V |
|
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
DFC
|
?
|
?
|
|
AM
|
?
|
&
2 oak leaf clusters
|
|
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)
|
07.1942
|
-
|
(08.1942)
|
HMS Violet
(corvette)
|
01.05.1943
|
-
|
08.1943
|
HM LST 75 (landing ship, tank)
|
08.1943
|
-
|
11.1944
|
Navigating Officer, HM LST 214 (landing ship, tank) (Anzio & Normandy)
|
11.1944
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
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 |
|
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
|
?
|
|
05.1945
|
-
|
08.1945
|
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
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03.03.1982
Oxford
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Prob. T/Lt.
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30.05.1940
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T/Lt.
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?, seniority
30.05.1940 |
T/A/Lt.Cdr.
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1943
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T/A/Cdr.
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1944
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DSC
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14.11.1944
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Operation
Neptune
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Commendador of Portuguese Order of St James of
the Sword.
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Education: State Schools, Essendon High School,
Melbourne
1919
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-
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1924
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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
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1931
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joined
Captain De Cloux in purchase of four masted barque Parma
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06.1934
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-
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1936
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bought
Danish schoolship Georg Stage, renamed her Joseph Conrad and sailed 58,000
miles round world
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1938
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-
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1939
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sailing
in Kuweit dhows in Persian Gulf-Zanzibar trade
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(02.1941)
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HMS
Aberdonian (Coastal Forces depot ship, Fort William) *
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11.04.1941
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-
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(02.)1943
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HMS St
Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William)
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07.04.1943
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-
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06.09.1943
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HMS
Dinosaur (for LCI(L)s)
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07.09.1943
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-
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(04.1946)
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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]
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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
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Viner,
Robert Alfred Lewis
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(12?).1903
Billericay district, Essex
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?
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Prob. T/S.Lt.
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18.10.1940
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T/Lt.
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18.01.1941
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T/A/Lt.Cdr.
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< 07.1945 (reld
> 04.1946)
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(02.1941)
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HMS Welsbach (minesweeping trawler) *
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(12.1941)
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HMS Welsbach (minesweeping trawler) *
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09.03.1942
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-
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08.1943
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Commanding
Officer, HM MMS 64 (motor minesweeper) [
from 11.05.1942 HMS Forward (RN base, Newhaven)]
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06.09.1943
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-
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(07.1945)
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Commanding Officer, HM BYMS 2212
(British yard minesweeper)
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(04.1946)
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no appointment listed
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* indexed, but not listed as such
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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
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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) |
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Education: Charterhouse School (Pageites House;
1937.1-1941.1).
10.1944 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
HMS Fann
(RN base, Dakar, Senegal) |
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British Naval
Liaison Officer, French submarine Arethuse |
03.12.1944 |
- |
(02.1945) |
British Naval
Liaison Officer, French submarine La Vestale |
(10.1945) |
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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.
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18.10.1940
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T/S.Lt.
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?, seniority
18.10.1940
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T/Lt.
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18.10.1941 (reld
1945/46?)
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(02.1941)
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HMS St
Christopher (Coastal Forces training establishment, Fort William) *
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28.05.1945
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-
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(07.1945)
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HMS Fervent
(RN base, Ramsgate)
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* indexed, but not listed as such
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Von
Mehren,
Paul Christian
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
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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?) |
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(04.1940) |
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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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