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Gabb, John Desmond Son of James Desmond Gabb (1892-1951), and Constance Margaret Davids (1893-1975). Married Charity Edith Tyrrell ..., of Amport. She remarried ((09?).1950) Douglas F. Beanland.	(12?).1920 Guildford district, Surrey - 11.06.1946 Aberdeen, Scotland [age 25] [Guildford Cemetery, Surrey, block H, grave 372]	Cadet (E) 01.05.1939 Midsh. (E) 01.01.1940 S.Lt. (E) 01.04.1941 Lt. (E) 01.04.1943 Cmdn 16.09.1941 Plymouth air raid 20.03.1941	... - ... ... 09.01.1940 - (04.)1943 course of instruction in engineering, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 01.05.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship) (01.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed (04.1946) - 11.06.1946 766 Squadron FAA [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station, Hinstock, Salop)] (killed in an air crash)
Gairdner, John Oswald Hugh Married ((12?).1937, Sevenoaks district, Kent) Margaret Joyce Matthews (died 14.12.2013, aged 100); ... children.	22.05.1905 - 10.08.1997 North Somerset district, Somerset	... ... Cdr. (E) 31.12.1940 Capt. (E) 31.12.1949 (retd) OBE ? ?	... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Gallaway, Oswald Tennyson Son (with one brother and two sisters) of James Henry Gallaway (1874-1931), and Mary Galloway (1884-1919). Married ((12?).1943, Wandsworth district, London) Doris Marshall (09.05.1921 - 08.1995), daughter (with one sister) of Sydney Herbert Marshall (1884-1979), and Ethel Louise Cannon (1895-1980); one daughter, two sons.	06.08.1908 Newport, Isle of Wight - 19.05.1996 Wandsworth district, London	Boatsw. 01.07.1937 A/Lt. 17.12.1944 Lt. 11.02.1946, seniority 15.11.1940 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1948 (retd 06.08.1953)	... - ... ... 13.04.1939 - (09.)1939 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.10.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Malaya (battleship) (06.1942) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 07.04.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Sea Serpent (landing craft base, Bracklesham Bay and Birdham, Chichester) (10.)1944 - (01.)1945 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (04.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed 22.06.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Black Prince (cruiser) ... - ... ...
Galletly, William Frederick Son (with one brother) of Thomas William Galletly (1882-1944). and Edith Crisp Myers (1879-). Married ((12?).1933, Southampton district, Hampshire) Eva Mary Tiller (03.12.1911 - 05.03.2009); two daughters, one son.	27.05.1909 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 05.06.1990 Chichester district, Sussex	Wt.Eng. 01.10.1939 Lt. (E) 01.10.1941 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.10.1949 (retd 27.05.1954) MID 08.05.1945 defence of convoy against E-boats 21.02.45 Cmdn 31.03.1953 for courage and leadership in an attempt to save the life of a rating who had been overcome by fumes in an empty ballast tank 02.10.52	08.11.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Diomede (cruiser) 28.09.1942 - (10.)1943 HMS Ajax (cruiser) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 19.01.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Valorous (destroyer) (despatches) 25.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Caprice (destroyer) ... - ... ... (10.1952)     HMS Mull of Galloway (commendation) ... - ... ...
Gambier, Robert Michael Gore "Robin" Son (with one brother) of Michael Seymour Gore Gambier (1861-1929), and Irene Marion Bentley (1882-1968) [from 1932 Mrs Malcolm Barclay Bovill], of Suddon House, Wincanton, Somerset. Married (1931?) Rosemary Caroline James (15.07.1909 - 1986), daughter of Capt. Arthur Parkinson James, RN, of Woodhayes, Henstridge, Somerset; ... children (two sons?).	01.11.1904 New Forest, Hampshire - 26.06.1981 RN Hospital, Haslar, South East Hampshire district, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925 S.Lt. 08.09.1926, seniority 30.08.1925 Lt. 30.05.1927 Lt.Cdr. 30.05.1935 Cdr. 31.12.1938 (retd > 07.1954, < 04.1955) A/Capt. > 02.1943, < 06.1943 till 1948? OON 25.11.1947 services to the Netherlands Hkn 26.08.1947 services to Norway	15.09.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Malaya (battleship) 10.05.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.01.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth 11.10.1926 - (02.)1927 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 21.03.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS X 1 (submarine) (Mediterranean) 10.10.1928 - (08.)1929 First Lieutenant, H 43 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 12.08.1929 - (04.)1930 First Lieutenant, HMS Salmon (destroyer) (Portland) 01.07.1930 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Regent (submarine) [20.09.1930 ship commissioned] 26.08.1932 - (06.)1933 First Lieutenant, HMS L 23 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia] 16.12.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 17.01.1934 - (02.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Seahorse (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 25.04.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Cairo (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 07.05.1937 - (04.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (China) (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship, Harwich/Rothesay) (for submarines) 11.07.1940 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) 17.03.1942 - (02.)1943 Executive Officer & Signal Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) 25.02.1943 - (05.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S) 4th Submarine Flotilla 29.05.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Wuchang (submarine depot ship, Trincomalee, Ceylon) 31.01.1944 - 10.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ambrose  (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) & Captain (S) 9th Submarine Flotilla HMS Ferret IV (captain surrendered submarines, Londonderry) ?? (07.1945) no appointment listed 01.01.1946 - (04.)1946 staff of Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 25.06.1946 - (04.)1947 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naples & Naval Liaison Officer to Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 17.11.1947 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) 02.1950 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) 08.10.1951 - (07.1954) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty with Captain Superintendent of Contract-built Ships) * indexed, but not listed as such
Gamble, Louis John Hilary	17.04.1914 - 08.09.1988 Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London	Cadet 01.09.1931 Midsh. 01.05.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1934 S.Lt. 10.09.1936, seniority 01.10.1935 Lt. 16.08.1938 ?, seniority 16.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1946 (retd 15.12.1949) DSC 21.04.1942 attack on convoy 01.03.42 MID 11.10.1940 blocking Zeebrugge MID 31.03.1942 attack on battle cruisers 12.02.42	05.09.1931 - (01.1932) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.01.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (01.1934) no appointment listed 27.09.1934 - (07.1935) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.09.1935 - (02.1936) promotion course, Portsmouth 10.1936 - (06.1938) HMS Viscount (destroyer) 01.07.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (miscellaneous duties) 03.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, MTB No. 15 [HMS Vulcan] (02.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) * 19.09.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, MTB 45 & SO 5th MTB Flotilla [HMS Wasp] 10.08.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Saker (RN base in the USA) 25.05.1943 - (08.1943) Commanding Officer, MTB 621 & SO 31st MTB Flotilla 10.1943 - 08.1944 HMS Rotherham (destroyer) (07.1945) no appointment listed 18.10.1945 - (07.1946) Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 06.01.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) * indexed, but not listed as such
Gandell, Wilfrid Pearse Son of Thomas Pearse Gandell (?-1926), Chairman of Oxford and Cambridge Club. Married (12.04.1923) Lilian Amabel Marion Campbell (?- 1982), daughter of Maj.Gen. Maxwell Campbell, RE; one daughter, one son deceased.	01.11.1886 Baywater W. - 09.06.1986 Slinfold, Horsham, West Sussex	Midsh. 15.07.1902 S.Lt. 15.11.1905 Lt. 15.05.1906 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1914 Cdr. 30.06.1919 (retd 08.04.1929; war service) Capt. (retd) 01.11.1931 (reverted to retd 04.1946) Cdre. 2nd cl. 04.09.1939 CBE 04.10.1940 directing Sea Transport [investiture 08.04.1941] Nte 20.12.1940 operations in the field 03-06.1940 LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) LM 28.05.1946 ? RHS Bronze Life Saving Medal, 10.05.1918 Italian Commemorative Medal 1908 (Eartquake in Southern Italy, 12.1908)	Education: Stoke House; HMS Britannia. 15.05.1901     entered RN 1908 - 24.07.1909 HMS Lancaster 28.10.1912 - 09.07.1915 HMS Zealandia (for torpedo duties) 09.07.1915 - 29.08.1917 HMS St Vincent (for torpedo duties) 29.08.1917 - 17.12.1917 HMS Vernon (for torpedo duties) 17.12.1917 - 27.09.1920 HMS Victory (for wireless telegraphy duties and war staff duties) 27.09.1920 - 08.1921 HMS President (for Staff course at Greenwich) 11.08.1924 - 11.08.1926 HMS Emperor of India ... - ... ... 04.09.1939 - 28.09.1940 Principal Sea Transport Officer, French Ports GHQ [HMS President (additional), from 01.01.1940 HMS Victory (additional)] [Dunkirk evacuation] (CBE, name brought to notice) 01.01.1941 - 25.03.1941 Principal Sea Transport Officer, Clyde [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)] 25.03.1941 - 11.04.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; not to join) 12.04.1941 - 16.05.1941 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth [HMS Watchful (anti-submarine & minesweeper base, Great Yarmouth)] 17.05.1941 - 15.09.1944 Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (US Legion of Merit) 16.03.1943 - 05.04.1943 HMS President (additional; for disposal) (10.1944)     HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * (01.1945)     HMS Enterprise (E class cruiser) * 09.03.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Emerald (E class cruiser) Member: West Sussex County Council, 1958-1964; Horsham RDC, 1952-1964; Asst Chief Warden  CD, Horsham Area, 1952-1965. * indexed, but not listed as such [Who's Who mentions: Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Forth Area, 1944-1946]
Gandy, Gerard Horace Married (03?).1920, Sheppey district, Kent) ... Noordamus.	29.04.1896 Bristol, Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire - 16.01.1987 Torbay district, Devon	Lt. 15.09.1917 (retd 05.05.1920; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.09.1925 A/Cdr. (retd) 03.1945? (reld 06.10.1945) Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946 MID 13.10.1942 withdrawal from Hong Kong	15.01.1909     entered RN ... - ... ... 12.09.1939 Naval Provost Marshal Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] 13.05.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (river gunboat) [based at HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] (12.1941)     no appointment listed 12.1941 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 10 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 2nd MTB Flotilla (Hong Kong) [Escaping as ordered after capitulation with remainder of Flotilla on 25th December. Then scuttling in Mirs Bay and bringing MTB party of 45 across China to Rangoon.] 02.1942 - 08.03.1942 served under Commodore Burma Coast until evacuation by sea 04.1942 - 05.1942 Lt-Commander in charge of Naval draft guarding 657 Italian POW's onboard HMT Narkuna on passage to UK 22.06.1942 - 1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Kingfisher (sloop) [based at HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon)] [experimental work and submarine escort duties at Clyde and Western Approaches] 21.02.1944 Squadron Commander, Major Landing Craft [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)] 03.1945 - 07.1945 Squadron Commander "L" LCT Squadron in Antwerp and Holland [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)] 07.1945 - 10.1945 Squadron Commander "P" LCT Squadron [HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base)]
Garbett, Leonard Gillilan	01.03.1879 - 05.06.1974	... ... Lt. 01.01.1909 (retd) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.01.1917 Capt. (retd) 04.04.1938 CBE ? ?	... - ... ... 01.08.1937 - (07.1945) Director of Naval Meteorological Service, Admiralty [HMS President]
Garden, Archibald Son of Norman M. Garden, and Jessie A. Garden.	07.12.1894 Petty, Inverness-Shire - (06?).1983 Torbay district, Devon	Seaman ? [J11838] A/Gnr. 01.07.1923 Gnr. ?, seniority 01.07.1923 Cd.Gnr. 01.07.1933 Lt. 17.05.1941 (retd 07.12.1944; age; remained on active duty) (dispersal 28.08.1945) (reld 23.10.1945) (reverted to retd 24.10.1945) MBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 MID 16.03.1943 Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 08.11.42)	(01.1925) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) * 01.12.1925 - (07.1927) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 12.11.1928 - (10.)1930 Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)] 15.12.1930 - (09.1932) HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet) 12.1933 - 16.05.1935 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler) ** (02.1937) no appointment listed 21.06.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Birmingham (cruiser) [under construction] 01.09.1937 - (10.1938) HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (02.1939) - (04.)1939 no appointment listed 01.08.1939 - 27.08.1939 staff, HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) 28.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Neptune (cruiser) 10.05.1941 - 01.09.1943 HMS Rodney (battleship) 31.10.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] Naval Proof Officer, Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley, Lancashire (1960s). * indexed, but not listed as such ** (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Gardner, Herbert Son of Herbert and Constance Gladys Gardner. Married (1946) Catherine Mary Roe, Perth, WA (predeceased him).	23.10.1921 - 21.03.2006 [cremated in Perth, Western Australia; ashes scattered in the ocean]	Cadet (E) 01.01.1940 Midsh. (E) 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1942 S.Lt. (E) 16.04.1943 A/Lt. (E) > 10.1943, < 12.1943 Lt. (E) 16.03.1943 Lt.Cdr. (E) 16.03.1951 Cdr. (E) 31.12.1955 Capt. (E) 30.06.1964 Cdre. 06.1971 R.Adm. 07.07.1973 (retd 31.03.1977) CB 1976 ? 39|45 St ? - Bur St ? & clasp Pacific DefM ? - BWM 39|45 ? -	Education: Taunton School; Weymouth College. 01.01.1940 - 10.09.1940 special entry cadet, RN College, Dartmouth 11.09.1940 - (1944?) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake] 04.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 1944 - 1944 HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 11.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) (from 04.1945 4th Submarine Flotilla, Fremantle) 31.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Totem (submarine) 18.03.1947 - (05.)1949 Department of the Engineer-in-Chief, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.09.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Telemachus (submarine) 01.09.1952 - (07.)1954 Admiralty Development Establishment (at Messrs. Vickers-Armstrong, Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness) [HMS President] 11.10.1954 - (01.)1956 HMS Eagle 21.05.1956 - (01.1957) HMS Caledonia 07.10.1958 - (01.1959) Staff Engineer Officer & Staff Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical Defence Officer, 6th Frigate Squadron [HMS Blackpool] 26.04.1960 - (07.1961) Assistant (Production) to Manager Engineering Department, Rosyth Dockyard [HMS Cochrane] 16.11.1963 - (02.)1964 HMS Maidstone 1964 Deputy Manager, Engineering Department, Devonport Dockyard 27.10.1967 - (02.)1968 Chief Engineer and Production Manager, Singapore Dockyard 20.11.1968 - (02.1969) Chief Staff Officer (Technical) to Commander Far East Fleet [HMS Terror] 1970 course at Imperial Defence College 06.1971 - 1973 Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 1974 - 1976 Vice President, Ordnance Board 1976 - 1977 President, Ordnance Board Chartered engineer.
Gardner, Lewes George Second son of Mr & Mrs George Gardner, of Beer, Devon. Married ((06?).1920, St Marylebone district, London) Violet Amy Calero Hale (née Hope), second daughter of Dr J.W. Hope, and Mrs Hope, of Perth, Western Australia.	20.11.1886 Sandy, Biggleswade district, Bedfordshire - 22.04.1957 Home of Peace, Subiaco, Western Australia	Lt. 30.06.1909 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1917 (retd 04.11.1929; own request) Cdr. (retd) 04.11.1929 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk	15.05.1902     entered RN 14.07.1921 - 09.1923 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) ... - ... ... 24.08.1939 - (02.)1941 Staff Officer (Administration) on staff of Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)] 22.09.1941 - (12.1941) Resident Naval Officer, Scarborough [HMS Paragon (RN base, Hartlepool)] 03.1942 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Stopford (Combined Operations training establishment, Bo'ness, West Lothian)
Gardner, Lycett Son of Harry Gardner (1843-1925), and Mary Beatrice Hall (1861-1952). Married (27.08.1927, Kandy, Ceylon) Theophila Mary Ruthven-Smith (17.11.1902 - 21.12.1982), daughter of Ruthven Frederic Ruthven-Smith (1864-1955), and Laura Olivia Colomb (1866-1944); two sons.	02.04.1897 Eshowe, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa - 10.09.1974 Bramcote, Bramdean, Hampshire	... ... Lt. 15.07.1918 (retd 16.09.1919) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.07.1926 Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946 OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46	01.1910     entered RN ... - ... ... 29.07.1937 - (07.1945) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] (OBE) (03.1942)     liaison officer to Royal Hellenic Navy training detachment in UK
Garner, Charles Henry Lived at Littleborne, nr Canterbury, Kent. Married ((09?).1912, Bridge district, Kent) Daisy Rye; ... children (two? sons, one? daughter, one of whom is Lt.Cdr. Robert William Garner, RN).	15.06.1883 Edmonton, Middlesex - 27.01.1959 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	Boy 2nd cl. 26.09.1898 [201246] Boy 1st cl. 16.06.1903 Ord.Sea. 15.06.1901 AB Sea. 26.04.1902 Ldg.Sea. 17.07.1905 Petty Offr. 2nd cl. 11.01.1906 Petty Offr. 1st cl. 01.01.1907 (1), 24.04.1910 (2) Petty Offr. (NS) 27.07.1911 A/Gnr. 18.09.1912 Gnr. 27.09.1913, seniority 18.09.1912 (retd 19.11.1920; own request) Cd.Gnr. (retd) 01.05.1941 Lt. (retd) 01.05.1944 (dispersal 08.04.1946) (reld 03.06.1946)	Errand boy. 26.08.1898 - 31.01.1900 HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport) 01.02.1900 - 26.02.1900 HMS Agincourt (frigate) 27.02.1900 - 02.02.1903 HMS Furious (cruiser) 03.02.1903 - 24.02.1903 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 25.02.1903 - 06.01.1904 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) 07.01.1904 - 17.01.1905 HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) 18.01.1905 - 14.09.1905 HMS ... [Ellestrower??] 15.09.1905 - 10.01.1906 HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) 11.01.1906 - 16.03.1906 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) 17.03.1906 - 30.11.1906 HMS Aboukir (armoured cruiser) 01.12.1906 - 30.03.1908 HMS Leviathan (armoured cruiser) 31.03.1908 - 23.04.1910 HMS Black Prince (cruiser) 24.04.1910 - 30.11.1911 HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) 01.12.1911 - 04.01.1912 HMS Lord Nelson (battleship) 05.01.1912 - 31.05.1912 HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) 01.06.1912 - 06.09.1912 HMS Vernon (torpedo school ship, Portsmouth) 07.09.1912 - 17.09.1912 HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) 19.10.1912  - 16.09.1913 HMS St Vincent (battleship) (FDD [?; = fire direction duties ?], from 07.11.1912 Instructional duties) 16.09.1913 - 13.04.1915 HMS Tyne (depot ship for 8th TBD Flotilla, Chatham) (for torpedo boat destroyers) 13.04.1915 - 06.1915 HMS Violent (torpedo boat destroyer) (for firing course) [based at HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)] (06?).1915 - 1915? HMS Thunderer (battleship) (for course) 1915? - 12.03.1919 HMS Colossus (battleship) (for Director Firing duties) 12.03.1919 - 14.07.1919 HMS Norseman (torpedo boat destroyer) [based at HMS Apollo (destroyer depot ship, Devonport)] 14.07.1919 - 06.01.1920 HMS Prince George (battleship) (for Squadron Director duties with Chatham Torpedo Boat Destroyer Defence Flotilla) 06.01.1920 - 20.11.1920 HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (for Director Firing duties) 28.09.1938 - 03.10.1938 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for new entries) 20.07.1939 - 08.04.1946 on the Active List, but no appointment listed; service record suggests HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for depot duties *) * An evaluation in his service record rates him as 'satisfactory, above average while in sole charge of a large and important Department in the Depot'
Garner, Robert William Son of Lt. Charles Henry Garner, RN, and Daisy Rye.	27.12.1919 Bridge district, Kent - 25.01.2001 South Dorset	T/A/L.Sea. ? [C/JX 144554] A/S.Lt. 01.05.1943 S.Lt. ?, seniority 01.05.1943 Lt. 04.05.1944, seniority 16.06.1943 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1951 (retd 27.12.1964) MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41	(1940) - (10.1942) HMS Curacoa (cruiser) (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed 14.09.1943 - (06.1944) Third Hand, HMS Chiddingfold (destroyer) 01.1945 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Tetcott (destroyer)  15.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (07.1948) no appointment listed 05.12.1948 - (05.)1949 HMS Bruce (boys' training establishment, Crail, Fife) 28.09.1949 - (05.1950) First Lieutenant, HMS Loch Veyatie (frigate) 11.12.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) (04.1955) HMS Chameleon (minesweeper) * 02.05.1955 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Rattlesnake (minesweeper) (01.1957) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 28.09.1959 - (07.1961) First Lieutenant & NPM on staff of Flag Officer, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke (RN base, Gibraltar)] 05.11.1962 - (02.1964) Staff Officer, Severn Division RNR & in command HMS Venturer * indexed, but not listed as such
Garnett, Edward Thomasson Son of William Garnett (1864-1947), and Jean Russell Harvey (1870-). Married 1st (01.07.1937, Saint Thomas Church, District of Columbia, USA; divorced, Las Vegas, Nev., USA) Frances Virginia Wells, of Washington, DC. Married 2nd (04.10.1948, Criminal Division, Municipal Court, District of Columbia, USA) Elizabeth Strickland; one daughter.	21.02.1910 Bristol, Long Ashton district, Somerset - 03.05.1984 Wilson, North Carolina, USA [burial Gray Crematorium, Raleigh, North Carolina]	Cadet 01.05.1927 Midsh. 01.01.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1930 S.Lt. 16.01.1931 Lt. 16.03.1933 (retd 1938) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 27.08.1942 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	30.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; sea going gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) 01.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Cornwall (cruiser) (China) 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 1931 - 1931 promotion course, Portsmouth (23.07.1931 aviators' certificate #9982 taken on D.H. 60 X Cirrus II 30/80 h.p. at Hampshire Aeroplane Club) 31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Tempest (destroyer) (Nore) 19.07.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Worcester (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 03.02.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Tarantula (gunboat) (China) (07.1935) no appointment listed 15.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 23.07.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 24.09.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Seaborn II (RN base, Halifax, NS) 10.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Broadway (destroyer) (12.1941)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.12.1941 - (07.1945) on staff of British Admiralty Maintenance and Supply Representative [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, USA)]
Garnett, Ian Graham Hartt Son of Dr ... Garnett, and ... Crawford. Married (06.11.1943, Westminster district, London) Barbara Anne Langrishe Hackett, WRNS, only daughter of Lt.Col. H.M.M. Hackett, MC; ... children (son: V.Adm. Ian David Graham Garnett).	29.11.1914 Greenwich district, London - 19.07.1996 Poole, Dorset	Cadet 01.01.1932 Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 07.04.1936, seniority 01.07.1935 Lt. 01.10.1936 ?, seniority 01.04.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1944 Cdr. 30.06.1949 Capt. 30.06.1957 (retd 09.07.1966) DSC 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik	16.01.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) 03.02.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Despatch (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 03.01.1935 - (07.1935) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 25.01.1936 - (02.)1936 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) 09.07.1936 - (07.)1937 HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China) 12.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Delight (destroyer) (China) 29.09.1938 - (04.)1939 gunnery course, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 24.07.1939 - (09.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 26.02.1940 - (02.1941) Gunnery Officer, HMS Bedouin (destroyer) 04.1942 - (08.)1942 gunnery school, Devonport [HMS Drake] 14.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Gunnery Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance ship) 16.11.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 01.12.1944 - (04.)1946 Gunnery Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) 06.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 12.01.1948 - (07.1948) Gunnery Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 08.10.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (05.1953) Admiralty [HMS President] * 08.03.1954 - 26.04.1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Alvie (anti-submarine frigate) 19.07.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous duties) (01.1957) no appointment listed 15.07.1959 - (07.)1961 Commanding Officer, HMS Cambridge (HM gunnery school, Wembury, nr Plymouth) 18.09.1961 - (02.1964) Representative at Bangkok & UK Military Adviser to SEATO [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] 07.01.1966 - 07.07.1966 Naval ADC to the Queen * indexed, but not listed as such
Garnons-Williams, Gerald Aylmer Elder son (with three brothers and two sisters) of Gerald Garnons-Williams, JP (1859-1942), and Minnie Lilian Court (1868-), of Aberclydach, Talybont-on-Usk, Breconshire. Married (04.08.1917, All Saints' Church, Llanelly) Enid Eileen Towranna "Towy" Mansel-Lewis, third daughter of Charles William Mansel-Lewis, DL, JP, of Stradley Catle, Llanelly, Canmarthenshire; one son.	24.01.1893 Brecon, Breconshire - 03.11.1977 Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire	A/S.Lt. 15.05.1913 S.Lt. 15.03.1914 Lt. 30.06.1915 Lt.Cdr. 30.07.1923 Cdr. 30.06.1927 (retd 24.01.1943) A/Capt. 1941? Capt. (retd) 24.01.1943 DSO 25.08.1942 Operation Ironclad (assault & capture of Diego Suarez 05.42) [investiture 07.12.43] DSC 18.02.1919 service in minelaying submarines 01.07-11.11.18 MID 11.10.1940 blocking ports of either Zeebrugge, or Dieppe, or Calais MID 23.02.1943 Operation Streamline Jane (operations at Majunga & Tanarive, Madagascar 09.42) LM 13.08.1946 South East Asia Command 01.44-10.45	Education: Copthorne School, Crawley; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.01.1906     entered RN 1914 - 1918 served Great War ... - ... ... (1920)     HMS Excellent 09.08.1920     Commanding Officer, HMS L 71 (submarine) ... - ... ... (1937)     HMS Cormorant ... - ... ... 26.09.1939 - (05.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Florentino (special service vessel; sunk as blockship) 13.05.1940 - (06.)1940 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 11.06.1940 - (10.)1940 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) (12.1940) - (06.1941) no appointment listed 03.07.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) 18.08.1941 - (12.)1941 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.12.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Quebec II (Combined Operations centre, Hollywood Hotel, Largs) 05.1942     Senior Naval Officer, Landing (SNOL) on Operation Ironclad  [HMS Keren] (DSO) [after-action report] [battle summary] (06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 09.1942     Joint Assault Commander on Operation Streamline Jane (despatches) (10.1942) - (06.1943) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) * 1942 - 1943 Director of Combined Operations (India) (08.1943)     Naval Planning Staff, Combined Operations Headquarters (10.1943) - (10.1945) Admiralty [HMS President] * 1943 - 1945 on staff of Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cardiganshire, 01.03.1959. * indexed, but not listed as such
Garnons-Williams, Nevill Glennie Son of Rev. Arthur Garnons-Williams (?-1935), and Anna Jane Glennie, of Abercamlais, Brecon. Married (08.12.1928, St Michael's Church, Chester Square, St George Hanover Square district, London) Violet Tours (1899 - (06?).1979), daughter of B.G. Tours, CMG; one daughter.	02.10.1899 New Radnor, Kington district, Radnorshire - 27.02.1983 Pontypool district, Gwent, Wales	S.Lt. 15.05.1918 Lt. 15.06.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1927 Cdr. 30.06.1933 (retd 06.10.1946) A/Capt. 05.05.1941 MBE 1919 ?	Education: Tredennicke School, Worcester; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth; Caius College, Cambridge (01.10.1919-...). 09.1912     entered RN ... - ... ... 11.08.1927 - (04.1928) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for Experimental Department) ... - ... ... 03.08.1937 - (02.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (03.1940) - (04.1940) no appointment listed 15.04.1940 - (04.)1941 an Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 05.05.1941 - (06.)1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) (08.1941)     no appointment listed (10.)1941 - (07.1945) Naval Assistant to the Controller of Projectile Development & Associate Member (Ex-Officio), Ordnance Board (04.1946)     Admiralty [HMS President] * Deputy Lieutenant (1948) & Justice of the Peace (1953), Breconshire. Vice-Lieutenant, 1959-1964, then Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 20.01.1964-31.03.1974. * indexed, but not listed as such
Garrett, Charles Richard	13.03.1901 Puri, Orissa, India - 16.02.1968 Kenya	Cadet ? Midsh. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.12.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1930 (retd < 07.1935) A/Cdr. (06.1944) Cdr. (retd) ?, seniority 13.03.1941 (reactivated 19.08.1939) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.44)	Education: RN College, Osborne He played rugby for the RN against the All Blacks and commanded the Devonport Gun Crew at the Royal tournament in 1929. Played First Class cricket for the RN, 1926-1929. 15.09.1914     entered RN served World War I (apparently on a battleship during the Battle for Jutland) 1920s ? ADC to the Prince of Wales (Caribbean tour?) 1920s ? Flag Lieutenant to the Earl of Cork and Orrery 24.06.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) (temporary) 27.05.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Thunderer (battlesip) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (temporary) 17.12.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Frobisher (cruiser) & as Squadron Physical & Recreational Training Officer, First Cruiser Squadron) (China) 13.03.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for School of Physical and Recreational Training) 14.11.1929 - (02.1931) HMS Despatch (cruiser) & as Fleet Physical & Recreational Training Officer, America and West Indies Station (01.1932) no appointment listed 17.03.1932 - (01.1934) staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 02.12.1940 - (02.)1941 Executive Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor) 10.11.1941 - (08.)1943 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (10.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed [quite common for personnel especially intended to take part in Operation Neptune] ? - (06.1944) Naval Party 1658 [HMS Ascanius (depot ship, Normandy)] (under Eastern Task Force, allocated to Gooseberry 4 [part of Mulberry B harbours]) [also indicated as serving at HMS Matador (nominal depot ship for ferry service personnel in Red Ensign ships)] 04.12.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Ceres (cruiser) Post-war a stockbroker (partner in Hichens, Harrison, Co., 1947-1957).
Garrett, Horatio Morey	07.01.1884 Salford, Lancashire - 23.05.1954 Addington Hospital, Durban, South Africa	Lt. 01.10.1906 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1914 (retd 02.02.1927; own request) Cdr. (retd) 02.02.1927 A/Capt. (retd) < 10.1940	24.08.1939 - (02.1943) HMS President III (HQ for personnel serving at defensively equipped merchant ships)
Garside, Frederick Rodney Only son of William Frederick Garside, and Alice Prudence Garside, of Bexhill-on-Sea. Married (1931) Margaret Ada Beatrice Ramsay; one son, one daughter. Lived at Kensington, London.	07.03.1897 Morden, Greater London, Surrey - 08.07.1940 (KIA) [age 43] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1]	Cadet ? Midsh. 31.07.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1916 S.Lt. 15.11.1916 Lt. 15.12.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1930 Capt. 31.12.1935 CBE 02.01.1939 New Year 39	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 01.1910 joined RN 1919 - 1918 served throughout European War in HMS Orion 25.10.1922 - (08.1923) Gunnery Officer, HMS Castor (light cruiser) 08.04.1924 - (01.1925) for gunnery duties at Shoeburyness [HMS President] 04.06.1925 - 17.06.1925 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN] 18.06.1925 - 02.08.1925 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia per SS ['Themis Rodeo'?]) 03.08.1925 - 06.04.1926 HMAS Adelaide (cruiser) [lent to RAN] 07.04.1926 - 14.10.1927 HMAS Sydney (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer [lent to RAN] 15.10.1927 - 07.02.1928 HMAS Cerberus & London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to UK per SS Orsova) [lent to RAN] 08.02.1928 - (06.1928) Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) 22.07.1929 - (02.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Excellent (gunnery school,  Whale Island, Portsmouth) 12.11.1931 - (06.1933) Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Revenge (battleship)] (Mediterranean) (01.1934) no appointment listed 03.03.1934 - (07.1934) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous services) (02.1935) no appointment listed 02.04.1935 - (07.1935) Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) (02.1936) no appointment listed 16.10.1936 - (10.)1938 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 03.01.1939 - 08.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) (01.1939 Devonport, 04.1939 East Indies, 09.1939 Simonstown, 05.1940 Mediterranean) [killed in action during an attack by Italian aircraft] 04.1939 - 09.1939 Flag Captain & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station
Garside, Richard Murray Married (29.11.1946, Bermuda) Jane Phillida York.	(09?).1914 Toxteth Park district, Lancashire - 12.04.1988 Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire and Worcestershire	... ... Paym.Lt. 01.12.1935 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1943 A/Cdr. (S) ? Cdr. (S) ? (retd 26.04.1958) OBE 01.01.1949 New Year 1949 MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	... - ... ... (06.1944)     no appointment listed (06.1944)     on staff of Rear-Admiral Mulberry/Pluto on staff of ANCXF (Invasion of Normandy, 1944) [HMS Odyssey] (despatches) ... - ... ... (1948)     HMS Sheffield (OBE)
Garson, Robin William "Bob" Second son of Peter Garson, and Ada Frances Newton (she re-married 1943 Alfred H. Paice). Married (04.02.1946, Rothesay, Isle of Bute) Joy Ligertwood Hickman, widow of W/Cdr. A.M. Taylor, DFC, of Tydd, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; one son, one daughter.	13.11.1921 Richmond district, Surrey - 26.01.2006 Old Hunstanton, Norfolk	S.Lt. 01.01.1942 Lt. 01.02.1943, seniority 01.04.1942 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1950 Cdr. 31.12.1956 Capt. 30.06.1966 (retd 28.07.1975) Cdre. 1973-1975 CBE 14.06.1975 HM's birthday 75	Education: School of Oriental and African Studies. Qualified as interpreter 2nd class in Japanese, 02.1951. 1937     entered RN       HMS Resolution (battleship)       HMS Nigeria (cruiser) 15.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 10.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Seawolf (submarine) 1944?     HMS H 33 (submarine) (04.1944) - (01.)1945 HMS Spark (submarine) * 04.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Universal (submarine) 12.07.1945 - (10.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Uther (submarine) 18.12.1945 - 03.05.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Seraph (submarine)       Commanding Officer, HMS Saga 01.02.1947 - (04.1947) Executive Officer, HMS Sanguine (07.1948)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.09.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous duties)       Commanding Officer, HMS Springer       Commanding Officer, HMS Thule 06.12.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Astute (07.1954) - (01.1956) HMS Astute * 17.11.1956 - (1958) Commanding Officer, HMS Chaser (submarine support ship) & Senior Officer, Submarines, Portland (01.1959)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 30.12.1959 - (07.1961) SSMO on staff of British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker] 25.06.1962 - (02.)1963 Commander Submarines, 1st Submarine Squadron [HMS Dolphin] 07.10.1963 - (02.1964) Executive Officer, HMS Ariel (air electrical school and RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 13.04.1965     HMS President (for duty at CINCEASTLANT) 15.09.1966 - (02.)1968 HMS Terror (for duty on staff of Commander, Far East Fleet as Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence)) (02.1969)     RN College, Greenwich * 05.03.1969 - 1971 staff of Commander British Naval Staff, Washington [HMS Saker] (for duty as Senior Polaris UK Representative) 1971 - 1973 Captain, 1st Submarine Squadron 05.10.1973 - 1975 Commodore, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 07.07.1974 - 07.01.1975 also: Naval ADC to the Queen Director of Leisure Services, London Borough of Hillingdon, 1975-1986. Adviser to AMA on Arts and Recreation, 1976-1986; Adviser to Sports Council, 1985-1986; Member, Library Advisory Council (England), 1977-1983. Patron, RN Submarine Museum, 1990-.
Gartside-Tippinge, Hugh Son of Ernest Alfred and Jane Gartside-Tippinge. Married ((09?).1938, Bournemouth district, Dorset) Edna Waters (28.11.1907 - 22.07.1988).	23.04.1896 Oxton, Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 15.07.1969	Prob. Flt. S/Lt. RNAS ? Flt. S/Lt. RNAS 20.08.1917, seniority 04.06.1917 Lt. 15.11.1917 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1925 (retd 23.04.1941) Cdr. (retd) 23.04.1941 (reverted to retd 1946?) OBE 09.06.1949 HM's birthday 49 MID 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines	15.01.1909     entered RN 08.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Valhalla (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 06.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.07.1927 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Watchman (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 18.09.1929 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Cricket (gunboat) (China) (01.1932) - (09.1932) no appointment listed 20.01.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 14.02.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) (for Maintenance Reserve destroyers) 06.01.1937 - (02.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (destroyer) (Maintenance Reserve, Rosyth) 28.02.1937 - (04.1939) HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) (for destroyers in reserve) 31.07.1939 - (09.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Volunteer (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 19.02.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Merlin (RN Air Station, Donibristle, Fife) 04.02.1943 - (06.1944) Resident Naval Officer, Lossiemouth [HMS Bacchante] 04.12.1944 - (04.1946) Royal Naval Barracks, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
Garwood, Trevor Henry Son (with two sisters) of Eng.R.Adm. Hugh Sydney Garwood, CB, OBE (1872-1948), and Edna Mary Coachafer, of Abbey Leys, Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire. Married (1940) Margaret Albert Harvey, of North Berwick, East Lothian, second daughter of Mr & Mrs Wilson Harvey, of Mount Hamilton, Auchincruive, Ayrshire.	07.10.1910 St Thomas, Devon - 26.09.1942 (MPK) [age 31] [Chatham Naval Memorial, 51,1]	Cadet 01.01.1928 Midsh. 01.09.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1931 S.Lt. 16.11.1931 Lt. 16.08.1934 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1942 MID 02.12.1941 air attack, mining of Icemaid	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1924-12.1927). 15.05.1924     entered RN 14.01.1928 - 01.1931 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 01.01.1931 - 12.1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1932 - (09.)1932 promotion courses, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 05.09.1932 - (01.)1933 HMS Woolston (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 09.02.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 15.05.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Guardian (netlaying and target towing vessel) (02.1935)     short course of instruction 15.03.1935 - (02.)1937 HMNZS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand) 08.06.1937 - (07.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 30.07.1937 - (09.)1939 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 22.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Vivien (destroyer) 29.07.1941 - 15.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Shearwater (patrol vessel) (despatches) 19.08.1942 - 26.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Veteran (destroyer) (ship Sunk on 26 Sep 1942 by U-404 in North Atlantic)
Garwood, Robert Cecil Somers Married; ... children (one daughter?).	13.07.1901 Somerset Island, Bermuda - 27.08.1987 RN Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire (formerly of Alverstoke, Gosport, Hampshire)	Midsh. 15.09.1917 S.Lt. 15.05.1921 Lt. 15.02.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1931 Cdr. 30.06.1938 (retd 16.09.1948) A/Capt. 24.08.1942 till (04.1944?) CBE 12.11.1946 ? [investiture 20.05.47] DSO 11.09.1945 anti U-boat operations 20.04.45 [investiture 09.07.46]	15.01.1915     entered RN (01.1919)     HMS Lion (battlecruiser) 01.01.1923 submarine course, HMS Dolphin 13.04.1923 HMS Conqueror (as spare officer) 19.04.1923 - (08.1923) HMS K 12 (submarine) (for navigating duties in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) [tender to HMS Conquest] 01.01.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (China) (as spare 3rd officer) 06.05.1926     HMS Victory (for special service) 24.06.1926 - (02.)1927 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser; seagoing gunnery firing ship, Portsmouth) (additional) 15.04.1927 - 30.04.1927 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (as spare First Lieutenant for submarines) 01.05.1927 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS L 21 (submarine) [tender to HMS Conquest] 03.1928 - (06.)1928 submarine Commanding Officers' course [HMS Alecto] 01.09.1928 - 28.09.1928 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 29.09.1928 - 08.11.1929 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 14.01.1930 - 25.06.1930 HMS President (for study of Russian at King's College) 26.06.1930 - 04.1931 HMS President (for 9 months' study of Russian in Estonia) [qualified as interpreter in Russian 04.1931] 20.04.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 27.06.1932 HMS Ross (twin-screw minesweeper) 23.08.1932  - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS H 48 (submarine) (temporarily) [tender to HMS Alecto] 10.01.1933 - 31.05.1933 in command of Group "D" Submarines [HMS L 16 & HMS L 20] in reserve at Portsmouth [tenders to HMS Pigmy] 01.06.1933 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS L 22 (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 11.06.1934 - 01.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Regulus (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (02.1937)     no appointment listed 26.07.1937  - 16.09.1937 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 17.09.1937 - (06.)1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) (08.1938)     no appointment listed 30.09.1938 - 31.12.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Tarpon (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 01.01.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Seaborn (accounting base, Halifax, NS) & as Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear Admiral Commanding Third Battle Squadron 08.1941 - 23.01.1942 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 24.01.1942 - 06.1942 HMS Saker II (accounting base, Washington, USA) 06.1942 - 23.08.1942 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 24.08.1942 - (12.1943) Naval Liaison Officer to Soviet Black Fleet [HMS President] Naval Liaison Officer to 14th Army, Burma (04.1944)     no appointment listed 10.05.1944 - 09.07.1944 HMS Towy (frigate) 10.07.1944 - 02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Bentinck (frigate) 24.09.1945 - (04.1946) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Surabaya [HMS Sultan] (07.1948)     no appointment listed
Gascoigne, John Cleland "Jack" Married ((09?).1946, Stafford district, Staffordshire) Mary Lois Mountford, WRNS (26.02.1917 - 09.2000).	25.08.1913 Bilbao, Spain - 10.02.1978 Chorleywood, Hertfordshire	A/T/Instr.Lt. 25.09.1935 T/Instr.Lt. 16.04.1936, seniority 25.09.1935 Instr.Lt. 01.1941, seniority 25.09.1935 Instr.Lt.Cdr. 25.09.1941 Instr.Cdr, 31.12.1948 (retd 01.09.1961) OBE 11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 39|45 St ? - Atl St ? - Def M ? - WM 39|45 ? - MID 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 Cor M ? -	Education: Peter Symonds' School, Winchester; Imperial College, London University (BSc 1934). ... - ... ... 28.08.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Revenge (Royal Sovereign class battleship) 05.09.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove) (08.1941)     no appointment listed 18.09.1941 - (02.)1944 HMS Kent (Kent class cruiser) 28.02.1944 - (04.1946) Education Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ... MRAeS. Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, 1969. Spent one year with the Careers Service of Birmingham University, three years lecturing on applied mathematics at Goldsmith's College, London University, and then returned to his old job at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, as a civilian. When the Mechanical Engineering Department there was closed in 1968 he transferred to the Inspectorate of Armaments at Woolwich Arsenal where he remained until his death. Published: (with H. Levy) On the combination of observational data. In: Proceedings of the Physical Society (Volume 48, 1936).
Gatehouse, Richard   Son (with three siblings) of Hugh Gatehouse (1872-1949), and Aileen Dorothy Vesey-Fitzgerald (1888-1940). Married (09.10.1944, Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, Westminster district, London) Hazel Evelyn Rosemary Rumbold (née Hampshire) (18.12.1919 - 16.11.2007), eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs J.P. Hampshire, of Wimbledon; four children.	16.03.1916 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 19.01.1998 Swindon district, Wiltshire	Midsh. 01.01.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1936 S.Lt. ... Lt. 16.08.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1946 Cdr. 31.12.1948 (retd 29.01.1958) A/Capt. (01.1958) DSC 20.01.1942 5 war patrols Mediterranean 02-07.1941 [investiture 14.04.1942] DSC 15.08.1944 10 war patrols Mediterranean [investiture 13.02.1945] DSC 10.11.1953 Korea (7th List) [investiture 16.03.1954]	01.01.1934 - (10.1935) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 04.01.1937 - (07.1937) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] ... - ... ... 17.12.1938 - (06.)1940 HMS Trident (T class submarine) 15.07.1940 - (08.)1940 HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines) 08.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 10.1940 - (07.)1941 HMS Triumph (T class submarine) (DSC) 17.07.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 06.10.1941 - (12.)1941 submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 11.12.1941 - 16.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (T class submarine) 18.01.1942 - 16.04.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (H class submarine) 18.04.1942 - 21.06.1942 Commanding Officer. HMS Unshaken (U class submarine) 06.1942 - (09.)1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) 23.09.1942 - 30.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Sportsman (S class submarine) (Bar to DSC) 09.09.1944 - 30.01.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (O class submarine) 30.01.1945 - 13.11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Astute (A class submarine) ... - ... ... (10.1947)     HMS Appledore * 10.12.1947 - (10.1948) Executive Officer, HMS Hawke (Upper Yardmen's College, Exbury House, Exbury, Southampton) 16.05.1949 - (05.1951) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) (1953)     HMS Charity (2nd Bar to DSC) 05.10.1953 - (01.1954) Commanding Officer, HMS Tenacious 01.11.1954 - (04.1956) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1958)     no appointment listed
Gay, George Wilsmore Son of late Eng.Cdr. George Murch Gay (1875-1933), and Olive T. Allen. Cousin of Lt. Cedric Charles Fielding Scarlett, RN. Married ((03?).1941, Plymouth district, Devon) Nancy Agnes Clark ((12?).1916 - ), daughter of Robert J.H. Clark, and Mary W. Crocker; two sons, one daughter.	02.10.1913 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 15.11.2001 Plymouth district, Devon	Cadet (E) 1930? Midsh. (E) 01.01.1932 A/S.Lt. (E) 01.05.1934 S.Lt. (E) 01.12.1934 Lt. (E) 01.12.1936 A/Lt.Cdr. (E) < 10.1943 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.06.1944 Cdr. (E) 30.06.1947 Capt. (E) 31.12.1958 R.Adm. (E) 07.01.1967 (retd 14.04.1969) CB 01.01.1969 New Year 69 MBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 DSC 29.06.1943 successful submarine patrols [investiture 18.04.44]	Education: Eastman's School, Southsea; Nautical College, Pangbourne. 1930     entered RN 1930 - 1932 cadet training 14.01.1932 - (07.)1935 engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham 20.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) 03.01.1938 - (02.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 15.04.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 09.01.1939 - 11.1940 Engineering Officer, HMS Porpoise (minelaying submarine) (North Sea) (02.1941)     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 28.06.1941 - 26.10.1943 Engineering Officer, HMS Clyde (submarine) (Gibraltar) (DSC) 26.10.1943 - 1946 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) (responsible for engineering support to Motor Torpedo Boats and submarines) (MBE) 01.04.1946 - 1947 a Second Assistant to the Manager, Engineering Department, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 08.10.1947 - (07.)1948 Engineering Officer, HMS Euryalus (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 11.1948 - (05.)1950 Squadron Engineer Officer, 1st Submarine Squadron, HMS Forth 12.02.1951 - (05.)1953 Training Commander, HMS Raleigh (new entry training establishment, Torpoint, Cornwall) 16.11.1953 - (04.)1955 Admiralty Engineer Overseer, Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness [Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty, HMS President] (and for duty with submarines) 20.09.1955     HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 03.01.1956 - 1958 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse and 5th Submarine Squadron) 05.03.1958     Senior Officer's  War Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1959)     no appointment listed 1959 - 1960 HM Dockyard, Malta [HMS St Angelo] 07.12.1960 - 29.01.1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Sultan (marine propulsion machinery school, Gosport) 05.03.1963 - 1966 Chief Staff Officer. Material to Flag Officer Submarines [HMS Dolphin] 22.04.1966     Admiralty Interview Board [HMS Sultan] 10.01.1967 - 17.02.1969 Director-General of Naval Training, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) FIMechE (MIMechE 1958). Justice of the Peace (JP), Plymouth, 1970.
Gay, Gerald John Sandeman Only son (with two sisters) of Bt.Col. Levi John Albert Gay, TD (1881-1940), and Isobel Maud Sandeman (1880-1952), of Four Oaks, Warwickshire. Married (18.03.1933, Plymouth, Devonport district, Devonshire) Mary Herma Picton (born (06?).1910), younger daughter of J. Sidney Picton, and Mrs Picton, of Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire; one son, one daughter.	(09?).1909 Epsom district, Surrey - 17.01.1942 (MPK) [age 32] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 63, column 1] [commemorated at Saundersfoot (St Issell's) War Memorial, Pembroke]	Cadet (E) 01.01.1928 Midsh. (E) 01.01.1929 S.Lt. (E) 01.03.1931 A/Lt. (E) 29.06.1933, seniority 01.03.1933 Lt. (E) 01.03.1933 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.03.1941	Education: Bishop Vesey's School, Warwickshire. 01.01.1928 - 09.01.1929 special entry cadet, HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship, Devonport) 10.01.1929 - (09.1932) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 07.01.1933 - (11.1934) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) (02.1935)     no appointment listed 25.03.1935 - (02.)!937 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean) 27.05.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Greyhound (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 04.05.1938 - (04.)1939 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 13.06.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Centurion (target vessel) (Home Fleet) 10.10.1939 - 02.1941 HMS Larne (destroyer) [while under construction], renamed: 02.1941 - 17.01.1942 HMS Gurkha (destroyer) [ship torpedoed & sunk by U-133 off the Libyan coast] Was one of the representatives of the Royal Navy upon several occasions for bayonet fencing (individual combats) at the Royal Tournament and he also was a runner of some repute while at Keyham.
Gee, Edward Son of Robert Gee, of Fulham. Married ((06?).1925, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Winifred May Hickson (02.06.1895, London - ).	06.04.1899 Fulham, Greater London - 16.02.1984	Boy 2nd class 09.10.1914 [J32617] Boy 1st class 06.04.1915 Ord.Sea. 06.10.1916 Ldg.Sea. 01.04.1919 Petty Officer 01.06.1921 A/Gnr. (T) 01.01.1925 Gnr. (T) ?, seniority 01.01.1925 Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.01.1935 Lt. 29.03.1942 (retd 01.05.1948; own request) MID 14.01.1941 good service in minelayers MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 14|15 St ? ? BWM 14|20 ? ? VM ? ? 39|45 St ? ? Atl St ? ? DefM ? possibly (& possibly others) BWM 39|45 ? ?	09.10.1914 HMS Powerful (training ship) 21.04.1915 HMS Andes (armed merchant cruiser) (North Sea) 13.10.1916 HMS Victory I (RN base, Portsmouth) 20.03.1917 HMS Greenwich (depot ship) (Scapa Flow) [Seaman Torpedoman 19.10.1917-31.05.1921; Leading Torpedo Operator 08.03.1918-04.08.1921] 24.03.1918 HMS M 17 (coastal monitor) [based at HMS Europa II (headquarters ship), from 01.01.1919 HMS Caesar (depot ship)] (Mediterranean & Black Sea) 01.10.1919 HMS Vernon (torpedo training school, Portsmouth) [Torpedo Gunner's Mate 05.08.1921] 04.01.1923 HMS Barham (battleship) 21.09.1923 HMS Vernon (torpedo training school, Portsmouth) 01.09.1925 - (06.1928) HMCS Patriot (destroyer) [lent to RCN] 01.1929 - 04.1929 RN College, Greenwich 08.04.1929 - 06.1930 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (3rd Battle Squadron) 02.07.1930 - (01.)1932 HMCS Champlain (destroyer) [lent to RCN from 30.06.1930] 26.07.1932 - (07.1935) HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 29.11.1935 - 12.12.1935 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN] 13.12.1935 - 22.01.1936 HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot, Williamstown, Victoria) (additional; for passage to Australia per SS Narkunda)  [lent to RAN] 23.01.1936 - 13.01.1938 HMAS Vendetta (destroyer) [lent to RAN] 14.01.1938 - 21.01.1938 HMAS Vendetta (destroyer) (additional) [lent to RAN] 22.01.1938 - 16.02.1938 HMAS Penguin (depot ship) (Sydney, NSW) (additional) [lent to RAN] 17.02.1938 - 23.05.1938 London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to New York per SS Niagara & per SS Alaunia to UK, followed by FS leave) [lent to RAN] 02.06.1938 - (12.1941) HMS Plover (coastal minelayer) 03.06.1942 - (08.1942) Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton) (02.1943) - (06.1943) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Brighton) * (08.1943) no appointment listed 1943? HMS Hannibal (RN base, Taranto) (10.1943) HMS President (Admiralty) * (12.1943) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * 06.12.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 06.1944 aboard SS Troilus (presumably in transit to Australia) 04.12.1944 HMAS Penguin 15.12.1944 HMS Nabbington (RAAF Station, Nowra, NSW) 03.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Nabbington (Mobile Naval Air Base I, Nowra, NSW) (04.1946) no appointment listed 07.1946 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)
Geekie, Bernard John Son of William Bernard and Nellie Geekie. Married ((06?).1919, St Giles district, London / Middlesex) Mrs Norah Kathleen Howell (née Megone) (23.09.1887 - 02.1985), widow of Colin Ellis Howell; one daughter. Residence: (1940) Cosham, Portsmouth.	11.06.1888 Oxford, Oxfordshire - 03.11.1940 RN Hospital, Haslar (died after three days' illness) [age 52] [Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, M.7.3]	T/Dent.Surg. RNVR =  T/Sg.Lt. (D) RNVR 07.09.1917 Sg.Lt. (D) 11.03.1920, seniority 05.08.1914 Sg.Lt.Cdr. (D) 05.08.1920 (retd 11.06.1933) Sg.Cdr. (D) (retd) 11.06.1933	Education: Magdalene College School, Oxford; LDS, RCS (1911). also served in the 1914-18 War in the RNVR 11.03.1920     transferred to Permanent List RN 26.01.1923 - (05.)1926 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 29.05.1926 - (02.)1927 Royal Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory] (07.1927)     no appointment listed (04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 17.08.1928 - (02.)1931 Royal Hospital, Bermuda [HMS Malabar] 01.10.1931 - (01.)1932 Medical Officers' post-graduate course [HMS President] 19.01.1932 - 11.06.1933 RM Infirmary, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 26.08.1939 - 03.11.1940 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
George VI, King see for full names & titles: www.regiments.org	14.12.1895 York Cottage, Sandringham - 06.02.1952 Sandringham House, Norfolk	Cadet 14.01.1909 Midsh. 15.09.1913 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1915 S.Lt. 15.05.1916 A/Lt. 30.08.1916 Lt. 1918, seniority 15.06.1916 Cdr. 31.12.1920 Capt. 30.06.1925 R.Adm. 03.06.1932 V.Adm. 01.01.1936 Adm. 21.01.1936 Adm. of the Fleet 11.12.1936 see for full list of awards & decorations: www.regiments.org	Education: RN Colleges Osborne (14.01.1909-13.12.1910) & Dartmouth (14.01.1911-18.12.1912) 14.01.1909     entered RN 17.01.1913 - 08.07.1913 HMS Cumberland (training cruiser) (Devonport, Atlantic) 15.09.1913 - 1916 HMS Collingwood (battleship) [actually joining the ship 29.09.1913] served in the Great War (present at Battle of Jutland, MID, received: 1914 star with clasp, British War and Allied Victory medals, Knt. Military Order of Savoy of Italy, Knt. 4th class with swords of the Order of St Vladimir of Russia) 20.11.1916 - 1917 served on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 11.1917 transferred to RN Air Service 10.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 King of Great Britain, Ireland, etc.
Gerard, Oswald John Third son of Mr & Mrs G. Gerard, of Fendalton, Chirstchurch, New Zealand. Married 1st (07.04.1923, Bisham Church, Maidenhead district, Berkshire) Evelyn Marjorie Reid, only daughter of Mrs Winton Reid, of Merlindale, Marlow, formerly of Nether Cormiston, Biggar, Lanakrshire. Married 2nd ((06?).1935, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Hilda Kitty "Bobby" Wonnall, divorced wife of Paym.Lt. John Hugh Peterson Clover, and daughter of Staff Paym. T.G.B. Wonnall, RN, and Mrs F.S. Wales-Edward, of RN Hospital, Bigni, Malta; ... children (two sons, one daughter?).	20.03.1902 [Christchurch?], New Zealand - 27.04.1983 [Levin?], New Zealand	Midsh. 01.05.1918 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.05.1922 Lt. (E) 15.03.1924 Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.03.1932 (retd 1946?) A/Cdr. (E) 15.12.1942 to 02.1945? OBE 12.01.1943 when ship was mined brought to safety 15.05.42	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (09.1915-) & Dartmouth. 15.09.1915     entered RN 11.04.1922 - ? HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (08.1923)     no appointment listed 08.05.1924 - (01.)1925 qualifying for engineering duties, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] 08.09.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) 03.11.1926     HMS Dunedin (02.1927)     New Zealand Division 05.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Dunedin (cruiser) (New Zealand Division) (08.1929)     no appointment listed 20.09.1929 - (02.1931) staff, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid] (01.1932)     no appointment listed 06.01.1932 - 08.11.1932 HMS Defender (destroyer) [building at Barrow-in-Furness] 08.11.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Defender (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 14.11.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Amazon (destroyer) (Portsmouth) 04.04.1934 - 1934 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for HPE course) (07.1934)     no appointment listed 27.07.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Amphion (cruiser) [building at Portsmouth] 31.03.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Esk (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (02.1938)     no appointment listed 08.02.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Hotspur (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 12.03.1940 - 12.11.1942 HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) (ship torpedoed & sunk by U-515 off Morocco) 15.12.1942 - (10.1944) HMS Woolwich (01.1945)     HMS Woolwich * 02.1945 - (07.)1945 HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW) 01.07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Woolloomooloo (for duty at Fleet Repair Base, Sydney, NSW)
Gethin-Jones, Huw Gerald	24.01.1926 - 19.05.2017 Sydney, NSW, Australia	Midsh. 01.05.1943 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1945 S.Lt. 1945?, seniority 01.12.1944 Lt. 01.09.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1954 (retd 10.12.1955)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville House; 01.09.1939-1943; Admiralty No. 134). 01.05.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship) 14.04.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Devonshire (London class cruiser) 09.1944?     HMS Verulam (V class destroyer) (01.1945) - (07.1945) no appointment listed (10.1945)     HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) * 04.10.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Tally-Ho (T class submarine) ... - ... ...
Gibbs, Charles Bernard Son of Charles Gibbs (1882-1954), and Ethel Mary Osman (1885-1925). Married Gladys Annie Barnes (1910 - 1993), daughter of George Edward Barnes (1873-1917), and Fanny Ellen Dyer; one son.	14.10.1908 Harborne, Warwickshire - 26.10.1968 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	Wt.Ordn.Offr. 19.07.1940 A/Cd.Ordn.Offr. 18.06.1945 Cd.Ordn.Offr. 01.04.1946 (reld 26.10.1948)	28.04.1930     joined RN (for a 12-year period)       served HMS Nelson, HMS Revenge, HMS Impulsive 28.08.1940 - (12.)1943 HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 08.12.1943 - (10.1945) HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 06.05.1946 - (07.)1948 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
Gibbs, Edward Albert Married; ... children. Residence: (1970s) Barton House, East Anstey, Tiverton, Devon.	21.04.1903 Hendon district, Middlesex - 22.07.1982 Taunton Deane district, Somerset	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 19.03.1925, seniority 30.04.1924 Lt. 30.04.1926 Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1934 Cdr. 30.06.1939 A/Capt. 1944 Capt. 31.12.1946 (retd 11.02.1949) DSO 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines DSO 21.03.1941 Operation Menace (sinking submarine) DSO 22.12.1942 action with U162, 02.09.42 DSO 06.07.1943 destruction U-boat, 25.04.43 MID 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 08.42) MID 13.04.1943 rescue Strathallan 11.12.42	18.08.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, Portsmouth 03.01.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 27.07.1929 - (07.1929) HMS Vivien (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 27.07.1929 - (04.1930) HMS Walpole (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 20.01.1931 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (01.1934) no appointment listed 01.05.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (for emergency destroyers) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore) 13.01.1936 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 11.1936 - (04.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Hasty (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 15.07.1939 - (09.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Fortune (destroyer) 07.01.1941 - (02.1941) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.01.1942 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Pathfinder (destroyer) 17.03.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Cochrane (depot ship Rosyth) 26.06.1944 - (07.1945) Captain (D) Newfoundland [on loan to RCN] [HMS Avalon] 08.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, nr. Winchester)
Gibbs, Eric Arthur Walter Eldest son (with four sisters and four brothers) of Arthur Walter Gibbs (1882-1948), and Emily R. Hill (1881-1966), of London NW7. Married ((12?).1943, Hendon district, Middlesex) Marjorie Beatrice Hoar, eldest daughter of Mrs Hoar, of Plymstock, Devon; ... children.	25.10.1909 Wealdstone, Hendon district, Middlesex - 12.04.2007 Torridge, Devon	A/S.Lt. 01.12.1931 S.Lt. 14.11.1932, seniority 01.12.1931 Lt. 01.02.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1950 (retd 01.06.1958) CBE 01.01.1963 New Year 63: HM East African Ship Mvita [decoration presented] MID 30.01.1945 Operation Millet	... - ... ... 21.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Arrow (destroyer) (10.1940)     no appointment listed 30.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 08.1941 - (12.1941) Gunnery Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 24.01.1942 - 11.08.1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (ship torpedoed and sunk by U-73 in Mediterranean) 28.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school) 07.07.1943 - (07.)1945 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (despatches) 27.12.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley, Ipswich, Suffolk) ... - ... ...
Gibbs, Frank Bridger Son of Frank William and Margarette Annie Gibbs (née Bridger). Husband of Eileen Josephine Gibbs.	(06?).1914 Petworth district, Sussex - 24.12.1941 (KIA) [age 27] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1] [commemorated on the Haslemere High Street War memorial]	Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 01.08.1935 Lt. 01.12.1937 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41 (for service aboard HMS H 44)	03.09.1932 - (09.1932) HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 03.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 03.01.1935 - 01.09.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.09.1935 - (02.)1936 promotion course, Portsmouth 30.10.1936 - (04.)1940 HMS Rorqual (submarine) (4th Submarine Flotilla) 1940 - 1940 HMS H 44 (submarine) 12.09.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Unbeaten (submarine) ? - 24.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) (lost in Bay of Biscay)
Gibbs, George Louis Downall Son (with four brothers and one sister) of Rev. William Cobham Gibbs (1845-1918), and Annie Katharina Downall (?-1924). Married (21.09.1926) Susan Fayth Harding-Newman (11.08.1900-05.02.1942), daughter of Francis Robert Harding-Newman, and Florence Susan Willes; two daughters.	30.07.1882 Abingdon district, Berkshire / Oxfordshire - 31.10.1956 Gloucester, Gloucestershire	A/S.Lt. 15.04.1902 S.Lt. 21.05.1903, seniority 15.04.1902 Lt. ? Lt.Cdr. ? Cdr. 30.06.1915 (retd 22.03.1923; own request) Capt. (retd) 30.07.1927 DSO 25.07.1916 Commanded a division of destroyers of Dover Patrol with marked ability and dash in action against the enemy 12.15-05.1916 DSO 04.05.1943 HM's birthday 43: Operation Torch [investiture 18.04.44] MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 08.42) MID 13.04.1915 operations of Dover Patrol off the Belgian coast 10-11.14 [HMS Crusader] MID 22.06.1917 ? MID 07.06.1918 action with enemy submarines	15.05.1897 entered RN (01.1919)     RN College, Dartmouth 04.09.1939 - ? HM's Consul at Narvik (04.1940)     no appointment listed 18.07.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for special service) 06.09.1941 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Queen Emma (troopship) 25.04.1944 - 11.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) (04.1946) no appointment listed
Gibson, Alexander Pollock Son of Henry Wilkes Gibson and Jane Grant Gibson. Husband of Margaret Annis Gibson, of Frampton, Dorsetshire.	11.11.1902 Hampstead, Greater London, Middlesex - 23.08.1940 [age 37] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 36. column 1]	A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922 S.Lt. 30.05.1923 Lt. 30.06.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1937 MID 18.02.1941 Danube expedition 04-06.40	(08.1923) short course of instruction 20.03.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Hollyhock (sloop) (China) (05.1926) no appointment listed 20.04.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Vampire (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 03.01.1929 - (04.)1930 advanced qualifying course for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich  [HMS President] 14.06.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 23.07.1931 - (09.1932) Torpedo Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet) 23.08.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 29.04.1935 - (07.)1937 Torpedo Officer, HMS Apollo (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station) 15.11.1937 - 02.03.1940 Squadron Torpedo Officer, Destroyer Flotillas Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Galatea (cruiser) (Mediterranean)] (04.1940) HMS Delhi (cruiser) * 1940 - 23.08.1940 HMS Hostile (destroyer) (ship mined in central Mediterranean) * indexed, but not listed as such
Gibson, [Sir] Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Son of Capt. William London Douglas Gibson (1885-1949), a ranker officer of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and Elizabeth Carrie "Peggy" Pratt (1889-1975). Married (09.1939, Salisbury, Wiltshire) Marjorie Alice Harding (28.02.1920 - 11.07.1996), daughter of Herbert Charles Harding (1889-1963), and Ethel Florence King (1890-1975), of Horley, Surrey; one son.	17.03.1916 Woodbridge, Plomesgate district, Suffolk - 22.11.2000 Chulmleigh, Exeter, Devon	Midsh. RNR 01.06.1934 A/S.Lt.. RNR 17.03.1937 S.Lt. RNR 05?.1937 Prob. S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 01.06.1937 S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 24.03.1938, seniority 01.06.1937 Lt. 24.04.1939, seniority 30.03.1939 05.1940?, seniority 01.12.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. [acting rank] 15.04.1943 A/Lt.Cdr. [appointed rank] 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 04.03.1946, seniority 01.12.1945 Cdr. 31.12.1949 Capt. 30.06.1954 R.Adm. 08.07.1963 A/V.Adm. 10.1965 V.Adm. 29.09.1967 (retd 10.1968) KCB 08.06.1968 HM's birthday 1968 CB 01.01.1965 New Year 1965 DSC 19.07.1940 operations over Norwegian coast [investiture 07.07.1942]	Education: Woodbridge School, Suffolk. Cadet, British India Steam Navigation Company, 1933-1937 (apprentice ss Madura, 01.1933). 09.1934 - 12.1934 HMS Nelson (for 4 month's training) 1937     HMS Drake (for courses) 1937     HMS Wanderer 1937     transferred to Royal Navy (07.1937) - (03.1938) no appointment listed 05.04.1938 - (12.1938) HMS Nelson (battleship) (02.1939) - (03.1939) no appointment listed 06.03.1939 - (05.)1939 pilots' course (No. 3 Air Course), No. 20 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School, Gravesend 08.05.1939 - (08.)1939 pilots' course, No. 1 Flying Training School (Netheravon) 11.1939 - 01.1940 RNAS Donibristle then RNAS Eastleigh (for fighter training) 01.1940 - (06.)1940 pilot, 804 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys), from 01.02.1940 HMS Glorious (Courageous class aircraft carrier)] (DSC) (08.1940)     no appointment listed 08.1940 - 11.1941 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal, from 24.11.1940 HMS Formidable, from 01.06.1941 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] 11.1941 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, 802 Squadron FAA [HMS Audacity, from 01.02.1942 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] 05?.1942 - 07?.1942 instructor's course at Empire Central Flying School, RAF Hullavington (06.1942)     no appointment listed 15.07.1942 - 14.04.1943 HMS Saker II, later HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) 15.04.1943 - (04.)1944 Senior British Naval Officer US Naval Air Station Opa Locka, Florida, from 10.1943 at Jacksonville, Florida [HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA)] (06.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 10.1944 - (04.) 1945 returned to UK, served on the Goulden Committee regarding the future of British Naval Aviation [HMS President] spring 1945     course at RNAS St Merryn, followed by another at the School of Instrument Flying at RNAS Hinstock (780 Naval Air Squadron) 09.06.1945 - (07.)1945 715 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 05.08.1945 - (10.1945) 709 Squadron FAA [HMS Vulture (RN Air Station, St Merryn, Padstow, Cornwall)] 04.04.1946 - 14.04.1946 Commanding Officer, 758 (A) Squadron FAA & Chief Flying Instructor, Advanced Flying School [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station Hinstock, Shropshire) 15.04.1946 - 1947 Commanding Officer, 780 Squadron FAA & Chief Flying Instructor, Advanced Flying School [HMS Godwit (RN Air Station Hinstock, Shropshire) 17.04.1947 - 09.1947 head Air Department, HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station Culdrose) 09.1947 - 04.1948 Lt.Cdr. (Flying), HMS Illustrious 20.08.1948 - 10.1949 Air Group Commander No. 17 Carrier Air Group[HMS Theseus] 10.1949 - ? Lt.Cdr. (Flying), HMS Illustrious 06.03.1950 - 1952 Comdr (Air), HMS Seahawk (RN Air Station Culdrose) 1952 - 1953 RN Staff Course 1953 - 1953 Comdr (Air) HMS Indomitable 11.08.1953 - (01.)1954 Comdr (Air) HMS Glory 1954 - 1954 Naval Air Interview Board 23.07.1954 - (04.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Goldcrest (RN Air Station Brawdy) 04.10.1956 - (01.)1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Dainty 12.05.1958 - (01.)1960 Deputy Director Air Warfare (DDAW(A)), Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1960 - 1961 Canadian National Defence College 14.08.1961 - 1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal [early 1962 Court-Martialled for hazarding his ship through negligence after the Ark's rudder touched ground while entering Devonport. Found guilty of most charges but the sentence was quashed after it was found that the marker buoys of the channel were out of place.] 01.1963 - 1964 Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers 1964 - 1965 Flag Officer, Naval Flying Training (CB) 28.10.1965 - (03.)1968 Flag Officer, Naval Air Command [HMS Daedalus] (KCB) Director, HMS Belfast Trust, 1971-1972; Member General Committee, Devon Community Housing Society Ltd, 1983-. Justice of the Peace (JP),  Barnstaple, 1973. Published: Haul taut and belay : the memoirs of a flying sailor (1992); A celebration of God's creation (1997).
Gibson, Hugh Desmond Campbell Also used as last name: Campbell-Gibson. Younger son of R.Adm. (E) Cuthbert Walter Sumner Gibson, CB (1890-1971), and Grace Campbell Baldwin (?-1968), of Pyrford, Surrey. Married (05.03.1949, St Peter's, Yately, Surrey) Deirdre M.P. Wilson, only daughter of the late Lt.Col. W.M.C. Wilson, and Mrs B. Campbell Wilson, of Yately, Camberley, Surrey; one daughter, two sons.	18.08.1924 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 22.06.2008 [age 83]	S.Lt. 16.10.1943 Lt. 16.10.1945 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1953 (retd)	... - ... ... ? - (10.1944) HMS Windsor ? - (07.1945) HMS Hornet ? - (04.1946) HMS Sussex ... - ... ...
Gibson, Ian Graeme Married ((06?).1940, Westminster district, London) Monica M. Alleyn, daughter of Mrs Mary Alleyn, of Button Juggs, Henley-on-Thames.	02.06.1906 Bromley district, London - 08.06.2001 Henley district, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Oxfordshire	Midsh. 15.05.1924 A/S.Lt. 12.09.1926 S.Lt. 30.04.1927 Lt. 30.01.1929 (emgcy 13.04.1930) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 30.10.1937 Cdr. (retd) ? A/Capt. (retd) > 01.1956, < 01.1957 Capt. (retd) > 01.1957, < 07.1961 (reverted to retd late 1960s?) OBE 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 58 (on loan to Government of India)	15.05.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Dublin (cruiser) (Africa) 22.05.1925 - (05.)1926 HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.03.1928 - (05.)1928 HMS Carysfort (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (for emergency destroyers) 01.05.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 10.01.1930 - (04.)1930 HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 21.08.1939 - (02.1964) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 21.08.1939 - (02.)1941 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield Area 15.09.1941 - (08.1942) Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Liverpool (Home Fleet) 04.01.1943 - (02.1943) Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer, Algiers (Mediterranean Station) (08.1943) - (12.1943) Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Gibraltar (Western Mediterranean) (04.1944) - (06.)1944 Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Malta (Western Mediterranean) 07.1944 - (01.)1945 Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Eastern Mediterranean (07.)1945 - (04.1946) Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Mediterranean 30.03.1948 - (05.1950) HMS President 01.01.1952 - (07.1954) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham 20.01.1956 - (01.1957) Director of Naval Armament Inspection, Bombay (on loan to Government of India) 14.03.1958 - (02.1964) Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield (under Naval Ordnance Inspection Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty)
Gibson, Isham Worsley 3rd son of late Dr J.E. Gibson of Cowes. Married (1914, Devonport) Phyllis, daughter of late Captain Morrish, RN; one son, one daughter.	12.06.1882 Cowes, Isle of Wight - 30.11.1950 [East Boldre, Hants ?]	A/S.Lt. 15.07.1901? S.Lt. 24.11.1902, seniority 15.07.1901 Lt. 03.06.1903, seniority 15.01.1902 [Lt.Cdr.] 15.01.1910 Cdr. 31.12.1914 Capt. 30.06.1920 R.Adm. 14.10.1932 (retd 15.10.1932) OBE 16.09.1919 for valuable services during the war MVO 1901 ?	15.07.1896 entered RN Midshipman of Windsor, RN Guard of Honour, Queen Victoria's Funeral (MVO) 1914 - 1918 served European War: Gunnery Officer, HMS Albion (battleship), Dardanelles, 1915; beachmaster, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli (despatches, OBE) 1922 - 1924 Naval War College 14.10.1924 - 1926 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 22.06.1927 - (04.)1930 Director of Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.09.1930 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 13.08.1931 - 03.08.1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Exeter (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.07.1932 - 14.10.1932 Naval ADC to the King (08.1942) - (02.1943) no appointment listed (06.1943) HMS President * * indexed, but not listed as such
Gibson, James Geoffrey Clemons	09.10.1898 - 15.01.1982 Portsmouth district, Hampshire	S.Lt. 15.11.1917 Lt. 15.11.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1927 (retd 22.01.1934; own request) Cdr. (retd) 01.09.1940 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 41 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 41	08.1914     entered RN 15.01.1919 - (1919) HMS President (for course at Cambridge University) 01.05.1923 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS P 38 (patrol boat) (Portland) (07.1927) no appointment listed 07.02.1928 - (04.)1930 HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) (10.1930) no appointment listed 27.11.1930 - (01.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Hastings (sloop) (Persian Gulf) 15.01.1932 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf) (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed (01.1934) no appointment listed 02.10.1939 - (04.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Huddersfield Town (anti-submarine trawler) (1940) HMS Skirmisher (base, Milford Haven) 15.10.1940 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Heather (corvette) 19.06.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Folkestone (sloop) (07.1945) no appointment listed
Gibson, Paul Georges Lawrence [name of choice for service with the RN]	? -	T/Lt. 03.07.1940 (reld 1944)	Frenchman, who joined the Royal Navy after the fall of France 07.10.1940 - (02.1941) First Lieutenant, MTB 70 [HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover)] (02.1942) Commanding Officer, MTB 221 23.04.1942 - 09.1943 HMS Dinosaur 07.09.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Copra (for LCT duty)
Gibson, Peter Rawstorne Johnstone Son of William Johnstone Gibson, and Olive Artherson Rawstorne.	20.08.1920 Umtata, South Africa - 18.04.1943 (MPK) [age 22] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Cadet 01.05.1938 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.12.1940 Lt. 16.05.1942	Education: Umtata High School; South African Training Ship "General Botha", Cadet Draft 1936-7. 01.05.1938 - 03.08.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 04.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Durban (cruiser) 29.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cyclops (depot ship for 7th Submarine Flotilla, Rothesay) (for submarines) 21.07.1942 - 18.04.1943 HMS Regent (submarine) (sank off the coast of Bisceglie (Barletta) after a collision with a mine; complete crew missing, presumed killed)
Gick, Philip David "Percy"   Son of late Sir William John Gick, CB, CBE. Married (1938) Aylmer Rowntree (died 1993); one son, three daughters.	22.02.1913 Portland, Weymouth district, Devon - 16.01.2002 [Bosham Hoe, West Sussex ?]	Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 07.04.1936, seniority 01.11.1934 Lt. 18.09.1936, seniority 01.08.1936 A/Lt.Cdr. 25.08.1943? Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1944 > 06.1944, < 07.1945, seniority 01.02.1943 A/Cdr. > 06.1944, < 07.1945 Cdr. 30.06.1946 Capt. 30.06.1952 R.Adm. 07.07.1961 (retd 25.08.1964) CB 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 63 OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 46 DSC 16.09.1941 sinking of Bismarck [investiture 25.05.43] DSC 06.10.1942 attack on enemy submarine [investiture 25.05.43] MID 20.01.1942 HMS Ark Royal sunk 14.11.41 MID 05.12.1944 passage convoy JW59 & RA59A	Education: St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; RN College, Dartmouth. 1931     joined RN 03.09.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Nelson (battleship) (2nd Battle Squadron, Home Fleet) 03.01.1935 - 02.09.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich 02.09.1935 - (02.1936) promotion course, Portsmouth 1936 - 1936 HMS Godetia (patrol sloop) 1936 - 1936 HMS Lupin (fishery protection patrol sloop) 13.09.1936 - (07.)1937 pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars; qualified as Pilot [attached to RAF] 24.08.1937 - (02.)1938 Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance (TSR) Squadron 822 [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]  [attached to RAF] 25.05.1938 - 1940? Torpedo Spotter Reconnaissance (TSR) Squadron 810 [HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier), later [1939?] HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [attached to RAF] 04.11.1940 - (02.1941) 785 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (and for instructional duties) 1941 - 14.11.1941 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious, later HMS Ark Royal] 11.1941 - 09.1942 Commanding Officer, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, near Alexandria)] (Western Desert) 25.09.1942 - (02.)1943 staff, HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 08.04.1943 - (08.)1943 Airfields and Carrier Requirements Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 25.08.1943 - 10.1944 Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Vindex (escort carrier) 02.10.1944 - 05.1945? Commanding Officer, Training Squadron [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 05.1945 - (07.)1945 Squadron Air Co-ordinator, HMS Venerable (aircraft carrier) 30.08.1945 - (04.)1946 staff, Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar] (landing-party and anti-piracy duties) 04.11.1946 - (10.)1947 directing staff of the RN Tactical School (Woolwich) [HMS President] 19.07.1948 - (05.)1949 on staff of Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Theseus] [= air group commander with a carrier task force in the Far East] 08.09.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer on staff, Flag Officer Commanding 3rd Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Vengeance] 10.1952 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Daring 13.07.1954 - (01.)1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Fulmar (RN Air Station Lossiemouth) 14.01.1957 - 1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Bulwark (commando carrier) (01.1959)     no appointment listed 30.01.1960 - (07.)1961 President, Second Admiralty Interview Board [HMS Sultan] 16.10.1961 - 1964 Flag Officer, Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)] Chairman, Emsworth Shipyard Group, 1965-1990.
Giddy, Osman Cyril Horton	24.04.1900 Kingston - 07.01.1980 Worthing, West Sussex	A/Lt. ? Lt. 15.02.1922, seniority 15.09.1920 (retd 25.11.1921) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.09.1928 A/Cdr. (retd) mid 1943 Cdr. (retd) 08.05.1946 (reverted to retd 1946?) DSC 04.05.1920 for distinguished services as second in command of H.M. Coastal Motor Boat 24A in, the attack on Kronstadt Harbour on the 18th August, 1919	01.01.1916     entered RN 27.06.1942 - 05.04.1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Beehive (Felixstowe) 05.04.1943 - (07.1945) staff, Deputy Director of Operations Division (Coastal Force), Admiralty [HMS President] Estate agent.

 

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