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I.A. Beattie  to  S.F. Berthon
Beattie, Ian Anthony "Boo" Son (with two brothers) of Sg.Capt. William Forbes Beattie, RN (1889-1961), and Mary Millicent Daly (1895-1964). Married (03.01.1959, St Marys, Cadogan Street, London) Ann Hedley (15.02.1924 - 05.05.2003); one son.	12.06.1925 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 05.05.2002 Torquay, Torbay district, Devon	Midsh. 01.09.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1944 S.Lt. 01.08.1944 Lt. 01.05.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1954 Cdr. 30.06.1962 (retd 11.03.1966; invalided)	Education: Worth School (1934-1939); RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.01.1939-07.1942; Admiralty No. 42). 01.09.1942 - 30.12.1943 HMS Belfast (improved Southampton class cruiser) 31.12.1943 - 05.1944 HMS Milne (M class destroyer) 05.1944 - 14.05.1945 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth): 11.1944 - 05.1945 hospitalised 15.05.1945 - 28.06.1945 HMS Verdun (V class destroyer) 29.06.1945 - 15.10.1945 HMS Garth (Hunt class destroyer) 16.10.1945 - (10.)1946 HMS St Kitts 11.1946 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5008 [HMS Hornet] 02.01.1949 - (05.)1949 HMS Bruce (training establishment) 12.10.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Nigeria 02.10.1950 - (05.)1951 HMS Bermuda (10.1951)     no appointment listed 07.11.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS St Vincent (training establishment) 28.12.1953 - (04.)1955 HMS Morecambe Bay (Far East Station) 20.06.1955 - (01.)1957 teaching staff, Britannia RN College Dartmouth [HMS Dartmouth] 06.08.1957 - (01.1958) HMS Diana 07.01.1959 - 1959 Army Staff Course Camberley [HMS President] 11.12.1959 - (02.)1962 First Lieutenant, RN Engineering College. Manadon, Plymouth [HMS Thunderer] 07.1962     Midland Area Officer, Sea Cadet Corps 1964     due to be posted to RN Attaché’s Office, Norfolk Virginia but cancelled due to ill health
Beattie, Stephen Halden "Sam" Son of Rev. Prebendary Ernest Halden Beattie, MC (1876-1960), and Ethel Knowles. Married ((06?).1933, Gosport district, Hampshire) Philippa Mary Blanchflower ((09?).1911 - ), daughter of Paym.R.Adm. Edward Charles Blanchflower (1881-1949); four sons.	29.03.1908 Leighton, Montgomeryshire, Wales - 24.04.1975 Mullion, Cornwall [Ruan Minor Churchyard]	Midsh. 01.01.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1929 S.Lt. 12.08.1930, seniority 01.04.1929 Lt. 10.04.1931, seniority 01.11.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1938 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960) VC 21.05.1942 attack St. Nazaire 28.03.1942 [investiture 22.06.1945] MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 MID 19.02.1946 escape & internment as POW LegH 1947 St. Nazaire 28.03.1942 [investiture 14.07.1950] CdeG 1947 St. Nazaire 28.03.1942 ? Men 1969 ?	Education: Abberley Hall; Rugby. 1925     special entry cadet 10.01.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.01.1930 - (04.)1930 promotion course, Portsmouth 14.08.1930 - (05.)1933 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 05.05.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Ganges (naval base Harwich) 17.06.1935 - (07.)1935 [Commanding Officer?], HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 23.07.1935 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Arrow (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 28.07.1937 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Zulu (destroyer) 06.07.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Vivien (destroyer) 03.1942 - 28.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbeltown (destroyer) (St. Nazaire raid) 28.03.1942 - (04?).1945 prisoner of war in German captivity (04.1946)     no appointment listed 08.03.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Hawke (Upper Yardmen's College, Exbury House, Exbury, Southampton) 20.07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Whirlwind 20.03.1952 - 09.02.1954 on loan to RAN (Exchange Officer): 24.03.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMAS Shoalhaven (frigate), from 09.06.1953 HMAS Quadrant & Senior Officer, 1st Australian Frigate Squadron 03.05.1954 - (01.)1956 Naval Assistant to Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 17.04.1956 - 1958 Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf [HMS Jufair] 14.07.1958 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, HMS Birmingham [Flag Captain to Flag Officer Flotillas, Home Fleet] (01.1960)     HMS Birmingham * Naval Adviser to Ethiopian Government, 1965. * indexed, but not listed as such
Beatty, Earl David Field; 2nd Baron Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby, cr. 1919; Viscount Borodale (up to 1936) Elder son of Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty (1871-1936), 1st Earl Beatty, and Ethel Field (1873-1932). Married 1st (21.04.1937, City of London Register Office, London; divorced 1945) Dorothy Power Sands, daughter of Thomas Sarsfield Kent Power, of Virginia, USA. She remarried (1954) 6th Baron Brownlow. Married 2nd (07.02.1946, Westminster district, London; divorced 1950) Dorothy Rita Bragg (née Furey), daughter of Michael James Furey; one son. She remarried (1951) Abram Stevens Hewitt, of New York. Married 3rd (05.07.1951, Brackley district, Northamptonshire; divorced 1958) Adelle D. O'Connor (née Dillingham), daughter of M. Dillingham, of New York; one daughter. Married 4th (03.12.1959, Midhurst Register Office, Sussex), Diane Kirk Blundell, daughter of John Rutherford Blundell; one son, one daughter.	22.02.1905 Malta - 10.06.1972 St Marylebone district, London	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. 03.09.1926 Lt. 31.08.1928 (resigned 09.04.1930) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 30.08.1936 (mobilized 13.09.1939) A/Cdr. (emgcy) > 10.1942, < 12.1942 (reld > 04.1945, < 07.1945) Cdr. (emgcy) 03.09.1945 DSC 02.10.1942 Dieppe	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (15.09.1918-...). 15.09.1923 - 19.01.1925 HMS Danae (light cruiser) 19.01.1925 - 01.1926 HMS Revenge (battleship) 01.02.1926 - 08.07.1927 promotion courses, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 20.09.1927 - 04.1928 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 10.05.1928 - 14.11.1928 HMS Victoria and Albert (Royal yacht) 15.11.1928 - 09.1929 HMS Lowestoft (2nd class cruiser) 19.09.1929 - 01.01.1930 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for unemployed time) 02.01.1930 - 09.04.1930 ... 13.09.1939 - 21.03.1940 HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 01.04.1940 - 20.04.1940 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine training establishment, Portland) (additional; for anti-submarine course) 21.04.1940 - 19.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Puffin (Kingfisher class sloop) 09.10.1940 - 05.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Buxton (Town class destroyer) 18.11.1941 - 08.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Boreas (B class destroyer) (02.1942) - (04.1942) HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) * 01.04.1942 - (12.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for LCTs): 19.08.1942     Senior Officer Group 8 (Dieppe raid) 07.1943     Sicily 27.12.1943 - 18.12.1944 Combined Operations Material Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.12.1944 - (04.)1945 Deputy Director of Combined Operations Material Department (A), Admiralty [HMS President] Member of Parliament (MP) (U) Peckham Division of Camberwell, 1931-36; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1931-36; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Air Ministry, 1945; Member London County Council for Peckham, 1937-46; Chairman of Navy League, 1937-41, President, 1941-44. Chairman, British Empire Games (England), 1950-1972. Chairman, Home Oil of Canada Limited, 1966-1972.
Beattie, William Forbes "Wooly" Son (with two brothers and one sister) of William Copland Beattie (1842-1912), and Margaret Catherine Chambers Hunter Jopp (1852-1913). Married (27.01.1920) Mary Millicent Daly (16.06.1895 - 23.06.1964); three sons (Cdr. Ian Anthony Beattie, RN).	23.07.1889 Rothiemay, Banff - 13.08.1961 Bognor Regis, Sussex	Sg. = Sg.Lt. 03.04.1914 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 03.04.1920 Sg.Cdr. 03.04.1926 A/Sg.Capt. 12.09.1942? Sg.Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 11.03.1947)	Education: University of Aberdeen (12.07.1912);  MB, ChB. RN Hospital Haslar, Gosport (1914). 01.08.1914 - (04.)1915 HMS Amphritite (cruiser) (Atlantic Patrol) 1915 - 1915 HMS Victory (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 07.08.1915 - (10.1916) HMS St.Vincent (battleship) (North Sea & at time of Battle of Jutland) 28.05.1917 - (01.)1919 RN Dockyard Haulbowline, Cork, Eire & for RN Hospital [HMS Colleen] 31.01.1919 - (08.)1919 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 08.1919 - (10.)1919 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 04.10.1919 - (01.)1921 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonprt) 12.09.1921 - (04.1922) HMS Ceres (light cruiser) (Mediterranean) 12.11.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 14.01.1925 - (10.)1925 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Whale Island, Portsmouth) 11.11.1925 - (01.)1928 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (China) 02.1928 - (04.)1928 HMS Conquest (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (05.)1928 - (06.)1928 no appointment listed 21.06.1928 - (04.)1930 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.07.1930 - (03.)1931 HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & as Fleet Medical Officer, Africa Station 05.1931 - (08.)1932 HMS Cardiff (cruiser) & as Fleet Medical Officer, Africa Station (09.)1932 - (01.)1933 no appointment listed 10.02.1933 - (09.)1935 Royal Marine Infirmary, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 30.09.1935 - (10.)1936 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 28.10.1936 - (11.)1936 HMS Barham (battleship) 20.11.1936 - (03.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) & as Squadron Medical Officer, 1st Battle Squadron 30.05.1938 - (06.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.06.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (12.)1940 - (08.)1942 no appointment listed 12.09.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS Asbury (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, D.C., USA): 02.1944 - (04.)1944 Chief Medical Officer, RN Hospital, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA (06.)1944 - (07.)1945 Medical Officer, RM Training Group Wales (Gibraltar Camp, Llanegryn, Towyn) 13.10.1945 - (10.1946) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
Beatty, William Richard Le Hunt	05.12.1913 Quetta, India - 20.01.1975	... ... Lt. (A) 21.08.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) < 07.1945 ... ... Cdr. (A) ? (retd 05.12.1958)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Beauchamp, Charles Son (with twelve siblings) of Albert Beauchamp (1851-1936), and Julia Ellen Rawlins (1855-1934). Married (18.07.1909, Hardington Mandeville, Somerset) Eliza Beauchamp (07.05.1883 - 19.01.1945); six daughters.	06.01.1881 Whiteparish, Wiltshire - 04.01.1971 Brightstone, Isle of Wight	T/Bm.Eng. RNR 29.01.1940 T/Wt.Mech. 1941?, seniority 29.01.1940 (reld 13.08.1945)	01.02.1940 - (03.)1940 HM Boom Depot, Greenock, Clyde [HMS Orlando] 15.03.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Mount Ard (auxiliary trawler; boom defence vessel) (12.1940) - (10.1941) no appointment listed 11.1941 - (06.)1945 HMS Bishopsgate (boom gate vessel)
Beauchamp, Lawrence King Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Cdr. Willoughby George Beauchamp, RIM (1864-1922), and Emily Greaves (1861-1910). Married (09.04.1924, St Paul's, London) Helen Mary Victoria Stuart (14.04.1897 - 01.1996), daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of Robert Edward Stuart (1859-1951), solicitor, and Frances Dacre Spurrell (1858-1936); one son, two daughters.	23.06.1900 Great Missenden, Amersham district, Buckinghamshire - 04.06.1966 Gosport district, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.05.1917 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1919 S.Lt. 15.09.1919 A/Lt. 15.09.1921 Lt. 26.10.1922, senioirty15.09.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1929 (retd 23.06.1945; age) Cdr. (retd) 23.06.1945 (dispersed 21.08.1948) (reverted to retd 17.10.1948; medically unfit)	Ecuaction: RN College, Osborne & Dartmouth; King's College, Cambridge University (18.04.1921-18.09.1921; special course). ... - ... ... 01.06.1937 - 05.06.1939 HMS Norfolk II, from 10.1938 HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (additional; in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer & as Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon) (07.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 20.09.1939 - 10.12.1939 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 11.12.1939 - 20.07.1942 HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 21.07.1942 - 26.02.1943 HMS Activity (escort carrier) [tender to HMS Unicorn II (additional)] 27.02.1943 - 21.03.1944 Assistant to Drafting Commander, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (additional)] 22.03.1944 - 07.1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 07.1944 - 08.03.1948 Drafting Commander, RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional)] (as A/Cdr.)
Beazley, Peter Bryan	16.05.1925 -	Midsh. 01.09.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1944 S.Lt. 01.09.1944 Lt. 01.07.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1954 (retd 16.05.1970) Hon. Cdr. ?	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.01.1939-07.1942; Admiralty No. 43). ... - ... ... 03.10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser) ... - ... ...
Becker, David Antony	19.12.1925 - 09.03.1994	Midsh. (S) 01.01.1944 A/S.Lt. (S) 01.09.1945 S.Lt. ? Lt. (S) 01.06.1947 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.06.1955 Cdr. (S) 30.06.1964 (retd 01.03.1972; medically unfit)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.09.1939-12.1943; Admiralty No. 128). ... - ... ... 12.09.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Newfoundland (Uganda class cruiser) ... - ... ...
Beckett, Roger Caton Son of George Ignatius Beckett, teacher, and Ellen Caton. Married Ethel Winifred (née ...); ... children (one son?).	19.03.1901 South Africa - 28.08.1973 Maenporth, Falmouth district, Cornwall	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921 S.Lt. 1923? Lt. 25.10.1924, seniority 15.10.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1930 (retd 19.03.1946) A/Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943 Cdr. (retd) 19.03.1946 MID 08.12.1942 administration & defence of Malta summer 1942	03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [GHMS President] 31.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Mediterranean) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 01.1927 - (02.)1927 First Lieutenant, HMS Torrid (destroyer) 05.1927 - (07.)1927 First Lieutenant, HMS Violent (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (and on recommissioning) 26.08.1927 - (06.1928) First Lieutenant, HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 05.1929 - (05.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Whitley (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 13.11.1931 - (10.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Sardonyx (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 10.03.1933 - (11.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (China) 14.12.1934 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (destroyer) (China) 25.02.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Grenade (destroyer) (and on commissioning) [while being built at Govan] 07.03.1936 - (06.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Gallant (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 19.09.1938 - (08.)1939 Officer Instructor, Mersey Division RNVR [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 01.11.1939 - 12.02.1940 HMS Brazen (destroyer) 03.1940 - 05.1940 HMS Garland (destroyer) 30.05.1940 - (02.1943) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (06.1943) - (06.1944) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * 17.10.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Squid (Combined Operations base, Southampton) 05.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beckett, Walter Napier Thomason "Joe" Son of Brig.Gen. William Thomas Clifford Beckett, CBE, DSO (1862-1956), and Bessie Drummond, daughter of General C.S. Thomason, RE, Benga. Brother of Maj.Gen. C.T. Beckett, CB, CBE, MC. Married (30.07.1928, St Luke's, South Kensington, London) Gladys Hemery Lindon (died 1964), daughter of late E.B. Lindon; one daughter.	25.03.1893 Bilasput, Central Provinces, India - 10.03.1941 Saltash Hospital, nr Devonport Dockyard [Havant and Waterloo (Warblington) Cemetery, sec. 2, old ground, grave 105] [commemorated at the Grantown on Spey war memorial in Scotland]	Midsh. 15.09.1910 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1913 S.Lt. 15.01.1914 Lt. 15.11.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1929 Capt. 30.06.1936 MVO 22.04.1925 personal escort to Their Majesties during the cruise of the Royal Yacht in Italian Waters 03-04.1925 DSC 12.05.1917 CMB No. 4 * MID 1917 * * December 1916. Proceeded to Dunkerque in command of 3rd C.M.B. Division (Coastal Motor Boats) to operate on the Belgian Coast. Organised tempory base and established liaison with French Naval Authorities and with the Air Force. In Command of divisional C.M.B. attack on German destroyers at Zeebrugge, April 7th, 1917 and as a result one enemy was sunk and another seriously damaged.	Education: Park House School, Kent; RN College, Osborne. 15.01.1906     entered RN 1914 - 1919 HMS Legion (Harwich Force & Dover Patrol, 1914-1916; Heligoland, Dogger Bank, Terschelling, Belgian Coast, Coastal Motor Boats, 1916 (DSC) 09.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, CMB 86c (Northern Russia, 1919 (Dwina river)) 01.11.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Ramillies (battleship) 30.09.1924 - (05.1926) Commanding Officer, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 14.04.1927 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Velox (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 25.06.1929 - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Vendetta (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (02.1931)     HMS Fisgard (training depot) * 11.02.1931 - (09.1932) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1933)     no appointment listed 01.05.1933 - (06.1933) Commanding Officer, HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Irish Waters) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 05.01.1934 - (07.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) & Senior Officer "Vernon" Flotilla [sunk the first Royal Yacht Britannia at St Catherines Deep off the Isle of Wight 09.07.1936 as the dying wish of King George V] (02.1937)     no appointment listed 20.04.1937 - 03.01.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet) 10.01.1938 - 11.03.1938 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.03.1938 - 22.07.1938 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1938) - (09.1938) no appointment listed 24.09.1938 - 11.10.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Broke & as Captain (D) 7th Destroyer Flotilla 27.10.1938 - 19.11.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Gloucester [tender to HMS Drake] 20.11.1938 - 07.01.1939 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 08.01.1939 - 31.10.1940 Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master of Devonport Dockyard [HMS Drake] 12.12.1940 - 10.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (died from complications resulting from surgery on the day he was meant to have commissioned HMS Exeter after her refit) Heavy-weight boxing champion for the navy for some time, what earned him his nickname (after the British boxer Joe Beckett). Received the thanks of the Admiralty for devices he had designed (e.g. a balloon indicating device for locating fired practice torpedoes [dated 14.08.1924], a device submitted concerning a sprocket wheel for mine moorings [dated 15.11.1926]), books he published (e.g. for The boatswain's call [dated May 1923], later incorporated in the Official Seamanship Manual [dated 10.03.1927]). Published: The boatswain's call: how it is used, and some facts about it  (1922); Questions in Dutch and German for Boarding Officers (pamphlet); A few naval customs, expressions, traditions and superstitions (1930) Literature: G.L. Lowis, Fabulous Admirals, and some naval fragments ... (1957; one chapter on Beckett) * indexed, but not listed as such
Beckley, Denis John Son of ... Beckley, a farmer, and ... Buttler. Married 1st Eileen Blanche Beckley (née ...) (divorced 01.12.1955). Married 2nd Andrea Margaret (née ...).	29.04.1914 Islip, Bicester district, Oxfordshire - 26.08.1978 Canberra, Australia	Boy 2nd class 24.09.1929 (rose to PO Boy) Boy 1st class 09.10.1930 Ord.Sea. 28.10.1931 AB Sea. 20.10.1932 Ldg.Sea. 05.01.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 01.01.1937 Lt. 23.11.1938, seniority 16.04.1938 ?, seniority 16.03.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 29.05.1946, seniority 16.03.1946 Cdr. 31.12.1950 (retd 29.04.1964) DSO 17.11.1942 sinking U-boat on Russian convoy PQ17 20.09.1942 [investiture 19.11.1946] DSC 18.04.1944 4 patrols, 2 U-boats sunk, 2 special operations [investiture 19.11.1946] MID 29.07.1941 5 minelaying patrols, sunk armoured tug Atl St - with clasp Afr St - - It St - - Bur St - with clasp WM 39|45 - - Medals are on display at RN Submarine Museum at Gosport	19.01.1928 - 23.09.1929 Training Ship Arethusa off Greenhithe, Kent 24.09.1929 - 08.10.1930 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) [rose to PO Boy of Advance Class No. 116 and became Instructor Boy when the class went  to sea 07.1930] 09.10.1930 - 15.03.1931 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) (Portland) (as Boy 1st class) 16.03.1931 - 16.07.1934 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (1st Cruiser Squadron, Mediterranean) 17.07.1934 - 15.08.1934 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 16.08.1934 - 24.07.1935 HMS Valiant (battleship) (2nd Battle Squadron, Home Fleet) [passed educationally for Sub-Lieutenant 24.01.1935, having previously  passed  for Warrant Officer and held H.E.T. Certificate; rated Leading seaman on normal Port Roster, 01.05.1935] 25.07.1935 - 20.02.1936 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean) [passed professional examination for Sub-Lieutenant 22.08.1935] 21.02.1936 - 03.1936 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] [passed Selection Board for Sub-Lieutenant] 03.1936 - 07.06.1936 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Mediterranean) 08.06.1936 - 23.09.1936 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) [for a Scrutiny Course with 7 other Candidates before Final Selection; rated Acting Petty Officer; passed Final Selection Board with 3 others 07.1936] 24.09.1936 - 04.01.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - 03.1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.04.1938 - 05.08.1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 06.08.1938 - 06.10.1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Portsmouth) (for submarines: HMS Osiris) 07.10.1938 - 02.03.1939 HMS Dwarf (particular service vessel) (for Reserve Group "B" of Submarines) [Watch Keeping Certificate] 03.03.1939 - 28.08.1939 Navigating Officer, HMS Triton (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 01.09.1939 - 20.09.1939 Third Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) & HMS H 49 (submarine) 21.09.1939 - 21.01.1940 Third Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) 26.01.1940 - 11.02.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS H 31 (submarine) 12.02.1940 - 06.1940 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines: HMS Pandora) 06.1940 - 26.12.1940 Fourth Hand, HMS Pandora (submarine) 27.12.1940 - 15.08.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Rorqual (submarine) 22.08.1941 - 30.09.1941 HMS Taku (submarine) (additional; for passage to UK) 06.10.1941 - 19.01.1942 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 20.01.1942 - 29.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS P 614 (submarine) (North Russia convoys PQ16, PQ17, PQ18) 07.11.1942 - 19.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) (North Africa landings, Mediterranean) 01.01.1943 - 12.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS P 316 (submarine), renamed 1943: HMS Templar (submarine) (launching at Barrow, sea trials, Norway, Mediterranean, Far East, Malaya) 13.04.1944 - 24.06.1944 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (additional; for passage to UK) 25.06.1944 - 09.07.1944 short course of instruction, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) 31.07.1944 - 04.08.1944 damage control course, Damage Control School 14.08.1944 - 01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Cowdray (destroyer) (North Sea & Channel, Far East & Australia, return to Chatham) 28.01.1946 - 21.10.1947 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) 11.1947 - 11.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Whelp (destroyer) (passage to South Africa) 11.1947 - 09.12.1949 HMS Nigeria (for duty in office of the Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic) 13.03.1950 - 12.03.1951 HMS Woolwich (Reserve Fleet, Harwich) (from 01.02.1951 staff appointment operations) 27.03.1951 - 23.08.1951 Commanders' staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.1951 - 22.12.1953 HMS Terror (for miscellaneous duties) (as Liaison Officer at Navy Office, Melbourne, Australia) 26.04.1954 - 18.01.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Gorregan & as Senior Officer, 51st Minesweeping Flotilla (Port Edgar, Scotland) 19.01.1955 - 18.07.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Dalswinton & as Senior Officer, 51st Minesweeping Squadron (Port Edgar, Scotland) 14.09.1955 - 27.09.1955 HMS President (additional; for passage by air via Singapore to Australia) 28.09.1955 - 13.02.1958 HMAS Lonsdale (naval depot, Port Melbourne) (additional; as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, RAN Navy Office, Melbourne) 14.02.1958 - 06.04.1958 HMAS Lonsdale (additional; for reversion to RN) 07.07.1958 - 04.11.1960 Admiralty Liaison Officer for the Merchant Navy, Liverpool [HMS President] 14.02.1961 - 31.03.1964 HMS Terror (for duty with Naval Liaison Officer, Australia) 22.09.1966 - 28.04.1974 served RAN as Cdr. on the Emergency List: 22.09.1966 - 10.10.1966 HMS Harman (additional) 11.10.1966 - 16.10.1966 HMAS Penguin (additional) 17.10.1966 - 21.10.1966 HMAS Watson (Naval Direction and Torpedo Anti-Submarine School, Sydney) (additional) 22.10.1966 - 22.12.1968 Executive Officer, HMAS Watson (Naval Direction and Torpedo Anti-Submarine School, Sydney) & as Senior Officer (Reserves) to Flag Officer-in-Charge Eastern Australia [temporarily in command 24.10.1968-14.11.1968] 20.01.1969 - 30.01.969 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Deputy Director of Reserves) 31.01.1969 - 06.01.1970 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Director of Reserves) (temporarily) 07.01.1970 - 28.04.1974 HMAS Harman (for Navy Office as Deputy Director of Reserves)
Bedford, Denham Maurice Turner Son of Adm. Sir Frederick Bedford, GCB, GCMG.	19.09.1886 Totnes district, Devon - 17.10.1974 Dorset	... ... Capt. 30.06.1927 R.Adm. 10.08.1938 (retd 11.08.1938) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 24.07.1942?	15.05.1901     entered RN ... - ... ... 14.11.1939 - (12.1941) Officer-in-Charge, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 24.07.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties) 05.07.1943 - (01.)1945 Deputy Superintendent, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 19.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Commodore Superintendent Taranto [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto)] 07.1945 - 31.12.1945 Flag Officer, Taranto & Adriatic and Liaison Italy
Bedwell, Edward John	25.01.1884 - 16.09.1974	... ... Eng.Cdr. 31.12.1922 (retd) Eng.Capt. (retd) 25.01.1934 OBE ? ?	... - ... ... 12.10.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Hawkins
Bedwell, Harold Brisbane Son (with two siblings and two half-siblings) of Staff Commander Edward Parker Bedwell, RN (1834-1919), and Emily Ackerley (1840-1909). Married 1st (20.12.1905, Parish Church, St Marylebone, London) Frances Mary Lyons (1880? - (12?).1906). Married 2nd (1911, Blythswood district, Glasgow, Scotland) Ruby Clark (1886? - 21.03.1934); one son [T/Capt. Harold Le Breton Brisbane-Bedwell, South Staffordshire Regiment, attached 2nd Punjab Regiment [killed in action 08.10.1944]]. Married 3rd (14,07,1937, Banbury, Oxfordshire) Sybil Graham D. Lees (1891 - 25.08.1955).	20.10.1879 Brisbane, Australia - 05.11.1976 Oswestry district, Shropshire	Midsh. 15.07.1896 S.Lt. 15.07.1899 Lt. 01.10.1901 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1909 Cdr. 30.06.1914 A/Capt. 07.02.1918 (retd 04.07.1926; own request) Capt. (retd) 04.07.1926 (reactivated 25.08.1939) (reverted to retd 21.04.1941) (reactivated 16.07.1941) (reverted to retd 31.12.1944) 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - MID 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland Def M - - WM 39|45 - - LegH 28.08.1918 services rendered during the war	15.01.1894     joined RN 1896 - 13.12.1898 HMS Immortalité 18.11.1901 - 20.05.1905 HMS Mutine (China Station and Australian Station) 14.01.1908 - 11.03.1910 Navigating Officer, HMS Monmouth (China Station) 28.08.1913 - 1913 Navigating Officer, HMS Triumph (battleship) 11.1913 - 08.12.1916 Navigating Officer, HMS Minotaur (cruiser) 08.12.1916 - 07.02.1918 Navigating Officer, HMS Dreadnought (battleship) 07.02.1918 - 20.04.1918 Commanding Officer, HMS Dreadnought (battleship) 18.06.1918 - 05.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Proserpine (light cruiser) 01.05.1919 - 27.06.1921 HMS Pembroke (for Mechanical Training Establishment) 27.06.1921 - 15.08.1923 Commander of Dockyard and Assistant King's Harbour Master, Portland Dockyard [HMS Victory XI] 01.04.1924 - (01.)1926 Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, Pembroke Dockyard [HMS Vivid] (02.1926) - (05.1926) no appointment listed 25.08.1939 - 19.02.1941 HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) (additional; for Naval Control Service duties at Barry) 20.02.1941 - 20.04.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; not to join) 16.07.1941 - 18.07.1941 HMS Skirmisher (coastal forces base, Milford Haven) (additional) 19.07.1941 - 31.10.1941 HMS Skirmisher (coastal forces base, Milford Haven) (additional; as Resident Naval Officer, Aberystwyth) 01.11.1941 - 02.11.1941 HMS Torch (minesweeper & Coastal Forces, Holyhead) (additional) 03.11.1941 - 21.08.1942 HMS Torch (minesweeper & Coastal Forces, Holyhead) (additional; as Resident Naval Officer, Conway) 22.08.1942 - 24.08.1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional) 25.08.1942 - 30.12.1944 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Fleetwood)
Beedle, William Henry	23.11.1882 Dungarvan, Waterford - 12.02.1971 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	... ... Mate ? Lt. 01.05.1916 (retd 09.11.1922; own request) Cdr. (retd) 23.11.1922	14.05.1910     commissioned RN ... - ... ... 18.08.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
Beet, Trevor Agar	02.07.1916 - 17.10.1971 Gosport, Hampshire	Cadet 01.09.1933 Midsh. 01.05.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 16.03.1937 Lt. 01.10.1938 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1954 Capt. 30.06.1962 (retd 27.08.1971; medically unfit) OBE 10.06.1961 HM's birthday 1961 MID 29.01.1946 attempted escapes as a POW	03.05.1934 - (08.1934) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 17.04.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 24.09.1936 - (02.1937) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - (07.1937) promotion course, Portsmouth 11.12.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 17.12.1938 - 05.05.1940 Third Officer, HMS Seal (submarine) (ship commissioned 28.01.1939) (mined & surrendered ship) [acquitted with honour after a court-martial in 04.1946] 05.1940 - 1945 POW (04.1946) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 17.01.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Trondra 07.01.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Indefatigable (01.1956) HMS President * (1960) Naval Attaché, Lisbon (Portugal) 20.12.1960 - (07.1961) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.02.1963 - (02.1963) NATO Defence College 28.05.1968 - (02.1969) NCSO(I) to Commander Far East Fleet [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] 07.01.1971 - 07.07.1971 Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Beevor, Sir Thomas Lubbock; 6th Bt., cr. 1784 Son of Sir Hugh Beevor, 5th Bt., and Emily Georgina Foster, daughter of Sir William Foster, 2nd Bt., of the Grove, Hardingham. Succeeded father, 1939. Married (1919) Edith Margaret Agnew; one son, three daughters.	01.06.1897 London - 29.04.1943 (flying accident) [Hargham (All Saints)  Churchyard, Norfolk]	Midsh. 31.07.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.07.1916 S.Lt. 15.01.1917 Lt. 15.02.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1932 A/Capt. 1943?	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. ... - ... ... 01.1938     qualified as interpreter in Italian (lower standard) ... - ... ... 01.04.1938 - (08.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Londonderry (Grimsby class sloop) 05.08.1940 - (04.)1943 Naval Assistant to Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President] ? - 29.04.1943 HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Bournemouth)
Begg, Robin Alastair Married ((06?).1945, Surrey South Western district) ... Brown.	06.08.1917 - 31.03.2002 West Surrey district, Surrey	Cadet 01.01.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.01.1938 Lt. 16.01.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1947 Cdr. 30.06.1951 Capt. 31.12.1957 (retd 13.03.1967) MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche MID 27.06.1944 services Adriatic 10.1943	01.01.1935 - (07.1935) special entry Cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 25.08.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Danae (cruiser) (China) 01.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 02.05.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 02.06.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 12.01.1942 - (08.)1942 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)] 21.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 04.02.1943 - (06.1944) Gunnery Officer, HMS Troubridge (destroyer) 05.07.1945 - (04.1946) gunnery school, Chatham [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (07.1948) no appointment listed 03.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 18.09.1951 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 27.11.1954 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Corunna (destroyer) (01.1956) no appointment listed 1957? - 1959? Executive Officer, HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier) [Operation "Grapple" - H-bomb tests at Christmas Island] 09.02.1960 - (07.1961) Commanding Officer, HMS Lynx (frigate) 14.03.1962 - (02.1963) Captain of the Fleet, Mediterranean [HMS Phoenicia] 07.07.1966 - 07.01.1967 also: Naval ADC to the Queen
Begg, [Sir] Varyl Cargill   Son (with one sister) of Francis Cargill Begg (1874-1952), and Muriel Clare Robinson (1885-1976). Married (07.08.1943, Chelsea district, London) Rosemary Cowan, CStJ (26.09.1910 - 09.03.2005); two sons.	01.10.1908 Kensington district, Greater London - 13.07.1995 Dower House Nursing Home, Headbourne Worthy, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.12.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1938 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 30.06.1947 R.Adm. 07.01.1957 V.Adm. 21.05.1960 Adm. 08.03.1963 Adm. of the Fleet 12.08.1968 (remained on the active list, but actually retd 1973)  GCB 12.06.1965 HM's birthday [investiture 07.07.1965] KCB 01.01.1962 New Year 1962 [investiture 13.02.1962] CB 01.01.1959 New Year 1959 [decoration presented] DSO 03.10.1952 Korea (4th list) [investiture 03.03.1953] DSC 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan [investiture 19.10.1943] MID 29.06.1951 Korean waters	Education: St Andrews School, Eastbourne; Malvern College. 1926     special entry cadet ... - ... ... 28.09.1933 - (08.1934) qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] ... - ... ... 01.11.1937 - (03.)1939 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cossack (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 19.04.1939 - (06.)1939 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)] 23.06.1939 - (12.1940) Gunnery Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser) 01.1941 - 12.1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (02.1943) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 06.05.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.1945 - (10.1945) Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Duke of York (King George V class battleship)] (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 15.04.1948 - 1950 Commanded HM Gunnery School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 1950 - 1952 Captain (D), 8th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Cossack] 1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 1954 - 1954 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 1955 - 1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph 1957 - 1958 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth 1958 - 1960 Flag Officer Commanding Fifth Cruiser Squadron and Flag Officer Second-in-Command, Far East Station 1961 - 1963 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Vice-Chief of Naval Staff 1963 - 1965 Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in the Far East, and UK Military Adviser to SEATO 1965 - 1966 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel 1966 - 1968 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord 1969 - 1973 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar KStJ 1969. PMN 1966.
Bekenn, Philip	15.04.1912 - 08.03.1993	... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1943 (retd 15.04.1957)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS St Angelo ... - ... ...
Belben, George Devereux Son of George Belben and of Lucy Belben (née Dickinson); husband of Joyce P.M. Belben, of Verwood, Dorsetshire.	14.05.1897 Bark Hart, Seldown, Poole - 18.02.1944 (KIA) [age 46] [Naples War Cemetery, Italy, II.0.9]	... ... Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 30.06.1939 DSO 04.04.1944 Aegean operations [AntShpStk ?] 06.10.1943 DSC ? ? AM ? ? MID 01.08.1944 Operation Shingle (posthumously)	01.1910     entered RN 14.05.1934 - (08.1934) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth ... - ... ... 26.09.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Canton (armed merchant cruiser) (02.1941) no appointment listed 01.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Saker II 10.08.1942 - 18.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Penelope (cruiser) [torpedoed & sunk by U-410 off Anzio]
Belfield, Joseph Thomas Son (with two sisters) of Joseph Belfield, boiler maker, and Clara Twigger, of Wanstead. Married ((09?).1928, Devonport district, Devonshire) Jessica "Jessie" May Hoskins (30.05.1903 - 02.2000).	27.08.1887 Leytonstone, West Ham district, London - 12.09.1975 Worthing district, West Sussex	A/Engine Room Artificer 4th cl. 27.09.1909 [M1337] Engine Room Artificer 4th cl. 15.03.1911 Engine Room Artificer 3rd cl. 26.09.1912 Engine Room Artificer 2nd cl. 25.09.1916 Mate (E) 06.08.1917 A/Eng.Lt. 06.08.1919 Eng.Lt. 1921?, seniority 06.08.1919 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 06.08.1927 (retd 27.08.1932) Eng.Cdr. (retd) 27.08.1932 (reverted to retd 11.10.1945) OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 [investiture 29.07.1941] 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	Fitter & turner. 27.09.1909     enlisted RN on a 12 year engagement, HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 27.01.1910     HMS Hecla (depot ship) 31.05.1910     HMS Blenheim (cruiser; depot ship) 15.08.1910     HMS Blake (cruiser; depot ship) 04.03.1911     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.03.1911     HMS Thetis (cruiser; minelayer) 12.08.1911     HMS Aboukir (armoured cruiser) 16.12.1911     HMS Terrible (cruiser) 17.04.1912     HMS Achilles (armoured cruiser) 18.09.1913     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.09.1913     HMS Fisgard (boy artificers' training establishment, Portsmouth) 17.10.1913     HMS Victory II (RN Barracks, Portsmouth) 19.03.1915     HMS Royalist (light cruiser) 29.08.1917 - 19.12.1918 HMS Collingwood (battleship) (02.1919) - (03.1919) no appointment listed 20.03.1919 - 01.1920 HMS Cyclops (fleet repair ship) 01.1920 - 07.1920 HMS Hussar (torpedo gun-boat) (Genoa) 10.07.1920 - 08.1920 HMS Seraph (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blenheim] (09.1920) - (01.1921) no appointment listed 17.02.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Conquest (light cruiser; parent ship 1st Submarine Flotilla) 11.1924 - 15.08.1926 HMS Centaur (cruiser; flag ship Commodore Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas) 18.10.1926 - 21.08.1928 HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 18.12.1928 - 08.02.1930 HMS Active (destroyer) (and for duty with Captain Superintendent Contract Built Ships) (while under construction at Newcastle-on-Tyne) 09.02.1930 - 03.1932 HMS Active (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1932) - (09.1932) no appointment listed Driving & supervising examiner, Ministry of Transport. 28.08.1939 - 31.10.1939 HMS Mackay (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties) 01.11.1939 - (12.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for flotilla duties with Captain (D), Liverpool) (OBE) 01.01.1944 - (08.)1945 HMS Defender (ocean escort base, Liverpool) Member, Pax Humana Lodge of Freemasons, London. * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Charles Courtenay Son of William Atkinson Bell (1844-1920), and Charlotte Frances ("Fanny") Nevinson (1851-1927). Married (21.11.1917, Ulverston, Lancashire) Margaret (Peggy) Pattinson (born c. 1895); two daughters [Second Officer Margaret Ruth Bell, WRNS].	15.07.1883 Mansfield, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire - 12.08.1966 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	Cadet 09.05.1899 Midsh. 26.03.1900 A/S.Lt. 1903? S.Lt. 26.10.1903 Lt. 01.04.1905 Cdr. 30.06.1917 (retd 01.01.1923) Capt. (retd) 15.07.1928 (recalled 1939/40) (reverted to retd > 06.1944, < 10.1944) DSO 17.10.1919 Mineclearing Force 01-06.1919	15.01.1898     entered RN 05.10.1903     HMS Royal Oak 26.11.1903     HMS Mercury (for instruction in navigation) 19.04.1904     HMS Hannibal 16.11.1905     HMS Hussar 13.08.1906     HMS Proserpine 19.09.1908     HMS Dryad (for pilotage course) 24.12.1908     HMS Hawke (for voyage out & home) 22.07.1909     HMS Juno 24.03.1911     Navigating Officer, HMS Aboukir 03.01.1912     Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Cornwall 26.09.1920 - 14.10.1921 Commanding Officer, HMS Sherborne (twin-screw minesweeper) & Senior Officer, ... Minesweeping Flotilla & Mine Clearance Officer, Galloper Shoal Area 15.10.1921 - 1922? Local Defence Division, Admiralty Chicken-farmer in Sussex, 1923-1939. (04.1940) no appointment listed 05.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Moreton Bay (armed merchant cruiser) 12.09.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Derbyshire (armed merchant cruiser) 01.06.1942 - 12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge Brightlingsea 15.01.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Corfu (armed merchant cruiser) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed
Bell, Charles Stuart	25.02.1890 Abergavenny, Monmouthshire - 11.06.1956	Seaman ? [237883] A/Mate 22.06.1918 Lt. 22.07.1920 Lt.Cdr. 22.07.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1934 (retd 25.02.1940) A/Capt. (retd) > 06.1944, < 07.1945	31.12.1915     commissioned 14.10.1918 - (07.1919) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 04.04.1923 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Badminton (minesweeper) 03.06.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 07.01.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (01.1932) no appointment listed 01.03.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (08.1934)     no appointment listed 19.09.1934 - (07.1937) Executive Officer, HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) 07.1937 - (02.1941) HMS Durban (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 25.08.1941 - (06.1944) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hants.) 10.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Ariel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr Winchester)
Bell, Frederick Secker   Youngest son of Col F.B. Bell, HAC. Married Dulcie, daughter of Nahun Barnet, FRIBA, Melbourne, Aust.	17.08.1897 Westminster, London - 23.11.1973 Richmond upon Thames district, Surrey	Lt. 15.09.1918 16.09.1920, seniority 15.06.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1931 Capt. 31.12.1938 (retd 08.01.1948) CB 23.12.1939 action Admiral Graf Spee 13.12.1939	Education: Matfield Grange, Kent; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (05.1910-...) 1914 - 1915 served in HMS Cumberland in Cameroons campaign (HMS Canada (Grand Fleet and Jutland)) 1916 - 1923 submarines (01.1919 no appointment listed) 07.10.1923 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS Scythe (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 07.12.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) 12.03.1928 - (08.1929) for training duties, HMS Victory (Portsmouth) 1930 - 1932 lent to RAN: 07.04.1930 - (02.1931) HMAS Australia (cruiser) 21.07.1931 - (09.1932) for duty at Naval Office, HMAS Cerberus 1933 RN Staff College 01.01.1934 - (07.1935) Staff Officer (Operations) & (Intelligence) to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.10.1935 - 25.10.1938 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Repulse (battle cruiser) (02.1939) - (08.1939) no appointment listed 25.08.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Battle of the River Plate 13 Dec 39) 24.05.1940 - (02.1941) Flag Captain, HMS Sultan & Chief Staff Officer to Commodore, Malaya 13.02.1942 - (12.1943) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Trincomalee, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] 15.02.1944 - 21.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS St. George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 21.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) 08.07.1947 - 08.01.1948 Naval ADC to the King
Bell, Harold Peter George Married (1955) Patricia Ann O'Callaghan (03.06.1929 - ), daughter of Maj. Cernelius Edward Alexander O'Callaghan and Dorothy Edith Preston; ... children.	10.10.1922 - 21.01.1992 Yeovil district, Somerset	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1940 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/Paym.S.Lt. 01.09.1942 Paym.S.Lt. 14.06.1943, seniority 01.06.1942 T/Paym.Lt. < 02.1943 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.02.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.02.1952 (retd 31.07.1962)	01.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Resolution (battleship) 20.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS King George V (battleship) (for duty in Admiral's office of Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 22.10.1942 - 01.01.1943 Secretary to Commodore for Flotilla Duties, Gibraltar [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)] * 01.01.1943 - (12.1943) for duty in office of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Algiers [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)] (04.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed (07.1948)     HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) ** 11.05.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 19.05.1954 - (04.)1955 HMS Saintes (destroyer) 08.09.1955 - (01.1957) on staff of Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] (01.1959)     Admiralty [HMS President] ** 12.09.1960 - (07.1961) Squadron Supply Officer, 17th Frigate Squadron [HMS Wizard] * survived sinking of HMS Martin (destroyer) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-431 off Algeria 10.11.1942) ** indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, Joseph Charles Sydney Married ((12?).1944, Durham North Eastern district) Jean P. Griffin.	29.11.1907 Devonport, Devon - 27.01.1953 Malta (died) [age 45] [Kalkara Naval Cemetery, Malta]	Seaman ? [J107309] A/Gnr. (T) 26.09.1942 Gnr. (T) 1943?, seniority 26.09.1942 Cd.El.Offr. 1946?, seniority 26.09.1942 A/Sen.Cd.El.Offr. < 05.1949 Sen.Cd.El.Offr. 01.04.1951	(12.1942)     no appointment listed 01.12.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Richmond (destroyer) (10.1944)     no appointment listed (01.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Speaker (escort carrier) * 30.09.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Sluys (destroyer) 13.12.1949 - (05.1951) HMS Defiance (training establishment, Devonport) ? - 27.01.1953 HMS Cheviot (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Bell, William John Kenneth	23.01.1922 - 31.12.1998	A/S.Lt. (A) 01.09.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1953 (retd 15.06.1959)	? - 23.08.1944 Cochrane course, Final Selection Board, Upper Yardmen & Upper Yardmen (Air), HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth, Hampshire) ? - (07.1945) HMS Opportune (O class destroyer) ... - ... ...
Bellars, Edward Gerald Hyslop Son of Rev. William and Charlotte Agatha Bellars. Married 1st ((06?).1916, St Marylebone district, Greater London) Ethel Marion Hollins (marriage dissolved, 1945); two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd, Beatrice Maude Watson (died 1949).	10.07.1894 - 04.10.1955 Wandsworth district, London	Cadet 15.05.1907 Midsh. 1912 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 09.12.1914, seniority 15.11.1914 Lt. 15.05.1916 02.10.1920, seniority 15.12.1915 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1928 Capt. 30.06.1935 (retd [< 07.]1945) Cdre. 2nd cl. 16.02. 1944? A/R.Adm. (retd) 1945 R.Adm. (retd) 01.03.1946 (invalided 1946) CB  28.11.1944 Operation Neptune, Normandy 06.1944	Education: King's School, Canterbury; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth 1914 1914 1915 22.07.1916 - - 1919 (01.)1919 European War: HMS Britannia HMS Albemarle HMS Barham (battleship) (Jutland, 1916) 1919 - 1921 qualified in Gunnery 1922 - 1923 Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) 05.11.1923 - 1926 Experimental Department, Gunnery School, Whale Island [HMS Excellent] 01.03.1926 - 1928 Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (1st commission) 07.01.1929 - (08.1929) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich 31.12.1929 - 1932 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.07.1932 - 1933 Fleet Gunnery Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 19.12.1933 - (07.)1935 Executive Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 18.05.1936 - (02.)1938 Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.06.1938 - 1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.04.1940 - 1942 Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.03.1942 - (06.)1943 Flag Captain (CO) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. L.H.K. Hamilton (08.1943) - (12.1943) unknown [no appointment listed in the Navy List] 08.01.1944 - 02.01.1945 also: Naval ADC to the King 16.02.1944 - 01.03.1945 Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.03.1945 - early 1946 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Foreign), Admiralty [HMS President]
Bellers, Lionel Hugh William Married ((09?).1934, Paddington district, London) ... Smart.	01.01.1900 - 06.07.1966 Bodmin district, Cornwall	Lt. 15.05.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1928 (retd) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	09.1912     entered RN ... - ... ... 23.08.1939 - (04.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (09.1939?) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Burza (Polish destroyer) 05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Bristol) 03.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Edinburgh Castle (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 13.04.1943 - (06.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Weterhby, Yorkshire) 15.09.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn)
Beloe, [Sir] Isaac William Trant "Bill" Third son (with three brothers) of Rev. Robert Douglas Beloe, MA (1868-1931), sometime Headmaster of Bradfield College, and Margaret Clarissa Bramston (1878-1946), late of St Nicholas, Winchester. Married (02.11.1936, Lambeth district, London) Ethel Diana Cole (1910 - ), daughter of Cdr. John Francis Herbert Cole (1878-1915), and Ethel Sophia Cole (from 1934 Mrs O.E. Leggett) (1881?-1966); one son, one daughter.	09.12.1909 Winchcomb district, Gloucestershire - 03.04.1966 Rayleigh House, Holly Lane, North Shore Point, Norfolk, Virginia, USA (formerly of Bridge House, Earl Soham, Suffolk) [died of a heart attack in his automobile as he was leaving his home to attend a church service]	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 16.01.1931 Lt. 16.05.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1946 Capt. 31.12.1951 Cdre. 2nd cl. 17.07.1957 R.Adm. 07.01.1961 V.Adm. 30.05.1963 KBE 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 1965 [no investiture due to premature death] CB  01.01.1963 New Year 1963 [investiture 19.02.1963] DSC 21.08.1945 3 U-boats destroyed Kola Inlet 04.1945 [investiture 16.10.1945]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (15.09.1923-04.1927). ... - ... ... 1939 - 1945 served WW2 in Western Approaches, West Mediterranean and Russian convoys: 04.04.1938 - (08.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Foxhound (F class destroyer) 26.08.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) 10.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbeltown (Town class destroyer)  08.02.1941 - 17.06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanity (V class destroyer) 29.07.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (10.1943)     no appointment listed  08.11.1943 - 25.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cotton (Captain class frigate) (DSC) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 03.09.1945 - 10.11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Contest (C class destroyer) 10.03.1947 - (10.1948) Executive Officer, HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Bramcote, Nuneaton) 09.1949 - (05.)1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Jamaica (Crown Colony class cruiser) 04.06.1951 - (05.1952) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 1952 - 1953 National Defence College, Canada (05.1953)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 18.12.1953 - 1956 Deputy Director, RN Staff College 1956 - 1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Dainty (destroyer) 18.10.1956 - (01.)1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier) & Flag Captain, Training Squadron, Home Fleet 17.07.1957 - (01.)1959 Commodore Commanding Pakistan Flotilla [PNS Dilawar] 26.09.1959 - (01.1960) in command, HMS Drake & Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport 01.04.1961 - (03.)1963 Flag Officer, Medway & Admiral Superintendent, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (CB) 14.01.1964 - 1966 NATO Deputy Supreme Allied commander, Atlantic [assumed command 04.02.1964] * indexed, but not listed as such
Bence-Trower, Peter Alexander Only son of Capt. Richard Alexander Bence-Trower (1882-1950), City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), and Violet Elizabeth Mabel "Betty" Weatherall (1895-1969). Married (09.06.1951, St George's Church, Hanover Square, Westminster district, London) Sheena Margaret Grant, elder daughter of Lewis R.H. Grant, of Langside, Peebles; two sons, two daughters.	10.01.1925 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, Greater London SW - 28.03.2008 West Meon, Petersfield, Hampshire	Cadet 01.05.1943 Midsh. 01.01.1944 S.Lt. 1946, seniority 01.12.1944 Lt. 16.01.1946 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1954 Cdr. 31.12.1961 Capt. 30.06.1967 (retd 01.09.1973)	Education: Winchester College (Fearon's (Culver House); 1938.3-1943.2; VIII (Pres.), VI, Assoc. XI). 01.05.1943     special entry cadet RN (King's Sword) 01.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Channel) 12.07.1944 - 10.1944 HMS Malaya (battleship) 10.1944 - (07.1945) HMS King George V (battleship) (Pacific) 03.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Jasper 29.12.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Liverpool 01.01.1950 - (10.1950) Flag Lieutenant to First Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 13.04.1951 - (05.1951) HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) 07.01.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS Actaeon 18.06.1953 - (07.1954) Navigating Officer, HMS Vanguard (01.1955)     HMS Wrangler * 12.02.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Battleaxe (01.1957)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 05.01.1958 - (01.1959) HMS Newfoundland (01.1960)     HMS Dryad (navigation and direction school, Portsmouth) * 11.08.1960 - (07.1961) Commanding Officer, HMS Carron 19.04.1962 - (03.)1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Surprise 1966 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Gurkha 10.07.1967 - (03.)1968 Commanding Officer, HMS Protector (Antarctic expedition) (08.1968)     HMS Protector * 03.1969 - (03.1969) Naval Attaché, Paris [HMS President] ? - ? Captain of the Fleet 31.01.1972 - ? Controller, Defence Operations Centre, Ministry of Defence Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 1982. High Sheriff, Hampshire, 1983. Master, Worshipful Company of Drapers, 1983. * indexed, but not listed as such
Benn, William Gordon Married (09.04.1925) ...; one daughter.	31.01.1889 Brazil - 23.02.1962	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 03.04.1909, seniority 30.08.1908 Lt. 20.06.1910, seniority 28.02.1910 Lt.Cdr. 28.02.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1923 Capt. 30.06.1931 Cdre. 2nd cl. 29.06.1941 R.Adm. 08.07.1941 (retd 09.07.1941) (reverted to retd 05.03.1946) MID 17.05.1918 ?	15.01.1904     entered RN 14.09.1917 - (01.1919) Navigating Officer, HMS Dartmouth (light cruiser) 13.08.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 16.09.1924 - (01.)1925 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.09.1925 - (07.1927) Navigating Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (and as Fleet Navigating Officer and Staff Officer (Operations), North America and West Indies Station) 08.06.1929 - (02.)1931 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Renown (battlecruiser) & Squadron Navigating Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron (Atlantic Fleet) 19.10.1931 - (01.)1932 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 16.09.1932 - (08.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (gunboat) & SO West River (China) 07.05.1935 - (07.)1935 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth 18.09.1935 - (06.)1938 Director of Navigation, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.07.1938 - (07.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Portsmouth) 07.07.1939 - 14.10.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (torpedoed & sunk at Scapa Flow) 15.10.1939 - 28.10.1939 HMS Victory (additional) 29.10.1939 - 27.12.1939 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 28.12.1939 - 07.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Fiji (cruiser) 08.10.1940 - 15.05.1942 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane] (from 29.06.1941 as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 15.01.1941 - 08.07.1941 also: Naval ADC to the King 16.05.1942 - 08.06.1942 HMS President (additional; for disposal) 09.06.1942 - 18.06.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 19.06.1942 - 19.12.1945 Director of Navigation, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Bennett, Alfred John Stevens	15.02.1906 Gillingham, Kent - 15.02.1989 Cornwall	Seaman ? [M36624] Wt.Eng. 01.10.1935 Cd.Eng. [renamed Sen.Cd.Eng.] 01.10.1943 A/Lt. (E) < 04.1946 Lt. (E) 25.04.1951 (retd > 05.1953, < 04.1955) MBE 24.03.1942 1st & 6th Minesweeping Flotillas, Northern Waters [investiture 27.07.1943] MID 01.01.1944 New Year 1944	30.01.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean Fleet) (06.1938) - (08.1938) no appointment listed 10.08.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) * 08.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Hussar (Halcyon class minesweeper) * 07.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Modeste (12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) no appointment listed 12.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Cavendish (destroyer) 07.11.1946 - (07.)1948 HMS Cambrian (destroyer) 13.09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Highflyer (for miscellaneous duties) 25.04.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services) AMIMechE Published: Ship fire prevention (1964) * (04.1940) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** (06.1943) & (08.1943) still indexed as HMS Hussar, but not listed as such
Bennett, Cecil Reginald Percival   Son (with three sisters and three brothers) of Albert Webber Bennett (1862-1926), and Isabella Brown (1864-1941), of Morchard Bishop, Devon. Married (26.07.1923, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales) Ethel Elizabeth Bartlett (17.06.1895 - (06?).1975), daughter of W.E. Bartlett, of Exeter; two daughters.	29.07.1896 Crediton, Devon - 29.01.1976 RN Hospital, Haslar, South East Hampshire district, Hampshire	Engine Room Artificer 5th class ? Mate (E) 01.01.1921 Eng.Lt. 01.10.1923 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1931 Eng.Cdr. 30.06.1935 Eng.Capt. 30.06.1944 Eng.R.Adm. 08.11.1950 (retd 14.06.1954) CBE 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 1952 [investiture 15.07.1952] OBE 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 MID 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan	Education: Crediton Grammar School. 1911     enlisted RN 04.03.1916 - 30.09.1916 HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 1922 - 1924 HMS Valiant (battleship) 1925 - 1926 HMS Petersfield (twin screw minesweeper) 1927 - 1928 HMS Fisgard (depot for training of Artificer Apprentices) (for instructional duties with artificer apprentices) 1929 - 1931 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 1932 - 1933 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for mechanical training establishment) 1934 - 1935 HMS Acheron (destroyer) 1936     HMS Hardy (destroyer; flotilla leader) 04.01.1939 - 28.04.1943 HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 15.07.1943 - 18.07.1944 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 08.08.1944 - (10.)1945 HMCS Avalon (RCN base, St John's, Newfoundland) (in charge of Chief Engineer Newfoundland Command) [on loan to RCN] 30.10.1945 - 26.05.1947 Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard Sheerness [HMS Wildfire] 18.06.1947 - 12.08.1950 Manager Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Malta [HMS St Angelo] 08.11.1950 - 07.06.1954 Engineer Manager, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake] MIMechE.
Bennett, Charles James	? - 12.11.1982	... ... Lt. 01.02.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1943 (retd 31.03.1949) Cdr. (retd) ? A/Capt. (retd) ? DSC 14.01.1941 service in minelayers [investiture 20.05.1941]	... - ... ... (1940)     HMS Teviotbank (DSC) ... - ... ... ? - (01.1943) Torpedo Officer, 1st Submarine Flotilla (Malta) [HMS Talbot] ... - ... ...
Bennett, David Christopher	21.01.1887 - 26.01.1959	... ... Eng.Capt. 30.06.1934 (retd 21.10.1940) (reverted to retd 12.02.1946)	... - ... ... 30.11.1939 - 21.10.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King ... - ... ...
Bennett, John William Huyshe Son of Maj. William Pyt Bennett, RA (1881-1916), and Katherine Cuthburga Huyshe (1886-1962) (re-married 1924: Mrs Arthur R. Ash). Married 1st ((03?).1938, Exeter district, Devon) Joan Margaret Harris, only daughter of the late Capt. Albert Edward Harris, RN (1867-1936), and Mrs B.A. Taylor, of Spindrift, Bishopsteignton, Devon; one daughter. Married 2nd (17.06.1950) Dinah Nugent (1922-), daughter of Sir George Guy Bulwer Nugent, 4th Bt (1892-1970), and May Esther Bigsby (?-1992), of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, Somerset; two sons.	16.12.1912 Fareham district, Hampshire - 02.02.1997 Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset	Cadet 01.05.1930 Midsh. 01.01.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1933 S.Lt. 01.11.1933 Lt. 01.06.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1948 Capt. 30.06.1955 (retd 07.07.1964) DSC 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945 [decoration posted]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1926-). 26.04.1930 - (08.1930) HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (02.1931)     HMS London (cruiser) (Mediterranean) * 01.02.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 04.05.1933 - 07.01.1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.01.1934 - (08.)1934 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.08.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 08?.1935 - 1935 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 11.10.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS Viceroy (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 11.12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 12.04.1937 - (07.)1937 long navigation course [HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)] 04.11.1937 - (08.)1938 Navigating Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser; boys' seagoing training ship and T/B target ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 03.09.1938 - (04.)1939 Navigating Officer, HMS Rochester (escort vessel) (Africa) 31.07.1939 - (02.)1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 10.01.1942 - (02.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Biter (escort carrier) 01.05.1943 - (07.)1945 Navigating Officer, HMS Phoebe (cruiser) 05.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 10.04.1947 - (07.1948) Navigating Officer, HMS Ocean 10.01.1949 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 07.1953 - (04.)1955 Fleet Navigating Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 21.12.1955 - (01.)1957 Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne 19.06.1957 - (01.)1959 Assistant Director of Plans (LD), Admiralty [HMS President] 01.10.1959 - (07.1961) for duty with the Ministry of Defence [HMS President] 05.03.1962 - (02.)1964 Director of Navigation and Direction Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.01.1964 - 07.07.1964 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Bennett, Michael	15.02.1924 -		Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.01.1938-29.07.1941; Admiralty No. 1830).       not found in Navy List, so probably did not finish his officer education
Bennington, Leslie William Abel	20.02.1912 Weymouth, Dorset - 24.06.1981 Brede Rye East, Hastings and Rother district, Sussex	A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 01.01.1934 Lt. 01.01.1936 Lt.Cdr. 1943, seniority 01.01.1942 Cdr. 30.06.1944 A/Capt. < 07.1948 Capt. 30.06.1951 (retd 07.07.1960) DSO 29.12.1942 war patrols Mediterranean, 7 ships sunk [investiture 09.02.1943] DSO 11.04.1944 sunk Japanese cruiser Panang 11.01.1944 [investiture 20.07.1945] DSC 13.11.1940 recent patrols [investiture 11.03.1941] DSC 06.06.1944 sunk Japanese submarine 02.1944 [investiture 20.07.1945] DSC 20.02.1945 sinking Japanese ships 06-11.1944 [investiture 20.07.1945] Naval General Service Medal, 1939-45 Star, Atlantic Star, Africa Star, Burma Star, Italy Star, War Medal, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal 1953	28.09.1933 - (01.)1934 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.04.1934 - (08.1934) promotion course, Portsmouth 29.04.1935 - (07.)1935 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 27.11.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Severn (submarine) (Mediterranean) 07.10.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Starfish (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) 21.05.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 25.10.1938 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Swordfish (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 27.01.1940 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Tigris (submarine) 01.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS H 28 (submarine) 07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 11.05.1942 - 01.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Porpoise (submarine) 25.01.1943 - (11.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Tally-Ho (submarine) 04.1945 - (04.1946) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.08.1947 - (10.1947) in command & as Executive Officer, HMS Aurora * 20.12.1948 - (05.1949) Executive Officer, HMS Vengeance 23.01.1950 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Seahawk (05.1953) HMS Montclare ** 28.12.1953 - (04.1955) Commanding Officer, HMS Gamecock (RN Air Station, Nuneaton) 28.12.1955 - (01.1957) Captain of Dockyard, Deputy Superintendent and Queen's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] * (07.1948) still indexed, but no longer listed as such ** indexed, but not listed as such
Bennitt, Wilmot Pynson	26.01.1900 - 10.07.1975	... ... Lt. 15.04.1920 (retd) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.04.1928 Cdr. (retd) ? DSC ? ?	... - ... ...
Benson, Cyril Herbert Gordon Son of James Bourne Benson. Married (1919) May Boyd (died 1951), daughter of James Boyd.	17.02.1884 - 17.03.1974	... ... Lt. 30.03.1906 Lt.Cdr. 30.03.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1917 Capt. 30.06.1924 R.Adm. 02.01.1936 (retd 05.01.1936) Cdre. 2nd cl. RN 27.11.1939-(02.1940) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 09.1943? DSO 1918 ? DSO 1918 ? ? Royal Humane Society's bronze medal, 1915	Education: Winchester; HMS Britannia.       Shadwell Testimonial Prize, 1910; served European War, 1914-1918 (despatches, DSO and bar); commanded 4th Destroyer Flotilla, 1926-1928; commanded Royal Australian Naval College at Captain's Point, Jervis Bay, 1929-1931; Captain-Superintendent of Training at Flinders Naval Depôt, Vic; 2nd Naval Member Royal Australian Naval Board, 1930-1932; HMS Cumberland, 1933-1935; Hon. Wing Comdr RAFVR, 1937-1939 ... - ... ... 27.11.1939 - (02.)1940 Commodore Minesweeping [HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)] 26.03.1940 - (06.)1943 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) 1943 - 1945 Commodore of Convoys: 12.07.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for convoy duties) 09.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar) (for convoy duties) 01.03.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (for convoy duties) 29.12.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for convoy duties) 1945 - 1947 HMS Valkyrie (radio direction finder training establishment, Regent Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man)
Benson, Jerome	04.08.1927 - 22.11.1996	Midsh. 01.01.1945 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 01.09.1946 Lt. 01.05.1948 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1956 Cdr. 30.06.1963 (retd 12.08.1972; own request)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Drake House; 01.05.1941-1944; Admiralty No. 298). ... - ... ... 15.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Vengeance (Colossus class aircraft carrier) ... - ... ...
Benson, John Frederick Son (with one sister) of Capt. Richard Stoddart Benson, DSO, RN (1892-1940), and  Cicely Katherine Beauchamp (1894-?). Married (30.04.1946, St Mildred's Church, Nurstead, Meopham, Kent) Judith Mildred Edmeades, only daughter of Maj. & Mrs. Henry Edmeades, of Nurstead, Meopham, Kent.	17.09.1918 Amersham district, Buckinghamshire - 20.07.2003 Kent	Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 16.05.1939 1940?, seniority 01.03.1939 Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1948 (retd 17.07.1959) MBE 01.01.1960 New Year 1960	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1936 - 01.09.1936 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1936 - (06.)1938 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.06.1939 - 19.06.1939 course, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) 20.06.1939 - 1939 HMS Curacoa (gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) (08.1939)     no appointment listed 12.03.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Fiji (cruiser) 18.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, NS) 22.09.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Nelson (battleship) (02.1943) HMS Carlisle (cruiser) * 11.05.1943 - (07.)1945 HMS Dido (cruiser) 08.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Glendower (training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) 11.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (05.1949)     HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) * 05.09.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 13.11.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) (07.1954) - (04.1955) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * (01.1956) Admiralty [HMS President] * (01.1957) - (01.)1959 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * * indexed, but not listed as such
Benson, Richard Stoddart Only son of Harry Wallington Benson, and Clarinda Maud Stoddart, sometime of Pretoria, South Africa. Married ((12?).1917, Chelsea district, London) Cicely Katherine Beauchamp (born (03?).1894, Kensington district, London), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs Sydney Beauchamp; one daughter, one son (Lt.Cdr. John Frederick Benson, MBE, RN). Residences: Meopham, Kent, later Ash, Sevenoaks.	08.09.1892 Brondesbury, Hampstead district, London - 21.01.1940 (KIA) [age 47] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Midsh. 04.1910 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1912 S.Lt. 15.06.1913 Lt. 15.07.1914 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1922 Cdr. 31.12.1927 Capt. 31.12.1932 DSO 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines [presented to next-of-kin]	Education: RN College, Osborne (09.1905). Played rugby football for the Navy. 15.05.1905     entered RN (1910)     HMS Cumberland (training cruiser) 09.08.1910 - ? HMS Indomitable 15.05.1911 - ? HMS Exmouth (for disposal)       HMS Lizard (torpedo-boat destroyer) 1914 - 1917 HMS Superb (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.1918 - 1918? HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 16.11.1918 - (01.1919) 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Erin (battleship) 1920? - 1922? Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Carnarvon (seagoing cadet training cruiser) 12.04.1922 - (08.1923) Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for experimental duties) 01.01.1924 - (01.1925) Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.04.1926 - (07.1927) Gunnery Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (and as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron) (Mediterranean & China) 06.03.1928 - (06.)1928 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (temporarily) 30.07.1928 - 01.1930 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.01.1930 - (08.1930) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 tactical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.07.1931     Executive Officer, HMS Iron Duke (seagoing gunnery firing ship) 26.11.1931 - (09.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.05.1933 - (06.1933) course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 16.01.1934 - 08.1935 imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 24.08.1935 - 22.09.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Duncan (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 8th Destroyer Flotilla (China) 10.01.1938 - 11.03.1938 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.03.1938 - 22.07.1938 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 23.07.1938 - 30.07.1939 staff, Royal Naval War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.07.1939 - 21.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Exmouth (destroyer) & Captain (D) 12th Destroyer Flotilla (ship mined & sunk in North Sea)
Bent, David James "Dan" Son of ... Bent, and ... Hill. Married 1st ((09?).1950, Gosport district, Hampshire) Patricia M. "Pat" Claridge; one son. Married 2nd Ailsa ...	09.11.1924 Alverstoke district, Hampshire - 16.05.2011 Lenham, Kent	Midsh. 01.01.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1943 S.Lt. 01.10.1943 Lt. 01.03.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1953 Cdr. 31.12.1958 Capt. 31.12.1965 (retd 07.01.1975) DSC 29.08.1944 action with German destroyers 08.06.1944 [investiture 02.02.1945] MID 14.11.1944 3 vessels sunk 14.07.1944	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth  House; 01.05.1938-16.12.1941; Admiralty No. 1913). (02.1942) - (04.1942) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) * 03.04.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 23.10.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Orion (cruiser) (10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.01.1944 - (10.1945) Gunnery Control Officer, HMS Tartar (destroyer) (DSC, despatches) (04.1946)     HMS Battleaxe * 01.06.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Armada (Battle class destroyer) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Bent, Eric Ritchie Son of Charles Bent, Royal Artillery. Married (12.02.1918, St Peters Church, London) Eileen Beatrice Hill (15.11.1889 - 13.10.1949), daughter of Reginald Henry John Hill; two sons.	26.09.1888 Tonbridge district, Kent - 09.06.1949 Alverstoke, Hampshire	... ... Lt. 30.11.1908 Lt.Cdr. 30.11.1916 Cdr. 31.12.1919 Capt. 30.06.1927 R.Adm. 10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939) (reverted to retd 04.1942) CB 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 15.02.1941] DSC 14.03.1916 Gallipoli * * Has performed consistent good work as Naval Observation Officer on shore from the first days of the landing in the Gallipoli Peninsula in April, 1915.	Education: HMS Britannia. 15.09.1901     entered RN 05.08.1912 - (09.)1913 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (10.)1913 - (11.)1913 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional) (12.)1913 - (07.)1914 staff, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 15.07.1914 - (04.)1915 Gunnery Officer, HMS Ocean (battleship) 08.04.1915     Gunnery Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 1915     Gunnery Officer, HMS Prince George (battleship) 17.02.1916     Gunnery Officer. HMS Albion (battleship) 03.1916 - 01.1918 Gunnery Officer, HMS Agamemnon (battleship) 27.05.1918 - 29.01.1919 Gunnery Officer, HMS Hercules (battleship) 01.1919 - (06.1920) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) ... - ... ... 07.07.1926 - (12.1927) Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1928) - (07.1928) no appointment listed 17.10.1928 - 18.10.1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Champion (cruiser) (gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 17.03.1930 - (08.)1930 Senior Officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.08.1930 - 31.12.1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (8th Cruiser Squadron, America and West Indies) (02.1932)     no appointment listed 28.03.1932 - 02.04.1933 Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.04.1933 - 08.10.1934 Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.10.1934 - (10.)1934 Senior Officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.10.1934 - 15.07.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) (5th Cruiser Squadron, China) (09.1937)     no appointment listed 20.09.1937 - (10.1937) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1938)     no appointment listed 11.01.1938 - 09.01.1939 Chief of Staff & Maintenance Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 10.08.1939 - 10.01.1939 also: Naval ADC to HM the King 24.08.1939 - 16.05.1941 Rear-Admiral (Operations) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (CB) 17.05.1941 - 25.02.1942 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Bentley, George Edward Son (with one sister) of George Edward Bentley (1882-1939), and Rose Emily Rachel Martin (1887-1961). Married ((12?).1940, Strood district, Kent) Doris Alice Adams (31.01.1921 - 03.1982); one daughter, one son.	11.03.1916 Strood, Kent - 04.2001 Gravesend, Kent	Petty Officer ? A/Gnr. 22.01.1944 Gnr. 1945?, seniority 22.01.1944 A/Lt. 1948? Lt. 29.09.1948, seniority 27.08.1945 Lt.Cdr. 27.08.1953 (retd c. 1960) A/Cdr. (retd) c. 1960 Cdr. (retd) c. 1963 (reverted to retd c. 1969) Capt. (retd) ? DSM 21.04.1942 action with E-boats 19.02.1942 [investiture 19.05.1942] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 MID 23.10.1945 Operation Iceberg (air strikes on Sakishima Islands & capture oÍ Okinawa 03-05.1945)	(1941) - (1942) HMS Holderness (Hunt class destroyer) (DSM, despatches) 08.05.1944 - (10.1945) HMS Indomitable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) (despatches) (04.1946) - (10.1946) no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Bentley-Buckle, Anthony William Son (with one sister) of Lt.Cdr. Noel William Bentley-Buckle, RNVR (1899-1974), and Mary Josephine Rankin (1885-1938). Married (30.06.1961, Mombasa, Kenya) Margaret Lucy Lady Stamer (née Belben); one son, one daughter.	13.08.1921 Knokke, West Flanders, Belgium - 24.05.2010 Brockenhurst, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1941 S.Lt. 10.1941, seniority 01.08.1940 Lt. 01.05.1942 MID 27.06.1944 rescue of POWs  West Coast of Italy	26.08.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Dunedin (cruiser) 19.10.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) 05.05.1941 - (06.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Revenge (battleship) 01.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa) 18.03.1943 - 09.1943 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary): served with G RN Commando [captured by the Germans]       Beachmaster, G3 RN Commando (Italy) (04.1944) - (04.1946) no appointment listed: POW in German captivity
Beresford, Lord Hugh Tristram de la Poer Son of Henry de la Poer Beresford, 6th Marquis of Waterford, KP, DL, and of Beatrix Frances, Marchioness of Waterford, GBE (afterwards Duchess of St. Albans), of Newtown Anner, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Irish Republic.	01.10.1908 - 23.05.1941 off Crete (KIA) [age 32] [El Alamein War Cemetery, XVII.E.3]	Midsh. 15.09.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1929 S.Lt. 16.10.1929 Lt. 01.02.1932 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1940	15.01.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Warspite (battleship) Mediterranean) 03.01.1929 - (08.1929) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 03.10.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1933 - (01.)1934 HM Yacht Victoria and Albert (08.)1934 - (07.)1935 ADC to the Governor-General of South Africa 02.12.1935 - (02.1936) Executive Officer, HMS Thanet (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 18.03.1936 - (07.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Hostile (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 24.07.1939 - (04.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Witherington (destroyer) 22.08.1940 - 23.05.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Kelly (destroyer) (sunk)
Bernard, Hanbury Faulder	13.07.1900 Landower, India - 12.11.1971 Navaisha, Kenya	... ... S.Lt. 15.05.1918 Lt. 15.06.1920 (retd 06.07.1922; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.06.1928 (reverted to retd c. 08.1945)	05.1913     entered RN ... - ... ... 02.09.1939 - (12.1941) HMS Sheba (RN base, Aden) (02.1942)     no appointment listed 31.03.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services) (06.1943)     no appointment listed (08.1943) - (02.1944) HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) * 03.1944 - c. 08.1945 HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) (for duty at RN Barracks, Liwatoni) * indexed, but not listed as such
Berncastle, Frank Measham Son (with two brothers) of Herbert Melbourne Berncastle (1868-1958), and Sarah Measham (1877-1946). Married ((12?).1944, Westminster district, London) Hilda Mary Smith (? - 20.06.1987); one son.	28.07.1912 Croydon, Fulham district, London - 26.07.2002 Worthing Hospital, West Sussex	Midsh. RNR 12.02.1930 A/S.Lt. RNR 28.07.1933 S.Lt. RNR 21.03.1937 Lt. RNR 18.04.1937 (reld 10.04.1937) Prob. S.Lt. 11.04.1937 A/Lt. 1937?, seniority 28.07.1936 Lt. 18.02.1939, seniority 28.07.1936 Lt.Cdr 28.01.1943 (retd 1957) DSC 05.03.1943 night surveys 11.1942-02.1943 [investiture 15.02.1944] DSC 15.02.1944 staff of Force J: Operation KJF (beach reconnaissance Channel coast 12.1943) [decoration posted] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 MID 11.04.1944 staff of Force J: Operation Bellpush Charlie (reconnaissance of enemy coast, Channel 31.01.1944)	Education: HMS Worcester (1928). Served with various shipping lines, 1928-1936. 11.04.1937     commissioned RN (Hydrographic Surveyor, Third Grade 01.01.1939, Second Grade 01.01.1942, First Grade 01.01.1945) (05.1937) - (01.1938) no appointment listed 03.01.1938 - (02.)1938 HMS Kellett (surveying ship) 30.03.1938 - (09.)1939 HMS Endeavour (surveying ship) 10.1939 - (12.1939) HMS Aberdare (Hunt class minesweeper) 22.01.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for Mine Recovery Flotillas) 08.04.1940 - (05.)1940 HMS Burlington (minesweeper depot ship) 15.05.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (for minesweeping duties) (despatches) 08.07.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Franklin (surveying ship) 04.1942 - (02.)1944 Combined Operations HQ (Naval Staff) [HMS President] (DSC & Bar, despatches): 04.1942 - (08.)1942 for Navigation Section as Naval Hydrographer Surveyor (10.)1942 - (06.)1943 for Navigation Section (Naval Operational Planners) (organizing what would eventually be 712th Landing Craft Personnel (Survey) Flotilla) (08.)1943 - (02.)1944 for naval tactics, training and staff duties (04.1944) - (06.1944) Combined Operations HQ * 01.08.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Franklin (surveying ship) 30.10.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Challenger (surveying ship) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... Hydrographer to the Port of Bristol Authority, and then as conservator of the River Humber Conservancy Board. * indexed, but not listed as such
Berry, David Ian	04.03.1926 - 01.04.1954	Midsh. 01.05.1943 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1945 S.Lt. 01.05.1945 Lt. 01.09.1947	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.09.1939-03.1943; Admiralty No. 129). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Berry, George Robert Campbell	13.10.1894 Saint Margarets, Dover district, Kent - (09?).1982 Ashford district, Kent	Seaman ? [M2219] T/A/Wt.Eng. 27.10.1941 T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng. = T/A/Sen.Cd.Eng. [> 08.1942, < 02.1943], seniority 27.10.1941 (retd < 04.1946) DSC 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 43 [investiture 24.10.1944]	17.11.1941 - (10.1944) Engineer Officer, HMS Montgomery (destroyer) (07.1945) HMS Sakara (submarine depot ship) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Berry, Ronald John	11.02.1900 Bromley district, London - 13.12.1966 Baydon, Marlborough, Swindon district, Wiltshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.04.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1928 (retd 11.02.1943) A/Cdr. > 04.1939, < 08.1939 Cdr. (retd) 11.02.1943 (reverted to retd > 01.1957, < 01.1959)	28.01.1916     entered RN ? - (01.1919) HMS Malaya (battleship) 28.09.1922 - (08.1923) qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.06.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 17.11.1925 - (07.)1927 No. 461 Flight FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) (for pilot & torpedo duties) 01.09.1927 - (06.1928) No. 463 Flight FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) (for pilot & torpedo duties) 05.02.1929 - (02.1931) Torpedo Officer, HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 12.01.1932 - (01.)1934 Torpedo Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.03.1934 - (02.)1935 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 05.1935 - (07.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.1935 - (08.)1936 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich 24.08.1936 - (10.)1938 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance under the Inspector of Torpedoes and Mines (2, Fitzmaurice Place, W.1) 17.10.1938 - (04.)1939 Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, RN Armament Depot Portsmouth 05.06.1939 - (08.1939) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Manchester 01.03.1940 - (06.)1943 an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance 15.06.1943 - (01.)1945 Inspecting Torpedo Officer, Weymouth Area 1945 - (07.)1945 an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance 15.08.1945 - (05.1950) an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance (05.1953)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.07.1954 - (01.1957) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich * indexed, but not listed as such
Berthon, Charles Pierre Elder son of Claude Tinné Berthon, and Annie Hayes. Brother of Capt. Edward Lyon Berthon, DSO, DSC, RN. Married ((06?).1920, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey) Ruth Euphemia Meldrum Ferrier (06.08.1899 - (09?).1978), second daughter of John Ferrier (1840-1917), and Gertrude Grace Scott (1869-1929), of Woodhaves, Wimbledon; one son (V.Adm. Sir Stephen Ferrier Berthon, KCB, RN), three daughters (Pamela Ruth Berthon married V.Adm. Louis Edward Stewart Holland Le Bailly, KBE,CB).	15.02.1893 - 11.03.1965 [Deddington, Oxford ?]	... ... Capt. (E) 30.06.1939 R.Adm. (E) 02.10.1945 (retd 22.02.1949) CBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 [investiture 09.07.1946] MID 01.01.1942 New York 1941	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1906     joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War, Home Fleet ... - ... ... 29.02.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) 08.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Orion (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 1941 - 1941 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (despatches) 31.10.1941 - 03.01.1945 Staff Engineer Officer on staff of Admiral (Air), Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] (CBE) 07.05.1945 - 05.11.1947 Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.01.1948 - (07.1948) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]
Berthon, Edward Lyon Son of Claude Tinné Berthon, and Annie Hayes. Brother of R.Adm. (E) Charles Pierre Berthon, CBE, RN. Married Doris Marjorie (?).	15.09.1894 Demerera, British Guiana - 23.10.1941 (KIA) [age 47] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial]	A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.09.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1929 Capt. 30.06.1937 DSO 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance, Mediterranean DSC 22.06.1917 ? DSC 23.07.1918 * MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.1940 * This officer accompanied Lieut.-Cdr. Hardy to look for an Engineer Lieut, and some men who, it was thought, had been left behind. This was done under heavy and accurate fire from 4.1-inch and machine guns.	15.09.1907     entered RN (1917) HMS Sirius (destroyer) (1918) HMS Vindictive (light cruiser) 01.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Thunderer (battleship) (additional) 27.05.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Thunderer (battleship) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (additional) 28.03.1925 - (05.1926) Commanding Officer, HMS Vicreoy (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) no appointment listed 01.07.1927 - (06.)1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Wivern (destroyer) (China) 12.09.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Wild Swan (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (04.1930) no appointment listed 11.08.1930 - (10.1930) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.01.1931 - (06.1933) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland [HMNZS Philomel (cruiser)] (01.1934) no appointment listed (08.1934)     no appointment listed 31.08.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Crusader (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 21.09.1936 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth) & in command of 'Vernon' Flotilla 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.03.1938 - (06.)1938 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1938) no appointment listed 24.09.1938 - (04.)1940 Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon [HMS Norfolk II, later HMS Gloucester II (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 1940 - 01.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Keith (destroyer) (sunk by German aircraft off Dunkirk) (02.1941) no appointment listed 1941 - 23.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Cossack (destroyer) [torpedoed by U-563 in North Atlantic [killed in action]]
Berthon, [Sir] Stephen Ferrier Son of late R.Adm. Charles Pierre Berthon, CBE, RN, and Ruth Euphemia Meldrum Ferrier. Married (1948) Elizabeth Anne Leigh­Bennett (died 19.04.2009), daughter of Henry Wolley Leigh-Bennett and elma Rose Price; two sons, two daughters.	24.08.1922 Plymouth district, Devon - 31.01.2007 Urchfont, Wiltshire	Cadet 01.01.1940 Midsh. 01.05.1940 S.Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt. 16.11.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1950 ... ... V.Adm. 02.09.1977 (retd 03.04.1981) KCB 01.01.1980 New Year 1980	Education: Old Malthouse, Swanage; RN College, Dartmouth; jssc (1959) served War of 1939-1945 at sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Russia: 01.01.1940 - 30.04.1940 cadet training, RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Orion (cruiser) 05.01.1942 - (01.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 25.05.1942 - (06.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Offa (destroyer) 09.09.1944 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Blankney (destroyer) (07.)1945 - (04.1946) specialist course in communications 1946 - 1948 Flag Lieutenant, Singapore 1949 - 1951 submarines 1951 - 1952 East Indies Flagship 1952 - 1954 HMS Mercury 1954 - 1956 Staff of Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers 1957 - 1959 Fleet Communications Officer Mediterranean 1959 - 1961 Comdr HMS Mercury 1961 - 1964 Joint Planning Staff 1964 - 1966 Naval Attaché, Australia 1968 - 1971 Director of Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence 1971 - 1973 Cdre HMS Drake 1074 - 1976 Flag Officer Medway and Port Adm. Chatham 1976 - 1978 Asst Chief of Naval Staff (Op. Req.) 1978 - 1981 Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Operational Requirements) Jt MFH, Avon Vale Hunt, 1981-1984.