshire
-
13.01.1982
Hinchley Wood, Esher, Surrey

T/A/S.Lt.	14.01.1944
T/S.Lt.	14.07.1944 (reld > 07.1946)

(02.1944)			no appointment listed
20.02.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
01.03.1946	-	(07.1946)	HMS Devonshire (cruiser)

His daughter writes: "My father was at Pharmacy School in Cardiff when war broke out. He served on board the Devonshire as I can recall him saying it was a sister ship to HMS Belfast, and was with the Devonshire in port at Ceylon. He also served during the D-day landings and I have a picture of him on board a landing craft of some description."

Thomas,
Bryan William Rylands
B.W.R. Thomas

(09?).1902
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
20.06.1942
(KIA)
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 76, col. 3]

T/Lt.

08.07.1940

12.01.1937			enrolled RN Volunteer Supplementary Reserve (London Division RNVR)
?	-	20.06.1942	First Lieutenant, HM ML 1039 (motor launch)

Thomas,
Cecil Goring
C.G. Thomas

11.10.1908
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
(09?).1974
South Glamorgan district, Wales

T/Lt.	07.10.1939
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 06.1944, < 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

(04.1940)			no appointment listed
(02.1941)			no appointment listed
07.12.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HMS Pollux (radar training ship)
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

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Thomas,
David Myrddin
D.M. Thomas

Son of ... Thomas, and ... Jones, of Llwyn-On, Pennllwyn, Carmarthen.

14.12.1911
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire
-
18.06.1992
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	26.06.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	26.09.1942 (reld > 04.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) ?	1946?

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

Education: Mill Hill School (1925-1929).
Solicitor.

21.07.1942	-	(04.)1945	HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight)
(07.1945)			HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight) *
08.09.1945	-	07.03.1946	Legal Aid Officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Clement Moody, Commander-in Chief, East Indies Station Naval Headquarters in Colombo; he was under the command of Commodore Daniel de Poss, Chief Staff Officer (Personnel) to Admiral Moody from 26 Oct 1945-12 Feb1946
(10.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Golden Hind (manning depot, Sydney, NSW) *

Town clerk.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomas,
Dennis Harold
D.H. Thomas

09.09.1922
-
23.02.1986

T/Lt.

09.03.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

			served HMS Paladin (destroyer)
			served MTBs (English Channel)
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Thomas,
Donald Haydn
D.H. Thomas

Son of Alfred Henry Thomas (1871-1937), and Grace Martha Wright (1877-1940).
Married ((03?).1940, Newcastle upon Tyne) Margaret E. Spence; two sons, one daughter.

1917
-
1977

A/S.Lt.	19.08.1939
S.Lt.	11.01.1940
Lt.	01.06.1942

19.08.1939			joined RNVR - Tyne Division
19.08.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for motor torpedo boats)
04.1940	-	09.1940	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 16 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (for RN Depot Felixstowe Dock)
09.1940	-	(10.)1940	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 16 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]
28.11.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Dianella (corvette)
03.04.1942	-	(12.1942)	HMS Lavender (corvette)
(02.1943)	-	(04.)1943	specialist signal course
28.04.1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
(06.1944)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Castle Toward, Dunoon, Argyll) *

Thomas,
Frank William
F.W. Thomas

?
-
06.2009 still alive

T/A/S.Lt.	02.03.1945
T/S.Lt.	02.09.1945 (reld 1947)

04.1945	-	06.1945	HMS Excalibur (New entry seaman training establishment, Alsager, Stoke on Trent)
06.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Tengra (Combined Operations base, Mandapam, India)
10.1945	-	09.1947	HM BYMS 2006 (British Yard minesweeper)

Thomas,
Frederick Norman Gwyn
"Freddo"
F.N.G. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill forster)

Son of Gwyn Thomas, a coal miner, and Evelyn Davis.
Married (18.08.1951, Surrey) Violet Ellen Gillham; two daughters.

10.03.1920
Ogmore Vale, Bridgend district, Glamorgan
-
09.05.2012

Ord.Sea.	1940
Able Sea.	1941?
Ldg.Sea.	1943?
T/A/S.Lt.	12.05.1944
T/S.Lt.	12.11.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: Monmouth Teacher Training College, Caerleon, Monmouthshire (1938); London School of Economics (MSc).

1940	-	07.1940	RDF operator training, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
07.1940	-	07?.1943	RDF operator, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
1943	-	1943	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
1943?	-	1944	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
10.1944	-	(07.)1945	high angle gunnery officer, HMS Sirius (cruiser)
1945	-	1946?	First Lieutenant, HMS Lord Irwin (minesweeping trawler)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Teacher at a secondary school in North London. Principal Lecturer at the London Nautical School training future seamen. Principal Lecturer in Geography at the College of All Saints, a teacher training college which is part of London University, and retired in 1961 as a Reader (one step down from Professorship).

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Thomas,
Herbert Ivor *
H.I. Thomas

Married (1943) Eleanor Melba Davies; one son, one daughter.
* In Naval records shown as such, while it was infact: Hubert Ivor Thomas

?
-
10.1972
Salisbury, Rhodesia

T/S.Lt.	26.03.1942
T/Lt.	26.03.1943 (reld 30.03.1946)

(06.1942)	-	(04.1943)	no appointment listed
22.04.1943	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)

Thomas,
Ivor Morgan
I.M. Thomas

Son of Albert William Thomas and of Sarah Dora Thomas (nee Harries); husband of Josephine Thomas.

(09?).1920
Carmarthen district, Carmarthenshire / Dyfed / Pembrokeshire
-
11.12.1942
(KIA)
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 71, column 2]

T/S.Lt.

06.11.1941

11.12.1942

HMS X. 4 (midget submarine)

Thomas,
James Owen
"Jim"
J.O. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Ellis)

30.06.1916
-
11.05.1997
Kingston upon Thames district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	17.07.1941
T/Lt.	17.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC	30.11.1943	action E-boats North Sea 24.09.43 [investiture 01.02.44]
DSC	26.06.1945	minesweeping northern coast of France 09-12.44 [award posted]
MID	14.11.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

01.09.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Minos II (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
08.04.1942	-	(10.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM ML 150 (motor launch)
11.10.1943	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 202 (motor launch)
04.09.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 222 (motor launch) & Senior Officer, 1st ML Flotilla
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Thomas,
John Brinley George
"Bryn"
J.B.G. Thomas

Son of Gwilym Thomas, and May Florence Stoodley.
Married ((06?).1941, Cardiff, Glamorgan) Gwendoline Megan "Gwen" Owen (? - 01.1985); three sons.

29.04.1917
Pontypridd, South Glamorgan
-
11.04.1997

T/S.Lt.	12.02.1942
T/Lt.	12.02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

MBE

01.01.1984

New Year 84: for services to journalism

(08.1942)			HMS Stornoway (Bangor class minesweeper) *
04.03.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Saltash (Hunt class minesweeper)
20.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hound (Algerine class minesweeper)
(04.1946)			HMS Hound (Algerine class minesweeper) *

Welsh rugby journalist for the Western Mail.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomas,
Percival Reginald
P.R. Thomas (Photo courtesy of Jan Simmonds)

Son of William G. Thomas, and Ellen Ada Chesson.
Married Doreen ...; two daughters, one son.

22.06.1923
Eastbourne district, Sussex / East Sussex
-
01.11.1987
Chichester, Sussex

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.03.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	< 01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

NorWM

20.03.1945

sinking enemy shipping winter 43-44

12.11.1943	-	(1944)	British Naval Liaison Officer, HNorMS Ula (submarine)
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) *
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

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Thompson,
Charles Arthur
C.A. Thompson

Married Molly Kight; at least one daughter.

?
-

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.09.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.09.1942 (reld 10.04.1946)

Education: BSc

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
10.12.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (for meteorological duties)
21.01.1944	-	(10.1944)	Meteorological Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier)
18.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	Meteorological Officer, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)

Thompson,
Desmond Elliott Markham
D.E.M. Thompson

Son of ... Thompson, and ... Bayles.
Married ((12?).1950, Norwich, Norfolk) Rosemary Hitch; ... children.

(06?).1925
Norwich, Norfolk
-
03.2013 still alive

T/Midsh.	28.01.1944
T/A/S.Lt.	17.11.1944
T/S.Lt.	17.05.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

09.04.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Zambesi (destroyer)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
17.03.1945	-	(04.1945)	HMS Zambesi (destroyer)
(07.1945)			HMS Zambesi (destroyer) *
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
01.1946	-	(04.1946)	HM MMS 296 (motor minesweeper)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
Francis Edward
F.E. Thompson

?
-

T/S.Lt.	27.11.1942
T/Lt.	27.08.1943 (reld 16.04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& France & Germany clasp
Bur St	-	& Pacific clasp
WM 39\|45	-	-

(02.1943)			no appointment listed
15.03.1943	-	(04.)1943	HMS Picton Castle (minesweeping trawler)
(06.)1943	-	(04.)1944	HMS Pointz Castle (minesweeping trawler) [date of appointment shown as 15.03.1943]
19.05.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Sylvana (headquarters ship, Allied Naval Commander Allied Expeditionary Force)

Thompson,
Frank Gordon
F.G. Thompson

?
-

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.08.1944
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.02.1945 (reld < 04.1946)

(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) *
(03.1945)			British Naval Liaison Officer, "Kanaris" (Greek destroyer)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
Harold Underwood
H.U. Thompson

Son of Arthur Henry Thompson (?-1911), an English rancher in Australia.

09.04.1911
West Kirby, Wirral district, Cheshire
-
21.11.1996
Wells, Taunton district, Somerset

T/S.Lt.	12.06.1941
T/Lt.	12.09.1941 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

MID

01.01.1946

New Year 46

03.07.1941	-	20.01.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Susannah Jane (harbour defence patrol craft) [tender to HMS Paris (small craft base, Plymouth)]
(04.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Rowan (T class trawler) (despatches) *
(10.1945)			HMS Colombo (Carlisle class cruiser) *

Cartoonist & director of Lonsdales advertising agency.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
Henry Lorimer Frew
"Harry"
H.L.F. Thompson

From Atherton, Lancashire.

14.02.1919
-
09.10.1998

Ord.Sea.	(09?).1939
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	04.12.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.12.1943

MBE

09.11.1943

mine disposal Eastern Mediterranean 05-07.43

Bank clerk.

(11?.)1939			joined the RNVR and served in the ranks
11.1940			HMS Laurentic (armed merchant cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk 300 miles off the North coast of Ireland - picked up after 10 hours in the water by HMS Hesperus]
			attached to the Staff Officer Hydrographics on a Motor Launch (mined off Plymouth)
			leading torpedo operator & recommended for a commission: trained at HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
			appointed Rendering Mines Safe Officer (UK, Suez, Beirut, Cyprus):
23.02.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
01.10.1943	-	(04.1944)	HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut, Lebanon)
25.03.1945	-	(04.1946)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty (for duty outside Admiralty)

Literature: Chapter 8 (Seventeen seconds to stay alive) in: Paul Lund & Harry Ludlam, Out sweeps! : the story of the minesweepers in World War II (1978)

Thompson,
John James
R.C.W. Thompson

Married (1942?) Third Officer Mary Mackie Craig, WRNS; ... children (one son?).

?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt. (E)	17.12.1939
Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1940?, seniority 17.12.1939
T/El.Lt.	01.08.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

08.02.1940	-	(03.)1940	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
05.03.1940	-	(07.)1940	HMS Maori (destroyer)
01.07.1940	-	(07.)1940	HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for De-Gaussing Department)
25.07.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)
01.10.1940	-	(07.1945)	HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow)

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Thompson,
Llewelyn Edmund
L.E. Thompson

?
-

T/S.Lt.	26.06.1941
T/Lt.	01.06.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

	DSC	13.06.44	action 6 trawlers Dover 15.03.44
	MID	28.12.43	action convoy Dover 26.09.43

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
16.07.1943	-	(03.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 418 (motor torpedo boat)
06.05.1944	-	(06.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 66 (motor torpedo boat)
18.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)

Thompson,
Percy Llewellyn
P.L. Thompson

Son (with one brother) of Percy Jonathan Andrew Thompson (1877-1964), and Louise Margaret Potts (1875-1961).

26.03.1913
Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland
-
(12?).1983
North Walsham district, Norfolk

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	25.05.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.05.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	26.03.1945? (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

*Special Branch officer employed on scientific duties

04.06.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school)
05.08.1941	-	(01.)1945	HMS Valkyrie (radar training establishment, Regent Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man)
26.03.1945	-	(10.1945)	Officer-in-Charge, Radar Training, HMIS Chamak (radar training school, Manora, Karachi) [under HMIS Dalhousie]

Thompson,
Raymond Charles William
R.C.W. Thompson

Son of Charles Drummond Thompson, and Minnie Gilham.

(06?).1923
Wandsworth district, London
-
07.06.1945
(MPK) [age 22]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 6. panel 5]

T/S.Lt. (A)

15.12.1944, seniority 12.07.1944

Education: Bedford Modern School.

(01.1945)			no appointment listed
?	-	07.06.1945	802 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus)] (missing, presumed killed in an air crash)

Thompson,
Richard
R. Thompson

Son of Albert Victor and Elizabeth Thompson, of Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England.

1921 ?
-
26.10.1942
(air crash) [age 21]
[Simon's Town (Dido Valley) Cemetery, South Africa, Naval Allotment, row D, grave 10]

T/S.Lt. (A)

10.01.1942

30.05.1942

26.10.1942

pilot, FAA Pool (789 Squadron?), RN Air Station Wingfield [HMS Afrikander, later HMS Malagas]

Thompson,
Richard Charles
R.C. Thompson

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	07.05.1943
T/S.Lt.	07.11.1943
T/A/Lt.	> 06.1944, < 10.1944
T/Lt.	01.01.1945

04.04.1944

services Royal Netherlands Navy [Dutch Royal Decree No. 4 of 09.03.1944]

(06.1943)	-	(04.1944)	no appointment listed
07.1943	-	28.03.1944	British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS Flores (Bronze Cross)
(06.1944)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(04.1946)			Admiralty [HMS President] *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thompson,
William David
W.D. Thompson

Married ...; ... children (one son?).

25.07.1912
-
?

T/Sg.Lt.	12.04.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld 08.05.1946)

Edcuation: MB, BCh, BAO Belfast 1936.

27.05.1940	-	(06.)1941	HMS Saladin (destroyer)
08.07.1941	-	(02.)1943	HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland)
03.02.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Impulsive (destroyer)
22.07.1944	-	(07.1945)	RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
(04.1946)			HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) *

Late House Surgeon, Ulster Hospital for Children & Women, Assistant Medical Officer, City General Hospital Sheffield.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomsen-Tarrow-Gazely,
Peter Roy
P.R. Thomsen-Tarrow-Gazely

Married (c. 1945, Taranto, Italy; divorced c. 1947) Marion Nicholas Wilson "Pat" Davey (19.06.1918 - ). She remarried ... Clayton.

18.12.1921
Camberwell, London
-
12.1996
Bournemouth district, Hampshire

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	11.06.1943
T/Lt.	11.06.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

			served in corvettes in the Western Ocean:
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Thomson,
Bernard
B. Thomson

?
-

T/S.Lt.	17.07.1942
T/Lt.	01.05.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	06.01.1948, seniority 20.06.1947 (reld > 05.1950, < 05.1951)

MBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

(10.1944)			HMS Vernon (torpedo school Roedean School, Brighton) *
09.01.1945	-	(01.1945)	Torpedo Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship)
(05.1945)			part of the recce party of Naval Party 1735 which took over the German ships in Wilhelmshaven [HMS Royal Rupert] (MBE)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
06.01.1948			re-entered RNVR as T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)
(07.1948)	-	(05.1950)	Sea Cadet Corps

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomson,
David Alexander
D.A. Thomson

17.09.1914
Rutherglen, Glasgow
-
07.02.2005

Prob. T/Sg.Lt.	07.05.1940
T/Sg.Lt.	04.1941, seniority 07.05.1940
T/A/Sg.Lt.Cdr.	? (reld 1945/46)

OBE

13.06.1946

HM's birthday 46

Education: MB, ChB.

07.05.1940			joined RNVR at Port Edgar
04.06.1940	-	(02.1941)	Medical Officer, HMS Sabre (destroyer)
01.09.1941	-	(02.1943)	HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
			involved with clearing the mines in the approaches to Sword Beach (Normandy) and particularly concerned with developing the means to dive to the depths necessary to deal with the deep munitions
			HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) ?
01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Medical Officer, HMS Vernon (D) (base for Port Parties, Dartmouth/Brixham)

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Thomson,
Francis Ninian
F.N. Thomson

Son of ... Thomson, and ... Sievwright.

(12?).1919
Islington, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
22.07.2007

T/S.Lt.	31.01.1941
T/Lt.	01.06.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

19.12.1944

Coastal Forces action Nore 18.09.1944 [investiture 06.03.1945]

18.04.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich) (for anti-submarine striking force convoy duties)
28.05.1942	-	(08.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MGB 89 [HMS Minos II, from 07.1942 HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
24.11.1943	-	(10.1944)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 728 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Thomson,
George Walker
G.W. Thomson

1922
Morningside district, Scotland
-
2005
Edinburgh district, Scotland

T/A/S.Lt.	24.06.1943
T/S.Lt.	24.12.1943
T/Lt.	01.01.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC

24.07.1945

Normandy (06.1944) & Walcheren (11.1944) [decoration posted]

Education: George Watson's College, Edinburgh (...-1940).

24.06.1943	-	(07.)1945	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for major landing craft):
(06.1944)	-	(11.1944)	Squadron Signals Officer, Landing Craft Assault (LCA) Squadron (DSC)
(10.1945)			HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *
03.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

Selector and member of the Scottish Rugby Union Committee (President, 1982-1983).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Thomson,
Isaac
I. Thomson (Photo courtesy of Mr John F. Crawford)

Married ((09?).1942, Swansea district, Glamorgan) Winifred M. Chapple; one son.
Of Town Hill, Swansea, Glamorgan.
[In Navy List shown, erroneously, under last name Thompson.]

11.10.1916
-
11.06.1944
(MPK) [age 27]
[Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 4, column 2]

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

27.05.1943

			temporary officer serving under T.124T (Rescue Tugs) Agreement:
27.05.1943	-	(11.)1943	HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) (for duty with rescue tugs)
20.11.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton):
(12.1943)			HMS Superman (rescue tug)
01.03.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) (for duty with rescue tugs)
01.04.1944	-	11.06.1944	HMS Marshal Soult (trawler base, Portsmouth) (for rescue tugs):
?	-	11.06.1944	HMS Sesame (Assurance class tug) (ship sunk by German E-boat off Normandy)

Thomson,
John Edward Burrell
J.E.B. Thomson

Son of Lt.Col. Wilfred Burrell Thomson, RAMC, MRCS.

25.02.1906
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
18.08.1972
Truro, Cornwall
[buried at Feock Church, Feock, Cornwall]

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	04.01.1943, seniority 10.11.1942 (reld < 04.1946)

Education: Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset.

17.07.1944	-	(01.1945)	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for Thames Local Defence Flotilla)
(07.1945)			HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) *

Banker who joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in England. He first worked in London and was then sent to France (Lyons and Tours), then to Bombay, India (he was living in Bombay in 1933), then to Penang in Malaya, then Singapore, then to Shanghai, China and finally finished as Chief Manager for Thailand (Bangkok). He retired at roughly 55 years of age and then lived in North Devon and Cornwall.

Thomson,
John Harry Frederick
J.H.F. Thomson (Photo courtesy of Harriet Thomson)

Son of ... Thomson, and ... Brooker.
Married (12.09.1936, St. Augustine's Church, Battle district, Sussex) Helena Kate McGaw (19.09.1914 - 06.1998); ... children (one son?).

19.11.1913
Croydon district, Surrey
-
(08?.)1970
Hastings district, Sussex

T/S.Lt.	20.09.1940
T/Lt.	20.09.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1944, < 04.1944 (reld 26.07.1944; medically unfit)

	DSC	16.03.1943	Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 08.11.1942) (as SFO [= SOFC, Senior Officer Ferry Craft?]) [investiture 21.03.1944]]
	MID	02.10.1942	Operation Jubilee (raid on Dieppe 19.08.1942)

(12.1940)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
18.12.1940	-	(04.)1941	HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry)
04.1941	-	(08.)1941	HMS Princess Beatrix (landing ship infantry (medium)) (DSC, despatches) **
12.09.1941	-	26.07.1943	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCT (landing craft, tank) duty) **
27.07.1943	-	26.07.1944	HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary), from 01.1944? HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)

Banker.
* indexed, but not listed as such
** probably longer serving at HMS Princess Beatrix [until 07.1943?], although "borne on the books" of HMS Dinosaur from 09.1941

Thomson,
Roy William
R.W. Thomson

(09?).1906 ?
Holborn district, London / Middlesex ?
-

T/Lt.

29.01.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

29.01.1940	-	(04.)1940	HMS Fervent (RN base, Ramsgate)
06.1940			skipper of little ship "Dab II" during the Dunkirk evacuation
25.07.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Racer (RN base, Larne)
09.06.1941	-	(06.)1944	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
09.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)

Thorburn,
William Douglas
W.D. Thorburn

21.12.1907
Catsle Ward district, Northumberland
-
11.1995
Northumberland Central district

Prob. S.Lt.	?
S.Lt.	22.07.1932
Lt.	22.07.1935
Lt.Cdr.	22.07.1943 (demobilized < 04.1946)
Cdr.	30.06.1947
Capt.	30.06.1954 (retd 01.01.1960) (reinstated on active list of Permanent RNR 01.04.1964) (re-placed on retired list 17.10.1966)

CBE	01.01.1966	New Year 66
VRD	12.04.1945	?
VRD	?	?

05.11.1939	-	(08.1942)	HMS Valiant (battleship)
27.04.1943	-	(07.1945)	an Assistant to Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
01.06.1958	-	31.12.1959	RNVR ADC to the Queen

Deputy Lieutenant, Northumberland, 05.07.1971.

Thornber,
Harold
H. Thornber (Photo courtesy of Robin Fowler)

?
-
?

T/S.Lt.	09.10.1941
T/Lt.	09.01.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	12.10.1943? (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

(12.1941)	-	(10.1943)	no appointment listed
12.10.1943	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(1944/45?)			Flotilla Officer, 110th LCT Flotilla ("O" LCT Squadron) (landing craft, tank)

Thornber,
Harold Holden
H.H. Thornber

Married ((09?).1959, Preston district, Lancashire) Barbara Cookson Thistlethwaite (12.11.1932 - 24.09.2004).

08.05.1921
Blackburn, Lancashire
-
28.07.2008
Beardwood Hospital, Blackburn, Lancashire
[age 87]

T/S.Lt. (A)	11.07.1942
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	14.07.1944, seniority 22.05.1944
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.05.1946
Lt. (Sp.Br.)	22.08.1955
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	22.08.1963 (retd 08.05.1979)

	VRD	08.07.1966	-
	VRD	06.06.1978	1st clasp

Education: BSc.

1941			serving at Eastleigh
09.1941			HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
10.09.1942	-	(10.)1942	observer, 772 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
05.10.1942	-	(10.)1943	observer, 831 Squadron FAA (at Crail, Lee-on-Solent, Hatston & Machrihanish, from 03.1943 HMS Indomitable, from 05.1943 Lee-on-Solent) [ditched into the sea, 16.08.1943]
21.10.1943	-	(04.)1944	Air Signals Officer, HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
23.05.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
16.06.1944	-	(07.)1945	Operations Duty Officer, HMS Hasdrubal (RN base, Salerno/Taranto)
16.07.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta, as Operations Officer at Halfar)
22.08.1955			joined Permanent RNVR (Mersey Division), later RNR

Former warden of Blackburn Cathedral.

Thornley,
Josiah
J. Thornley

Son (with one sister) of John Andrew Thornley (1879-1955), and Matilda Denton (1880-1924).
Married ((09?).1942, Oldham district, Lancashire) Dorothy Kent; one son, one daughter.

24.07.1918
Prestwich district, Lancashire
-
12.1997
Whitehaven district, Cumberland

T/El.S.Lt.	12.10.1942
T/El.Lt.	24.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: Oldham Technical College.
Served Local Defence Volunteers (LDV).

(12.1942)			HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) *
14.12.1942	-	(12.1943)	French Ship "Paris" (independent base for small craft, Plymouth) (for trawler maintenance duties)
26.01.1944	-	(02.)1944	HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)
13.03.1944	-	(10.)1944	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)]
12.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Golden Hind (manning depot, Sydney, NSW) (for Royal Marines Training Barracks)
(04.1946)			HMS Golden Hind (manning depot, Sydney, NSW)

* indexed, but not listed as such
FIEE, MIERE, MSIT. Group Engineer (Instruments) (1952-1957), then Works Engineer (Instruments) (1957-[1970 still], Production Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Sellafield, Seascale, Cumberland). Professional interest: instrumentation & control.

Thornton,
Charles Clifford
C.C. Thornton

Son of Charles Richard Thornton, and Emily Woodford.
Married; ... children.

(09?).1916
Lewisham district, London
-
17.08.2010

Prob. S.Lt. (A)	28.02.1939
S.Lt. (A)	1940?, seniority 28.02.1939
Lt. (A)	29.07.1941
Lt. (A) RN	04.03.1946, seniority 29.07.1941
Lt.Cdr. RN	29.07.1949 (retd 29.03.1958)

MID

11.05.1943

attempted escape from the French

28.02.1939			joined RNVR (London Division) - List 2
08.1940	-	08.02.1941	pilot, 830 Squadron [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] [failed to return after a bombing trip to Tripoli Harbour; crashed near Garzi; captured]
08.11.1942	-	1943	POW in French captivity
29.05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Ajax (cruiser)
19.06.1945	-	(07.1945)	Fighter Direction Officer, HMS Nighthawk (RN Air Station, Drem, East Lothian)
04.03.1946			transferred, RN (Air Branch) [extended service commission]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed
(07.1948)			no appointment listed
17.02.1949	-	(05.)1949	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)
22.09.1949			permanent commission, RN (Executive Branch)
19.10.1949	-	(05.1950)	HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (for miscellaneous duties)
(05.1953)			HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hampshire) *
07.07.1953	-	(07.)1954	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry)
10.11.1954	-	(01.1956)	HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta)
(01.1957)			HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Londonderry) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

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Thornton,
Francis Anthony
F.A. Thornton (Photo courtesy of Mr M.J. Alston)

?
-

T/S.Lt.	23.10.1941
T/Lt.	27.12.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

(12.1941)			no appointment listed
22.12.1941	-	(12.1943)	HMS Middleton (destroyer)
19.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Stork (sloop)
(04.1946)			HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Thornton,
George Arthur
G.A. Thornton

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	1943?
T/S.Lt.	25.12.1943
T/Lt.	25.12.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

15.11.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lochy (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Thornton,
Hugh Douglas
H.D. Thornton

?
-
1995

T/Lt.	28.10.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	1945? (reld 1945/46)

MBE

11.12.1945

wind up (Europe 45)

		joined RNVR
		trained at Greenwich and after a brief period as a gunner, became a Hydrographic Surveyor
		served originally in W Africa out of Freetown and then went to Greek islands etc in command of a 72' ML
1944		lent to the 8th Army in Italy
05.1945	-	Commanding Officer, ML1005 (Adriatic), working behind German lines at times, Venice

Civilian career in banking.

Thorp,
David Sugden
D.S. Thorp

?
-
06.2003

T/Lt.

01.03.1942

	DSC	08.09.42	Malta convoy 22.03.42
	MID	26.05.42	action Italian cruisers 12.12.41

(12.1941)

(03.1942)

HMS Legion

Thorp,
Thomas Blundell
T.B. Thorp, 1944 (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

Son of Henry Thorp (1876-), and Martha Blundell (1878-).
Married ((09?).1931. North Manchester district, Lancashire) Violet Fletcher (18.01.1911 - (06?).1980); one son.
Address: (1960s) Hawthorns, Mains Lane, Little Singleton, nr Blackpool.

30.09.1903
Manchester, Lancashire
-
11.1986
Banbury, Oxfordshire

T/A/S.Lt.	11.06.1943
T/S.Lt.	11.12.1943 (reld 26.04.1946)

Education: Manchester Grammar School (1916-1920; Foundation Scholarship).
Bank official, Williams Deacon's Bank Ltd.

(08.1943)	-	(10.1943)	no appointment listed
13.11.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Cranstoun (frigate)
18.03.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)
25.07.1944	-	(07.)1945	Gunnery Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer)
1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) [date of appointment incorrectly shown as 18.03.1944]

Thorpe,
Harold Arthur
H.A. Thorpe

Son of Otto Fred Thorpe (1885-?), invalided from the Royal Field Artillery
(Territorial Force) in 1916-17, and Nellie Ellen Ancell.

19.11.1917
Brighton, Sussex
-
11.1995
Brighton, Sussex

T/S.Lt.	11.11.1944
T/Lt. ?	1946? (reld > 04.1946)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	-
It St	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-

11.05.1944

(04.1946)

HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)

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Thorpe,
James Athole *
I.A. Thorpe

* first names in the Navy List initially given as: Innes Athole

?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt.	03.05.1940
T/Lt.	03.05.1941 (reld < 04.1946)

MBE

19.05.1942

salvage Lucellum 19.12.41 [investiture 07.07.42]

29.06.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Coila (armed yacht)
(12.1941)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Senateur Duhamel"
(08.1942)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French Ship "Le Lavandou" (chasseur)
05.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Kilham (escort)

Thorpe,
Thomas Adrian
T.A. Thorpe

?
-

T/S.Lt.	17.01.1941
T/Lt.	17.01.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

CdeG

Dieppe raid 19.08.42

Citation from a Norwegian decoration reads: “He served as Royal Navy Liaison Officer with the 30 Norwegian MTB Flotilla from 12 October 1942 until 24 September 1943. During this period he displayed a true sense of objectivity that was almost unique, in that he to some extent went against the opinion of his own superior officers in favour of the Norwegian point of view. He always did excellent work for Norway, and with his good spirits always seemed to get things moving.”

14.02.1941	-	(10.)1941	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
(12.1941)	-	(10.1942)	no appointment listed
(08.1942)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French patrol vessel "Chasseur 43"
12.10.1942	-	(08.)1943	HMS Fox (RN base, Lerwick, Shetlands)
12.10.1942	-	24.09.1943	British Naval Liaison Officer, 30th Norwegian MTB Flotilla
(10.1943)			no appointment listed
12.1943	-	(10.)1944	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)
10.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)

Threlkeld,
James Monteith
J.M. Threlkeld

Son of Frank Threlkeld (1882-1938), and Mary Monteith (1887-1948).
Married ((03?).1945, Manchester district, Lancashire) Lilian Payne.

23.05.1921
Carlisle, Cumberland
-
08.09.2012
Duxford, Cambridgeshire

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	14.03.1942
T/S.Lt. (A)	23.05.1942
T/Lt. (A)	01.07.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

DSC

01.01.1944

New Year 44 [investiture 16.03.45]

15.04.1942	-	(06.)1942	acting observer, 775 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
06.1942	-	(10.1944)	observer, 815 Squadron FAA [based at HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) at some point] (DSC)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
09.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	instructional staff, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) (for observer duties)

Veterinary surgeon (DVSM, MRCVS). Qualified in London, 30.06.1950.

Thurland,
Arthur William George
A.W.G. Thurland

Son of Harry Crozier Thurland, and Frances E. Wheeler.

19.09.1912
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
01.1991
Ealing district, London

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	?
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	19.09.1942 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR	27.12.1951
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR	27.12.1959 (retd 19.09.1972)

VRD

20.05.1966

01.04.1942	-	(01.)1945	on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)]
(07.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *

President, Brentham Cricket Club, 1961-1970 (Honorary Secretary, 1948-1950; Life Vice-President, 1971).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tibbs,
Geoffrey Michael Graydon
G.M.G. Tibbs

Son of Rev. Geoffrey Wilberforce Tibbs (1883-1957), and Margaret Florence "Madge" Skinner (1896-1952).
Married (13.10.1951, Midhurst district, Sussex) Anne Rosemary Wortley (22.08.1932 - 06.09.2019); two sons.

21.11.1921
Ewell, Epsom district, Surrey
-
04.10.2024
Linchmere, Haslemere district, Surrey

Ord.Sea.	09.1940
T/Midsh.	26.06.1941
T/A/S.Lt.	21.11.1941
T/S.Lt.	21.11.1942
T/Lt.	21.05.1944 (reld 21.06.1946)

	OBE	31.12.1986	New Year 1987
	MID	19.06.1945	war patrols Far East 04.1944-02.1945

Education: Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire.

09.1940			enlisted RNVR
09.1940	-	12.1940	HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire)
12.1940	-	05.1941	HMS Cottesmore (Hunt class destroyer)
?	-	?	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(07.1941)			no appointment listed
22.07.1941	-	02.1943	HMS Sheffield (Southampton class cruiser)
(04.1943)	-	(08.1943)	HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) *
05.09.1943	-	(01.)1945	Navigating Officer, HMS Tantalus (T class submarine) (despatches)
(04.1945)	-	(07.)1945	HMS Tantalus (T class submarine) *
12.07.1945	-	(10.1945)	First Lieutenant, HMS Varne (V class submarine)
(04.1946)			HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire) *

Studied geography at Oxford University, before becoming a member of the Sudan Political Service (1949-1950 Assistant District Commissioner, El Obeid, Kordofan; 1950 Seconded to Middle East Centre for Arab Studies; 1951-1953 Assistant District Commissioner El Obeid / Nahud, Kordofan; 1953-1955 Assistant District Commissioner Rigel El Fula, Kordofan; 1955 Retired from Sudan service). Manager at the Automobile Association, and later secretary of the Royal College of Physicians for 18 years, for which he was appointed OBE.
Published: A Sudan sunset (1999; with Anne Tibbs); "Hello lad, come to join the Navy?" (2013).
* indexed, but not listed as such

Ticehurst,
Gordon Leslie
G.L. Ticehurst (Photo courtesy of Mr Robert Briggs)

Son of William Ticehurst (1893-1969), and Elizabeth Annie Pearce (1896-1994), of West Worthing, Sussex.

(12?).1921
Hailsham district, Sussex
-
30.03.1944
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 88, column 1] (formerly of West Worthing, Sussex)

T/Midsh.	01.05.1941
T/A/S.Lt.	24.10.1941
T/S.Lt.	24.10.1942
T/Lt.	01.01.1944

MID

12.10.1943

destruction Italian submarine Ascianghi 23.07.1943 *

* HMS Newfoundland was torpedoed at 1338 on 23rd July 1943. HMS Laforey started a search for the submarine, being joined by the 8th Destroyer Flotilla at 1440. At 1541 the submarine fired torpedoes at Laforey, who with HMS Eclipse carried out five counterattacks which brought the submarine (Italian S/M Ascianghi) to the surface at 1615. This Officer as Gunnery Control Officer in the Director Control Tower opened a heavy and accurate fire on the submarine at the moment it surfaced. Hits were quickly obtained and the submarine was finally sunk by gunfire due to this Officer's calmness and efficiency.

(06.1941)			no appointment listed
01.06.1941	-	(12.)1941	HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)
06.12.1941	-	30.03.1944	HMS Laforey (L class destroyer) (despatches) [ship sunk by U-Boat U223]

Tilley,
William
W. Tilley (Photo courtesy of Mr David William Tilley)

Son of ... Tilley, and ... Guy.
Married (09.1939, Dorchester, Dorset) Hannah Mary Clark; two daughters, two sons.

12.1912
Dorchester, Dorset
-
08.1982
Isle of Man

T/S.Lt. (E)	23.03.1941
T/Lt. (E)	23.03.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)	01.1944? (reld 09.05.1946)

DSC

25.08.1942

Operation Ironclad (assault & capture of Diego Suarez 05.42) [decoration posted]

(04.1941)			no appointment listed
13.05.1941	-	(02.)1942	HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inverary)
23.03.1942	-	(10.1942)	HMS Quebec (Combined training centre, Inverary) [aboard troopship HMS Karanja for Operation Ironclad 05.1942 (DSC)]
(12.1942)	-	(12.1943)	HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay) *
01.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Braganza II (administrative & maintenance staff of Combined Operations & Dockyard, Bombay, India)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
(01.1945)			HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) *
05.02.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole, Dorset)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tillie,
Arnold Bertram Kingsley
A.B.K. Tillie

Son of ... Tillie, and ... Royle.

03.03.1918
Kensington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
10.1997
Hastings and Rother, East Sussex

T/Lt.

MID

22.01.1946

St. Nazaire raid 28.03.42

(03.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM ML 268 (motor launch)

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Timms,
Roderick James Weston
"Rod"
R.J.W. Timms

Youngest of six children of Ernest Tom Timms, a local chemist in Sandgate, and Florence May Vincent.
Married (23.06.1945, St Paul's Church, Sandgate) Ldg. Wren Winifred Jean Pilcher (22.10.1916 - 05.10.1983); one son, one daughter (twins).

22.03.1921
Elham district, Kent
-
04.07.2003
Lewes, Sussex

Ord.Sig.	11.09.1941
Ord.Sea.	02.10.1941
Ldg.Sea. (Coxsw.)	20.02.1942
T/A/S.Lt.	23.03.1943
T/S.Lt.	26.09.1943
T/Lt.	29.04.1945 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt.	15.12.1961, seniority 18.09.1959
Lt. (Sp.Br.)	02.12.1966, seniority 18.09.1959
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	18.09.1967 (retd 22.03.1983)

39\|45 St	-	-
Atl St	-	& clasp France & Germany
Def M	-	-
WM 39\|45	-	-
MID	19.06.1945	action E-boats Nore 07.04.45
RD	07.03.1972	-
RD	27.09.1983	1st clasp

Worked as junior draughtsman for the Folkestone Electricity Supply Company, meanwhile serving in the Home Guard.

11.09.1941	-	09.10.1941	training, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness)
10.10.1941	-	04.12.1941	training, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)
05.12.1941	-	07.01.1942	HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)
08.01.1942	-	15.01.1942	training, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire)
16.01.1942	-	21.02.1942	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) [served at motor launches HM ML 133, ML 136, ML 276 & ML 369]
22.02.1942	-	12?.1942	HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)
09.03.1942	-	12.1942	HM ML 345 (motor launch) [8th ML Flotilla] (Brightlingsea, from 15.05.1942 Yarmouth, from 04.06.1942 Stornoway & Tobermory)
12.1942	-	29.01.1943	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)
30.01.1943	-	10.04.1943	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Lancing & Hove, Sussex)
11.04.1943	-	02.05.1943	RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
03.05.1943	-	05.1943	gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
05.1943	-	21.05.1943	torpedo course, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton)
22.05.1943	-	04.07.1943	MTB & MGB courses, HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) [sailing in HM MTB 51, MTB 152 & MTB 165, and HM MGB 93]
05.07.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover), from 24.01.1944 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] (for miscellaneous services)
07.07.1943	-	19.09.1943	Spare Officer, HM MGB 118 (motor gun boat) (Ramsgate) [9th MGB Flotilla]
20.09.1943	-	11.06.1944	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 448 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
18.06.1944			First Lieutenant, HM MTB 450 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
05.12.1944	-	28.05.1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 482 (motor torpedo boat) [35th MTB Flotilla]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Walrus (aircraft transporter) *
15.12.1961	-	22.03.1983	Permanent RNR

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tippett,
Jack William
J.W. Tippett

Residence: (1945) Blaengwynfi, Glamorgan, South Wales.

03.08.1916
Neath district, Wales
-

...	...
T/El.Lt.	03.08.1941

Pre-war apprenticeship & motor sales department, Metro-Vicks, Manchester.

			general degaussing duties, including Suez & Alexandria
...	-	...	...
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)

Titcombe,
Douglas Harold
D.H. Titcombe

Son of William Edwin Titcombe, and Clara Bessie Mallett.
Married Doreen (née ...); three sons.

(09?).1916
Crediton district, Devon
-
03.10.2007
Southampton General Hospital
[age 91]

T/S.Lt.	10.07.1941
T/Lt.	10.07.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

DSC

14.06.1945

HM's birthday 45 [decoration posted]

04.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)
20.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM ML 198 (motor launch)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Tittensor,
Victor Dudley

Son of Alfred Tittensor (1882-1970), and Emma Birkin (1878-1946).
Married ((06?).1940, Evesham district, Worcestershire) Gwendoline Edith Kyte (26.09.1916 - 09.07.1997); three sons, one daughter.

17.05.1916
Broadway, Evesham district, Worcestershire
-
14.06.1989
Ronkswood, Worcester district, Worcestershire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	11.09.1941
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	11.09.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	> 10.1945, < 04.1946 (reld 03.07.1946)

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

30.09.1941	-	(12.1943)	HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
08.02.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)

His son writes: "Served on HMS Hesperus and later Fleet Air Arm and air traffic control in Colombo."

Titterington,
David William Michael
D.W.M. Titterington

1924 ?
-

T/S.Lt.

02.12.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

1944?			HMS Pennywort (corvette)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
08.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Woolloomooloo (RN repair base, Sydney, NSW) (for duty with MFVs and tugs)

Todd,
Alexander
A. Todd (Photo courtesy of Mr John Robertson)

23.10.1900
Liverpool, Lancashire
-
16.02.1954
Liverpool, Lancashire

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	05.01.1944
T/A/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	01.09.1944? (reld < 04.1946)

01.09.1944

(07.1945)

HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (for sea transport duties, Algiers)

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Todd,
Donald Charles Ernest
D.C.E. Todd

Son of Ernest Todd, and ... Taylor.
Married (12.04.1947) Ruth Mary ...; three sons, one daughter.

06.03.1920
Croydon district, London
-
31.10.1998
South Africa

T/A/S.Lt.	21.01.1941
T/S.Lt.	06.03.1941
T/Lt.	01.04.1942 (reld > 04.1946)

Education: Whitgift School.

21.01.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Ascania (armed merchant cruiser)
12.01.1942	-	(08.)1943	French Ship "Emile Baudot"
14.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Ubiquity (cable ship depot, Trinity Road, Edinburgh)
(01.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *
04.05.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee, Ceylon)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Emigrated to South Africa, 1946. Director of companies, retiring 1981, after which he acted as consultant. Honorary Consul for Sweden in Natal, 1962-1970 (Knight of the Order of Vasa, Sweden). Associate, Institution of South African Shipbrokers.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tolkien,
John Eric
J.E. Tolkien

Son of John Henry Archibald Tolkien (1880-1973), and Ella Doris Macgregor (1888-1988).
Married ((09?).1956, Essex South Western district, Essex) Eunice Mary Stephenson ((09?).1928 - 15.10.2015), daughter of ... Stephenson, and ... Wilson; one daughter.

29.03.1923
Plymouth, Devonshire
-
27.05.2011
Reading, Berkshire

T/El.Midsh. (prob)	17.01.1944
T/El.S.Lt.	23.02.1945
T/El.Lt.	23.02.1947 (reld 30.05.1949)
Lt. (L)	11.12.1949
Lt.Cdr. (L)	11.12.1957
Cdr. (L)	30.06.1963
Capt (L)	? (removed from active list 17.06.1972) (retd 30.06.1973)

VRD

11.05.1965

02.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for miscellaneous duties)
26.05.1944	-	(08.)1944	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
(10.1944)			HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) *
(01.1945)			HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) *
19.02.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire)
(04.1946)			HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) *
03.06.1946	-	(10.)1946	Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty at Ministry of Supply)
29.10.1946	-	(10.1948)	HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Abingdon)
11.12.1949			Permanent RNVR (Southern Air Division) [from 1958 RNR]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tomalin,
Edward Alfred
"Eddie" / "Tommy"
E.A. Tomalin (Photo courtesy of John Tomalin)

Son of Alfred Arthur "Tom" Tomalin (1878-1943), and Elizabeth Jessie "Winifred" Barnes (1878-1930).
Married 1st (25.08.1934, Salcombe Regis, Sidmouth, Devon) Maud Doris Lancaster (30.12.1909 - 01.03.1993); two daughters, one son.
Married 2nd (1961, Honiton, Devon) Mildred Swan (29.04.1921 - 01.02.2001).

13.09.1901
Paddington, London
-
27.04.1984
Salcombe Regis, Sidmouth, Devon

T/S.Lt. (E)	15.06.1942
T/Lt. (E)	15.11.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E)	> 01.1945, < 04.1945 (reld 25.07.1946)

Chief Engineer with Rolls Royce Motors.

15.06.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services)
01.09.1942	-	(12.1942)	HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary)
01.01.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Armadillo (Combined Operations camp, Glenfinnart)
13.05.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for MLC [Major Landing Craft] Squadron duties)
(04.1946)			HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole, Dorset) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tomlinson,
Derek Arthur Grose
W. Tomlinson

Son of Leslie Grose Tomlinson (1901-), and Winifred Mary Swann (1900-), of Betley, Staffordshire.

(06?).1924
Newcastle under Lyme district, Staffordshire
-
17.11.1944
Garstang district, Lancashire
(air crash) [age 20]
[Inskip (St Peter) Churchyard, Lancashire, sec. O, grave 16]

T/S.Lt. (A)

05.08.1944

30.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) (for FFD [= full flying duties?] and training)
?	-	17.11.1944	navigator, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire)]

Tomlinson,
Wilfred
W. Tomlinson

?
-
?

Prob. T/S.Lt.	25.11.1940
T/L	25.02.1941 (commission terminated 21.03.1944; medically unfit)

DSC

30.07.42

attacked by 6 Me 109's 04.06.1942 [investiture 17.11.1942]

(02.1941)	-	(04.1941)	no appointment listed
03.05.1941	-	(06.)1942	HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven):
(06.1942)			Commanding Officer, HM ML 137 (motor launch) (DSC)
(08.1942)	-	(08.1943)	no appointment listed
30.08.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent] (additional; for various services)

Tommey *,
John Mervyn
J.M. Tommey (Photo courtesy of Mr J.M. Tommey)

Son of Alfred Davies Tummey (1898-1974), and Hannah Dunn (1901-1959).
Married ((09?).1950, Ross district, Herefordshire) Pamella M. Martin (? - 2016?); two sons, one daughter.
* The family changed last name from Tummey to Tommey, c. 1945.

16.12.1924
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
-
24.02.2020
Upton Bishop

T/Midsh.	29.10.1943
T/A/S.Lt.	16.06.1944
T/S.Lt.	16.12.1944 (reld 05.10.1946)

Awarded the Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur from the French Embassy in November 2019 for his bravery on the run up to D-Day when he and fellow midshipman were tasked with defusing enemy mines under cover of darkness off the Normandy Beaches.

(12.1943)			no appointment listed
09.01.1944	-	(06.)1944	HMS Apollo (Manxman class minelayer)
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
26.10.1944	-	(07.)1945	HMS Wolsey (Thornycroft W class destroyer)
29.10.1945	-	(07.)1946	HMS Magpie (modified Black Swan class sloop)

Tompkins,
Sidney Alfred
S.A. Tompkins

(03?).1895 ?
Marylebone district, London / Middlesex ?
-

T/Capt. (Sp.Br.)

17.01.1945

MBE

01.01.1948

New Year 48: for services as Deputy Controller, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Western Europe

(07.1945)

(04.1946)

VD ? *

* indexed as "VD", without explanation what it is; "Victualling Department", perhaps?; he was associated with the NAAFI

Toner,
John Stannard
J.S. Toner

Son of ... Toner, and ... Stannard.
From Saffron Walden.

30.03.1918
Bishops Stortford district, Essex / Hertfordshire
-
06.1988
Chelmsford district, Essex

T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	24.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. (A) RN	1946?, seniority 24.09.1943 (emgcy 26.10.1949) (removed from emcgy 18.02.1950)

	DSC	18.07.1944	Operation FY (North Russian convoy 03-04.44) [investiture 13.11.45]
	DSC	07.08.1945	Operation Judgement (air strike in U-boat base at Kilbotn, Norway 04.05.45) [investiture 13.11.45]

01.04.1943	-	(05.1945)	pilot, 846 Squadron FAA [HMS Tracker (escort carrier), later HMS Trumpeter (escort carrier)]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) *
1946?			transferred to RN (air Branch)
01.01.1947	-	(07.1948)	pilot, 703 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
14.01.1949	-	(05.1949)	HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth)

Post-war a medical practitioner in Essex.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tonge,
Harold
H. Tonge

Son of ... Tonge, and ... Morris.

22.03.1920
Bolton district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire
-
01.1999
Whitehaven district, Cumberland

?	? [JX 206892]
T/S.Lt.	27.11.1942
T/Lt.	22.03.1945

MID

01.01.1946

New Year 46

			served as a rating
15.10.1943	-	(10.1944)	First Lieutenant, HMS Harlech Castle (minesweeping trawler)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
(1945)			HMS Arkwright (minesweeping trawler) [based at HMS Helicon (RN base, Aultbea) ?]
02.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for disposal)

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Tongue,
James David Cowley
J.D.C. Tongue

1911 ?
-
12.07.1992 ?
South Africa ?

S.Lt. SSRNVR	28.06.1939
T/Lt.	03.06.1942, seniority 29.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 02.1944 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr. MRNVR	1950s?, seniority 29.09.1948

	DSO	25.08.1942	HMS Hua tong sunk by Japanese aircracft [Spre?] 02.42 [investiture 09.02.43]
	MID	10.07.1945	operations Arakan coast 11.44-03.45

(04.1940)	-	(02.1941)	HMS Kampar *
(12.1941)	-	02.1942	HMS Hua Tong *
03.06.1942			transferred, RNVR
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
(10.1942)	-	(12.1942)	HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) *
(02.1943)			HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) *
01.03.1943	-	(04.)1943	HMS Landguard (escort)
20.04.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS James Cook (Combined Operations training establishment, Glen Caladh, nr Tignabruich)
(04.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Grecian (Catherine class minesweeper) *
(10.1944)			no appointment listed
10.1944	-	(04.)1945	Navigating Officer, HMS Protector (as Staff Officer (Navigation) to Commander Force 64)
(07.1945)			HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) *

Retired 1958 as Federation's Assistant Chief Education Adviser (Technical), after 20 years' service in Straits Settlements, later Malaya.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Tonkin,
Raymond Philip
R.P. Tonkin

Son of ... Tonkin, and ... Woodall.

23.04.1920
West Ham district, Essex / Greater London
-
11.2005
Poynings, Horsham district, Sussex

T/Lt.	12.08.1944
Lt.Cdr.	12.08.1952 (retd)

DSC

21.08.1945

attack enemy convoy [G?] Venice 04.45

11.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 408 (motor torpedo boat)
10.11.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)

Post-war he was a member of the RNVR Newhaven Detachment of HMS Sussex for several years.

Toogood,
Lawrence Edson
L.E. Toogood

Son of ... Toogood, and ... Johnson.

(03?).1918
Knaresborough district, Yorkshire - West Riding
-
24.04.1944
(KIA) [age 26]

T/Lt.

Commanding Officer, HM MTB 671 (motor torpedo boat)

Topham,
Geoffrey George
G.G. Topham

25.04.1921
-
26.12.2006
Poole, Dorset

Prob. Midsh. (A)	20.01.1939
A/S.Lt. (A)	28.04.1940
S.Lt. (A)	25.04.1942
Lt. (A)	28.10.1942 (reld 30.11.1945; medically unfit)

20.01.1939			joined RNVR (London Division) (List 2)
20.01.1939	-	(05.)1939	HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
15.05.1939	-	(08.)1939	observers' course [HMS Victory]
(09.1939)	-	(02.1940)	no appointment listed
23.02.1940	-	27.08.1940	observer, 820 Squadron FAA
28.04.1940	-	10.06.1941	observer, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [air attack of German battleship "Bismarck"]
11.06.1941	-	28.10.1941	observer, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
29.10.1941	-	31.01.1942	observer, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney)]
01.02.1942	-	(12.)1942	observer, 820 Squadron FAA [HMS Formibable (aircraft carrier)]
04.12.1942	-	(06.)1944	HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika) (for observer duties)
25.06.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)
15.07.1945	-	(07.)1945	HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)

Towey,
John William
J.W. Towey (Photo courtesy of Mr Peter Towey)

Son (with one sister and two brothers) of John William Towey (1881-1942), and Charlotte Collins (1882-1963).
Married (16.08.1941, Raynes Park Parish Church, Surrey) Daisy Foley Freathy (15.06.1915 - 07.1987), daughter (with four brothers and one half-sister) of George Freathy (1884-1957), and Elizabeth Dow Reilly (1894-1969); one son.

11.01.1914
Paddington, London
-
17.10.1991
St George's Hospital, Tooting, Wandsworth district, London

T/A/S.Lt.	16.03.1944
T/S.Lt.	16.09.1944 (reld 07.08.1946)

Watchkeeping Certificate, 28.06.1946.

11.1943			enlisted RNVR
16.03.1944	-	(04.)1946	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
22.06.1944			arrived in the Mediterranean
05.08.1944	-	09.1945	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 356 (landing craft, tank)
06.01.1946	-	25.02.1946	Care and Maintenance Officer, HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole, Dorset)

Pre- & post-war service with HM Customs & Excise.

Towle,
Peter Frederic Harold
P.F.H. Towle

Son of ... Towle, and ... Hippisley.
Married ((03?).1951, Abingdon district, Berkshire) Kathleen M. Coates; ... children (one son?).

08.07.1923
Bromley district, London
-
13.12.1994
Milford-on-Sea, New Forest district, Hampshire

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	06.08.1943
T/S.Lt. (A)	06.02.1944 (reld 05.06.1946)

DSC

31.07.1945

Operation Iceberg (Sakishima Gunto Islands & Okinawa 03-05.1945) [decoration posted]

29.09.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) (additional; for full flying duties and training)
15.03.1944	-	(10.1945)	pilot, 820 Squadron FAA [at Lee-on-Solent, from 10.06.1944 HMS Indefatigable (Implacable class aircraft carrier)]
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Towndrow,
Thomas Austin
"Tom"
T.A. Towndrow

Second of seven sons of Austin Mears Towndrow (1884-1953), and Octavia Green (1891-1980).
Married (07.08.1948, Bexley, Kent) Violet Edith Lindley (11.11.1911-08.06.1975); two daughters, one step-son.

06.10.1914
Barnes
-
04.09.2006
Lymington, Hampshire

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

07.08.1942

CdeG

Education: East Sheen County School
Joined the Town Clerk's Department of Barnes Borough Council in 1933, at the same time joining Mortlake Sea Scout Group.

(06.1940)			captained small ship "Minotaur" (sea scout training craft) (Dunkirk)
19.03.1943	-	(10.1944)	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers/Taranto) (additional; for miscellaneous services)
			British Naval Liaison Officer, French battleship "Paris"
(05.1944)			British Naval Liaison Officer, French submarine "La Sultane"
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	HMS Flycatcher (RN Air Station, Middle Wallop, Hampshire) *

Solicitor. Local council official and enthusiastic leader of a sea scout troop on the Thames.
* indexed, but not listed as such

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Townsend,
[Sir] Leslie William

Son of Seaman Gunner William Bligh Townsend and Ellen (née Alford).
Married (1947) Ethel Marjorie Bennett (died 29.11.2007); one son, three daughters.

22.02.1924
-
13.01.1999
Portsmouth, Hampshire

T/A/Paym.S.Lt.	1943
T/Paym.S.Lt. = T/S.Lt. (S)	19.05.1944
T/A/Lt. (S)	< 07.1945
Lt. (S) RN	22.02.1948 ?, seniority 19.02.1947
A/Lt.Cdr. (S) RN	19.02.1955
Lt.Cdr. (S) RN	25.09.1956, seniority 19.02.1955
Cdr. (S) RN	31.12.1962
A/Capt. (S) RN	20.07.1967?
Capt. RN	30.06.1971
R.Adm. RN	07.01.1979 (retd 02.04.1982)

	KCVO	18.12.1981	?
	CBE	02.06.1973	HM's birthday 73

Education: Regent's Park School, Southampton

1942			joined RNVR
1942	-	1943	HMS Durban (cruiser)
01.03.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Spurwing (RN Air Station, Hastings, Sierra Leone)
?	-	(07.1945)	Captain's Secretary, HMS Astraea (RN base, Lagos, Nigeria)
03.12.1945	-	(04.1946)	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy)
1946			permanent commission RN
30.10.1947	-	(07.1948)	Captain's Secretary, HMS Liverpool (cruiser)
(1948/49?)	or	(1950/51?)	HMS Duke of York (battleship)
10.05.1949	-	(05.1950)	RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] (for duty in Commodore's office)
10.07.1951	-	(05.)1953	HMS Ceres (Supply and Secretariat training school at Wetherby, Yorkshire)
29.12.1953	-	(04.1955)	for duty in office of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
(01.1956)			no appointment listed
26.04.1956	-	1958	HMS Ceylon (cruiser)
(01.1959)			HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
27.11.1959	-	(07.1961)	Secretary to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President]
10.06.1962	-	(02.1964)	Secretary to Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean (NATO)
20.07.1967	-	1970	Secretary to Vice-Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty Board
1970	-	1971	Secretary to First Sea Lord
1971	-	1973	Military Assistant to Chief of Defence Staff
1974	-	1977	Military Assistant to Chairman of NATO Military Committee
1977			Director, Naval and WRNS Officers' Appointments
1979	-	1982	Defence Services Secretary

Member: Lord Chancellor's Panel of Independent Inspectors, 1982-1994; Lord Chancellor's Services Pensions Appeals Tribunal, 1985-1996.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Townsend,
Philip Maurice
P.M. Townsend (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

Only son of Aubrey Edward Townsend (1886-1919), and Nellie Lavinia Clarke (1888-1981).
Married ((12?).1944, Greenwich district, Kent) Ellen O'Brien; four children.

11.04.1912
St Pancras district, London
-
05.03.2003
Ashford with Shepway district, Kent

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	23.08.1941 (reld 12.10.1946)
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1945, < 04.1946
Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.) RNR	20.08.1963, seniority 13.07.1963
Lt.Cdr. RNR	10.08.1965, seniority 13.07.1963 (retd 11.04.1972)

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
29.08.1940	-	(09.)1940	HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
09.09.1940	-	(12.1942)	HMS Chesterfield (Town class destroyer)
(02.1943)			no appointment listed
24.03.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Crane (modified Black Swan class sloop)
(02.1944)			no appointment listed
03.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Peacock (modified Black Swan class sloop)
02.07.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)
03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)
30.08.1963	-	11.04.1972	Permanent RNR

A son writes: "He returned to his work as a commercial artist. I have my father's medals including one from Russia for his Atlantic convoy service and after his death I applied for and received his Arctic Star. After the war for a few years he did RNVR/RNR work and had a dormant post (e.g. Jamaica) which he would visit for exercises and I believe he helped write the handbook for convoys in the event of nuclear war."

Tozer,
George Clark
G.C. Tozer

From Bedford.

09.09.1907
-
(03?).1974
Ealing district, Middlesex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	19.01.1940
T/Lt.	19.04.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr.	< 08.1942

MID

07.11.1944

Operations Avalanche, Husky & Shingle

(04.1940)			HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
04.01.1941	-	(04.1941)	HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)
(07.1941)	-	(08.1941)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 45 (motor torpedo boat)
02.02.1942	-	(02.1943)	HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)
15.05.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Ulster Queen (auxiliary anti-aircraft ship)
?	-	(07.1945)	HMS Heron *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tracy,
Leslie Walter William
L.W.W. Tracy (Photo courtsey of Mr William Tracy)

Son of William Henry Tracy (1880-), and Viola Elizabeth Bryant.
Married (07.05.1948, Southampton, Hampshire) Margaret Louisa Keene; one son, one daughter.

30.07.1916
Madehurst, Westhampnett district, Sussex
-
20.10.2003
Southampton, Hampshire

T/A/S.Lt. (E)

01.10.1940, seniority 02.10.1939 (dispersal 29.03.1946) (reld 29.05.1946)

Trained as a cabinet maker, working at aircraft factories in Wembley, and then Hamble (Follands), as a jig maker. Served Cunard Line as a junior engineering officer for about 2 years (RMS Aquitania, and RMS Franconia on her world cruise in early 1939).

			temporary officer serving under T.124X agreements
09/10.1939?	-	28.05.1940	HMS Sona (armed yacht) (served on it as 4th Engineer for 8 months)
05.1940	-	21.11.1940	HMS Beauly (special service vessel) *
22.11.1940	-	17.12.1940	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool; additional)
18.12.1940	-	20.01.1941	HMS Corsair (armed yacht) [tender to HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)]
21.01.1941	-	29.07.1944	HMS Prince Leopold (landing ship, infantry) [initially tender to HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (as Watchkeeping Engineer Officer & Senior Fourth Engineer) (ship sunk)
30.07.1944	-	19.11.1944	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool; additional)
20.11.1944	-	18.02.1945	HMS Sainfoin (landing ship, infantry) [initially tender to HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)]
19.02.1945	-	28.02.1946	HMS Arbiter (escort carrier) (as Junior Third Engineer Officer) [except for 22.10.1945-15.11.1945]
01.03.1946	-	29.05.1946	HMS Mersey (T.124X depot, Liverpool; additional)

Went into business and built up a chain of about 20 furniture stores across central southern England between 1946 and 1968, when he sold that business and semi-retired. He retained a small finance company that he had set up in the 1950's, which he oversaw until his son took it over in 1984, and he also owned the majority of a property development company in Australia.
* His "flimsy" suggests date of appointment as being 10.05.1939. Should be 1940, though.

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Trafford,
Richard Randolph William Rawson
R.R.W.R. Trafford (Photo courtesy of Mr James Baxendale)

Son of Henry Randolph Trafford, J.P. and Bettina Maud Trafford, of Michaelchurch.

29.03.1907
Hereford, Herefordshire
-
18.01.1943
(KIA) [age 35]
[Michaelchurch Escley (St Michael) Churchyard, north of church]

T/S.Lt. (A)	1939
T/Lt. (A)	16.02.1940

12.1939	-	?	HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh, Southampton)
(04.1940)			Fleet Air Arm
1940/41			injured when he had to jump out of the third story of a burning building (probably from a hotel in Ayr, where he was stationed at the time), after which he was confined to training pilots
15.09.1940	-	(02.)1941	pilot, 828 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
17.11.1941	-	(12.1941)	pilot, 781 Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
13.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous services)
?	-	18.01.1943	killed when his plane caught fire and crashed near Oakhampton in Devon [returning from RNAS St Merryn (HMS Vulture) to RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron), the Naval Air Fighter School, he was flying a Fairey Fulmar II, serial number X8812 (coded 6F from its time on board HMS Victorious); in low visibility, the plane crashed into high ground on Dartmoor and burnt out a quarter of a mile west of Okehampton at Yelland Farm, Tanner Hill, Holdsworth Road]

Traill,
Terence Victor
T.V. Traill

1919 ?
-

Prob. T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) *	31.08.1942
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	31.08.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (Sp.Br.)	10.1945? (reld < 04.1946)

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

31.08.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties)
(08.1943)			Boom Defence Depot, Trincomalee [HMS Lanka] *
31.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties)
01.1945			British Naval Liaison Officer, HMNethS "Tromp" (light cruiser)
(10.1945)			HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Travis,
Kenneth Hibbert
K.H. Travis (Photo courtesy of Mrs Rita Kecskes)

From Southport.
Married; two children.

30.12.1913
Ashton-under-
Lyne, Lancashire
-
23.11.1993
British Columbia, Canada

Ord.Sea.	1940
T/S.Lt.	1941
T/Lt.	18.12.1942

	MID	26.12.1944	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)
	CdeG	-	Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)

1940			joined RNVR
(1940)			trained at HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Suffolk)
(1941)			HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
(1942)			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
01.04.1942	-	(08.)1942	HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional for various services)
15.08.1942	-	(06.)1943	HMS Agnes Wickfield (minesweeping trawler)
10.07.1943	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HM MMS 288 (motor minesweeper)

Emigrated to Canada, 1949.

Treble,
Maurice John
M.J. Treble

Son (with one brother and three sisters) of Arthur James Treble (1884-1958), and Gladys Victoria Tuxill (1896-1974).
Married (06.1943, East Ham, Essex) Elizabeth Winifred Hunter (30.07.1920 - 22.10.2014); ... children (one daughter?).

02.03.1921
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
-
02.10.2007
Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	12.03.1943
T/S.Lt. (A)	12.09.1943
Lt. (A)	12.09.1945 (reld 11.04.1946)

CBE

13.06.1981

HM's birthday 1981: lately Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade

Clerical officer (Ministry).

(04.1943)			no appointment listed
27.04.1943	-	(06.)1943	observer, 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)]
01.07.1943	-	(12.)1943	observer, 826 Squadron FAA
28.12.1943	-	(01.)1945	observer, 836 Squadron FAA
14.03.1945	-	(04.)1945	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services)
(07.1945)	-	(10.1945)	no appointment listed

Tree,
Arthur George
A.G. Tree

Son of Arthur R. Tree, and Gertrude A. Gillingham.
Married ((06?).1937, Eastbourne district, Sussex) Phyllis Mary Ellett, of Willingdon, Sussex.

(06?).1918
Chertsey district, Surrey
-
06.08.1941
(KIA) [age 23]
[Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany, 12.D.5]

T/S.Lt.

24.04.1941

(06.1941)	-	(08.1941)	no appointment listed
?	-	06.08.1941	HMS Agate (trawler) [part of the Royal Navy’s escort flotilla with convoy FS559 when she ran aground, becoming a total loss, on Haisborough Sands with a loss of all sixteen crewman]

Trelawny,
Ian Clarence
I.C. Trelawny

Eldest son (with two brothers & two sisters) of Capt. Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawny, RN, and Barbara Cecil Carus-Wilson (died 1976).
Married 1st (23.09.1939) Mary Ethel Eyles (b. 1914/15), the daughter of Edgar Frank Eyles, theatrical manager (divorced).
Married 2nd (12.10.1946) WREN Angela June Wilkinson (b. 1923/4), the daughter of Dr James Howard Wilkinson, medical practitioner; one son, three daughters.

17.01.1917
Edinburgh, Scotland
-
22.04.1998
St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich, Suffolk

T/S.Lt.	01.11.1940
T/Lt.	17.01.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	24.01.1944? (reld > 04.1946)
Lt. RN	22.01.1947, seniortiy 17.01.1942
A/Lt.Cdr. RN	< 07.1948
Lt.Cdr. RN	17.01.1950 (emgcy < 05.1953)

OBE	10.06.1967	HM's birthday 67: port manager Felixstowe
DSC	22.06.1943	action Dutch coast 17.04.43 [investiture 28.09.43]
DSC	22.02.1944	action Dutch coast 09.12.43 [investiture 23.05.44]
MID	20.02.1945	minesweeping & torpedo attacks Normandy

Education: St Erbyn's School, Penzance, and King's College, Taunton.
After working as a clerk for a cold storage firm, in 1938 he started a boat-building and yacht-broking business in London.

09.1939			joined RNVR, serving in the ranks
1939	-	1940	served in minesweepers
17.12.1940	-	(02.1941)	HMS California (armed merchant cruiser)
02.08.1941	-	(12.1941)	HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for motor torpedo boats)
02.04.1942	-	19.04.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 232 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] [received severe wounds in action 08. 1942]
05.1943	-	(06.)1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 34 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Beehive]
21.06.1943	-	11.1943	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 356 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 11th MTB Flotilla
11.1943	-	(12.1943)	Commanding Officer, HM MTB 355 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 11th MTB Flotilla
24.01.1944	-	(07.1945)	Staff Officer (Operations), HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
(1945)			HMS Odyssey (Naval Parties accounting base, London)
(04.1946)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
22.01.1947			transferred to RN
20.02.1948	-	(05.1950)	Wreck Dispersal Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke]
			Commanding Officer of a salvage ship (Hong Kong harbour)

Docks manager and port consultant. Director & General Manager of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, 1955-1972, then head of the consultancy side of the company, and he travelled worldwide, advising on the improvement of port facilities, 1972-1987.
* indexed, but not listed as such

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Treneer,
Victor James
V.J. Treneer

Son (with two brothers) of Wilfred Treneer (1887-1964), and Edith Mary Deeks (1888-1974).
Married Nora ...; two daughters, one son.

19.01.1921
Epsom district, Surrey
-
15.03.1980
in hospital, Sutton district, Greater London

T/A/S.Lt.	19.03.1943
T/S.Lt.	19.09.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

01.05.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Tamarisk (corvette)
(12.1943)			HMS Polar Star (?) *
(02.1944)	-	(06.1944)	HMS Astraea (RN base, Lagos, Nigeria) *
26.06.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Chelmer (frigate)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Trew,
Gordon Stanley

Son of ... Trew, and Eva Trew (née Butcher), of Burton-upon-Trent.

(03?).1921
Islington district, Greater London / London / Middlesex
-
25.10.1943
[age 22]
[Burton-upon-Trent Cemetery, general section, grave 5732]

T/S.Lt.

20.07.1942	-	(06.)1943	5th MGB Flotilla [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]
17.06.1943	-	25.10.1943	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 442 (motor torpedo boat) [HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)]

Trew,
James Morris
J.M. Trew (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Dawn Trew)

Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Thomas Percival Trew (1873-1954), and Ruth Constance Bollam (1880-1978).
Married 1st ((03?).1939, Yeovil district, Somerset) Nancy Alison Broughton (02.04.1913 - 08.09.2004), daughter (with two sisters) of James Francis Broughton, and Edith Mary Woolcott (1870-1960); one son, three daughters.
Married 2nd ((09?).1973, Liskeard district, Cornwall) Myrtle Crago; one daughter and one step-daughter.

28.03.1908
Bushey, Watford district, Hertfordshire
-
01.10.1981
Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, Devon

T/S.Lt.	23.10.1942
T/A/Lt.	23.07.1943 (commission terminated 29.08.1944; medically unfit)

The University and British Dairy Institute, Reading, 1930s.

(12.1942)	-	(02.1943)	no appointment listed
09.02.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Wheatland (destroyer)
01.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
(06.1944)			no appointment listed

Tribe,
Denis John
D.J. Tribe (Photo courtesy of Mr Philip Tribe)

Son (with two brothers and one sister?) of John Robert Tribe (1876-1950), grocer shopkeeper, and Annie Burt (1879-).
Married ((09?).1937, Holborn district, Middlesex) Anne J. McKenna; two sons.

30.06.1908
Sutton, Epsom district, Surrey
-
10.1985
Worthing district, West Sussex

T/S.Lt.	02.10.1941
T/Lt.	02.01.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 01.1945, < 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

1939	-	1940?	HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
1940	-	1940	HMS Peregrine (RN Air Station, Ford, Sussex)
1940	-	1941?	HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) (flying with S.Lt. (A) A.J. Sewell [see link there to biography for details]; wounded)
1941	-	1941	HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)
1941	-	1941	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt))
1941	-	1941	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
1941	-	1941	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
1941	-	1941?	Admiralty [HMS President]
(12.1941)			no appointment listed
1942	-	1942	HMS Tormentor (Combined Operations base, Warsash, Hamble, Southampton)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
09.10.1942	-	late 1943	HMS Quebec (Combined Training centre, Inverary)
1944?			HMS Odyssey (accounting base for naval parties)
late 1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Tripe,
Anthony Charles
"Tony"
A.C. Tripe (PHoto courtesy of Mr Robin Montgomery)

Son of Mr & Mrs J.A. Tripe, of Wellington, New Zealand.
Married (01.12.1938, St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace, St Marylebone district, London) Eileen Daly (? - 06.2012), daughter of Mr & Mrs William Daly, of New York, USA..

10.12.1907
Wellington, New Zealnd
-
30.10.1953
Westminster, London

Prob. T/S.Lt.	21.06.1940
T/Lt.	21.09.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 10.1943, < 12.1943 (reld < 04.1946)

Was articled to Vivian Palmer Haughton of Wellington, New Zealand from 1926 to 1929. He studied at the Architectural Association in London from 1930 to 1932, passing the final exam in July of the latter year. Two months later he joined the office of George Grey Wornum. He was admitted ARIBA on 3 December 1934, his proposers being Wornum, John Ninian Comper and Howard R Lenton (though the latter two are uncertain as their names are not easily legible). His nomination papers state that he had travelled in Holland and France in 1930, and in Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy in 1931. Studied at AA. Tripe was presumably a founding partner of the London practice of Tripe & Wakeham.

21.06.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Tower (auxiliary patrol base, PLA Building, Trinity Square, London EC3)
01.1942	-	(10.1944)	HMS Tower (auxiliary patrol base, PLA Building, Trinity Square, London EC3) [His widow said that he was on “Thames defence” and he seems to have been based on the old Thames Nautical Training College which the Royal Navy requisitioned for World War 2. Then it consisted of HMS Worcester (an obsolete wooden warship) and the Cutty Sark.]
(01.1945)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

Trivett,
Ronald Sidney
"Ron"
R.S. Trivett

Son (with one brother and four half-siblings) of Sidney John Trivett (1865-1938), and Ella Elizabeth Chapple (1869-1950).
Married 1st (1926, Axminster district, Devon) Winifred Alice Hayter (15.05.1901 - 12.08.1981), daughter (with three sisters) of Arthur John Hayter (1875-1938), and Sophia King (1876-1953); one daughter, two sons.
Married 2nd ((12?).1981, Colchester district, Essex) Violet George (16.09.1911 - 11.1992), daughter of Archibald Leonard George (1884-1957), and Lily Beatrice Chandler (1884-).

24.08.1905
Axminster district, Devon
-
25.02.1989
Poole, Dorset

T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	20.11.1939
T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)	20.03.1940
T/El.Lt.	1941?, seniority 20.03.1940
T/A/El.Lt.Cdr.	> 08.1941, < 10.1941 (reld > 04.1946)

(12.1939)			no appointment listed
(02.1940)			Admiralty [HMS President] *
14.02.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Bacchante (RN base, Aberdeen)
22.10.1940	-	(12.1942)	HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) (as Port Anti-Submarine Officer, Granton)
04.01.1943	-	(02.)1944	HMS Malabar (RN base, Jamaica) (for anti-submarine duties at Bermuda)
13.03.1944	-	(04.)1944	HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)
12.06.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) (as Port Anti-Submarine Officer)
04.12.1944	-	(01.)1945	Anti-Submarine Materiel Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
03.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW, Australia) (for Royal Marine Training Barracks)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Trotter,
Alec Alfred
A.A. Trotter

Son (with two brothers) of Edward Trotter (1877-1957), and May Day (1881-1951).
Married ((12?).1954, Thanet district, Kent) Betty E. Cleverly (24.04.1928 - ), daughter of George Cleverly (1891-1968), and Ethel Caroline Barton (1901-1998); one son.

06.04.1915
Gulidford district, Surrey
-
26.03.1984
Broadstairs, Thanet district, Kent

Ord. Sea.	? [D/JX 213896]
T/S.Lt.	14.08.1941
T/Lt. *	14.08.1942 (reld 02.05.1946)

* Confirmed Figther Directing Officer

?	-	14.08.1941	HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(10.1941)			no appointment listed
08.11.1941	-	(02.)1943	HMS St Zeno (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
29.03.1943	-	(06.)1943	HMS Bristol (training establishment, Mullars Orphanage, Bristol)
(08.1943)			no appointment listed
26.09.1943	-	(10.)1943	HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
01.10.1943	-	(12.1943)	HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire)
07.01.1944	-	(04.)1945	HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
08.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Roberts (Abercrombie class monitor)

Troughton,
George Walter
V.J. Treneer

Son (with three brothers) of Basil Edward Troughton (1865-1938), and Annie Lucey Heath (1879-1935).
Married ((09?).1955, Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey) Valerie Stone, daughter of H.C. Stone; one son, one daughter.

07.12.1915
Lewisham district, London
-
01.12.1975
Cheam, Sutton district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	11.07.1940
T/Lt.	11.07.1941 (reld 14.05.1946)

Education: Haileybury College (Batten House, 1929.3-1932.3; Treble Solo 1930; School Boxer 1932).
FRICS, 1938.

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
(08.1940)			no appointment listed
16.08.1940	-	(12.1941)	HMS Honeysuckle (Flower class corvette)
10.01.1942	-	(04.)1943	Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
19.06.1943	-	(08.)1943	HMS Findhorn (River class frigate)
14.08.1943	-	(10.1945)	HMS Lossie (River class frigate)

Chartered surveyor with Hillier, Parker, May & Rowden, London, W.1. Director, Sutton District Water Company, Heath Estates Ltd.

Troughton,
Harry
H. Troughton (Photo courtesy of Mrs Elspeth Kelly)

Married; ... children (one daughter?).

22.12.1906
Edmonton district, Essex / Hertfordshire / Middlesex
-
10.1987
Waltham Forest district, London

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.)

07.06.1943 (dispersal 01.07.1946) (reld 06.10.1946)

07.06.1943			joined RNVR
1943	-	07.1945	spent most of the time in the Mediterranean
10.07.1943	-	(06.)1944	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, later Taranto) (for sea transport duties, Algiers)
07.07.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) (for sea transport duties)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
09.1945	-	03.1946	HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) (for disposal)

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Troughton,
Patrick George
P.G. Troughton

Son of ... Troughton, and ... Offord.

25.03.1920
Hendon district, Middlesex
-
28.03.1987
Columbus, Ga.
(heart attack)

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	01.10.1943 (reld 1945/46)

MID

30.05.1944

Coastal Forces action Nore 24.10.43

Education: Embassy School of Acting, London; Leighton Rollin's Studio for Actors, Long Island, New York

22.06.1942	-	(10.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 603 (motor gun boat)
(10.1943)	-	(06.1944)	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 500 (motor torpedo boat)
(07.1945)			HMS RML 514

Actor; joined Bristol Old Vic, concentrating on Shakespeare productions, 1946; made film and television debuts, 1948; achieved fame as central character in television's Doctor Who, 1966

Trow,
John Russell
J.R. Trow

Son of George Edward Trow, engineering clerk, and Phyllis Caton.

17.12.1919
Worsley, Barton upon Irwell district, Lancashire
-
13.11.2009
St Albans, Hertfordshire

T/S.Lt.	18.09.1942
T/Lt.	01.06.1944

29.04.1943	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM BYMS 2157 (British yard minesweeper)
(04.1946)			HM BYMS 2157 (British yard minesweeper) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Trueman,
Thomas Harold

15.01.1896
Medway district, Kent
-
(06?).1977
Crawley district, West Sussex

T/Cdr. (Sp.Br.)

11.01.1944

...	-	...	...
(12.1944)			on staff of Flag Officer Taranto and Adriatic [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)] [as Civil Officer Naval Store Officer at Naval Store Depot Mediterranean]
...	-	...	...

Truman,
Edgar Dean
E.D. Truman

Son of ... Truman, and ... Dean.

31.01.1914
Epsom district, Surrey
-
08.1993
Sutton district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	29.10.1939
T/Lt.	13.10.1940
A/T/Lt.Cdr.	< 10.1944 (reld < 04.1946)

29.10.1939	-	(04.)1940	HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
11.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)
18.08.1941	-	(06.1943)	HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) (for motor launches)
08.09.1944	-	(10.1944)	Executive Officer, HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

Trussell,
Dennis George
D.G. Trussell

?
-

[1920 - 1984
or
1921 - 2004]

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/S.Lt. (A)	29.11.1942
T/Lt. (A)	27.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

28.12.1942	-	(04.1944)	pilot, 825 Squadron FAA [1944 HMS Vindex (escort carrier)]
06.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (for various services)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Tuchet-Jesson *,
John Guy
M.W. Tunnicliffe

Son of George Arthur [Touchet Tucket-]Jesson (died 25.02.1969), mechanical engineer, and Gwladys B. Hunter.
From Wersley, Lancashire.

* Also found as:
Tucket-Jesson

(06?).1913
Salford district, Greater Manchester / Lancashire
-
1946

T/S.Lt. (E)	14.07.1941
T/Lt. (E)	14.07.1942 (reld 22.04.1946)

01.10.1941	-	(08.1942)	HMS President (Admiralty) (for special and miscellaneous service)
23.04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria) (for MLs, MTBs, &tc.)

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Tuck,
Leonard Charles
L.C. Tuck

Son of ... Tuck, and ... Hughes.

(06?).1922
Northampton district, Northamptonshire
-
03.1955
Malta

T/S.Lt. (A)	19.12.1942
T/Lt. (A)	19.12.1944
Lt. (A)	24.02.1950

MID

11.06.1946

wind up Far East

1941			joined RNVR
			training, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
15.02.1943	-	09.03.1943	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)
09.03.1943	-	(12.1943)	pilot, 728 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]
03.10.1944	-	(10.1944)	pilot, Ferry Pool, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife)
19.12.1944	-	(07.1945)	pilot, 1701 Squadron FAA
(04.1946)			HMS Nabcatcher (mobile naval air base VII, Kai Tak, Hong Kong) *
(1946)			HMS Pioneer (aircraft maintenance ship)
24.02.1950	-	03.1955	joined Permanent RNVR (Southern Air Division, List 2) [died when the Sea Hornet fighter plane he was piloting crashed; though rescued his injuries were severe and he died later in hospital at Malta]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tucker,
Reginald Courtney
R.C. Tucker

Married ((09?).1942, Folkestone district, Kent; marriage dissolved) Jean Gardiner; three sons, one daughter.

01.05.1907
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
12.1987
Brighton district, Sussex

T/A/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	1943?
T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.)	24.03.1944 (reld > 04.1946)

18.11.1943	-	(10.)1944	HMS Excalibur (new entry seaman training establishment, Alsager, Stoke on Trent)
10.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)
(07.1945)			HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) *
(04.1946)			HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tummey,
John Mervyn

see:

Tommey,
John Mervyn

Tunnicliffe,
Michael Wheldale
M.W. Tunnicliffe

?
-

T/A/Lt.	?
T/Lt.	29.03.1945

(06.1944)			Commanding Officer, HM MTB 207 (motor torpedo boat)
01.11.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Loch Quoich

Tunnicliffe-Smith,
Harold

see:

Army officers' section

Tunstall,
Robert Joseph
R.J. Tunstall

Son (with one sister) of Alfred Robert Tunstall (1888-1963), and Emily Sarah Sorrell (1887-1973).
Married Lillian Elizabeth Saunders (29.05.1920 - 04.01.2021), daughter of Herbert and Rosina Saunders; ... children (one son?).

15.06.1919
Stepney, Middlesex
-
30.05.2008
Ilkley, Yorkshire

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	30.12.1940
T/S.Lt. (A)	1941, seniority 30.12.1940
T/Lt. (A)	30.06.1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)	> 10.1944, < 01.1945
Lt. (E) RN	18.04.1946, seniority 30.06.1942
Lt.Cdr. (E) RN	30.06.1950
Cdr. (E) RN	30.06.1953 (retd 01.10.1965)

(02.1941)			HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) *
(04.1941)			HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) *
04.1941	-	08.03.1943	HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt):
04.1941	-	08.1941	for full flying duties
08.1941	-	09.1941	test flying
02.02.1942	-	16.10.1942	775 Squadron FAA (squadron technician & for full flying duties)
16.10.1942	-	02.1943	701 Squadron FAA (squadron technician & for full flying duties)
02.1943	-	08.03.1943	test pilot and maintenance organization
(06.1943)	-	(12.1943)	no appointment listed
03.01.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Landrail (RN Air Station, Machrihanish, Argyllshire) (for pilot duties)
09.04.1945	-	(10.1945)	Assistant Air Engineering Officer, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)
26.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Hornbill (RN Air Station, Culham, Abingdon) (for air engineering duties)
...	-	...	...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Tuppen,
Laurence
L. Tuppen

?
-

T/A/S.Lt.	?
T/S.Lt.	30.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.02.1945

MBE

14.06.1945

HM's birthday 45

(1945?)			HMS Gold Bell (cable carrier)
01.03.1945	-	(07.1945)	Commanding Officer, HMS Glenmoriston (cable ship)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Turnbull,
James Adams
J.A. Turnbull

Living in Brazil (married to Helen Woodbury Turnbull, nee Latham).

02.01.1911
Bonhill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland
-
11.1984
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

T/A/S.Lt.	03.1944?
T/S.Lt.	16.09.1944 (reld 1946?)

18.11.1943			joined RNVR
18.11.1943	-	04.02.1944	Ordinary Seaman, HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
05.02.1944	-	16.03.1944	HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness)
16.03.1944	-	(07.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for landing craft duty):
26.03.1944	-	22.04.1944	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon)
22.04.1944	-	06.05.1944	HMS St Barbara (anti-aircraft range, Bognor Regis)
07.05.1944	-	20.05.1944	HMS Stopford (Combined Operations training establishment, Bo'ness, West Lothian)
21.05.1944	-	31.05.1944	HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)
01.06.1944	-	14.08.1944	HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole) (served at Normandy)
14.08.1944	-	31.08.1944	HM LCT 948 (4) (landing craft, tank)
01.09.1944	-	01.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HM LCI (A) 115 (landing craft, infantry)
16.11.1944	-	06.11.1945	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2440 (5) (landing craft, tank)
09.12.1945	-	31.12.1945	First Lieutenant, HM LCT 2338 (5) (landing craft, tank)
01.01.1946	-	?	Commanding Officer, HM LCT 917 (4) (landing craft, tank)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

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Turner,
Alan Vincent
A.V. Turner

Residence: (1956) "Glengar", Willaston, Wirral.

?
-
2006 ?

Prob. Lt.	01.10.1939
Lt.	?, seniority 09.05.1939
A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld < 04.1946)
Lt.Cdr.	09.05.1947
Cdr.	31.12.1951
A/Capt.	< 04.1955
Capt.	31.12.1955 (retd 09.11.1957)

DSC	19.12.1944	Coastal Forces action Nore 18.09.44
MID	02.12.1941	Torpedo Control Officer, Mediterranean
VRD	1956?	?

28.09.1938			joined Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached to Mersey Division RNVR]
27.11.1939	-	(04.1940)	HMS Gurkha (destroyer)
(02.1941)			HMS Janus (destroyer) *
(08.1942)			HMS Janus (destroyer) *
01.10.1942	-	(08.1943)	HMS Janus (destroyer)
?	-	(09.1944)	HMS Stayner (frigate) **
1946	-	1954	Mersey Division, RNVR [HMS Eaglet] (Liverpool)
1954	-	1957	Commanding Officer, Mersey Division, RNVR [HMS Eaglet] (Liverpool)

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County Palatine of Lancaster, 07.04.1956.

* indexed. but not listed as such
** (07.1945) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Turner,
Edward Arthur
E.A. Turner

1914 ?
-
01.2011 still alive, aged 96

Ord.Sea.	?
T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	10.07.1943 (reld > 04.1946)

			HMS Rodney (battleship)
			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)
24.09.1943	-	(06.)1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 254 (motor minesweeper)
19.08.1944	-	(10.)1944	First Lieutenant, HM MMS 254 (motor minesweeper)
29.11.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Olive (minesweeping trawler)
31.01.1945	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HMS Prospect (minesweeping trawler)
			Commanding Officer, HMS Cotillion (anti-submarine warfare trawler) (serving in the Baltic on convoys of German ships being handed over to the Russians as part of war reparations)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Turner,
Geoffrey Gledhill
G.G. Turner

George Cross Database

10.09.1903
Sheffield, Yorkshire
-
09.02.1959
Stambourne, Halstead, Essex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Lt.	04.01.1941
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 02.1943, < 06.1943
T/A/Cdr.	? (reld < 04.1946)

GC	27.06.1941	mine disposal Great Howard Street Liverpool 21.12.40 [investiture 10.03.42]
GM	18.05.1943	mine disposal Fairlight, near Hastings, Sussex 04-05.01.43 [investiture 27.07.43]
Comm	03.11.1942	mine disposal 12.41-03.42

Education: King Edward VII School, Sheffield.
Director of Alec Parsons, manufaturing chemists of Manchester.

1939			tried to join the Army, but was discharged on medical grounds and joined the RNVR
02.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	Unexploded Bombs Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
(04.)1941	-	(06.)1941	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (date of appointment shown as 15.11.1940)
15.07.1941	-	(12.)1941	HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
05.12.1941	-	(02.)1942	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)
02.02.1942	-	(06.)1942	Mining Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
22.06.1942	-	(08.)1943	Royal Marines Staff Officer, HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)
06.10.1943	-	(10.1944)	Torpedoes and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [took charge of a Marine Commando unit in the invasion of Normandy, took part in the capture of Brest]
(01.1945)			Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * [fought with the Commandos in Germany]
(07.1945)			no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Turner,
Henry Edward
H.E. Turner (Photo courtesy of Margaret Anne Dickson (née Turner))

26.04.1906
-
09.10.1987

T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) *

01.10.1944 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

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

(01.1945)

(10.1945)

no appointment listed

Turner,
Hubert Samuel
H.S. Turner (Photo courtesy of Sally Oldfield)

(06?).1923
Cosford district, Essex
-

...	...
T/S.Lt.	07.11.1943
T/Lt.	07.11.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

...	-	...	...
28.06.1943	-	(12.1943)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 85 (motor gun boat)
24.01.1944	-	(01.)1945	HMS Mantis (Coastal Forces base, Lowestoft) (for 4th MTB Flotilla):
04.1944	-	05.1945	First Lieutenant, HM MTB 469 (motor torpedo boat)

Turner,
John Francis
J.F. Turner in civil life. Photo courtesy of Charles and Janet Flawn.

Brother of Lt. Peter Ernest Turner, RNVR.
Married Enid (1946); two sons.

14.12.1917
Ealing, London
-
1983

T/Paym.S.Lt.	04.10.1940
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	04.10.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 06.1944, < 07.1945

Education: Radley Public School

04.10.1940			joined RNVR
17.10.1940	-	(03.1941)	HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (Battle of Cape Matapan, 27-29.03.1941)
01.04.1942	-	(08.1942)	HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt)
(03.1943)			endured the sinking of the troopship MS Empress of Canada off the west coast of Africa, 13/14.03.1943
20.08.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Garuda (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Coimbatore, India)
(04.1946)			no appointment listed

Lived in Durban (South Africa) & Lusaka (Northern Rhodesia), before retiring to Spain in 1969 (Minorca, later Altea).

Turner,
Peter Ernest
P.E. Turner in 1940. Photo courtesy of Charles and Janet Flawn.

Brother of Lt.Cdr. John Francis Turner, RNVR.

16.04.1916
Ealing, London
-
1994

T/Lt.

07.02.1942

Education: Radley Public School

07.02.1942			joined RNVR
02.1942	-	(10.1943)	HMS Ceres (cruiser)
			transferred to RINVR
(07.1945)	-	(04.1946)	no appointment listed

Turner,
Philip
P. Turner

?
-

T/Paym.S.Lt.	27.11.1941
T/Paym.Lt. = T/Lt. (S)	27.11.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr. (S)	> 10.1945, < 04.1946

Solicitor.

18.12.1941	-	(10.1944)	HMS Proserpine (minesweeper & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)
18.12.1941	-	(06.)1943	Cypher Staff
(08.)1943	-	(10.1944)	Confidential Book Office
01.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Montclare (destroyer depot ship, from .... 1945 submarine depot ship)
25.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HMS Mercury (signal school, nr Petersfield)

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Turner,
Robert
R. Turner

Married ... Cope; ... children (one son, one daughter?).

?
-

T/Lt.	15.01.1940
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	> 12.1942, < 02.1943 (reld 09.11.19456)

DSC

02.06.1943

HM's birthday 43 [decoration posted]

27.01.1940	-	(10.)1940	HMS Paragon (RN base, Hartlepool)
12.12.1940	-	06.10.1944	Commanding Officer, HMS Olive (Tree class minesweeping trawler) (DSC)
(10.1944)	-	(07.1945)	no appointment listed

Turner,
Stanley Charles
S.C. Turner

?
-

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	12.10.1940 (reld < 04.1946)

Hkn

26.08.1947

services to Norwegians

19.09.1940

(07.1945)

Naval Control Service [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

Turner,
Stanley Charles
S.C. Turner

Remembered at the War Memorial at Seaton, Devon (St Gregory's Churchyard).

?
-
15.01.1946
[Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, France, 10.A.10]

T/S.Lt.	?
T/Lt.	13.11.1942

02.09.1943	-	(07.1945)	HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for MLC, mechanized landing craft)
?	-	15.01.1946	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)

Turner,
Stanley James
S.J. Turner (Photo courtesy of Mr Bryan Turner)

Son of William E. Turner, and Edith A. Weavers.
Married (12?).1949, Chichester district, Sussex) Florence ...; one son, one daughter.

08.02.1924
Merton, Farnham district, Surrey
-
20.08.2008
hospital, Eastbourne

T/S.Lt.	01.03.1944
T/Lt.	01.01.1946 (reld > 04.1946)

	MID	13.02.1944	attack of enemy convoy Mediterranean 11.10.44
	MID	21.08.1945	torpedo attack GLtrs GVen 09.04.1945

29.07.1944	-	(10.)1944	HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta)
02.10.1944	-	(07.1945)	First Lieutenant, HM MGB 662 (motor gun boat) (despatches twice)
19.03.1946	-	(04.1946)	HM MMS 1090 (motor minesweeper)

Turner,
Trevor John
T.J. Turner (Photo courtesy of Mrs Ria Stoddart)

Son of Ernest John Turner, and Olive Kate Siebert, of Richmond, Surrey.

(12?).1920
Richmond, Surrey
-
08.06.1945
[age 24]
[Haslar RN Cemetery, G.11.8]

T/S.Lt. (A)	?
T/Lt. (A)	12.05.1943

07.08.1944	-	(10.)1944	pilot, 771 Squadron FAA [HMS Tern (RN Air Station, Twat, Orkney)]
20.10.1944	-	(01.)1945	pilot, 748 Squadron FAA [HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station, Angle, Pembrokeshire)]
1945	-	08.06.1945	HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) [committed suicide due to a disciplinary action that was brought against him]

Turpin,
Eric William
E.W. Turpin

?
-

SANF(V), seconded to RNVR:

T/Lt.	21.06.1942 (retd 1945)
T/Lt.Cdr.	1950s?

Watch Keeping Certificate

			Klava, Simonstown, S. Africa
(12.1940)			HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
(08.1942)			no appointment listed
			Italian hospital ships
04.1945	-	(07.1945)	HMS Phoebe (cruiser)
[ (04.1946)			HMS Afrikander (base, Simonstown, S. Africa) ?]

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Turrall,
Bertie Howard O'Ryan
B.H.O'R. Turrall

Son (with one brother and one sister) of Charles Turrall (1878-), and Madeleine Turrall (1880-).
Married ((09?).1931, Hendon district, London) Alice Ivy Florence Wiebcken (06.12.1903 - (03?).1982), daughter (with seven brothers and five sisters) of Johann Heinrich F. Wiebcken (1854-1920), and Hannah Catherine Upton (1858-1937); one daughter, one son.

31.05.1906
Rochford district, Essex
-
11.2002
Camden district, London

T/A/S.Lt.	05.03.1943
T/S.Lt.	05.09.1943
T/A/Lt.	> 10.1944, < 01.1945 [temporary rank]
T/A/Lt.	05.09.1945 [appointed rank] (reld 02.06.1946)

(04.1943)	-	(06.1943)	no appointment listed
06.1943	-	(10).1943	HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (additional; for various services)
02.11.1943	-	(06.)1944	British Naval Liaison Officer, French destroyer "Le Fantasque"
(10.1944)	-	(01.1945)	no appointment listed
(04.1945)	-	(07.1945)	HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto, Italy) *
(10.1945)			no appointment listed
(04.1946)			HMS Appledore (Combined Operations base and training establishment, Fremingham Camp, Appledore) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Turton,
Thomas James
T.J. Turton (Photo courtesy of Mr Paul Seaton)

Son of Griffin James Turton.

06.10.1906
Stamford, Hackney district, Greater London
-
26.11.1954
Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (formerly of The Duke of york Inn, Tunbridge Wells)

T/S.Lt.	19.06.1942
T/Lt.	19.09.1942
T/A/Lt.Cdr.	< 07.1945 (reld 07.03.1946; medically unfit)

MID

21.12.1943

Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.43)

(08.1942)	-	(04.1944)	no appointment listed:
(07.1943)			staff of Senior Naval Officer Landings (SNOL) (R) (Sicily)
26.04.1944	-	(10.1945)	HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for Beach Duty):
05.1945	-	06.1945	Principal Beach Master, "N" RN Beach Commando (Adriatic)

Turvil,
Henry
H. Turvil

Second eldest son (with three brothers and two sisters) of William Henry Turvil (1880-), and Helen Woodland Knowler (1886-1975).
Married 1st (23.11.1937, Fulham district, London; divorced 1947) Lilian Barbara Elizabeth Jonas. She remarried (1964) Albert W. Crowe.
Married 2nd (03.11.1947, Surrey North Eastern district, Surrey) Dorothy Blanche Forrester (04.08.1920 - 03.2002).

04.01.1914
Wandsworth district, London
-
09.09.1982
Surrey Northern district, Surrey

T/S.Lt.	16.04.1942
T/Lt.	16.04.1943 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946)

(06.1942)	-	(08.1942)	no appointment listed
11.09.1942	-	(12.1943)	HMS Liddesdale (destroyer)
(02.1944)	-	(04.1944)	no appointment listed
05.1944	-	(10.1944)	HMS Blackmore (destroyer)
(01.1945)			no appointment listed
19.03.1945	-	(10.1945)	HMS Bleasdale (destroyer)

Turville,
Owen Ralph
O.R. Turville

Son (with two sisters) of William Edward Owen Turville (1887-1947), merchant, and Rosalie McDonald Cocking (1894-1983), of Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies.
Married (09.03.1946. St Jude's Church, Kensington, London) Joan Maffett (22.01.1920 - 07.04.2016), daughter (with one sister) of Maj. Cuthbert William Maffett (1894-1982), and Evelyn Vera Cleveland (1896-1972), of Oxted, Surrey; thee sons.

19.03.1918
Penang, Malaysia
-
05.01.1998
Taplow, nr Maidenhead, Slough district, Berkshire

T/S.Lt.	18.10.1940
T/Lt.	01.10.1942 (reld 20.06.1946)

OBE	01.01.1966	New Year 1966 [investiture 12.07.1966]
MID	18.05.1943	[apt?] salvage Pollux 12.1942
MID	11.12.1945	wind up Europe 1945

(12.1940)			no appointment listed
05.12.1940	-	(02.)1941	HMS Cilicia (armed merchant cruiser)
21.02.1941	-	(04.)1941	HMS Mazurka (Dance class trawler)
07.04.1941	-	early 1944	HMS Foxtrot (Dance class trawler) (despatches)
early 1944	-	08.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Foxtrot (Dance class trawler) (despatches)
(10.1945)			no appointment listed

Became Commodore Kong Kong RNR (Lt. 15.04.1952, Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1960).

Twiss,
Lionel Peter
L.P. Twiss

23.07.1921
Lindfield, Sussex
-
31.08.2011

T/A/S.Lt. (A)	17.02.1941
T/S.Lt. (A)	1942?
T/Lt. (A)	17.08.1943

OBE	?	?
DSC	22.09.1942	Operation Harpoon [investiture 06.04.43]
DSC	16.03.1943	Operation Torch (reconnaissance)

HMS Argus & 807 Squadron FAA

Tyndall,
John Patrick Pickard
J.P.P. Tyndall (Photo courtesy of Mr K.J. Lindsay)

Son of George Henry Tyndall (1893-1962), and Jennie Ruth Irene Welch (1894-1989).
Married ((09?).1942, Ploughley district, Oxfordshire) Joan V. Harris; one daughter, two sons.

05.08.1919
Nottingham district, Nottinghamshire
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24.03.1987
Colchester district, Essex

Prob. T/S.Lt.	23.08.1940
T/Lt.	01.01.1943 (commission terminated 18.04.1946; medically unfit)

			HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
(10.1940)			no appointment listed
19.10.1940	-	(10.)1942	HMS Northern Wave (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(12.1942)	-	(08.1943)	HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith & Granton) *
11.09.1943	-	03.03.1945	Commanding Officer, HMS Stoke City (anti-submarine warfare trawler)
(07.1945)			no appointment listed
08.07.1945	-	(10.1945)	HM LST 301 (landing ship, tank)

* indexed, but not listed as such

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