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Clack, Thomas Augustus Courtenay Son (with two sisters and one brother) of Leslie Augustus Clack (1891-1954), and Marjorie Sykes (1892-1983). Married (02.12.1950, Worthing district, Sussex) Patricia Norah Strange (10.11.1929 - 31.08.2004); two sons, one daughter.	08.02.1925 Woolwich district, London - 10.02.1990 Coulston, Westbury. Warminster district, Wiltshire	Cadet 01.09.1942 Midsh. 01.05.1943 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1945 S.Lt. 06.02.1946, seniority 01.04.1944 Lt. 04.03.1946, seniority 16.04.1945 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1953 Cdr. 31.12.1959 Capt. 31.12.1967 (retd 07.01.1977)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. (10.1942) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (10.1944)     HMS Marne (M class destroyer) * (01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed 10.09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Surf (S class submarine) ... - ... ... 07.07.1976 - 07.01.1977 also: RN ADC to HM the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarabut, Guy Stewart Chetwode Son of Maj.Gen. Reginald Blaxland Clarabut, CB (1893-1977), and Mary S. Gill. Brother of Lt. (A) David Stewart Clarabut, DSC, RNVR. Married (1942) Stella Strachan-Smith (1919-2013); one son, one daughter.	19.09.1919 India - 09.03.2002 Shorne, near Gravesend, Medway district, Kent	Cadet 01.01.1937 Midsh. 01.01.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1940 Lt. 16.11.1940 A/Lt.Cdr. 11.1945? Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1948 Cdr. 31.12.1952 (retd 20.09.1955; own request) DSO 19.10.1943 sinking "Marcello" class submarine [investiture 19.11.1946] DSC 18.12.1945 war patrols Far East 08.1944-08.1945 [investiture 19.11.1946] MID 30.06.1942 8 war patrols 06.1941-03.1942	Education: Cheltenham College 01.01.1937 - 31.12.1937 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1938 - (06.)1938 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet) 30.06.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 30.09.1940 - (10.)1940 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 16.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Ambrose (submarine base, Dundee) (for submarines) 15.04.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Thrasher (submarine) 10.01.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Traveller (submarine) (02.1943)     submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 21.05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Medway II (submarine base, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Beirut) (spare submarine Commanding Officer) (07.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Trooper (submarine) (Mediterranean) (temporarily) 15.09.1943 - 01.12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Taurus (submarine) 01.12.1943 - 01.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Rorqual (submarine) 01.02.1944 - 16.04.1944 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, 3rd Submarine Flotilla) (Holy Loch) 16.04.1944 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Stygian (submarine) (Trincomalee, Ceylon) 11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Sentinel (submarine) 14.09.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for instructional duties) 07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Stalker (05.1953)     no appointment listed 31.08.1953 - (04.1955) Undersurface Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] Joined in 1955 the family business, the London and Rochester Trading Company, which eventually he turned into Crescent Shipping; he also became a director of Hays Wharf. Deputy Lieutenant, Kent.
Clare, Reginald William Married Doorthy ...	27.10.1907 Wisbech, Cambridgeshire - 15.06.1961 Eastleigh, Winchester district, Hampshire	Seaman ? [J108292] A/Gnr. (T) 01.04.1938 Gnr. (T) ?, seniority 01.04.1938 A/Lt. ? Lt. 01.08.1945, seniority 31.12.1940 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 27.10.1952) DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk	(06.1938) no appointment listed 12.07.1938 - (06.1940) HMS Grenade (destroyer) 17.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Kelvin (destroyer) 31.07.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Penn (destroyer) (06.1943) no appointment listed 07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Undine (destroyer) (12.1943) - (06.)1944 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.07.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Speaker (escort carrier) 06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS St Angelo (for miscellaneous duties) 12.05.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Goldcrest
Claridge, Gilbert Palmer	08.01.1900 Lambeth, London - 15.02.1984 Plymouth, Devon	Cdr. 31.12.1934 Capt. 30.06.1942 (retd)	10.02.1940 - (04.1940) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for submarines) (02.1941) HMS Shoreham 29.12.1941 - (08.1942) Staff of Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot)] * * indexed, but not listed as such * (08.1942) indicated as posted from 29.12.1942; should probably be 1941.
Clark, Edward Sawle Son (with two sisters) of Joseph Edward Clark (1859-1891), and Margaret Sawle (1859-1906). Married (09.10.1919, St Woolos parish church, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) Olive Emily Thompson (12.12.1892 - 25.05.1971), daughter (with two brothers and two sisters) of John Thompson (1855-1910), and Kate Thompson (1857-1931); two sons (Lt.Cdr. John Sawle Clark, RN & S/Lt. (A) Edward Thompson Clark, RNVR).	12.12.1889 Oxford Grove, Ilfracombe, Devon - 10.11.1944 RN Auxiliary Hospital Minterne Magna (illness) [Weymouth Crematorium]	Schoolm. (Warrant Rank) 17.11.1919 Sen. Master (from Warrant Rank) 10.05.1921 Headm. = Headm.Lt. 01.01.1932 Headm. Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1940	... - ... ... 02.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) 18.04.1940 - (08.)1942 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (10.1942)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 02.11.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport) (10.1944)     HMS Victory IV (accounting section, London) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, George	? - ?	T/Instr.Lt. 28.08.1940 T/A/Instr.Lt.Cdr. > 06.1943, < 08.1943 (reld 14.08.1946)	Education: MA, BSc. (10.1940) - (02.1940) no appointment listed 02.02.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 16.08.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 09.11.1942 - (04.)1944 Command Education Officer, Orkney and Shetland [HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)] 01.06.1944 - (04.1946) Education Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Clark, H M	? - ?	... ... Lt.Cdr. ? ... ...	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (10.1945) ? ... - ... ...
Clark, Ivo Thomas Son of James William Clark (1867-), and Bessie Stumbles (1866-). Married ((06?).1927, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Ella Madeline Cousins (born 1900). Married Katherine Yvonne Harvey (1910-1987); one son.	26.04.1903 Gillingham, Medway district, Kent - 15.01.1980 Kippen, Stirlingshire	S.Lt. 30.05.1924 Lt. 30.07.1926 Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1934 (retd 26.02.1948) A/Cdr. > 02.1943, < 06.1943 Cdr. (retd) 26.02.1948 (reverted to retd 03.02.1949) OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 [investiture 22.09.1942] MID 25.06.1940 Norwegian coast	15.01.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 16.08.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) ... - ... ... 15.06.1939 - 08.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Vimy (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 09.11.1939 - 10.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Eclipse (destroyer) 03.04.1942 - (01.)1945 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) 07.07.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Reaper (escort carrier) 15.07.1946 - (07.1948) Department of the Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President]
Clark, James Ernest Brother of Capt. Edward Burling Clark, RNR. Two other brothers were Alfred Gordon Clark (died as Ordinary Seaman aboard HMS Myrtle 14.06.1940), and Reginald Clark (served Merchant Navy).	12.05.1907 Birkenhead district - 09.01.1976 Marldon, Paignton	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 31.07.1931 S.Lt. RNR 23.12.1931, seniority 31.07.1931 Lt. RNR 31.07.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 24.04.1937, seniority 12.05.1932 Lt. 1938?, seniority 12.05.1932 Lt.Cdr. 12.05.1939 (retd 12.05.1952) A/Cdr. 15.07.1944? OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946 DSC 03.06.1941 beachmaster withdrawal Greece MID 14.08.1945 relief of Greece	28.02.1932 - (09.1932) HMS H 33 (submarine) * 11.11.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Shark (submarine) 12.05.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) 12.04.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Hussar (minesweeper) 11.01.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Terror (monitor) (1941) HMS York (cruiser) (08.1942) no appointment listed 30.01.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Ilfracombe (minesweeper) 04.11.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Larne (minesweeper) 15.07.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Sylvia (minesweeper) 19.05.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Lochinvar 17.05.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland * (01.1934) - (07.1935) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Clark, John Sawle Son (with one brother) of Headm. Lt.Cdr. Edward Sawle Clark, RN (1890-1944), and Olive Emily Thompson (1892-1971). Twin brother of S/Lt. (A) Edward Thompson Clark, RNVR. Married ((12?).1941, Plymouth district, Devonshire) Rose Emily Valerio (02.06.1921 - 20.01.1995), daughter of Antonio Alexander Valerio (1899-1968), and Emily Alice I Burroughs (1900-1923); one daughter, two sons.	21.10.1920 Plymouth, Devon - 12.01.1980 Waterlooville, Hampshire	Cadet (E) 01.05.1938 Midsh. (E) 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.01.1941 S.Lt. (E) 05.1941, seniority 01.06.1940 A/Lt. (E) > 12.1941, < 02.1942 Lt. (E) 24.12.1942, seniority 01.01.1942 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.01.1950 (retd 08.02.1951)	01.05.1938     special entry cadet 01.05.1939 - (06.)1942 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] (10.1942) - (02.)1943) no appointment listed 12.02.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (04.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed (01.1945)     HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * 05.02.1945 - (10.1946) HMS Vanguard (battleship) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, Michael Gardiner Brother of S.Lt. Derek Gardiner Clark, SANFV.	22.02.1922 Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa - 16.07.2011 Johannesburg, South Africa	Cadet 01.01.1940 Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.12.1941 Lt. 01.09.1943 (retd 1946/47?)	01.01.1940 - 01.09.1940 special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth 01.09.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Nigeria (light cruiser) 06.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS Eskimo (destroyer) 12.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Nigeria (light cruiser) (06.)1942 - (12.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.1942 - (04.)1943 HMS Medway II (base, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Beirut) 13.05.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Parthian (submarine) (10.1943)     HMS Taurus (submarine) * 27.10.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Tally-Ho (submarine) 04.11.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS Varbel (midget submarine base, Port Bannatyne) 06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Wolfe (submarine depot ship) 10.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Totem (submarine) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, Paul Wilson	10.10.1911 - 13.08.1984 Surrey Northern district, Surrey	Prob. Midsh. RNR 27.11.1929 Midsh. RNR 1930/31?, seniority 27.11.1929 A/S.Lt. RNR 10.10.1932 S/Lt. RNR 07.02.1937 Lt. RNR 07.03.1937 Prob. Lt. 1937, seniority 10.10.1935 A/Lt. 1937/38?, seniority 10.10.1935 Lt. 20.08.1938, seniority 10.10.1935 Lt.Cdr. 10.10.1943 (retd 10.10.1956; age) A/Cdr. > 05.1953, < 04.1955 Hon. Cdr. ? DSC 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy, 06.1944) [investiture 13.11.1945] DSC 10.07.1945 Operations Arakan coast 12.1944-03.1945 [award posted]	28.12.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (07.1937) short course of instruction 27.12.1937 - (02.)1939 HMS Fitzroy (surveying ship) 23.02.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Scott (surveying ship) 29.09.1939 - 30.04.1940 HMS Bittern (sloop) (in lieu of specialist Navigation Officer) [sunk by German aircraft at Namsos] 27.05.1940 - (12.)1941 HMS Seabelle II, from [1941?] HMS Seabelle (RN base, Persian Gulf) (in lieu of specialist Navigation Officer) 12.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Endeavour (survey vessel; depot ship for boom defence vessels, Singapore; to Colombo & Red Sea, then surveys) (02.1943) - (06.1943) HMS Endeavour (survey vessel) * 14.07.1943 - (10.)1944 HMS Quebec (Combined Training Centre, Inverary), from c. 12.1943: HMS Copra (Combined Operations pay & drafting office) (for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP)) (06.1944) Combined Operations Pilotage Party (COPP) 1 11.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Hathi (RN depot, Delhi, India) (in lieu of specialist Navigation Officer) 12.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) 20.10.1947 - (07.1948) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) 17.01.1949 - (05.1949) Executive Officer, HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) 15.03.1950 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) (05.1953) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 09.03.1954 - (01.1956) Boom Defence Depot, Singapore [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, Sidney Gregory "Greg" Son of Sidney Wheelhouse Clark (1884-1929), and Emily Kelty. Married ...; ... children (one son?).	12.06.1916 Oldham, Lancashire - 20.08.2011 Gosport [?], Hampshire	Schoolm. Candidate 02.01.1938 Schoolm. (Warrant Rank) 1939?, seniority 02.01.1938 A/Schoolm. (CWO) (Commissioned Officer from Warrant Rank) 18.06.1945 Instr.Lt. 17.09.1946, seniority 01.04.1943 Instr.Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1952 (retd 12.06.1971) Instr.Cdr. (Hon.) ? MBE 01.01.1967 New Year 1967	(02.1938)     short course of instruction 23.05.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) 01.04.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, St Budeaux) (12.1940)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * 27.12.1940 - 12.11.1942 HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) (torpedoed & sunk by U-515 off Morocco) 30.12.1942 - (10.)1944 HMS Gosling (new entry training establishment, Risley, nr Warrington, Lancashire) 05.12.1944 - (07.1945) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 01.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Clark, Victor Cecil Froggatt Son of Rev. C. Clark, of St Stephen's, Walbrook, London EC. Married (1975) Danae Stileman, daughter of F.J. Stileman; two daughters.	24.05.1908 Dover - 14.12.2005 West Somerset district, Somerset	Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. 01.04.1931, seniority 01.11.1929 Lt. 01.08.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1939 (retd 24.05.1953) Cdr. (retd) 24.05.1953 DSC 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 06.08.1940] DSC 16.06.1942 air attacks on Malaya [decoration posted]	Education: Haileybury (Melville House, 1922.1-1926.2). 17.09.1926     entered RN ... - ... ... 07.06.1938 - (08.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Punjabi (destroyer) (DSC) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 14.10.1940 - 25.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Anthony (destroyer) 26.02.1941 - 10.12.1941 Principal Control Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft off east coast of Malaya] 12.1941 - (04.)1942 commanded West Coast Raiders in Malaya [HMS Sultan] (Bar to DSC) 1942 - (10.)1945 no appointment listed: POW in Japanese captivity ... - ... ... Sailed round the world, 1953-1959. Published: On the wings of a dream (1960); Triumph and disaster : the autobiography of a naval officer (1994).
Clarke, Arthur Wellesley Son of late Captain Sir Arthur Wellesley Clarke, KCVO, KBE, and Lady Clarke. Married (1926) Kate Cicely Lance; one son.	16.04.1898 - 03.01.1985 Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire	Midsh. 02.08.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.11.1916 S.Lt. 15.07.1917 A/Lt. 15.10.1918 Lt. ?, seniority 15.10.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1926 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 30.06.1939 (retd 01.10.1948) Cdre. 1st cl. 01.1944 CBE 01.01.1947 New Year 1947 [investiture 20.07.1948] DSO 16.03.1943 action with escort convoy North Russia 31.12.1942 [investiture 09.07.1946] LM 05.11.1946 ? MID 1915 Gallipoli	Education: Merton Court Preparatory School; RN Colleges, Osborne (1910-1912) & Dartmouth (1912-1914); Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (6 months 1919). 01.1911     entered RN 02.08.1914  - 1916  mobilized, HMS Implacable (Dardanelles, 1915 (despatches)) 1916 - ? HMS Royal Oak (Battle of Jutland, 1916; Atlantic and North Sea convoys) (01.1919)     HMS President       HMS P 14 (escort vessel)       HMS Maenad (destroyer)       HMS Swift (destroyer)       HMS Badminton (minesweeper) 15.10.1921 - (08.1923) Navigating Officer, HMS Triad (special service vessel) (Persian Gulf) 12.05.1924 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (temporary) 23.05.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 28.09.1926 - (07.)1927 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.08.1927 - (06.)1928 Navigating Officer, HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 13.10.1928 - (08.1929) Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (Mediterranean) (04.1930)     no appointment listed 01.05.1930 - (08.)1930 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for special service) 16.10.1930 - (05.1933) Navigating Officer, HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, New Zealand Station (06.1933)     no appointment listed 01.01.1934 - (02.)1936 Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence [HMS President] (02.1937)     no appointment listed 01.03.1937 - (02.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Penzance (escort vessel) (Africa) (06.1938)     no appointment listed 18.07.1938 - (04.)1939 Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet) (08.1939)     no appointment listed 09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS President (for duty in the War Cabinet Office) 20.07.1940 - (02.)1941 an Assistant Naval Attaché, Washington, DC [HMS President] 01.08.1941 - 01.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (Atlantic, North Russian and Malta convoys, N African landings and Barents Sea battle) 01.1943 - (12.1943) Chief of Staff to Governor and Commander-in-Chief Malta [HMS St Angelo] (later also Naval Liaison Officer to Commander, 8th Army) 01.1944 - (04.)1946 Chief of Staff to Head of British Admiralty Delegation USA [HMS Saker] 21.01.1947 - 04.1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Ocean (aircraft carrier) 15.09.1948 - 01.04.1957 Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President] Vice-President: King George's Fund for Sailors; Younger Brother, Trinity House.
Clarke, [Sir] Charles Philip   Son of C.P. Clarke, solicitor, of Taunton, Somerset. Married (17.12.1927) Audrey White, of Torweston, Williton; one son, one daughter.	14.12.1898 Taunton, Somerset - 13.11.1966 Christchurch, Hampshire	Midsh. 02.08.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.03.1917 S.Lt. 15.11.1917 Lt. 15.12.1918 Lt.Cdr. 17.12.1926 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 31.12.1938 R.Adm. 08.01.1948 (retd 01.05.1951) (re-instated on active list 08.1951) (reverted to retd 17.08.1955) KBE 01.01.1954 New Year 1954 [investiture 16.02.1954] CB 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 [investiture 14.02.1951] DSO 05.01.1944 action with enemy destroyers Bay of Biscay 12.1943 [investiture 12.12.1944] MID 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	Education: St Peter's, Weston-super-Mare; Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.       served European War, 1914-1918, HMS Queen, Dardanelles, 1915; HMS Royal Sovereign, Grand Fleet, 1916-1917; HMS Miranda, Dover Patrol, 1917-1918; Christ's College, Cambridge, 1919; HMS Coventry, 1920-1922; specialised Torpedo, 1922-1924; HMS Durban, China, 1925-1927; RN Staff College, 1927-1929; Staff of Commodore, Atlantic Fleet Destroyers, 1929-1930; HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1930-1932; staff jobs, 1932-1936; HMS Exeter, South America, 1936-1939 ... - ... ... 31.07.1939 - 18.03.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (Caledon class cruiser) (Northern Patrol, Mediterranean, Red Sea) & 1941 as Senior Officer, Red Sea 22.03.1941 - 22.05.1941 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (additional; as Senior Officer Read Sea Force (temporary)) (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 15.08.1941 - 18.09.1941 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 19.09.1941 - 23.11.1941 Assistant Director of Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 24.11.1941 - 30.11.1941 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 01.12.1941 - 04.08.1942 Deputy Director Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 05.08.1942 - 01.07.1943 Director Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)], renamed: 01.07.1943 - 09.1943 Director of Anti-U-boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 27.10.1943 - 14.11.1943 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 15.11.1943 - 19.11.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty at Damage Control School) 20.11.1943 - 25.11.1943 HMS Victory (additional; for courses) 26.11.1943 - 07.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser) (action Bay of Biscay [DSO], Normandy landings [despatches]) 08.08.1944) - 22.10.1944 Admiralty [HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty, for period not to exceed 3 months)] 23.10.1944 - 22.11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (Southampton class cruiser) ... - ... ...       Director of Manning, Admiralty, 1946-1948; Rear-Admiral, 1948; Flag Officer, Malta, 1948-1950 (CB); Director of Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty, 1951-1955 MIEE. President, British Institution of Radio Engineers, 1954-1956. Director of J. Langham Thompson Ltd, until 1961. * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, John Osborn Later known as: Osborn-Clarke, John. Married ...; one son.	(12?).1925 Wisbech district. Cambridgeshire - 09.12.2013 Bristol, Gloucestershire [aged 88]	... ... Midsh. 01.01.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1954 (retd)	... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Virago ... - ... ...
Clarke, [Sir] Marshal Llewelyn Son of late Sir Marshal James Clarke, KCMG. Married (1922) Ina Leonora (whom he divorced, 1940), daughter of J.G. Edwards; two sons.	09.05.1887 - 08.04.1959	A/S.Lt. 15.12.1906? S.Lt. 26.07.1907, seniority 15.12.1906 Lt. 30.06.1909 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1917 Cdr. 30.06.1922 Capt. 30.06.1929 Cdre. 2nd cl. 31.07.1936? R.Adm. 05.01.1940 V.Adm. 03.04.1943 (retd 16.10.1945) Adm. (retd) 16.10.1945 (dispersed 08.11.1945) (reverted to retd 04.01.1946) KBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 CB 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 DSC 31.03.1916 services in patrol cruiser LoA - escorting first Canadian convoy 01.1940	Education: Cordwalles, Maidenhead; HMS Britannia. 15.05.1902     joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War 08.09.1918 - (01.1919) Navigating Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 30.12.1924 - (01.1925) Executive Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 11.1925 - (07.1927) RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (08.1929)     no appointment listed 19.12.1929 - (04.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Concord (cruiser) (signal school cruiser, Portsmouth) 05.01.1931 - (02.1931) tactical course [HMS Victory] 28.03.1931 - (01.)1933 Deputy Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.05.1933 - (03.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 6th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet) 27.05.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 6th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet) 31.07.1936 - (08.)1938 Commodore, Malaya, and in charge of Naval Establishments at Singapore [HMS Terror II] (10.1938)     no appointment listed 25.01.1939 - 15.05.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 16.05.1939 - 31.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) 18.01.1940 - 23.01.1940 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 24.01.1940 - 20.03.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 6 months) 21.03.1940 - 14.04.1940 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 15.04.1940 - 05.10.1940 Rear Admiral, Second-in-Command, 18th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Sheffield (cruiser), from 05.05.1940 HMS Southampton (cruiser)] 10.10.1940 - 29.11.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Director of Dockyards) 30.11.1940 - 08.11.1945 Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] * indexed, but not listed as such
Clarke, Noel Edward Harwood Third son (with two brothers and two sisters) of Henry Trevisa Clarke (1864-1947), and Margaret Evelyn Sale (1869-1962). Married ((12?).1942, Chippenham district, Wiltshire) Katherine Miller Visger (19.04.1907 - 14.12.1999), daughter of Harman Visger (1872-1957), and Mary Louise West (1875-1915), of France Lynch, near Stroud; two sons.	21.10.1904 Whitburn, Sunderland, South Shields district, Co. Durham - 27.04.1980 Newport, Isle of Wight	Midsh. (E) 15.09.1923 S.Lt. (E) 15.11.1925 A/Lt. (E) 1927? Lt. (E) 06.02.1928, seniority 15.11.1927 Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.11.1935 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1940 Capt. (E) 30.06.1949 R.Adm. 29.07.1957 (retd 08.07.1960) CB 13.06.1959 HM's birthday [investiture 15.07.1959]	Education: RN College, Osborne (05.1918-1920; Blake Term); RN College, Dartmouth (1920-1921); Tonbridge School (two terms [Lent Term & Summer Term] 1922; School House). 1922     HMS Courageous 1923     HMS Thunderer 15.09.1923 - 03.08.1927 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] [completed diving course at HM Gunnery School Devonport [HMS Drake] 28.05.1927] 19.08.1927 - 06.11.1928 Assistant Engineer Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 11.12.1928 - 23.05.1931 on staff of Gun Mounting Overseer at Messrs Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne (under Engineer Inspector, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) [HMS President] 27.05.1931 - 29.06.1933 Assistant Engineer Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 07.10.1933 - 30.11.1933 Second Engineer Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) (01.1934)     no appointment listed (03.1934)     short course of instruction 21.03.1934 - 21.07.1936 Assistant to Engineer Manager for Armament Work, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 21.07.1936 - 15.01.1939 HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 16.01.1939 - 09.02.1941 an Engineer Inspector under Chief Inspector of Gun Mountings, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1942)     no appointment listed 03.03.1942 - 06.05.1943 HMS Cumberland (Kent class cruiser) (Russian convoys) 31.05.1943 - 06.1947 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for ordnance and instructional duties) 09.1947 - (10.1947) Assistant to Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Terror] (and for armament work) 02.02.1948 - 09.09.1949 Assistant to Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Terror] (and for armament work) 08.11.1949 - 25.07.1952 Deputy Chief Gunnery Engineer Officer (DCGEO/M) (under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty) [HMS President] 08.09.1952 - 07.07.1956 Chief Engineer, HM Dockyard, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke] (and for duty with Flag Officer, Gibraltar) 10.1957 - 01.1958 Deputy Director of Dockyards (Admin), Admiralty [HMS President] 01.1958 - 11.1958 Director of Fleet Maintenance, Admiralty [HMS President] 11.1958 - 07.1960 Command Engineer Officer and Chief Staff Officer (Technical), on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] AMIMechE (07.05.1935), MIMarE (16.01.1962). Worked with National Economic Development Office, 1963-68. Member Isle of Wight County Council, 1967-1974.
Clarkson, Geoffrey Archibald Son of William Archibald Clarkson, and Eleanor Jane Mary Webb. Married Essie Isabel Bruce-Porter (1897?-1982); three sons.	07.01.1888 Blaby, Leicestershire - 21.05.1981 Southampton, Hampshire	T/Instr.Lt. ? Instr.Lt. 21.02.1914? Instr.Lt.Cdr. 21.02.1922 Instr.Cdr. 21.02.1930 Instr.Capt. 01.10.1933 (retd 07.01.1943) OBE > 07.1937 < 02.1938 ?	Education: BA 29.05.1920 transferred to Permanent List (dated 21.02.1916) 15.04.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Resolution (battleship) ? - (01.1925) undergoing short course of instruction ? - (07.1927) Head of Navigation Department, RN College, Dartmouth 14.05.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.09.1930 - (10.1930) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.01.1931 - (01.1932) Fleet Education Officer, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] [accommodated in HMS Repulse] 05.05.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship and turret drill ship, Devonport) 25.08.1933 - (02.)1936 Deputy Superintendent of Naval Examinations, Education Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.04.1936 - Fleet Education Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Warspite (battleship)] (06.1938) - (08.1938) no appointment listed 27.08.1938 - (08.)1942 Professor of Navigation, RN College, Greenwich (and as Dean of College) [HMS President] 04.09.1942 - (04.1946) RN Engineering College, Keyham (redesignated: RN Engineering College, Devonport)
Clay, Richard George Ralph Son of J. Clay, CBE, FRCS, and ... Walton, of Newcastle. Married 1st ((09?).1939, New Forest district, Hampshire) Pamela Kay, daughter of C.W. Kay, of Lymington, Hampshire.. Married 2nd ((06?).1949, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) ... Gittings (née Campbell).	31.08.1915 Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland / Tyne and Wear - 14.08.1991 Tower Hamlets district, London	Cadet 01.01.1933 Midsh. 01.09.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1936 S.Lt. 01.05.1936 Lt. 01.04.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1946 (retd 27.09.1957) MBE 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 1957: Suez MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 01.01.1933 - 09.08.1933 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 10.08.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 05.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.01.1936 - 30.08.1936 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.08.1936 - (02.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 15.04.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Hardy (flotilla leader, 2nd Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) (08.1939) no appointment listed 18.08.1939 - 18.09.1939 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 19.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Kandahar (destroyer) (despatches) (12.1941) no appointment listed 03.1942 - (06.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Porcupine (destroyer) (08.1943)     no appointment listed 24.08.1943 - 01.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Holderness (destroyer) 14.01.1944 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Haydon (destroyer) (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * 12.02.1948 - (05.1949) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Mull of Galloway 10.02.1953 - (07.)1954 HMS Ranpura (repair ship) (Malta) 02.12.1954 - (1957) Assistant Naval Attaché, Cairo (resident in Port Said) [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Clayden, Stanley William "Chimp" Son (with one brother) of William John Clayden (1886?-), and Gertrude Rose Montague Hayward (1884-1967). Married ((09?).1944, Sheppey district, Kent) Barbara Taylor (1921 - 2015); one son.	22.05.1920 Maldon district, Essex - 09.08.1995 Penzance district, Cornwall	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.01.1942 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.01.1942 Lt. 16.07.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1950 Cdr. 31.12.1956 Capt. 30.06.1966 (retd 22.05.1975) Cdre. ? DSC 14.11.1944 patrols 04-07.1944 [investiture 27.02.1945]	(02.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed 15.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines) 10.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Torpedo Officer, HMS P 49, renamed: HMS Unruly (U class submarine) (12.1943) - (10.1944) Torpedo Officer, HMS Unruly (U class submarine) (DSC) * 25.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines) 14.02.1945 - (04.1945) HMS P 511 (submarine) * 31.05.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Safari (S class submarine) (10.1945)     submarine Commanding Officer's course * 31.12.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) 04.05.1946 - (10.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Sanguine (S class submarine) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Clayton, John Wittewronge Married (23.02.1922) ...; one son, one daughter.	21.04.1888 - 15.05.1952	... ... Lt. 30.11.1908 Cdr. 31.12.1921 Capt. 31.12.1928 R.Adm. 05.01.1940 (retd 06.01.1940) (dispersed 04.07.1945) (reverted to retd 30.08.1945) CBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 [investiture 08.12.1942]	15.03.1903     entered service ... - ... ... 01.08.1939 - 05.01.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 03.09.1939 - 04.07.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Deputy Director Intelligence Centre) (as Capt.)
Clayton, [Sir] Richard Pilkington	09.07.1925 - 15.09.1984	Midsh. ? ... ... S.Lt. 01.06.1944 ... ... V.Adm. 15.12.1975 Adm. 28.03.1978 (retd 23.07.1981)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.01.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 49). ... - ... ... 22.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Zenith ... - ... ...
Cleave, Hugh Latimer Married ((09?).1933, Bristol district, Gloucestershire) Peggy Elizabeth W. Hill (? - 1990); one daughter, one son.	11.02.1910 Exeter district, Devon - 18.11.2010 Crudwell, Cotswolds, Wiltshire	Sg.Lt. 17.01.1933 08.02.1935, seniority 17.01.1932 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 17.01.1938 A/Sg.Cdr. 27.04.1940? Sg.Capt. 30.06.1955 (retd 11.02.1967) CBE 10.06.1967 HM's birthday 1967 [investiture 19.07.1967] OBE 16.07.1946 POW in Far East MID 24.04.1940 for zeal, enterprise, and devotion to duty in ordering his sick bay from a state of chaos, and for his skilful and untiring care of the wounded	Education: FRCS Eng (1935) , MRCS, LRCP Lond (06.05.1931). Resident Medical Officer, Putney Hospital. Casualty Officer, Bristol General Hospital. 03.04.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 07.12.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Maine (hospital ship) (08.1936) - (10.1936) short course of instruction 30.10.1936 - (10.1938) RN Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] 02.01.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Nelson (battleship) (despatches) 27.04.1940 - 12.1941 in charge of Naval Hospital, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] (captured) 12.1941 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity (at Shinagawa camp near Tokyo; Surgeon-in-Charge Allied POW Hospital Tokyo 1944-45) (OBE) 15.05.1946 - (07.)1948 RN Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] 13.08.1948 - (05..1949) HMS Vanguard 20.01.1950 - (05.1950) RN Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 30.09.1952 - (04.1955) RN Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory] (01.1956)     no appointment listed 28.01.1957 - (01.1959) Naval Medical Officer of Health for Mediterranean Station, RN Hospital Malta [HMS Phoenicia] (07.1961)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 09.10.1961 - (02.1964) RN Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] (CBE ) 17.10.1961 - 11.02.1967 also: Honorary Surgeon to the Queen Fellow, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain.
Cleaver, Maurice Owen Griffiths	13.08.1924 Chipping Sodbury district, Gloucestershire - 24.12.1975 Chipping district, Wiltshire (formerly of Tetbury, Gloucestershire)	Midsh. ? ... ... S.Lt. (S) 01.02.1944 Lt. (S) 01.02.1946 (resignation accepted 25.05.1949) (Emgcy List)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.05.1938-16.12.1941; Admiralty No. 1923). ... - ... ... 20.06.1944 - (07.1945) Captain's Secretary, HMS Wolfe ... - ... ...
Clegg, Ian Mosley	27.09.1912 - 29.09.2003 Mid Warwickshire	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 04.04.1938 S.Lt. RNR 04.04.1938, seniority 01.10.1937 Prob. S.Lt. 04.04.1938 Lt. 23.01.1940, seniority 27.09.1936 Lt.Cdr. > 06.1944, seniority 27.12.1943 Capt. 31.12.1954 (retd 12.09.1964) CVO 31.12.1977 New Year 1978 MID 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.1942) MID 01.01.1943 New Year 1943	(06.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 11.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Eclipse (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 25.04.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Fury (destroyer) 21.11.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) 05.1943 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer) 09.10.1943 - 1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) HMS Glengyle (landing ship infantry) * 16.03.1948 - (05.1949) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.01.1950 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Alamein 20.03.1953 - (05.1953) staff, Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Ranpura] ** 15.11.1955 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Vigo 17.06.1961 - 28.07.1961 Director of Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 28.07.1961 - (02.1963) Director of Trade and Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.01.1964 - 07.07.1964 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such ** (04.1955) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Clements, Brian Clement Weston Son (with three brothers) of Maj. George Weston Clements, OBE, MC (1888?-1949?), and Mary Ann Amelia Enright, of Felcourt, Surrey. Brother of Cdr. (S) George Thomas Weston Clements, RN, and Lt.Cdr. (S) Noel Reginald Weston Clements, RN.	? - 14.03.1943 (MPK) [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.10.1940? S.Lt. 10.1941, seniority 01.10.1940 Lt. 01.08.1942 DSC 25.05.1943 sinking enemy supply ships [posthumously; presented to next-of-kin]	01.01.1939 - 25.08.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 26.08.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Resolution (battleship) 03.12.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 28.09.1941 - 28.11.1941 HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (for submarine course) 29.11.1941 - 21.12.1941 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (spare officer, for submarines) 22.12.1941 - 29.05.1942 HMS P 612 (formerly: Murat Reis) (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 30.05.1942 - 30.06.1942 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (spare officer, for submarines) 01.07.1942 - 17.07.1942 HMS Medway II (base for 1st Submarine Flotilla, Beirut) (spare officer, for submarines) 18.07.1942 - 19.09.1942 HMS Traveller (submarine) 20.09.1942 - 14.03.1943 HMS Turbulent (submarine) (ship lost off Sardinia) (DSC)
Clements, George Thomas Weston Son (with three brothers) of Maj. George Weston Clements, OBE, MC (1888?-1949?), , and Mary Ann Amelia Enright, of Felcourt, Surrey. Brother of Lt.Cdr. Noel Reginald Weston Clements, RN, and Lt. Brian Clement Weston Clements, RN.	15.06.1915 India - 07.12.1991 Poole district, Dorset	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1933 Paym.Midsh. 01.01.1934 Paym.S.Lt. 01.10.1935 Paym.Lt. 01.10.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.10.1945 A/Cdr. (S) < 04.1946 Cdr. (S) 30.06.1951 (retd 29.09.1959)	... - ... ... 07.06.1938 - (04.)1940 Captain's Secretary, HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 12.09.1940 - (10.)1943 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (10.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Sambur (RN base, Plaisance, Mauritius) * (07.1945)     no appointment listed 12.1945 - (04.1946) Staff Officer (Supply & Secretariat), HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Clements, Noel Reginald Weston Son (with three brothers) of Maj. George Weston Clements, OBE, MC (1888?-1949?), , and Mary Ann Amelia Enright, of Felcourt, Surrey. Brother of Cdr. (S) George Thomas Weston Clements, RN, and Lt. Brian Clement Weston Clements, RN. Married (1944) Jean Margaret Rule, WRNS, only daughter of Mr & Mrs Malcolm T.P. Rule, of Kingston Hill, Surrey.	22.12.1919 Madras, India - ?	Paym.Cadet 01.05.1937 Paym.Midsh. 01.05.1938 Paym.S.Lt. 01.04.1940 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.11.1941 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.11.1949 (dismissed HM Service by sentence of a court-martial 17.07.1962 for fraudulent misapplication of service property and making a false official document)	... - ... ... 11.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 08.08.1940 - (02.)1941 for duty in office of Flag Officer Commanding Force H [HMS Renown (battlecruiser)] (12.1941)     HMS Rodney (battleship) * (08.1942)     HMS Malaya (battleship) * 01.09.1942 - (02.)1943 Assistant Secretary to Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)] 20.05.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) (07.1945)     HMS Cuillin Sound (aircraft component repair ship) * 07.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Clemitson, Francis Edward Son of William David and Helen Louisa Clemitson. Married (1933) Kathleen Farquhar Shand; two daughters.	09.11.1899 Kingston district, Surrey - 29.11.1981 Bramley, Surrey	A/Lt. (E) 15.01.1921 Lt. (E) 01.06.1922, seniority 15.01.1921 Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.01.1929 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1932 Capt. (E) 30.06.1943 R.Adm. (E) 15.11.1949 (retd 12.10.1953) CB 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 1952 [investiture 08.07.1952]	Education: Christ's Hospital 1917 entered Royal Navy as Cadet (1918) Midshipman, HMS Lyon 22.05.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 05.03.1924 - (05.)1926 staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 10.11.1926 - (06.)1928 Assistant Engineer Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 07.1928 - (04.)1930 an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.07.1930 - (01.)1932 Engineer Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 10.08.1932 - (09.1932) Engineer Officer, HMS Venetia (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.05.1933 - (06.)1933 Senior Engineer Officers' Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.11.1933 - (07.1935) Engineer Officer, HMS York (cruiser) & as Fleet Engineer Officer, America and West Indies Station (02.1936)     no appointment listed 02.09.1936 - (08.)1939 Engineer Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) 06.11.1939 - (06.)1943 an Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (08.1943)     Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty * 10.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay, India) 03.1944 - (04.)1944 Engineer Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 05.1944 - (10.1944) Engineer Officer, HMS Resource (fleet repair ship) (07.1945) HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee) * 11.02.1946 - (10.1947) an Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.03.1948 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus) 09.01.1950 - (05.)1953 Deputy Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet (Admin.), Admiralty [HMS President] * indexed, but not listed as such
Clifford, [Sir] Eric George Anderson Married (02.05.1936) ...	03.09.1900 - 07.09.1964	Midsh. ? ... ... Lt. 15.08.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1929 Cdr. 20.06.1935 Capt. 31.12.1941 R.Adm. 08.01.1951 V.Adm. 01.04.1954 KCB 31.05.1956 HM's birthday 1956 [investiture 24.07.1956] CB 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 1952 [investiture 08.07.1952] CBE 10.11.1953 Korea (7th List) [investiture 23.02.1954] MID 14.11.1944 surface actions 07-08.1944 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) MID 15.05.1945 Operation Halfback	... - ... ... 14.01.1938 - 14.10.1940 Navigating Officer, HMS Kent (Kent class cruiser) & as Fleet Navigating Officer, China Fleet 15.10.1940 - 17.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Mackay (Scott class destroyer) 18.11.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Seaborn II (RN base for personnel & base staff of USN destroyers transferred to Royal Navy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) (additional) 01.1941 - 26.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Salisbury (Town class destroyer) 27.02.1941 - 30.03.1941 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty for duty in War Cabinet offices (temporary)) 31.03.1941 - 20.02.1943 HMS President (additional; as Naval Assistant Secretary, offices of the War Cabinet) 21.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS President (additional) 06.10.1943 - 14.10.1943 HMS Victory (additional; for courses) 15.10.1943 - 04?.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Diadem (improved Dido class cruiser) & from 26.07.1944-09.08.1944 & 04.10.1944-04?.1945 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron and Second-in-Command, Home Fleet 20.04.1945 - 01.05.1945 HMS President (additional; for special duty inside Admiralty) 02.05.1945 - 10.07.1945 HMS Victory IV (additional; whilst unemployed) 11.07.1945 - 05.09.1945 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Anson (additional)] ... - ... ...
Clifford, Michael George Winsloe Son of ... Clifford, and ... Newton.	(09?).1916 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 17.07.1947 Padstow, Bodmin district, Cornwall (KIA) [age 31] [Plymouth City Crematorium, panel 2]	RAF:   (A) P/O 16.04.1935 P/O 16.04.1936 F/O 16.01.1938 (reld 17.10.1938) RN:   Lt. (A) 17.10.1938, seniority 16.01.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 28.05.1944? Lt.Cdr. (A) 16.01.1946	16.04.1935     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 17.10.1938     transferred, RN (Air Branch) 06.01.1939 - (02.)1939 TSR Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) 29.03.1939 - (04.1939) TSR Squadron 821 FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 17.12.1940 - 24.01.1941 pilot, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) 25.01.1941 - 16.06.1941 pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [failed to return after an attack on the Vichy French Destroyer Chevaliere Paul; captured] 16.06.1941 - (1943?) POW in French captivity 15.02.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) (08.1943) - (04.1944) HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) * 28.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn) 12.1944 - (07.1945) AGO [= Air Gunnery Officer ?] on staff of Flag Officer Naval Air Stations, Australia [HMS Golden Hind] (04.1946)     no appointment listed ? - 17.07.1947 HMS President [Attached to the ministry of supply, was on a week’s training course rocket firing at St. Merryn. He took off in a Supermarine Seafire at 11.08 a.m. for dummy diving practice over the bombing ranges at Port Quin. Having completed his run just before noon, he was returning to base when hundreds of holidaymakers in Padstow saw he was in difficulties over the town. Lieutenant Commander Clifford chose to remain in his cockpit in an heroic bid to keep the aircraft in the air until he was clear of the town and out over the estuary of the Camel River. He missed the roof of the Metropole Hotel and houses adjoining the Southern railway station by a few feet before crashing onto a sandbar in the river.] * indexed, but not listed as such
Clift, Dennis Victor Youngest of three sons of Alfred James Clift (1859 - early 1920s?), translator of languages, and Beatrix Gaskell (1865 - ?), of Chiswick, Middlesex. Married (29.07.1925, Farmington, Kent) Helen Wilmot Evans, daughter of Guy and Edith Grace Ward Evans; two sons (one of which is Richard Dennis Clift, CMG, diplomat). Residence: (1957) Oakleigh, Woodleigh, Kingsbridge, Devon.	21.01.1901 Chiswick, Middlesex - 14.03.1977	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.01.1921 Lt. 15.02.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1930 (retd 1945/46) A/Cdr. < 06.1944 Cdr. (retd) 1945/46?	02.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Vivacious (torpedo-boat destroyer) 25.08.1924 - (01.)1925 long navigation course, HM Navigation School, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 24.09.1925 - (05.1926) qualifying for anti-submarine duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 17.07.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 17.11.1927 - (06.1928) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 05.1929 - (08.)1929 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Adamant II (submarine depot ship) (Atlantic Fleet) 11.11.1929 - (02.)1931 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.08.1931 - (01.)1932 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 16.08.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 11.1934 - (02.)1936 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 19.12.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 20.05.1938 - (08.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Mallard (patrol vessel) (First Anti-Submarine Flotilla) 12.12.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 01.03.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Reading (destroyer) 30.05.1942 - (06.1944) HMS Saker (British Admiralty delegation in the US, Washington, DC) (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.02.1946 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 07.02.1949 - (04.1955) Danish Naval Staff College, Copenhagen [HMS President]
Clinkard, Bryce Harben Married; one daughter, one son.	23.01.1921 Wellington, New Zealand - 14.03.2007 Long Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk	Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.01.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 S.Lt. ? Lt. 16.06.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1950 (retd 09.03.1959)	01.05.1939 - (09.1939) special entry cadet (under the Dominion Scheme), HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) 01.09.1941 - (12.1941) promotion course, Portsmouth 08.01.1942 - 13.08.1942 HMS Manchester (cruiser) (torpedoed & sunk by Italian motor boats off Tunisia) 13.08.1942 - 11.11.1942 interned by the Vichy French at Algiers (02.1943) no appointment listed 19.03.1943 - (01.)1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Bann (frigate) (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) HMS Harrier (minesweeper) * (07.1948) HMNZS Tamaki (RNZN training establishment, Motuihe Island, Auckland) * 31.01.1949 - (05.1949) HMNZS Hawea (frigate) 01.1950 - (05.1950) HMNZS Taupo (frigate) 02.1951 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Vigo (destroyer) 02.1954 - (04.)1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Alcaston (minesweeper) 11.07.1955 - (01.)1957 HMS Neptune (Reserve Fleet, Chatham) (for miscellaneous duties) 06.08.1957 - (01.)1959 HMS Grenville (frigate) (01.1959 showing as Commanding Officer) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clode, Roger Leslie Married Second Officer Patricia Mary ... , WRNS (died 20.01.2014, aged 100); two sons.	18.12.1911 Kingston district, Surrey - 09.01.2004 South East Hampshire district, Hampshire	... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1943 Cdr. ? Capt. 30.06.1957 (retd 21.06.1965)	... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Clouston, Erlend Richard Storer Second son of Joseph Storer Clouston (1870-1944), and Winifred Clouston, of Smoogro, Orkney. Brother of Cdr. Harold Thomas Stewart Clouston, RNVR. Engaged (1942) Barbara Joan Mowat, youngest daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Mowat, of Astley House, Bolton. Married (12.12.1945, Cheddon Fitzpaine Church) Eve Helen Sheila Graham, third daughter of the Rev. C. Graham, OBE, MA, RN & Mrs Graham, of Cheddon Fitzpaine Rectory, Taunton; five children (and one son died in infancy).	26.07.1919 - 25.02.1989 Kirkwall, Orkney [Orphir parish cemetery]	Cadet 01.09.1936 Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 18.11.1939, seniority 16.07.1939 Lt. 01.09.1940 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1948 (retd 31.03.1958) DSC 11.02.1941 for courage and resource in sinking an enemy submarine (Toricelli) 06.1940 [investiture 08.04.1941]	01.01.1937 - (02.)1937 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 06.1937 - 15.11.1937 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 16.11.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Havock (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (08.)1938 - (10.1938) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.01.1939 - (09.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 12.10.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Khartoum (destroyer) (06.1940) HMS Kingston (destroyer) 17.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Oakley (destroyer) 15.07.1941 - (02.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Scarborough (sloop) 23.03.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Onslow (destroyer) (12.1943) no appointment listed (04.1944) - (10.)1944 gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 09.10.1944 - (07.1945) gunnery school, Devonport [HMS Drake] 11.03.1946 - (04.)1946 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) 17.11.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (07.1948)     HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) * 04.08.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Agincourt (destroyer) (05.1950) no appointment listed 14.07.1952 - (05.)1953 HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) 15.09.1953 - (07.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Finisterre (destroyer) 01.11.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station, Lossiemouth) ? - (01.1957) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus) * indexed, but not listed as such
Clouston, James Campbell Son (with two brothers and four sisters) of William Stewart Clouston (1861-1934), and Evelyn Campbell (1873-1952). Brother of Cdr. William Stratford Clouston, RN and Lt. John Douglas Clouston, RCNVR. Married (28.09.1935) Gwyneth Lilian Vanderpump (31.05.1906 - 13.09.2002); two sons.	31.08.1900 Montreal, Canada - 03.06.1940 (KIA) [age 40] [Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany, 10.J.2]	Midsh. 25.04.1920 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1921 S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 15.05.1921 Lt. 15.06.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1930 Cdr. 31.12.1934 MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 (for his part in the Dunkirk operation)	Education: Sewlyn House; Lower Canada College; High School of Montreal; McGill University (1 year, engineering); RN College, Keyham. 1917     special entry cadet 12.06.1920 - (01.)1921 HMS Valiant (battleship) 31.08.1921 - (10.1921) HMS Valiant (battleship) (01.1923)     RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] * 20.08.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Montrose (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 10.02.1925 - (04.)1925 HMS Broke (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 24.09.1925 - (05.1926) gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.06.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 29.09.1927 - (01.)1928 advanced gunnery course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.04.1928 - (02.)1929 2nd Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 15.04.1929 - (08.)1929 Gunnery Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 30.12.1929 - (02.)1931 Gunnery Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Portsmouth) (07.1931)     no appointment listed 07.12.1931 - (02.)1932 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 22.11.1932 - (01.1934) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 05.01.1934 - (07.1934) Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 21.02.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) [obtained civil aviator's licence No. 12601, taken on a B.2 Trainer Gipsy III at London Air Park Flying Club, Hanworth 22.02.1935] (02.1937)     no appointment listed 29.05.1937 - 03.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Isis (destroyer) 05.1940 - 03.06.1940 while his ship HMS Isis was in dock for repairs, he applied for a temporary job and acted as piermaster at Dunkirk; he was lost when his Motor Launch was sunk by enemy aircraft on a last journey to Dunkirk * indexed, but not listed as such
Clouston, William Stratford "Bill" Son of William Stewart Clouston (1861-1934), and Evelyn Campbell (1873-1952). Brother of Cdr. James Campbell Clouston, RN and Lt. John Douglas Clouston, RCNVR.	13.03.1908 - 23.05.1974 Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Midsh. 01.09.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1930 S.Lt. 01.04.1931, seniority 01.11.1929 Lt. 01.04.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1944 (retd 14.02.1949) DSC 05.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst 12.1943	17.09.1926     entered RN 27.04.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 02.01.1930 - (04.1930) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.08.1930 - (02.1931) promotion course, Portsmouth 11.12.1931 - (01.1934) HMS Wren (destroyer) (China) 31.07.1934 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Restless (destroyer) 23.07.1935 - (02.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS Achates (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 20.04.1937 - (07.1937) First Lieutenant, HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 02.08.1937 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Fame (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 31.07.1940 - (02.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Cleveland (destroyer) 03.02.1942 - (02.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Inconstant (destroyer) 05.04.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Scorpion (destroyer) 18.01.1945 - (07.1945) staff of Rear-Admiral Destroyers, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Tyne] 07.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Terpsichore (destroyer) (07.1948) no appointment listed
Clover, Harwood Mervyn	24.04.1924 - 10.2003	Midsh. ? ... ... Lt. 16.09.1944 (Emgcy List 27.06.1950)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.01.1938-29.07.1941; Admiralty No. 1876). ... - ... ... 01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Sirdar ... - ... ...
Clover, Michael Raymond "Mike" Son of ... Clover, and ... Cowen. Married ((09?).1956, Marsham Church, Ashford district, Kent) Rosemary Wood Nash (03.08.1929 - 06.2006); one son.	25.08.1926 St Germans district, Devon - 26.01.2014 Chichester	Midsh. 01.01.1944 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1945 S.Lt. 15.07.1946, seniority 16.10.1945 Lt. 16.07.1947 Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1955 (retd 02.09.1955; own request)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.05.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 216a). 01.01.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) 05.1944 - 09.1944 HMS Valiant (battleship) 09.1944 - 02.1945 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (04.1945) - (04.1946) HMAS Napier (destroyer) * 24.06.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Ocean ... - ... ... Opened a children's home in Ashford, Kent. * indexed, but not listed as such
Clubb, Stanley Hector Robert	05.03.1904 Colchester, Essex - 13.01.1977	Seaman ? [K60740] T/A/Wt.Eng. 18.02.1944 T/Wt.Eng. 1944?, seniority 18.02.1944 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? ? Afr St ? ? It St ? ? WM 39|45 ? ? LSGCM ? ?	served in the North and South Atlantic, Indian Ocean and other places, possibly on HMS Enterprise (cruiser) & HMS Bulldog (destroyer): (04.1944) no appointment listed (06.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Espiègle (minesweeper) * (04.1946) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) * * indexed, but not listed as such Post-war active in the Royal Naval Association in Colchester, Essex.
Clutterbuck, [Sir] David Granville Son of Charles Granville Clutterbuck (1871-?), FES, Solicitor (admitted 1893),  Commissioner for Oaths, Town Councillor, Guardian, Under-Sheriff of the City of Gloucester, and Edith Violet Darkin. Married (1937, London) Rose Mere Vaile (died 12.01.2009), Auckland, NZ; two daughters.	25.01.1913 Gloucester, Gloucestershire - 13.12.2008 Lymington, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.01.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1933 S.Lt. 01.10.1933 Lt. 01.07.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1948 Capt. 31.12.1953 R.Adm. 08.07.1963 V.Adm. 24.08.1966 (retd) KBE 01.01.1968 New Year 1968 [investiture 26.11.1968] CB 01.01.1965 New Year 1965 [investiture 23.03.1965] MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily landings) MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East	1929 joined RN ... - ... ... 20.05.1939 - (09.1939) Navigating Officer, HMS Deptford (escort vessel) (East Indies) (04.1940)     HMS Deptford (escort vessel) * 27.05.1940 - 01.03.1942 Squadron Navigating Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) 02.06.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 20.10.1942 - (10.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Newfoundland (cruiser) (12.1943)     HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) * 03.12.1943 - 1946 Navigating Officer, HMS Newfoundland (cruiser) (present Japanese surrender at Tokyo) (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... 1952 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Sluys (destroyer) 30.07.1952 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Cadiz (destroyer) 1954 Naval Attaché at British Embassy, Bonn 1956 - 1958 Captain (D) of Third Training Squadron [HMS Zest] (Londonderry) 1960 - 1962 Commanding Officer, HMS Blake (cruiser) 1963 - 1966 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet and Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Eastern Atlantic [HMS Warrior] 1966 - 1968 Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic * indexed, but not listed as such
Clutterbuck, Howard Richard	03.10.1921 Solihull district, Warwickshire - 22.02.2001 Yeovil district, Somerset	Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.08.1941 Lt. 01.03.1943 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1951 (retd 03.10.1966) DSC 18.04.1944 4 patrols, 2 U-boats etc. sunk [investiture 27.09.1945]	... - ... ... 18.03.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Exeter (cruiser) (04.1942)     no appointment listed 01.05.1942 - (12.1942) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.01.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Templar (T class submarine) (DSC) 10.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines) 11.12.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS H 34 (H class submarine) 16.04.1945 - (04.)1946 HMS Talent (T class submarine) 12.05.1946 - (07.1946) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (for duty with submarines) ... - ... ... 02.02.1963 - 16.08.1965 Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
Clutterbuck, Robert Julian Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Maj. Lewis St John Rawlinson Clutterbuck, OBE, Royal Field Artillery (1884-), and Isabella Jessie Jocelyn (1883-). Married (06.08.1949, St Marylebone district, London) Suzanne M. du Boise, of Sydney, NSW, Australia; four daughters.	22.03.1916 Lewisham district, London - 25.03.2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia	Cadet 01.05.1933 Midsh. 01.01.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1936 S.Lt. 16.09.1936 Lt. 16.02.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1946 (retd 22.03.1958; own request) DSO 29.02.1944 sank supply ships, bombed "Amorgas" [investiture 01.05.1945]	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. ... - ... ... 24.11.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Tribune (submarine) 18.04.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) 22.08.1940 - 21.02.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Otway (submarine) 22.02.1941 - 22.02.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) (temporarily) 27.02.1941 - (08.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Sturgeon (submarine) 11.08.1941 - (09.)1941 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 26.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (and for submarines) 10.01.1942 - 05.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS L 23 (submarine) 03.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) 24.04.1942 - (10).1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) 27.10.1942 - 02.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Torbay (T class submarine) [tender to HMS Medway] 02.05.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 15.12.1944 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Truncheon (submarine) ... - ... ... Emigrated to Australia. Was an active member of the Old Submariners group in Sydney.
Coats, Ernest Colin Married (18.12.1930, Malta) Gudrun Viola Hulda Margareta Johanson, daughter of Nils Ludvig Hippolytus Johanson, Director of Telegraphs.	28.07.1902 - 15.11.1971 Kensington district, London	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922 S.Lt. ? Lt. 30.06.1924 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1932 (retd 28.07.1947) A/Cdr. 10.1942? Cdr. (retd) 28.07.1947 DSO 31.03.1942 attack on battlecruisers 02.02.1942 [investiture 14.04.1942] DSC 10.02.1942 E-boat attack on convoy 19.11.1941 [investiture 14.04.1942] MID 01.01.1942 New Year 1942	... - ... ... 20.09.1937 - (09.1939) HMS Arethusa (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 05.02.1940 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Forester (destroyer) [in charge of cargo ship "Holland" during the Dunkirk evacuation] 22.06.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Worcester (destroyer) 17.03.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 10.1942 - 07.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbell (destroyer) [although officially listed as in command from Oct 42, probably already in command while acting as escort on convoy PQ18 in Sept 42] (10.1944) no appointment listed 11.01.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Ferret III (Beach Hill Camp, Londonderry) 10.11.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Aorangi (Fleet Train Accommodation Ship, Far East)
Cobb, David Laurence Son (with two brothers) of Samuel John Cobb (1880-1950), and Mary Youatt (1877-1971). Brother of Sg.Lt.Cdr. John Hilary Cobb, RNVR, and of Maj. Martin Youatt Cobb, MBE, Royal Artillery.	05.03.1922 Hampstead, Middlesex - 29.01.1999 Sydney, NSW, Australia	Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.01.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.12.1940 Lt. 16.05.1942 ?, seniority 16.02.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.02.1950 Cdr. 30.06.1953 (retd 02.01.1961) CVO 31.12.1977 New year 1978 MID 23.06.1942 action with enemy convoy escort 03.1942 MID 04.04.1944 Aegean operations 09-11.1943	01.05.1939 - 12.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 01.09.1941 - (12.1941) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.01.1942 - 24.10.1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Eclipse (destroyer) (ship mined east of Kalymnos) 12.1943 - (10.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Beaufort (destroyer) (01.1945) - (07.1945) gunnery course 04.03.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Modeste (escort sloop) (07.1948)     HMS President * ? - (05.1949) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 04.1950 - (05.1951) HMS Jamaica 04.06.1951 - (05.1953) HMS Excellent (for miscellaneous duties) 27.04.1954 - (01.)1956 staff, Junior Officers War Course, Royal Naval College, Greenwich [HMS President] 10.08.1956 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Cockade 01.09.1958 - (01.1960) Surface Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (and for duty with Department of Director-General Aircraft) Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, 10.01.1977. Deputy Director in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme (initially Senior Director in the Boys Scheme, then Deputy Director, c. 1976/77, retiring c. 1986). * indexed, but not listed as such
Cobb, Gerald	05.10.1903 - 19.11.1987 Winchester, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924 S.Lt. 14.07.1925, seniority 15.07.1924 Lt. 15.08.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1933 (retd 05.10.1948) Cdr. (retd) 05.10.1948 OBE 01.01.1948 New Year 1948	06.05.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 10.04.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 21.07.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Constance (cruiser) (North America and West Indies) [additional] 19.07.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Colombo (cruiser) (North America and West Indies) 01.01.1929 - (02.1931) Navigating Officer, HMS Petersfield (twin screw minesweeper) (China) (01.1932) no appointment listed (09.1932) no appointment listed 19.12.1933 - (02.)1936 Navigating Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 14.10.1936 - 25.05.1937 Navigating Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) [while under construction] 25.05.1937 - (02.1941) Navigating Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (and as Squadron Navigating Officer, 1st Battle Squadron) (Mediterranean) 30.05.1942 - (10.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS King George V (battleship) 10.1943 - (07.1948) HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth)
Cobb, John William	16.01.1926 - 12.08.1950	Midsh. (S) 01.01.1944 ... ... Lt. (S) 01.06.1947	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (St Vincent House; 01.09.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 135). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Cobbe, Charles Hugh Son of Capt. Mervyn Hugh Cobbe, RN, and of Caroline Anne Maude Cobbe (née Arbuthnot). Husband of Enid Margaret Cobbe (nee Wilson), of Bolsterstone, Yorkshire.	15.01.1907 Greenwich - 10.12.1941 (KIA) [age 34] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]	Cadet 15.01.1921 Midsh. 15.05.1925 S.Lt. 16.04.1928 Lt. 16.04.1930 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1938	06.09.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean) * 08.11.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 24.03.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932) no appointment listed 28.10.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 16.04.1935 - (02.1936) Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 18.08.1936 - (07.1939) Gunnery Officer, HMS Penelope (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 31.07.1939 - (08.1939) Gunnery Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) 29.01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.01.1941 - 10.12.1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Repulse (battle cruiser) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cochrane, Alexander Francis Son of Maj. Charles FitzGerald Thomas Cochrane (1863-1952), and Maud Mary Rose (?-1913). Married (08.08.1928) Osma Rosina Heather Cochrane (12.12.1906 - 05.1990), eldest daughter of Oswald Henry Cochrane (1857-1955), and Eva Marion A. Barnett (1867?-1937), of Middlesborough, and Melbury, Salcombe; one son (killed in Malayan Emergency).	29.03.1902 - 03.05.1985 Truro district, Cornwall	Midsh. 01.05.1918 Lt. 15.12.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1931 (retd 29.03.1947; age) A/Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Cdr. (retd) 29.03.1947	15.09.1915     entered RN ? - (01.1919) HMS King George V (battleship) 02.01.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (05.1926)     no appointment listed 03.06.1926 - (06.)1928 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 18.08.1928 - (02.)1931 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 24.10.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Lupin (sloop) (Mediterranean) 05.07.1932 - (06.1933) HMS Adventure (minelayer) (Home Fleet) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 06.03.1934 - (08.)1936 HMS Durban (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (10.1936)     no appointment listed 15.01.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Caledonia (boys' training ship, Rosyth) 07.09.1939 - (12.1941) HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) 07.1942 - (08.)1942 RN Depot, Simonstown, South Africa [HMS Afrikander] 08.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Good Hope (training establishment, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) 07.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Excalibur (new entry seaman training establishment, The Brunds, Alsager, Stoke on Trent) 10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Raleigh (training establishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall) (07.1945)     HMS Wager (destroyer) * (04.1946)     HMS Forte (RN base, Falmouth) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Cochrane, Anthony George Fottrell Nugent	29.06.1926 Kensington district, London - 10.1999 Chichester, West Sussex	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.05.1945 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1955 (retd 01.05.1956; own request)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 176). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     HMS Nigeria * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Cochrane, Sir Edward Owen Son of Vice­Adm. Basil E. Cochrane and Cornelia Ramsay Robinson Owen. Married (1908) Mary Lucy George (died 1955); (son Major RA, killed in Tunisia) one daughter.	17.08.1881 Chertsey, Surrey - 27.01.1972 [London ?]	Midsh. 1897 A/S.Lt. 15.04.1901? S.Lt. 14.01.1903, seniority 15.04.1901 Lt. 17.07.1903, seniority 15.10.1902 Cdr. 30.06.1915 Capt. 31.12.1920 R.Adm. 03.01.1933 (retd 04.01.1933) Capt. RNR 24.08.1939 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 02.1940 (reverted to retd  1945) KBE 02.06.1943 HM's birthday MID 17.11.1942 ocean convoys 1939-1942	Education: HMS Britannia 15.01.1896     entered RN 1903 qualified as gunnery Lieutenant 18.01.1918 - (01.1919) Executive Officer, HMS Nelson (pre-Dreadnought battleship) 1921 - 1924 Assistant Director Gunnery Division and Assistant then Deputy Director Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty 15.09.1924 - 1926 Commanding Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) (East Indies Station) 16.04.1927 - 1929 Commanding Officer, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 08.04.1929 - (02.)1931 Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 17.08.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 09.06.1932 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 14.10.1932 - 03.01.1933 Naval ADC to the King 02.1940 - (07.)1945 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet]
Cochrane, John Morris	06.05.1926 Portsmouth district, Hampshire -	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.05.1945 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1955 (retd 28.05.1960)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 177). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Cock, Arthur John	13.11.1887 Dublin, Ireland - 14.01.1971 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Seaman ? [224347] Gnr. (T) 23.06.1915 Cd.Gnr. (T) 23.06.1925 Lt. 07.05.1935 (retd 13.11.1937) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 07.05.1943 Cdr. (retd) 11.06.1947	possibly served in submarines in World War I 08.05.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 22.04.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 15.03.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.05.1929 - (06.)1933 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [ship commissioned 16.09.1930] 16.06.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 24.04.1935 - (07.)1937 HM's Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.06.1939 - (04.)1946 Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, later Roedean School, Brighton) (in lieu of specialist Torpedo Officer)
Cockburn, [Sir] John Elliot; 12th Bt of that Ilk, created 1671	07.12.1925 - 12.06.2015		Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Hawke House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 136) [probably did not finish his education as he's not showing as being commissioned in the RN]; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.       served War of 1939-1945, joined RAFVR, July 1944.
Cocking, Frederick Stephen [de Montaignac Lockington]	06.07.1901 Devonport - 06.02.1968 Plymouth, Devon	Seaman ? [M21915] Wt.Shipwr. 01.08.1935 Wt.Aircr.Offr. 01.08.1935 Cd.Aircr.Offr. 01.10.1943 Lt. (A) 01.04.1945 Lt. (E) ?, seniority 01.04.1945 (retd 06.07.1951) (reverted to retd 03.09.1952; medically unfit) MBE 05.06.1952 HM's birthday 1952	12.09.1935 - (02.1937) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.10.1937 - (08.1939) HMS Gloucester (cruiser) 22.11.1939 - 08.1943 RN Aircraft Repair Yard Department, HMS Merlin (Royal Naval Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 28.08.1943 - (06.1944) RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fleetlands 07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Perseus (maintenance carrier) (05.1950) HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, co. Londonderry) * (1952) RN Aircraft Maintenance Yard Belfast * indexed, but not listed as such
Cocup, Brian Michael	20.08.1926 Leicester district, Leicestershire - 30.09.2017 Sutton Manor Nursing Home	Midsh. 01.01.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1956 (retd 03.11.1956; medically unfit)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.05.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 217). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     HMS Carron * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Cogswell, Peter Michael Bligh Son of Dare Creagh Cogswell, and Audrey Bligh Nutting. Adopted by Louis Walter Nutting, which caused a name change by deed poll of 21.01.1947 to: Nutting, Peter Michael Bligh.	13.11.1925 Kenya - 05.04.1984 Banbury, Oxfordshire (formerly of Helmdon, Northamptonshire)	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.09.1944 S.Lt. 01.04.1945 Lt. 01.08.1947 (retd 25.04.1950)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Exmouth House; 01.05.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 88). ... - ... ... 03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Quilliam ... - ... ...
Coke, John Hodson	15.06.1926 - 30.06.2016 Gillingham, Dorset	Midsh. 01.01.1944 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1956 (retd 24.08.1968)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 178). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     HMS Virago * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Coldham, Charles Hamilton	18.08.1914 - 23.11.1999	... ... A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1945 (retd 19.08.1957)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Jamaica ... - ... ...
Cole, Arthur Richard Son of Arthur J. Cole, and Violet M. Tallent.	29.03.1922 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 13.11.2006 Tavistock, West Devon	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1940 Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1940 Paym.S.Lt. 01.06.1942 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.02.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.02.1952 (retd 29.03.1972) A/Cdr. (S) (1962) OBE 01.01.1963 New Year 1963	(02.1940) - (05.1940) no appointment listed 01.05.1940 - (10.)1944 HMS Hawkins (Hawkins class cruiser) 31.10.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 01.08.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) (for duty in Commodores Office, as Secretary to Maintenance Captain to Cdre. Flying Training) 02.1946 - (10.1946) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) ... - ... ...
Cole, [Sir] Antony Bartholomew Younger son of Cdr. John Francis Herbert Cole, RN, of Fell Court, Torquay, and Ethel Sophie Bartholomew, of Devizes. Married (06.11.1937) Barbara Mary Burstall, daughter of Lt.Gen. Sir Henry Edward Burstall, KCB, KCMG; two daughters.	23.05.1909 Torquay - 24.03.1967 Colyton, Devon	Midsh. 01.09.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1931 S/Lt. 05.04.1932, seniority 01.09.1930 Lt. 05.12.1932, seniority 01.12.1931 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1939 Cdr. 31.12.1943 Capt. 30.06.1951 R.Adm. 07.01.1960 V.Adm. 15.03.1963 (retd 07.08.1965) KBE 13.06.1964 HM's birthday 1964 [investiture 23.02.1965] CB 01.01.1962 New Year 62 [investiture 13.03.1962] DSC 03.12.1940 sinking enemy trawler [investiture 25.02.1941] MID 05.07.1940 action Dutch coast	Education: Winchester College (Bramston's House, 1922.3-1927.2; War Exhibitioner). 16.09.1927     special entry cadet, RN 25.08.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 17.12.1929 - (01.)1931 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 01.01.1931 - 17.08.1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 17.08.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 19.04.1932 - (05.)1934 HMS Comet (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 03.05.1934 - (05.)1935 qualifying for torpedo duties [HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)] 10.06.1935 - (07.)1935 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 28.08.1935 - (02.)1936 Torpedo Officer, HMS Montrose (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 27.03.1936 - (05.)1936 Torpedo Officer, HMS Garland (destroyer) (20th Destroyer Flotilla) (for flotilla duties) 18.05.1936 - (07.)1937 Torpedo Officer, HMS Grenville (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean) 14.10.1937 - (02.)1939 Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 02.03.1939 - 08.06.1939 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (additional; for duty with 4th MTB Flotilla) 09.06.1939 - 05.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 22 (motor torpedo boat) & as Senior Officer, 4th MTB Flotilla [HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth), from 01.1940 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport), from 05.06.1940 HMS Badger (minesweeper base, Harwich), from 01.07.1940 HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] (North Sea & English Channel) 11.08.1941 - 01.1944 Squadron Torpedo Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) (North Sea, North Atlantic & Arctic) 01.1944 - (10.1945) staff, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946)     HMS Saker (RN base, Washington, DC, USA) * 01.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Welcome 15.02.1949 - (05.1949) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) (05.1950)     no appointment listed 05.02.1951 - (05.1951) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 1952 - 02.02.1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Campania 05.07.1953 - (01.)1955 Naval Attaché, Rome 21.11.1955 - (01.1957) Deputy Director of Underwater Weapon Materials, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.04.1958 - (01.)1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Albion 27.11.1959 - 1962 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President] 25.06.1962 - 1965 Chief of Allied Staff to Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Mediterranean (AFMED) * indexed, but not listed as such
Cole, Clarence George Married (04.08.1926, Launceston, Cornwall) Dora Oke (25.11.1904 - 12.11.1985); one daughter.	28.07.1899 Camberwell, London - 03.07.1965 Plymstock, Devon	A/Wt.Eng. 01.01.1930 Wt.Eng. ?, seniority 01.01.1930 Cd.Eng. = Sen.Cd.Eng. 01.04.1940 (retd 28.07.1949; age) A/Lt. (E) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 Lt. (E) (retd) 28.07.1949 MID 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 MID 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945	... - ... ... 24.04.1930 - (03.1931) HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) ... - ... ... 29.06.1939 - 16.03.1941 HMAS Perth (Leander class light cruiser) 18.07.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Wallace (Shakespeare class destroyer) (despatches) 23.09.1943 - (04.)1945 HMS Offa (O class destroyer) (despatches) (07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Cole, Edgar Woolridge Son (with four brothers and two sisters) of Reuben Cole (1859?-), letterpress printer, and Annie Cole (1860?-), of Plymouth. Married ((06?).1938, Cardiff district, Glamorgan) Doris Gamlin ((06?).1903 - ), of Pontypridd, Glamorgan.	13.01.1898 Plymouth, Devon - 23.05.1941 (MPK) [age 43] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 41, 2]	Seaman ? [M6263] A/Wt.Eng. 01.10.1926 Wt.Eng. 1927?, seniority 01.10.1926 Cd.Eng. 01.10.1936	(02.1927)     short course of instruction 21.03.1927 - (05.)1928 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) 03.05.1928 - (08.1930) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) (02.1931)     no appointment listed 04.05.1931 - (06.1933) HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for Mechanical Training Establishment) 11.1933 - (10.1936) HMS Wellington (sloop) [borne in HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] [commissioned 22.01.1935 at Devonport, later New Zealand] (01.1937) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 29.04.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Mechanical Training Establishment) 07.05.1939 - 23.05.1941 HMS Kelly (destroyer) (ship bombed & sunk by German aircraft off Crete)
Cole, Frederick Dennisson	17.09.1916 - 29.04.2002 New Zealand	.... ... S.Lt.. 16.07.1937 Lt. 01.10.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1946 (retd 10.11.1955)	... - ... ... 30.03.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Jackal (destroyer) (10.1940)     no appointment listed (02.1941)     no appointment listed 20.11.1941 - (08.)1943 HMS Boreas (destroyer) 09.1943 - 13.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Vivacious (destroyer) 08.12.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Glendower (training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 10.08.1945 - 05.11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Tremadoc Bay (frigate) ... - ... ...
Cole, Percival Sidney	see:	RNVR officers' section
Cole, Philip Frederick Son of Frederick William Cole, and Edith Olive Box. Married ((09?).1942, Wincanton district, Somerset) Jeanne Marion Ruby Dyke (26.06.1919 - 06.2008), daughter (with two brothers and one sister) of Thomas Ears Dyke (1883-1958), and Mabel Elmes Beale (1885-1979).	03.02.1914 Yeovil, Somerset - 28.02.1998 North Dorset	A/S.Lt. RNR 28.01.1937 S.Lt. RNR 19.06.1937, seniority 28.01.1937 Prob. S.Lt. 14.03.1938 S.Lt. 13.02.1939, seniority 14.03.1938 Lt. 03.01.1940, seniority 17.01.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 17.01.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1951 (retd 24.03.1958) DSC 18.05.1943 North Russian convoy [investiture 09.11.1943] MID 08.01.1942 withdrawal from Crete	Served in Elders Fyffe, the GSNC before joining the RN. ... - ... ... 14.05.1939 - 12.1940 HMS Hyperion (H class destroyer) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 18.02.1941 - (05.)1941 HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 05.1941 - 05.1941 HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) (despatches) 07.07.1941 - 03.1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Jaguar (J class destroyer) (04.1942) - (06.1942) no appointment listed 31.07.1942 - (08.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Obedient (O class destroyer) (DSC) 21.09.1943 - (12.1943) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (02.1944)     no appointment listed 02.04.1944 - 08.09.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Holderness (Hunt class destroyer) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Cole-Hamilton, Anthony Mervyn "Tony" Son of Richard Mervyn Cole-Hamilton (1877-?), and Margaret Bennett. Married 1st (25.11.1944) Monica Mary Cartwright; one son, three daughters. Married 2nd (07.04.1956) Angela Elizabeth Baeza.	25.11.1919 - 09.10.2010 Stevenage, Hertfordshire	.... ... S.Lt.. 16.06.1939 Lt. 16.04.1941 Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1949 (retd) MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944	... - ... ... 23.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Rosemary (sloop) 02.05.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Achates (destroyer) (12.1941) - (08.1942) HMS Panther (destroyer) * 31.08.1942 - (06.1944) First Lieutenant, HMS Brecon (destroyer) 23.01.1945 - (04.1946) First Lieutenant, HMS Comet (destroyer) ... - ... ...
Coleridge, Guy Lushington Son of Hon. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge [second son of 1st Baron Coleridge] (1854-1936), and Geraldine Beatrice Lushington (died 1910). Married (22.01.1910) Hester Christabel Margaret Dickson, only daughter of Rev. Richard Henry Dickson; one daughter. Of Chobham, Surrey.	15.04.1884 Kensington, London - 28.10.1941 (died on active service) [Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Chatham, Naval Reservation, grave 1484]	A/S.Lt. 30.08.1903? S.Lt. 26.01.1905, seniority 30.08.1903 Lt. 29.07.1905, seniority 28.02.1905 Cdr. 30.06.1917 Capt. 30.06.1924 (retd 15.04.1934; own request)	15.01.1899     entered RN 01.08.1917 - (01.1919) Executive Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (01.1925) no appointment listed 02.11.1926 - (07.1927) Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (China) (08.1929) no appointment listed 24.10.1929 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer) & Captain (D), Reserve Fleet, Nore 17.10.1931 - (01.1932) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS President] (09.1932) - (01.1934) no appointment listed Barrister-at-Law. F.R.G.S. 26.11.1939 - 28.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (and for administrative and disciplinary command of all tenders)
Coleridge, the Hon. Richard Duke; from 1955 4th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary Eldest son of 3rd Baron Coleridge (Geoffrey Duke Coleridge) (1877-1955), and Jessie Alethea Mackarness (1880-1957). Succeeded father, 27.03.1955. Married (28.08.1936, Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London) Cecilia Rosamund Fisher (22.11.1909-29.07.1991), elder daughter of Adm. Sir William W. Fisher, GCB, GCVO; two sons.	24.09.1905 Honiton district, Devon - 20.05.1984 Ottery St Mary, South Devon	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. 15.09.1926 Lt. 15.06.1928 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1936 (retd 22.07.1939) A/Cdr. (retd) > 12.1941, < 08.1942 Cdr. (retd) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 (reverted to retd 07.04.1952) A/Capt. (retd) > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Capt. (retd) 07.04.1952 KBE 01.01.1971 New Year 1971: Secretary NATO CBE 07.06.1951 HM's birthday 1951 [investiture 13.02.1952] OBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 LM 17.12.1946 ?	Education: The Dene, Caterham; RN Colleges, Osborne (1919-) & Dartmouth (...-12.1922). 15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Danae (cruiser) (Mediterranean)       HMS Revenge (battleship) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.)1927 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 01.09.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) 20.06.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 19.12.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 21.08.1931 - (06.1933) Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse [HMS Bee (gunboat)] (China) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 23.04.1934 - (08.)1936 Flag Lieutenant/Lieutenant-Commander to Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron and Second-in-Command Mediterranean [HMS Resolution (battleship), later HMS Valiant (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 22.10.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 11.01.1938 - 15.12.1938 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.12.1938 - 15.03.1939 Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Shropshire] (Mediterranean Station) (invalided out due to tuberculosis) 16.03.1939 - 22.07.1939 no appointment listed 1940 - 06.1940 rejoined RN: Offices of War Cabinet and of Minister of Defence, with appointment to GQG Vincennes, France [HMS President] 07.1940 - 05.1941 War Cabinet Office in London [HMS President] 20.05.1941 - 30.11.1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for Joint Staff  Mission, Washington) 01.12.1941 - (07.)1945 British Joint Staff and Combined Chiefs of Staff (and attended the Conferences of Washington, Quebec (1942 and 1943), Cairo, Malta and Yalta) [HMS Saker] 09.1945     Council of Foreign Ministers, London Conference 01.1946     UN Assembly in London 1946 - 1948 Military Staff Committee of United Nations, New York 1948 - 1952 British Joint Services Mission in Washington (and also Chief Staff Officer to Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder (Chairman of British Chiefs of Staff Committee and British Representative on Standing Group of NATO, 1950-51); representative British Chiefs of Staff on Temporary Committee of Council of NATO, in Paris, 1951; attended Lisbon Conference, 1952 Executive Secretary, NATO, 1952-1970. Chairman: Devon and Exeter Savings Bank, 1971-75; SW Trustee Savings Bank, 1975-80 (President, 1980-). Chairman, Devon Historic Churches Trust, 1972-. Appointed as Chief Constable, Bedfordshire, 01.1940, but had to leave the job prematurely as the Home Secretary refused to sanction the appointment as he had no previous police experience. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Devon 1973.
Collar, Michael Harvey Son of ... Collar, and ... Harvey.	30.11.1919 Yeovil district, Somerset - 10.11.1997	S.Lt. 16.04.1939 Lt. 01.03.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1949 (retd 02.06.1958) DSC 04.09.1945 minesweeping German coast 04-05.1945 [decoration posted] MID 07.07.1942 withdrawal of troops from Bardia 04.1941 MID 31.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) MID 30.05.1944 services in 12 convoys MID 03.04.1945 minesweeping Holland & Antwerp 09-11.1944 OON 12.005.1942 withdrawal from Holland [decoration posted]	... - ... ... 14.02.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Order of Oranje Nassau) 30.12.1940 - (02.)1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 1941 - (04.)1941 HMS Glengyle (assault ship) (despatches) 21.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base. Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services) 01.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Carlisle (02.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (07.1943)     beachmaster at Sicily (despatches) 09.09.1943 - (04.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Milne (fleet destroyer) (despatches) (06.1944)     navigation course 10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Ready (fleet minesweeper) (DSC, despatches) 11.03.1946 - (04.1946) Navigating Officer, HMS Ranee ... - ... ...
Collett, Anthony Foster "Farmer" Married Margaret Frances Henson (born 1918).	04.03.1911 Gloucester, Gloucestershire - 11.02.1991 Lydart, Pontypool district, Gwent	Cadet 01.05.1928 Midsh. 01.01.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1931 S.Lt. 16.01.1932 Lt. 16.03.1934 Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1942 (retd 29.01.1948) A/Cdr. 05.1945? DSC 25.11.1941 services in Mediterranean [investiture 30.06.1942] DSC 29.08.1944 war patrols [investiture 13.02.1945] LM 03.04.1945 rescue US airman (Lt. Dale C. Klahn) Sabang 04.1944 [investiture 24.04.1945]	01.05.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 08.01.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) 30.04.1931 - 03.01.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth (05.1933)     no appointment listed 04.05.1933 - (06.)1933 HMS Mackay (flotilla leader)  (2nd Submarine Flotilla) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 16.09.1933 - (11.)1934 HMS L 26 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Mackay] 16.12.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Otus (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (04.1936)     no appointment listed 22.04.1936 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 26.04.1937 - (04.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Grampus (submarine) (China) (08.1939)     no appointment listed 01.09.1939 - 04.1940 Staff Officer (Operations 2), HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) 26.04.1940 - 18.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (submarine) 19.09.1940 - 18.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Unique (submarine) 01.07.1942 - 11.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Upright (submarine) 12.12.1942 - 01.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Tactician (submarine) 01.10.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (and for duty with submarines) (01.1945)     no appointment listed 05.1945 - (07.1945) British Naval Liaison Officer, STMs [HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)] 02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
Collett, Charles Trusson First son (with three brothers and three sisters) of William George Collett (1869-1956), and Ruth Lilian Kempthorne (1882-1972), of Woodhill, Crowthorne. Brother of R.Adm. George Kempthorne Collett, CB, DSC, RN. Married (09.07.1938, St John the Baptist, Harrietsham, Hollingbourne district, Kent) Elizabeth Catherine Sibbald-Scott (10.01.1919 - 04.10.1968), daughter of Sir Francis Montague Sibbald-Scott, Bt. (1885-1945), and Gladys Rolt (1880-1951), of Harrietsham, Kent; three sons, one daughter.	15.08.1904 Easthampstead district, Berkshire - 09.05.1958 Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey Northern district, Surrey	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 15.10.1925 Lt. 15.10.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1935 (retd 15.08.1949) A/Cdr. 05.04.1943? Cdr. (retd) 15.08.1949 (reverted to retd 28.04.1954) OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 MID 14.10.1941 Bismarck sunk	15.05.1918     entered RN 15.09.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Benbow (battleship) 10.11.1924 - (03.1926) HMS R 10 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 07.01.1927 - (07.1928) HMS Serapis (destroyer) (China) (06.1929)     no appointment listed 03.06.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties) 15.10.1930 - (05.)1933 HMNZS Diomede (cruiser) [New Zealand Division] (06.1933)     no appointment listed 08.09.1933 - (08.)1935 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) 10.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Weston (patrol sloop/escort vessel) (East Indies) 26.10.1937 - (09.)1939 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 05.09.1939 - (08.1942) HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (despatches) 01.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Ameer (escort carrier) 05.04.1943 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Tracker (escort carrier) (OBE) 15.01.1946 - (04.)1946 Naval Training Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.09.1946 - 28.04.1954 Office of Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] (for Sea Cadet Corps duties) (Closed Unit Sea Cadet Corps & Naval Member Joint Cadet Executive, Combined Cadet Force)
Collett, George Kempthorne Second son (with three brothers and three sisters) of William George Collett (1869-1956), and Ruth Lilian Kempthorne (1882-1972), of Woodhill, Crowthorne. Brother of Cdr. Charles Trusson Collett, OBE, RN. Married (10.08.1937, St John's Church, Crowthorne, Windsor district, Berkshire) Cashie Rongnye Fernie Bell, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Alfred Bell, KCIE, CMG (1870-1945), and Cashie Kerr Fernie (died 1935), of Edgcumbe, Crowthorne, Berkshire; one son, one daughter.	25.01.1907 Easthampstead district, Berkshire - 11.05.1982 Churt, Farnham, Surrey	... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.04.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1939 A/Capt. 01.1945 Capt. 31.12.1945 R.Adm. 07.01.1955 (retd 24.03.1958) CB 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 1957 [investiture 12.11.1957] DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [investiture 11.05.1943] MID 30.05.1944 attack on Tirpitz 03.04.1944 LegH 1945 ?	15.09.1920     entered RN ... - ... ... 29.08.1939 - (09.1939) Gunnery Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean Fleet) (04.1940)     HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 1940 - 30.06.1940 British Naval Liaison Officer to Force de Raid on battlecruiser Dunkerque 01.07.1940 - (10.1940) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (as British Naval Liaison Officer with Gen. de Gaulle) (02.1941)     Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.04.1941 - 1942 Executive Officer, HMS Trinidad (cruiser) (DSC) 26.06.1942 - (04.)1944 Staff Officer (Operations) & Squadron Gunnery Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Anson (battleship)] (Home Fleet) (despatches) 14.06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Duke of York (battleship) 01.1945 - (07.)1945 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord [HMS President] (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Collie, James Christian	18.10.1883 Banchory Ternan district, Kincardine, Scotland - 28.10.1957 South Africa	S.Lt. RNR ? Lt. RNR 04.09.1912 Lt. (Supplementary List) 07.01.1913, seniority 01.04.1913 Lt.Cdr. (Supplementary List) 01.04.1921 (retd 18.10.1928) Cdr. (retd) 18.10.1928 (reverted to retd 1944/45)	02.11.1917 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Moy (river class destroyer) 10.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Hecla (special torpedo vessel; depot ship) (for emergency destroyers) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (07.1927) no appointment listed 08.01.1940 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS St Tudno (accommodation ship, Standgate Creek, Sheerness) (02.1941) no appointment listed 05.05.1941 - (06.1944) HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)
Collier, Peter Keith Son (with one brother) of Edward Adamson Collier (1897-1955), and Jane Leburn Pattullo (1897-1984). Brother of Capt. Neil Adamson Collier, Indian Army. Married ((06?).1955, Pershore district, Worcestershire) Sheila C. Swift; four children.	14.12.1924 Hartley Wintney district, Hampshire - 30.10.1994 Tewkesbury, Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire	Cadet 01.05.1943 Midsh. 01.01.1944 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1945 S.Lt. 16.03.1946, seniority 01.02.1945 A/Lt. 16.07.1946? Lt. 20.09.1947, seniority 16.07.1946 (retd 07.01.1953)	01.01.1944 - (04.)1944 HMS Hawkins (Hawkins class cruiser) 05.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (01.1945)     HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) * (04.1945) - (07.1945) HMAS Napier (RAN base, Alexandria) * 03.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Consort (C class destroyer) (07.1948) - (10.1948) no appointment listed 07.12.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Terror (for miscellaneous duties) 03.01.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Vernon (for long TAS course) (05.1951)     no appointment listed 18.08.1951 - (05.1952) HMS Lochinvar * indexed, but not listed as such
Collings, Maurice Macsherry Youngest son of Eng.Capt. Albert Edward Collings, RN (1865-1916), and Norah Wilhelmina Macsherry (?-1971). Married ((03?).1943, Chatham district, Kent) Bridget Irene Williams (12.03.1919 - 02.2003), youngest daughter of the Rev. H.C. Williams, and Mrs Williams, of the Rectory, Eastchurch, Kent; ... children (three daughters, two sons?).	23.05.1914 Plymouth district, Devon - 24.02.1982 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Cadet 01.09.1931 Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 16.03.1935 Lt. 16.08.1936 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1944 (retd 1950) MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth. 22.07.1932 - (08.)1934 HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 27.09.1934 - (02.)1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.04.1935 - (07.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.10.1935 - (08.)1936 HMS Douglas (flotilla leader, 20th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 17.10.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean) (06.1938)     no appointment listed (08.1938)     HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) * 29.09.1938 - 11.10.1938 qualifying for gunnery duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.10.1938 - (08.)1938 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 28.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 24.06.1940 - (08.)1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Campbell (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties) 08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for gunnery school) 05.04.1943 - (07.)1944 Gunnery Officer, HMS Bellona (cruiser) (despatches) 15.09.1944 - (01.)1945 Gunnery Officer on staff of Admiral Commanding Orkney and Shetland [HMS Proserpine (RN base, Lyness, Scapa Flow)] 02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Blenheim (destroyer depot ship) 11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) 03.05.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 30.10.1949 - (05.)1950 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
Collingwood, Cuthbert John	21.10.1913 - 26.12.2002 Surrey Northern district, Surrey	Midsh. RNR 08.09.1932 A/S.Lt. RNR 21.10.1934 S.Lt. RNR 23.02.1937, seniority 29.02.1936 Prob. S.Lt. 28.02.1938 S.Lt. 1939?, seniority 28.02.1938 Lt. 05.05.1939 ?, seniority 21.10.1937 Lt.Cdr. 21.10.1945 Lt.Cdr. (L) 14.10.1946, seniority 21.01.1945 (retd 21.10.1958) MID 02.07.1946 for distinguished services during the defence of Hong Kong	(06.1938) -  (10.1938) no appointment listed 01.11.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Brazen (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 04.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Speedy (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla) 21.10.1939 - 26.12.1941 HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (escaped): 21.10.1939 - 26.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 11 (motor torpedo boat) 06.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties at Colombo) (02.1943)     no appointment listed (06.1943)     no appointment listed 14.07.1943 - (10.1944) Staff Officer, Coastal Forces, Dover Command [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)] 03.01.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Gregale (Coastal Forces base, Malta) 15.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Dido (cruiser) 14.10.1946     transferred to Electrical Branch RN 25.08.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Boxer 05.08.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.11.1951 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous duties) 20.05.1954 - (07.)1954 HMS Jupiter 20.09.1954 - (01.1957) HMS President (for miscellaneous duties)
Collins, Denys Wynne Sylvester	15.04.1924 - 26.02.2000	... ... S.Lt. 01.04.1944 Lt. 06.02.1946, seniority 16.08.1945 (retd 28.07.1953)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... (10.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Collins, Drury Neale Son of Frank Thomas Collins, and Helen Beatrice Pelissier (née Mooney) (1885-), of Dublin, Eire. Married (28.09.1946, Westminster district, London) Kathleen Sudren Horsley (19.08.1910 - 02.10.1978), daughter (with two sisters) of Percy Horsley (1876-1951), and Muriel Ward Sudren (1879-1975).	1914 ? India - 21.03.1955 4, Ross Court, West Hill, Wandsworth district, London SW15	(A) P/O (prob) RAF 08.03.1937 P/O RAF 21.12.1937 S.Lt. (A) 22.08.1938, seniority 21.12.1937 Lt. (A) 21.12.1939 (Emgcy List 22.08.1945)  (transferred from Emgcy List to Retd List on completion of 15 years RAF & RN service 20.12.1951) Lt.Cdr. 1950s? DSC 11.09.1940 courage in recent engagements [investiture 11.12.1945] MID 14.01.1941 attack on Maritza 04.09.1940	08.03.1937     commissioned, RAF (General Duties Branch) [short service commission] 22.08.1938     transferred, RN (Air Branch) 22.08.1938 - (10.)1938 Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station Gosport [HMS Victory] 17.10.1938 - (12.)1938 TSR Squadron 811 FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)] 29.12.1938 - (04.)1939 Training Squadron FAA, RAF Station Gosport [HMS Victory] 14.04.1939 - 04.09.1940 pilot, 813 Squadron FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (DSC, despatches) [Four Swordfish aircraft of 813 Squadron were shot down by Fiat Cr.42 over Maritza, Rhodes. Pilot Lt (A) D.N. Collins, Observer R.H. Marsh, and Petty Officer A. Wilson were picked up by an Italian submarine and made prisoners of war. ] 1940 - 1945 POW (No. 3353) in Italian & German captivity (Marlag und Milag Nord, Westertimke (Tarnstedt) Brewer.
Collins, Ernest Bernard	06.02.1885 Arklow, Wicklow - 17.04.1946	... ... Eng.Lt. 07.05.1919 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 07.05.1927 (retd 06.02.1930) Eng.Cdr. (retd) 06.02.1930 (demobilized > 06.1944, < 10,1944) OBE 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 [investiture 07.03.1944] MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940	... - ... ... 18.07.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Calcutta (Carlisle class cruiser) (despatches) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 01.11.1940 - (04.)1944 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (OBE) (06.1944)     no appointment listed
Collins, Michael John Homer Son (with one sister) of Vincent Homer Collins (1878-1949), and Ella Dorothy ... (1892-1950), of Penang, Singapore. Married (06.12.1941, Shotley Parish Church, Samford district, Suffolk) Susanna Ruth Darby (18.11.1920 - 15.10.2016), elder daughter (with one sibling) of Joseph Burton A.Darby (1883-1947), and Muriel Mary Woodhouse (1891-1969), of Bromley, Kent; three children.	10.02.1919 Penang, Singapore - 02.06.2014 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Paym.Cadet 01.01.1937 Paym.Midsh. 01.01.1938 Paym.S.Lt. 01.09.1939 Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.05.1941 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.05.1949 Cdr. (S) 31.12.1954 (retd 29.01.1958)	... - ... ... 27.04.1938 - (12.1939) HMS Birmingham (Southampton class cruiser) 01.01.1940 - (06.)1940 HMS Curacoa (Ceres class cruiser) 17.06.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) 12.08.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) 03.01.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Ramillies (Royal Sovereign class battleship) 10.10.1941 - 09.1943 Captain's Secretary, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) 09.1943 - (02.)1944 Captain's Secretary, HMS Martial (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation depot ship) 02.1944 - (01.1945) HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) 01.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Nabcatcher (Mobile Naval Air Base VIII, Middle Wallop, from 01.09.1945 Kai Tak, Hong Kong) ... - ... ... 02.01.1948 - 09.03.1951 on loan to RAN ... - ... ...
Collins, Sidney Alfred	23.01.1880 Portland, Weymouth district, Dorset - 10.12.1963 Ewhurst, Surrey South Western district, Surrey	... ... Wt.Wtr. 01.10.1915 Cd.Wtr. 30.04.1920 Paym.Lt. 06.10.1924 (retd 23.01.1930) Paym.Lt.Cdr. (retd) 06.10.1932 Cdr. (S) (retd) 09.06.1947, seniority 19.03.1945	01.10.1915     commissioned RN ... - ... ... 05.09.1939 - (10.1944) HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)
Collinson, Alfred Creighton	17.05.1893 Lutterworth - 06.08.1970 Cowes, Isle of Wight	Lt.Cdr. (Supplementary List) 01.04.1921 Lt.Cdr. 30.10.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1929 Capt. 31.12.1935 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. 11.1940? CBE 19.02.1946 assault on Hong Kong 12.1941 MID 08.03.1918 ?	15.05.1906     entered RN 02.12.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Torch (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 14.08.1925 - (07.1927) Commanding Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) (08.1929) no appointment listed 10.03.1930 - (09.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [16.09.1930 ship commissioned] 10.08.1933 - (07.1935) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 25.11.1935 - (02.1936) staff of R.Adm. R.H.T. Raikes [HMS Resource (repair ship)] (Mediterranean) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) Imperial Defence Course 04.01.1938 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet) 23.01.1939 - (02.1939) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for tactical school - tactical investigation) 27.03.1939 - (07.1939) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.07.1939 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (04.1940) no appointment listed 11.1940 - (11.1941) Commodore-in-Charge of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]  [1941 - 1945 PoW ? ]
Collumbell, Donald Tillett Son of ... Collumbell, and ... Tillett. Married ...; ... children (two daughters?).	07.06.1912 Alcester district, Warwickshire - 06.01.1995	Engine Room Artificer ? A/S.Lt. (E) 01.07.1936 S.Lt. (E) 1937?, seniority 01.07.1936 Lt. (E) 01.12.1937 A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.12.1945 (retd 1947?)	... - ... ... 29.09.1938 - (04.)1940 course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 27.06.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Kent (cruiser) (02.1941)     no appointment listed (12.1941)     no appointment listed 18.05.1942 - (07.)1945 an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) Managing director of C.B.R. Engineering Co. Ltd., Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (1950s). Member, Southern Rhodesia Electricity Council, 1956. Deputy chairman, Elia Salzmann Tobacco Enterprise of Rhodesia (Pvt) Ltd. (1960s/1970s).
Colombi, Paul Lewis Andrew Brichieri	30.11.1915 - 12.2005	... ... Lt. 01.06.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1947 (retd)	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Diadem ... - ... ...
Colpoys, Gerald Edward	21.12.1893 Kingston district, Surrey - 07.03.1979 Shepway district, Kent	... ... Lt. 30.12.1915 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1928 (retd 21.12.1943) Capt. (retd) 21.12.1943	15.09.1906     entered RN ... - ... ... 12.07.1937 - (04.1946) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Colpoys, John Gerald de Bels	10.04.1926 - 03.12.2008	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 01.05.1945 ... ... Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1952 (retd 09.04.1966)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Blake House; 01.01.1940-1943; Admiralty No. 179). ... - ... ... (07.1945)     no appointment listed ... - ... ...
Colson, [Sir] Henry St Clair Son of Peter James Colson, Southampton. Married (1921) Vera Jessica, daughter of W.F. Bergh, of South Africa; one son.	29.07.1887 Southampton, Hampshire - 27.02.1968	A/Sg. 04.10.1912 Sg. 08.04.1913, seniority 04.10.1912 Staff Sg. 16.05.1918, seniority 23.04.1918 * Sg.Cdr. 23.04.1922 Sg.Capt. 31.12.1934 Sg.R.Adm. 18.09.1942 Sg.V.Adm. 01.01.1946 (retd 31.12.1948) KCB 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 1947 CB 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946 CBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 MID 23.07.1918 Zeebrugge raid 22/23.04.1918 * Special promotion made in recognition of services during the operations on the Belgian Coast on the 23rd April, 1918.	Education: King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton; Westminster Hospital; LMSSA (1912);  FRCP (1947, London); MB (1913, London); BS (1913, London); DPH (1928) Assistant Medical Officer, St Mary Islington Hospital, 1912. 04.10.1912 joined RN Medical Branch 1913 - 1916 North American and West Indies Station 1916 - 1918 attached to Royal Marines, Plymouth 1918 4th Royal Marines Battalion, Zeebrugge, Belgium 1919 - 1921 South America Station 25.01.1921 - 1924 RN Hospital, Bermuda, West Indies [HMS Malabar] (and as Specialist in Bacteriology to the North America and West Indies Station) 1924 - 1927 Bacteriology specialist, South Africa: 12.11.1924 - (01.)1925 Medical Officer, HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa) 25.05.1925 - (05.1926) Medical Officer. HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) 11.05.1927 - (07.)1927 Naval Medical School, RN College, Greenwich (temporary) 25.10.1927 - 1930 Royal Hospital, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (and as Specialist in Bacteriology) 25.03.1930 - (01.)1932 Medical Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship), later HMS Resolution (battleship)] (Mediterranean) 1932 - 1941 hygiene specialist: 20.08.1932 - (01.1934) Naval Health Officer, Portsmouth Command [HMS Victory] 03.05.1935 - (06.)1938 Naval Health Officer, Mediterranean at Royal Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo] (08.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed (02.1939) short course of instruction (04.1939) no appointment listed 10.07.1939 - (02.)1941 Naval Health Officer, Portsmouth Command [HMS Victory] 15.10.1941 - (08.)1942 specialist (Medicine), RN Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne [HMS Boscawen] 25.09.1942 - 31.12.1945 Surgeon R.Adm. in charge of RN Auxiliary Hospital, Barrow Gurney [HMS Drake] 01.01.1946 - 30.11.1948 Medical Director-General of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] (in that capacity also: King's Honorary Physician (KHP)) KStJ.
Coltart, Cyril George Bucknill Son of Dr. William Wilson Coltart (1849-1925), and Georgina Coltart, of Epsom. Uncle of Lt. Richard Evelyn Coltart, RN. Married (27.07.1928, Holy Trinity, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Frances Forsythe, daughter of Mr & Mrs William Forsythe, of London & Ceylon; no children.	09.05.1889 Epsom, Surrey - 19.06.1964 Stroud, Petersfield, Hampshire	A/S.Lt. 15.06.1909 S.Lt. 02.02.1910, seniority 15.06.1909 Lt. 31.12.1911 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1925 Capt. 30.06.1932 (retd 06.02.1942) (dispersed 09.03.1946) (reverted to retd 11?.05?.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. < 04.1940 CVO 17.06.1939 Royal visit to Canada	Education: Epsom College; Royal Academy, Gosport. 15.09.1904     entered RN 1914     joined submarine service 05.07.1915     Commanding Officer, HMS C 3 (01.1919)     HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) 14.04.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Conquest (light cruiser) (additional; for submarines) 15.08.1923 - (01.)1925 Commanding Officer, HMS K 2 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) 25.04.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Marazion (twin screw minesweeper) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China) & for duty with submarines (07.1927)     no appointment listed 15.08.1927 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (depot ship for 3rd Submarine Flotilla) & in command of Training Half Flotilla & for duty with submarines 06.05.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 1st Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) & for duty with submarines 21.07.1931 - (01.)1932 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (09.1932) - (01.1933) no appointment listed 13.03.1933 - 31.05.1933 Senior Officers' War Course,  RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.06.1933 - (08.)1934 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 28.09.1934 - 12.02.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) & as Captain (S) IV Submarine Flotilla (07.1937)     no appointment listed 09.08.1937 - 08.10.1937 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 09.10.1937 - 19.01.1938 Senior Officers' War Course,  RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 20.01.1938 - 10.07.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet) [including escort duty during visit of King and Queen to Canada (CVO)] 11.07.1939 - 09.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) & Captain (S), 5th Submarine Flotilla 10.12.1939 - 25.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Despatch (D class cruiser) & as Commodore Commanding 9th Cruiser Squadron (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 26.02.1940 - 17.03.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (D class cruiser) & as Commodore Commanding 9th Cruiser Squadron (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 18.03.1940 - 20.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (D class cruiser) & as Commodore West Coast of South America (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 21.05.1940 - 02.07.1940 sick 03.07.1940 - 05.09.1940 HMS Victory (additional; for full pay service leave) 06.09.1940 - 29.09.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with IDC) 30.09.1940 - 08.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) 08.07.1941 - 06.02.1942 also: Naval ADC to the King 09.03.1942 - 08.04.1942 Commandant, Combined Operations Training Centre Inverary & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Inverary [HMS Quebec (additional)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 09.04.1942 - 31.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) & as Commandant, Combined Operations Training Centre Inverary & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Inverary (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 01.09.1942 - 13.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) & as Commandant, Combined Operations Training Centre Inverary & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Inverary & Senior Naval Officer, Combined Operations Northern Bases (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 14.12.1942 - 30.04.1943 Commandant, Combined Operations Training Centre Inverary & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Inverary & Senior Naval Officer, Combined Operations Northern Bases [HMS Quebec (additional)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.) 01.05.1943 - 07.07.1943 HMS Victory (additional; for disposal) 08.07.1943 - 11?.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) 11?.1943 - 08.03.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) & as Maintenance Captain on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth
Coltart, Richard Evelyn Son of Dr. Guy H. Coltart and Mary Beatrice Mapplebeck, of Fulham, London. Nephew of Capt. Cyril G.B. Coltart, CVO, RN.	06.07.1912 Fulham district, London - 27.10.1940 (KIA) [age 28] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	Cadet 01.09.1929 Midsh. 01.05.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1932 S.Lt. 16.06.1933 Lt. 16.03.1936 DSC 28.06.1940 submarine actions against the enemy [investiture 06.08.1940]	05.09.1929 - (09.1932) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.1933 - 02.04.1933 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.04.1933 - (06.1933) promotion course, Portsmouth 01.1934 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 23.07.1934 - (02.)1937 HMS Proteus (submarine) [tender to HMS Medway] (China) (07.1937)     no appointment listed 16.08.1937 - 27.09.1937 spare submarine First Lieutenant, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship, 6th Submarine Flotilla) 28.09.1937 - 05.06.1938 HMS H 34 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 06.06.1938  - 31.08.1938 First Lieutenant, HMS H 50 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 01.09.1938 - 14.12.1938 First Lieutenant, HMS H 34 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 15.12.1938 - 17.02.1939 First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 18.02.1939 - 21.05.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Taku (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin, from 11.04.1940 to HMS Forth] 22.05.1940 - 04.07.1940 submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course [HMS Dolphin] 05.07.1940 - 12.07.1940 spare, HMS Maidstone 13.07.1940 - 06.08.1940 spare Commanding Officer, HMS Elfin 07.08.1940 - 12.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin, from 31.08.1940 to HMS Cyclops] 13.10.1940 - 27.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Elfin] (killed when ship was sunk by German surface force near Terschelling, the Netherlands, 18.10.1940)
Colthurst, Anthony Paul Second son of Capt. Arthur Beadon Colthurst (1869-1916), and Maria Teresa Paul (1871?-1949), of Fleet, Hampshire. Married 1st (28.07.1926, St Alban's Church, Hindhead, Farnham district, Surrey; divorced 1936) Mary Angela Forbes-Smith. Married 2nd (11.09.1940, London) Daphne Barbara Standring-Smith, née Tatham (05.09.1909 - (09?).1978), only daughter of C. Aubrey Tatham, and Mrs Hermann Lohr.	10.12.1900 Clifton, Bristol, Gloucestershire - 15.11.1942 Gulf of Cadiz (MPK) [age 41] [Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 2, panel 7]	Midsh. 15.08.1917 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1920 S.Lt. 15.01.1921 Lt. 15.10.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1930 Cdr. 30.06.1937 DSO 01.12.1942 Operation EV [decoration presented to next-of-kin] MID 16.03.1943 Operation Torch; fine handling of ship [posthumously]	15.09.1914     entered RN ... - ... ... (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 29.04.1940 - (10.)1941 an Assistant to Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.11.1941 - (12.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Avenger (escort carrier) 26.12.1941 - 15.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Avenger (escort carrier) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-155 near Gibraltar) (DSO, despatches)
Colvile, Richard Frederick Only son (with three sisters) of Col. Kenneth Newton Colvile (1884-1956), PhD, MA, Professor of English, and Kathleen Irene Sells (1889-1982), of Sandgate, Kent. Married 1st (1941) Dioné Onaway Neate (04.02.1919 - 01.1977), younger daughter of Cdr. Charles Eden Neate, RN (1887-1965), and Dorothy 'Dolly' Tucker (1889-1971), of Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire & Alvescot, Oxfordshire; two sons, two daughters. Married 2nd ((06?.1982, Droxford district, Hampshire) Anne C. Watson.	04.06.1914 Bombay, India - 25.03.2004 Folkestone, Kent	Cadet 01.09.1931 Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 01.01.1935 Lt. 01.02.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1944 (retd 26.04.1955) T/A/Cdr. 16.03.1948-10?.1948 MBE 13.06.1992 HM's birthday 1992: for political and public service DSC 25.06.1940 Norwegian coast [investiture 20.05.1941] MID 18.09.1945 services on East Indies Station	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1928). 05.09.1931 - 01.01.1932 HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.01.1932 - (09.)1932 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.10.1932 - (08.)1934 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) 27.09.1934 - 31.03.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.04.1935 - (07.)1935 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 14.10.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 19th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 17.06.1936 - (02.)1938 HMS Adventure (large minelayer) (China) (06.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 28.11.1938 - (04.)1939 qualifying for signal duties, HM Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.07.1939 - (09.1939) Signal Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) & as Squadron Signal and W/T Officer 06.02.1940 - (04.)1940 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (DSC) 02.08.1940 - (10.)1940 Signal Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer) (and for signal and W/T duties) 13.10.1940 - (12.1941) Signal Officer, HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) 10.03.1942 - (06.)1943 Flag Lieutenant & Squadron Signal and W/T Officer to Rear-Admiral (Minelayers) [HMS Southern Prince] 08.07.1943 - 10.)1944 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 04.12.1944 - (07.1945) Staff Communications Officer to Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Battle Squadron [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (despatches) 01.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Mercury II (Admiralty signal establishment, Haslemere) 16.03.1948 - (07.)1948 Flag Lieutenant & Staff Communications Officer to Head of British Naval Mission to Greece [HMS St Angelo] 27.10.1948 - (05.1949) HMS Royal Arthur (Petty Officers/leadership training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire) 04.1950 - 1952 HMS Highflyer (RN base, Trincomalee, Ceylon) (most probably for service at Colombo) 03.12.1952 - (01.1955) Officer-in-Charge, Signal School [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (04.1955)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * AMIEE. * indexed, but not listed as such
Colville, George Cecil Eldest son of Adm. Hon. Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (1861-1939), and Adelaide Jane Meade (1877-1960). Brother of Cdr. (S) Richard Colville, KCVO, CB, DSC, RN, Maj,Gen, Edward Charles Colville, CB, DSO*, and Capt. Frederick James Colville. Married (19.09.1935, Wimborne Minster, Dorset) Gabrielle Palmer, daughter of Gen. Sir Arthur & Lady Power Palmer, and widow of Col. Leger Livingstone Learmonth; one daughter. Lived at Bishop's Waltham (1953).	09.09.1903 St George Hanover Square, London - 18.08.1983 Droxford district, Hampshire	Cadet 1920 Midsh. 15.01.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1924 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.04.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1939 Capt. 31.12.1943 (retd 08.07.1953) CBE 01.01.1953 New Year 1953 (Monte Bello) [investiture 10.02.1953] OBE 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 [investiture 10.03.1942]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (05.1917-1919) & Dartmouth (1919-1920). 1920 - 09.1921 HMS Thunderer (cadet training cruiser) 15.01.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 01.09.1924 - 24.09.1924 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for courses) 25.09.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.01.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies, for some time temporarily attached to China Station) 09.04.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Vindictive (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (04.1930)     no appointment listed (08.1930)     no appointment listed (02.1931)     no appointment listed (01.1932)     no appointment listed 04.04.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 14.09.1933 - (07.)1935 Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)] 1935 - 16.12.1935 HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 17.12.1935 - (07.1937) staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 07.02.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) (Portsmouth) 03.1940 - 01.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Menestheus (auxiliary minelayer) 01.04.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Southern Prince (auxiliary minelayer) * 06.11.1941 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) 11.02.1944 - (01.)1945 Chief Staff Officer Operations on the staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] (07.1945)     no appointment listed (04.1946)     HMS President (Admiralty) ** 15.12.1947 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Phoebe (cruiser) 02.01.1950 - 15.01.1952 Commanding Officer, HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire) (1952)     [Commanding Officer?], HMS Zeebrugge (ex-landing ship, tank LST 3532) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 08.01.1953 - 08.07.1953 also: Naval ADC to the Queen * Febr 1941 showing as Executive Officer under Flag Captain E.M.C. Barraclough, while the ship was acting as Flagship for R.Adm. R.L. Burnett ** indexed, but not listed as such
Colville, [Sir] Richard Third son of Adm. Hon. Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (1861-1939), and Adelaide Jane Meade (1877-1960). Brother of Capt. George Cecil Colville, CBE, RN, Maj,Gen, Edward Charles Colville, CB, DSO*, and Capt. Frederick James Colville. Married (02.01.1933, St Peter's, Eaton Square, St George Hanover Square district, London) Dorothy Edith Rose Birdwood (27.10.1907 - 03.04.1972), daughter of late Brig.Gen. Halhed Brodrick Birdwood (1870-1939), and Dorothy Rose Ravenshaw (?-1973); one son, two daughters.	26.09.1907 St George Hanover Square district, London - 14.06.1975 Inchreed, Jarvis Brook, East Sussex	Paym.Cadet 15.09.1925 Paym.Midsh. 15.09.1926 Paym.S.Lt. 15.09.1928 Paym.Lt. 15.09.1930 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1938 A/Paym.Cdr. > 02.1941, < 12.1941 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1944 (retd 27.09.1947) KCVO 12.06.1965 HM's birthday 1965: Press Secretary [investiture 21.06.1965] CB 01.01.1960 New Year 1960: Press Secretary CVO 01.06.1953 HM's coronation 1953: Press Secretary MVO 08.06.1950 HM's birthday 1950: Press Secretary DSC 04.04.1944 Aegean operations [anti-shipping strike?] 06.10.1943 [investiture 24.10.1944]	Education: Harrow. 1925     joined RN 16.04.1926 - (05.1926) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 10.01.1927 - (07.1927) for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Warspite (battleship)] 17.01.1928 - 05.1928 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) 05.1928 - (08.)1930 HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 16.09.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 05.02.1931 - (09.1932) for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief, Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 10.02.1933 - (07.)1935 for duty in Admiral's Office, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 16.12.1935 - (10.1938) HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht, Portsmouth) 02.01.1939 - (09.1939) HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) (04.1940)     HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) * 05.08.1940 - (10.)1940 on staff of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger J.B. Keyes, Bt. [HMS President] 30.10.1940 - (12.1941) HMS St Christopher (Coastal Forces establishment, Fort William) 01.02.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Sirius (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (DSC) (10.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 01.01.1945 - (04.1947) directing staff, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] Press Secretary to King George VI, 27.09.1947-04.08.19521952, to the Queen, 05.08.1952-1968. Extra Equerry to the Queen since 1968.
Colvin, George Robson Son (with two brothers and one sister) of Ian Duncan Colvin (1877-1938), and Jane Sophie Robson (1879-1955), of Wimbledon, Surrey.	08.09.1911 Hampstead district, London - 10.03.1943 (KIA) [age 32] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Midsh. 01.09.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1932 S.Lt. 16.05.1932 Lt. 16.12.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.12.1941 DSO 23.03.1943 sinking Italian U-boat 06.12.1942 [presented to next-of-kin] DSC 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 [presented to next-of-kin] MID 03.09.1940 skill & courage in submarines	04.01.1930 - (07.)1931 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 31.12.1931 - (02.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.08.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 16.09.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 03.05.1935 - (07.1935) HMS L 69 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 09.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Pigmy (special service vessel) (Portsmouth) (for reserve group of submarines) 08.09.1936 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS L 26 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 12.03.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) 09.1937 - 02.1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Perseus (P class submarine) (China) 26.02.1940 - 04.1940 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 15.04.1940 - 13.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS H 43 (H class submarine) 18.09.1940 - 08.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Sunfish (S class submarine) 31.08.1941 - 10.10.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Graph (Type VIIC class submarine) 11.10.1941 - 04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sealion (S class submarine) (DSC) 15.04.1942 - 10.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tigris (submarine) (lost off Naples) (DSO)
Colvin, John Horace Ragnar Son of Adm. Sir Ragnar Musgrave Colvin, KBE, CB and Lady Colvin. Married 1st (1948) Elizabeth Anne Manifold (marriage  dissolved, 1963); one son, one daughter. Married 2nd (1967) Moranna Sibyl de Lerisson Cazenove; one son, one daughter.	18.06.1922 Tokyo, Japan - 04.10.2003 Lambeth, London	Cadet 01.09.1939 Midsh. 01.05.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1942 Paym.S.Lt. = S.Lt. (S) 01.03.1942 Lt. (S) ?, seniority 01.01.1944 (retd 1951) CMG 01.01.1968 New Year 68	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1935-1939); University of London 01.09.1939 - (04.)1940 training, RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 05.01.1942 - (01.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth (08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) no appointment listed (06.1943) - (10.1943) HMS Duke of York (battleship) * (12.1943) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) * 03.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) 25.03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) ? - (04.1946) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) 01.06.1948 - (07.1948) HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (05.1949) no appointment listed 01.03.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) Joined HM Diplomatic Service, 1951; HM Embassies, Oslo, 1951-1953 and Vienna, 1953-1955; British High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur, 1958-1961; HM Consul-General, Hanoi, 1965-1967; Ambassador to People's Republic of Mongolia, 1971-1974; HM Embassy, Washington, 1977-1980. Director for International Relations, Chase Manhattan Bank, 1980-1986. Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of East European Studies, 1995-. Published: Twice Around the World, 1991; Not Ordinary Men, 1994; Volcano Under Snow, 1996; Lions of Judah, 1997; contributions to British and US journals.
Colvin, Sir Ragnar Musgrave 3rd son late C.S. Colvin, CSI. Married (18.04.1918) Sibyl Frances, youngest daughter of late Brig.­Gen. H.F. Kays, CB; one son (Lt. (S) John Henry Ragnar Colvin, RN), one daughter.	07.05.1882 India - 22.02.1954 [Botley, Hants. ?]	Cadet 15.07.1896 Midsh. 15.01.1898 S.Lt. 15.07.1901 Lt. 06.03.1903, seniority 15.01.1902 Cdr. 30.06.1913 Capt. 31.12.1917 R.Adm. 01.08.1929 V.Adm. 01.03.1934 Adm. 03.05.1939 (retd 15.06.1942; own request) KBE 01.02.1937 ? CBE 27.06.1919 for valuable services as Asst Dir, Plans Division CB 03.06.1932 HM's birthday 1932	15.07.1896     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served Grand Fleet (Jutland) 1918 - (01.)1919 Assistant Director, Plans Division, Admiralty 1919 - 1921 Mediterranean and Black Sea 1922 - 1924 Naval Attaché, Tokyo 31.07.1924 - (01.1925) Flag Captain, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 19.02.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 1927 - 1929 Director, Naval Tactical School 06.05.1929 - (08.1929) course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness 17.05.1929 - (08.1929) Naval ADC to the King (04.1930)     no appointment listed 26.05.1930 - (09.)1932 Chief of Staff, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 1932 - 1933 Rear-Admiral 2nd Battle Squadron 26.12.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Victory (base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 08.08.1934 - (02.)1937 President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Vice-Admiral Commanding RN War College (07.1937)     no appointment listed 11.09.1937 - 11.03.1941 First Naval Member of Commonwealth Naval Board [lent to Government of Commonwealth of Australia] (resigned due to ill-health) 20.08.1941     passage from Melbourne to UK 05.02.1942 - 15.06.1942 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) Naval Adviser to the Australian High Commission, 1942-1944.