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Royal Navy (RN) Officers
1939-1945

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PAYN

PEAC
to
PIZE

PLAC
to
PUXL

A.G. Peace to E.F. Pizey

Peace,
Alfred Geoffrey

Third son of late Alfred Peace, JP, of
Bridgwater.
Married (30.03.1910, St Jude's Church, Southsea) Maud Scafe, youngest daughter of Gen. Charles Harrington Scafe, Royal Marines (1884-1918), and Sarah Anne Morris (?-1928); two sons, two daughters (S/Lt. (A) Anthony Peace, RNVR).

07.08.1885
Bridgwater, Somerset
-
18.01.1940
(died) [age 54]
[Glasgow Crematorium, column 2]

... ...

Cdr. 31.12.1918 (retd 07.08.1931; own request)

Capt. (retd) 07.08.1931

DSO 11.05.1916 ?

MID WW I ?

15.09.1900 entered RN

... - ... ...

18.10.1939 - 18.01.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Chitral (armed merchant cruiser) [tender to HMS Cochrane] (died of natural causes)

Peachey,
Allan Thomas George Cumberland

Only son of late Doctor Allan Thomas Peachey and late Alice Katherine Peachey (née le Fleming).
Married (10.12.1929) Nina Muriel Paterson (née Sutherland); no children.

23.05.1896
-
15.03.1967
London

Midsh. 01.05.1915

S.Lt. 15.03.1917

Lt. 15.03.1919

Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1927

Cdr. 31.12.1933

Capt. 31.12.1940 (retd 07.01.1950)

Cdre. 2nd cl. 10.1947

CBE 07.01.1949 withdrawal of troops from Palestine [investiture 01.03.1949]

DSO 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche [investiture 24.10.1944]

LM 01.02.1949 landings Salerno & Anzio

Geo I 15.12.1942 escorting Greek king to UK [award posted]

Education: Haileybury; Trinity College, Cambridge.

09.1914 entered RN

1914 - 1918 served European War, 1914-1918; Grand Fleet, 2nd Battle Squadron (Jutland), 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron, also "Q" Ships

1915 HMS King George V (battleship) (battle of Jutland)

1917 HMS Princess Royal

1918 acting Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck

20.01.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Bee (gunboat) (China) (and for W/T and Staff Intelligence duties on staff of Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse)

served in China & the Mediterranean

26.04.1934 - (02.)1936 Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

28.05.1936 - (06.)1938 Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Home Fleet) and on the staff of Rear-Admiral L.D.I. Mackinnon, commanding 2nd Battle Squadron

(08.1938) no appointment listed

15.09.1938 - 31.01.1941 Staff Officer (Operations), Coast of Scotland [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)]

01.02.1941 - 15.11.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Queen of Bermuda (armed merchant cruiser)

25.11.1941 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

03.04.1944 - 23.04.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for foreign service leave & whilst unemployed)

24.04.1944 - 30.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)

28.06.1944 - 02.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Enterprise (light cruiser)

03.10.1944 - 19.11.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; whilst unemployed)

20.11.1944 - 14.12.1944 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; temporary)

15.12.1944 - 17.10.1945 HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (additional; as Senior Officer [...] Force W)

18.10.1945 - HMS Odyssey (accounting base for Naval Parties) (additional; as Captain Landing Craft Force W)

10.04.1946 - 20.05.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Resource (fleet repair ship) & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth

BuildUp Group Far Eastern Assault Force

10.1947 - (07.)1948 Commodore, Palestine and Levant [HMS Stag (RN base, Port Said)]

Attached HM Foreign Service, 1951-1954.

Pead,
Herbert
H. Pead
Married ...; ... children.

11.06.1901
Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
17.04.1974
Southampton district, Hampshire

Seaman ? [M27320]

A/Wt.Eng. 01.01.1937

Wt.Eng. 1938?, seniority 01.01.1937

Cd.Eng. [= Sen.Cd.Eng.] 01.04.1945 (retd 11.06.1951)

Lt. (E) (retd) 11.06.1951

(02.1937) short course of instruction

01.03.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

24.04.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Dunoon (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean)

21.09.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Vulcan (trawler; MTB tender) (Mediterranean)

07.08.1940 - (02.)1941 1st Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla [HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe)]

(12.1941) - (08.)1942 on staff of Engineer Overseer, Southampton and West of England District (Woolston, Southampton) under Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

21.09.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Folkestone (sloop)

(08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed

31.01.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Londonderry (sloop)

17.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

25.08.1947 - (05.)1949 HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)

10.06.1949 - (05.)1951 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath, Angus)

Pead,
Horace Rance
H.R. Pead (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Married ((06?).1926, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Hilda D. Mintram.

10.01.1904
North End, Portsmouth, Hampshire
-
24.04.1966
Hampshire

Chief Engine Room Artificer ? [P/M 35037]

T/A/Wt.Eng. 14.03.1942

T/Wt.Eng. 1943?, seniority 14.03.1942 (reld > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941

MID 13.04.1943 Operation Torch (North Africa landings 08.11.1942)

MID 05.09.1944 mined & damaged Channel 19.05.1944

(1941) HMS Faulknor (destroyer) (despatches)

27.03.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Venomous (destroyer) (despatches)

(06.1943) - (10.1943) no appointment listed

10.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Stormcloud (Algerine class minesweeper) (despatches)

(10.1944) no appointment listed

(01.1945) HMS Algerine (Algerine class minesweeper) *

27.02.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Ceres (cruiser)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peard,
[Sir] Kenyon Harry Terrell
K.H.T. Peard (Photo courtesy of Mr Christopher Thorne)
Son of Henry T. Peard.
Married (1935) Mercy Leila Bone; one son, one daughter.

01.06.1902
Croydon, Surrey
-
14.04.1994
Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire

A/S.Lt.
15.01.1922

S.Lt.
15.08.1923, seniority 15.07.1922

Lt.
15.12.1923

Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1931

Cdr.
31.12.1938

Capt.
31.12.1945

Capt. (L)
03.12.1946, seniority 31.12.1945

R.Adm.
17.08.1955 (retd 1958)

KBE
12.06.1958
HM's birthday 1958

CBE
07.06.1951
HM's birthday 1951

MID
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 1944

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth.

15.01.1916 entered RN

1919

went to sea

(08.1923)

short course of instruction

31.03.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Clematis (sloop) (Mediterranean)

28.04.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)

05.01.1928
-
(06.1928)
qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon]

25.05.1929
-
29.09.1929
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

30.09.1929
-
22.10.1931
Torpedo Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

23.10.1931
-
(06.)1933
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)

25.07.1933
-
(01.1934)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & as Fleet Torpedo Officer, East Indies

12.06.1935
-
(07.1935)
HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (temporary)

06.09.1935
-
(02.)1936
Torpedo Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & as Fleet Torpedo Officer, China Station

12.1936
-
(10.1938)
Torpedo Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China)

03.01.1939
-
(04.1940)
Officer-in-Charge, Whitehead Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)

(02.1941)

no appointment listed

06.1941
-
(12.1941)
Executive Officer, HMS Cleopatra (cruiser)

02.07.1942
-
(10.)1943
Executive Officer, HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

10.1943
-
(12.1943)
Executive Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser)

29.02.1944
-
(07.1945)
Executive Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser)

(04.1946)

HMS Princess Augusta (RN base, Hamburg) *

03.12.1946

transferred to Electrical Branch

10.1947
-
(05.1949)
Commanding Officer, HMS Ariel (A.R. Mechanics' Training Establishment, Risley, Warrington, Lancashire)

(05.1950)

HMS President *

06.02.1952
-
17.08.1955
also: Naval ADC to the Queen

05.01.1953
-
(05.1953)
Commanding Officer, HMS Collingwood (training establishment for radar and electrical ratings, Fareham, near Portsmouth)

(04.1955)

no appointment listed

17.08.1955
-
1958
Director, Naval Electrical Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

AMIEE
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pears,
Steuart Arnold
S.A. Pears (Photo courtesy of Mr Alistair Erskine)

Eldest son of Steuart Durand Pears (1859-1953), President Municipality, Madras, India.
Married (12.10.1916, Gateshead, Co. Durham) Anne Biggins; one son, two daughters.

24.02.1894
India
-
22.04.1978
Birtley House, Guildford, Surrey

Midsh. 15.09.1911

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1914

S.Lt. 30.07.1914

Lt. 30.04.1916

Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1924 (retd 23.09.1926; medically unift)

Cdr. (retd) 24.02.1934

A/Capt. 06.08.1940

Capt. (retd) 18.03.1947

R.Adm. (retd) 23.02.1953 (reverted to retd 1956)

CBE 08.06.1950 HM's birthday 1950

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne (15.01.1907-1909) and Dartmouth (1909-15.09.1911).

15.01.1907 entered RN

15.09.1911 - 07.03.1913 HMS Hercules (Home Fleet)

07.03.1913 - 04.1914 HMS King George V (Home Fleet)

07.1914 - 07.1914 HMS Venus (mobilisation)

29.07.1914 - 19.08.1916 HMS Falmouth (from 11.05.1916 for gunnery duties) (survivor of sinking)

25.09.1916 - 22.12.1916 HMS Cockatrice

01.01.1917 - 18.02.1919 HMS Oak

18.02.1919 - 00.08.1920 qualifying for gunnery duties, HMS Excellent

09.08.1920 - 01.10.1921 HMS Excellent (on staff)

01.10.1921 - 01.09.1923 Gunnery Officer, HMS Campbell & for duty with 3rd Flotilla

01.09.1923 - 24.04.1924 HMS Courageous & for gunnery duties in Reserve Fleet

24.04.1924 - 04.05.1925 HMS Centurion & for gunnery duties in Reserve Fleet

04.05.1925 - 06.19126 HMS Curlew (Executive Officer Visit of Prince of Wales to S. America)

1925 RN Hospital Haslar (lost right leg)

21.03.1927 - 15.04.1928 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich (until 01.03.1928 on probation) [HMS President]

15.04.1928 - 01.01.1932 Assistant Superintendent, Research Department, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty (Woolwich)

01.01.1932 - 01.09.1932 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Woolwich

01.09.1932 - 01.01.1936 Naval Ordnance Inspection Officer, Bull Point

01.01.1936 - 03.1939 Naval Ordnance Inspecting Officer [later: Deputy Inspector of Naval Ordnance], Mediterranean Station

03.1939 - 01.02.1940 Naval Ordnance Board (temporary)

01.02.1940 - 17.04.1944 Acting Superintendent, Small Arms Experimental Establishment, Foulness, from ... 1940 Pendine [under Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty] [HMS President]

17.04.1944 - 19.03.1947 Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]

19.03.1947 - 23.02.1953 Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] (CBE)

(05.)1953 - (01.)1955 Vice-President Ordnance Board

1955 - 02.03.1956 President Ordnance Board

Master, Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick, 1958-1966. Deputy Lieutenant Warwickshire, 1959.

Pearse,
Anthony Allen
A.A. Pearse 05.1923
-

... ...

Lt. 09.08.1944

... ...

Cdr. 30.06.1958 (retd 31.05.1976)

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

... - ... ...

? - (10.1945) HMS Gravelines

... - ... ...

Pearse,
Robert Ian
R.I. Pearse
Changed last name to Langlands Pearse by deed poll of 08.06.1949.
Son of George Langlands, and Florence May Davies (Mrs Hugh Pearse), of Clive Place, Esher, Surrey.
Married 1st ((12?).1949, Westminster district, London; divorced 1965) Margaretta Jane Wright (1928-1984), daughter of Edward FitzWalter Wright (1902-1957), and Jane Fairie Wilson McGuffie (?-1989); three sons.
Married 2nd (1965) Jennifer Prudence Brocas Burrows, daughter of Lt.Gen. Montagu Brocas Burrows, CB, DSO, MC (1894-1967) of Oakendene, Cowfold, Sussex, and Molly Le Bas; three sons. 09.10.1924
Darlington district, Co. Durham / North Riding of Yorkshire
-
06.05.2010

Midsh.
01.01.1942

A/S.Lt.
01.09.1943

S.Lt.
14.02.1944, seniority 16.10.1943

Lt.
16.09.1945

Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1953

Cdr.
31.12.1960 (retd 16.05.1969; own request)

MID
22.09.1942
Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 11/15.06.1942)

01.01.1942
-
(06.)1942
HMS Liverpool (cruiser)

21.06.1942
-
(06.)1943
HMS Malaya (battleship) *

(10.1943)
-
(12.1943)
no appointment listed

16.02.1944
-
(06.)1944
HMS Vidette (destroyer)

07.12.1944
-
(07.1945)
HMS Penn (destroyer)

03.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Aphis (river gunboat)

(07.1948)

no appointment listed

13.03.1950
-
(05.1950)
HMS Sea Eagle (joint anti-submarine school, Londonderry)

17.02.1952
-
(05.1953)
HMS Newcastle (cruiser)

01.11.1954
-
(01.1956)
HMS Vernon (torpedo & anti-submarine training establishment, Portsmouth) (for miscellaneous duties)

15.05.1961
-
(02.1963)
Fleet Torpedo & Anti-Submarine Officer (FTASO), Far Eastern Fleet [HMS Terror]

19.09.1966
-
(02.1969)
Deputy Director, Joint Anti-Submarine School [HMS Sea Eagle]

* (08.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Pearson,
John Cox
J.C. Pearson
Son of Eng.Capt. John Cox Pearson, RN (1877-c.1960), and Mabel Evans.
Married (1948) Mary Patricia "Molly" ...; two daughters, one son.
27.10.1910
Plymouth, Devon
-
13.01.1990
Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire

Cadet (E)
?

Midsh. (E)
01.01.1930

S.Lt. (E)
19.05.1932, seniority 01.03.1932

A/Lt. (E)
09.02.1934, seniority 14.12.1933

Lt. (E)
12.06.1934, seniority 01.10.1933

Lt.Cdr. (E)
01.10.1941

Cdr. (E)
31.12.1946 (retd 27.10.1960)

A/Capt. (E)
12.01.1957

OBE
02.01.1956
New Year 1956 [investiture 28.02.1956]

MID
01.01.1943
New Year 1943

16.01.1930
-
(01.)1934
engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham

03.01.1934
-
(11.1934)
a Junior Engineer Officer, HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station)

12.02.1935
-
03.10.1935
a Junior Engineer Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies)

04.10.1935
-
03.05.1936
a Junior Engineer Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean)

04.05.1936
-
22.08.1937
a Junior Engineer Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training ship) [04.1937 awarded prize of £10 in addition to certificate of merit on the result of annual examination in foreign languages [Spanish] held in Dec. 1936]

23.08.1937
-
09.01.1938
HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

10.01.1938
-
06.01.1939
an Engineer Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor; cadet training ship & turret drill ship, Portsmouth)

07.01.1939
-
06.07.1939
Engineer Officer, HMS Frobisher (cruiser; cadet training ship, Portsmouth)

07.07.1939
-
(02.)1941
Engineer Officer, HMS Nigeria (cruiser)

27.10.1941
-
(06.)1943
Engineer Officer, HMS Javelin (destroyer)

(08.1943)

no appointment listed

21.08.1943
-
(06.)1944
Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

Naval Attaché in North Russia (Archangelsk & Murmansk)

(10.1944)

no appointment listed

(01.1945)

no appointment listed

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

Admiralty [HMS President] *

(07.1948)

Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] *

(05.1949)

no appointment listed

11.04.1950
-
(05.1950)
Engineer Officer on staff of Flag Officer, Germany [HMS Royal Albert]

01.11.1951
-
11.01.1957
Admiralty [HMS President] (for Naval Intelligence Division)

12.01.1957
-
21.03.1960
Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence (Technical), Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

MIMechE.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pearson,
Leonard Ernest
L.E. Pearson
From Rochester.

19.12.1886
Stoke Newington, London
-
02.11.1972
Reading district, Berkshire

Seaman
? [225076]

A/Wt.Offr.
?

Mate
?

Lt.
18.04.1916

Lt.Cdr.
18.04.1924 (retd 10.02.1927)

Cdr. (retd)
10.02.1927 (reverted to retd < 04.1946)

DSC
22.06.1917
ramming a German minelaying U-boat off the Thames estuary

DSC
05.09.1944
minesweeping Nore area 05-06.1944 [decoration posted]

MID
01.01.1941
New Year 1941

(01.1919)

no appointment listed

01.12.1922
-
14.11.1923 HMS Birmingham (light cruiser)

15.11.1923
-
(1924?)
HMS Lowestoft (light cruiser)

22.08.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Blenheim (cruiser; CRMS depot ship, Sheerness) (additional; for duty with Central Reserve Minesweepers)

01.12.1925
-
(05.1926)
Commanding Officer, HMS Dee (fishery protection gunboat (trawler))

03.10.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS Beaver (RN base, Humber) (for miscellaneous duties) (despatches)

04.1941
-
(08.)1943
HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry)

03.09.1943
-
10.11.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Bunting (auxiliary patrol base, Harwich) (Bar to DSC)

(01.1945)

no appointment listed

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

Pedder,
[Sir] Arthur Reid
A.R. Pedder
Son of late Sir John Pedder, KBE, CB and Frances Evelyn, eldest daughter of W. Arthur Sharpe, Highgate.
Married (1934) Dulcie, daughter of O.L. Bickford; two sons.

personal memoirs

06.07.1904
Chelsea, London
-
22.06.1995
Surrey South-Western district, Surrey

Midsh.
15.05.1922

A/S.Lt.
15.09.1924

S.Lt.
?

Lt.
15.04.1926

Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1934

Cdr.
30.06.1937

Capt.
30.06.1944

R.Adm.
08.07.1953

V.Adm.
10.12.1956 (retd 04.11.1959)

KBE
01.01.1959
New Year 1959

CB
02.01.1956
New Year 1956

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (15.01.1918-1921); Imperial Defence College (1948, idc)

15.05.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)

01.01.1925
-
(01.1925)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

01.03.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Capetown (cruiser) (North America and West Indies)

02.03.1929
-
(04.)1930
HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

21.04.1930
-
(10.1930)
observers' course [HMS Excellent]

06.01.1931
-
(02.)1931
HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (and as Acting Observer)

06.01.1931?
-
(01.)1932
observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)

25.08.1932
-
(01.)1934
observer, HMS Sussex (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

12.12.1934
-
(02.1936)
observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)

18.01.1937
-
(07.)1937
observer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (China)

13.12.1937
-
16.07.1938
HMS President (additional, for service at Naval Air Division, Admiralty)

17.07.1938
-
1940
Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(04.1940)

no appointment listed

20.06.1940
-
1942
Executive Officer, HMS Mauritius (cruiser) (East Indies & Pacific, then Indian Ocean & South Atlantic)

(08.1942)
-
(02.1943)
Naval Air Division, Admiralty *

01.02.1943
-
26.03.1944
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

27.03.1944
-
1945
Assistant Director of Plans (Air), Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

1945
-
01.1946
Commanding Officer, HMS Khedive (escort carrier)

01.02.1946
-
(10.)1947
Commanding Officer, HMS Phoebe **

01.1949
-
13.02.1950
Deputy Director of Plans (J), Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(05.1950)

no appointment listed

1950
-
1952
Fourth Naval Member of Australian Commonwealth Naval Board

(05.)1953
-
1954
Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Warfare), Admiralty [HMS President]

21.12.1954
-
05.1956
Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers [HMS Centaur]

(01.1957)

no appointment listed

1957
-
1959
Commander, Allied Naval Forces, Northern Europe

* indexed, but not listed as such
** (07.1948) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Peers,
Robert Witherington
R.W. Peers
Second son (with two brothers) of Sir Charles Reed Peers, Kt, CBE, FBA, FRIBA (1868-1952), and Gertrude Katherine Shepherd (1870-1953), of Chiselhampton House, Oxon.
Married (02.09.1930, St Michael's Church, Highgate, London) Nancy Birkmyre Harvey (1900? - 07.1988), elder daughter of Eustace John Harvey, MA (1866-1935), and Mrs Agnes Harvey, of 18, Hampstead Lane, Highgate, London N6; .. children (two sons?).

19.01.1903
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
19.02.1987
Surrey Mid Eastern district, Surrey

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1923

S.Lt. 30.01.1924

Lt. 30.12.1925

Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1933 (retd 19.01.1948)

A/Cdr. > 06.1944, < 10.1944

Cdr. (retd) 19.01.1948

15.09.1916 entered RN

(08.1923) no appointment listed

(01.1925) no appointment listed

04.1926 - (05.)1926 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship, Devonport) (for submarines)

14.10.1926 - (02.)1927 HMS H 25 (submarine) (for duty with Group "F" Submarines in reserve at Portland)

01.04.1927 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) [tender to HMS Vulcan]

01.02.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Ceres (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

18.04.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Adamant II (submarine depot ship) (Atlantic Fleet) (for submarines)

01.08.1929 - (10.1930) HMS L 53 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

05.01.1931 - (02.)1931 submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth

27.04.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS H 33 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania]

29.08.1932 - (05.)1933 HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)

02.05.1933 - (06.)1933 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet)

27.12.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet)

25.09.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 2nd Submarine Flotilla) (Home Fleet) (for submarines)

01.01.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS L 26 (submarine) [tender to HMS Lucia]

(08.1936) HMS L 26 (submarine) *

08.1936 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Pandora (submarine) (China)

(02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed

01.04.1939 - 1939 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship)

17.07.1939 - 11.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Truant (submarine) (and on commissioning 30.10.1939) (and up to 30.10.1939 for duty with submarines & for duty with Admiral Superintendent Contract-built Ships)

02.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship)

(08.1942) no appointment listed

07.08.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth)

(04.1946) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peever,
Charles William Ronald
"Ronnie"
C.W.R. Peever (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Peaver)
Son (with one brother & one sister) of Richard Peever, and Mary Johnson.
Brother of Cdr. (E) Richard Geoffrey John Peever, RN.
Married (12.1939, Worth Matravers, Poole district, Dorset) Gillian Anne Marigold Ramsey [later remarried Lt.Cdr. R.E. Bibby, RNVR]; one son. 21.08.1916
Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
08.05.1941
Matapan
[age 24]
[Lee-on-Solent Memorial, bay 1, panel 7]

Cadet 01.01.1934

Midsh. 01.01.1935

A/S.Lt. 01.05.1937

S.Lt. 26.04.1938, seniority 01.03.1937

A/Lt. 03.04.1939, seniority 01.01.1939
?, seniority 01.10.1938

Lt. 09.1940, seniority 01.10.1938

01.01.1934 - 31.12.1934 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)

01.01.1935 - (07.)1935 HMS Barham (battleship) (Home Fleet)

30.08.1935 - (02.)1937 HMS Emerald (cruiser) (East Indies)

29.04.1937 - 29.08.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

30.08.1937 - (02.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

18.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Southampton (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

10.10.1938 - (08.)1939 pilots' course, No. 23 Flying Training School, Rochester

(09.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm

28.05.1940 - 23.11.1940 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)]

24.11.1940 - 08.05.1941 pilot, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier)]

Peever,
Mervyn George *
M.G. Peever
* Also known as: Peever, George Mervyn
Son (with three sisters and one brother) of George Albert Peever (1871-1952), and Ellen May Peever (1876-1958).
Married (28.10.1939, Ardrossan) Rita Irene Craymer (29.07.1913 - 03.1987); one daughter, one son.. 06.04.1910
Admaston, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
-
20.10.1985
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Sg.Lt. 12.06.1936
26.10.1936, seniority 12.06.1935 (emgcy 12.06.1939)

Sg.Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 27.09.1941

T/Sg.Lt.Cdr. RCNVR 1945, seniority 27.09.1941 [0-58327] (reld > 04.1946)

Education: MD, CM Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 1935; LMS PEI 1936.
House Surgeon, Kingston General Hospital & Ottawa Civic Hospitals.

05.09.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Fortitude (RN base, Ardrossan)

22.04.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Sirius (cruiser)

07.1943 - (01.)1945 Fargo Barracks, Boston [HMS Saker]

(04.1945) no appointment listed

02.04.1945 - (04.1946) RCN Hospital, Halifax [HMCS Stadacona]

Peever,
Richard Geoffrey John
R.G.J. Peever (Photo courtesy of Mr Richard Peaver)
Son (with one brother & one sister) of Richard Peever, and Mary Johnson.
Brother of Lt. Charles William Ronald Peever, RN.
Married (13.05.1943, Johannesburg, South Africa) Mrs Diana Devonport Harris; one son.
Surname changed by deed poll of 01.02.1951 to Peaver. 06.11.1919
Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
-
25.10.1986
Westminster district, London

Cadet (E) 01.01.1937

Midsh. (E)

01.01.1938

A/S.Lt. (E)
01.01.1940

S.Lt. (E)

01.04.1939

A/Lt. (E)

01.07.1940

Lt. (E)

16.07.1940

Lt. Cdr. (E)

16.07.1948

A/Cdr. (E)

05.04.1954

Cdr. (E)

30.06.1965 (retd 06.11.1969)

39|45 St - -

Atl St - -

Bur St - -

Def M - -

WM 39|45 - -

Has been posthumously awarded The Arctic Emblem for his participation in the first two convoys to Archangel in 1941 – Op DERVISH and PQ1.
Education: King William’s College, Isle of Man (1932-1936).

08.09.1937 - 31.12.1937 special entry cadet (E), HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser)

01.01.1938

-

06.1941
RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Drake]

06.1941

-

11.1941
HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (under training)

11.1941

-

08.1943
HMS Resolution (battleship)

08.1943?

-

10.1943?
HMS Redoubt (destroyer) ?

22.08.1943

-

11.1943
Senior Engineer, HMS Durban (light cruiser)

18.12.1943

-

(07.)1945
Senior Engineer, HMS Caradoc (light cruiser)

16.09.1945

-

03.1946
Assistant Staff Engineering Officer on staff of Flag Officer Malaya [HMS Sultan (accounting base for personnel at Keppel Harbour, Singapore)]

17.10.1946

-

08.1947
Trials Officer, HMS Mull of Kintyre (repair ship)

08.09.1948 - 07.09.1948 Office of Extra Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord (for Engineering Personnel), Admiralty [HMS President]

08.09.1948

-

04.1949
Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services)

04.07.1949

-

03.1951
Senior Engineer, HMS Nigeria (light cruiser)

16.07.1951

-

02.1956
HMS Diana (destroyer)

02.1956

-

06.1956
HMS Orion (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)

04.06.1956

-

06.1959
an Engineer Inspector, Marine Engineering Division, Ship Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

04.08.1959

-

12.1961
Fleet Engineering Officer, South Atlantic & South America Station [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa)]

14.05.1962

-

01.1964
Squadron Engineer Officer & Squadron Atomic, Biological, Chemical Damage Control (ABCD) Officer, 24th Escort Squadron [HMS Duchess (destroyer)]

02.1964

-

01.1965
Engineer Officer, HMS Delight (destroyer)

01.1965

-

11.1967
Assistant Chief Staff Officer, Medway

01.12.1967

-

09.1969
Staff of Admiral Commanding Reserves, Navy Department [HMS President]

MIMechE, MIMarE.

Pegg,
Harry

02.01.1880
Herne Hill, Surrey
-
30.06.1970

... ...

Gnr. 31.10.1907

Cd.Gnr. 13.09.1918

Lt. 31.01.1925 (retd 02.01.1930)

Lt.Cdr. (retd) 31.01.1933 (reverted to retd 31.08.1945)

MID 23.05.1917 for service in the Destroyer Patrol Flotillas, Armed Boarding Steamers, &c

31.10.1907 commissioned RN

... - ... ...

25.02.1941 - (04.)1945 Base Gunnery Officer, HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich)

Pegram,
Frank Henderson
F.H. Pegram

Son of Thomas Pegram, The Grange, Hoylake.
Married (17.05.1922) Rosalie Benoni, daughter of Walter Addison, Natal; one daughter.

25.02.1890
Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
08.03.1944
RN Hospital, Bristol
[Golders Green Crematorium, panel 3]

A/S.Lt. 28.02.1910?

S.Lt. 30.09.1910, seniority 28.02.1910

Lt. 01.10.1912

Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1920

Cdr. 30.06.1926

Capt. 30.06.1932

Cdre. 2nd cl. < 04.1940

R.Adm. 15.01.1941

A/V.Adm. 07.01.1943

V.Adm. 31.12.1943

CB 01.01.1943 New Year 1943

DSO 19.07.1940 Norwegian coast

StOlav 13.10.1942 bringing King Haakon VII to the UK 1940

Croix de Guerre (Belgium); Order "Al Merito" (Chile; 19.02.1931) Education: Mostyn House, Parkgate; HMS Britannia.

15.05.1905 joined RN

served European War, 1914-1918:

Lieutenant, HMS Hibernia (8th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet, Gallipoli)

1917 HMS Lion

1918 HMS General Crauford (on Belgian Coast as Executive and Gunnery Officer; Belgian Croix de Guerre)

05.12.1921 - (08.)1923 in charge of Gas School & Superintendent of Anti-Gas Training [HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)]

1924 - 1924 Naval Staff College, Greenwich

12.12.1924 - (05.1926) Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station [HMS Birmingham (cruiser)]

31.12.1926 - 06.01.1927 Admiralty

06.01.1927 - (07.1927) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

1928 - (04.)1930 in charge of British Naval Mission to Chile

11.08.1930 - (10.)1930 senior officers' technical course. Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

03.12.1930 - (01.1932) Executive Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

(09.1932) no appointment listed

(01.1934) no appointment listed

19.09.1934 - (02.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean)

(07.1937) no appointment listed

23.07.1937 - (04.)1939 Deputy Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]

10.07.1939 - 06.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Glasgow (cruiser) & as Commodore 2nd class Commanding South American Division of American and West Indies Station (Norway; DSO)

08.06.1940 - 25.06.1940 HMS Victory (additional; temporarily on staff of Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth)

26.06.1940 - 30.06.1940 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed)

01.07.1940 - 10.03.1942 Commodore / Rear-Admiral Commanding South America Division of South Atlantic Station [HMS Hawkins, later HMS Cumberland]
[assumed command 04.09.1940]

11.03.1942 - 26.03.1943 Flag Officer Commanding West Africa [HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone)]

10.04.1943 - 07.05.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

08.05.1943 - 08.03.1944 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty & Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport [HMS President]

Peile,
[Sir] Lancelot Arthur Babington
L.A.B. Peile
Son of Basil Wilson Peile (1871-1923), and Katharine Rosamond Taylor (1873-1958), of Faringdon, Alton, Hampshire.
Married (25.07.1928, Plympton St Mary district, Cornwall / Devon) Gertrude Margaret "Peggy" Tolcher (22.01.1907 - 17.09.1992), younger daughter of Maj. Edward Henry Archer Tolcher (1861-1947), and Clara Hermon Palmer (1867-1948), of Harewood, Plympton, Devon; two sons. 22.01.1905
Alton district, Hampshire
-
07.07.1989
Strawberry How, Thurlestone, Kingsbridge, South Devon

Midsh. (E) 15.01.1923

A/S.Lt. (E) ?

S.Lt. (E) 15.11.1925

Lt. (E) 15.12.1926

Lt.Cdr. (E) 15.12.1934

Cdr. (E) 31.12.1938

Capt. (E) 31.12.1947

R.Adm. (E) 21.02.1955

V.Adm. 29.08.1958 (retd 26.10.1960)

KBE 11.06.1960 HM's birthday 1960 [investiture 12.07.1960]

CB 01.01.1957 New Year 1957 [investiture 26.02.1957]

DSO 14.10.1941 Bismarck action [investiture 10.03.1942]

MVO 12.06.1947 HM's birthday 1947: Royal visit to South Africa [investiture 25.06.1947]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College (1954, idc).

15.01.1923 - (05.1926) engineering course, RN Engineering College, Keyham [HMS Vivid]

04.01.1927 - (07.)1927 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean)

29.09.1927 - (08.)1929 advanced course of instruction in engineering, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

13.08.1929 - (03.)1931 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

01.10.1931 - (06.)1933 an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

23.10.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

(07.1935) HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) *

10.07.1935 - (02.)1937 an Assistant Engineer Inspector, Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

02.06.1937 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

(07.1937) no appointment listed

12.07.1937 - 25.05.1939 a Second Assistant to Manager Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake]

26.05.1939 - (09.1939) a First Assistant to Manager Engineering Department, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake]

20.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (DSO)

26.11.1941 - (02.)1943 an Engineer Assistant, Dockyard Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

(06.)1943 - (07.)1945 Engineer-in-Chief's Department, Admiralty [HMS President] *

14.09.1945 - 14.07.1947 HMS Vanguard (battleship) (MVO)

09.08.1947 - (10.1947) HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC) (for miscellaneous duties in USA)

(07.1948) HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC) *

10.09.1948 - (05.)1951 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services: Senior Assistant Engineer-in-Chief)

16.11.1951 - 19.12.1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Thunderer & in charge of RN Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth

(07.1954) - (01.1955) Admiralty [HMS President] *

21.02.1955 - (01.)1957 Assistant Director of Dockyards, Admiralty [HMS President] (CB)

11.1957 - 29.09.1960 Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard Devonport [HMS Drake] (KBE)

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Devon, 29.08.1969. MIMechE.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Peirson,
John Jasper Ray
J.J.R Peirson
Son (with one sister and one brother) of Rev. Ernest Goodwyn Peirson (1859-1941), and Bessie Connock Collins (1854-1937).
Married (1921, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia) Caroline Amy Burns (1884-(03?).1967), daughter of Col. Sir James Burnes (1846-1923), and Mary Heron Morris (1851-1904); ... children.

06.06.1892
Plymouth, Devon
-
02.10.1960
Surrey North Western district, Surrey

Midsh. 15.01.1910

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1912

S.Lt. 15.04.1913

Lt. 15.03.1915 (retd 02.08.1922; own request)

Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.03.1923

Cdr. (retd) 06.06.1932

A/Capt. (retd) 05.10.1944 (dispersed 12.10.1945) (reverted to retd 08.12.1945; granted War Service Rank of Capt.)

DSC 02.11.1917 in recognition of services in submarines in enemy waters

LoP 1944? Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)

15.05.1905 entered RN

... - ... ...

22.08.1939 - 08.04.1940 Consular Shipping Adviser (Naval Control Service duties), Antwerp

08.04.1940 - 23.04.1940 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join)

24.04.1940 - 06.02.1941 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional; for duty on staff of Commander-in-Chief Rosyth)

07.02.1941 - 17.02.1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; not to join)

18.02.1941 - 30.04.1941 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) (additional; for command of Coastal Forces base, Milford Haven)

01.05.1941 - 31.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Skirmisher II (Coastal Forces base, Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven) & for command of Coastal Forces base, Milford Haven

01.11.1943 - 04.11.1943 HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) (additional)

05.11.1943 - 04.10.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Cicala (Coastal Forces base, Dartmouth) & for command of French Ship Belfort (depot ship for 23rd [French] MTB Flotilla)

05.10.1944 - 03.10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Turtle (Combined Operations training establishment, Poole) (as A/Capt.)

Pelly,
Charles Sinclair
C.S. Pelly
Son of Charles Brent Neville Pelly (1870-1933), and Annie Harvey Grove (1882-1963).
Married (16.11.1928, West Chickerell, Dorset) Caroline Mary Facey (22.06.1905 - 02.1992); one daughter, two sons.

19.09.1902
Berhampore, Madras, India
-
08.12.1967
Weymouth district, Dorset

Midsh. 15.05.1920

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922

S.Lt. 15.06.1923

Lt. 15.06.1925

Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1933 (retd 12.09.1947)

A/Cdr. 11.1943

Cdr. (retd) 12.09.1947

15.05.1916 entered RN

... - ... ...

10.05.1939 - (03.)1940 HMS Devonshire (London class cruiser) (for physical training duties & as Squadron Physical & Recreational Training Officer)

29.03.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Southampton (Southampton class cruiser) (for physical training duties)

08.02.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)

(02.1942) no appointment listed

21.03.1942 - (10.)1943 Commodore's Liaison Officer, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]

11.1943 - (04.)1945 Executive Officer, HMS Smiter (Archer class escort carrier)

(07.1945) - (10.1945) no appointment listed

(04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)

... - ... ...

Pelly,
John Noel
J.N. Pelly J.N. Pelly (Photo courtesy of Mr R.E. Bland)

Son of Edmund Neville Richard Pelly, and Emma Mary Pelly, of Witham Lodge, Essex.
Married (1924) Rosalind Gatehouse, daughter of R.G. Gatehouse, of Abbots Grange, Bebington, Cheshire; one son, one daughter.

15.06.1888
Newlands, Ware, Hertfordshire
-
06.06.1945
Hove, Sussex
[Witham (All Saints) Churchyard, joint grave]

Cadet
?

Midsh.
?

A/S.Lt.
30.05.1908

S.Lt.
06.01.1909, seniority 30.05.1908

Lt.
31.12.1910

Lt.Cdr.
31.12.1918

Cdr.
30.06.1925 (retd 15.06.1934; own request)

Capt. (retd)
15.06.1934

CBE
11.06.1942
HM's birthday 1942

1914-15 Star; British War medal 1914-20; Allied Victory medal 1914-19
Education: HMS Britannia

19.09.1903

entered RN

07.02.1905

HMS King Edward VII

03.03.1907

HMS Good Hope

31.12.1910

HMS Cochrane

28.01.1913
-
11.1914
HMS Gibraltar (cruiser)

11.1914
-
01.1917
HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Dardanelles & Grand Fleet)

01.1917
-
04.1917
HMS Iron Duke (battleship)

04.1917
-
(01.1919)
HMS Ramillies (battleship)

1919?

HMS Impregnable (Devonport)

Commanding Officer, HMS Rosalind & reserve destroyers at Portsmouth

12.12.1922
-
(08.1923)
on the staff of the Captain of the Port, Constantinople [HMS Julius (harbour craft) (Constantinople) (temporary)]

01.01.1924
-
(01.)1925
Executive Officer, HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (Mediterranean)

01.11.1925
-
(05.)1926
Executive Officer, HMS Thunderer (battleship) (Reserve Fleet)

01.09.1926
-
(07.)1927
Executive Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor; training ship and turret drill ship, Devonport)

09.12.1927
-
10.1929
Commanding Officer, HMS Cornflower (sloop) (China)

12.03.1930
-
(01.)1932
Maintenance Commander, Devonport & for P & R/T duties [HMS Vivid]

(09.1932)

no appointment listed

07.03.1933
-
(06.1933)
Commanding Officer, HMS Erebus (monitor; turret drill ship, Devonport)

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

11.09.1939
-
06.06.1945
Commanding Officer, HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex)

Played first-class cricket for the Navy (1926). Younger Brother of Trinity House.

Pelly,
Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond
P.D.H.R. Pelly
Son of the Rev. Douglas Raymond Pelly, DSO, and Verena Noellie (née Herbert).
Married (29.12.1932) Gwenllian Violet Edwardes, daughter of Maj. Hon. George Henry Edwardes and Olive Kerr; three daughters.

24.09.1904
Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
-
13.02.1980
Alderney, Channel Islands

Midsh.
?

A/S.Lt.
?

Lt.
15.07.1927

Lt.Cdr.
15.07.1935

Cdr.
30.06.1940

Capt.
30.06.1947

R.Adm.
07.07.1956 (retd 1960)

CB
12.06.1958
HM's birthday 1958 [investiture 22.07.1958]

DSO
08.09.1942
Malta convoy 22.03.1942 [investiture 25.05.1943]

MID
16.08.1940
Dunkirk

OON
12.05.1942
withdrawal from Holland 1940 [award posted]

Education: RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth

15.05.1918

joined Navy

...
-
...
...

31.01.1939
-
(08.)1939
HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht)

01.11.1939
-
(06.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Windsor (destroyer)

40?

HMS Exmoor

07.1940
-
01.1942
Staff Officer (Operations), 15th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Naiad (cruiser)]

12.01.1942
-
(02.)1943
Executive Officer, HMS Dido (cruiser)

14.06.1943
-
1945
Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

05.1945
-
01.1946
Commanding Officer, HMS Ameer (escort carrier)

14.02.1946
-
1947
HMS Raleigh (training estblishment, Trevol, Torpoint, Cornwall)

20.10.1947
-
(05.)1949
a Deputy Director of Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

26.01.1950
-
(05.1950)
Commanding Officer, HMS Woolwich (Reserve Fleet, Harwich)

1951
-
1952
Captain (D) in HMS Battleaxe

12.12.1952
-
1954
Chief Staff Officer, Gibraltar [HMS Rooke]

07.12.1954
-
(01.)1956
Director of Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

14.09.1956
-
11.1957
Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane]

1958
-
1959
Director-General of the Department of Dockyards and Maintenance, Admiralty

Secretary, Association of Consulting Engineers, 1960-1969. Honorary Member, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, 1965-1970.

Penfold,
David Neil
D.N. Penfold 04.09.1913
-
20.04.1991

... ...

A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945

Lt.Cdr. 04.09.1945 (retd 04.09.1958; Hon. Cdr.)

DSC 20.11.1945 ?

MID 21.08.1945 ?

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

... - ... ...

? - (07.1945) HMS White Bear

... - ... ...

Pennefather,
Richard Randolph Somerset
"Dick"
R.R.S. Pennefather
Son of William John Somerset Pennefather (1875-1955), and Verena Vera Black-Hawkins (1885-1972).
Married (19.09.1942, Ulverston district, Lancashire) Rachel Ann Fawcitt (15.07.1917 - 12.12.1983), only daughter of Dr Richard Fawcitt; two sons (eldest son served as Commandant General Royal Marines between 1996-1999, and his youngest son was promoted Captain in 1996, and directed Fleet Logistic Operations between 1999 and 2003), one daughter.

18.04.1909
Vicarage, Kensington, London
-
30.05.1990
Ringwood and Fordingbridge district, Hampshire

Cadet 01.09.1926

Midsh. 01.05.1927

A/S.Lt. 01.09.1929

S.Lt. 01.05.1930

Lt. 01.12.1931

Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1939

Cdr. 30.06.1943

Capt. 31.12.1949 (retd 16.06.1959)

Cdre. 2nd cl. 03.05.1955-....1957

MID 23.02.1940 Battle of River Plate

MID 04.05.1943 Operation Torch

Silver Medal of Concepcion (Chile) [earthquake Concepcion, Chile, 24.01.1939] Education: Stubbington House School; RN College, Dartmouth (15.01.1923-1926).

01.09.1926 - 03.01.1928 HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

03.01.1928 - 09.1929 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)

26.09.1929 - 30.03.1930 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

31.03.1930 - (08.)1930 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

15.11.1930 - 29.11.1931 HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (Watchkeeping Certificate 11.06.1931)

(12.1931) - (01.1932) no appointment listed

23.03.1932 - (08.)1934 HMS Crusader (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

01.09.1934 - (03.)1935 HMS Spey (fishery protection gunboat)

02.05.1935 - 04.08.1935 qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich

05.08.1935 - (05.)1936 qualifying for torpedo duties, HMS Vernon

27.06.1936 - (07.)1937 Instructional Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)

01.10.1937 - (06.)1940 Torpedo Officer, HMS Ajax (cruiser) (despatches, Silver Medal of Concepcion)

29.07.1940 - (08.)1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier)

(11.1942) HMS Largs (landing ship) (despatches)

11.01.1943 - (08.)1943 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

04.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

08.1944 - (10.1945) Naval Air Warfare and Flying Training Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

08.04.1946 - (04.)1947 HMS Kenya (cruiser)

(10.1947) no appointment listed

28.01.1948 - (05.1949) Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland)

03.04.1950 - (05.1951) Ministry of Defence, Directorate of Operations [HMS President (for miscellaneous services)]

05.05.1952 - (05.)1953 Commanding Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft maintenance carrier) (Korean war)

(01.1954) - (07.1954) Admiralty [HMS President] *

(01.1955) - (04.1955) no appointment listed

03.05.1955 - (01.)1957 Deputy Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]

17.09.1957 - 30.04.1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Bermuda (cruiser)

Master, The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, 1975.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Pennell,
Richard George Lovell
R.G.L. Pennell 20.03.1913
-
01.08.1973
Tonbridge district

Midsh.
01.01.1931

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1933

Lt.
01.02.1935

Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1943 (retd 15.04.1956)

DSC
15.09.1942
action Channel 25.07.1942

MID
02.10.1942
Operation Jubilee

MID
09.11.1943
damaged U-boat Mediterranean 26.03.1943

(07.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM SGB 8 (steam gun boat)

(08.1942)

HMS Spartiate

(10.1942)

Commanding Officer, HM SGB 3 (steam gun boat)& Senior Officer, SGB Flotilla

[ (03.1943)

HMS Tartar (destroyer) ?]

01.1943
-
(10.1943)
HMS Quantock (destroyer)

(12.1943)

no appointment listed

(04.1944)
-
(06.1944)
college

24.02.1945
-
(07.1945)
HMS Empire Arquebus, renamed HMS Cicero (LSI)

(1946)

HMS Sultan

Pentland,
Thomas Proctor
T.P. Pentland

07.07.1898
-
25.01.1956

A/Lt.
?

Lt.
14.02.1921, seniority 15.12.1919 (retd 30.12.1924)

Lt.Cdr.
15.12.1927

Cdr. (retd)
17.03.1944 (reverted to retd > 04.1946)

03.02.1917

entered RN

03.04.1923
-
(08.1923)
HMS Calcutta (light cruiser)

17.11.1939
-
(02.)1943
HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for miscellaneous duties at Malta)

01.03.1943
-
(07.)1945
HMS Westcliff (Combined Operations base, Southend)

26.10.1945
-
(04.1946)
[Executive Officer ?], HMS Rosneath (Combined Operations base, Rosneath, Dumbartonshire)

Percival,
Percy Ralph Passawer
P.R.P. Percival (Photo courtesy of Mr Mark Pearce)
Married (09.10.1916, Holy Trinity, Hambly, Nottinghamshire) Dorothy Isabella Pearson.

13.07.1886
Vienna, Austria
-
19.02.1970
Oxford, Oxfordshire

Midsh. 28.02.1903

A/S.Lt. 30.04.1906

S.Lt. 15.05.1907, seniority 15.04.1906

Lt. 31.12.1908

Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1916

Cdr. 31.12.1922 (retd 28.07.1932)

Capt. (retd) 28.07.1932 (dispersed 09.03.1946) (reverted to retd 03.05.1946)

A/Capt. 08.04.1942-04.12.1942

DSO 26.04.1918 ?

DSO 21.06.1918 ?

15.09.1901 entered RN

(1914) Commanding Officer, HMS Mermaid (bombardment Belgian coast)

24.01.1917 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Morris (torpedo boat destroyer)

(08.1929) no appointment listed

14.11.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Keppel (destroyer)

22.08.1939 - 22.01.1940 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional; for duty as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Swansea)

23.01.1940 - 15.02.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Swansea

16.02.1942 - 07.04.1942 HMS Drake (additional; not to join)

08.04.1942 - 04.12.1942 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Yarmouth [HMS Watchful]

05.12.1942 - 06.12.1942 HMS Drake (additional; not to join)

07.12.1942 - 18.01.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty for Engineer Cadet Selection Board)

19.01.1943 - 09.03.1943 HMS Drake (additional; not to join)

10.03.1943 - 14.04.1943 HMS Daedalus II (additional; for HMS Fledgling)

15.04.1943 - 30.01.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Fledgling (training establishment, Millmeece, Eccleshall, Staffs.)

31.01.1946 - 08.09.1946 HMS Pembroke I (additional; not to join)

Percy,
Terence Gerard Vaughan
"Pablo"
T.G.V. Percy
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Norman Crook Aloysius Percy (1881-1940), and Kathleen Daire O’Gorman (1879-1964).
Married (07.1961, St Marylebone district, London) ... Astrinski, daughter of Harry Astrinski (1901-1982), and Hannah Isaacs (1907-2008); one son.

29.09.1919
Chorlton district, Lancashire
-
19.01.2015

Cadet 01.01.1937

Midsh. 01.05.1937

A/S.Lt. 01.05.1939

S.Lt. 16.06.1939

Lt. 01.05.1941

A/Lt.Cdr. 21.08.1944

Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1949

Cdr. 31.12.1951

Capt. 31.12.1958 (retd 12.01.1968)

OBE 23.02.1954 Korea cease fire list [investiture 13.07.1954]

DSC 31.07.1945 Operation Iceberg [decoration posted]

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Admiralty No. 1321); ...-22.12.1936)

01.01.1937 - (04.)1937 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)

01.05.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Emerald (cruiser)

30.08.1938 - (09.)1938 HMS Glasgow (cruiser)

(10.1938) - (11.1938) no appointment listed

03.12.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Glasgow (cruiser)

01.05.1939 - (11.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

18.11.1939 - (06.)1940 HMS Versatile (V class destroyer)

(08.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

(04.1941) HMS Mackay (Scott class destroyer) *

(06.1941) HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) *

(08.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed

30.05.1942 - (06.)1942 HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown, South Africa) (for RN Air Station Wingfield)

01.07.1942 - (12.)1942 pilot, 789 Squadron FAA [HMS Malagas (RN Air Station, Wingfield/Wynberg, nr Capetown, South Africa)]

20.12.1942 - (06.)1944 pilot, 796 Squadron FAA [HMS Kilele (RN Air Station, Tanga, Tanganyika)]

21.08.1944 - 08.06.1945 Commanding Officer, 848 Squadron FAA [aboard HMS Formidable for some period] (DSC)

18.06.1945 - (10.1945) Lieutenant-Commander (Flying), HMS Nabbington (Mobile Naval Air Base I, Nowra, NSW, Australia)

14.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Venerable (Colossus class aircraft carrier)

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Perks,
Jacky
J. Perks
Married Isabella ... (died 05.02.2013, aged 99); one daughter, one son.
19.06.1912
Southampton district, Hampshire
-
24.03.1973
Market Harborough district, Leicestershire

Gnr. 01.10.1936

A/Lt. 01.01.1944

Lt.Cdr. 01.01.1948

Cdr. 31.12.1951

Capt. 31.12.1956 (retd)

CBE 11.06.1960 HM's birthday 1960: Hong Kong Dockyard [investiture 08.11.1960]

DSC 11.11.1941 Greek withdrawal 04.1941 [investiture 03.02.1942]

MID 05.09.1944 mined & damaged Channel 19.05.1944

MID 27.03.1945 Operation Dragoon

... - ... ...

(1941) HMS Grimsby (DSC)

(08.1943) no appointment listed

02.1944 - (04.1944) HMS Stormcloud (despatches twice)

(10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed

... - ... ...

Perowne,
Benjamin Cubitt
"Ben"
P.R.P. Percival
Son of late Bernard Cubitt Perowne, and Gertrude Dorothy Tingey.
Married (1946) Phyllis Marjorie Peel (died 07.01.2009, aged 89), daughter of late Cdre R.D. Peel, RNR, Southampton; two sons, one daughter.
18.02.1921
Walsingham district, Norfolk
-
24.10.1992
[Surrey?]

Paym.Midsh.
01.05.1940

A/Paym.S.Lt.
01.05.1942

Paym.S.Lt.
1943?, seniority 01.11.1941

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S)
01.07.1943

...
...

A/Capt.
1957-1964

Capt.
31.12.1966

Cdre.
1969-1970 & 1973-1975

R.Adm.
07.01.1976 (retd 31.03.1978)

CB
31.12.1977
New Year 1978

Education: Culford School.

1939

joined RN

01.01.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Ramillies (battleship)

(12.1941)

no appointment listed

03.04.1942
-
(08.)1942
HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional; for various services)

10.09.1942
-
(10.)1943
Captain's Secretary, HMS Ambrose (base 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee)

22.11.1943
-
(07.1945)
Captain's Secretary, HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)

10.02.1946
-
(04.1946)
HMS Bellona

1955
-
1964
Secretary to Adm. Sir Deric HollandMartin, GCB, DSO, DSC

1967
-
1970
Staff, Chief of Personnel and Logistics

1971
-
1973
Commanding Officer, HMS Cochrane

1973
-
1975
Director of Defence Policy

07.07.1975
-
07.01.1976
also: Naval ADC to the Queen

1976
-
1978
Director, Management and Support Intelligence (also Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer, 1977-78)

General Secretary, then Director, RUKBA, 1978-88. Member, Defence Advisory Group, ML Holdings, since 1988; Chairman, Faversham Oyster Fishery Co., since 1991.

Perry,
Alfred Edmund
A.E. Perry (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)

26.06.1889
Upton Park, West Ham, London
-
23.07.1964
Plymouth district, Devon

Ordinary Seaman ? [234677]

Leading Seaman ?

A/Gnr. (T) 13.06.1918

Gnr. (T) 1919?, seniority 01.03.1918

Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.03.1928 (retd 26.06.1939)

Lt. (retd) 26.06.1939

DSM 01.01.1915 New Year 1915: for service in the Dardanelles in Submarine "B.11" on the 13th December

(1911) HMS Bellona

26.07.1919 - (10.)1919 HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)

31.10.1919 - (12.1919) HMS Tetrarch

15.02.1921 - (08.)1923 HMS Spear (torpedo-boat destroyer)

26.11.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship, Devonport) (for destroyers in reserve)

01.03.1926 - (05.)1926 HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

12.1926 - (05.)1928 HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(06.1928) no appointment listed

01.09.1928 - (02.)1931 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

01.04.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

11.05.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean)

09.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Home Fleet)

30.08.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet)

24.07.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Devonport)

04.03.1938 - (06.)1938 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Devonport)

01.08.1938 - (10.)1938 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet)

05.12.1938 - (10.)1944 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport)

19.10.1944 - (07.1945) on staff of Captain (D), Plymouth [HMS Drake IV]

(04.1946) HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) *

Perry,
Robert Albert
R.A. Perry

23.05.1890
Devonport, Devon
-
24.09.1958
Plymouth district, Devon

Seaman ? [272248]

A/Eng.Lt. 01.05.1918

Eng.Lt. 12.07.1919, seniority 01.05.1918

Eng.Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1926 (retd 23.05.1935)

Eng.Cdr. (retd) 30.05.1935 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946)

OBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 01.12.1942]

BWM 14|20 - -

VM - -

39|45 St - -

Afr St - -

Def M - -

WM 39|45 - -

(01.1919) - (04.1919) HMS Leviathan (armoured cruiser)

10.1919 - (01.1921) HMS Vivien (torpedo-boat destroyer)

12.01.1923 - (08.)1923 HMS Searcher (torpedo-boat destroyer) (in reserve at Devonport)

08.1923 - (05.1926) HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)

07.01.1927 - (04.)1928 HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier)

03.04.1928 - (03.)1931 HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean)

04.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Whitley (destroyer) (in reserve at Malta)

(09.1932) no appointment listed

10.12.1932 - (06.)1933 HMS Erebus (monitor; turret drill ship, Devonport)

11.1933 - (02.)1935 HMS Montrose (flotilla leader) (in reserve)

10.02.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Carlisle (cruiser) (OBE)

11.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)

(02.1943) no appointment listed

09.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)

(10.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed

17.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Malaya (battleship)

23.08.1944 - (07.1945) HM Dockyard, Devonport [HMS Drake]

Petch,
William Napier
W.N. Petch
Younger son of the late Paymaster Captain Charles Forbes Petch (1865-?).
Engaged (1933) & married Kathleen, only daughter of Mr & Mrs W.Q. Thomas of Goring, Oxfordshire; one son, two daughters.

16.02.1908
Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
22.06.1958

Cadet
15.05.1925?

Midsh.
15.01.1926

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1928

S.Lt.
16.12.1928

Lt.
16.09.1930

Lt.Cdr.
16.09.1938

Cdr.
30.06.1943 (retd 1946?)

A/Capt.
? 07.1945, < 04.1946

DSO
08.09.1942
Malta convoy 22.03.1942 [investiture 23.03.1943]

OBE
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 1941 [investiture 29.07.1941]

MID
14.01.1941
good service in minelayers

MID
01.01.1943
New Year 1943

MID
14.09.1943
destruction U-559 Mediterranean 30.10.1942

Education: RN College, Dartmouth (...-04.1925)

15.05.1925
-
(05.)1926
HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean)

01.09.1926
-
(07.)1927
HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China)

30.12.1927
-
(03.)1928
HMS Resolution (battleship)

26.04.1928
-
01.1929
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

01.1929
-
(08.)1929
promotion course, Portsmouth

25.09.1929
-
(04.)1930
HMS Flinders (surveying ship)

23.05.1930
-
(01.)1932
HMS Iroquois (surveying vessel) (China)

27.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
HMS Challenger (surveying vessel)

28.03.1933
-
(06.)1933
HMS Kellett (surveying vessel)

27.12.1933
-
(02.)1936
HMS Herald (surveying vessel) (China) (for some time temporarily for navigating duties, in lieu of a specialist)

19.08.1936
-
(06.)1938
HMS Flinders (surveying ship)

09.06.1938
-
(02.)1939
Navigating Officer, HMS Jason (minesweeper for surveying service)

14.03.1939
-
(09.)1939
HMS Scarborough (escort vessel) (in lieu of a specialist Navigating Officer)

10.1939
-
02.1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Derby (Hunt class minesweeper)

24.02.1940
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Icarus (destroyer)

1941
-
1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Intrepid (destroyer)

12.08.1941
-
01.1943)
Commanding Officer, HMS Dulverton (destroyer)

(02.1943)

no appointment listed

(06.1943)
-
(08.1943)
Combined Operations HQ *

12.08.1943
-
16.12.1943
Requirements and Organisation (Combined Operations), Admiralty [HMS President]

17.12.1943
-
(07.1945)
Combined Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(04.1946)

HMS President *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peter,
Reginald Pendennis
R.P. Peter
Son (with one sister) of Maj. Reginald Arthur Peter, VD (1881-1938), and Beatrice Mary Parsons (1882-1959).
Married () Doris Daphne Mitchell (30.03.1918 - 08.08.1997), daughter (with one brother) of James Earle (Earle) Mitchell Sr. (1895-1980), and Pauline Gertrude Oxner (1895-1964).
. 20.05.1916
Falmouth district, Cornwall
-
08.1997
Chichester district, West Sussex

Paym.Cadet 01.09.1933

Paym.Midsh. 01.09.1934

Paym.S.Lt. 01.06.1936

Paym.Lt. = Lt. (S) 01.06.1938

Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.03.1946

Cdr. (S) 30.06.1951

Capt. (S) 30.06.1961 (retd 14.08.1970)

OBE 01.01.1953 New Year 1953: Korea, non-operational service Japan [investiture 17.02.1953]

... - ... ...

01.08.1937 - (12.1939) HMS Resolution (Royl Sovereign class battleship) (for duty in Admiral's office)

01.01.1940 - (08.)1941 HMS Seaborn (accounting base for 3rd Battle Squadron, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) (for duty in Admiral's office)

(10.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed

22.12.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Arethusa (Arethusa class cruiser)

10.03.1942 - (10.)1943 Captain's Secretary, HMS Faulknor (F class destroyer)

(12.1943) no appointment listed

19.01.1944 - (10.1945) Captain's Secretary, HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)

... - ... ...

Peterkin,
Claude Hamilton
C.H. Peterkin (Photo courtesy of Mrs Anne Clark)
Son (with three brothers and three sisters) of George Edward Peterkin (1877-1945), and Kathleen Broderick (1886-1962).
Married ((12?).1938, Lewisham district, Kent) Mary McNeill, of Lewisham, London. (09?).1914
York district, Yorkshire
-
27.10.1940
(MPK) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 37, column 1]

A/Petty Officer ?

A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936

S.Lt. 26.04.1938, seniority 01.01.1937

Lt. 01.06.1938

DSC 03.12.1940 attack large enemy convoy 16.09.1940 [presented to next-of-kin]

promoted from lower deck

24.09.1936 - 03.01.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

04.01.1937 - (07.1937) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

(01.1938) - (02.1938) no appointment listed

03.05.1938 - (06.)1938 HMS Boyne (fishery protection trawler) [tender to HMS Hastings]

21.06.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Winchester (destroyer) (Portsmouth)

05.09.1938 - (12.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin]

16.12.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS L 23 (submarine) [tender to HMS Dolphin]

(05.1940) - (06.1940) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) *

07.1940 - (07.)1940 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

1940 - 27.10.1940 HMS H 49 (submarine) (DSC) (ship sunk 18.10.1940 by depth charges of two German U-boats off Texel on the Dutch coast; declared overdue 27.10.1940)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Peters,
[Sir] Arthur Malcolm
A.M. Peters

Married (07.08.1912) ...; one daughter.

01.06.1888
Kensington, Greater London
-
23.09.1979
Sidmouth, Devon

Lt. 15.03.1910

Cdr. 31.12.1922

Capt. 30.06.1930

Cdre. 2nd cl. 07.04.1939?

R.Adm. 25.06.1940

V.Adm. 22.10.1943 (retd 1945)

Adm. (retd) 15.09.1946

KCB 01.01.1946 New Year 1946

CB 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943

DSC 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland 31.05.1916

Education: Stubbington House, Fareham, Hants; HMS Britannia.

15.05.1903 entered RN

1904 went to sea, served in North Sea throughout European War in HMS Southampton and Orion, present at Battle of Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank, and Jutland (DSC, despatches)

01.11.1927 - (08.1929) Commander, HMS Erebus (monitor)

04.12.1930 - (02.1931) Commanding Officer, HMS Delphinium (sloop)

(09.1932) no appointment listed

18.12.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Curacoa (cruiser)

1936 - 1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Southampton

07.04.1939 - 1940 Commodore in Charge of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar]

03.03.1941 - 05.03.1941 HMS President (additional; for charge of the IDC Planning Committee)

06.03.1941 - 28.05.1941 HMS President (additional; as Naval Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief Home Forces)

02.06.1941 - 15.06.1941 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

16.06.1941 - 30.10.1942 Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty [HMS President]

31.10.1942 - 08.12.1942 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

07.12.1942 - 11.12.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with Damage Control School)

12.12.1942 - 17.12.1942 HMS President (additional; for courses)

20.12.1942 - 13.01.1943 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

14.01.1943 - 20.01.1943 HMS President (additional; for special duty outside Admiralty)

21.01.1943 - 03.02.1943 HMS Southern Prince (minelayer) (additional)

04.02.1943 - 15.06.1943 Rear-Admiral (Minelayers) [HMS Southern Prince (minelayer)]

15.06.1943 - 05.08.1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) (additional; for special services with the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet)

06.08.1943 - 09.09.1943 Rear-Admiral Force "M" [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (additional)]

10.09.1943 - 12.09.1943 HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) (additional; for special service with Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet)

13.09.1943 - 26.11.1943 Flag Officer, Taranto Area

27.11.1943 - (04.)1946 Flag Officer Commanding, West Africa [HMS Eland]

Since retirement interested in local affairs; Member for many years, St Thomas RDC and Lympstone Parish Council; formerly Chairman, Sea Cadet Committees of Exeter and Exmouth; President: Exmouth Branch, RNLI; Governors, Exeter Royal National School for the Deaf; Devon Br., CLA; E. Devon Hunt Committee; Haldon Race Committee; Chairman, Ermsborough Nursing Home, Exeter, etc.

Peters,
Frederic Thornton
"Fritz"

More photos.
Son of the Hon. Frederick Peters, Attorney General and the first Liberal Premier of the province of Prince Edward Island, and Bertha Hamilton (Gray) Peters, of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
Unmarrried.
His two brothers died while on service in World War I.

17.09.1889
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
-
13.11.1942
Plymouth Sound (plane crash) [age 53]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 61, column 3]

Cadet
01.1905

Midsh.
1906

A/S.Lt.
30.07.1909?

S.Lt.
31.03.1910, seniority 30.07.1909

Lt.
30.01.1911
?, seniority 26.03.1912 (retd 1913)

Lt.Cdr.
26.03.1920 (retd 26.06.1920; own request)

Cdr. (retd)
17.09.1929

A/Capt. (retd)
01.08.1941?

VC
18.05.1943
Oran harbour 08.11.1942 * [posted to next-of-kin]

DSO
03.03.1915
Battle of the Dogger Bank 24.01.1915

DSC
08.03.1918
services in destroyer & torpedo boat flotillas up to 31.12.1917

DSC
11.07.1940
HM's birthday 1940 "good services" [posted to next-of-kin]

14 St
-
-

BWM 14|20
-
-

VM
-
-

39|45 St
-
-

Atl St
-
-

Afr St
-
& bar North Africa 1943-43

Def M
-
-

WM 39|45
-
-

MID
15.01.1915
Battle of the Dogger Bank 24.01.1915

DSC
19.01.1943
great gallantry at Oran [posted to next-of-kin]

Silver Messina Earthquake medal (Italy; 1908)
Education: St. Peter's (Anglican) Church School, Charlottetown; later schools in Victoria, BC & Prince Rupert, BC; HMS Britannia (1904).

15.01.1905

joined RN

1910
-
1913
served on gunboats (China Station)

Officer, Merchant Navy (Canadian Pacific Railways), 1913-1914.

25.08.1914

reinstated on the Active List

(01.1915)

First Lieutenant, HMS Meteor (action Dogger Bank; DSO)

(1917)

Commanding Officer, HMS Polyanthus (sloop) (DSC)

26.01.1918
-
(01.1919)
Commanding Officer, HMS Cockatrice (destroyer)

Returned to Canada, then went to the Gold Coast to grow cocoa.

16.12.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Thirlmere (anti-submarine trawler) (Bar to DSC)

20.06.1940
-
(07.)1941
Naval Intelligence Division [HMS President]:

08.1940
-
07.1941
Commanding Officer of a school at Brickendonbury Hall near Hertford where special agents were trained (as part of Section D of the Special Intelligence Service)

01.08.1941
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Tynwald (anti-aircraft ship)

1942
-
08.11.1942
Group Commander for the operation to capture Oran [HMS Walney (escort)]

* The citation for the Victoria Cross read: "For valour in taking HMS Walney, into the harbour of Oran, North Africa, on 8th November 1942. This port was held by the Vichy French. Captain Peters led his force through the boom towards the jetty, all the time under fire at point-blank range from the enemy shore batteries as well as fire from a Vichy French Destroyer and a Cruiser. Although he was blinded in one eye, he was the only one of 17 officers on the bridge that survived. HMS Walney, badly disabled and on fire, managed to make it to the jetty. She sank with her Colours flying. Blinded in one eye, Captain Peters was the only survivor of the seventeen men on the bridge of the 'Walney'. He was taken prisoner but was later released when Oran was captured. On being liberated from gaol, he was carried through the streets where the citizens hailed him with flowers."

Peterson,
Jack
J. Peterson

22.03.1902
Haslingden, Lancashire
-
(09).1983
Barnstaple district, Devon

A/S.Lt.
?

S.Lt.
15.05.1922

Lt.
15.03.1924

Lt.Cdr.
15.03.1932

Cdr.
31.12.1938

DSO
18.10.1940
bravery & skill in minesweeping [investiture 15.02.1941]

DSC
06.05.1927

for special gallantry and leadership of the after boarding party from HMS Kiawo

(08.1923)

short course of instruction

21.08.1924
-
(01.1925)
HMS Douglas (destroyer; flotilla leader) (Atlantic Fleet)

01.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Scarab (gunboat) (China)

(04.1928)
-
(06.1928)
no appointment listed

09.10.1928
-
(10.)1930
RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Vivid]

18.12.1930
-
(02.)1931
First Lieutenant, HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

02.09.1931
-
(01.)1932
HMS Rodney (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet)

25.05.1932
-
(07.)1935
HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Mediterranean)

28.08.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Neptune (cruiser) (Home Fleet)

10.06.1936
-
(06.)1938
Executive Officer, HMS Protector (netlayer) (Mediterranean)

(08.1938)
-
(10.1938)
HMAS Penguin (depot ship, Sydney) *

(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed

10.04.1939
-
(08.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Sharpshooter (minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Flotilla)

06.12.1939
-
(06.1940)
HMS Wildfire II (accounting base for auxiliary minesweepers, Sheerness): in charge of the LL Experimental (Minesweeping) Flotilla [from 01.1940-06.1940 based at Brightlingsea]

17.09.1940
-
(02.)1941
Commanding Officer, HMS Bangor (minesweeper)

10.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)

23.02.1942
-
(06.1944)
HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
no appointment listed

* indexed, but not listed as such

Petrie,
Christopher Henry

18.04.1889
Barnet, Greater London, Hertfordshire
-
01.05.1957
St Marylebone, London

A/S.Lt.
30.03.1909

S.Lt.
15.02.1910, seniority 30.03.1909

Lt.
30.06.1911

Lt.Cdr.
30.06.1919 (retd 01.07.1920; own request)

Cdr. (retd)
18.04.1929

A/Capt. (retd)
02.12.1940?

DSO
11.11.1941
Greek withdrawal 04.1941 [investiture 30.06.1942]

DSO
08.01.1942
withdrawal from Crete [investiture 30.06.1942]

CdeG
24.03.1919
?

15.09.1904

entered RN

27.10.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Bulolo (armed merchant cruiser)

02.12.1940
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS Glengyle (landing ship, infantry)

07.07.1942
-
(02.)1943
HMS Saker (British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, DC)

14.04.1943
-
(12.1943)
HMS Salsette (Combined Operations base, Bombay)

(04.1944)

HMS Eland (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) *

(06.)1944
-
22.06.1944
Naval Officer-in-Charge, Naval Party 1500 ("Mulberry B") (floating harbours, Arromanches, Normandy) [HMS Despatch (cruiser)]

28.07.1944
-
(10.1944)
Flag Captain, HMS Lothian (landing ship, headquarters)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

18.11.1945
-
(04.1946)
Naval Attaché, Warsaw [HMS President]

Peyton-Jones,
Loftus Edward see: Jones,
Loftus Edward Peyton

Peyton-Ward,
Dudley Vivian
D.V. Peyton-Ward

08.10.1893
Kensington, Greater London
-
06.07.1976
South Brent, Devon

Lt.
30.11.1915

Lt.Cdr.
30.11.1923 (retd 25.06.1928; own request)

Cdr. (retd)
08.10.1933

A/Capt. (retd)
< 07.1945 (reld > 04.1946)

CBE
08.06.1944
HM's birthday 1944 [investiture 10.12.1946]

LM
28.05.1946
?

15.09.1906

entered RN

...
-
...
...

24.08.1939
-
(02.)1941
HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services)

04.06.1941
-
(12.1941)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty)

22.02.1942
-
(07.1945)
Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty outside Admiralty) [Senior Naval Officer, Coastal Command]

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

Phelips,
Guy Vivian Arthur
G.V.A. Phelips
Son of Harry Majendie Phelips.
Married; ... children (one son?: Lt. Harry Francis Vivian Phelips, RM)

06.10.1895
Karwah, India
-
20.01.1974
Gosport district, Hampshire

Cadet
1912

Midsh.
1913

S.Lt.
1916

Lt.
15.09.1917
?, seniority 15.06.1917

Lt.Cdr.
15.06.1925 (retd 06.10.1940)

Cdr. (retd)
06.10.1940

14|15 St
-
-

BWM 14|20
-
-

VM
-
-

Def M
-
-

WM 39|45
-
-

Education: King's School, Canterbury; RN Colleges, Osborne (1908-...) & Dartmouth (...-1912; Cadet Captain)

15.09.1913
-
21.02.1916
HMS Africa (battleship)

22.02.1916
-
22.10.1916
HMS Drake (cruiser)

23.10.1916
-
16.02.1919
HMS Tiger (battlecruiser)

17.02.1919
-
06.1920
gunnery course, HMS Excellent

15.03.1922
-
14.04.1922
London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]

15.04.1922
-
13.09.1922
HMAS Cerberus (for charge of gunnery school) [lent to RAN]

14.09.1922
-
15.11.1922
HMAS Platypus (additional; for flotilla gunnery duties [temporary]) [lent to RAN]

16.11.1922
-
19.03.1923
HMAS Cerberus (for gunnery school) [lent to RAN]

20.03.1923
-
13.04.1923
HMAS Marguerite (for HMAS Brisbane) [lent to RAN]

14.04.1923
-
31.03.1924
Gunnery Officer, HMAS Brisbane (light cruiser) [lent to RAN]

01.04.1924
-
16.04.1924
HMAS Penguin (additional; awaiting passage) [lent to RAN]

17.04.1924
-
1924
HMAS Cerbereus (additional; for passage to UK) [lent to RAN]

1924
-
08.08.1924
London Depot RAN [lent to RAN]

09.08.1924
-
(01.)1925
Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean)

13.07.1925
-
06.1927
Gunnery Officer, HMS Wallace (flotilla leaderr, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Atltantic Fleet)

06.1927
-
(07.)1927
Gunnery Officer, HMS Mackay (flotilla leader, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Atltantic Fleet)

06.08.1927
- (06.)1928 Gunnery Officer, HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport)

07.12.1928
- (08.1930) Gunnery Officer, HMS Emperor of India (battleship)

23.01.1931
-
(02.1931)
Gunnery Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)

course, RAF School of Photography

(01.1932)

short course of instruction

17.03.1932
-
(01.)1934
Fleet Photographic Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (additional)] [accommodated in HMS Chrysanthemum (sloop)]

(07.1934)
-
(08.1934)
no appointment listed

24.08.1934
-
(02.)1936
Fleet Photographic Officer, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] [accommodated in HMS Guardian (netlayer)]

01.10.1936
-
30.09.1940
in charge of RN Photographic School [HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)]

01.10.1940
-
(04.)1946
in charge of RN Film Section [HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth)]

* indexed, but not listed as such

Phibbs,
Karl Henry John Lynch
K.H.J.L. Phibbs

27.12.1910
Pinner, Hendon district, Middlesex
-
1998
New Zealand

Midsh.
01.01.1929

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1931

S.Lt.
?, seniority 01.05.1931

Lt.
16.10.1933

Lt.Cdr.
16.10.1941 (retd 13.01.1951)

MID
24.04.1940
rescue of liner survivors

01.05.1928
-
(04.)1930
HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean)

06.05.1930
-
(02.)1931
HMS York (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet)

30.04.1931
-
04.01.1932
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

04.01.1932
-
(09.1932)
promotion course, Portsmouth

10.1933
-
(01.1934)
First Lieutenant, HMS Gnat (gunboat) (China)

(07.1935)

no appointment listed

10.1935
-
(02.)1936
HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

11.09.1936
-
(10.1938)
Commanding Officer, HMNZS Wakakura (trawler)

(02.1939)
-
(04.1939)
no appointment listed

24.07.1939
-
(04.)1940
First Lieutenant, HMS Escort (destroyer)

10.1940
-
(08.)1942
Commanding Officer, HMS St Mary's (destroyer)

21.12.1942
-
(06.1944)
Commanding Officer, HMS Douglas (destroyer)

(07.1945)

no appointment listed

(04.1946)

HMS Drake IV *

28.03.1948
-
(05.1950)
Executive Officer, HMS Warrior

(05.1953)

HMNZS Philomel (serving with NZ Navy)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Philby,
Frank Montague
F.M. Philby 1913?
-
02.05.1964

... ...

Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.08.1943

Cdr. (E) ? (retd 24.08.1962)

DSC ? ?

Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne.

... - ... ...

? - (07.1945) HMS Armada

... - ... ...

Philip,
George Tothill

01.05.1895
Richmond district, Surrey
-
14.11.1966
Rowledge, Surrey

Midsh. 15.09.1912

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1914

S.Lt. 30.03.1915

Lt. 30.06.1916

Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1924

Cdr. 30.06.1930

Capt. 30.06.1938 (retd 08.07.1947)

CBE 19.12.1944 Operation Begonia [investiture 01.05.1945]

DSO 16.03.1943 Operation Torch [investiture 28.09.1943]

DSC 16.08.1915 ?

MID 30.05.1944 attack of Tirpitz 03.04.1944

15.01.1908 entered RN

... - ... ...

29.01.1939 - (10.)1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)

29.10.1941 - 15.01.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (DSO)

23.02.1943 - 15.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (CBE, despatches)

(01.1945) - (04.1945) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) *

26.04.1945 - (10.1945) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Gibraltar and Mediterranean Approaches [HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)]

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Philip, HRH Prince
(of Greece and Denmark);
original family name: Battenberg, changed on 28.02.1947 to Mountbatten;
from 19.11.1947:
HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich;
from 22.02.1957:
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Only son of HRH Prince Andrew of Greece, GCVO, and HSH Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Married (20.11.1947) Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, née Windsor, now Windsor-Mountbatten, from 06.02.1952 HM Queen Elizabeth II (21.04.1926 - 08.09.2022); three sons, one daughter.

10.06.1921
Corfu, Greece
-
09.04.2021
Windsor Castle

Cadet 01.05.1939

Midsh. 01.01.1940

A/S.Lt. 09.01.1941

S.Lt. 01.02.1941

Lt. 16.07.1942

Lt.Cdr. 16.07.1950

Cdr. 10.06.1952 (retd 15.01.1953)

Hon. Adm. of the Fleet 15.01.1953

MID 03.02.1942 Battle of Cape Matapan: in charge of searchlighr control at HMS Valiant

GeoCon ? ?

GrkWC ? ?

CdeG ? ?

01.05.1939 - 12.1939 special entry cadet, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [awarded the King's Dirk and a prize as the best Cadet of his entry]

1940 - 1945 served in WW2 in the Mediterranean Fleet, in Home Waters, and with the Pacific Fleet in SEA and the Pacific:

01.01.1940 - 06.1940 HMS Ramillies (Royal Sovereign class battleship) (Indian Ocean)

06.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Kent (Kent class cruiser)

(12.1940) no appointment listed *

12.1940 - (06.)1941 HMS Valiant (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (Alexandria) (mentioned in despatches)

1941 on transport to UK aboard RMS Empress of Russia

01.09.1941 - 01.1942 promotion courses, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] [in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the qualifying examination]

28.01.1942 - 12.1943 HMS Wallace (Shakespeare class destroyer) (Nore Command & Sicily) [from 10.1942 First Lieutenant]

12.1943 - 02.1944 courses (UK)

14.02.1944 - early 1946 First Lieutenant, HMS Whelp (modified W class destroyer) (Pacific)

(04.1946) no appointment listed

04.06.1946 - (07.)1946 instructor, HMS Glendower (seamanship training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales)]

16.09.1946 - (10.1946) instructor, HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wiltshire)

Naval Staff College, Greenwich

(10.1948) - (05.1949) no appointment listed

17.10.1949 - (05.)1950 First Lieutenant, HMS Chequers (destroyer)

08.1950 - 07.1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Magpie (frigate)

(10.1951) - (05.1952) no appointment listed

* in this period shorter posting to HMS Shropshire (London class cruiser) and appointment in Ceylon

Phillimore,
Richard Augustus Bagot
R.A.B. Phillimore

Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) of V.Adm. Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, GCB, KCMG, MVO, RN (1864-1940), and Violet Gore Turton (1877?-1963), of Shedfield House, Shedfield, Southampton.
Married (28.06.1948, St Peter's, Soberton, Droxford district, Hampshire) Pamela Mary Darlington ((03?).1924 - 2007?), daughter of Lt.Col. Arthur James Darlington, DSO (1882-1960), and Mabel Jean Grant Dallas (1891-1973), of Soberton, Hampshire; four sons.

09.01.1907
Shedfield, Droxford district, Hampshire
-
25.03.2004
Shedfield, Droxford district, Hampshire

Cadet 15.01.1921

Midsh. 15.05.1925

A/S.Lt. 01.09.1927

S.Lt. 01.05.1928

Lt. 28.02.1930

Lt.Cdr. 28.02.1935

Cdr. 31.12.1942 (retd 24.10.1953)

Education: Twyford School; RN Colleges, Osborne (1920-1921) & Dartmouth (1921-1924).

15.09.1920 entered RN (played cricket for the RN, 1924)

15.09.1924 - 12.05.1925 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)

28.08.1925 - 09.1927 HMS Hood

19.09.1927 - 14.11.1928 promotion courses, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] & RN College, Greenwich [HMS President]

15.11.1928 - 31.05.1929 HMS Repulse

01.06.1929 - 14.11.1929 HMS Victoria & Albert (Royal yacht)

15.11.1929 - (1930) HMS Dragon [tender to HMS Pembroke]

... - ... ...

12.1934 - (10.1935) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier)

... - ... ...

(07.1937) no appointment listed

... - ... ...

16.01.1939 - (06.)1939 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) (for observer duties)

(07.1939) - (12.1939) Fleet Air Arm

15.12.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services [attached to No. 3 Bomber Group RAF])

12.10.1940 - (08.)1941 instructional staff, HMS Goshawk (RN Air Station, Piarco, Trinidad)

(10.1941) - (12.1941) no appointment listed

01.1942 - (02.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Biter (escort carrier) (and for observer duties) (North African landings)

28.02.1943 - (12.1943) FAA Liaison Officer on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)]

02.1944 - (10.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)

12.1944 - (07.)1945 Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer (Air) East Indies [HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon)]

11.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Argonaut (cruiser)

... - ... ...

High Sheriff, Hampshire, 1960. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 1965.
* indexed, but not listed as such

Phillimore,
William Raigersfeld
W.R. Phillimore
Son of son of Adm. Henry Bouchier Phillimore (1834-1893), and Anne Ellen Bourdillon. Married (15.04.1914, Istanbul, Turkey) Vera Winifred Eyres; two daughters, two sons.

24.03.1884
Bath district, Somerset
-
03.05.1950
Folkestone

... ...

Lt. 30.04.1906

Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1914

Cdr. 30.06.1918

Capt. 24.03.1931 (retd 24.03.1931; own request) (reverted to retd > 02.1941, < 04.1941)

CBE 16.08.1940 Dunkirk [investiture 21.10.1941]

CdeG 02.11.1917 ?

Education: Cheltenham College.

... - ... ...

12.01.1914 - 07.03.1915 Gunnery Officer, HMS Benbow (battleship)

26.03.1915 - 13.07.1918 Executive and Gunnery Officer, HMS Conquest (light cruiser)

24.07.1918 - 01.04.1921 Executive and Gunnery Officer, HMS Coventry (light cruiser)

... - ... ...

01.04.1921 - (01.)1923 staff, Mobilisation Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

21.01.1923 - (07.1924) Executive Officer, RN Barracks Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

(04.1925) - (05.1926) no appointment listed

(07.1927) - (01.1928) no appointment listed

? - ? Commander (D), Destroyers in Reserve, Portsmouth

(02.1929) no appointment listed

15.07.1929 - 26.09.1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Marshal Soult (monitor)

(10.1930) no appointment listed

25.08.1939 - 16.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Fervent, (RN base, Ramsgate) (operation Dynamo)

(10.1940) - (02.1941) no appointment listed

In 1940, he was sent ashore with thrombosis, leaving him paralysed on his left side but able to speak. Massage, hospitalisation and a stay at home returned him to a fit state by May, 1944.

Phillips,
Alfred Jerome Lucian
A.J.L. Phillips

02.08.1893
-
09.01.1979

Midsh. 15.01.1911

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1913

S.Lt. 15.01.1914

Lt. 15.02.1915

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1923

Cdr. 30.06.1928

Capt. 31.12.1934 (retd 08.01.1944 & reappointed) (dispersed 20.10.1947) (reverted to retd 22.12.1947)

R.Adm. (retd) 22.12.1947

DSO 14.10.1941 Bismarck action

15.05.1906 entered service

... - ... ...

30.08.1939 - 28.09.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Montrose (Scott class destroyer) & as Captain (D) 17th Destroyer Flotilla

28.09.1939 - 29.01.1940 HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) (additional) & as Captain (D) 17th Destroyer Flotilla

09.02.1940 - 11.02.1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; whilst unemployed)

12.02.1940 - 20.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser) & from 25.09.1941 as Flag Captain and Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Commanding 1st Cruiser Squadron

24.02.1942 - 11.03.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Deputy Director of Local Defence Division)

12.03.1942 - 26.08.1945 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Director of Local Defence Division)

08.07.1943 - 08.01.1944 also: Naval ADC to the King

27.08.1945 - 15.10.1947 HMS President (additional; as Senior Naval Member & Vice President (Naval), Ordnance Board)

Phillips,
Arthur Trestain
A.T. Phillips

13.12.1900
Plymouth, Devon
-
19.04.1990
New Forest, Hampshire

Paym.Midsh.
15.07.1918

A/Paym. S.Lt.
?

Paym. S.Lt.
09.12.1921, seniority 15.04.1921

Paym. Lt.
15.04.1923

Paym. Lt.Cdr.
15.04.1931

Paym.Cdr. = Cdr. (S)
31.12.1938

Capt. (S)
31.12.1948 (retd 13.12.1955; age)

CBE
09.06.1955
HM's birthday 1955

MID
01.07.1941
HM's birthday 1941

12.07.1922
-
(08.)1923
HMS Ajax (battleship)

10.1923
-
(05.)1926
HMS Impregnable (flagship) (Devonport) (for duty in Admiral's Office, Plymouth Command)

22.10.1926
-
(07.1927)
HMS Tamar (receiving ship) (Hong Kong) (for duty in Office of Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments at Hong Kong)

16.07.1929
-
(02.)1931
Captain's Secretary to Captain (D) 5th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Wallace (flotilla leader)] (Atlantic Fleet)

11.04.1931
-
(09.1932)
Tactical School, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)]

31.08.1933
-
(01.1934)
Secretary to Chief of Staff & Maintenance Captain, Plymouth Command [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

(07.1935)

undergoing short course of instruction

(02.1936)

no appointment listed

01.08.1936
-
(02.)1938
Admiral's Secretary to R.Adm. Commanding 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Barham (battleship)] (Mediterranean) *

(08.1938)

no appointment listed

13.09.1938
-
(02.)1939
HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport)

03.03.1939
-
(04.)1939
HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth)

31.05.1939
-
(02.1941)
Admiral's Secretary to Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Home Fleet
Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Aurora, then HMS Woolwich, then HMS Maidstone]

06.1942
-
(10.1943)
Admiral's Secretary to V.Adm. Red Sea and Canal Area [HMS Stag]

(12.1943)

no appointment listed

21.01.1944
-
21.01.1945
Admiralty [HMS President]

21.01.1945
-
(04.1946)
Service Conditions Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

29.09.1947
-
(07.1948)
HMS Ceres (RN Supply and Secretariat School, Wetherby, Yorks.)

07.02.1950
-
(05.1950)
staff, Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)]

15.12.1952
-
(04.1955)
SSO, RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

* (06.1938) still indexed, but no longer listed as such

Phillips,
Dennis Walter

Married (1945, Bridgend, Glamorgan) Betty E. Roberts (15.11.1920 - 09.2019). 29.04.1920
Neath, Wales
-
29.11.1997
Cambridge district, Cambridgeshire

Midsh. (A) 11.09.1939

A/S.Lt. (A) 29.04.1940

S.Lt. (A) 29.04.1941

Lt. (A) 29.10.1942 (Emgcy 11.09.1946)

A/Lt.Cdr. (A) 03.03.1944?

DSC 30.05.1944 attack of Tirpitz 03.04.1944 [investiture 03.07.1945]

MID 29.07.1941 Battle of Cape Matapan

(09.1939) - (05.1940) Fleet Air Arm

(06.1940) - (08.1940) no appointment listed

1940 - (10.)1940 FAA course

28.10.1940 - (12.)1940 pilot, 767 Squadron FAA [HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath)]

17.12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)

11.03.1941 - (07.)1941 pilot, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Formidable (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] (despatches)

19.07.1941 - (12.)1941 pilot, 815 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]

04.12.1941 - (08.)1942 pilot, 775 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)]

04.08.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayid, Egypt)

19.01.1943 - (02.)1944 pilot, 786 Squadron FAA [HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife)] (and for instructional duties)

03.03.1944 - 09.07.1944 Commanding Officer, 829 Squadron FAA [HMS Victorious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier)] (DSC)

13.07.1944 - (08.)1944 HMS Bherunda (RN Air Station, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous services)

12.08.1944 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, 834 Squadron FAA (Ceylon)

18.10.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS Atheling (Ruler class escort carrier)

23.02.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, 744 Squadron FAA [HMS Shrike (RN Air Station, Maydown, Northern Ireland)]

01.03.1946 - 11.09.1946 HMS Raven (RN Air Station, Eastleigh)

Phillips,
George Chesterman
G.C. Phillips

Only son (with one sister) of Harold Louis Phillips (1870-1942), and Florence Annie Lodge (1870-1957), of Southwick, Sussex.
Married 1st (14.09.1929, St Margaret's, Westminster, London) Sheila Buchan (30.06.1907 - (03?).1975), youngest daughter (with two sisters) of John Innerarity Buchan (1842-1922), and Blanche Ellen Shaw (1864-1946), of Melbourne, Australia; ... children (one son?).
Married 2nd ((06?).1978, Colchester district, Essex) Pamela J. Hunt.

05.10.1904
Rangoon, Bengal, India
-
29.09.1995
West Mersea, Colchester district, Essex

Midsh. 15.09.1922

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1925

S.Lt. 15.07.1925

Lt. 15.02.1927

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1935

Cdr. 22.12.1939

A/Capt. 15.12.1942

Capt. 22.12.1944 (retd 22.10.1947)

DSO 01.01.1940 New Year 1940 [investiture 06.02.1940]

GM 12.01.1943 explosion in HMNorS "B1" [investiture 10.10.1944]

... - ... ...

08.11.1937 - 07.04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Ursula (submarine) (DSO)

08.04.1940 - 16.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Usk (submarine)

09.09.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty)

16.10.1940 - (10.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) (as Senior Officer, Submarines) & from 09.09.1941 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Blyth

22.10.1942 - 14.12.1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties)

15.12.1942 - 31.01.1944 Senior Officer, 10th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, Malta), from 11.1943 ashore at Maddalena] (GM)

02.1944 - 01.07.1945 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (on staff of Rear-Admiral Submarines (for administration & personnel))

02.07.1945 - 10.1947 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (in charge of Fort Blockhouse & as Captain (S/M) 5th Submarine Flotilla)

Phillips,
[Sir] Henry Clarmont
H.C. Phillips

10.07.1891
Walton-on- Thames
-
26.08.1968
[Rowledge, Farnham, Surrey ?]

Lt. 30.08.1911

Lt.Cdr. 30.08.1919

Cdr. 30.06.1925

Capt. 30.06.1932

Cdre. 2nd cl. 1940?

R.Adm. 06.02.1942 (retd 01.06.1945)

V.Adm. (retd) 01.06.1945

KBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946

CB 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944

15.01.1906 entered service

1914 - 1918 served European War

... - ... ...

29.04.1938 - 18.01.1940 lent to RAN:

29.04.1938 - 12.05.1938 London Depot RAN

13.05.1938 - 21.06.1938 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Australia)

22.06.1938 - 12.10.1939 Captain Superintendent Sydney & Captain-in-Charge New South Wales [HMAS Penguin]

13.10.1939 - 13.12.1939 Commodore-in-Charge, Sydney [HMAS Penguin] (as Cdre. 2nd cl.)

14.12.1939 - 18.01.1940 HMAS Cerberus & London Depot RAN (additional; for passage to UK)

19.01.1940 - 13.02.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

14.02.1940 - 17.04.1942 Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President (additional]

08.07.1941 - 06.02.1942 also: Naval ADC to the King

18.04.1942 - 29.04.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty with [DTM? = Director of Torpedoes and Mining?])

05.05.1942 - 07.09.1942 British Admiralty Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker II]

08.09.1942 - 13.09.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

14.09.1942 - 08.08.1943 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Air Ministry)

09.08.1943 - 08.02.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for period not exceeding 6 months; temporary)

09.02.1944 - 01.04.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty; temporary)

02.04.1944 - 19.04.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

20.04.1944 - 14.06.1944 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed)

15.06.1944 - 17?.07?.1944 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

18?.07?.1944 - (07.1945) Vice Controller, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)]

Phillips,
Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan
T.S.V. Phillips

Son of late Col. Thomas Vaughan Wynn Phillips, Royal Artillery.
Grandson of late Adm. Sir Algernon F.R. de Horsey, KCB, and Louisa Mary Adeline de Horsey.
Married (21.07.1919) Gladys Metcalfe, daughter of late Captain F.G. GriffithGriffin, DCLI; one son, two stepsons.

19.02.1888
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth, Cornwall
-
10.12.1941
Far East
(KIA) [age 53]
[Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 44, column 2]

A/S.Lt. 15.07.1907?

S.Lt. 09.04.1908, seniority 15.07.1907

Lt. 20.07.1909, seniority 15.07.1908

Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1916

Cdr. 30.06.1921

A/Capt. 1917

Capt. 30.06.1927

R.Adm. 10.01.1939

A/V.Adm. 07.02.1940

A/Adm. 21.10.1941

KCB 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941

CB 11.05.1937 ?

Education: Stubbington House, Fareham; HMS Britannia.

15.01.1903 entered RN

1914 - 1919 served European War

1919 - 1920 RN Staff College

1920 - 1922 served on Permanent Advisory Commission for Naval, Military, and Air Questions, Geneva

15.06.1923 - (08.1923) Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.11.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS Verbena (sloop) (Africa)

01.02.1928 - (04.)1928 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean)

(05.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed

04.09.1928 - (08.1929) Captain (D) 6th Flotilla [HMS Campbell (destroyer)]

24.04.1930 - (09.)1932 Assistant Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President]

21.09.1932 - (07.)1935 Flag Captain, HMS Hawkins (cruiser) & Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies

08.08.1935 - (02.)1938 Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President]

20.04.1938 - (04.)1939 Commodore/Rear-Admiral Commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Aurora (cruiser)]

10.08.1938 - 1939 also: Naval ADC to the King

20.05.1939 - 31.05.1939 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty)

01.06.1939 - 20.10.1941 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy (later: Vice) Chief of Naval Staff [HMS President]

21.10.1941 - 10.12.1941 Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Prince of Wales (battleship)] (Force Z)

Phillips,
Vallack Wilton
V.W. Phillips
Married (1932, New Zealand) Molly Gartside Culpan.

23.07.1903
St Germans district, Cornwall
-
14.07.1979

Schoolmaster 28.08.1925

Schoolmaster (CWO) 28.08.1935

Instr.Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1951 (retd 01.09.1957)

28.08.1925 entered RN

... - ... ...

04.09.1939 - (04.)1942 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)

08.06.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Medway (accounting base, Alexandria, Egypt)

1942 - (12.1942) HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) [date of appointment also shown as 08.06.1942]

01.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Assegai (training establishment, nr Durban, South Africa)

01.06.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for gunnery school)

... - ... ...

Philpott,
Reginald Thomas
R.T. Philpott

16.07.1892
Netley Abbey, Hampshire
-
20.03.1977

... ...

Gnr. (T) 01.11.1918

Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.11.1928

Lt. 04.03.1941 (retd 16.07.1942; age)

... - ... ...

02.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer)

01.11.1924 - (01.1925) HMS L 71 (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Lucia]

... - ... ...

24.01.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Cumberland (cruiser)

29.09.1941 - (08.)1942 HMS Victory III (accounting section, Wantage, Berkshire)

01.11.1942 - (07.1945) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (as officer for mining and minesweeping equipment duties, Plymouth Area)

(04.1946) HMS Vernon *

* indexed, but not listed as such

Phillpotts,
Christopher Louis George
"Chris"
C.L.G. Phillpotts
Son of ... Phillpotts, and ... Cockburn.
23.04.1915
St George Hanover Square district, London
-
06.03.1985
Brighton, Sussex

Midsh.
01.05.1933

A/S.Lt.
01.09.1935

S.Lt.
16.07.1937

Lt.
16.10.1938, seniority 01.08.1938 (reld < 06.1943)

CMG
1957
?

MID
01.01.1940
New Year 1940

MID
20.10.1942
attack convoy Dover Straits 17.08.1942

Education: RN College, Dartmouth

1932

joined RN

07.07.1937
-
(04.1940)
HMS Ilex (destroyer)

(1941)
-
(1942)
HMS Quorn (destroyer)

02.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport)

-
09.1942
Commanding Officer, HM MTB 236 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 9th MTB Flotilla (hospitalized with tbc)

11.1943

joined Foreign Office

1947
-
1951
3rd, later 2nd, Secretary, Copenhagen

1951

Foreign Office

1953

1st Secretary, Athens

1957
-
1962
Counsellor Paris

1964
-
1966
Counsellor Washington

1966
-
1970
Foreign & Commonwealth Office; retd

1972-1982 Adviser to Employment Conditions Abroad Ltd

Phipps,
Michael

Married 1st (08.11.1940, Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh) Bethia Buchanan; two sons.
Married 2nd (28.03.1952) ...; two daughters, two sons. 30.06.1918
-
20.07.1983
Kensington and Chelsea district, London

... ...

S.Lt. 16.09.1938

Lt. 01.05.1940

Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1948 (retd 21.10.1948)

... - ... ...

06.07.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Gossamer (Halcyon class minesweeper)

10.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Leda (Halcyon class minesweeper)

15.01.1941 - (06.)1941 HMS Fiji (Fiji class cruiser)

(08.1941) - (10.1941) no appointment listed

21.10.1941 - (10.)1942 HMS Shropshire (London class cruiser)

(12.1942) - (06.1943) no appointment listed

06.07.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield)

(06.1944) - (10.1945) HMS Mercury (signal school, near Petersfield) *

(06.1944) on staff of Assault Group S3 (Normandy)

02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore)

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Phipps,
Walter John
W.J. Phipps (Photo courtesy of Mr Sandy Christie)
Son of Mr & Mrs N.T. Phipps, of Shanghai.
Married (27.07.1929, Topsham parish church, St Thomas district, Devon) Veronica Halliday, daughter of the Rev. Guy & Mrs Halliday, of the Vicarage, Topsham, Devon; two daughters.

29.07.1899
Shanghai, China
-
30.04.1972
Cobham, Chatham district, Kent

Midsh. 02.08.1914

A/S.Lt. 15.07.1917

S.Lt. 15.03.1918

Lt. 15.12.1919

Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1927 (retd 23.07.1944)

A/Cdr. > 08.1942, < 02.1943

Cdr. (retd) 23.07.1944 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 10.1945)

OBE 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 08.07.1941]

MID 23.12.1939 successful actions against enemy submarines

Hkn 15.04.1947 liberation of Norway

Education: St Michael's School, Westgate on Sea; RN College, Osborne (1912) & Dartmouth (1914); Queen's College, Cambridge (1919).

05.1912 entered RN

... - ... ...

10.07.1934 - (08.)1936 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for training duties)

(10.1936) no appointment listed

06.11.1936 - (12.1938) HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for minesweepers in reserve; for command of group of vessels in reserve)

(02.1939) - (05.1939) no appointment listed

19.06.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Caledon (cruiser) (for minesweepers in reserve)

05.09.1939 - 24.04.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Woolston (destroyer) (OBE, despatches)

19.05.1941 - (08.)1941 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

09.09.1941 - 16.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Montrose (destroyer)

20.10.1943 - 23.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Limbourne (destroyer) (heavily damaged by the German torpedo boats T 22 and T 24 the English Channel; sunk by RN when impossible to salvage)

24.01.1944 - (10.)1944 Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

01.12.1944 - 07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Mackay (destroyer)

Pilcher,
Guy Robert
G.R. Pilcher
Son (with two sisters and two brothers) of Alexander Munsey Warton Pilcher (1870-1953), and Fanny Dodson Hessey (1875-1960).
Married ((09?).1933, Weymouth district, Devon) Rosemary Graham (07.06.1908 - 07.2006); two sons, one daughter.

19.06.1901
Basing, Basingstoke district, Hampshire
-
13.03.1977
Leigh Holt, Crapstone, Yelverton, Tavistock district, Devon

A/S.Lt. 15.09.1920

S.Lt. 15.05.1921

Lt. 15.02.1923

Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1931

Cdr. 30.06.1938 (retd > 05.1950, < 05.1951)

Education: RN Colleges, Dartmouth & Osborne; Peterhouse, Cambridge University (10.10.1922, matriculated 23.10.1922, left 1923).

... - ... ...

13.10.1939 - 20.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Venetia (V class destroyer)

(02.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) *

23.02.1940 - (02.)1942 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)

(04.1942) no appointment listed

(06.1942) HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) *

21.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Manchester (Southampton class cruiser)

01.09.1942 - 28.09.1943 HMS Newfoundland (Uganda class cruiser)

28.09.1943 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Newfoundland (Uganda class cruiser)

(02.1944) no appointment listed

20.03.1944 - (07.)1945 Tactical, Torpedo and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President]

(10.1945) no appointment listed

20.11.1945 - (07.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Appledore

... - ... ...

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pilsbury,
Allan Edward
A.E. Pilsbury
Son (with three brothers) of Edward Ashton Pilsbury (1881-1929), and Eva Hawes (1883-1955).
Married ((09?).1935, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Olive Marion Swift; ... children (two sons?). Olive Pilsbury remarried (1956) Frederick W. Boulton.

13.04.1908
Liverpool, Toxteth Park district, Lancashire
-
24.01.1953
Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey, Cheshire

Boatsw. 01.01.1936

Cd. Boatsw. 01.04.1945 (retd 1952?)

Lt. (retd) 1952?

... - ... ...

18.10.1938 - 25.07.1940 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

(05.1940) 1 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion ... (Boulogne)

25.07.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Franklin (Halcyon class minesweeper)

(04.1943) no appointment listed

(06.1943) - (08.1943) promotion course, Portsmouth

25.10.1943 - (04.1946) HMS Copra (Combined Operations accounting base) (for minor landing craft squadron duties)

... - ... ...

Pinckney,
Erlysman Patrick Hamilton
E.P.H. Pinckney E.P.H. Pinckney (Photo courtesy of Mr Bill Forster)
Son of Capt. Erlysman Charles Pinckney (1871-1954), and Agnes Ponsonby Adair (1867-1932), of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.

03.06.1902
72 St George's Road, Belgravia, St George Hanover Square district, London
-
23.10.1943
Gibraltar
(MPK) [age 41]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]

A/S.Lt. 15.01.1923

S.Lt. 15.08.1923, seniority 15.09.1922

Lt. 15.06.1924

Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1932

A/Cdr. 28.04.1943?

MID
26.09.1940
Norway 04-06.1940

15.01.1916 entered RN

(08.1923) short course of instruction

15.08.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Walrus (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

03.02.1926 - (03.)1926 HMS Newark (twin screw minesweeper)

09.04.1926 - (06.)1928 HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

17.10.1928 - (08.)1930 HMS Sesame (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

08.09.1930 - (01.)1933 HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

22.03.1933 - (03.)1934 HMS Effingham (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for emergency destroyers)

14.05.1934 - (08.)1934 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad]

31.10.1934 - (07.)1937 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China)

22.11.1937 - (08.)1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Kingfisher (patrol vessel (fishery protection))

09.08.1938 - (09.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Lilac (trawler)

(04.1940) no appointment listed

27.07.1940 - (02.)1943 Port Minesweeping Officer, HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland)

28.04.1943 - (10.)1943 Commander Minesweeping, HMS Cormorant (RN base, Gibraltar)

23.10.1943 missing, presumed killed on passage to HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) aboard HMS Cromarty (Bangor class minesweeper) which was lost when torpedoed in the Strait of Bonifacio

Pinsent,
Andrew Clive Macpherson
A.C.M. Pinsent
Son of Clive Pinsent, and Kathleen J. Macpherson.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. James Macpherson Pinsent.
Married Gloria ... 04.06.1922
Eton district, Buckinghamshire
-
11.04.1982
Chichester district

S.Lt.
01.08.1941

Lt.
16.01.1943

Lt.Cdr.
16.01.1951 (retd > 05.1953, < 01.1956)

29.12.1941
-
(04.1944)
HMS Cleveland (destroyer)

05.1944
-
(06.1944)
HMS Ledbury (destroyer)

(07.1945)
-
(04.1946)
navigation course

Pinsent,
Clive
C. Pinsent

16.06.1886
-
18.08.1948
Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

A/S.Lt.
15.12.1905?

S.Lt.
25.05.1907, seniority 15.12.1905

Lt.
09.01.1908, seniority 30.12.1906

Cdr.
31.12.1918 (retd 11.08.1924; own request)

15.05.1901

entered RN

21.09.1939
-
(02.1943)
staff, HMS Drake (RN barracks & base, Devonport)

(06.1943)

no appointment listed

Pinsent,
Harold Charles Frank
H.C.F. Pinsent
Married (1912, Portsmouth) ... Johnson.
Residences: Southsea, later Northampton.

28.03.1884
Middlesex
-
15.04.1968
Northampton

Paym.Cdr.
28.03.1923 (retd 01.02.1934; own request)

Paym.Capt. (retd)
= Capt. (S) (retd)
01.02.1934

15.07.1901

entered RN

28.03.1917

lent to Royal Canadian Navy

01.09.1928
-
(08.1929)
HMS Warspite (battleship)

15.08.1930
-
(09.1932)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)

24.08.1939
-
(07.1945)
HMS Lucifer (RN base, Swansea)

(04.1946)

no appointment listed

Pinsent,
James Macpherson
"Jim"
J.M. Pinsent (not 100% sure) (Photo courtesy of Mr Guy de la Bedoyère)
Son of Clive Pinsent, and Kathleen J. Macpherson.
Brother of Lt.Cdr. Andrew Clive Macpherson Pinsent.
Married (23.06.1956, St Bartholomew's, Rogate) Daphne Miranda Harkness, only child of Capt. Kenneth Lanyon Harkness, RN.
03.05.1925
Hitchin district, Bedfordshire / Hertfordshire
-
23.03.1983
Westminster district

Midsh.
01.09.1942

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1944

S.Lt.
23.10.1944, seniority 01.04.1944

Lt.
01.02.1946

Lt.Cdr.
01.02.1954 (retd 31.08.1959)

01.09.1942
-
(12.1943)
HMS Duke of York (battleship)

(early 1944)

HMS Onslaught (destroyer) *

(06.1944)
-
(10.1944)
HMS Excellent (training establishment, Portsmouth) **

10.10.1944
-
(04.1946)
HMS Crane (sloop)

...
-
...
...

* (04.1944) still indexed under HMS Duke of York, but no longer listed; most probably showing on a group photo of HMS Onslaught early 1944
** indexed, but not listed as such

Pinsent,
Paul Desmond
P.D. Pinsent
Brother of Lt. (Sp.Br.) N.J.Q. Pinsent, RNVR.
Married; four daughters. 17.09.1915
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
-
06.11.1997
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Prob. T/S.Lt. (E) RNVR
21.01.1940

T/Lt. (E)
24.12.1940 (reld 1946)

MID
14.08.1945
relief of Greece

Education: Ladycross and Downside Schools; Birmingham University (Mech. Eng.)

21.01.1940

joined RNVR

21.01.1940
-
(04.1940)
HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services)

24.12.1940

transferred to RN

24.12.1940
-
(02.)1941
HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser)

19.06.1941
-
10.1943
HMS Kent (cruiser)

10.1943
-
(04.1946)
Chief Engineer, HMS Liddesdale (destroyer)

Piper,
Frederic Southwell
F.S. Piper
Son of Frederick Southwell Piper, and Sarah Theresa Correya.

19.11.1882
Princes Dock, Bombay, India
-
01.08.1958

A/S.Lt. RNR
24.07.1906?

S.Lt. RNR
23.12.1909, seniority 24.07.1906

Lt. RNR
16.03.1912

Lt. (Supplementary List)
01.04.1913

Lt.Cdr.
01.04.1921 (retd 19.11.1927)

Cdr. (retd)
19.11.1927 (reverted to retd 07.1944?)

AAF:

F/Lt.
19.07.1937 (Equipment Branch)

OBE
01.01.1941
New Year 1941

Served Merchant Navy.

27.08.1918
-
(1919)
Commanding Officer, HMS Myrtle (sloop)

14.11.1939
-
(04.1940)
HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa)

28.08.1940
-
(02.1941)
HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham)

09.06.1942
-
(02.1943)
HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton)

(06.1943)

no appointment listed

06.1943
-
07.1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Cricket (landing craft base, Burseldon)

Pipon,
Harry Cecil Brand

08.10.1883
-
28.06.1974

... ...

Cdr. 31.12.1917

Capt. (retd) 08.10.1928

... - ... ...

10.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Ubiquity (cable ship depot, Edinburgh)

Pirie,
Donald Anthony
D.A. Pirie
Son of ... Pirie, and ... Stafford.
(06?).1914
Tendring district, Essex
-
02.08.1940
(KIA) [age 26]
[Portsmouth Naval Memorial]

Cadet
01.05.1931

Midsh.
01.01.1932

A/Lt.
01.05.1934

Lt.
01.08.1936

DSC
09.05.1940
successful submarine operations against the enemy

MID
23.12.1939
bringing home the ship safely following prolonged attacks

19.11.1937
-
(04.1939)
HMS Undine (submarine)

15.04.1939
-
02.08.1940
Executive Officer, HMS Spearfish (submarine)

Pitman,
Stanley Robert James

Married (07.08.1930, Portsmouth, Hampshire) Margery Mildred Selina Oyns ((09?).1908 - ), daughter of Edwin Wilfrid Oyns, and Mildred Mary Rowell.

30.11.1907
Eastney, Portsmouth district, Hampshire
-
15.05.1996
Cosham, Hampshire

Artificer Apprentice 30.07.1923 [Ch/M37704]

Electrical Artificer 1930

A/Wt.Electr. 22.07.1937

Wt.Electr. 1938?, seniority 22.07.1937

Cd.Electr. 01.10.1943

Lt.Cdr. (L) 25.02.1948

Cdr. (L) 30.06.1953 (retd 30.11.1957)

MID 14.01.1941 salvaging MV Bhima

MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East

... - ... ...

1930 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]

1932 HMS Kent

1937 HMS Vernon

30.08.1937 - (02.)1939 HMS Cornwall (cruiser)

14.02.1939 - (08.)1941 HMS Caledon (cruiser) (despatches)

(10.1941) - (02.1942) no appointment listed

24.03.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Instructional Department)

15.03.1944 - (07.)1946 HMS Howe (battleship) (despatches)

07.1946 - (04.1947) HMS Marlborough (training establishment, Eastbourne)

1948 Flotilla Electrical Officer, HMS Chequers

1950 HMS Collingwood

1952 HMS Boxer

1955 Air Electrical Officer, HMS Nuthatch

1956 Staff Electrical officer on staff of Flag Officer Ground Training

1957 Deputy Command Electrical Officer on staff of Flag Officer Air (Home)

Pitt,
Arthur John Wright
A.J.W. Pitt
Son of Arthur Henry John Pitt and Mary Ann Bee. Married first (17.11.1937, Valetta, Malta) Tatiana Mifsud (1920-2001); three daughters, one son. Married second (1954) Ann Elizabeth Ingle (born 1928); one son, one daughter. 03.03.1915
N. Finchley, Middlesex
-
12.03.1994
Brill, Buckinghamshire

Midsh.
01.01.1933

A/S.Lt.
01.05.1935

S.Lt.
16.01.1936

Lt.
16.05.1938
?, seniority 16.04.1938
?, seniority 16.04.1937

A/Lt.Cdr.
01.11.1944

Lt.Cdr.
16.07.1945 (retd 08.09.1949; own request)

DSO
02.05.1944
patrols Mediterranean

MID
28.06.1940
submarine actions against enemy

23.04.1932
-
(01.1934)
HMS Shropshire (cruiser)

02.05.1935
-
(07.1935)
promotion course, RN College, Greenwich

06.01.1936
-
(02.)1936
promotion course, Portsmouth

12.12.1936
-
(02.)1937
HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

13.02.1937
-
(10.1938)
HMS Thames (submarine)

23.03.1939
-
(08.)1939
HMS Thistle (submarine)

11.1939
-
(02.)1941
First Lieutenant, HMS Seawolf (submarine)

05.07.1941
-
(12.1941)
Commanding Officer, HMS H 33 (submarine)

(08.1942)

no appointment listed

12.10.1942
-
(04.)1944
Commanding Officer, HMS Taku (submarine)

(06.1944)

HMS Trident (submarine) *

15.04.1945
-
(04.1946)
Commanding Officer, HMS Auriga (submarine)

08.03.1948
-
(05.1949)
HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse)

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pitt,
Richard Jacomb

Eldest son (with two brothers and one sister) of Col. Robert Brindley Pitt (1888-1974), and Norah Helen Jacomb Hood (1897-1979), of Twinhoe, Midford, Bath, Somerset.
Married (16.03.1946, St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster district, London) Diana Fay Lovel Mack (01.11.1925 - 30.06.2007), only daughter of Lovel & Hilda Mack, of Massey Lodge, Sandiway, Cheshire; one daughter, three sons. 04.11.1921
Southstoke House, Bath, Somerset
-
13.11.2006
North Hampshire district, Hampshire

Cadet 01.01.1939

Midsh. 01.09.1939

A/S.Lt. 01.05.1941

S.Lt. 10.1941, seniority 01.10.1940

Lt. 01.04.1942

Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1950 (retd 05.11.1964)

MBE 02.01.1945 for bravery and skill in damage control in the assault area off the Normandy Beaches when ship was torpedoed Channel 06.07.1944

01.01.1939 - 09.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser)

01.01.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Renown (Repulse class battlecruiser)

05.05.1941 - (08.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory]

23.09.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Antelope (A class destroyer)

17.02.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Duncan (D class destroyer)

(10.1943) - (12.1943) HMS Duncan (D class destroyer) *

10.01.1944 - 06.07.1944 HMS Trollope (Captain class frigate) (MBE)

28.08.1944 - (01.)1945 HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire) (for preliminary air training duties)

(04.1945) no appointment listed

16.04.1945 - (10.1945) HMS Hogue (Battle class destroyer)

(04.1946) communications course *

... - ... ...

? - 1964? HMS Tangmere

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pizey,
[Sir] Charles Thomas Mark
C.T.M. Pizey

Son of late Rev. Charles Edward Pizey (1853?-1932), and Geraldine Fowle (1866-1949), of Mark and Huntspill, Somerset.
Brother of Capt. Edward Fowle Pizey.
Married (07.07.1928, Salisbury Cathedral) Phyllis May D'Angibau (27.11.1904 - 04.1993), eldest daughter of Alfred D'Angibau (1865-1926), and Florence May D'Angibau (?-1947), formerly of Bournemouth; two daughters.

17.06.1899
Axbridge, Somerset
-
17.05.1993
Burnham on Sea, Somerset

Midsh. 14.02.1917

A/S.Lt. 15.05.1918

S.Lt. 15.12.1918

Lt. 15.12.1920

Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1928

Cdr. 31.12.1933

Capt. 30.06.1939

Cdre. 1st cl. 15.01.1946?

R.Adm. 10.07.1948

V.Adm. 15.10.1951

Adm. 16.12.1954 (retd 25.04.1958)

GBE 01.01.1957 New Year 1957

KBE 01.06.1953 Coronation List 1953

CB 31.03.1942 attack battlecruisers 12.02.1942

DSO 01.01.1942 New Year 1942

DSO 01.12.1942 Russian convoy PQ18 09.1942

MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941

MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941

Order of the People's Army (Yugoslavia; visit of Marshal Tito to India 55)

Education: Imperial Defence College (1947; idc).

1912
-
1915
HMS Conway

1916
-
1918
Midshipman, HMS Revenge

1921
-
1922
HMS Danae (light cruiser) (Special Service Squadron World Cruise)

15.08.1922
-
(08.1923)
HMS Danae (light cruiser)

30.12.1924
-
(01.1925)
First Lieutenant, HMS Violent (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet)

26.03.1926
-
(07.1927)
First Lieutenant, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

26.04.1929
-
(04.)1930
Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Vice-Admiral Sir W.A. Howard Kelly, Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Revenge (battleship)]

18.12.1930
-
(02.)1931
Commanding Officer, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Portland)

10.07.1931
-
(09.1932)
Commanding Officer, HMS Boreas (destroyer) (Mediterranean)

(01.1934)

no appointment listed

28.06.1935
-
(07.1937)
Executive Officer, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) (Mediterranean)

(02.1938)

no appointment listed

26.04.1938
-
(04.)1939
Commanding Officer, HMS Fortune (destroyer) (Home Fleet)

(08.1939)

no appointment listed

18.09.1939
-
(04.)1940
Commanding Officer, HMS Ausonia (heavy repair ship) (Atlantic Patrol and Convoys)

24.06.1940
-
07.07.1942
Commanding Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 21st Destroyer Flotilla (Nore Command, Channel and North Sea Operations) (CB, DSO, despatches twice)

23.07.1942
-
(10.)1943
Commanding Officer, HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) and Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, Home Fleet (Russian convoys) (bar to DSO)

15.12.1943
-
(12.1943)
Director of Operations Division (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]

10.01.1944
-
(07.)1945
Director of Operations Division (Home), Admiralty [HMS President]

15.01.1946
-
(04.1946)
Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson]

08.01.1948
-
(05.1949)
Senior Naval Liaison Officer & Chief of UK Services Liaison Staff, Australia [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)]

1950
-
1951
Flag Officer Commanding, First Cruiser Squadron [HMS Liverpool]

18.10.1951
-
31.03.1955
Chief of Naval Staff & Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy [HMS Bluejacket]

01.04.1955
-
21.07.1955
Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy

06.12.1955
-
1958
Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)]

Deputy Lieutenant (DL), County of Somerset, 1962.

* indexed, but not listed as such

Pizey,
Edward Fowle
"Bertie"
E.F. Pizey

Son of late Rev. Charles Edward Pizey (1853?-1932), and Geraldine Fowle (1866-1949), of Mark and Huntspill, Somerset.
Brother of Adm. Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey,
Married (06.10.1934, All Saints' Church, Reading) Helen Muriel Petrock Field, only daughter of Mr & Mrs W.P. Field, of Chittagong, India; one son.

24.03.1906
Mark Rectory, Highbridge, Axbridge district, Somerset
-
30.05.1983
Feering, Colchester, Braintree district

Midsh. 15.09.1925

S.Lt. 01.12.1927

Lt. 01.12.1929

Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1937

Cdr. 31.12.1941

Capt. 31.12.1947 (retd 31.12.1957)

OBE 12.06.1971 HM's birthday 1971: as General Manager, The Royal Naval Film Corporation, Ministry of Defence

DSO 09.05.1940 successful submarine operations against the enemy [investiture 08.08.1940]

MID 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944

Education: Clifton College (09.1915-05.1924).

... - ... ...

16.07.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

24.11.1939 - 19.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Triton (submarine) (DSO)

19.08.1940 - 11.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Oberon (submarine) *

25.09.1941 - 11.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Porpoise (submarine)

(08.1942) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) *

31.08.1942 - 28.12.1942 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (for submarines)

29.12.1942 - (04.)1944 Signals Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (despatches)

(06.1944) no appointment listed

04.06.1944 - (04.1946) Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President]

07.1946 - (10.1947) Executive Officer, HMS Glory

... - ... ....

1949 Captain Superintendent HMIN Dockyard Bombay

1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Forth & as Captain, 1st Submarine Squadron

1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Dolphin

1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Theseus

* indexed, but not listed as such

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