| V | 
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Vallely, 
  John
  
   
   
  
   | 
03.02.1921 
  Lanarkshire, Scotland 
  - 
  23.10.1984 
  Stirling, Scotland 
   | 
  
    
      
      T/S.Lt. (A) 
      
       | 
      
      11.07.1942 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/Lt. (A) 
      
       | 
      
      11.01.1945 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
      
       
      
       | 
      
      1945? (reld < 04.1946) 
      
       | 
     
   
  
      | 
    MID 
       | 
    10.09.1944 
       | 
    destruction U765, Western Approaches, 06.05.44 
       | 
   
 
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01.09.1942 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(04.)1944 
  
 | 
observer,
  700 Squadron FAA [HMS Belfast]  
  
 | 
 
13.04.1944 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(10.1944) 
  
 | 
observer,
  825 Squadron FAA [HMS Vindex] 
  
 | 
 
1944? 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
1945? 
  
 | 
HMS
  Atheling (escort carrier) 
  
 | 
 
02.1945 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(07.1945) 
  
 | 
HMS Goshawk
  (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad) 
  
  [trained Sir George Martin, the future Beatles
  producer, as navigator] 
  
 | 
 
 
   | 
Van
  Epps, 
  
  David Arnold 
   
   
   
  Lived Williams Bay, Wisconsin. 
   | 
? 
  USA 
  - 
  09.1975
   | 
  
    
      Prob. T/S.Lt. (A) 
        
       | 
      08.09.1940 
        
       | 
     
    
      T/Lt. (A) 
        
       | 
      06.05.1941 
        
       | 
     
   
  
      | 
    BSM 
       | 
    ? 
       | 
    for
      POW heroism 
       | 
   
  
    .gif)  | 
    DFC 
       | 
    ? 
       | 
    ? 
       | 
   
  
      | 
    AM 
       | 
    ? 
       | 
    &
      2 oak leaf clusters 
       | 
   
 
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University graduate from Illinois. 
15.01.1941 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(02.)1941 
  
 | 
pilot, 809
  Squadron FAA [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 
 
 | 
 
05.07.1941 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(12.1941) 
  
 | 
pilot, 809
  Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier)] 
  
 | 
 
15.07.1942 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
24.01.1943 
  
 | 
 Commanding
  Officer, 894 Squadron FAA [HMS Blackcap (RN Air Station, Stretton, Warrington,
  Lancashire)] 
  
 | 
 
26.09.1943 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
09.04.1944 
  
 | 
  joined 334th Fighter Squadron (4th Fighter Group USAF) 
  
 | 
 
22.03.1944 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
09.04.1944 
  
 | 
  Commanding Officer, "D" Flight (in P-51B
  43-6941 QP-T hit by Flak at Turow; captured & POW in German captivity) 
  
 | 
 
|   | 
 
 | 
 
 | 
  became a Colonel USAF post-war
   | 
 
 
 | 
Van
  Gulik, 
  Derek
   
   
  
   | 
(06?).1908
  ?? 
  Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey ?? 
  - 
   | 
  
    
      
      Prob. T/S.Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      04.10.1940 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      04.01.1941 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/A/Lt.Cdr.
      
       
      
       | 
      
      > 10.1944, < 07.1945 
      
       | 
     
   
  
      | 
    ON 
       | 
    28.09.1943 
       | 
    liaison
      officer Hr.Ms. Van Galen [award posted] 
       | 
   
 
 | 
(02.1941) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(12.1941) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(08.1942) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(1943?) 
   | 
  
  
 | 
  
  
 | 
British
  Naval Liaison Officer, Hr.Ms. Van Galen (Dutch destroyer) 
  
 | 
 
(10.1944) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(07.1945) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(04.1946) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
HMS Drake
  (RN base, Devonport) * 
  
 | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
   | 
Vann, 
  Eric Francis | 
see: | 
  Van
	Riel *, 
  Hendrik Frans | 
  | 
Van
  Oosterwyk- Bruyn, 
  William Adolf  David 
  
  [originally: 
  Van Oosterwijk Bruijn, 
  Willem Adolf David] 
    
  Son of Willem Lodewijk Albert and Helen Ada
  (Ward) Van Oosterwijk Bruijn. 
  Mmarried (1935) Hannah Mary Alice Livingstone
  (Craig-Martin) Van Oosterwyk-Bruyn, of Great Totham,
  Essex. 
  
   | 
19.04.1904 
  Walton-on- Thames 
  - 
  13.06.1940 
  (KIA) [age 36] 
  [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2] 
   | 
  
 | 
Education: B.A. (Cantab.). 
01.06.1937 
   | 
 
 | 
 
 | 
joined
  Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve [attached London Division RNVR] 
  
 | 
 
04.03.1940 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(04.1940) 
  
 | 
First
  Lieutenant, HMS Grimsby Town (auxiliary arni-submarine trawler) 
  
 | 
 
? 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
13.06.1940 
  
 | 
HMS
  Scotstoun (armed merchant cruiser) 
  
 | 
 
 
 
    | 
Van
Riel 
*, 
  Hendrik Frans 
  
  
   
    
     
* Initially serving under the name: Vann, Eric Francis. 
Married ((06?).1943, Chelsea district, London) Celina Dorothy Sedgwick (née Dougan) 
((09?).1915 - ); one son. | 
31.03.1908 
Antwerp, Belgium 
  - 
1977 
Antwerp, Belgium | 
  
    
      | T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 
      14.02.1941 | 
     
    
      | T/Lt. | 
      01.11.1942, seniority 
		14.02.1941 | 
     
    
      | T/A/Lt.Cdr. | 
      14.07.1944 
		(dispersal 28.12.1945) (reld 06.04.1946) | 
     
   
 | 
Worked in Belgium for Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1928-1935. Served as 2nd 
Lieutenant, GHQ Belgian Army, 1940. Liaison Officer between British Army and 
Belgian Military Mission (attached to 2nd Division, 1st Corps, 12.05.1940). 
Joined Deputy Assistant Provost Marshal & Royal Scots up to 28.05.1940. 
Evacuated to UK; picked up off coast in small boat by destroyer HMS Scimitar; 
arrived at Dover 29.05.1940, then to Tenby .
| 
1940 | 
  | 
  | 
volunteered 
for service with UK Forces; served with
Special Operations Executive (SOE) | 
 
| 
  | 
  | 
  | 
Commando training at Achnacarry; on several missions: 
Carantel (France) 21.06.1940, Le Coq / Wenduyn (Belgium) 08.07.1940, 5 miles N/E 
of Ostend (Belgium) 12.07.1940 | 
 
| 
14.02.1941 | 
- | 
09.08.1942 | 
Admiralty 
[HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty; for time only) | 
 
| 
10.08.1942 | 
- | 
30.09.1942 | 
RN College, Greenwich 
[HMS President] | 
 
| 
01.10.1942 | 
- | 
31.03.1943 | 
Naval 
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for time only) | 
 
| 
10.1942 | 
- | 
1943 | 
took part 
in: Operation “Basalt” (Sark), Operation “Pussyfoot” (Herm), Operation “Huckaback”, 
Operations “Hardtack Dog” (France & Channel Isles); also Raids on Norway (totalling 
52) | 
 
| 
07.04.1943 | 
- | 
09.05.1943 | 
HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) 
(for High Speed Target Service duties) | 
 
| 
10.05.1943 | 
- | 
09.06.1943 | 
HMS Pyramus 
(RN base, Kirkwall) (for High Speed Target Service Unit, Houton; in command) | 
 
| 
10.06.1943 | 
- | 
27.10.1943 | 
HMS Vectis 
(RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight) (despatches) (for duty with Senior Officer, 
Force "J") | 
 
| 
(1943) | 
  | 
  | 
HM MTB 344 
(motor torpedo boat) | 
 
| 
28.10.1943 | 
- | 
24.01.1944 | 
Naval 
Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for training) | 
 
| 
25.01.1944 | 
- | 
13.07.1944 | 
HMS Odyssey 
(accounting base for Naval Parties) (for special service; for duty on staff of 
Naval Force Commander, Force “S” ) | 
 
| 
06.06.1944 | 
  | 
  | 
Staff 
Security Officer Force “S” (Rear-Admiral Talbot), on board HMS Largs (Operation 
Neptune) | 
 
| 
14.07.1944 | 
- | 
12.09.1944 | 
HMS 
Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (for special service; for duty with 
Naval Party 1570 as Fleet Bomb Safety Officer) | 
 
| 
13.09.1944 | 
- | 
05.05.1945 | 
HMS 
Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (for special service; for duty with 
Naval Party 1501 [HMS Royal Athelstan, Antwerp] as Staff Officer (Intelligence)) | 
 
| 
09.1944 | 
- | 
10.1944 | 
preparations for operations 
against Walcheren | 
 
| 
06.05.1945 | 
- | 
27.12.1945 | 
HMS Royal 
Albert (Flag Officer Germany, Berlin) (for duty with Senior British Naval 
Officer South Jutland, Copenhagen (Denmark)) | 
 
| 
  | 
  | 
  | 
Naval 
Port Party, Copenhagen | 
 
 
 | 
Varley, 
  Michael George Oliver 
  "Mike" 
    
  Son of Harold F.F.Varley, and Grace A.
  Varley (née Williams), of Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. 
   | 
(12?).1921 
  Tenterden district, Kent 
  - 
  19.03.1944 
  (KIA) [age 23] 
  [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 5, panel 4] 
   | 
  
    
      
      T/A/S.Lt. (A) 
      
       | 
      
      ? 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/S.Lt. (A) 
      
       | 
      
      11.12.1942 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/Lt. (A) 
      
       | 
      
      ? 
      
       | 
     
   
 | 
23.02.1942 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
19.03.1944 
  
 | 
pilot, 825
  Squadron FAA [1944 HMS Vindex (escort carrier)] 
  
 | 
 
 
 
    | 
Varvill, 
  
  Robert 
  
  
   
    
Son (with two brothers) of Col. Michael Noel Varvill, OBE, MC (1882-1968), and 
Kate Shearman (1877-1971). 
Married (15.10.1949, St Michael's, London)
Third Officer Rachel Millar, WRNS 
(22.02.1923 - 09.02.20214); ... children 
(two daughters, one son?).
 | 
31.03.1920 
  Wareham, Dorset 
  - 
  22.02.2003 
  Chichester, Sussex | 
  
    
      | 
      Prob. T/Midsh. | 
      
      05.01.1940 | 
     
	
      | 
      Prob. T/A/S.Lt. | 
      
      31.03.1940 | 
     
    
      | 
      T/S.Lt. | 
      
      31.03.1941 | 
     
    
      | 
      T/Lt. | 
      
      01.06.1942 (reld > 10.1945, < 04.1946) | 
     
   
  
    | 
         
     | 
    DSC | 
    15.08.1944 | 
    offensive
      sweeps West Coast Italy 05.44 [award posted] | 
   
  
      | 
    MID | 
    07.11.1944 | 
    
	attack on enemy convoy off La Spezia 27.05.44 | 
   
  
    | - | 
    QC | 
    05.06.1951 | 
    Queen's
      Commendation (Civil): District Officer Calabar Nigeria  | 
   
 
 | 
| 
(03.1940) | 
- | 
(05.1940) | 
HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 
* | 
 
| 
01.05.1940 | 
- | 
13.08.1940 | 
First Lieutenant, HM MTB 4 (1st MTB 
Flotilla) [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)] | 
 
| 
14.08.1940 | 
- | 
03.08.1941 | 
First 
Lieutenant, HM MTB 34 (4th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, 
Felixstowe)] ** | 
 
| 04.08.1941 | 
- | 
31.05.1942 | 
Commanding 
Officer, HM MTB 30 (4th MTB
  Flotilla) [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] ** | 
 
| 
01.06.1942 | 
- | 
07.01.1944 | 
Commanding 
Officer, HM MTB 78 (motor torpedo boat) [initially at
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport), later Mediterranean] | 
 
| 08.01.1944 | 
- | 
10.1944 | 
Commanding
  Officer, HM MTB 421 (motor torpedo boat) (7th MTB Flotilla) (at Bastia, 
Corsica, France) (DSC, despatches) | 
 
| 
10.1944 | 
- | 
22.01.1945 | 
HMS Mosquito (Coastal Forces base, Alexandria, Egypt) 
(for MTBs) *** | 
 
| 23.01.1945 | 
- | 
30.06.1945 | 
Commanding
  Officer, HM MTB 309 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 10th MTB
  Flotilla (Alexandria, Egypt & Leghorn, Italy) *** | 
 
| 
12.09.1945 | 
- | 
(10.1945) | 
Commanding
  Officer, HM MTB 524 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 37th MTB
  Flotilla | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
** a so-called flimsy shows: 14.08.1940-18.03.1942 as 1st Lieut. HM MTB 34 & CO 
HM MTB 30 [HMS Beehive] 
*** a so-called flimsy shows: 12.08.1944-05.03.1945 as Senior Officer, 10th/27th 
MTB Flotilla [HMS Mosquito] | 
Vaughan, 
  Frederick Vivian 
  
  
   
   
Married (26.09.1929, The Civil Registry Office, Viña Del Mar, Chile) Caroline 
Willis (1896? - )
  
 | 
1888 ? 
  Valparaiso, Chile 
  - 
  died between 12.1979 and 12.1983 | 
  
    
      | A/S.Lt. | 
      ? | 
     
    
      | S.Lt. | 
      07.11.1908 | 
     
    
      | Lt. | 
      07.11.1911 | 
     
    
      | Lt.Cdr. | 
      07.11.1919 (retd 
		06.04.1922) | 
     
    
      | Cdr. (retd) | 
      29.03.1940 | 
     
   
  
    
      
		  | 
    
	OBE | 
    
	07.06.1951 | 
    
	HM's birthday 51: Hon. Assistant Naval Attaché, HM's Embassy, Santiago | 
   
	
    
        | 
    14|15
      St | 
    
	- | 
    
	- | 
   
	
    
        | 
    14|20
      BWM | 
    
	- | 
    
	- | 
   
	
    
        | 
    VM | 
    
	- | 
    
	- | 
   
  
    
      
        | 
    VRD | 
    
	28.09.1945 | 
    - | 
   
  
    
      
        | 
    
	LSGCM | 
    ? | 
    - | 
   
 
 | 
| 
03.09.1939 | 
- | 
(04.1946) | 
Assistant 
Naval Attaché, Santiago (accredited to Chile, Peru, Ecuador) [HMS President] | 
 
 
 | 
Vaughan, 
  Islwyn 
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Son of Samuel Rees Vaughan (1896-1984),
  head teacher, and
  Eiluned Thomas (1899-1974). 
  Married (23.05.1943, Totness, Devon) Dilys Evans (30.01.1924-01.06.2002);
  eight daughters, one son. 
   | 
09.07.1920 
  Llandebie, Blaenau, Brynderw 
  - 
  17.09.1989 
  Porthcawl 
  [Porthcawl
  Cemetery] 
   | 
  
    
      
      T/S.Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      05.03.1942 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      05.09.1944 (reld > 04.1946) 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      RAF: 
      
       | 
      
       
      
       | 
     
    
      
      F/Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      14.06.1949 [500756] 
      
       | 
     
   
 | 
Education: Blaenau Junior School; Ammanford
Grammar School (1935-1939); University Aberystwyth (BA Geography, 1947) 
1941 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
served as a
  rating, HMS Gurkha (destroyer) (NW Approaches & Malta convoys) 
  
 | 
 
(08.1942) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no
  appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(08.1943) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
5th LCP
  Flotilla (Floating Reserve) (Dieppe raid) 
  
 | 
 
12.1943 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
09.1944 
  
 | 
Divisional
  Officer, 520th LCA Flotilla (Normandy; Pointe de Hoc) 
  
 | 
 
05.09.1944 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(07.1945) 
  
 | 
HMS
  Copra (Combined Operations accounting base): 
  
 | 
 
10.1944 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
20.05.1945 
  
 | 
Boat
  Officer, 509th LCA
  Flotilla (South Beveland/Eastern Scheldt, Waal river, Holland) 
  
 | 
 
05.1945 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
11.1945 
  
 | 
HMS
  Brontosaurus (Combined Operations base, Dunoon, Argyll) 
  
 | 
 
(04.1946) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no
  appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
13.06.1949 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
temporary
  commission RNVR terminated on transfer to RAF - Education Branch (short
  service commission) 
  
 | 
 
1949? 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
1955? 
  
 | 
RAF
  St Athan 
  
 | 
 
14.06.1955 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
transferred
  to reserve 
  
 | 
 
 
 School teacher & headmaster, Newton
Nottage School, 1955?-1984 (retirement). 
 | 
Vellacott, 
  John Harding 
  
  
   
  
 | 
30.06.1913 
  - 
  10.2001 
  Hatfield district, Hertfordshire 
   | 
  
    
      T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      12.06.1942 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      12.06.1943 (reld
        < 07.1945) 
         | 
     
   
 | 
(08.1942) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
Commanding
  Officer, HM LCP 28 (landing craft, personnel) (Dieppe raid) 
  
 | 
 
(10.1944) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no
  appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
 
 | 
Venn, 
  Henry Albert 
  
  
   
    
   
   
Son of Vivian and Marie Esther Venn, of Quilnes, F.C.S., Argentina. | 
1915 
  Corrientes, Argentina 
  - 
06.06.1944 
  (DOW) [age 29] 
[Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France, X.H.21] | 
  
    
      | T/S.Lt. | 
      13.11.1942 | 
     
    
      | T/A/Lt. | 
      > 10.1943, < 
		12.1943 | 
     
   
 | 
Clerk.
| 
(12.1942) | 
- | 
(10.1943) | 
no 
appointment listed: | 
 
| 
03.1943 | 
- | 
31.07.1943 | 
RN Beach 
Commando "F" (Sicily) | 
 
| 
01.11.1943 | 
- | 
06.06.1944 | 
HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) 
(for beach duty): | 
 
| 
03.1944 | 
- | 
06.06.1944 | 
Assistant Beachmaster, RN Beach Commando “Fox”, Queen Red Sector, Sword Beach 
(Normandy) | 
 
 
 | 
Verity, 
  Reginald George
Arthur 
  
  
   
  
 | 
(09?).1908 
  Richmond, Surrey 
  - 
   | 
  
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      13.12.1940 
         | 
     
    
      T/A/Lt.Cdr. 
         | 
      ? 
         | 
     
   
 | 
(03.1942) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
Naval Beach Master,
St. Nazaire raid 
  
 | 
 
 
 | 
Vernon, 
  Herbert 
  
  
   
  
 | 
? 
  - 
   | 
  
    
      T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      ? 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      09.07.1943 (reld
        01.1946) 
         | 
     
   
 | 
(10.1944) 
   | 
  
  
 | 
  
  
 | 
no
  appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
(07.1945) 
   | 
  
  
 | 
  
  
 | 
no
  appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
 
 | 
Vernon, 
  Roger Foley 
  
  
   
  
  
   
  Married (04.05.1957, Betchworth, Surrey)
  Daphne Alison Ainslie (1931-2000); two daughters, one son. 
   | 
14.12.1923 
  - 
  02.1989 
  Exeter district, Devon 
   | 
  
    
      T/A/S.Lt. 
         | 
      ? 
         | 
     
    
      T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      01.03.1944 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      01.03.1946 (reld
        > 04.1946) 
         | 
     
    
      Lt. (Sp.Br.) RNR 
         | 
      01.1964,
        seniority 01.03.1963 
         | 
     
   
 | 
05.08.1943 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(07.1945) 
  
 | 
HMS
  Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for Motor Landing Craft) 
  
 | 
 
(04.1946) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
no posting
  listed 
  
 | 
 
01.1964 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
transferred
  to permanent RNR (Special Branch) 
  
 | 
 
 
 | 
Vibert, 
  Arthur Charles Henry 
  
 
   
Married ((06?).1940, Gosport district, Hampshire) Gwen Jones. | 
09.08.1913 
South Stoneham district, Hampshire 
  - 
03.2005 
Southampton district, Hampshire | 
  
    
      | Prob. T/S.Lt. | 
      ? | 
     
    
      | T/S.Lt. | 
      26.06.1941 | 
     
    
      | T/Lt. | 
      26.06.1942 (reld 
		> 07.1945, < 04.1946) | 
     
   
 | 
| 
(08.1941) | 
  | 
  | 
no appointment listed | 
 
| 
22.09.1941 | 
- | 
(06.)1942 | 
HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, 
Fort William) (for motor launches) | 
 
| 
20.07.1942 | 
- | 
(03?).1945 | 
Commanding Officer, HM RML 526 (rescue motor launch) 
[07.1945 (erroneously?) still showing as 
such] | 
 
| 
03.03.1945 | 
- | 
(07.1945) | 
Commanding 
Officer, HM ML 877 (motor launch) | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such | 
Vicars, 
  Richard Archdall  
    | 
09.09.1910 
  Fulham district, Greater London / London /
  Middlesex 
  - 
  01.1997 
  Camden district, London 
   | 
  
    
      
      T/S.Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      ? 
      
       | 
     
    
      
      T/Lt. 
      
       | 
      
      27.06.1941 (reld > 04.1946) 
      
       | 
     
   
  
      | 
    MID 
       | 
    14.11.1944 
       | 
    Operation
      Neptune (Normandy 06.44) 
       | 
   
 
 | 
13.06.1941 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(01.1942) 
  
 | 
Commanding
  Officer, HMS Noss Head (cable ship) (Freetown) 
  
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07.1942 
   | 
- 
  
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(08.1942) 
  
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HMS Violet
  (corvette) 
  
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01.05.1943 
   | 
- 
  
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08.1943 
  
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HM LST 75 (landing ship, tank) 
  
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08.1943 
   | 
- 
  
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11.1944 
  
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Navigating Officer, HM LST 214 (landing ship, tank) (Anzio & Normandy) 
  
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11.1944 
   | 
- 
  
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(07.1945) 
  
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HM LST 361 (landing ship, tank)
  * 
  
 | 
 
 
* (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed
as such 
 | 
Vickers, 
  Basil Raymond 
  
 
   
Son of Charles Vickers (1876-), and Bertha Pike (1879-1947). 
Married (1945, Haymarket district, Scotland) Violette Ethel Henderson-Begg (née 
De Costa) ((12?).1917 - 2006), daughter of ... De Costa, and ... Bray; twin 
daughters. | 
24.02.1912 
Chorlton district, Lancashire 
  - 
1978 
Greenock district, Scotland | 
  
    
      | Prob. T/S.Lt. 
		(Sp.Br.) | 
      11.02.1940 | 
     
    
      | T/Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 
      11.06.1940 | 
     
    
      | T/El.Lt. | 
      11?/12?.1940, 
		seniority 11.06.1940 | 
     
    
      | T/A/El.Lt.Cdr. | 
      19.09.1941? (reld 
		> 07.1945, < 10.1945) | 
     
   
  
    
	  | 
    
	ArcSt | 
    
	- | 
    
	engaged in handing several 
	refitted whalers over to the Russians on Lease-Lend terms; he endured the 
	Arctic convoys from 1941-1943; over this period he made three trips to 
	Murmansk and Archangel | 
   
 
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Education: Grammar School and Technical School, 
Stockport.
| 
10.03.1940 | 
- | 
09.1941 | 
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, 
Portsmouth, from 03.05.1941 Roedean School, Brighton) (for Minesweeping 
Department) | 
 
| 
19.09.1941 | 
- | 
(10.)1942 | 
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and 
miscellaneous services) * | 
 
| 
(12.1942) | 
- | 
(06.1943) | 
Admiralty [HMS President] * / ** | 
 
| 
21.06.1943 | 
- | 
(07.)1945) | 
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) 
(for Minesweeping Department) * | 
 
 
* An article in The Electrical Journal states: "From 
September, 1941, to October. 1943 he was a liaison officer with the Russian 
Navy, and the technical adviser on mining, minesweeping and torpedo problems." 
** indexed, but not listed as such 
His daughter writes: "During November 1944 he played a part in sweeping the 
River Scheldt in Holland. He was one of a team of five who travelled down from 
Fettes in Edinburgh, the Admiralty Research Establishment in Scotland, to join 
Captain H.G. Hopper and his team in planning and advising."  | 
Vigrass, 
  
  Bert Walwyn 
  
  
   
   
  Son of ... Vigrass, and ... Walwyn. 
  
 | 
(03?).1921 
  Leek district, Staffordshire 
  - 
   
   | 
  
    
      T/A/S.Lt. (A) 
         | 
      ? 
         | 
     
    
      T/S.Lt. (A) 
         | 
      28.03.1942,
        seniority 11.01.1942 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. (A) 
         | 
      09.02.1944 
         | 
     
    
      T/A/Lt.Cdr. (A)
         
         | 
      < 07.1945
        (reld < 04.1946) 
         | 
     
    
      Lt. (A)
         
         | 
      01.03.1949,
        seniority 16.12.1946 
        19.01.1951, seniority 10.01.1946 
         | 
     
    
      A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 
         | 
      < 05.1953 
         | 
     
    
      Lt.Cdr. (A) 
         | 
      1953/54? 
         | 
     
    
      Cdr. (A) 
         | 
      31.12.1954 (retd
        08.10.1966) 
         | 
     
   
  
    | 
         
     | 
    OBE 
       | 
    31.05.1956 
       | 
    HM's
      birthday 56 
       | 
   
  
    
       
     | 
    VRD 
       | 
    11.02.1958 
       | 
    ? 
       | 
   
 
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05.1945 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
08.1945 
  
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Commanding
  Officer, 818
  Squadron FAA (Rattray) 
  
 | 
 
01.03.1949 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
transferred
  to Air Branch of Permanent RNVR 
  
 | 
 
(05.1950) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
1833
  Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwickshire] 
  
 | 
 
(05.1953) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
Commanding
  Officer,
  1833 Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwickshire] 
  
 | 
 
(01.1956) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
Commanding
  Officer,
  Midland Air Division RNVR 
  
 | 
 
 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
served
  RNR (when RNVR was disbanded) 
  
 | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
 | 
Villiers, 
  
  Alan John 
   
    
  Son of Leon Joseph Villiers and Anastasia Hayes. 
  Married 1st (1924) Daphne Kaye Harris (marriage dissolved 1936), Hobart; no
  children. 
  Married 2nd (1940) Nancie, only
  daughter of Alban Henry and Mabel Wills, Melbourne; two sons, one daughter. 
  
 | 
23.09.1903 
  Melbourne, Australia 
  - 
  03.03.1982 
  Oxford 
   | 
  
    
      Prob. T/Lt. 
         | 
      30.05.1940 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      ?, seniority
        30.05.1940 | 
     
    
      T/A/Lt.Cdr. 
         | 
      1943 
         | 
     
    
      T/A/Cdr. 
         | 
      1944 
         | 
     
   
  
    | 
         
     | 
    DSC 
       | 
    14.11.1944 
       | 
    Operation
      Neptune 
       | 
   
 
  Commendador of Portuguese Order of St James of
  the Sword.
  | 
Education: State Schools, Essendon High School,
Melbourne 
1919 
  
 | 
- 
  
 | 
1924 
  
 | 
went
  to sea in sail, whaling in Antarctic with Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen's first
  Ross Sea Expedition in whaler Sir James Clark Ross, 1923-24 
  
 | 
 
1931 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
joined
  Captain De Cloux in purchase of four masted barque Parma 
  
 | 
 
06.1934 
  
 | 
- 
  
 | 
1936 
  
 | 
bought
  Danish schoolship Georg Stage, renamed her Joseph Conrad and sailed 58,000
  miles round world 
  
 | 
 
1938 
  
 | 
- 
  
 | 
1939 
  
 | 
sailing
  in Kuweit dhows in Persian Gulf-Zanzibar trade 
  
 | 
 
(02.1941) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
HMS
  Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Fort William) * 
  
 | 
 
11.04.1941 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(02.)1943 
  
 | 
HMS St
  Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) 
  
 | 
 
07.04.1943 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
06.09.1943 
  
 | 
HMS
  Dinosaur (for LCI(L)s) 
  
 | 
 
07.09.1943 
   | 
- 
   
  
 | 
(04.1946) 
   
  
 | 
Commanded
  "A" Squadron of Landing Craft (Infantry) (L) in the invasions of Italy and
  Normandy (DSC) and at the occupation of Rangoon, Malaya, and East Indies [HMS
  Copra] 
  
 | 
 
 
Master, training ship Warspite, Outward Bound Sea
School, Aberdovey, N Wales, 1949; sailed with Portuguese Arctic codfishing fleet
in schooner Argus, 1950. Volunteered as Master of Mayflower replica, 1956, and
sailed the vessel across the N Atlantic without power, except sails. In command
of squarerigged ships for films: Moby Dick, 1955; John Paul Jones, 1958; Billy
Budd, 1961; Hawaii, 1965. Past President, Society for Nautical Research; Trustee of
National Maritime Museum, 1948-74; Governor Cutty Sark Preservation Society;
Member: HMS Victory Technical Advisory Committee; Ships Committee, Maritime
Trust. 
Published: Whaling in the Frozen South; Falmouth for Orders; By Way of
Cape Horn; The Sea in Ships; Sea Dogs of Today; Voyage of the Parma; Vanished
Fleets; The Last of the Windships; Cruise of the Conrad; Stormalong; The Making
of a Sailor, 1938; Sons of Sinbad, 1940; The Set of the Sails, 1949; The Coral
Sea, 1950; The Quest of the Schooner Argus, 1951 (Camoes Prize, Portugal); The
Indian Ocean, 1952; The Way of a Ship, 1954; Posted Missing, 1956; Pioneers of
the Seven Seas, 1956; The Western Ocean, 1957; Give Me a Ship to Sail, 1958; The
New Mayflower, 1959; The Oceans, 1963; The Battle of Trafalgar, 1965; Captain
Cook, the Seamen's Seaman, 1967; The War with Cape Horn, 1971; (with H. Picard)
The Bounty Ships of France, 1972. 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
 | 
Viner, 
  Robert Alfred Lewis 
    | 
(12?).1903 
  Billericay district, Essex 
  - 
  ? 
   | 
  
    
      Prob. T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      18.10.1940 
         | 
     
    
       T/Lt. 
         | 
      18.01.1941 
         | 
     
    
      T/A/Lt.Cdr. 
         | 
      < 07.1945 (reld
        > 04.1946)
         
         | 
     
   
 | 
(02.1941) 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
HMS Welsbach (minesweeping trawler) * 
  
 | 
 
(12.1941) 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
HMS Welsbach (minesweeping trawler) * 
  
 | 
 
09.03.1942 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
08.1943 
  
 | 
Commanding
  Officer, HM MMS 64 (motor minesweeper) [
  from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)] 
  
 | 
 
06.09.1943 
  
 | 
- 
  
 | 
(07.1945) 
  
 | 
Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2212
  (British yard minesweeper) 
  
 | 
 
(04.1946) 
  
 | 
  
  
 | 
  
  
 | 
no appointment listed 
  
 | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
 | 
Vlasto, 
  Michael Croil 
"Pogy" 
  
 
   
Son of Dr Michel Ernest Theodore Dimitri Vlasto (1888-1979), and Christian 
Mitchell Croil (1894-1983) 
Married (11.06.1949, Westerham, Kent) Eileen Hay (17.06.1923 -), daughter of Dr 
Horace William Hay (1892-1977), and Lilian Nelly Naggiar (1898-1987); two sons. | 
03.04.1923 
Bayswater, London 
  - 
02.03.1971 
Oakford, Devon | 
  
    
      | T/A/S.Lt. 
		(Sp.Br.) | 
      23.06.1944 | 
     
    
      | T/S.Lt. (Sp.Br.) | 
      23.12.1944 | 
     
    
      | T/A/Lt. 
		(Sp.Br.) | 
      > 04.1945, < 
		07.1945 (reld > 04.1946) | 
     
   
 | 
Education: Charterhouse School (Pageites House; 
1937.1-1941.1).
| 
10.1944 | 
- | 
(07.)1945 | 
HMS Fann 
(RN base, Dakar, Senegal) | 
 
|   | 
  | 
  | 
British Naval 
Liaison Officer, French submarine Arethuse | 
 
| 03.12.1944 | 
- | 
(02.1945) | 
British Naval 
Liaison Officer, French submarine La Vestale | 
 
| 
(10.1945) | 
  | 
  | 
no 
appointment listed | 
 
| 
14.02.1946 | 
- | 
(04.1946) | 
HMS 
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for Belmont Park Camp) | 
 
 
Farmer. | 
Von
  Mehren, 
  
  Edward Carl Frederick 
  
 
  
  
   
  Son (with one brother) of Eduard Eigel von 
Mehren (1876-), and Eleonore Allette Lyhr (1882-1965). 
Brother of Lt. Paul Christian von Mehren,
  RNVR. 
  Married 1st (29.01.1939, Odense, Fyn, Denmark; divorced 18.12.1945) Anelise 
Andersen (19.05.1915 - ), daughter of Niels Andersen (1886-), and Erika 
Laurentine Nielsen (1888-). 
Married 2nd ((03?).1946, St Marylebone district, London) ... 
Married 3rd (1965, Glasgow, Scotland) Agnes Heron. | 
16.10.1912 
Pollokshields district, Scotland 
  - 
1984 | 
  
    
      Prob. T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      18.10.1940 
         | 
     
    
      T/S.Lt. 
         | 
      ?, seniority
        18.10.1940 
         | 
     
    
      T/Lt. 
         | 
      18.10.1941 (reld
        1945/46?) 
         | 
     
   
 | 
(02.1941) 
   | 
 
  
 | 
 
  
 | 
HMS St
  Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) * 
  
 | 
 
28.05.1945 
   | 
- 
  
 | 
(07.1945) 
  
 | 
HMS Fervent
  (RN base, Ramsgate) 
  
 | 
 
 
* indexed, but not listed as such 
 | 
Von
  Mehren, 
  
  Paul  Christian 
  
 
  ![P.C. Von Mehren [UNCONFIRMED]](bio/british/Von_Mehren_PC_02_s.JPG)  
Son (with one brother) of Eduard Eigel von Mehren (1876-), and Eleonore Allette 
Lyhr (1882-1965). 
  Brother of Lt. Edward Carl Frederick von Mehren, RNVR. 
Married 1st (1944, Leith district, Scotland) Agnes Helen Walker (23.10.1919 - 
05.11.1975), daughter of George Walker (1885-1952), and Margaret 
Williamson-Mackay (1886-1969); two children. 
Married 2nd Cynthia Holmes (16.06.1926 - 26.07.2008), daughter of Thomas Allen 
Holmes, and Edith Kate Brewer; two children. 
Married 3rd  ((12?).1969, Hemel Hempstead district, Hertfordshire) Janet 
Willis. | 
05.11.1916 
Pollokshields district, Scotland 
  - 
  21.07.1994 
  London City, London (formerly of Piccotts End, Hemel 
Hampstead, Hertfordshire) | 
  
    
      | Prob. T/S.Lt. | 
      09.02.1940 | 
     
    
      | T/S.Lt. | 
      10.1940,
        seniority 09.02.1940 | 
     
    
      | T/Lt. | 
      17.07.1942,
        seniority 05.11.1941 (reld 1946?) | 
     
   
 | 
| (04.1940) | 
  | 
  | 
no appointment listed | 
 
| 10.07.1940 | 
- | 
(02.1941) | 
HMS Sandown
  (auxiliary anti-aircraft vessel) | 
 
| 19.03.1943 | 
- | 
(04.1944) | 
HMS Boston
  (minesweeper) | 
 
| 13.07.1944 | 
- | 
(04.1946) | 
HMS
  Coquette (minesweeper) | 
 
 
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