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Blacklaws, Douglas William Son of William and Georgina Hunter Blacklaws. Married (25.09.1937, Auckland) Ruth Aline Scott, of Herne Bay, Auckland; one daughter, one son.	20.04.1903 Aberdeen, Scotland - 14.05.1941 (MPK) [age 37] [New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Auckland, panel 7]	Prob. Lt. 13.01.1935 Lt. 1936?, seniority 13.01.1935	Trained as a naval cadet in the UK. Came to New Zealand while serving in the mercantile marine (2nd Mate, 19.03.1924), and for four years was navigating officer in the "Aorangi". 23.10.1939 - 1941? Navigating Officer, HMS Monowai (armed merchant cruiser) 1941? - 1941? First Lieutenant & Navigating Officer in a minesweeper 05.1941 - 14.05.1941 Commanding Officer *, HMS Puriri (minesweeper) (ship sunk by a German mine on in the Hauraki Gulf, off Auckland) * given command for this one sweep while the regular CO was ashore on sick leave
Bourke, Leo Patrick Married; two sons (Cdr. Geoffrey John Bourke, MBE, Dip Mgt, AFNZIM, RNZN & Denis Hamilton Bourke, university tutor).	05.04.1905 Amyton, South Australia - 26.05.1992 Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand	Prob. S.Lt. 23.02.1928 S.Lt. ?, seniority 23.02.1928 Lt. 18.07.1932 Lt.Cdr. 18.07.1940 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. RNZN 30.06.1950 (retd [05.04?].1960) Cdre. 1959 OBE 09.06.1949 HM's birthday 49 DSC 19.12.1944 probably sinking U-boat Western Approaches 08.01.44 [award presented] DSC 15.05.1945 action with U-boats North Sea 02.45 [award presented] RD 1930s? ?	01.01.1919 - 31.12.1921 Cadet Midshipman, Permanent Naval Forces of Australia (RAN College) Made redundant through the cuts in public expenditure ("Geddes axe"), he joined the Merchant Navy (eventually becoming a Master Mariner), and in the late 1920s joined the Royal Navy Reserve (New Zealand Division). 20.11.1939 - (06.)1943 Gunnery Officer, HMNZS Monowai (armed merchant cruiser) 07.08.1943 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Dacres (frigate) [based at HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 15.12.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Bayntun (frigate) 03.1946 transferred to RNZN (04.1946) HMS Ausonia (repair ship) * 25.03.1946 - (07.)1948 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Tamaki (RNZN training establishment, Motuihe Island, Auckland) ** 18.08.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Taupo (frigate) ** 11.08.1949 - (05.1950) [Commanding Officer?], HMS Philomel II (Navy Office, Wellington) ? - (05.1950) also: Naval ADC to the Governor-General 30.11.1951 - (05.)1953 HMNZS Philomel (additional; as Naval Attaché, Melbourne) 1953 - 1955 attended Imperial Defence College (London) [HMS President] 24.01.1955 - (01.)1957 Naval Director, Senior Officers' War Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.02.1957 - (01.)1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) & as Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (Suez crisis) 1959 - 1960 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland Head of Northern Zone, Civil Defence of New Zealand, 1960-1970. * indexed, but not listed as such ** After leaving HMNZS Tamaki in 1948 he first took the Flower Class corvette flotila HMNZS Arabis (in Command) and HMNZS Arbutus back to the UK, and brought out the Loch Class frigates (11th Frigate Flotilla) as Cdr F11 in HMNZS Taupo, with HMNZ Ships Hawea, Kaniere, Pukaki, Rotoiti and Tutira in company - or he may have brought out four, with the last two arriving later.
Bradley, Samuel Clive	(12?).1905 Kings Norton district, Staffordshire / Warwickshire / Worcestershire -	T/Lt. RNVR 09.11.1940 T/Lt. 06.1942, seniority 09.11.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 (reld > 04.1946)	09.11.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Reading (destroyer) 06.1942     transferred, RNR 15.06.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) (for miscellaneous services, later for motor launch duties) > 02.1943 < 06.943 transferred, RNZNR 07.08.1943 - 04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Caicos (frigate) (10.1944)     HMS Caicos (frigate) * ? - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Cayman (frigate) [date of appointment given as 22.01.1944] (04.1946)     no appointment listed

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Carlyon, Cecil Rivers Son of Harry Tredenham Fitzherbert Carlyon (1873-1959), of Gwavas. Married (18.12.1933, Otane) Mary Beatrix Loughnan (19.11.1905 - 25.04.1993), daughter of Charles Albert Loughnan (?-1959), and Margaret E. Loughnan (?-1939); ... children.	14.02.1905 Waipawa - 05.02.1994	Lt. 01.07.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1944 RD ? -	Master Mariner. Served Union SS Co., 1928-1939. (09.1939) - (03.1940) no appointment listed 30.03.1940 - (04.)1943 HMS Achilles, from 1941 HMNZS Achilles (Leander class cruiser) (06.1943)     HMNZS Achilles (Leander class cruiser) * (08.1943)     HMS Test (River class frigate) * 10.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS) (for miscellaneous duties) (02.1944)     no appointment listed 07.02.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Squid (Combined Operations base, Southampton) (10.1945)     no appointment listed Sheep farmer. * indexed, but not listed as such

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Fitzpatrick, John	? -	T/Lt. 14.11.1940	03.04.1941 - (10.1944) HMNZS Gale (minesweeper) (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     no appointment listed

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Holden, Andrew Douglas	? - died between 07.1962 and 08.1973 ??	Lt. 01.03.1925 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1934 A/Cdr. > 04.1940, < 02.1941 Cdr. 30.06.1940 Capt. 31.12.1945 (retd > 01.1956, < 07.1959)) OBE 01.01.1943 New Year 43 DSC 01.01.1946 New Year 46 RD ? ?	04.03.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) 01.04.1941 - 21.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Matai (minesweeper) & Senior Officer, 25th Minesweeping Flotilla 12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Hound (minesweeper) (04.1946) HMS Fraserburgh (minesweeper) * * indexed, but not listed as such

 

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Jensen, Gerard Douglas Gordon	(12?).1907 Dartford district, Kent -	T/Lt. 03.10.1942 reld > 04.1946)	(10.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed [spent most of his time at Navy Office in Wellington, involved with the naval control of merchant shipping]

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MacMillan, W	? -	T/A/Lt.Cdr. ?	29.07.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) [perhaps only till 04.1942] * indexed, but not listed as such
Morse, Evan Roger Son of George Francis Morse (1857-1917), and Isabella Maud Davidson (1865-1933). Married Maggie Preston (1897-1989); two sons.	21.12.1899 Fordell, Wanganui, New Zealand - 30.11.1968 Auckland, New Zealand	T/Lt. (E) RNR 26.04.1942 T/Lt. (E) 20.05.1943?, seniority 26.04.1942 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 30.09.1944 (reld 24.06.1946)	03.10.1940 - 21.08.1941 Sergeant, 20th Field Company, NZ Army Engineers (Fiji) 05.09.1941 - 25.04.1942 19th Field Company, NZ Army Engineers (Egypt) 26.04.1942     transferred from NZ Army to RNR 26.04.1942 - 19.05.1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for disposal, special services; for duty Officer (Engineer) as Engineer Officer-in-Charge NCI". CO Number 1 Mobile Land Repair Unit (Naval Party 871)) 20.05.1943?     transferred from RNR to RNZNR 20.05.1943 - 31.12.1943 HMS Hasdrubal (RN base, Bizerta & Ferryville, Tunisia) 01.01.1944 - 14.09.1944 HMS Byrsa (RN base, Naples, Italy) 15.09.1944 - 18.03.1945 HMNZS Cook (RNZN depot & training establishment, Wellington, New Zealand) 19.03.1945 - 1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 1945 - 1945 HMS Royal Albert (RN base, London, UK/Berlin, Germany, for Naval Party 1749) 1945 - 1945 HMS Royal Edgar (port party, Hamburg, Germany) 1945 - 23.12.1945 HMS Royal Rupert (Naval Party 1735, Wilhelmshaven, Germany; as Engineer Officer-in-Charge) 24.12.1945 - 24.06.1946 HMNZS Cook (RNZN depot & training establishment, Wellington, New Zealand; additional, for dispersal & release) From his obituary: "Mr E.R. Morse, well known as a marine engineer on British and New Zealand ship, has died in Auckland at the age of 68. During the Second World War Mr Morse served with the Royal Navy as officer in charge of a repair and salvage unit in the Mediterranean holding the rank of lieutenant commander. After VE day he was responsible for the remaining ships of the German Navy, as engineer officer in charge of the Wilhelmshaven naval dockyard. When the war ended he became manager of a large chemical and phosphate works and consulting and design engineer to the Fletcher Construction Co., Ltd. Mr Morse was marine and engineer superintendent to the Department of Island Territories and was responsible for surveys, repairs and maintenance of Government vessels in the Cook Islands service. He was a member of the Prince of Wales Lodge, the Mission Bay Bowling Club and was a foundation member of the Onehunga Rotary Club."

 

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Roberts, James Gilmour	? -	T/Lt. 28.12.1942 (reld ? 04.1946)	16.01.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) * (07.1945) no appointment listed * starting date indicated as 16.01.1943, but not listed under the ship in 1943, so possibly 1944 in stead of 1943

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Tattersfield, Felix Maxwell Brother of J.W. Tattersfield, RNZNVR.	13.04.1914 - 06.10.1942 (KIA) [age 28] [New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Auckland]	Ord.Sea. RNZNR 1940? T/S.Lt. RNZNR 14.08.1941 T/S.Lt. RNZNVR 01.06.1942	Education: Mount Albert Grammar School; diploma in banking ? - 1940 bank officer before joining the RNZNR (12.1941)     HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) * 01.06.1942 changed to RNZNVR 29.06.1942 - 06.10.1942 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 29 (motor torpedo boat) (4th MTB Flotilla) [HMS Beehive] (missing in action, reclassified 30.01.1945 as missing, presumed killed) * indexed, but not listed as such

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Vickers, Thomas Andrew Son of Thomas Vickers. Married; two sons.	08.05.1897 Durham - 15.03.1961 Eastbourne, Sussex	T/Midsh. RNR (1915?) T/S.Lt. RNR 16.07.1917 (demobilised 10.01.1919?) Lt. 01.03.1925 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1933 Cdr. 01.03.1936 Capt. 08.05.1947 OBE 01.01.1957 New Year 57 RD 1940 ? 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - 39|45 St - - Atl St - - Pac St - - It St - - BWM 39|45 - - JubM 35 - - CorM 53 - -	28.12.1914 joined RNR (possibly at RN College Keyham) 20.04.1915 - 10.01.1919 HMS Orcoma Went on to a career in the Mercantile Marine, firstly on 4 Apr - 27 Sep 1919 joining SS Laurel as second officer before joining the New Zealand Shipping Company, served on various ships as Navigating Officer, before leaving the NZSC because of the indifferent health of his wife. Joined Pacific Cable Board, 1925. Transferred to the Cable and Wireless Ltd in 1929, and over his career (till 1956/57) would serve on Cable Ships - Recorder, Cable Enterprise, Retriever, Pacific, Lady Denison-Pender, Noreseman and Mirror.  12.09.1926 - 09.10.1926 training, HMS Diomede (cruiser) 06.01.1927 - 10.05.1927 HMS Iris (cable ship) 18.09.1939 placed at the disposal of the Admiralty, but Officers of Cable Ships were exempted from active war service because of the specialist nature of their work, hence: (04.1940) - (12.1941) no appointment listed during WW2 he served on Cable Ships in West Indies, Singapore and Mediterranean, including the CS Mirror, which laid submarine telegraph cables to support the communication systems after the Allied landings in North Africa

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