R.G.A.
Oak
to C.B. Oxley |
Oak,
Robert George Allen
|
23.04.1911
Hambledon district, Surrey / Sussex
-
17.01.1966
Havant, Gosport district, Hampshire |
Gnr.
|
01.01.1940
|
A/Cd.Gnr.
|
18.06.1945
|
Lt.Cdr. (SD)
|
29.11.1951 (retd)
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(10.1944)
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Ajax
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oakford,
Aubrey McGregor
Son of James Oakford.
|
11.03.1908
Westbury on Trym, Bristol district, Avon /
Gloucestershire
-
06.06.1988
Chichester district, Sussex
|
A/Wt.
Writer Offr.
|
22.03.1945
|
Supply Lt.Cdr.
|
01.01.1957 (retd)
|
BEM
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
no
appointment listed
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oakley,
John
|
21.07.1899
Cork, Ireland
-
09.05.1954
Plymouth district, Devon |
T/Wt.
Shipwr.
|
01.05.1941
|
T/Shipwr.Lt. |
? |
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
no
appointment listed
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oakley,
John Philip Holroyde
Only child of Dr Philip Douglas Oakley, CBE, MRCS, LRCP, DTM (1883-1958)
*, and Beatrice Hilda Josephine Kirk (1887-1972), of Walton-on-Thames.
Married 1st ((12?).1939, Surrey North Western district) Elisabeth Langley Kemp
(29.12.1916-12.1988), daughter of the late Thomas Langley Kemp, of Wallington,
and Mrs Robert M. Thomson, of Walton-on-Thames; ... children (one son, one
daughter?).
Married 2nd ...
* Medical Transport Officer and Medical Officer in Charge, Casualty Evacuation
Trains, Emergency Medical Service, Ministry of Health, 1939-1946. |
05.12.1917
Chelsea district, Greater London / London /
Middlesex
-
11.2003
Horsham district, Sussex |
Cadet |
01.09.1935 |
Midsh. |
01.09.1936 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.09.1938 |
S.Lt. |
1939, seniority
01.07.1938 |
Lt. |
01.01.1940 |
Lt.Cdr. |
01.01.1948 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1951
(General List) (retd 13.04.1959) |
|
DSC |
21.07.1942 |
attack 3 Italian cruisers 29.11.1941; supply ship
sunk [investiture 01.12.1942] |
|
DSC |
17.08.1945 |
war patrols Far East 01-05.1945 [decoration
posted] |
|
01.09.1935 |
- |
31.08.1936 |
special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training
cruiser) |
01.09.1936 |
- |
(02.)1937 |
HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet) |
10.04.1937 |
- |
(08.)1938 |
HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet) |
05.09.1938 |
- |
(04.)1939 |
promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
02.06.1939 |
- |
(09.1939) |
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) |
(04.1940) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
20.04.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous
services) |
10.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
HMS Cachalot (minelaying submarine) |
24.09.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
First Lieutenant, HMS P 31 (submarine) (DSC) |
08.06.1942 |
- |
(08.)1942 |
submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth
[HMS Dolphin] |
24.08.1942 |
- |
10.11.1942 |
Commanding Officer, HMS H 34 (submarine) |
11.11.1942 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
Commanding Officer, HMS P 214 (submarine) |
23.03.1943 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) |
03.06.1943 |
- |
03.1944 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Nymph (submarine) |
03.1944 |
- |
28.07.1945 |
Commanding Officer, HMS
Rorqual (submarine) (Bar to DSC) |
(04.1946) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
09.10.1947 |
- |
(10.1947) |
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for
submarines) |
04.12.1947 |
- |
(05.1949) |
Commanding Officer, HMS Andrew (submarine) |
01.02.1950 |
- |
(05.1950) |
HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment,
Gosport, Hampshire) |
(05.1951) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
23.01.1952 |
- |
(05.1953) |
Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous
services) |
(07.1954) |
|
|
Admiralty [HMS President] * |
(04.1955) |
- |
(01.1957) |
HMS Stalker * |
25.03.1957 |
- |
(01.)1959 |
Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Eastern
Atlantic Command, NATO |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Oakley,
Willie Inglis
|
19.02.1900
-
(09?).1977
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire |
T/Wt. Air
Offr. (AG) =
T/A/Sen.Cd.Air Offr. (AG)
|
16.11.1940 (retd)
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Condor
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oakshott,
Alfred
|
03.09.1888
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
13.01.1955
Portsmouth, Hampshire |
T/Wt.
Supply Offr.
|
06.03.1942 (retd)
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
no
appointment listed
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oates,
Donald
|
20.11.1914
-
25.09.1999
South East Hampshire district, Hampshire |
T/Schoolm.
|
15.12.1942
|
Instr.Lt.Cdr. |
? (retd
20.11.1962) |
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
?
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Collingwood
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Oatley,
Eric Stanley
Married ((09?).1923, Plymouth, Devon)
Poppy Rosa H. Cann
(18.11.1899 - 10.1996),
daughter of William James Cann (1867-1930), and Laura Bunker (1867-1942); one daughter.
Brother-in-law of Maj. Cyril William
Roy Cann, Royal Artillery, and
F/Lt. Gilbert Howard Cann, RAF.
|
06.04.1899
East Farleigh, Maidstone district, Kent
-
09.03.1985
Salisbury district, Wiltshire |
Midsh. |
01.09.1917 |
S.Lt. |
15.01.1919 |
Lt. |
15.04.1920 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.04.1928 (retd
16.01.1943; medically unfit) |
Cdr. (retd) |
16.01.1943
(reverted to retd > 04.1946) |
|
15.02.1917 |
|
|
entered RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
24.06.1939 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental
establishment, Portsmouth) (for Instructional Department) |
21.07.1941 |
- |
16.01.1943 |
Torpedo Officer on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge,
Greenock [HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock)] |
09.07.1943 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton)
(for book production department) |
|
Obbard,
Edward Owen
Married (1943) Lady Elizabeth Knott.
|
19.08.1901
Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire
-
10.03.1951
|
A/Lt.
|
15.04.1923
|
Lt.
|
03.10.1923,
seniority 15.04.1923
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.04.1931 (retd
19.08.1946)
|
A/Cdr.
|
13.02.1940
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
19.08.1946
|
|
GM
|
27.12.1940
|
mine
disposal [investiture 27.05.1941]
|
|
DSC
|
24.04.1940
|
mine
disposal [investiture 07.05.1940] *
|
* For his part in an expedition to salvage a
German magnetic mine from oyster beds at Whitstable, Kent in February 1940.
|
15.04.1923
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Revenge (battleship)
|
(01.1925)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
03.01.1925
|
-
|
(05.)1926
|
HMS
Windsor (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
30.12.1926
|
-
|
(07.)1927
|
qualifying
for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]
|
17.08.1927
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
qualifying
for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon
|
12.04.1929
|
-
|
(08.)1929
|
HMS
Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
29.10.1929
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) (Mediterranean)
|
07.06.1932
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
Torpedo
School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
|
19.07.1934
|
-
|
(02.)1936
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Cairo (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, Home Fleet
Destroyer Flotillas (Home Fleet)
|
15.12.1936
|
-
|
(08.)1938
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet)
|
25.08.1938
|
-
|
(04.)1939
|
Instructional
Department, Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon]
|
04.07.1939
|
-
|
30.07.1939
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser)
|
31.07.1939
|
-
|
(09.1939)
|
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (& for Squadron
duties, Reserve Fleet Destroyer Flotillas)
|
13.02.1940
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
Commanding Officer, Torpedo
School, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
|
01.10.1944
|
-
|
(04.)1946
|
in charge of
Bomb and Mine Disposal
Section, Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining; redesignated 01.02.1946:
Bomb and Mine Disposal
Section, Department of the Director of Underwater Weapons
|
1950 Jurat, Jersey.
|
O'Brien,
Bartholomew
Married (30.07.1932, St Joseph's, Copnor.
Portsmouth) Kathleen "Kitty" Hart (23.10.1909 - 08.2005), daughter (with
four brothers and two sisters) of Edward Hart (1868-1915), and Mary Ann
Bryan (1870-1967); two sons.
|
28.12.1906
Haulbowline Island, Cobh, County Cork,
Ireland
-
14.05.1976
in hospital, Salisbury district, Wiltshire
[buried St Joseph's, West Street, Havant, Hampshire] |
A/Wt. Writer |
14.03.1942 |
Wt. Writer =
Wt.Writer Offr. |
1943?, seniority
14.03.1942 |
A/Cd. Writer
Offr. |
10.12.1945 |
Lt. (S) |
1946?, seniority
15.07.1944 |
Lt.Cdr. (S) |
15.07.1952 (retd
28.12.1956; age) |
|
31.03.1942 |
- |
(04.)1944 |
HMS Saker
(British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC, USA) |
04.1944 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
HMS Canada (RN base, Halifax, NS) |
(10.1944) |
- |
(07.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
20.07.1945 |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern
Ireland) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
O'Brien,
Philip Dennis
|
14.03.1906
Cardiff, Glamorgan
-
24.05.1981
Weymouth district, Dorset |
Seaman |
? [J103730] |
A/Gnr. |
01.01.1936 |
Lt. |
15.05.1937 |
A/Lt.Cdr. |
24.07.1944? |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.05.1945 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1947 (retd
14.03.1956) |
|
OBE |
31.05.1956 |
HM's
birthday 1956 [investiture 23.10.1956] |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
24.07.1944 |
- |
(10.1944) |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Foudrayant (training ship, together with former HMS Implacable) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
O'Brien,
[Sir]
William Donough
Son of Maj. William Donough O'Brien (1880-1916), and
Inez Rose Parnis (1887-1982).
Married (15.06.1943, Brompton Oratory, Kensington district, London) Rita
Maria Dolores Rosario Elena Micallef (1913 - 09.10.2012, widow of Lt. Stephen
Frank Hebblethwaite (1904? - 08.06.1940), and daughter of Lt.Col. A.E. Micallef,
DSO (?-1966), of Malta; one son, two daughters.
|
13.11.1916
Faversham district, Kent
-
19.02.2016 |
Cadet |
01.01.1934 |
Midsh. |
01.09.1934 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.01.1937 |
S.Lt. |
16.10.1937,
seniority 01.05.1937 |
Lt. |
16.04.1938 |
A/Lt.Cdr. |
11.1943 [acting
rank] |
A/Lt.Cdr. |
01.11.1944
[appointed rank] |
Lt.Cdr. |
16.04.1946 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1949 |
Capt. |
30.06.1955 |
R.Adm. |
07.07.1964 |
A/V.Adm. |
24.05.1967 |
V.Adm. |
14.12.1967 |
Adm. |
04.04.1970 (retd
29.11.1971) |
|
KCB |
14.06.1969 |
HM's birthday 1969 [investiture 29.10.1969] |
|
CB |
01.01.1966 |
New Year 1966 [investiture 15.02.1966] |
|
DSC |
01.12.1942 |
Operation EV (North Russian convoy PQ 18 & QP 14 09.1942) [decoration posted] |
|
MID |
08.06.1944 |
HM's birthday 1944 |
|
MID |
20.11.1945 |
assault Rangoon 05.1945 |
|
Education: RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
(01.05.1930-31.12.1933).
01.01.1934 |
- |
18.08.1934 |
HMS
Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) |
19.08.1934 |
- |
27.04.1936 |
HMS
Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
28.04.1936 |
- |
30.12.1936 |
HMS
Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
31.12.1936 |
- |
04.04.1937 |
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
05.04.1937 |
- |
30.11.1937 |
promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory & HMS Excellent] |
01.12.1937 |
- |
25.02.1938 |
HMS
Winchelsea (destroyer) (Portsmouth) |
26.02.1938 |
- |
12.1939 |
HMS Garland
(G class destroyer) (Mediterranean) (from 26.08.1938 as Navigating Officer & for
divisional duties) |
12.1939 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
HMS Wolsey
(Thornycroft W class destroyer) (for watchkeeping & divisional duties) |
(05.1940) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
(06.1940) |
|
|
Admiralty
[HMS President] *
[Employed ashore in France, on Operation
Royal Marine, a Churchillian plan to launch floating mines into the Rhine to
strangle German movements on the river. Political considerations prevented the
plan being put into operation until 10 May, by which time it was too late.
Although, to a very limited extent, the plan achieved its aims, the party had to
withdraw, and managed to escape via St. Malo.] |
30.06.1940 |
- |
(04.)1941 |
First
Lieutenant, HMS Witherington (modified W class destroyer) |
24.04.1941 |
- |
(06.1941) |
HMS Offa (O
class destroyer) |
(08.1941) |
- |
(12.1942) |
First
Lieutenant, HMS Offa (O class destroyer) * (Russian convoys, North African
landings) (DSC) |
28.01.1943 |
- |
14.11.1944 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Cottesmore (Hunt class destroyer) (North Sea & English Channel
convoys, Normandy landings) (despatches) |
(01.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS
Cottesmore (Hunt class destroyer) * [in fact serving in South-East Asia, on the
planning staff for operations in the Arakan and Malaya, the so-called Force W] |
(04.1946) |
|
|
HMS
Norfolk (cruiser) * |
01.04.1946 |
- |
09.1946 |
HMS
Sultan (accounting base for personnel at Keppel Harbour, Singapore) |
16.09.1946 |
- |
05.1948 |
HMS
Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire) |
05.05.1948 |
- |
07.1949 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Venus (destroyer) |
30.07.1949 |
- |
(05.1950) |
Staff Officer (Intelligence) on staff of
Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo] |
(05.1951) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
14.01.1952 |
- |
01.1953 |
HMS President (additional; for RAF Staff Course
at RAF Bracknall) |
02.1953 |
- |
11.1953 |
Executive Officer, HMS Ceylon (cruiser) |
11.11.1953 |
- |
11.1955 |
an
Assistant to the Naval Assistant to the Second Sea Lord [HMS President] |
30.11.1955 |
- |
03.1957 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Manxman & as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer
Flotillas Mediterranean |
01.03.1957 |
- |
04.1958 |
Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Malta [HMS
St Angelo] |
30.04.1958 |
- |
24.10.1959 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Cheviot & as Captain (D) 8th
Destroyer Squadron (Far East Station) |
29.02.1960 |
- |
11.1961 |
Deputy Director of Plans (Joint), Admiralty
[HMS President] |
28.11.1961 |
- |
07.1964 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Hermes & as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers |
18.07.1964 |
- |
01.1966 |
Naval
Secretary, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB) |
02.1966 |
- |
04.1967 |
Flag
Officer, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Eagle] |
24.05.1967 |
- |
09.1969 |
Commander, Far East Fleet (COMFEF) [HMS Terror] (KCB) |
27.02.1970 |
- |
16.09.1971 |
Commander-in-Chief, Western Fleet, Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel (CINCCHAN)
and Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Eastern Atlantic (CINCEASTATLANT) [HMS
Warrior] |
Rear-Admiral
of the United Kingdom , 01.08.1979-31.10.1984. Vice-Admiral of the United
Kingdom and Lieutenant of the Admiralty, 01.11.1984-13.11.1986. Chairman of the
Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, 1974-91, and also of King George’s Fund for Sailors
(the premier
maritime charitable trust (now known as Seafarers UK), 1974-86.
* indexed, but not listed as such |
O'Conor,
Rory Chambers
Son of Sir John O'Conor, KBE, MA, MD, BCh (1863-1927), and Grace Beatrice
Richmond Oxley, of Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
|
23.09.1898
Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
23.12.1941
(KIA) [age 42]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]
|
S.Lt.
|
?
|
Lt.
|
31.08.1919
25.10.1920, seniority 15.04.1919
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.04.1927
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1931
|
Capt.
|
30.06.1936
|
|
Education: Imperial Defence College
08.1914
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
06.1923
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Excellent (trawler) (Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)
|
14.06.1924
|
-
|
(01.)1925
|
Assistant
Gunnery Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
05.08.1925
|
-
|
(02.)1927
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
(07.1927)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
24.11.1927
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
|
10.06.1929
|
-
|
(08.)1930
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
13.10.1930
|
-
|
(06.)1933
|
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)
|
30.08.1933
|
-
|
(02.1936)
|
HMS
Hood (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet)
|
12.01.1937
|
-
|
(07.)1937
|
imperial
defence course, Imperial Defence College
|
29.12.1937
|
-
|
(09.1939)
|
an Assistant
Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *
|
(04.1940)
|
|
|
Plans
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] **
|
04.05.1940
|
-
|
19.12.1941
|
Commanding Officer, HMS
Neptune (cruiser) (sunk by mines in Libyan waters)
|
* (04.1940) still indexed, but no longer listed as
such
** indexed, but not listed as
such
Published: Running a big ship on 'ten commandments' (1937)
|
Oddie,
Eric Roland John
|
10.04.1903
Dummurry, Northern Ireland
-
02.12.1980
Australia |
Lt.
|
1928/29?, seniority 30.01.1926
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
30.01.1934
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1940 (retd 01.08.1947; own request)
|
|
DSC
|
28.06.1940
|
submarine
actions against the enemy [investiture 03.09.1940]
|
|
17.07.1929
|
-
|
(08.)1930
|
HMS
Thruster (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) [tender to HMS
Heather]
|
14.08.1930
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Olympus (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) (China) [tender
to HMS Medway]
|
(09.1932)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
21.04.1933
|
-
|
(06.)1933
|
HMS
Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) (for submarines) [earned aviators'
certificate # 11098 from Hampshire Aeroplane Club 16.05.1933]
|
12.08.1933
|
-
|
27.08.1934
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania]
|
23.10.1934
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
HMS
Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
12.05.1937
|
-
|
15.06.1937
|
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time)
|
15.06.1937
|
-
|
03.07.1937
|
submarine
Commanding Officer's requalifying course [HMS Dolphin]
|
03.07.1937
|
-
|
28.07.1937
|
HMS
Oberon (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]
|
28.07.1937
|
-
|
18.07.1939
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Undine (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS
Dolphin] (until commissioning 23.04.1938 also for duty with Admiral
Superintendent of Contract-built Ships & for duty with submarines)
|
18.07.1939
|
-
|
26.02.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Narwhal (submarine) [tender to HMS Forth, from 13.11.1939 to HMS
Dolphin]
|
27.02.1940
|
-
|
15.08.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Triad (submarine) [tender to HMS Forth]
|
16.08.1940
|
-
|
12.09.1940
|
HMS
Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)
|
12.09.1940
|
-
|
13.08.1941
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)
|
13.08.1941
|
-
|
01.10.1942
|
HMS
Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for duty with Class 1 submarines)
|
01.10.1942
|
-
|
04.04.1943
|
Senior
Officer, Submarines [HMS Elfin (submarine depot ship)]
|
04.04.1943
|
-
|
06.09.1943
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Ambrose II (submarine base, Lerwick) (and for duty with
submarines)
|
06.09.1943
|
-
|
13.09.1943
|
Admiralty
[HMS President]
|
13.09.1943
|
-
|
23.10.1943
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Charybdis (cruiser) (torpedoed and sunk by German torpedo boats
off North France)
|
|
|
|
HMS
Nabthorpe (mobile naval air base III, Schofields, NSW)
|
18.12.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS
Indomitable (aircraft carrier)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
26.02.1946
|
-
|
(04.)1947
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Queensferry (Reserve Fleet Forth Area parent ship, Rosyth)
|
1948 owner/skipper of the fishing boat Rain Goose
(at Newry).
|
O'Dell
*,
Harry Lloyd
* officially Odell, but in naval
records registered as O'Dell.
Married Vera ...; one daughter.
Lived at Gosport, Hampshire. |
16.01.1910
Medway district, Kent
-
05.01.1979 |
T/A/Wt.Eng.
|
26.02.1945
|
T/Wt.Eng. = T/Cd.Eng.
|
1946?, seniority 26.02.1945
|
T/Sen.Cd.Eng. = T/Eng.Lt.
|
01.04.1952 (reld c. 1957)
|
|
|
|
|
went
to China before the war
|
|
|
|
served
Mediterranean
|
17.04.1945
|
-
|
(04.)1946
|
HMS
Seneschal (submarine)
|
14.10.1946
|
-
|
03.10.1947
|
Torpedo
Officer on staff of Commodore Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot,
Gosport)]
|
04.10.1947
|
-
|
(05.1949)
|
HMS
Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties)
|
20.03.1950
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school)
|
06.05.1952
|
-
|
(05.)1953
|
HMS
Trespasser (submarine)
|
11.09.1953
|
-
|
(04.1955)
|
HMS
Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines)
|
(01.1956)
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
HMS
Perseus (aircraft maintenance ship) *
|
Emigrated to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Odell,
Percy James Marriott
|
12.11.1900
Leytonstone, West Ham district, Essex
-
12.05.1983
Ipswich district, Suffolk |
Seaman
|
? [J52339]
|
A/Gnr. (T)
|
01.01.1933
|
Gnr. (T)
|
1934?, seniority 01.01.1933
|
Cd.Gnr. (T)
|
01.04.1941
|
Lt.
|
14.05.1946
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
14.05.1954 (retd 12.11.1950)
|
|
27.04.1933
|
-
|
(06.)1933
|
HMS
Adventure (minelayer) (Home Fleet)
|
18.10.1933
|
-
|
(02.1936)
|
HMS
Bulldog (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
(01.1937)
|
-
|
(08.1938)
|
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) *
|
15.12.1938
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
HMS Vulcan
(trawler; motor torpedo boat tender) (Mediterranean)
|
01.07.1940
|
-
|
(08.)1942
|
Y Company
RM Aux.Bd., HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)
|
18.11.1942
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
HMS Anson
(battleship)
|
07.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Vanguard (battlecruiser)
|
15.12.1947
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
HMS
Tyne
|
(05.1949)
|
|
|
HMS
Tyne *
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
HMS
Woolwich *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
O'Donnell,
George Eric Maxia
Married ((03?).1919, Kensington, London)
... Turner.
|
31.08.1893
Bombay, India
-
18.01.1953
[ashes scattered from HMS Bermuda in the English Channel, approaching Plymouth Sound] |
Midsh. |
15.05.1911 |
A/S.Lt. |
15.09.1913 |
S.Lt. |
15.04.1914 |
Lt. |
15.07.1915 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.07.1923 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1929 |
Capt. |
31.12.1936 (retd
02.01.1946) |
|
DSO |
02.12.1938 |
gallantry during a bombing attack on British
shipping at Wuhu on 05.12.1937 when he was wounded * |
|
MID |
30.01.1945 |
for
leadership and skill in damage
control (FltgOkClps?)
08.1944 |
|
DSM |
06.07.1938 |
USS
Panay incident ** [permission from HM the King to accept the award
11.10.1938] |
Coronation Medal (12.05.1937)
* This Officer was present in HMS Ladybird during a bombing attack on British shipping at Wuhu on
the 5th December, 1937. Though painfully wounded in the right hand [#] he placed
himself under the orders of the Commanding Officer when the helmsman of HMS Ladybird was hit, and took the wheel himself. Shortly afterwards,
and with no regard for his own safety or his injury, he landed among hostile
soldiery and proceeded to the shore Headquarters to protest, and was in time
to prevent more than one round being fired at H.M.S. Bee.
** In recognition of his initiative and courageous action in proceeding
immediately with unselfish disregard of his own safety to render assistance in
recovering the survivors of the United States Ship Panay in the face of
threatened force and armed opposition.
[#] 'Certificate for Wounds and Hurt' (01.03.1938). The citation states that Captain O'Donnell 'belonging to
HMS Bee, being then actually upon HMS Ladybird while that ship was under fire by artillery ashore was Wounded on 12th December by being struck in the
right hand by a piece of shrapnel sustaining a comminated fracture of the base of the prenimal? phalanx of the little finger'
Countersigned by H T Armstrong Commander , H D Barlow Lt Cdr and the acting Admiralty Surgeon. |
Education: RN College (The Royal Life Saving Certificate;
07.1910)
15.05.1906 |
|
|
entered
RN |
(09.1913) |
|
|
HMS
Vanguard (battleship) |
(04.1917) |
|
|
HMS
New Zealand (battlecruiser)
['Hurt Certificate' on the 18th April 1917 having
sustained a fractured leg whilst playing football on the 16th April] |
21.10.1918 |
- |
(01.1919) |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Southampton (light cruiser) |
(08.1923) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
01.11.1923 |
- |
(01.1925) |
HMS
Ganges (Shotley training establishment) |
01.01.1926 |
- |
(05.1926) |
HMS
Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) |
05.01.1927 |
- |
(06.1928) |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
29.08.1929 |
- |
(02.)1931 |
Torpedoes
and Mining Department, Admiralty [HMS President] |
14.11.1931 |
- |
(06.)1933 |
Executive
Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies) |
22.11.1933 |
- |
(11.1934) |
Executive
Officer, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] |
08.01.1935 |
- |
(01.)1937 |
Executive
Officer, Submarine Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] (for Fort
Blockhouse) |
(02.1937) |
- |
(07.1937) |
no
appointment listed [arrived 06.04.1937 at Southampton from Batavia on passage
aboard "Jan Pieterszoon Coen"] |
30.07.1937 |
- |
04.1938 |
Flag
Captain, HMS Bee & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval
Officer, Yangtse [HMS Bee (river gunboat)]
[USS Panay incident, 12.1937] |
13.04.1938 |
- |
(08.)1938 |
Naval
Liaison Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Cumberland
(cruiser)] |
(10.1938) |
|
|
no
appointment listed [arrived 09.09.1938 at London from Kobe, Japan on passage
aboard "Rawalpindi"] |
(02.1939) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
13.03.1939 |
- |
(04.)1939 |
Senior
Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
22.05.1939 |
- |
18.06.1939 |
HMS
President (additional; for duty in Naval Intelligence Division) [appointed
15.05.1939] |
06.07.1939
|
-
|
(08.)1939 |
Naval
Attaché, Athens (to Greece, Turkey & Yugoslavia) |
26.08.1939 |
- |
(12.1941) |
Naval
Attaché, Ankara (to Turkey) |
02.1942 |
- |
07.1943 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Enterprise (cruiser) |
22.07.1943 |
- |
15.10.1943 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Malaya (battleship) |
15.10.1943 |
- |
04.04.1945 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Valiant (battleship) |
30.04.1945 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
Commanding Officer,
Damage
Control School [HMS President] |
05.07.1945 |
- |
02.01.1946 |
also:
Naval ADC
to the King |
|
O'Driscoll,
John Christopher
Married ((03?).1940, Plymouth district,
Devon) Mary H. Sloane; ... children (one daughter?).
|
30.05.1902
Kilmakkedar, Dingle district, Co. Kerry, Ireland
-
05.05.1966
Plymouth district, Devon |
CPO Wr. |
(1939) [M.38206] |
A/Wt.Wr.Offr. |
24.10.1942 |
Wt.Wr.Offr. |
1943?, seniority
24.10.1942 |
Sen.Cd.Wr.Offr. |
01.04.1949 (retd
01.05.1952) |
|
LSGCM |
23.06.1939 |
- |
|
(1939) |
|
|
HMS
Wellington (escort vessel) (New Zealand) |
|
|
|
HMS Ferret
(RN base, Londonderry) |
21.12.1942 |
- |
(10.1944) |
HMS
Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for various services) |
(01.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
21.06.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
HMS Drake
(RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) |
29.10.1947 |
- |
(05.1949) |
HMS
Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school, Londonderry) |
(05.1950) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
18.01.1951 |
- |
(05.1951) |
HMS
Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) |
|
Ogilvy,
John Augustine
Son of Gilbert Francis Molyneux Ogilvy
(1868-1953), and Marjory Katharine Clive (1882-1961).
Married (31.01.1942) Margaret Vivienne Lyndell Gregg (24.07.1920 - 13.08.2001), daughter of Col.
William Thornton Huband
Gregg; one son, one daughter.
|
28.08.1915
Cupar Angus, Angus, Scotland
-
04.04.1993
East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
|
Cadet
|
01.01.1933
|
Midsh.
|
01.09.1933
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1936
|
S.Lt.
|
16.05.1936
|
Lt.
|
01.09.1937
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.09.1945 (retd 20.07.1959)
|
|
MID
|
25.08.1942
|
Murmansk
convoys 03-05.1942
|
|
Education: RN College, Dartmouth.
01.01.1933
|
-
|
01.09.1933
|
HMS
Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
|
02.09.1933
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
HMS
Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet)
|
18.04.1934
|
-
|
(02).1935
|
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
26.04.1935
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
HMS
Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet)
|
01.01.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1936
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
31.08.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
26.04.1937
|
-
|
(07.)1937
|
submarine
course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
|
07.08.1937
|
-
|
(09.1939)
|
HMS Severn
(submarine) (Mediterranean)
|
16.03.1940
|
-
|
(05.1942)
|
HMS Volunteer
(destroyer) *
|
22.09.1942
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
HMS Campbell
(destroyer)
|
26.07.1943
|
-
|
(12.)1943
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Leamington
(destroyer)
|
22.12.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
First Lieutenant, HMS Loring
(frigate)
|
27.06.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS Merganser
(RN Air Station, Rattray, Aberdeenshire)
[earned aviators' certificate 07.01.1946 from No.
1 Elementary Flying Training School, Panshanger, Hertfordshire]
|
01.10.1947
|
-
|
(05.)1949
|
HMS Victorious
(aircraft carrier)
|
08.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Chameleon (minesweeper)
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) **
|
24.07.1953
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
Naval
Assistant to Second Sea Lord's Office, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
(01.1959)
|
|
|
Directorate
of Officer Appointments, Admiralty **
|
* (08.1942) still indexed, but no longer listed
as such
** indexed, but not listed as such
|
Ogilvy-Wedderburn,
[Sir]
John Peter;
12th and 6th Bt. (cr. 1704 and 1803)
Only son (with three sisters) of Sir John Andrew
Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 11lth and 5th Bt, (1866-1956), and Aileen Meta Odette Grogan
(1881-1952).
Succeeded father 1956.
Married (16.03.1946) Elizabeth Katharine Cox (02.12.1912 - 11.2003), eldest
daughter (with one brother and two sisters) of John Arthur Cox (1878-1937), and
Katherine Brown Aitken (1885-1964), of Drumkilbo; one son, three daughters. |
29.09.1917
Perthshire, Scotland
-
13.08.1977
Ruthven, Angus, Scotland |
Midsh. |
01.09.1936 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.09.1938 |
S.Lt. |
21.06.1939,
seniority 01.09.1938 |
Lt. |
16.05.1940 |
Lt.Cdr. |
16.05.1948 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1955 (retd
01.03.1961) |
|
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1931-1935);
RN Staff College (psc, 1956)..
... |
- |
... |
... |
10.07.1939 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
HMS York (cruiser) |
(08.1941) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
07.10.1941 |
- |
(10.)1941 |
HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship) |
(12.1941) |
- |
(10.1942) |
HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship) * |
14.10.1942 |
- |
(08.)1943 |
HMS Hotspur (H class destroyer) |
04.10.1943 |
- |
(01.)1945 |
HMS Urania (U class destroyer) |
(04.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Urania (U class destroyer) * |
... |
- |
... |
... |
1956 |
|
|
Executive Officer, Woolwich |
1958 |
|
|
Boom
Defence and Marine Salvage Officer, Clyde |
... |
- |
... |
... |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
O'Hara,
John Joseph
Married ...; three sons, two daughters.
|
17.11.1891
Chicago, USA
-
? |
T/A/Gnr. |
15.09.1941 |
T/Gnr. * |
1942?, seniority
15.09.1941 |
T/A/Cd.Gnr. |
15.09.1945 (reld
> 07.1946, < 04.1947) |
* Granted War Service Rank of Lt. |
(10.1941) |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Rooke
(Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth) * |
12.1941 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
HMS
Ringwood (auxiliary netlayer) |
06.1943 |
- |
(06.)1944 |
HMS Baldur
III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) (for boom defences) |
(10.1944) |
- |
(04.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
(07.1945) |
|
|
HMS Baldur
III (RN base, Hvitanes, Iceland) * |
02.08.1945 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
HMS Rooke
(Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth) |
08.05.1946 |
- |
(07.1946) |
HMS
Safeguard (Boom Defence Central Depot, Rosyth) |
|
O'Leary,
Patrick Albert
"Pat"
nom de guerre
of:
Guérisse, Albert-Marie Edmond
|
05.04.1911
Brussels, Belgium
-
26.03.1989
Waterloo, Belgium
|
T/Lt.Cdr.
|
16.09.1940 (retd
1945?)
|
|
GC
|
05.11.1946
|
escape
organization allied personnel [investiture 19.11.1946]
|
|
KBE
(Hon.)
|
1979
|
?
|
|
DSO
|
1942
|
secret
operations [investiture 30.10.1945]
|
|
LegH
|
1947
|
?
|
|
MoF
|
1947
|
?
|
|
CdeG
|
1945
|
?
|
Officier Ordre Léopold, 1946, Grand Officier,
1970; Polish Croix de Guerre, 1944. Hereditary Nobility with personal title of
Count granted by King of the Belgians, 1986
|
Education: Louvain; Brussels University
05.1940
|
-
|
06.1940
|
Medical
Officer (Lieutenant), Belgian Army; after Belgian capitulation
embarked at Dunkirk
|
09.1940
|
|
|
first
officer of "Q" ship, HMS Fidelity *
|
04.1941
|
-
|
03.1943
|
engaged on
secret work in France until arrest by Gestapo (chief of an escape
organisation)
|
1943
|
-
|
1945
|
after 2
years in Concentration Camps returned to England
|
|
|
|
after
demobilisation from RN rejoined Belgian Army (1st Lancers)
|
1951
|
|
|
joined
Belgian Volunteer Battalion as Chief of Medical Service in Korea
|
|
-
|
1970
|
Major-General
in the Belgian Army; Director-General, Medical Service, Belgian Forces
|
* for the duration of the war indexed in the Navy
List under HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)
|
Oliphant,
Laurence Hugh
Son of R.Adm. Laurence Richard Oliphant
(1877-1950), and Hon. Adelaide Daphne Hermione Willoughby (1883-1954), of
Thonton-le-Dale.
Married (07.02.1953, St Michael's, Malton) Meriel Fynn (07.12.1919 - 03.2002), daughter of Mr Arthur
Fynn and Mrs G.R. Fynn, of North Grimston, Yorkshire; two daughters.
|
04.04.1922
Kensington district, London
-
15.10.1998
|
Cadet
|
01.09.1940
|
Midsh.
|
01.01.1941
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
S.Lt.
|
1943, seniority
01.02.1942
|
Lt.
|
16.08.1943
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.08.1951
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1959
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1968 (retd
31.03.1977)
|
|
CBE
|
31.12.1976
|
New
Year 1977 [investiture 15.02.1977]
|
|
DSC
|
19.06.1945
|
patrols
Far East 1944-1945 [decoration posted]
|
|
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
01.09.1940
|
|
|
direct
entry cadet
|
(02.1941)
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS
Manchester (cruiser) *
|
24.08.1942
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]
|
1943
|
-
|
02.05.1943
|
submarine
course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]
|
03.05.1943
|
-
|
06.1945
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Tantalus (submarine)
|
06.1945
|
-
|
15.08.1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Tantalus (submarine) (DSC)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
05.07.1948
|
-
|
(05.)1949
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Aurochs
|
12.12.1949
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Tiptoe
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(07.1954)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1955)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(01.1956)
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
Admiralty
[HMS President] *
|
28.04.1958
|
-
|
(01.1959)
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Trafalgar
|
28.03.1960
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Operations
Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
10.05.1962
|
-
|
(02.1964)
|
Commander
4th Submarine Squadron, HM Submarine Base, Sydney, Australia [HMS Terror]
|
03.07.1967
|
-
|
(02.1968)
|
Executive
Officer, RN Base Singapore [HMS Terror]
|
?
|
-
|
(02.1969)
|
HMS
Terror (RN base, Singapore) *
|
05.1971
|
-
|
(08.1971)
|
Senior
UK Polaris Representative in USA [HMS Saker]
|
(1976)
|
|
|
HMS
Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (CBE)
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Olive,
John Roland
Son (with one brother) of Eng.Capt. William
Edgar Olive, RN (1879-1959), and Lilian Constance Briant (1880-1972).
Married ((12?).1937, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Sibyl Margrett Hambleton
Buckmaster (02.01.1913 - 06.2005), younger daughter of
Eng.Capt. Frederick Henry
Buckmaster, RN (1883-1947), and Margaret Davies Murray (1878-1954), of Southsea;
one daughter.
|
31.01.1911
Southsea, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
21.01.1940
(MPK) [age 28]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1] |
Cadet |
01.05.1928 |
Midsh. |
01.01.1929 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.05.1931 |
S.Lt. |
01.09.1931 |
Lt. |
01.09.1933 |
|
Education: Weymouth College (09.1919-...); RN
College, Dartmouth.
15.09.1924 |
|
|
joined RN |
01.05.1928 |
- |
(07.1928) |
HMS
Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) |
29.11.1928 |
- |
? |
HMS
Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) |
20.03.1929 |
- |
(08.1929) |
HMS
Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
04.01.1930 |
- |
(03.)1931 |
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) |
30.04.1931 |
- |
(01.)1932 |
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
04.01.1932 |
- |
(08.)1932 |
promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
17.09.1932 |
- |
(06.1933) |
HMS
Ardent (destroyer) (Mediterranean) |
(01.1934) |
- |
(03.1934) |
no
appointment listed |
05.04.1934 |
- |
(10.)1936 |
HMS
Vega (destroyer) (Mediterranean) |
30.11.1936 |
- |
(07.)1937 |
qualifying for signal duties [HM Signal School, HMS Victory] |
13.12.1937 |
- |
(06.)1938 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) |
10.06.1938 |
- |
(08.)1938 |
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for signal school) |
23.08.1938 |
- |
(12.)1938 |
HMS
Kempenfelt (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet) (and for
flotilla duties) |
20.12.1938 |
- |
(05.)1939 |
Signals Officer, HMS Hardy (flotilla leader, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla,
Mediterranean) (and for flotilla duties) |
21.07.1939 |
- |
21.01.1940 |
Signals
Officer, HMS Exmouth (flotilla leader) [ship mined & sunk in North Sea] |
|
Oliver,
[Sir] Geoffrey Nigel
Elder son (of three children) of late Prof. Francis Wall Oliver
(1864-1951), palaeobotanist & ecologist, and Mildred Alice (1875-1932),
daughter of Charles Robert Thompson, surgeon.
Married (1933) Barbara,
only daughter of late Sir Francis Adolphus Jones,
KBE, CB; one son (and one son, one daughter deceased).
|
22.01.1898
Chelsea, London
-
26.05.1980
Batts, Henfield, West Sussex |
Cadet (Special
Entry) |
09.1915 |
Midsh. |
01.02.1916 |
S.Lt. |
15.09.1917 |
Lt. |
15.10.1918 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.10.1926 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1932 |
Capt. |
30.06.1937 |
Cdre. 2nd cl. |
01.10.1942 |
Cdre. 1st cl. |
02.1944 |
R.Adm. |
05.07.1945 |
V.Adm. |
03.02.1949 |
Adm. |
15.05.1952 (retd
01.12.1955) |
|
GBE |
01.01.1955 |
New
Year 1955 [investiture 08.02.1955] |
|
KCB |
01.01.1951 |
New
Year 1951 [investiture 10.02.1953] |
|
CB |
23.05.1944 |
Operation
Avalanche [investiture 21.11.1944] |
|
DSO |
25.11.1941 |
Operations
Style & Substance [investiture 22.09.1942] |
|
DSO |
14.09.1943 |
N
African campaign 10.1942-05.1943 [investiture 21.11.1944] |
|
DSO |
14.11.1944 |
Operation
Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 21.11.1944] |
|
MID |
06.01.1942 |
Operation
Halbert |
|
MID |
14.08.1945 |
relief
of Greece |
|
LM |
07.09.1943 |
N
African campaign |
|
LM |
10.10.1944 |
Salerno
landings 09.09.1943 |
|
OSw |
- |
state
visit king & queen of Sweden 28.06.1954 |
|
Education: Durnford Preparatory School, Langton
Maltravers; Rugby School; Queen's College, Cambridge University (1920?; two
terms, no degree).
09.1915 |
|
|
joined
RN as a special entry cadet (Keyham College) |
1916 |
- |
1917 |
Midshipman
and Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Dreadnought (battleship) |
08.05.1917 |
- |
1920 |
HMS
Renown (battlecruiser) [saw no actual fighting in World War I] |
|
|
|
HMS
Resolution (battleship) |
1920? |
- |
1921? |
promotion
courses (obtained first class certificates in all five subjects and won the Goodenough
Medal for best results in gunnery examination) |
1921?
06.1923 |
-
- |
1924
(08.1923) |
specialised
in gunnery & advanced course in gunnery (first in his class: Commander Egerton Prize)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (miscellaneous) |
28.03.1924 |
- |
(01.)1925 |
junior
member, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
05.08.1925 |
- |
(02.)1927 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Carlisle (light cruiser) (China Station) |
(07.1927) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
14.01.1928 |
- |
(08.1929) |
second
senior member, Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery school,
Portsmouth) (and in command of trawler 'Excellent') |
02.01.1930 |
- |
(01.)1932 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS
Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) |
07.03.1932 |
- |
(07.)1934 |
head
[= Experimental Commander], Experimental Department, HMS Excellent (gunnery
school, Portsmouth) |
10.1934 |
- |
12.1934 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS Diana (destroyer) (1st Destroyer
Flotilla, China) |
12.1934 |
- |
(02.)1936 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Veteran (destroyer) (1st Destroyer
Flotilla, Mediterranean) |
05.08.1936 |
- |
(07.1937) |
Executive
Officer, HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
10.01.1938 |
- |
(02.)1938 |
tactical
course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
19.04.1938 |
- |
23.05.1939 |
naval
staff, Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
23.05.1939
|
-
|
15.10.1940
|
Deputy
Director, Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
30.10.1940
|
-
|
16.06.1942
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Hermione (light cruiser) (Western Mediterranean, Malta, Madagascar, Eastern Mediterranean)
(sunk south of Crete) |
1942 |
- |
1942 |
HMS Victory
(additional; whilst unemployed) |
1942 |
- |
1942 |
Naval
Liaison Officer with the Nile Delta Army (temporary) [HMS Nile (RN base,
Alexandria, Egypt)] |
24.09.1942 |
- |
30.09.1942 |
HMS
President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty, on the staff of
Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet) |
01.10.1942
|
-
|
08.12.1942
|
HMS
Cormorant (parent ship Gibraltar) (on the staff of Flag Officer Commanding
North Atlantic, for flotilla duties)
[to organise and train the vast armada of small
ships and craft which was assembling there for the invasion of Algeria] |
09.12.1942
|
-
|
03.07.1943
|
Senior
Officer Inshore Squadron, North Africa [HMS Excellent II (for HMS Evolution),
from 01.01.1943 HMS Cannae (RN base, Bone, Algeria)] |
04.07.1943 |
- |
08.10.1943 |
Commodore,
Force "N" [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)]
(invasion of Sicily 07.1943,
British
Assault Force Commander, Salerno [HMS Hilary] 09.1943) |
09.10.1943 |
- |
21.11.1943 |
HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy)
(additional; and for passage to UK) |
22.11.1943 |
- |
21.01.1944 |
HMS
President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, with Director of Naval
Ordnance, as Chairman of
the 'Accuracy of Gunnery Committee' (produced final report)) |
22.01.1944
|
-
|
22.07.1944
|
Naval Force Commander,
Force "J" (Assault Force, Normandy) [HMS Odyssey; based at HMS Hilary] |
23.07.1944 |
- |
03.09.1944 |
HMS Victory
IV (additional; whilst unemployed) |
04.09.1944 |
- |
05.10.1944 |
HMS
President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty (temporary)) |
06.10.1944 |
- |
22.02.1945 |
Commodore
Commanding 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Royalist] (clearing the Aegean
of mines and obstructions and bringing relief to the starving people of
Greece) |
23.02.1945
|
-
|
20.12.1945 |
Commodore/Rear-Admiral
Commanding 21st Aircraft Carrier Squadron [HMS Royalist] (Eastern Fleet) |
early
1946 |
- |
04.1946 |
President,
Aircraft Maintenance Committee |
04.1946 |
- |
12.1946 |
Flag
Officer, Naval Air Stations [= Admiral (Air)] [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station,
Lee-on-Solent)] |
02.12.1946 |
- |
(07.)1948 |
a
Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff [HMS
President] |
09.1948 |
- |
02.03.1950 |
President,
RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
04.1950 |
- |
20.08.1952 |
Commander-in-Chief,
East Indies Station [HMS Mauritius] |
(05.1953) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
15.05.1953 |
- |
(04.)1955 |
Commander-in-Chief,
the Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] |
Bought a farm in Sussex and settled down to the
country life. |
Oliver,
Sir Henry Francis
Uncle of R.Adm. R.D. Oliver.
Married (10.06.1914, St John, Clerkenwell) Beryl Carnegie Joseph (20.08.1882 -
(09?).1972); no children.
|
22.01.1865
Lochside, Kelso, Scotland
-
15.10.1965
20, South Eaton Place, London SW1 |
Midsh. |
21.01.1881 |
A/S.Lt. |
21.01.1885 |
S.Lt. |
1886?, seniority
21.01.1885 |
Lt. |
30.06.1888 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1899 |
Capt. |
30.06.1903 |
R.Adm. |
08.12.1913 |
A/V.Adm. |
05.11.1914 |
V.Adm. |
01.01.1919 |
Adm. |
01.11.1923 |
Adm. of the
Fleet |
21.01.1928 (retd
21.01.1933) (restored to active list 06.02.1940) |
|
GCB |
04.06.1928 |
HM's Birthday 1928 |
|
KCB |
01.01.1916 |
New
Year 1916 |
|
CB |
03.06.1913 |
HM's
birthday 1913 |
|
KCMG |
18.01.1918 |
Deputy Chief of Naval Staff |
|
MVO |
11.08.1905 |
King
Edward's visit to Portsmouth |
Jubilee Medal, 1935; Coronation Medals, 1937
and 1953. American Distinguished Service Medal; Commander Legion of Honour;
Orders of St Anne of Russia (06.1908), Swords of Sweden; Hon.
LLD (Edin.), 1920 |
|
|
|
entered
Navy, 15.07.1878; Captain of Navigation School Portsmouth, 1905-1907; Naval
Assistant to First Sea Lord, 12.1908-12.1911; ADC to the King, 02.03.1913; Director of Intelligence, Admiralty War Staff,
01.11.1913-1914; Chief of
Admiralty War Staff, 05.11.1914-1917; on Admiralty reorganisation in 1917 became a
member of the Board and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff; Rear-Admiral Commanding
First Battle Cruiser Squadron, 1918 |
1919 |
|
|
Vice-Admiral
Commanding Home Fleet |
1919 |
- |
1920 |
Vice-Admiral
Commanding Reserve Fleet |
1920 |
- |
1924 |
Second
Sea Lord |
1924 |
- |
1927 |
Commander-in-Chief,
Atlantic Fleet |
1940 |
- |
1945 |
no active
appointment listed
[Admirals of the Fleet were borne on the
Active List of the Royal Navy for life] |
Literature: Adm. Sir William James, A Great
Seaman : The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver, G.C.B, K.C.M.G.,
M.V.O., L.L.D. (1956). |
Oliver,
Henry Lewis
|
18.06.1902
-
24.08.1989
Taunton Deane district, Somerset |
A/S.Lt.
|
15.01.1922
|
S.Lt.
|
?
|
Lt.
|
15.09.1924
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.09.1932 (retd
18.06.1947)
|
A/Cdr.
|
04.05.1939 ?
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
18.06.1947
|
|
(08.1923)
|
|
|
short
course of instruction
|
03.01.1924
|
-
|
(01.)1925
|
HMS
Valentine (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
22.05.1925
|
-
|
(02.)1927
|
HMS
Keppel (flotilla leader, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla) (China)
|
(07.1927)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1928)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
16.04.1928
|
-
|
(05.)1928
|
HMS
Kent (cruiser)
|
15.05.1928
|
-
|
(08.)1930
|
HMS
Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
15.11.1930
|
-
|
(05.)1933
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
(06.1933)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
19.07.1933
|
-
|
(08.)1934
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Crescent (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
20.10.1934
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Searcher (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
09.01.1936
|
-
|
(07.1937)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Beagle (destroyer) (Home Fleet)
|
18.01.1938
|
-
|
(02.)1938
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Tenedos (destroyer) (China)
|
04.1938
|
-
|
(06.)1938
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Capetown (cruiser) (China)
|
10.07.1938
|
-
|
(04.)1939
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (China)
|
04.05.1939
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS Eagle
(aircraft carrier)
|
09.12.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Glendower (RN training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)
|
20.05.1943
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
Executive
Officer, HMS
Atheling (escort carrier)
|
1944?
|
-
|
10.1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Atheling (escort carrier)
|
06.11.1945
|
-
|
(04.)1947
|
Naval
Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
Oliver,
Robert Don
Elder son of Col. William James Oliver, CBE, and Margaret Christie Don.
Nephew of Adm. of the Fleet
H.F. Oliver.
Married 1st (09.04.1928, Cannes, France) Torfrida Lois Acantha Swann (née Huddart) (30.09.1886
- 1961), daughter of James Huddart, of Melbourne & London; no children.
Married 2nd (16.09.1965, Kensington, London) Mrs Marion Joyce Glendinning van der Velde,
of The Hague, the Netherlands, daughter of H.A. Glendinning, of Balmacarra,
Charleville, Queensland, Australia.
Residence: (1901) Stirling, Stirlingshire, (1938) Whitley, Lancashire, (1950s)
London, (1970s) Cardiff, Glamorgan.
|
17.03.1895
Linton, Roxburghhire, Scotland
-
06.10.1980
Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland |
Midsh. |
15.09.1912 |
A/S.Lt. |
15.09.1914 |
S.Lt. |
15.03.1915 |
Lt. |
15.04.1916 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.04.1924 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1929 |
Capt. |
31.12.1935 |
Cdre. 2nd cl. |
03.05.1940-(06.1940) |
R.Adm. |
02.01.1945 (retd
26.09.1948) |
V.Adm. (retd) |
26.09.1948 |
|
CB |
01.01.1948 |
New
Year 1948 [investiture 26.07.1949] |
|
CBE |
11.06.1942 |
HM's
birthday 1942 [investiture 23.03.1943] |
|
DSC |
10.04.1918 |
for services in Destroyer and Torpedo Boat
Flotillas during the period ending 31st December 1917 |
|
14|15
St |
- |
- |
|
BWM
14|20 |
- |
- |
|
VM |
- |
- |
|
MID |
13.08.1915 |
in recognition of services during the operations
in the vicinity of the Dardanelles prior to 25th-26th April. |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Atl
St |
- |
- |
|
Pac
St |
- |
- |
|
BWM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
MID |
25.08.1942 |
Operation
Ironclad |
|
Cor
M 37 |
- |
- |
|
Sw
M |
- |
- |
|
15.09.1912 |
|
|
entered
RN |
26.11.1912 |
- |
... |
HMS
Inflexible (battlecruiser) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
|
|
Battle
of Falkland Islands 1914 & Gallipoli 1915 |
(1916?) |
|
|
HMS
Murray (M class torpedo-boat destroyer) |
02.06.1917 |
- |
... |
HMS
Telemachus (R class torpedo-boat destroyer) |
24.04.1931 |
- |
(09.1932) |
Squadron
Gunnery Officer, Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] (Home
Fleet) |
24.04.1933 |
- |
(06.)1933 |
senior
officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
07.09.1933 |
- |
(02.)1936 |
Executive
Officer [from 12.1935 Commanding Officer], HMS Resolution (battleship)
(Mediterranean & Portsmouth) |
08.08.1936 |
- |
(10.1938) |
Second
Naval Member of the Naval Board, Navy Office, Wellington [HMNZS Achilles
(cruiser) (additional)] [lent to RNZN] |
23.01.1939 |
- |
(09.1939) |
Commanding Officer,
HMS Iron
Duke (gunnery training ship) |
(02.1940) |
- |
(05.1940) |
no
appointment listed |
03.05.1940 |
- |
02.07.1940 |
HMS Proserpine (minesweeping & anti-submarine base, Lyness, Scapa Flow) |
(08.1940) |
- |
(10.1940) |
no
appointment listed |
23.10.1940 |
- |
01.11.1942 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Devonshire (cruiser) |
15.01.1943 |
- |
01.1944 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
01.1944 |
- |
12.1944 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Swiftsure (cruiser) |
(01.1945) |
|
|
no appointment
listed |
02.1945 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
Assistant
Chief of the Naval Staff (Weapons), Admiralty |
15.04.1946 |
- |
(04.)1947 |
a
Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy
Chief of Naval Staff |
10.09.1947 |
- |
09.1948 |
Flag
Officer Commanding 5th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Sussex] |
DL Roxburghshire, 1962. |
Ollerhead,
John Gordon
|
29.07.1895
Williton district, Somerset
-
27.08.1958 |
Lt. |
15.07.1917 (retd
01.09.1922; own request) |
Lt.Cdr.
(retd) |
15.07.1925
(reverted to retd c. 08.1945) |
|
15.05.1908 |
|
|
entered RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
25.01.1940 |
- |
(08?).1945 |
HMS
Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (additional; as Assistant to
Captain of Fleet for main duties at Simonstown & as drafting officer on staff of
Commander-in-Chief, South Africa) |
|
Ollivant,
Martin Spencer
Son of Edward Ollivant (1882-1945), and Olive
Caroline Powell (1881-1959).
Married; two sons, one daughter. |
10.07.1922
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
-
31.07.2001
Wallingford district, Oxfordshire |
Cadet
|
01.01.1941
|
Midsh.
|
01.09.1941
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.05.1943
|
S.Lt.
|
1943, seniortiy
01.08.1942
|
Lt.
|
16.09.1943
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.09.1951
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1953
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1960 (retd
24.04.1970)
|
|
MBE
|
23.12.1952
|
Korea
(5th List) [investiture 07.07.1953]
|
|
DSC
|
19.06.1945
|
Operation
Hotbed [decoration posted]
|
|
MID
|
03.10.1952
|
Korea
(4th List)
|
|
01.09.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)
|
(08.1942)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
01.1943
|
-
|
(08.)1943
|
HMS
Melbreak (destroyer)
|
15.09.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Onslaught (destroyer)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
....
|
(1952)
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Cossack
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
06.06.1963
|
-
|
(02.1964)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Protector
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
|
Olliver,
Alwyne Gervase
|
23.10.1893
Portsea Island, Hampshire
-
10.04.1974 |
Lt.
|
15.04.1915
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.04.1923 (retd
01.04.1931; own request)
|
Cdr. (retd)
|
23.10.1933 (reactivated
01.09.1939) (reverted to retd > 06.1944, < 07.1945)
|
A/Capt.
(retd)
|
> 02.1941,
< 08.1942
|
|
15.09.1906
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
09.1922
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)
|
01.10.1924
|
-
|
(05.1926)
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Danae (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
22.01.1927
|
-
|
(07.)1927
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)
|
20.09.1927
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship)
|
(08.1929)
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
no appointment
listed
|
01.09.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
Assistant
Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Sheffield Area
|
05.02.1941
|
-
|
(06.1944)
|
Assistant
Director of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
Ommanney,
John Laurence Nelson
|
08.04.1924
-
20.12.1977 |
... |
... |
Lt. |
01.06.1944 |
... |
... |
Capt. |
31.12.1968 |
|
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... |
- |
... |
... |
? |
- |
(10.1945) |
HMS Sussex |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Ommanney,
Lawrence Frederick Nelson
|
04.02.1891
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
22.02.1963 |
Lt. |
15.08.1913 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.08.1921 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1926 (retd
04.02.1941) |
Capt.
(retd) |
04.02.1941 |
|
15.09.1903 |
|
|
entered
RN |
20.07.1922 |
- |
(08.1923) |
Commanding Officer, HMS Walker (torpedo-boat destroyer) |
13.12.1924 |
- |
11.12.1926 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) |
(02.1927) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
(07.1927) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
(04.1928) |
- |
(06.1928) |
no
appointment listed |
09.01.1929 |
- |
(02.)1931 |
Plans
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
09.02.1931 |
- |
(01.)1932 |
Commandng Officer, HMS Serapis (destroyer) (China) |
14.02.1932 |
- |
(01.)1933 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Witch (destroyer) (China) |
(05.1933) |
- |
(06.1933) |
no
appointment listed |
(01.1934) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
19.03.1934 |
- |
(07.)1934 |
senior
officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
28.07.1934 |
- |
(02.)1935 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Constance (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) |
25.02.1935 |
- |
(02.)1938 |
Admiralty
Liaison Officer for Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy Duties, St Abb's to North
Foreland (London) [HMS President] |
02.03.1938 |
- |
(08.1942) |
Captain of
the Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent and King's Harbour Master, HM Dockyard,
Chatham [HMS Pembroke] * |
(06.1943) |
- |
(01.1945) |
HMS Nile
(RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) ** |
(07.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
30.10.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Captain of
the Dockyard and King's Harbour Master, Devonport, and as Deputy
Superintendent [HMS Drake] |
* (02.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as
such
** indexed, but not listed as such |
Ommanney-Davis,
Carew
"Bertie"
|
20.04.1905
St Pancras, Greater London
-
28.08.1974
Harlow district |
Sg.Lt.
|
19.05.1930
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
|
19.05.1936 (retd
13.01.1937; own request)
|
A/Sg.Cdr. (retd)
|
< 08.1942
(reinstated on the active list 1945?)
|
Sg.Cdr.
|
03.09.1945,
seniority 27.12.1944 (retd 14.10.1958)
|
|
MID
|
11.12.1945
|
wind
up Europe 1945
|
|
Education: LRCP&S
02.09.1930
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
Assistant
Medical Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China)
|
05.10.1931
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
Medical
Officer, HMS Bridgewater (sloop) (China)
|
(04.1933)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
05.1933
|
-
|
05.1934
|
on half-pay:
together
with four other officers commissioned, financed and had privately built the
yacht Tai Mo Shan & sailed it from Hong Kong to the UK (Dartmouth) for a year
(05.1933-05.1934)
|
11.06.1934
|
-
|
(08.)1934
|
Assistant
Medical Officer, HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)
|
01.10.1934
|
-
|
(11.1934)
|
medical
officers' post-graduate course [HMS President]
|
08.01.1935
|
-
|
13.01.1937
|
Naval
Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake]
|
General
Medical Practitioner, Boscastle & Tintagel
|
(04.1940)
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
HMS Victory
(RN base, Portsmouth) *
|
?
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
RN Sick Quarters, Bootle *
|
17.11.1941
|
-
|
(02.)1943
|
RN Auxiliary Hospital, Seaforth
|
30.03.1943
|
-
|
1945
|
HMS Renown (battlecruiser)
|
27.06.1945
|
-
|
(10.1947)
|
Naval Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
|
18.03.1948
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
Naval
Hospital, Malta [HMS St Angelo]
|
24.07.1952
|
-
|
(07.1954)
|
HMS
Victory (for Portsmouth Group RM)
|
21.01.1955
|
-
|
(01.)1956
|
HMS
Collingwood (training establishment for radar and electrical ratings, Fareham,
near Portsmouth)
|
12.07.1956
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth & for duty at RN Hospital, Haslar [HMS Victory]
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
O'Neill,
John Henry
|
?
- |
|
16.09.1940
|
-
|
(04.1942)
|
HMS Lucifer
(parent ship Swansea)
|
29.04.1942
|
-
|
01.01.1943
|
Commanding Officer,
HM MTB 105 (motor torpedo boat) (sunk by own fire after being adrift)
|
05.1945
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
HMS
Abercrombie (monitor)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS Copra
(Combined Operations accounting base) *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
O'Neill-Roe,
Richard John Owen
"Siano"
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Lt.Col. Charles Douglas Roe, DSO, OBE (1882-1960), Indian Army, and Daisy Blanche Marion
Mackenzie-Kennedy (1883-1951).
Brother of Capt. Robert Gordon
Brabazon O'Neil Roe, OBE, RN.
Married (24.06.1939, All Saints Church, Ascot, Windsor district, Berkshire) Nancy Letitia Whitaker
Bovill (08.09.1914 - 18.01.2011),
of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire; one son (Richard), one daughter. Nancy
O'Neill-Roe remarried Alan Charles Jenkins (1912-1996). |
03.01.1918
Lahore, India
-
26.06.1942
[age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 3, panel 1] |
RAF: |
|
(A) P/O (prob) |
25.01.1937 |
RN: |
|
S.Lt. (A) |
16.11.1937 |
Lt. (A) |
16.11.1939 |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Atl
St |
- |
- |
|
Def M |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
25.01.1937 |
|
|
commissioned,
Royal Air Force [short service commission] |
04.09.1937 |
|
|
226
(Bomber) Squadron RAF (Harwell) |
18.07.1938 |
|
|
transferred
from RAF to RN (Air Branch) |
18.07.1938 |
- |
(08.)1938 |
short
course of instruction |
24.08.1938 |
- |
(10.1938) |
712
Flight FAA, HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (Home Fleet) |
14.01.1939 |
- |
(04.)1939 |
Training
Squadron FAA, RAF Station, Gosport [HMS Victory] |
(05.1939) |
|
|
Fleet
Air Arm Pool, RAF Station, Worthy Down [HMS Victory] |
(08.1939) |
- |
(09.1939) |
Fleet Air
Arm |
16.11.1939 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
pilot, 700
Squadron FAA [HMS Sussex (cruiser), from 01.1941 HMS London (cruiser)] |
(08.1941) |
|
|
HMS London (London class cruiser)
** |
1941 |
- |
(10.)1941 |
Fleet Air
Arm course |
01.11.1941
|
-
|
26.06.1942
|
pilot, 884
Squadron FAA [HMS Merlin
(RN Air Station Donibristle, Fife)] * |
* Killed
on active service over Strangford Loch, N Ireland, while doing running up trials before joining the
HMS Illustrious. His body was never recovered. A fellow pilot collided with him,
while the observer was also killed but the body was recovered off the coast of Scotland. More recently the wreckage of the plane (A Fairey ?) was discovered but the widow did not want it disturbed and it is now a designated war grave.
** indexed, but not listed as such |
Onslow,
Richard Francis John
Eldest son of the Revd. Matthew Richard
Septimus Onslow, MA (1856-1932), Chaplain RN, and Fanny Harriet Onslow (née
Green) (died 1940).
Married 1st (1920) Sylvia Rachel Green-Price (died 1933); one son, one
daughter.
Married 2nd (1939) Jessie Violet Betty Gillam (died 1993), of Tenbury,
Worcestershire.
|
29.03.1896
Woolston, Hampshire
-
09.04.1942
(KIA) [age 46]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 3] |
...
|
...
|
Lt.
|
15.11.1917
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.11.1925
|
Cdr.
|
30.06.1931
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1937
|
|
MVO
|
29.07.1937
|
command
of HM's Yacht
|
|
DSC
|
20.09.1918
|
Dover
Patrol
|
|
MID
|
10.11.1942
|
loss
of HMS Hermes by enemy air attack 04.1942 [posthumously]
|
|
Education:
RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth (15.01.1909-...)
1914
|
-
|
1918
|
served
European war: North Sea, Dover Patrol and Belgian Coast
|
1919
|
|
|
Caspian
Naval Force
|
1920
|
|
|
Naval
Mission to Persia
|
02.01.1923
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Resolution (battleship)
|
(01.1925)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
24.02.1925
|
-
|
(05.)1926
|
staff,
RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
|
31.12.1926
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
HMS
Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
03.07.1929
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Colombo (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
|
31.01.1930
|
-
|
(02.)1931
|
HMS
Dauntless (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)
|
17.12.1931
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
HMS
Effingham (cruiser) (East Indies)
|
17.01.1933
|
-
|
(06.1933)
|
staff
course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
16.01.1934
|
-
|
(07.)1935
|
Commander
on staff of RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia]
|
02.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1938
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht)
|
(06.1938)
|
-
|
(08.1938)
|
no
appointment listed
|
18.08.1938
|
-
|
22.04.1940
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser & anti-aircraft ship)
|
07.05.1940
|
-
|
09.04.1942
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) [ship sunk by Japanese aircraft south
of Ceylon]
|
|
Onslow,
[Sir] Richard George
Eldest son of Major G.A. Onslow, and the
late Mrs Onslow.
Married (1932) Kathleen Meriel Taylor, elder daughter of late
E.C. Taylor, JP; two sons.
|
15.04.1904
Atcham, Montgomeryshire
-
16.12.1975
[Dorrington, Shrewsbury ?] |
Midsh.
|
15.05.1922
|
A/S.Lt.
|
15.09.1924
|
Lt.
|
15.04.1926
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.04.1934
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1938
|
Capt.
|
31.12.1942
|
R.Adm.
|
08.07.1952
|
V.Adm.
|
01.12.1955
|
Adm.
|
31.01.1959 (retd 1960)
|
|
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne
&
Dartmouth; Staff College (1935); Imperial Defence College (1946)
1918
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
15.05.1922
|
-
|
(08.1923)
|
HMS
Warspite (battleship)
|
01.01.1925
|
-
|
(01.1925)
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
1926
|
-
|
1945
|
served in destroyers almost continuously:
|
20.03.1926
|
-
|
(05.)1928
|
HMS
Witch (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
(06.1928)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
11.09.1928
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
HMS
Caradoc (cruiser)
|
15.04.1930
|
-
|
(01.)1932
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Searcher (destroyer)
|
14.06.1932
|
-
|
(08.)1934
|
First
Lieutenant, HMS Daring (destroyer)
|
(11.1934)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
15.01.1935
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
staff
course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
13.01.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1936
|
HMS
Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for emergency destroyers)
|
31.12.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
RN
Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
|
14.06.1937
|
-
|
(10.1938)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Gipsy (destroyer) (Mediterranean)
|
(02.1939)
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
no
appointment listed
|
01.05.1939
|
-
|
(02.1941)
|
Plans
Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
01.06.1941
|
-
|
13.12.1942
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Ashanti (destroyer)
|
01.1943
|
|
11.1943
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Osprey (anti-submarine establishment) & for co-ordination of all
anti-submarine training establishments
|
11.1943
|
-
|
(07.1945)
|
Captain
(D), 4th Destroyer Flotilla & Commanding Officer, HMS Quilliam (destroyer)
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
27.02.1947
|
-
|
(07.)1948
|
Naval
Officer-in-Charge, Londonderry [HMS Sea Eagle]
|
08.11.1948
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
Director
of Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
1951
|
|
|
HMS
Devonshire
|
05.1952
|
-
|
(07.)1954
|
Naval Secretary to First Lord
of the Admiralty [HMS President]
|
04.01.1955
|
-
|
(01.)1956
|
Flag Officer (Flotillas), Home
Fleet [HMS Glasgow]
|
12.1956
|
-
|
(01.)1957
|
Flag Officer
Commanding Reserve
Fleet [HMS Vanguard]
|
25.02.1958
|
-
|
11.1960
|
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth
[HMS Drake]
|
1962 Deputy Lieutenant,
Salop; Officer, Order of St. John, 01.1963.
|
|
Onyon,
Wilfrid Mowbray
Son of Eng.Capt. William Onyon, MVO, RN.
|
1905
Cathcart district, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
28.02.1958
|
Midsh.
|
15.05.1923
|
A/S.Lt. (E)
|
15.09.1925
|
S.Lt. (E)
|
30.04.1926
|
Lt. (E)
|
30.06.1928
(retd 27.01.1934)
|
Lt.Cdr. (E)
(retd)
|
30.06.1936
|
A/Cdr. (E) (retd)
|
16.08.1940?
|
Cdr. (E) (retd)
|
?
(reverted to retd > 05.1950, < 05.1953)
|
|
OBE
|
08.06.1944
|
HM's
birthday [investiture 26.09.1945]
|
|
15.05.1923
|
-
|
(02.)1927
|
engineering
course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]
|
04.05.1927
|
-
|
(06.1928)
|
HMS
Nelson (battleship)
|
18.02.1929
|
-
|
(02.)1931
|
HMS
Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
06.1931
|
-
|
(05.)1933
|
HMS
Durban (cruiser) (America and West Indies)
|
(06.1933)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(01.1934)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
12.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
an
Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (on
probation)
|
08.03.1937
|
-
|
(07.)1937
|
Inspecting
Torpedo Officer, RN Torpedo Factory, Greenock under the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS
President] (on probation)
|
24.08.1937
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Naval
Ordnance Inspecting Officer [renamed: Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance],
Peterborough Area [under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty]
|
16.08.1940
|
-
|
(10.1944)
|
detached for special duties under the
Chief of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
15.06.1945
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
Inspecting Torpedo Officer [later
renamed: Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance], Greenock Area (RN Torpedo
Factory) under the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS
President]
|
(05.1949)
|
-
|
(05.1950)
|
HMS
President *
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Oram,
Harry Percy Kendall
"Joe"
Married ((03?).1921, Peterborough district) Kathleen Boltby; at least one son (Lt.Cdr.
John Somerville Kendall Oram, RN).
Of Turk's Row, London.
|
23.10.1894
Barton Regis district, Gloucestershire
-
29.05.1986
South Newton, Salisbury, Wiltshire |
Lt. |
04.08.1917 |
Lt.Cdr. |
04.08.1925 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1930 |
Capt. |
30.06.1936 (retd
1945) |
|
1911 |
|
|
joined
merchant navy |
1913 |
|
|
joined
RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
20.04.1933 |
- |
(01.)1934 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Pigmy (special service vessel) (for reserve group of submarines)
(Portsmouth) |
08.02.1934 |
- |
(02.)1936 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Bruce (flotilla leader, 4th Submarine Flotilla) (China) |
31.08.1936 |
- |
(02.)1938 |
Captain
(S) 2nd Submarine Flotilla [HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)] (Home Fleet) |
15.02.1938 |
- |
(04.)1939 |
Captain
(S) 5th Flotilla [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship)] (for Fort Blockhouse) |
1939 |
- |
01.06.1939 |
observer,
HMS
Thetis (submarine) (sunk) (one of four survivors) |
(08.1939) |
- |
(09.1939) |
no appointment
listed |
23.08.1939 |
- |
31.01.1940 |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Cairo (cruiser) |
(04.1940) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
06.05.1940 |
- |
(12.1941) |
Commanding Officer,
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) |
03.03.1942 |
- |
(08.)1942 |
Admiralty
[HMS President] |
04.09.1942 |
- |
(10.1944) |
Director
Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
02.01.1945 |
- |
05.07.1945 |
also:
Naval ADC to the King |
(07.1945) |
|
|
no appointment
listed |
Published: Ready for sea (1974);
The rogue's
yarn (1993). |
Oram,
John Somerville Kendall
Son of Capt. Harry
Percy Kendall Oram, RN, and Kathleen Boltby.
Married 1st (1948) Juliet Hermione Abbey
(born 1925); one daughter.
Married 2nd Olivia; three daughters, one step-daughter.
|
10.03.1923
Southsea, Portsmouth , Hampshire
-
05.05.2008
[age 85]
Barford St Martin, Somerset
|
Midsh.
|
01.09.1940
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.05.1942
|
S.Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
Lt.
|
01.03.1944
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.03.1952 (retd
01.07.1956; own request)
|
|
MID
|
10.07.1945
|
attack
enemy convoy Norway 03.04.1945
|
|
01.10.1940
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS King
George V (battleship)
|
01.11.1941
|
-
|
(12.1941)
|
HMS King
George V (battleship)
|
01.05.1942
|
-
|
(08.)1942
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
09.1942
|
-
|
(06.)1943
|
HMS
Obedient (destroyer)
|
25.07.1943
|
-
|
(04.1945)
|
HMS Zealous
(destroyer)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
(04.1946)
|
|
|
HMS
Catterick *
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
Orchard,
Richard William
|
13.11.1889
Plymouth, Devon
-
09.08.1976
Devonshire |
Seaman |
? [M3107] |
Wt.Eng. |
01.09.1920 |
Cd.Eng.
[regraded as Sen.Cd.Eng.] |
01.09.1930 (retd
07.02.1935; own request) |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
04.11.1924 |
- |
(03.)1926 |
HMS
Broke (flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) |
09.03.1926 |
- |
1926? |
HMS
Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (temporarily) |
(02.1927) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
... |
- |
... |
... |
(10.1940) |
|
|
HMS Robin
(boom defence depot ship, Hong Kong) * |
27.11.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
HMS
Proserpine (RN base, Scapa) |
12.03.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Cyclops
(submarine depot ship) |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
O'Reilly,
Patrick Joseph
|
?
-
|
Sg.Lt.
|
30.09.1938
1939, seniority 01.05.1938 (emgcy 30.09.1943)
|
Sg.Lt.Cdr.
(emgcy)
|
01.05.1944 (reverted
to emgcy
1945)
|
|
Education: MB, BCh
01.1939
|
-
|
(02.)1941
|
HMS Cornwall (cruiser)
|
(12.)1941
|
|
|
HMS Cornwall (cruiser) *
|
10.02.1942
|
-
|
(10.)1943
|
RN Sick Quarters Grimsby
|
(12.1943)
|
|
|
no appointment listed
|
17.02.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
HMS Ukussa (RN Air Station,
Katukurunda, Ceylon)
|
(07.1945)
|
|
|
HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)
*
|
* indexed, but not listed as such
|
O'Riordan,
Arthur Colin
Son of Kevin Moran O'Riordan, OBE
(1887-1977), Indian Police, and Constance Hilda Kirby (1885-1963), of Lymington,
Hampshire.
Married (05.04.1950, North Queensferry
Church) Ruth Mathewson (1924? - ), younger daughter of Mr & Mrs W. Galbraith
Mathewson, of North Queensferry, Fife; three sons. |
12.08.1921
Brentford district, Middlesex
-
14.09.2007
Adamson Hospital, Cupar (from Auchtermuchty, Fife,
Scotland) |
Cadet |
01.01.1939 |
Midsh. |
01.09.1939 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.05.1941 |
S.Lt. |
16.06.1941 |
Lt.
|
16.04.1942 |
Lt.Cdr. |
16.04.1950 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1957 (retd
12.08.1971) |
|
DSC |
01.01.1946 |
New
Year 1946 [decoration posted] |
|
MID |
22.02.1944 |
attack
U-boat Western Approaches 22.09.1943 |
|
MID |
20.06.1944 |
escort
convoy JW57 & RA57 |
|
Education: Taverham Hall School, Norfolk; RN College, Dartmouth
(01.05.1935-20.12.1938; Grenville House; Cadet Captain & House Cadet Captain;
Admiralty No. 1540; awarded King's Dirk & Eardley-Howard-Crockett Prize,
12.1938).
01.01.1939 |
- |
03.08.1939 |
HMS
Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) |
04.08.1939 |
- |
(04.)1941 |
HMS Danae
(cruiser) (South Atlantic & China) |
05.05.1941 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
promotion
course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
(08.1941) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
09.09.1941 |
- |
(10.)1942 |
HMS Malaya
(battleship) (with Force H, Malta convoys) |
05.12.1942 |
- |
(02.)1944 |
HMS Keppel
(destroyer) (convoys Atlantic, Gibraltar, West Africa, Russia) |
28.03.1944 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Volage
(destroyer) (Home Fleet & Far East) |
1946? |
- |
1947 |
long
signals
course [HMS Mercury] |
31.03.1947 |
- |
1948 |
HMS
Chequers (Mediterranean Fleet) |
01.03.1948 |
- |
1951 |
Flag
Lieutenant to Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Merlin (RN Air Station,
Donibristle)] (Home Air Command) |
11.01.1951 |
- |
1952 |
staff, HMS Mercury (Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) |
26.01.1953 |
- |
(07.)1954 |
Fleet
Communications Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic [HMS
Euryalus]] |
03.01.1955 |
- |
(01.)1956 |
on
staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
08.02.1956 |
- |
(01.)1957 |
on
staff of Flag Officer (Flotillas), Mediterranean [HMS Manxman] |
1957 |
- |
1957 |
staff
course, RN College, Greenwich |
04.03.1958 |
- |
(01.)1959 |
Training Commander, HMS Mercury (Signal School, nr Petersfield, Hampshire) |
08.12.1959 |
- |
(01.)1960 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Temeraire (Upper Yardmen Training Establishment, Port
Edgar) |
1960 |
- |
1960 |
Staff
Officer Operations on staff of Flag Officer Second-in-Command Far East Station
[HMS Albion, from 22.09.1960 HMS Bulwark, HMS Vampire, HMS Belfast] |
03.07.1961 |
- |
(02.)1964 |
Signal Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
1965 |
- |
1967 |
Ministry of Defence, Defence Operations Centre |
1968? |
- |
1968? |
Woolwich (for 3 months; editor of fighting instructions) |
24.04.1967 |
- |
1971 |
Naval
Liaison Officer for Merchant Navy, Southampton [HMS Victory] (and for Merchant
Navy and Royal Naval Reserve Liaison Duties) |
|
Ormsby,
Gerald Anthony Gore
"Tony"
Son of Col. Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby (1876-1965),
and Alice Pirie (1880-1965), of Dublin, Ireland.
Married (30.08.1948, Westminster district, London) Nancy Mary "Susan" King-Clark
(née Williams) (31.05.1918 - 30.11.1974); one son, one daughter.
|
28.09.1909
Fyzabad, India
-
30.09.1992
Stoke Row, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire |
Cadet |
01.01.1927 |
Midsh. |
01.09.1927 |
A/S.Lt. |
01.01.1930 |
S.Lt. |
01.07.1930 |
Lt. |
01.08.1931 |
Lt.Cdr. |
01.08.1939 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1943 |
Capt. |
28.09.1959 (retd
28.09.1959) |
|
DSO |
06.06.1944 |
2 U-boats sunk Western Approaches 18.03.1944
[investiture 12.03.1946] |
|
DSC |
01.01.1940 |
New Year 1940 [investiture 02.07.1940] |
|
NavGSM |
- |
& clasp Palestine 1933-39 |
|
39|45
St |
- |
- |
|
Atl
St |
- |
- |
|
Bur
St |
- |
- |
|
WM
39|45 |
- |
- |
|
MID |
13.02.1945 |
sinking of U-boat East Indies 08.1944 |
|
CorM 53 |
- |
- |
|
RHSM(Br) |
1940? |
for the rescue of prisoners from the Altmark in Feb 1940 with HMS Cossack |
Royal Life Saving Society Medal of Merit,
silver, 1924. |
... |
- |
... |
... |
1927 |
- |
1928 |
HMS
Iron Duke |
... |
- |
... |
... |
03.05.1938 |
- |
(12.1939) |
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Afridi (Tribal class destroyer) (and for flotilla
duties) (DSC) |
18.01.1940 |
- |
(04.)1940 |
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Cossack (Tribal class destroyer) (for anti-submarine
flotilla duties) (Royal Humane Society Medal in bronze) |
14.04.1940 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
Admiralty
[HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) |
24.06.1940 |
- |
(08.)1940 |
Staff
Section, Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
27.08.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
Anti-Submarine Officer,
HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada) |
11.11.1940 |
- |
(12.1940) |
HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport)
(for duty in Destroyer Office, Flagstaff Steps, Devonport) |
12.01.1941 |
- |
(06.)1941 |
Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) |
(08.1941) |
- |
(12.1941) |
HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) |
(02.1942) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
08.02.1942 |
- |
(12.1942) |
Staff
Section, Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
(02.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
15.02.1943 |
- |
15.11.1943 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Vanquisher (V class destroyer) |
30.11.1943 |
- |
20.01.1944 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Pheasant (modified Black Swan class sloop) |
(02.1944) |
- |
(04.1944) |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Spey (River class frigate) * & from 03.02.1944-24.02.1944 as Senior
Officer, 10th Support Group (DSO) |
23.05.1944 |
- |
09.06.1945 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Taff (River class frigate) & as Senior Officer, 60th
Escort Group |
(07.1945) |
- |
(10.1945) |
no
appointment listed |
08.10.1945 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Torpedo, Anti-Submarine and Mine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
... |
- |
... |
... |
... |
- |
... |
NATO
Staff (Paris, France) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
* indexed, but not listed as such |
Captain
Gerald Anthony Gore Ormsby,
D.S.O., D.S.C., born Dublin, 1909; entered the Royal Navy as Cadet at Dartmouth,
1923; appointed Midshipman H.M.S. Kent (Cruiser), on the China station before
being posted to the cruiser Carlisle, ´for service on the African station, where
he was involved in an affair which caused something of a stir. Tshekedi Khama,
the Regent of the Bamangwato tribe of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now
Botswana), was an African chieftain of rather too independent views to suit the
British colonial authorities. In September 1933 he broke the law of the
Territory by ordering a white man to be flogged after a dispute concerning a
native woman with whom the white man had been living. The High Commissioner was
on leave, and the Acting High Commissioner, the C-in-C Africa station, Adm. Sir
Edward Evans (Evans of the Broke) dispatched what amounted to a Naval Brigade on
the Victorian Navy pattern. Nine officers, including Ormsby, and 150 sailors and
marines from Carlisle, with three howitzers, six Lewis guns, 100 rifles and
supplies for three weeks, travelled 1,100 miles up country by train, lorry and
finally on foot. Evans himself arrived in state to hold a formal hearing under a
fig tree, attended by a contingent of tribesmen, who were over-awed by the regal
trappings of the Royal Marines. The tribesmen had been relieved of their guns by
Carlisle´s sailors, who gave them all a cloakroom ticket so that they could
reclaim their firearms later. Khama was deposed, but later reinstated´ (Obituary
included in lot refers); served at H.M.S. Osprey (Anti-Submarine Training
Establishment), Portland, from 1937; qualified as Anti-Submarine Officer, and
with the outbreak of the Second War was posted to H.M.S. Afridi (Destroyer); the
latter formed part of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla and was assigned for service
with the Humber Force in the North Sea; Ormsby was quickly into action in
October, and was involved in attacks on three U-boats over the course of five
days, one of which is believed to have been sunk (D.S.C.); Ormsby was appointed
Lieutenant-Commander and Anti-Submarine Officer to the Afridi´s sister ship
H.M.S. Cossack, January 1940. Ormsby´s first action in his new ship was on the
night of 16.2.1940; commanded by Captain Philip Vian, R.N. she intercepted the
tanker Altmark en route for Germany carrying 300 prisoners of war who had been
picked up from ships sunk by the Graf Spee; travelling through the neutral
waters of Norway the Altmark sought refuge in Josing Fjord; Cossack followed her
in, however the Norwegian naval escorts positioned themselves to block any
attempt to board the German ship; given the sensitivity of the neutrality aspect
Vian had to wait for Admiralty orders before deciding upon a course of action;
he received the following from the then First Sea Lord Winston Churchill:
´Unless Norwegian torpedo-boat undertakes to convoy Altmark to Bergen with a
joint Anglo-Norwegian guard on board, and a joint escort, you should board
Altmark, liberate the prisoners, and take possession of the ship pending further
instructions. If Norwegian torpedo-boat interferes, you should warn her to stand
off. If she fires upon you, you should not reply unless attack is serious, in
which case you should defend yourself, using no more force than is necessary,
and ceasing fire when she desists.´ Armed with these instructions Vian acted
decisively, as his account of the action shows: 'Having placed Cossack in a
position from which our pom-poms could play upon Norwegian decks, whilst their
torpedo tubes were no instant menace to us, I said we could parley no longer,
and must board and search the Altmark forthwith, whether we fought them or not.
Kjell´s captain decided that honour was served by submitting to superior force,
and withdrew. On rounding the bend in the fjord, Altmark at last came into view.
She lay bows inshore, encased in ice, her great bulk standing black against the
snow-clad mountains. Thoughts of the six-inch guns with which the Altmark was
said to be armed were naturally in our minds. Though our own guns were manned we
were obviously an easy target, and the enemy´s first shots might well immobilise
us at once. There was nothing for it, however, but to go ahead and get to grips
as quickly as possible. The Altmark Captain was determined to resist being
boarded. On sighting Cossack, he trained his searchlight on our bridge to blind
the command, and came astern at full power through the channel which his entry
into the ice had made. His idea was to ram us. Unless something was done very
quickly the great mass of the tanker´s counter was going to crash heavily into
Cossack´s port bow. There followed a period of manoeuvring in which disaster, as
serious collision must have entailed, was avoided by the skill of my
imperturable navigator, McLean, and by the speed with which the main engine
manoeuvring valves were operated by their artificers. Lieutenant Bradwell
Turner, the leader of the boarding party, anticipated Cossack´s arrival
alongside Altmark with a leap which became famous. Petty Officer Atkins, who
followed him, fell short, and hung by his hands until Turner heaved him on deck.
The two quickly made fast a hemp hawser from Cossack´s fo´c´s´le, and the rest
of the party scrambled across. When Turner arrived on Altmark´s bridge he found
the engine telegraphs set to full speed in an endeavour to force Cossack ashore.
On Turner´s appearance, the captain and others surrendered, except the third
officer, who interfered with the telegraphs, which Turner had set to stop.
Turner forbore to shoot him. It was now clear that as a result of her manoeuvres
Altmark would ground by the stern, which she did, but not before Cossack, the
boarding party all being transferred, had cast off, to avoid the same fate. It
was expected, with the surrender of the German captain, that the release of our
prisoners would be a drawing-room affair. That this was not so was due to the
action of a member of the armed guard which Graf Spee had put aboard. He
gratuitously shot Gunner Smith, of the boarding party, in an alleyway. This
invoked retaliation, upon which the armed guard decamped; they fled across the
ice, and began to snipe the boarding party from an eminence on shore.
Silhouetted against the snow they made easy targets, and their fire was quickly
silenced by Turner and his men. In the end German casualties were few, six
killed and six badly wounded. The boarding party had none, save unlucky Gunner
Smith, and even he was not fatally wounded. Resistance overcome, Turner was able
to turn to the business of the day. The prisoners were under locked hatches in
the holds; when these had been broken open Turner hailed the men below with the
words: “Any British down there?" He was greeted with a tremendous yell of “Yes!
We´re all British!” “Come on up then,” said Turner, “The Navy´s here!” While the
boarding party were in the process of securing the Altmark Ormsby was involved
in an incident himself, ´While Vian watched and wondered a lamp on the Altmark
began to flash a message. Among the boarding party was a young signalman named
Donald Davies, lent for the raid by H.M.S. Afridi. Davies had fitted up his lamp
and had already signalled that the operation was going well. But now he had a
serious, frightening message. "Altmark captured and now in our charge," the
officers on Cossack´s bridge read from the flashes. "Reported due to blow up at
midnight." The officers looked at each other with dismay. The message bore the
hallmark of truth. "Just the sort of thing Jerry would do," said Hector MacLean.
"And if he blows her up, trust him to do it at precisely midnight." It was clear
to Vian that the whole action must be speeded up. Even without a hitch, it was
doubtful whether the boarding party could liberate the prisoners by midnight,
but they would have to try. He looked around at the Norwegian gun-boats, but
could see no sign of activity. Of the ships in the fjord, only they were quiet.
It was improbable that they would interfere now that the boarding had taken
place. Vian gave the order: "Back to the Altmark." The tanker loomed large and
black against the white snowy background and Vian was almost alongside when a
shout went up. "Man overboard." "Who on earth is it?" demanded Vian. Now that
every minute counted, a mishap of this sort could jeopardize his own ship and
all the prisoners. "Man from 14 Mess, sir," a petty officer caller back. "How
can you tell that?" snapped Vian. "Officers have recognized him, sir." Get him
with grappling irons!" Vian shouted instantly. "Nobody is to go over the side
after him." His order was too late. Already Tony Ormsby, Lieutenant-Commander
and Anti-Submarine Officer, and Lieutenant Burkett, had dived into the icy water
and were swimming strongly towards the unfortunate seaman. Each took a hold on
the man and propelled him back towards the Cossack. Ratings threw down lines and
hauled the three men up; the sailor was unconscious, the officers shivering.
"Blimey," a petty officer called out as he bent over the rescued man. He
examined the identity disc which said: A. Berndsen, Altmark. "This isn´t one of
our blokes. It´s one of theirs." It was a German sailor who had jumped overboard
from the German ship. Berndsen was dead´ (The Navy´s Here, The Story of the ´Altmark´
Affair and the Battle of the River Plate, Frischauer & Jackson, refers). Both
Ormsby and Burkett were awarded the Royal Humane Society´s bronze medal for
their heroic efforts in the freezing water. Ormsby joined the Anti-Submarine
Warfare Division in the Admiralty, before being appointed Anti-Submarine Officer
to H.M.S. Warspite (battleship), Mediterranean station,1941; appointed to the
command of H.M.S. Pheasant (Sloop - converted into a specialised convoy defence
vessel, with anti-aircraft and anti-submarine capability), and ´then served
three extremely hard years as an escort captain in the Atlantic. During that
time he had no leave and, when at sea, never a complete night´s sleep, snatching
an hour when he could in a hammock in the chart-house´ (Obituary refers);
appointed to the command of H.M.S. Spey (Frigate) and in her led the 10th
Support Group on anti-submarine operations in the Western Approaches; his
expertise on submarines came to the fore when leading his group in the defence
of the outward bound Atlantic convoy ONS29, on the evening of the 18/19th
February 1944; Roskill offers the following in The War at Sea, ´Late on the 15th
[February] another outward bound convoy, actually OS68 though the enemy believed
it to be ON224, was reported by aircraft off north-west Ireland. No less than
twenty U-boats were ordered to close towards it; but, as had happened so often
before, the Luftwaffe found it impossible to keep in constant touch with their
quarry. The first two Ju.290s to be sent out on the 16th were shot down by Fleet
Air Arm fighters and Coastal Command´s interception patrols, and the result was
that the convoy was not reported again until late in the afternoon. The enemy
thereupon decided to attack during the night of the 17th-18th and concentrated a
score of U-boats in lines three deep across its path. As, however, their night
air reconnaissance failed, the U-boats did not receive the expected homing
signals. In fact there were two convoys approaching the enemy concentration, for
ONS29 was about 150 miles south-west of ON224, and the latter was overtaking the
former. The threat to them both had not gone unobserved in London; strong air
cover was being continuously provided by Coastal Command, and three escort group
had been diverted.... the 2nd and 7th Escort Groups, with Walker in command,
were sent to reinforce ON224, while the 10th Group joined up with ONS29. The
former convoy was also diverted further to the south during the night of the
17th-18th; but all this remained hidden from the enemy until late on the 18th,
because his air searches had once again failed. When the German
wireless-interception revealed ON224´s diversion on the afternoon of the 18th,
they sent the U-boats in pursuit. At 3.20 the 10th Escort Group obtained contact
near ONS29, and the frigate Spey sank U406. Among the forty-five survivors was a
party of scientists embarked to investigate radar counter-measures, and from
them we gained valuable information on enemy progress in that technique. By the
small hours of the 19th the two convoys ON224 and ONS29 were not far apart, and
the U-boats were still pursuing them. Liberators forced several of them down
that night. At daylight Walker decided to sweep back along the convoy track to
seek enemies whose presence had been detected earlier. At 10am the Woodpecker
obtained a contact, and after a seven-hour hunt she and the Starling forced U264
to surface and abandon ship...That same afternoon the 10th Escort Group, which
was on its way to join ON224, added to the score by sinking U386.´ Ormsby
initially engaged U386 with depth charges, forcing her to the surface about 800
yards from his frigate, ´As H.M.S. Spey altered course to close and opened fire
with all guns, the U-boat started to proceed ahead. At the same time the enemy
returned the frigate´s fire, until a shallow pattern of depth charges, fired by
H.M.S. Spey, straddled the U-boat. Soon afterwards, several members of the crew
were seen abandoning ship. Meanwhile, the enemy, which was down by the stern and
badly damaged by the frigate´s gunfire, continued to go ahead. H.M.S. Spey
obtained many more hits with her 4in. guns and close-range armament. A few
minutes later another party of men emerged from the conning-tower hatch of the
U-boat and jumped into the sea. Shortly afterwards the bows of the U-boat reared
out of the water and the enemy sank stern first. Commander Ormsby commented that
the crew of the second U-boat "showed considerable courage in attempting to man
their guns in the face of a hail of Oerlikon and pom-pom fire and several 4in.
hits" (Newspaper cutting included in lot refers); Admiral Sir Max Horton, the
C-in-C Western Approaches wrote on Ormsby´s report of proceedings: "This is how
things should be done", and Ormsby was awarded the D.S.O. Ormsby was appointed
to the command of H.M.S. Taff (frigate), May 1944; from her he commanded the
60th Escort Group as part of the East Indies Fleet; the latter was involved in
the sinking of U198, off the Seychelles,12.8.1944; Ormsby was Mentioned in
Despatches for this before taking part in the rescue of the crew of the
merchantman Troilus, 10.9.1944; the day before the Troilus had been torpedoed
and sunk by U859 300 miles north-east of Socotra Island; working in conjunction
with H.M.S. Nadder 95 survivors of the attack were rescued; Ormsby relinquished
his command of the Taff in June 1945, and qualified as a Torpedo Anti-Submarine
(TAS) Officer; he served at the Anti-Submarine Warfare Division of the Admiralty
before commanding H.M.S. St. Kitts (Destroyer), 1950-1951; in 1954 ´he joined
the NATO Staff at Fontainebleu, near Paris. His final appointment before his
retirement in 1959 was as employment development officer, with the task of
finding suitable jobs in commerce and industry for the numerous officers who
were leaving the Navy under the "Golden Bowler" scheme. Ormsby then became
Director of Studies at Greenlands Administrative Staff College, at Henley on
Thames. In 1977 he was a member of the working party which set up the Sue Ryder
home in the house at Nettlebed, Oxon, formerly owned by Peter Fleming and Celia
Johnson. In 1979 he became its first Administrator and Chairman of the house
committee. |
Orpen,
Arthur Frederick St George
"Willie"
Son (with four sisters) of Charles St George Orpen
(1865-1939), and Maria Cerise "Cherry" Darley (1874-1950).
Married ((06?).1940, Midhurst district, Sussex)
Augusta Dorothy Josephine Grace Morris (07.07.1905 - 02.1999); ...
children (one daughter?).
|
19.03.1903
Rathdown district, Ireland
-
23.05.1992
Liphook, Petersfield district, Hampshire
[St Luke's Churchyard, Milland, Chichester district, West Sussex] |
Midsh. |
15.01.1921 |
A/S.Lt. |
15.05.1923 |
S.Lt. |
30.01.1924 |
Lt. |
30.10.1925 |
Lt.Cdr. |
30.10.1933 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1937 |
Capt. |
30.06.1942 (retd
08.01.1952) |
|
OBE |
01.01.1942 |
New Year 1942 [investiture 10.03.1942] |
|
DSC |
25.11.1941 |
attacks U-boats Western Approaches 03.08.1941
[investiture 10.03.1942] |
Letter of Appreciation (for bombing of Yunnan
railway 01.02.1940)
Chevalier of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annan (for bombing of
Yunnan railway 01.02.1940) |
15.09.1916 |
|
|
commissioned, RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
15.02.1938 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Gannet (river gunboat) |
14.11.1940 |
- |
10.02.1942 |
HMS
Wanderer (modified W class destroyer) (OBE, DSC) |
15.02.1942 |
- |
07.1942 |
HMS
Hesperus (Havant class destroyer) |
29.09.1942 |
- |
(04.)1943 |
an
Assistant Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
17.05.1943 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
Assistant
Chief Staff Officer & Chief Staff Officer (Local Operations and Material),
Western Approaches Command [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] |
(10.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
01.04.1946 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
Commanding Officer, HMS Vindex (escort carrier) |
(07.1946) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Orr
Ewing,
David
Son of Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing
(1860-1903), and Augusta Helen Elizabeth
Boyle (1876-1967).
Married (15.03.1930, London) Mary Helen Stuart
'Molly' Noaks (1903-1994), daughter of the late Benjamin Noaks of
Bloemfontein, South Africa; two sons.
|
24.03.1900
Marylebone district, London
-
18.06.1964
Dunksey, Portpatrick district, Wigtownshire, Scotland |
Midsh. |
01.01.1916 |
A/S.Lt. |
15.01.1918 |
S.Lt. |
15.09.1918 |
Lt. |
31.08.1920
14.02.1921, seniority 15.06.1920 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.06.1928 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1933 |
Capt.
|
31.12.1940 (retd
07.01.1950) |
Cdre. 2nd cl. |
02.01.1946-14.12.1947 |
|
DSO |
04.05.1943 |
minelaying
Mediterranean [investiture 18.04.1944] |
|
Hkn |
26.08.1947 |
services
to Norway |
|
01.1913 |
- |
01.01.1916 |
training
establishment |
01.01.1916 |
|
|
entered
RN |
01.01.1916 |
- |
01.04.1918 |
HMS
Princess Royal (battlecruiser) |
01.04.1918 |
- |
28.04.1918 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for torpedo boat
destroyers gunnery course) |
29.04.1918 |
- |
11.05.1918 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for TCC in HMS Vernon] |
11.05.1918 |
- |
05.1919 |
HMS
Murray (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Attentive (RN base, Dover)] |
15.05.1919 |
- |
10.10.1919 |
HMS
Whitshed (torpedo-boat destroyer) [based at HMS Woolwich (torpedo-boat
destroyers depot ship)] |
10.10.1919 |
- |
20.03.1920 |
HMS
President (Admiralty) (additional; for courses at Cambridge University) |
26.04.1920 |
- |
13.06.1920 |
HMS
Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (additional; for navigation course for
rank of Lt.) |
14.06.1920 |
- |
31.10.1920 |
HMS
Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) |
01.11.1920 |
- |
20.12.1920 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (additional; for gunnery course for
rank of Lt.) |
21.12.1920 |
- |
31.12.1920 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for leave) |
01.01.1921 |
- |
26?.06.1921 |
HMS
Dido (light cruiser) |
09.06.1921 |
- |
06.1921 |
HMS
Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (for unemployed time) |
06.1921 |
- |
18.09.1922 |
HMS
Raleigh (heavy cruiser) (additional; on commissioning) |
19.09.1922 |
- |
20.09.1922 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) |
21.09.1922 |
- |
15.08.1923 |
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] |
17.08.1923 |
- |
26.09.1923 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) |
27.09.1923 |
- |
26.06.1925 |
long
gunnery
course, HMS Excellent (additional; to be lent to RN College, Greenwich)
[10.07.1924 lent to HMS Hecla (special torpedo vessel) as additional for HMS
Sarpedon (destroyer) as temporary for Reserve Fleet exercises] |
27.06.1925 |
- |
29.08.1926 |
HMS
Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for gunnery school) |
30.08.1926 |
- |
06.1927 |
2nd
Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
(07.1927) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
25.08.1927 |
- |
17.09.1928 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Africa) |
18.09.1928 |
- |
08.1929 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Calcutta (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, Africa Station |
21.12.1929 |
- |
15.12.1930 |
Gunnery
Officer, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
13.01.1931 |
- |
11.01.1932 |
staff
course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] |
12.01.1932 |
- |
08.01.1934 |
Gunnery
Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (Home Fleet) |
08.02.1934 |
- |
01.04.1934 |
HMS
Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (additional) |
02.04.1934 |
- |
1936 |
Staff
Officer (Operations) to Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments at Hong
Kong [HMS Tamar] |
(02.1936) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
15.07.1936 |
- |
29.01.1939 |
Executive
Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Mediterranean) |
(02.1939) |
- |
(04.1939) |
no
appointment listed |
05.04.1939 |
- |
17.01.1941 |
Executive
Officer, RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] |
18.01.1941 |
- |
05?.1941 |
Chief Staff
Officer to Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood
(battlecruiser)]
His son writes: "I remember him saying
that he left the Hood because there was not a proper job for him. I assume
that he must have left the ship at Scapa Flow, just before she sailed on her
last trip." |
01.06.1941 |
- |
19.08.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Diomede (light cruiser) (till 16.06.1941 additional) |
19.08.1942 |
- |
29.09.1942 |
HMS
President (additional; for duty on staff of Naval Commander-in-Chief,
Expeditionary Force) |
10.10.1942 |
- |
10.09.1943 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Abdiel (minelayer) (mined & sunk in Taranto harbour) |
(10.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
08.12.1943 |
- |
12.12.1945 |
Captain
Gunnery (in charge of Gunnery School), Devonport [HMS Drake (RN base,
Devonport)] |
12.12.1945 |
- |
01.01.1946 |
HMS
Victory (additional; for leave) |
05.01.1946 |
- |
14.12.1947 |
Commodore
Superintendent, HM Dockyard Malta [HMS St Angelo] (from 02.01.1946 as
additional) |
15.12.1947 |
- |
01.03.1948 |
HMS
Victory I (additional; for passage, leave & whilst unemployed) |
02.03.1948 |
- |
18.03.1948 |
HMS
Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for No. 19 Senior Course at School
of Land/Air Warfare, Old Sarum) |
19.03.1948 |
- |
13.04.1948 |
HMS
Victory I (additional; whilst unemployed) |
14.04.1948 |
- |
10.11.1949 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Anson (battleship) & as Flag Captain to Flag Officer Training
Squadrons |
10.11.1949 |
- |
07.01.1950 |
HMS
Victory I (additional; whilst unemployed) |
Lieutenant [413365], Wigtownshire Contingent, Army
Cadet Force, 01.11.1950-31.12.1955. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Wigtown, 09.01.1950.
Laird of Portpatrick. |
O'Sullivan,
Maurice John Alfred
|
14.11.1911
-
15.02.1985
Ringwood and Fordingbridge district, Hampshire |
...
|
...
|
Lt.
|
01.04.1935
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
01.04.1943
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1949 (retd
13.09.1958)
|
|
MID
|
14.05.1946
|
POW
|
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
(08.1939)
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
Fleet Air
Arm
|
29.08.1940
|
-
|
02.02.1941
|
pilot, 810
Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] (Swordfish shot down &
crew captured)
|
02.02.1941
|
-
|
1945
|
POW in
German captivity
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
11.05.1954
|
-
|
(01.)1956
|
on
staff of SLAW, RAF, Old Sarum & as Assistant Commandant (Navy), HMS Heron
(RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset)
[in that capacity also Commanding Officer, Mobile Naval Air Base (MONAB) 10
(RN Air Station, Henstridge, Dorset) ?]
|
18.06.1956
|
-
|
(01.1957)
|
Plans
Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
|
Oswald,
George Hamilton
Second son (with one brother and two sisters) of Maj. Julian Oswald, JP
(1860-1943), and Ethel Maud Sterling, of Auchincruive, Ayrshire.
Married (06.08.1932, Edinburgh, Scotland) Margaret Elliot Robertson (1907 -
1949), daughter (with one sister) of John Cameron Robertson (1875-1920), and
Mary Morton Elliot (1882-1954), of Newmore; two sons (one being
Adm. of the Fleet Sir John Julian Robertson Oswald, GCB).
|
11.11.1903
Cannobie, Scotland
-
30.05.1971
Newmore, Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland |
Midsh. |
15.09.1921 |
A/S.Lt. |
15.01.1924 |
S.Lt. |
15.07.1924 |
Lt. |
15.08.1925 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.08.1933 |
Cdr. |
30.06.1938 |
Capt. |
31.12.1943 (retd
08.07.1953) |
|
LegH |
? |
Mulberry harbours Arromanches |
|
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth.
15.05.1917 |
|
|
entered RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
10.08.1938 |
- |
(07.)1940 |
an
Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] |
19.07.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
HMS Fox (RN
base, Lerwick, Shetlands) (on staff of Flag Officer Shetlands, Adm. of the Fleet
The Earl of Cork and Orrery) |
(12.1940) |
- |
(04.1941) |
no
appointment listed |
26.05.1941 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
Executive
Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) |
(08.1943) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
20.08.1943 |
- |
(07.)1945 |
Admiralty
[HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services: for duty in War Cabinet
Office) |
|
|
|
Secretary to a number of sub-committees, such as
Inter-Service
Sub-Committee on Biological Warfare |
(10.1945) |
|
|
no appointment listed |
15.01.1946 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Commanding Officer, HMS
London (cruiser) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Ottaway,
Gilbert William
Married 1st ((06?).1924, Newbury district,
Berkshire) Edith E. Read.
Married 2nd ((12?).1947, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Emily New (née
Courtney).
|
11.11.1902
Reading, Bradfield district, Berkshire
-
20.02.1987
Bath district, Somerset |
Seaman |
? [J93049] |
Gnr. |
01.04.1931 |
Cd.Gnr. |
01.10.1941 (retd
12.11.1946) |
Lt. (retd) |
12.11.1946 |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
27.09.1938 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
HMS Phoebe
(cruiser) |
(07.1940) |
- |
(10.1940) |
no
appointment listed |
13.11.1940 |
- |
(02.)1943 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
22.03.1943 |
- |
(06.)1943 |
RN
Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] |
28.06.1943 |
- |
27.07.1944 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) |
28.07.1944 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
HMS
Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (for bookwriting duties) |
|
Otway-Ruthven,
Robert Jocelyn Oliver
Son of Robert Mervyn Bermingham Otway-Ruthven, and Margaret Casement.
Married (14.08.1926) Vera Beryl Martin Cooke; one son, one daughter.
|
12.03.1901
Rathdrum, Ireland
-
17.05.1974 |
... |
... |
Lt. |
03.06.1922 |
Lt.Cdr. |
03.06.1930 |
Cdr. |
31.12.1935 |
Capt. |
30.06.1943 (retd 29.07.1952) |
|
DSO |
14.11.1944 |
Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)
[investiture 02.02.1945] |
|
MID |
16.08.1940 |
Dunkirk |
|
15.09.1914 |
|
|
entered RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
24.05.1938 |
- |
(02.)1940 |
an
Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President
(additional)] |
01.03.1940 |
- |
(02.)1941 |
HMS Prince
of Wales (King George V class battleship) |
03.1941 |
- |
(12.1941) |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Flamingo (Black Swan class sloop) |
16.01.1942 |
- |
11.07.1943 |
Executive
Officer,
HMS Glasgow
(Southampton class cruiser) |
24.07.1943 |
- |
31.08.1943 |
HMS Victory
(additional; whilst unemployed) |
01.09.1943 |
- |
(06.1944) |
Senior
Officer Assault Group (SOAG) J2 [HMS Victory (additional), from 01.11.1943 HMS
Odyssey (additional)] (Normandy invasion) (DSO) |
24.02.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Leander (cruiser) |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Ouvry,
Aymé Arthur Carrington
Eldest son (with three brothers and one sister) of Ernest Carrington Ouvry
(1866-1951), and Elinor Southwood Lewes (1877-1974), of Crockham Hill, Kent.
Married (11.08.1934, St Peter's, Southsea, Hampshire) Susan Phyllis Alderson
(23.05.1912 - 04.2002), younger daughter of Sg.Capt. Percy Francis Alderson, RN
(1876-1954), and Kathleen Ellen Key Swindale (1877-1966), of Southsea,
Hampshire; one son, one daughter.
|
13.03.1904
Paddington, London
-
11.03.1989
Tunbridge Wells district, Kent |
... |
... |
A/S.Lt. |
15.05.1924 |
S.Lt. |
15.01.1925 |
Lt. |
15.10.1926 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.10.1934 (retd 15.05.1946) |
Cdr. (retd) |
15.05.1946? |
|
DSC |
10.02.1942 |
E-boat action Convoy FN 31 19.11.1941 [decoration
presented] |
|
MID |
27.08.1940 |
Dutch, Belgian & French coasts 05.1940 |
|
15.09.1917 |
|
|
commissioned RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
08.1939 |
- |
20.11.1939 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Mastiff (anti-submarine warfare trawler) |
20.12.1939 |
- |
(04.)1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Westminster (W class destroyer) |
02.05.1942 |
- |
10.08.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Westminster (W class destroyer) |
(12.)1942 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
Staff
Officer Seconded Personnel, Directorate of the South African Naval Forces,
Defence Headquarters [lent from RN] |
|
Ouvry,
John Garnault
Delahaize
Younger son of Rev. John Delahaize Ouvry
(1862?-1948), honorary Chaplain to the Forces, and Mary Frances Henrietta Hill
(1867-1945), of Sherborne, Dorset.
Married (18.08.1928, St Peter's Church, Melbourne) Lorna Evison (16.01.1908 -
(06?).1978), daughter of Ernest Edward Evison, of Old Coulsdon, Surrey; four sons.
|
19.09.1896
Lymington, Hampshire
-
19.02.1993
Sway, New Forest district, Hampshire |
A/S.Lt. |
? |
S.Lt. |
15.03.1917 |
Lt. |
15.09.1918
16.06.1923, seniority 15.06.1918 |
Lt.Cdr. |
15.06.1926 (retd
19.09.1941) |
Cdr. (retd) |
19.09.1941
(reverted to retd 1946) |
|
DSO |
23.12.1939 |
securing &
stripping live enemy mines at Shoeburyness 24.11.1939 [investiture 19.12.1939] |
|
Education: Bradfield College; RN Colleges, Osborne &
Dartmouth.
09.1909 |
|
|
entered
RN |
28.09.1921 |
- |
(04.1922) |
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school ship) (additional; qualifying for torpedo duties) |
01.06.1923 |
- |
(08.1923) |
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school ship) |
16.07.1924 |
- |
(05.)1926 |
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean) |
03.08.1926 |
- |
(07.1927) |
HMS
Defiance IV (torpedo school ship, Devonport) |
26.03.1928 |
- |
20.03.1930 |
Torpedo
Officer, HMAS Cerberus (Flinders Naval Depot) (and for charge of Torpedo
School) [on loan to RAN] |
(04.1930) |
|
|
no appointment
listed |
23.07.1930 |
- |
(09.)1932 |
Torpedo
Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Home Fleet) |
08.11.1932 |
- |
(10.)1936 |
Torpedo
School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] |
05.12.1936 |
- |
05.1937 |
HMS
Terror II (RN base, Singapore) |
07.05.1937 |
- |
(04.)1946 |
Mining
Department, Torpedo School and Experimental Establishment, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] |
Justice of the Peace (JP), Hampshire, 1950. |
Owen,
Charles Alexander Headon
Married (1950) Felicity Heygate; one son, one
daughter.
|
14.11.1915
Brighton
-
02.05.2001
London |
Cadet
|
01.01.1933
|
Midsh.
|
01.09.1933
|
A/S.Lt.
|
01.01.1936
|
S.Lt.
|
01.10.1936
|
Lt.
|
16.09.1938
|
A/Lt.Cdr.
|
01.11.1944
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
16.09.1946 (retd
07.12.1947)
|
|
DSC
|
18.05.1943
|
North
Russian convoy (battle of the Barents Sea 31.12.1942) [investiture 29.06.1943]
|
|
Education: RN College, Dartmouth
01.01.1933
|
-
|
09.08.1933
|
HMS
Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)
|
10.08.1933
|
-
|
(01.)1934
|
HMS
Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
11.01.1934
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
HMS
Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet)
|
01.01.1936
|
-
|
30.08.1936
|
promotion
course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]
|
31.08.1936
|
-
|
(02.)1937
|
promotion
course, Portsmouth
|
(07.1937)
|
|
|
no
appointment listed
|
15.08.1937
|
-
|
(04.)1940
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (China & Home Fleet)
|
(10.1940)
|
|
|
HMS St
Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) *
|
1940?
|
-
|
1942?
|
training
staff, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] **
|
27.10.1942
|
-
|
(02.1943)
|
Executive
Officer, HMS Obdurate (destroyer)
|
22.03.1943
|
-
|
(06.)1944
|
Training
and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]
|
29.08.1944
|
-
|
(10.)1944
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Burnham (destroyer)
|
18.11.1944
|
-
|
(01.)1945
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Wells (destroyer)
|
03.1945
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
Commanding
Officer, HMS Stevenstone (destroyer)
|
Education officer for United Steel in Workington.
Government adviser to the Treasury and the Board of Trade on productivity. Had
opened, in Reading, one of the first Wimpy hamburger bars in the country (1958).
Founded one of the earliest firms of head hunters in Britain (EAL). Writer &
journalist.
Published: No more heroes (1956); Independent Traveller (1966); Britons
Abroad (968); The Maltese Islands (1969); Grand Days of Travel (1979); Just
Across the Channel (1983); Plain yarns from the fleet (1997).
* indexed, but not listed as such
* (02.1941), (12.1941) & (08.1942) indexed as HMS Victory, but lost listed
as such
|
Owen,
Charles Edward Ansell
|
14.10.1908
-
08.10.2001 |
... |
... |
Cdr. |
30.06.1944 (retd
14.10.1958) |
|
DSC |
? |
? |
|
Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.
... |
- |
... |
... |
? |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS Victorious |
... |
- |
... |
... |
|
Owen,
Hilary Dorsett
|
25.08.1894
PlasynGrove,
Ellesmere, Shropshire
-
18.04.1980 |
Midsh.
|
1912
|
Lt.
|
15.05.1916
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
15.05.1924
|
Cdr.
|
31.12.1930 (retd
25.08.1944)
|
A/Capt.
|
> 08.1939,
< 08.1942
|
Capt.
(retd)
|
25.08.1944
|
|
CMG
|
01.01.1944
|
Naval
Attaché Lisbon
|
|
Education: Belvedere, Brighton; RN Colleges Osborne and
Dartmouth
15.05.1907
|
|
|
entered
RN
|
|
|
|
served
at sea in European War, and later commanded HMS Aphis in China and HMS Rochester
on the Africa Station
|
...
|
-
|
...
|
...
|
08.10.1938
|
-
|
1944
|
Naval
Attaché Lisbon
|
1944
|
-
|
1945
|
SHAEF
|
|
Owen,
Richard Arthur James
Son of late Captain Leonard E. Owen,
OBE, JP.
Married (1941) Jean Sophia (née Bluett); one son, two daughters.
Lived at Fordingbridge, Hants.
|
26.08.1910
Gravesend district, Kent
-
10.10.1997
Salisbury, Wiltshire
|
Paym.Cadet
|
1927
|
Paym.Midsh.
|
01.09.1928
|
Paym.S.Lt.
|
01.06.1930
|
Paym.Lt.
|
01.06.1932
|
Paym.Lt.Cdr.
|
01.06.1940
?, seniority 01.12.1939
|
A/Paym.Cdr.
|
<
06.1943
|
Cdr.
(S)
|
30.06.1945
|
A/Capt.
(S)
|
?
|
Capt.
(S)
|
30.06.1954
|
R.Adm.
|
07.07.1961
(retd 04.04.1964)
|
|
CB
|
08.06.1963
|
HM's
birthday 1963
|
|
Education: Sevenoaks School
1927
|
|
|
joined
RN
|
26.04.1928
|
-
|
(08.1929)
|
for
duty in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen
Elizabeth (battleship)]
|
01.10.1929
|
-
|
(02.1931)
|
HMS
Hawkins (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)
|
26.05.1931
|
-
|
(01.1932)
|
HMS
London (cruiser) (Mediterranean)
|
19.07.1932
|
-
|
(09.1932)
|
Secretary
to Captain (D), Reserve Fleet [HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader)] (Nore)
|
26.04.1933
|
-
|
(07.1935)
|
for
duty in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, China Station [HMS Kent
(cruiser)] *
|
20.05.1936
|
-
|
(02.1938)
|
HMS
Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)
|
26.04.1938
|
-
|
(10.1938)
|
HMS
Vindictive (cruiser; cadet training cruiser)
|
12.01.1939
|
-
|
(04.1939)
|
HMS
Victory (for duty with Naval Air Stations)
|
24.05.1939
|
-
|
(04.1940)
|
Secretary
of the Chief Staff Officer to the Rear-Admiral Naval Air Stations [HMS
Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]
|
(02.1941)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
01.11.1941
|
-
|
(10.1943)
|
HMS
President V (accountant ratings training establishment, Highgate School,
London)
|
(12.1943)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
19.01.1944
|
-
|
(04.1946)
|
HMS
Cumberland (cruiser)
|
08.02.1947
|
-
|
(07.1948)
|
Assistant
Drafting Officer, RN Barracks Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
|
(05.1950)
|
|
|
HMS
Stag (RN base, Port Said) **
|
(05.1953)
|
|
|
HMS
President ***
|
20.07.1953
|
-
|
(31.03.1955)
|
Third
Naval Member, New Zealand Naval Board
|
(01.1956)
|
|
|
no appointment
listed
|
28.06.1960
|
-
|
(07.1961)
|
Commanding Officer,
HMS Phoenicia (RN base, Manoel Island, Malta) & Base Supply Officer, Malta
|
19.01.1962
|
-
|
1964
|
Director-General
of
Personal Services and Officer Appointments (DGPS), Admiralty [HMS President]
|
* (02.1936) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
** still indexed as such, but not liited, while the base had already been paid
off
*** indexed, but not listed as such
|
Owens,
George Edward Mills
Son of George Henry Owens, and Sarah Jessie
Mills.
|
(09?).1908
St Asaph district, Denbighshire /
Flintshire
-
24.05.1941
(MPK) [age 32]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 45, column 1]
|
Prob. S.Lt. RNR
|
09.02.1933
|
S.Lt. RNR
|
08.06.1937,
seniority 09.02.1933
|
Lt. RNR
|
07.12.1937,
seniority 07.02.1937
|
Prob. Lt.
|
29.08.1938
|
A/Lt.
|
29.05.1939
|
Lt.
|
09.1940,
seniority 22.08.1932
|
Lt.Cdr.
|
03.1941,
seniority 22.08.1940
|
|
(10.1938)
|
-
|
(08.1939)
|
no
appointment listed
|
12.08.1939
|
-
|
24.05.1941
|
HMS Hood
(battlecruiser)
[missing, presumed killed when the ship was sunk
by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic]
|
|
Owens,
Harry Leslie
|
18.07.1905
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
03.01.1987
Southampton district, Hampshire |
Seaman |
? [J100717] |
Petty Officer |
(1938) |
T/A/Gnr. (T) |
23.02.1944 |
T/Gnr. (T) |
1945?, seniority
23.02.1944 (reld 30.03.1946) |
|
LSGCM |
08.1938 |
? |
|
(1938) |
|
|
HMS
Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) |
24.06.1944 |
- |
(10.)1944 |
HMS
Despatch (cruiser) |
(01.1945) |
|
|
no
appointment listed |
03.1945 |
- |
(07.1945) |
HMS
Resource (fleet repair ship) |
|
Oxborrow,
Charles Ernest
Son of William Oxborrow (1885-1918), and
Eliza Dewhirst (1888-1977).
Married (23.09.1939, Staines district, Middlesex)
[later Third Officer WRNS] Hazel
Elaine Bowser (24.07.1912 - 10.09.1985), daughter of of Idris John Bowser (1888-1961), and
Mary Eliza Marks (1889-1970); one son [died in infancy]. |
17.10.1916
Woodbridge district, Suffolk
-
25.11.1942
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 1] |
... |
... |
S.Lt. |
01.01.1938 |
Lt. |
16.05.1939 |
|
DSC |
05.05.1942 |
8 war patrols Mediterranean 04-09.1941 [presented
to next-of-kin] |
|
... |
- |
... |
... |
21.06.1939 |
- |
(09.)1939 |
HMS
Vanquisher (V class destroyer) |
07.10.1939 |
- |
(06.)1940 |
HMS H 43 (H
class submarine) |
07.1940 |
- |
(10.)1940 |
HMS Utmost
(U class submarine) |
07.11.1940 |
- |
(04.)1942 |
First
Lieutenant, HMS Utmost (U class submarine) (DSC) |
21.05.1942 |
- |
25.11.1942 |
Commanding
Officer, HMS Unshaken (U class submarine) |
|
Oxley,
Christopher Bernard
Son (with one brother and five sisters) of Adm. Charles Lister Oxley
(1841-1920), and Emily Kearsley (1847-1898).
Married (26.04.1922, St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ardrossan) Kathleen
Maude Eginton Grant (1895 - ), only child of Charles Edward Grant, DL, of Monkcastle; ...
children (daughter Mary Elizabeth Darley Oxley married
S.Lt. (A) John Campbell Arbuthnott,
RNVR)
|
21.01.1894
Mests Horn, Ripon
district, Yorkshire
-
11.01.1953
Morley House, Ware, Hertfordshire |
Lt. |
15.05.1916 (emgcy
22.05.1923) |
Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) |
15.05.1924 |
A/Cdr.
(emgcy) |
03.02.1944 |
|
DSC |
06.09.1916 |
? |
|
15.01.1907 |
|
|
entered RN |
... |
- |
... |
... |
02.09.1939 |
- |
(04.1946) |
Trade
Division, Admiralty [HMS President] |
|
|
|
|
|