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Denne, John Richard Alured "Dick"	06.02.1916 Shellingford, Berkshire - 06.05.2001 Hungerford, St Austell, Cornwall	... ... Lt. 16.03.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 08.06.1945? Lt.Cdr. 16.03.1946 (retd 02.11.1964) DSC 14.08.1945 destruction U-boat 27.03.1945 MID 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 PolMC 08.12.1942 services to Polish Navy	... - ... ... 08.05.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Wishart (destroyer) 1940 - (02.)1941 British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Piorun (Polish destroyer) 20.05.1941 - (02.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Express (destroyer) 08.04.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 25.10.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for miscellaneous duties) 03.12.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Redmill (frigate) 08.06.1945 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier) ... - ... ...
Denning, [Sir] Norman Egbert "Ned" Youngest son (with one sister and four brothers) of late Charles Denning (1859-1941), a draper, and Clara Thompson (1865-1947), of Whitchurch, Hampshire. Married (1933) Iris Curtis, daughter of late Capt. Richard James Curtis, master mariner, and Mrs Curtis, of Singapore; one son, one daughter (and one son deceased).	19.11.1904 Whitchurch, Hampshire - 27.12.1979 Micheldever, Hampshire	Paym. Cadet 15.07.1922 Paym.Midsh. 15.07.1923 Paym.S.Lt. 15.04.1925 Paym.Lt. 15.04.1927 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1935 Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S) 30.06.1941 A/Capt. (S) > 01.1945, < 07.1945 Capt. (S) 31.12.1951 R.Adm. 07.07.1958 V.Adm. 08.11.1961 KBE 01.01.1963 New Year 1963 [investiture 05.02.1963] CB 01.01.1961 New Year 1961 [investiture 07.02.1961] OBE 14.06.1945 HM's birthday 1945	Education: Andover Grammar School, Hampshire. 15.07.1922     special entry cadet 25.04.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Ajax (battleship) 16.10.1924 - (02.)1927 HMS Capetown (cruiser) (North America and West Indies) (07.1927)     no appointment listed 04.10.1927 - (06.1928) on staff of R.Adm. 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Royal Oak (battleship)] (Mediterranean) (08.1929)     no appointment listed 07.08.1929 - (08.)1930 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 16.09.1930 - (01.)1933 HMS Tamar III (RN base, Singapore) (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed 08.07.1933 - (02.)1936 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 10.06.1936 - (08.)1936 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 18.08.1936 - (10.1936) accountant officers' technical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1937) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 28.06.1937 - (01.)1945) Operational Intelligence Centre, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (OBE) (07.1945)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Demetrius (supply & secretariat school, Wetherby, Yorkshire) 22.06.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous duties in USA) 03.08.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Implacable (aircraft carrier) 09.04.1951 - (05.1951) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.05.1952 - (01.)1955 Director of Administrative Planning, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1955)     no appointment listed 05.12.1955 - (01.1957) Director, Supply and Secretariat Advanced Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 28.08.1958 - (01.)1959 Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (Training and Manning), Admiralty [HMS President] 1959 - 15.09.1959 Director-General of Manpower, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.01.1960 - 01.1964 Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB, KBE) 10.07.1962 - (02.)1964 Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer, Training Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 1964 - 1965 Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Intelligence) Secretary, Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee, 1967-1972. Literature: Donald McLachlan, Room 39 : naval intelligence in action, 1939-1945 (1968); Patrick Beesly, Very special intelligence : the story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1945 (1977).
Dennis, John Andrews	05.04.1907 Plympton St Mary - 15.09.1940 (KIA) [age 33] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 36, column 3]	A/S.Lt. RNR 05.04.1928 S.Lt. RNR 12.10.1929 Lt. RNR 12.09.1931 Lt. (Supplementary List) 09.04.1937, seniority 05.04.1931 Lt.Cdr. 05.04.1939	23.11.1931 - (09.1932) HMS H 44 (submarine) 11.11.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Salmon (submarine) 05.04.1937 - (02.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Hussar (minesweeper) 21.04.1938 - 15.09.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Dundee (sloop)
Dennis, John Alexander Jeffreys "Alec" Son of Bertram R. Dennis, a doctor, and Elizabeth V. Strange. From Chester. Married (01.1945) Faith Hammond (predeceased him in 2001); one son, one daughter.	18.02.1918 Caversham, Reading district, Berkshire - 29.06.2008 North Vancouver, B.C., Canada	Cadet 01.05.1935 Midsh. 01.01.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1938 S.Lt. 02/03.1939?, seniority 01.09.1938 Lt. 01.07.1939 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1947 Cdr. 30.06.1953 (retd 11.11.1957; own request) DSC 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.1941 [investiture 01.12.1942] MID 09.08.1940 capturing German ship MID 07.03.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst MID 08.05.1945 action against E-boats 21.02.1945 Hkn 15.04.1947 liberation of Norway	Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.05.1935 - 12.1935 training, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.01.1936 - 08.1936 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 08.1936 - 10.1936 HMS Enchantress (Admiralty yacht and convoy sloop) (Home Fleet) 10.1936 - 01.1937 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) 07.01.1937 07.1937 - - 04.1938 11.1937 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China Station), of which: lent to HMS Diana (destroyer) 02.05.1938 - 01.1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 21.01.1939 11.1940 - - 12.1942 12.1942 HMS Griffin (destroyer) First Lieutenant 22.02.1943 - 11.1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Savage (destroyer) 12.1944 - 05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Valorous (destroyer) 10.06.1945 - 11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Tetcott (destroyer) 01.01.1946 - 11.1947 HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, then boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hants.) 01.1948 - 03.1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Rowena (fleet minesweeper) * (05.1950) no appointment listed 09.1950 - 08.1952 Executive Officer, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 12.08.1952 - 09.1953 First Lieutenant, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 09.1953 - 04.1954 Joint Services Staff Course, Latimer 04.05.1954 - 06.1956 Operations (Sea and Air), Allied Command Atlantic Headquarters (ACLANT), NATO (Norfolk, Virginia, USA) 08.1956 - 11.1957 Naval Drafting Authority, Haslemere [HMS Drake] Emigrated to Canada, 1958. Had careers in business and teaching. * Navy List gives as from 10.1947.
Dennis, Stratford Hercules	11.11.1899 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 1982 ? Paris, France [aged 83]	Lt. 15.05.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1928 (retd) A/Cdr. (retd) < 12.1941 A/Capt. (retd) < 07.1945 DSC 16.08.1940 Dunkirk DSC 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche DSC 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune MID 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 MID 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 MID 14.08.1945 Aegean operations, relief of Greece PolMC 21.10.1941 good services in Polish ships	Education: St John's, Cambridge. 09.1912     entered RN ... - ... ... 11.1939 - (04.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) (09.1939?) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Grom (Polish destroyer) (05.1940?) British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Burza (Polish destroyer) 08.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Princess Astrid (landing ship, infantry) 05.09.1941 - (12.1941) Executive Officer, HMS Canton (armed merchant cruiser) 16.04.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Prince Charles (landing ship, infantry) 12.04.1945 - (07.)1945 DD (Naval) C Opo India [= Deputy Director (Naval) Combined Operations India ??] [HMS Braganza (RN base, Bombay, India)] 25.10.1945 - (04.1946) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Bangkok [HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore)] Naval Attaché at Bangkok, February, 1947. His Majesty's Consul for the Changvads of Songkhla, Nakawn, Sritamarat, Patalung, Suratthani, Chumpon, Patani, Yala, Narathiwat, Puket, Renong, Pangnga, Trang, Krabi and Setul, to reside at Songkhla, 26.10.1948.
Denny, [Sir] Michael Maynard Youngest son of late Canon Edward Denny, MA. Married (11.1923, Malta) Sara Annie Esmé Welman (01.1899 - 20.06.1971), daughter of late Col. Loftus Welman, Royal Irish Rifles; no children.	03.10.1896 Kempley, Gloucestershire - 07.04.1972 Down Ampney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire	Midsh. 1914 S.Lt. 1916 Lt. 15.10.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1925 Cdr. 30.06.1930 Capt. 31.12.1936 Cdre. 1st cl. 07.04.1942? R.Adm. 05.07.1945 V.Adm. 22.10.1948 Adm. 22.04.1952 (retd 28.07.1959) GCB 10.06.1954 HM's birthday 1954 [investiture 20.07.1954] KCB 08.06.1950 HM's birthday 1950 [investiture 04.07.1950] CB 07.06.1940 Åndalsnes & Dunkirk [investiture 02.07.1940] CBE 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 [investiture 09.07.1946] DSO 23.10.1945 Operation Iceberg [investiture 09.07.1946] MID 30.05.1944 attack on Tirpitz 03.04.1944 StOlav 02.02.1943 Norwegian campaign OuiAla - visit Morocco 11.1954	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.09.1909     joined RN as a cadet 1914 - 1919 served European War in North Sea, HMS Neptune and Royal Sovereign 1920     specialised in Gunnery (Egerton Memorial prize)       when not in sea appointment spent all service in gunnery experimental work, HMS Excellent 15.10.1922 - (01.1925) Gunnery Officer, HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for Experimental Department) 12.12.1929 - (04.1930) Gunnery Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 16.04.1930 - (01.1932) Commanding Officer, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 10.1932 - (01.)1934 Fleet Gunnery Officer on staff of Adm. Sir W. W. Fisher, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 29.11.1934 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (02.1937)     no appointment listed 14.06.1937 - 22.07.1938 Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty 22.07.1938 - 1940 Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 1940     Senior Naval Officer, Åndalsnes landing, Norway (04.1940)     no appointment listed 1940     Chief Staff Officer, evacuation of Dunkirk 03.06.1940 - 26.03.1942 Flag Captain, HMS Kenya (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron (Malta and Russia convoys, Vaagso Raid, Norway 1941) 07.04.1942 - 08.11.1943 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet [HMS King George V, from 05.05.1942 HMS Duke of York, from 08.07.1942 HMS King George V, from 14.05.1943 HMS Duke of York] 08.12.1943 - 15.08.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Victorious (aircraft carrier) 27.11.1945 - 1947 Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President] 1947 - 1949 Flag Officer (Destroyers), Mediterranean Fleet 1949 - 1953 a Lord Commissioner of Admiralty, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy (05.1953)     no appointment listed 1954 - 1955 Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet, and Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Atlantic (NATO) (01.1956)     no appointment listed 1956 - 1959 Chairman, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC, and UK Representative on Standing Group of NATO Military Committee
Denton, Christopher John "Chris" Son of ... Denton, and ... Cook. From Goodstowe, Surrey.	(03?).1925 East Grinstead district, Surrey -	Midsh. 01.05.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1944 S.Lt. 06.1944, seniority 01.02.1944 Lt. 08.02.1946, seniority 01.09.1945 (reld 1946/47?)	01.05.1942 - 10.1943 HMS Jamaica (cruiser) 10.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Milne (destroyer) * 01.06.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (07.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) no appointment listed Colonial service. * (04.1944) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Deverill, Ernest Arthur Married Alice Maude Deverill (née ...); at least one son (Sq.Ldr. Ernest Alfred Deverill, DFC*, AFC, DFM, RAF).	17.01.1888 Highbury, London - 05.04.1952	Seaman ? [225784] Gnr. 07.10.1916 Cd.Gnr. (T) 07.10.1926 (retd 17.01.1938) Lt. (retd) 17.01.1938 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 17.01.1946 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)	07.10.1916     commissioned RN 15.12.1922 - 09.05.1924 HMS Dunedin (light cruiser) 10.05.1924 - (05.)1926 HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) [lent to New Zealand government] 05.1926 - (07.1927) HMNZS Philomel (cruiser; training & depot ship, Auckland) [lent to New Zealand government] (04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 15.10.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 29.09.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Ross (twin screw minesweeper) (Portsmouth) 27.10.1931 - (07.)1934 HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 27.12.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 15.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Scout (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) 03.12.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 31.08.1937 - (04.)1940 HMS Ajax (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 30.07.1940 - (10.)1943 Torpedo Engineer Officer, HM Dockyard Dover [HMS Lynx] 11.10.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) 04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover) 01.10.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship)
Devlin, John Norman	see:	RNR section
Devine, the Rev. William	05.10.1887 Castlederg, County Tyrone, Ireland - 19.10.1959 Dublin, Ireland	T/RC Chapl. 19.05.1941 MC 1918 ? CdeG 1917 ?	WW I     served in France and saw the savage fighting at Pozières, Monquet Farm, Ypres, the German Offensive and the general advance of 1918 (MC & Croix de Guerre) 19.05.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said, Egypt) (accommodated in HMS Saunders) 10.1943 - (12.1943) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta) 01.01.1944 - (10.)1945 HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy) 30.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)
Dewar, Alan Ramsay	08.02.1887 Midlothian, Scotland - 05.11.1972	A/S.Lt. 15.03.1906 S.Lt. 06.04.1907, seniority 15.03.1906 Lt. 16.01.1908, seniority 15.03.1907 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1915 Cdr. 31.12.1918 Capt. 31.12.1926 R.Adm. 11.01.1938 (retd 12.01.1938)	15.09.1901     entered RN 10.04.1922 - (08.1923) Executive Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (01.1925) no appointment listed 14.03.1927 - 22.03.1927 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 23.03.1927 - 19.04.1928 Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.04.1928 - (08.)1929 Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.11.1929 - (02.1931) Captain (D) 1st Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Mackay (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) 19.01.1932 - (09.1932) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College 27.03.1933 - (04.)1933 HMS President (for duty with Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty) 06.05.1933 - (02.)1935 Naval Attaché, Washington (07.1935) no appointment listed 20.08.1935 - (07.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 29.05.1937 - 1938? also: Naval ADC to the King 13.11.1939 - (07.1945) Director of Salvage, Salvage Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Dewar, Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Son of late Dr James Dewar. Married (1914) Gertrude, youngest daughter of late Frederick and Hon. Mrs Stapleton­Bretherton of the Hall, Rainhill, Lancashire; one son, one daughter. Residenrce: (1947) The Sands, Farnham, Surrey.	21.09.1879 near Edinburgh, Scotland - 08.09.1964 [Charmandean, Worthing, Sussex ?]	Midsh. 1895 A/S.Lt. 15.02.1899? S.Lt. 08.03.1900, seniority 15.02.1899 Lt. 1900 Cdr. 22.06.1911 Capt. 30.06.1918 R.Adm. 04.08.1929 (retd 05.08.1929) V.Adm. (retd) 31.07.1934 CBE 17.10.1919 services during the war (Peace Conference, 1919) Gold Medal of the Royal United Service Institution (1912)	15.07.1893 entered HMS Britannia 1917 Assistant Director of Plans Division Naval Staff 21.02.1923 - (08.1923) Commanding Officer, HMS Capetown (light cruiser) 27.10.1924 - (01.)1925 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.05.1925 - 15.05.1925 Admiralty 15.05.1925 - 15.06.1927 Deputy Director, Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1927) no appointment listed 1928 - 11.1928? Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 11.1928? - 1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; sea-going gunnery firing ship) 11.05.1929 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Iron Duke (battleship; sea-going gunnery firing ship) 21.05.1929 - 04.08.1929 also: Naval ADC to the King 15.06.1940 - (07.1945) Historical Section, Training and Staff Duties Division [later: Tactical, Torpedo and Staff Duties Division], Admiralty [HMS President] Labour candidate for Portsmouth, 10.1931. Published: The Navy from within (1939) Literature: Leslie Gardiner, The Royal Oak courts martial (1965)
Dewhurst, Ronald Hugh Son of Robert Paget Dewhurst, and Francis Millington. Married 1st (16.11.1928, Sliema, Malta) Torquilla Macleod Lawrance (died 1953), daughter of Robert Clyde Lawrance; one daughter, one son. Married 2nd.	10.10.1905 Wellington district, Somerset - 29.01.1990 Rotorua, New Zealand (his ashes were scattered from a NZ warship)	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. 15.08.1927 Lt. 29.02.1928 Lt.Cdr. 29.02.1936 Cdr. 31.12.1940 (retd 10.10.1955) DSO 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 03.02.1942] DSO 29.07.1941 5 war patrols, minelaying & sinking armed tugs [investiture 03.02.1942] DSO 07.10.1941 3 war patrols, minelaying & sinking Italian submarine & tanker [investiture 03.02.1942] 39|45 St - - Atl St. - - Afr St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - -	Education: Abberly Hall; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1919-1923). 1919     entered RN 15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.1927) promotion course, Portsmouth 14.04.1928 - (11.1928) HMS X 1 (submarine) (Mediterranean) 04.05.1929 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS L 23 (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] 01.07.1930 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Salmon (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) [tender to HMS Heather] 08.09.1931 - (06.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS Osiris (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway) 01.12.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 03.09.1934 - (11.)1934 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto] 15.12.1934 - 14.12.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS H 33 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 09.01.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean) (02.1938)     no appointment listed 26.04.1938 - (06.)1938 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet) (for submarines) 22.06.1938 - 15.04.1939 HMS Seahorse (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Lucia] 07.1939 - 01.06.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Rorqual (minelaying submarine) 17.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 01.02.1942 - (06.)1944 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.1944 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Amphion (submarine) 02.12.1946 - (07.1948) on staff of Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin] (05.1949)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 17.05.1949 - (05.)1950 Commanding Officer, HMS Taciturn (submarine) 05.09.1950 - (05.)1953 on staff of Flag Officer (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin] 13.07.1953 - (04.)1955 Commanding Officer, RN Detention Quarters, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] * indexed, but not listed as such
Diack, Alexander Henderson Son (with one brother and three sisters) of Sir Alexander Henderson Diack, KCIE, CVO, CBE (1862-1929), and Annie Rebecca "Mylsie" Molloy (1881-1945). Married (10.04.1937, Westbourne Church, Glasgow, Scotland; marriage dissolved) Anne Hatrick, only (adopted) daughter of Osbourne Robert Hatrick (?-1947), and Mary Fisher Urquhart (1873-1944), of Glasgow; ... children (three sons?). She remarried George Leslie Urquhart (1906-?). Married 2nd ((12?).1951, St Marylebone district, London) Nancy May Dive-Price (11.11.1912 - 06.2001).	19.12.1907 Newton Abbot district, Devon - 06.01.1996 Oxford district, Oxfordshire	Midsh. 15.01.1926 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1928 S.Lt. 29.07.1929, seniority 01.01.1929 Lt. 01.01.1931 (retd 09.06.1934; own request) 1938/39?, seniority 29.07.1935 Lt.Cdr. 29.07.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1946 (retd 19.12.1957) DSC 29.07.1941 Inshore Squadron with Army in Egypt & Cyrenaica [investiture 21.10.1941] DSC 07.10.1941 sunk by enemy aircraft 12.05.1941 [investiture 21.10.1941] MID 12.08.1941 enemy bombing Middle East 25.02.1941 MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943	15.01.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 26.04.1928 - 01.1929 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.1929 - (08.)1929 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.08.1929 - (04.)1930 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 05.05.1930 - (08.)1930 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for submarines) 01.11.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Rover (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] (Mediterranean) 12.1931 - (09.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS H 32 (submarine) [tender to HMS Alecto, from 10.02.1932 HMS Dolphin] (Portsmouth) 06.10.1932 - (01.)1933 Admiralty [HMS President] (for course in Arabic at School of Oriental Studies) 07.04.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Shoreham (sloop) (East Indies) 07.02.1939 - (09.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Cricket (river gunboat) (China) 09.02.1940 - 12.05.1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Ladybird (river gunboat) (DSC & bar, despatches) 27.09.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS General Botha (minesweeping trawler) 01.04.1942 - 22.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Sutton (Hunt class minesweeper) (despatches) 01.03.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS, Canada) (for miscellaneous services) 11.1943 - 27.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Antares (Algerine class minesweeper) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 27.11.1944 - 06.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Penn (destroyer) 17.01.1947 - (07.1948) Executive Officer, HMS Sanderling (RN Air Station, Abbotsinch, Paisley, Scotland) 01.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS St Bride's Bay (frigate) (05.1953)     no appointment listed 12.05.1953 - (04.)1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Albert (RN base, Cuxhaven) & as Senior Officer, Elbe Squadron & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Cuxhaven 10.11.1955 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, RN Barracks, Camarata [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 11.1956 - (01.1957) on staff of Flag Officer, Malta [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)]
Dibley, Albert Kingsley	15.12.1890 - 26.07.1958	... ... Eng.Capt. 30.06.1935 Eng.R.Adm. 20.09.1941 (retd 09.10.1946)	... - ... ... 12.06.1939 - 29.07.1941 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.01.1941 - 20.09.1941 also: Naval ADC to the King ... - ... ...
Dick, Hugh Alan Colville Son of Sir James Nicholas Dick, KCB (1832-1920), and Lady Elizabeth Margaret Dick (née Beveridge). Married ((09?).1929, Kensington, London) Marjorie Spafford, of Kensington, London.	23.08.1890 Wandsworth district, Greater London / London / Surrey - 10.12.1943 (died of illness) [age 53] [Bembridge (Holy Trinity) Churchyard Extension, Isle of Wight, centre path]	A/S.Lt. 30.04.1910 S.Lt. 28.12.1910, seniority 30.04.1910 Lt. 20.02.1912, seniority 30.07.1911 Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1919 Cdr. 30.06.1925 (retd 23.08.1940) Capt. (retd) 23.08.1940	15.09.1906     entered RN 05.01.1923 - (08.1923) Gunnery Officer, HMS Delhi (light cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Light Cruiser Squadron 1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for gunnery school) 16.02.1925 - 15.03.1925 Admiralty [HMS President] 16.03.1925 - (02.)1927 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.06.1927 - (06.1928) Squadron Gunnery Officer, Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)] (08.1929)     no appointment listed 14.10.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Cornflower (sloop) (China) 24.10.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Magnolia (sloop) (China) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 14.01.1933 - (01.)1934 Staff Officer (Operations) and (Intelligence) to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 03.01.1934 - 19.02.1940 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.02.1940 - 10.12.1943 Deputy Director of Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Dick, Royer Mylius Son of Louis Henry Mylius Dick and Edith Alice Guy. Married 1st (1928) Agnes Mary Harben; (one son killed on active service, one daughter deceased). Married 2nd (1955) Vera (died 1990), daughter of Sir John Henry, DL, and widow of Col Bertram Pott.	14.10.1897 Kensington, London - 23.04.1991 [Headbourne Worthy, Winchester, Hampshire]	Midsh. 1914 Lt. 15.11.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1933 Capt. 30.06.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.11.1942? Cdre. 1st cl. > 02.1943, < 06.1943 R.Adm. 08.07.1949 (retd 15.08.1952) A/V.Adm. (retd) 1953 (reverted to retd 1955) CB 01.01.1951 New Year 1951 CBE 20.04.1943 Operation Torch DSC 12.12.1918 * MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 LM 07.09.1943 N African campaign LegH 1943 N African campaign CdeG 1946 N African campaign * In command of the River Gunboat "Razlyff " during the Dwina operations, he saved a number of boats and a barge from falling into the enemy's hands, the ship being .repeatedly fired on. In the Tchamova operations he handled his ship with conspicuous success.	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; RN Staff College (psc) 09.1910     entered RN at sea, 1914-18 (Falklands, Jutland, North Russia) 03.05.1924 - (01.1925) Flag Lieutenant & Squadron Signals Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Resolution (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet) 15.09.1926 - (07.1927) Flag Lieutenant-Commander and Squadron Signals and W/T Officer, First Cruiser Squadron [HMS Frobisher (cruiser)] (China) 31.12.1928 - (04.1930) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 02.12.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 27.07.1931 - (09.1932) Fleet Signals Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 13.02.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) 15.01.1935 - (07.1935) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.01.1936 - (02.1936) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.03.1936 - (02.1938) HMS Dainty (destroyer) (China) (06.1938) no appointment listed 02.08.1938 - (02.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Basilisk (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (04.1939) no appointment listed 02.05.1939 - 1942 Staff Officer (Plans) [& Deputy Chief of Staff], Mediterranean Station [HMS Warspite (battleship), later: HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta), later: HMS Warspite (battleship)] (Matapan) 03.06.1942 - (08.1942) British Admiralty Delegation to Washington [HMS Saker II] 01.11.1942 - 11.1943 Chief of Staff to Naval Commander Expeditionary Force, later Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station [HMS Hannibal] (04.1944) no appointment listed (06.1944) HMS Royalist (cruiser) * 24.07.1944 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Belfast (cruiser) 1947 - 1948 Director Tactical and Staff Duties, Admiralty 09.11.1948 - (05.)1950 Chief of Staff to Flag Officer, Western Europe [HMS President] 08.01.1949 - 08.07.1949 Naval ADC to the King 1951 - 1952 Flag Officer, Training Squadron 12.04.1952 - 1955 Standing Group Liaison Officer to North Atlantic Council [HMS President] Deputy Commissioner-in-Chief, 1957-62, Commissioner-in-Chief, 1962-67, SJAB. Dep. Chairman, Horticultural Marketing Council, 1960-63; Chairman: Royal United Service Institution, 1965-67; St John Council for London, 1971-75; a Vice-Pres., Royal UK Beneficent Assoc., 1979. CStJ, 28.06.1957. KStJ 1961; Bailiff Grand Cross, Order of Hosp. of St John of Jerusalem, 10.1967. * indexed, but not listed as such
Dicken, Edward Bernard Cornish Thirrd son of 1st marriage of late Adm. Charles Gauntlett Dicken (1854-1937), and Margaret Christiena Cornish (c. 1857-1888). Half-brother of Lt.Cdr. J.A. Dicken, RN. Married (1936) Monique, daughter of Monsieur O'Ryan.	18.01.1888 Stoke Damerel district, Devon - 03.04.1964 Fulham, London	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.04.1907 Lt. 15.07.1909 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1917 Cdr. 30.06.1922 Capt. 31.12.1929 (retd 25.06.1940) Cdre. 2nd cl. 03.04.1937 R.Adm. (retd) 25.06.1940 (dispersed 20.09.1946) (reverted to retd 16.11.1946) CBE 01.01.1947 New Year 1947 [investiture 29.07.1947] OBE 03.06.1925 HM's birthday 1925 DSC 20.07.1917 ? MID 11.07.1940 ? 1914/15 Star, British War Medal 1914-1920, Victory Medal, Naval General Service Medal, 1939/45 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, 1911 Coronation Medal, George V Jubilee Medal, George VI  Coronation Medal Officer Order of Redeemer 26.04.1918, Chevalier of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus (Italy) 07.08.1916,  Grand Officer Order of Orange-Nassau. 04.06.1946, Officer Legion d'Honneur 1948	15.09.1902     entered RN 20.09.1922 - (01.)1925 Naval Attaché, Paris (accredited to France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Poland) 18.12.1925 - (07.)1927 Executive Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 16.12.1927 - (08.1929) Executive Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (04.1930)     no appointment listed 08.06.1930 - (08.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Clematis (sloop) (Mediterranean) 10.1930 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Lupin (sloop) (Mediterranean) (09.1932)     no appointment listed 17.01.1933 - (06.1933) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] (01.1934)     no appointment listed 06.03.1934 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1937 - (02.)1937 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 03.04.1937 - (04.)1939 in charge of Naval Establishments at Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (receiving ship)] 31.07.1939 - 30.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) & as Commodore 2nd class Commanding 20th Cruiser Squadron(Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 05.01.1940 - 25.06.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 02.02.1940 - 16.10.1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for special service) 17.10.1940 - 20.09.1946 Assistant Controller, Admiralty [HMS President] Chairman, Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society.
Dicken, John Aldersey Only son of 2nd marriage of late Adm. Charles Gauntlett Dicken (1854-1937), and Ada Mary Byron. Half-brother of R.Adm. E.B.C. Dicken, RN.	23.09.1896 Surbiton, Kingston district, Middlesex / Surrey - 08.04.1959 Winchester	Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1926	28.08.1939 - (07.1945) Staff Officer (Intelligence) to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Falmouth [HMS  Forte (RN base, Falmouth)] Motor car businessman, Chelsea.
Dickens, Claud Edgar Charles Second son of Adm. Sir Gerald Charles Dickens, RN, and Kathleen Pearl Birch, of Lodge Farm, Downton, Wiltshire. Great-grandson of author Charles Dickens. Brother of Capt. Peter G.C. Dickens, RN. Married (07.09.1946, St Lawrence's, Downton, Salisbury district, Wilthsire) Audrey Pamela Simms, daughter of Mr & Mrs Henry Simms, of Beirut; ... children.	07.07.1920 Ealing, Brentford district, Middlesex / London - 07.06.1981 Milford-on-Sea, New Forest district, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.01.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1940 S.Lt. 16.04.1940 Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1952 (retd 01.03.1961) MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941	1933     joined the Navy aged 13 01.01.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet (Northern Patrol) & South American Division) (04.1940) no appointment listed 04.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Hurricane (destroyer) (Atlantic Convoys and East Coast England) 21.07.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Vivien (destroyer) (Atlantic Convoys and East Coast England) 03.01.1943 - (02.)1943 HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA) (for Landing Craft Infantry (Large)) 03.04.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) (for Landing Craft Infantry (Large)) 17.07.1943 - 03.08.1944 First Lieutenant, HMS Quorn (destroyer) (sunk by German explosive boat off Normandy) 05.09.1944 - (10.)1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Jervis (destroyer) 20.02.1948 - (05.1950) First Lieutenant, HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (05.1953) HMS President * 31.05.1954 - (04.)1955 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.12.1955 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Modeste (sloop) 27.01.1958 - (01.1959) Assistant Staff Officer (Plans), Western Atlantic Command, NATO (Norfolk, Va., USA) [HMS Saker] ? - 1961? Commanding Officer, HMS Michael (Singapore) Personnel Director with Dalgety. Amateur dramatist. * indexed, but not listed as such
Dickens, Sir Gerald [Louis] Charles    2nd son of late Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, KC (1849-1933), and Marie Roche. Grandson of author Charles Dickens. Married (29.03.1915, Brompton Oratory) Kathleen Pearl, daughter of Col. W.J.A. Birch, formerly Indian Army; three sons (two of them  also Naval officers, Lt.Cdr. Peter G.C. Dickens & Cdr. Claud E.C. Dickens). RN Flag Officers 1904-45	13.10.1879 Kensington, London - 19.11.1962 [buried at sea HMS Kirkliston off Chatham 51.32.0N 001.04.5E 22.11.1962]	Cadet 15.01.1894 Midsh. 15.04.1896 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.10.1899 Lt. 31.12.1901 Cdr. 30.06.1914 Capt. 31.12.1919 R.Adm. 15.02.1932 V.Adm. 02.01.1936 (retd 29.11.1938) (reactivated 16.9.1939) Adm. (retd) 08.05.1940 (reverted to red 18.02.1943) (reactivated 19.04.1943) (dispersed 26.09.1945) (reverted to retd 22.11.1945) KCVO 20.05.1937 Commanding Reserve Fleet CB 01.01.1934 New Year 1934 CMG 01.04.1919 Flag Commander C-in-C Med 14|15 St - - BWM 14|20 - - VM - - MID 14.03.1916 Gallipoli 1915-1916 39|45 St - - Fr&G St - - Def M - - WM 39|45 - - JubM 1935 - CorM 1937 - St Maur 11.08.1917 ? LegH 21.06.1918 ? It Crwn 08.06.1920 ? OON ? ? LM 20.03.1945 Flag Officer Tunisia Leo I 01.02.1949 for distinguished services rendered to Belgium during the war NicIft ? ?	Education: Beaumont College, Windsor; Foster's, Stubbington House, Hampshire 29.12.1893     HMS Britannia (training ship) 1896 - 1897 HMS Blake (Channel Fleet) 1897 - 1899 HMS Eclipse (East Indies Station) 1899 - 1899 HMS Cleopatra 1899 - 1900 RN College, Greenwich 1900 - 1901 HMS Griffon & HMS Desperate (Mediterranean Fleet) 1901 - 1902 HM Torpedo Boats 92, 89 & 96 1902 - 1902 HMS Cruiser 1902 - 1905 HMS Vengeance (China Station) 1905     HMS Barfleur 1906 - 1909 HMS King Alfred, HMS Hart and HMS Hawke (China Station) 1910     HMS Chelmer (Home Fleet) 1911 - 1911 HMS Garvy 1911 - 1913 HMS Chelmer & HMS Albatross (Mediterranean Fleet) 1913 - 1915 Commanding Officer, HMS Harpy (Mediterranean Fleet, Dardanelles campaign) 1915 - 1917 Intelligence Division, Admiralty 1917 - 1918 Flag Commander to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (CMG) 1920 - 1922 Deputy Director Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.08.1922 - 1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Carlisle (light cruiser) (01.1925)     HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) * 15.08.1925 - (05.)1926 Captain Auxiliary Patrol [HMS Harebell (fishery protection cruiser (sloop))] 15.09.1926 - (08.)1929 Instructional Staff, Imperial Defence College 26.11.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.10.1931 - (01.)1932 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.07.1931 - 15.02.1932 also: Naval ADC to the King 02.05.1932 - 08.07.1932 tactical course 01.08.1932 - 14.08.1932 HMS President (additional) 15.08.1932 - 30.06.1935 Director of Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] (CB) 01.07.1935 - 18.07.1935 Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron for Jubilee Naval Review 19.07.1935 - 26.07.1937 Rear-Admiral/Vice-Admiral Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Effingham (cruiser), later HMS Hawkins (cruiser)] (KCVO) 10.01.1938 - 11.03.1938 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.03.1938 - 05?.1938 war course 09.05.1938 - (06.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (08.1938) - (10.1938) no appointment listed 16.09.1939 - 21.09.1939 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, not exceeding 6 months) 22.01.1940 - 07.02.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division) 08.02.1940 - 15.05.1940 Naval Attaché, The Hague (The Netherlands) [HMS President (additional)] 16.05.1940 - 01.07.1940 Naval Attaché to the British Minister to the Netherlands Government in England & as Liaison Officer with the Royal Netherlands Navy [Koninklijke Marine] [HMS President (additional) 02.07.1940 - 17.08.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, not exceeding 6 months) 18.08.1940 - 19.01.1943 Naval Assistant (Foreign) to Second Sea Lord (NA(F)2SL), 22.03.1942 renamed: Principal British Naval Liaison Officer (PNLO) [HMS President (additional)] (02.1943)     no appointment listed 19.04.1943 - 11.05.1943 HMS President (additional; for temporary duty outside Admiralty at Norfolk House) 12.05.1943 - 30.04.1944 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Bizerta, renamed 07.07.1943 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Tunisia [HMS Hasdrubal (RN base, Bizerta)] (with rank of R.Adm.) 03.05.1944 - 11.05.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) 12.05.1944 - 14.06.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for full pay service leave) 15.06.1944 - 12.08.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) 29.08.1944 - 10.09.1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge, The Netherlands [HMS Odyssey (addtional; for special service & for Naval Party 1731 (Ashley Gardens, London SW1 10.1944-01.1945, Brussels 02.1945-05.1945, The Hague (Senior British Naval Officer) 05.1945-09.1945)] 11.09.1945 - 26.09.1945 HMS President (additional; for disposal) Editor of The Naval Review. Vice-President, Dickens Fellowship. Published: Bombing and strategy : the fallacy of total war (1947); The dress of the British sailor (1957)
Dickens, Peter Gerald Charles Eldest son of Adm. Sir Gerald Charles Dickens, RN, and Kathleen Pearl Birch. Brother of Cdr. Claud E.C. Dickens, RN. Great-grandson of author Charles Dickens. Married (25.01.1950, Singapore) Mary Alice Blagrove (20.10.1921 - 12.01.2009) (earlier ((09?).1945, New Forest district, Hampshire) married to Lt. Sir Anthony Roger Duncan Twysden, Bt (1918-1946)), daughter of R.Adm. Henry Evelyn Charles Blagrove, RN, and Supt. Edith Gordon Lowe, WRNS; two daughters, one son (Cdr. Mark Gerald Charles Dickens, RN).	04.06.1917 Fulham, Greater London, Middlesex - 25.05.1987 Tunbridge Wells, Kent	Cadet 01.09.1934 Midsh. 01.05.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1937 S.Lt. 16.05.1938, seniority 01.01.1938 Lt. 24.05.1939, seniority 01.04.1939 ?, seniority 01.12.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. ? Lt.Cdr. 20.03.1945, seniority 01.12.1944 * Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 31.12.1955 (retd 07.01.1965) DSO 13.07.1943 attack shipping enemy coastal waters 13.05.1943 [investiture 28.09.1943] MBE 11.08.1942 mined, but saved ship by damage control 04.1942 [investiture 01.12.1942] DSC 29.12.1942 attacks on enemy shipping 09-11.1942 [investiture 16.02.1943] MID 19.07.1940 coast of Norway MID 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 MID 13.04.1943 action Dutch coast 18.01.1943 MID 22.06.1943 action Dutch coast 17.04.1943 * early promotion; a gazetted promotion from A/Lt.Cdr. to Lt.Cdr. dated 01.12.1946 [the date officially due for this promotion] is inexplicable, however	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1931-1934) 01.09.1934 - 01.05.1935 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.05.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.08.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 30.08.1937 - (02.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 01.05.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) (Portsmouth) 07.12.1938 - (07.)1940 HMS Somali (destroyer) (Norway) 13.08.1940 - 1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Cotswold (destroyer) (East Coast convoys) 01.06.1942 - (08.)1943 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 234 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 21st MTB Flotilla [HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)] 14.09.1943 - (12.1943) training staff, HMS Bee (Coastal Forces base, Weymouth) (04.1944) no appointment listed 24.04.1944 - 06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Blencathra (destroyer) 23.07.1945 - 1948 staff, RN College, Eaton, Chester [later RN College, Dartmouth] [HMS Britannia] (07.1948)     HMS Rodney * 25.04.1949 - 1951 Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror] 02.04.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Gabbard (destroyer) 1953 - 20.04.1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Scorpion (destroyer) (07.1954)     no appointment listed (04.1955) - (01.1956) HMS President * 09.10.1956 - (01.1957) Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans), Allied Forces Mediterranean (NATO) (Malta) 1958 - 1959 Staff Officer, NATO (Izmir) (01.1959)     no appointment listed 1959 - 1961 Commanding Officer, HMS Delight (destroyer) 27.03.1961 - (02.1964) Captain of the Chatham Dockyard and Queen's Harbour Master & Chief Staff Officer to R.Adm. Beloe (Flag Officer, Medway and Admiral Superintendent, Chatham) [HMS Pembroke] 07.07.1964 - 07.01.1965 also: Naval ADC to the Queen President Coastal Forces Association. President Dickens Fellowship. * indexed, but not listed as such Published: HMS Hesperus (1972); Night action : MTB Flotilla at war (1974); Narvik : battles in the fjords (1974); SAS : the jungle frontier : 22 Special Air Service Regiment in the Borneo Campaign, 1963-1966 (1983)
Dickins, Godfrey Christopher	05.04.1902 Warwick district, Warwickshire - 25.01.1979 Lambourn, Newbury district	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 15.09.1922 Lt. 15.09.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1937 A/Capt. 09.1942? Capt. 31.12.1944 (retd 07.01.1954) RAF: F/O ? F/Lt. 01.01.1933 Sq.Ldr. 01.07.1935 W/Cdr. 01.09.1938	(01.1925) no appointment listed ? - 01.08.1929 attached to RAF: 25.03.1927 - (07.1927) pilot, No. 460 Flight, FAA [HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) (08.1929) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 01.08.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) (1930?) - 02.08.1932 attached to RAF: 03.11.1930 - (01.1932) pilot, No. 461 Flight, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) 02.08.1932 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 08.08.1933 - (04.1939) attached to RAF: 08.08.1933 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, T/B Squadron 810, FAA [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier)] (Home Fleet) 30.08.1935 - 05.1937 Commanding Officer, 823 S/R Squadron, FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) 05.07.1937 - (04.1939) No. 1 Flying Training School, Netheravon [HMS Pembroke] 24.05.1939 - (08.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle) (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 18.09.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent] 01.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Saker II (RN accounting base, Washington, USA) 09.1942 - 16.08.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tracker (escort carrier) ** [evacuated ashore to hospital after suffering serious injury while inspecting the ships aircraft accelerator (catapult) mechanism] 21.03.1944 - (06.1944) Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord (Air Section) [HMS President] 19.05.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Pretoria Castle (escort carrier-training aircraft carrier) 16.04.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop) 17.04.1947 - 03.1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station, Culdrose) 01.10.1948 - (05.1950) Director of Air Equipment and Naval Photography Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1953) HMS President * * indexed, but not listed as such ** (10.1943) - (12.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Dickinson, Harold Godfrey	11.08.1902 Croydon, Surrey - 08.01.1960 Trottiscliffe, Kent	Midsh. ? A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922 S.Lt. 30.05.1923 Lt. 30.04.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1939 Capt. 31.12.1944 (retd 07.01.1954) Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.07.1951 DSC 01.01.1945 New Year 1945	... - ... ... (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 15.11.1939 - (12.1941) Executive Officer, HMS Dido (cruiser) ? - (08.)1942 Air Ministry 27.12.1942 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (04.1944) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 01.02.1945 - 08.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Nabswick (mobile naval air base (MONAB) V) 09.03.1945 - 01.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Nabbington (mobile naval air base (MONAB) I, Nowra, NSW, Australia) * 05.1945? - 11.1945? possibly Commanding Officer, HMS Nabswick (mobile naval air base (MONAB) V) (04.1946) HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) ** 24.06.1946 - (07.1948) Deputy Director of Plans, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1949) no appointment listed 12.07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Phoebe (cruiser) 01.07.1951 - (05.1953) Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong & Commodore Superintendent, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] * according to Royal Navy Research Archive; the Navy List gives as date of appointment of successor 28.03.1945 ** indexed, but not listed as such
Dickinson, Samuel	? -	T/Lt. (E) 01.04.1940 T/A/Lt.Cdr. (E) 31.03.1943? T/A/Cdr. (E) 01.12.1945	1939 - 1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) 01.04.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Resource (fleet repair ship) 1941 - 1941 HMS Albatross (repair ship) 1941 - 1941 HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 07.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Resolution (battleship) (08.1942) - (02.1943) HMS Scout (destroyer) * 31.03.1943 - 07.1943 HMS Scout (destroyer) 12.07.1943 - 02.1944 Admiralty Engineer Overseer, HM Dockyard, Ceylon [HMS Highflyer] 24.02.1944 - 09.1944 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (for 'Boscawen' Naval Depot) 21.09.1944 - 08.1945 HMS Resource (fleet repair ship) 08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) * indexed, but not listed as such
Dickson, Robert Kirk Son of late Dr William Kirk Dickson, LLD. Married 1st (1933) Evelyn Loetitia (from whom he obtained a divorce, 1946), daughter of Major Campbell Mucklow, RA; one daughter. Married 2nd (22.06.1950) Joyce Mary, widow of Lt­Col T.E. Hussey, RA, daughter of late Adm. Hon. Sir Assheton Curzon­Howe, GCVO, KCB, CMG.	18.02.1898 St George district, Edinburgh City, Scotland - 17.09.1952 (died in an accident) Hightown Hill, Ringwood, Hampshire.	Midsh. 1914 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 1917 Lt. 15.02.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 31.12.1939 A/R.Adm. 29.11.1944-(04.1946) R.Adm. 08.01.1949 (retd 1952) CB 08.06.1950 HM's birthday 1950 DSO 26.05.1942 minelaying 02.1942 MID 25.11.1941 Operations Style & Substance MID 23.02.1943 Operation Streamline Jane MID 01.06.1943 action 01.12.1942	Education: Cargilfield School; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (01.1911-...) 1914 - 1918 served European War: HMS Canopus (Battles of the Falkland Islands, 1914), Gallipoli, 1915, Jutland, 1916; Grand Fleet destroyers and South Russia, 1917-1918 1919 Emmanuel College, Cambridge University 1920 Rhine Flotilla 1921 specialised in navigation 06.1921 - (08.1923) Navigating Officer, HMS Veronica (sloop) 12.12.1924 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Broke (flotilla leader) 28.09.1926 - (07.1927) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 10.1928 - (04.1930) Staff Officer (Operations), 3rd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Curacoa (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) 05.01.1931 - (02.1931) Navigating Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) & as Squadron Navigating Officer & Staff Officer (Operations), 3rd Battle Squadron 28.07.1931 - (09.1932) Navigating Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron 1933 - 1933 Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord [HMS President] 15.08.1933 - (07.)1935 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.12.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS President (for Plans Division, Admiralty) 06.05.1936 - (02.)1937 Executive Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) (07.1937) no appointment listed 02.07.1937 - (10.)1938 Executive Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) 10.01.1939 - (08.1939) Commander of College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 1939 - 1940 Duty Captain, Admiralty War Room [HMS President] (04.1940) no appointment listed 15.10.1940 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman (minelayer) (various offensive minelaying operations, Malta convoys, Eastern Fleet, Madagascar, etc.) 15.01.1943 - 22.01.1943 Admiralty [HMS President] 22.01.1943 - (06.)1944 Deputy Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.11.1944 - (04.)1946 Chief of Naval Information, Admiralty [HMS President] 31.12.1946 - 1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Theseus (aircraft carrier) (07.1948) no appointment listed 04.05.1949 - 1951 Head of British Naval Mission to Greece [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] Shadwell Testimonial, 1924 and 1929. Younger Brother of Trinity House, 1924. Published: Greenwich Palace (1939); Naval Broadcasts (1946)
Dight, John Rupert Son of Eng.R.Adm. Sydney Rupert Dight, RN, and Mabel Martin.	29.12.1916 Plymouth, Devon - 03.08.1944 [age 27] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 81, column 1]	Midsh. (E) 01.01.1935 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1937 S.Lt. (E) 01.09.1937 Lt. (E) 01.03.1939 ?, seniority 16.11.1938	01.01.1935 - (08.1938) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 25.08.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 28.09.1939 - (04.1940) engineering course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.08.1940 - (08.1943) HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (10.1943) no appointment listed 16.11.1943 - 03.08.1944 HMS Quorn (destroyer) (ship sunk; missing presumed killed)
Dight, Sydney Rupert Eighth child of John Butler Dight (1841-1930) and Anna Priddle (died 1901). Married (1913, Plymouth) Mabel Martin, daughter of J.J. Martin; one son (Lt. (E) John Rupert Dight, RN), two daughters.	29.10.1885 Plymouth - 01.01.1948 Hendon (?)	Eng.Cadet ? Eng.S.Lt. 01.07.1905 Eng.Lt. 17.10.1907, seniority 01.07.1907 12.11.1908, seniority 01.10.1906 Eng.Cdr. 30.06.1920 Eng.Capt. 31.12.1929 Eng.R.Adm. 24.04.1936 (retd 24.04.1939) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) CBE 03.06.1935 HM's birthday 1935	04.07.1905 joined RN (01.1925) Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.08.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Atlantic Fleet) 20.08.1928 - 04.1939 in charge of the Admiralty Fuel Experimental Station, Haslar [HMS Victory] 20.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services) 04.04.1940 - (07.1945) Local Defence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
Dilks, William Henry Married ((09?).1912, Weymouth district, Dorset) Jessie C. Brewer; six daughters (serving in the WRNS: Heather Amy Dilks, Joan M. Dilks, Jessie Marjorie Dilks and Pauline M. Dilks).	07.11.1883 Milverton, Warwickshire - 16.12.1975 Gillingham, Chatham district, Kent	Gnr. 02.04.1915 Cd.Gnr. 02.04.1925 (retd 31.12.1930; own request) Lt. (retd) 31.12.1930 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 28.04.1942, seniority 03.09.1941 Cdr. (retd) 26.09.1946 OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 15.03.1941]	(01.1919)     HM PC 67 12.03.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Gunnery School) 15.10.1924 - (02.)1927 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (for service at Bermuda & for charge of rifle range) (07.1927)     no appointment listed 29.09.1927 - (08.1929) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for Anti-Gas School) 01.02.1930 - (08.)1930 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) 04.12.1938 - 04.1943 Boom Defence Depot, Clyde (Greenock) [HMS Orlando] 04.1943 - (04.1946) Assistant Boom Officer, Boom Defence Depot, Clyde (Greenock) [HMS Orlando]
Disbrowe, Edward Francis	12.04.1900 - 31.03.1941 (MPK) [age 40] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]	... ... Lt. 15.02.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1929 Cdr. 30.06.1935	... - ... ... 29.07.1939 - 31.03.1941 Executive Officer, HMS Bonaventure (Dido class cruiser) (ship torpedoed and sunk by Italian submarine Ambra in Mediterranean)