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Place, Basil Charles Godfrey Only son (with two sisters) of Maj. Charles Godfrey Morris Place, DSO, MC (1887-1931), and Junior Commander Anna Margaret Stuart-William, ATS (1895-1949). Married ((12?).1943, Grimsby district, Lincolnshire) Third Officer Althea Anningson Tickler, WRNS ((09?).1921 - ), daughter of Harry Tickler, and Bertha Anningson, of Bargate, Grimsby; one son, two daughters.	19.07.1921 Little Malvern, Worcestershire - 27.12.1994 St Bartholomew's Hospital, Holborn, Central London [Corton Denham Cemetery, Dorset]	Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 16.12.1940 Lt. 16.01.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.01.1950 Cdr. 30.06.1952 Capt. 31.12.1958 R.Adm. 07.01.1968 (retd 30.06.1970) VC 22.02.1944 Operation Source * [investiture 22.06.1945] CB 01.01.1970 New Year 1970 [investiture 10.03.1970] CVO 15.06.1991 HM's birthday 1991 DSC 04.05.1943 large ship sunk Eastern Mediterranean 03.1942 [investiture 22.06.1943] Aviz - state visit President of Portugal 10.1955 KW 10.02.1942 liaison officer ORP Sokol [decoration presented] * Lieutenant Place, commanding the Midget Submarine X7, along with Lieutenant Cameron, commanding Midget Submarine X6, on the 22nd September, 1943, at Kaafjord, Norway, carried out a most a daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz. Lieutenant Place found a gap in the outer net at 4am on the 22nd September. He waited for a minesweeper to come out before taking the X7 through the opening. Unfortunately the X7 ran into a torpedo net. After going full astern and flooding and blowing the tanks, they got through. At 6:40am, he sighted the Tirpitz, approximately 1700 yards away. X7 got stuck in another net and on freeing itself they broke surface, 30 yards from the Tirpitz. They submerged and made contact with the Battleship, approximately 20 ft below its B Turret. They edged below, and under the keel, lined up, fore and aft, with the enemy ship. The X7, then dropped her starboard charge, after which, she went astern for 150 yards or more before dropping her second charge.	Education: The Grange, Folkestone; RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1935-02.08.1938; Exmouth House; House Cadet Captain; Admiralty No. 1507). 01.09.1938 - 30.04.1939 cadet training, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.05.1939 - (12.1940) HMS Newcastle (cruiser) 06.01.1941 - (06.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth (08.1941)     submarine course * 1941 - 1943 10th and 12th Submarine Flotillas: 01.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Talbot (submarine) 28.01.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Una (submarine) 13.08.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for miscellaneous duties) (1942)     British Naval Liaison Officer, ORP Sokol (Polish submarine) (12.1942) - (04.1946) no appointment listed: (09.1943)     Commanding Officer, HMS X7 (midget submarine) (VC) 01.02.1947 - (07.1948) HMS Cardigan Bay (05.1949)     no appointment listed 16.01.1950 - (05.1951) staff of Flag Officer (Air) (Home) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 1952 - 1953 HMS Glory (801 Sqn) 11.05.1953 - (04.1955) on staff of Flag Officer Flying Training [HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (10.1955)     Senior Officer, Channel Escort 1955 - 1956 Commanding Officer, HMS Tumult 13.01.1956 - (01.)1957 Executive Officer, HMS Theseus 1957 - 1958 HMS Corunna 15.11.1958 - 1960 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers [HMS Eagle] 27.04.1960 - 1962 Deputy Director of Air Warfare (B), Naval Air Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 25.04.1962 - (02.)1963 Commanding Officer, HMS Rothesay and Captain (D), 25th Escort Squadron 16.12.1963 - 1965 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (juniors' training establishment, Shotley) 1966 - 1967 Commanding Officer, HMS Albion (light fleet carrier) 02.1968 - 1970 Admiral Commanding Reserves & Director-General of Naval Recruiting Chairman, VC and GC Association, 1971-94; Lay Observer, Royal Courts of Justice, 1975-78. Literature: Rear-Admiral Godfrey Place, VC. In: David Twiston Davies (ed.), The Daily Telegraph book of naval obituaries (2004), p. 135-140; Place, Basil (1921-1994). In: Alastair Wilson and Joseph F. Callo, Who's who in naval history (2004), p. 249; Paul Watkins, Midget submarine commander : the life of Godfrey Place, VC (2012). * indexed, but not listed as such
Platt, John Roderick Morris	24.02.1922 - 01.2007	... ... Lt. (E) 01.02.1944 ... ... Cdr. (E) 30.06.1958 (retd 24.02.1972) OBE 01.01.1969 ?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (10.1945) HMS Kenya ... - ... ...
Platt, Ralph Anthony Saville   Son of Frederic John Platt, and Harriet Wilmot Leverich. Married ((03?).1941, Newton Abbot district, Devon; divorced) Leonie Graham Marsh; ... children (one son, one daughter?).	21.10.1919 Farnham, Surrey - 26.06.2014 Australia	Cadet 01.01.1937 Midsh. 01.05.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1939 S.Lt. 1940, seniority 16.08.1939 Lt. 16.09.1941 (retd 12.05.1946; medically unfit)	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1932?-22.12.1936; Hawke Term; Admiralty No. 1322). 01.01.1937 - (02.)1937 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 27.04.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.08.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser) (America and West Indies) 01.05.1939 - (08.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 22.08.1939 - (02.)1940 HMS Codrington (A class destroyer) 07.02.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Devonshire (London class cruiser) 05.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta) (for submarines) 11.1941 - 11.1941 HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship, 1st Submarine Flotilla, Malta) 04.11.1941 - (12.1942) HMS Upright (U class submarine) (as Third Hand) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 08.02.1943 - (04.)1944 HMS Seawolf (S class submarine) 29.04.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Indefatigable (Implacable class aircraft carrier) (10.1945) - (04.1946) no appointment listed
Pleydell-Bouverie, Hon. Anthony Son of Jacob Pleydell- Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor (1868-1930), and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour (1866-1946). Brother of Capt, the Hon. Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, MVO, RN. Married (05.12.1931, Malta) Anita Estelle Henrietta Costiander, daughter of Colonel Torsten Waldemar Costiander, of Helsingsfors, Finland (divorced 1942).	26.03.1905 Salisbury - 25.06.1961 Wokingham district	Midsh. 15.01.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1923 S.Lt. 15.11.1925 Lt. 15.04.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1935 Cdr. 30.06.1940 (retd 20.05.1948; own request) A/Capt. 1945? DSC 19.06.1945 Operation Hotbed (North Russian convoy 02.1945) [decoration posted ] MID 21.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.1944) MID 05.12.1944 attacks enemy convoy Channel MID 17.04.1945 minelaying & attack enemy convoy Norway 01.1945 LM 28.05.1946 services in Far East	15.01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Barham (battleship) (01.1925)     HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) * 12.04.1926 - (05.)1926 promotion course, Portsmouth 01.11.1926 - (06.)1928 HMS Dragon (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 01.12.1928 - (08.)1929 qualifying for signal duties, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 15.12.1929 - (08.1930) HMS Centurion (battleship; fleet target ship) (for experimental duties in signal school) 02.01.1931 - (01.)1932 Flag Lieutenant to V.Adm. Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron & as Squadron Signals and Wireless Telegraphy Officer [HMS Curacoa (cruiser)] (Mediterranean) 02.04.1932 - (11.1934) Flag Lieutenant to Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station & as Fleet Signals and Wireless Telegraphy Officer [HMS Delhi (cruiser), then HMS Norfolk (cruiser)] (02.1935)     no appointment listed 30.04.1935 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Echo (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 08.04.1937 - (10.)1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 11.11.1938 - (12.1941) (initially Assistant) Staff Signals Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean & Fleet Signals Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Warspite (battleship), then HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta), then HMS Warspite (battleship), then HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 03.04.1942 - (12.1943) Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.02.1944 - 24.04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Onslaught (destroyer) 04.1945 - (07.1945) Naval Liaison Officer in US Pacific Fleet [HMS Golden Hind (RN depot, Sydney, NSW)] (04.1946)     HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Pleydell-Bouverie, Hon. Edward Second son (with four brothers and five sisters) of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor (1868-1930), and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour (1866-1946). Brother of Cdr. the Hon. Anthony Pleydell-Bouverie, DSC, RN. Married (02.05.1936) Alice Pearl Crake (06.01.1895 - 10.04.1996), widow of John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1866-1929), and daughter (with one sister and two half-sisters) of Maj. Edward Barrington Crake (1854-1910), and Clara Alice Woodroffe (1868-1954); one son.	10.09.1899 Warminster, Wiltshire - 07.05.1951 Beaulieu, New Forest district, Hampshire	Midsh. 02.08.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.07.1917 S.Lt. 15.03.1918 Lt. 15.12.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1933 Capt. 31.12.1939 (retd 20.04.1946; medically unfit) MVO 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [dated 24.07.1939] MID 13.10.1942 services Mediterranean from 04.1941 LoP 1944 ? Operation Neptune	05.1912     entered RN College, Osborne (1914)     Naval Cadet at RN College, Dartmouth       HMS Orion (Grand Fleet)       HMS P 35 (patrol boat)       HMS Sable (torpedo-boat destroyer) (01.1919)     Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ... (04.1930)     no appointment listed 05.07.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Despatch (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 16.05.1931 - (01.)1932 HMS Delhi (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 14.07.1932 - (01.)1934 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 09.07.1934 - (07.1935) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (China) (02.1936)     no appointment listed 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.02.1938 - (03.)1940 Executive Officer, HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) (04.1940)     no appointment listed 09.04.1940 - (06.)1940 Naval Attaché, Paris, France [HMS President] 18.06.1940 - (08).1940 on staff of Flag Officer Commanding Force H [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] 15.09.1940 - 18.08.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Abdiel (minelayer) 07.09.1942 - (10.)1942 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 04.11.1942 - (12.1942) Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services)       British Liaison Officer to the French fleet at Toulon (02.1943)     HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers) * 12.02.1943 - 29.04.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Bee & initially also Naval Officer-in-Charge Weymouth [Training Commander, Coastal Forces] (Weymouth, later Holyhead) 30.04.1944 - (06.)1944 Chief Staff Officer (Operations) to Flag Officer-in-Charge Portland [HMS Boscawen] 15.08.1944 - 02.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Southampton, 16.02.1948. Verderer of the New Forest since 1945. Chairman of the New Forest Rural District Council, 1948-1951. Chairman of the New Forest advisory committee. In 1947 elected Chairman of the New Forest and Christchurch Conservative Association. * indexed, but not listed as such
Plugge, Roland Frank Of New Zealand origin. Married 1st (divorced). Married 2nd Anne (Third Officer, WRNS). Five children from 2 marriages.	27.04.1919 New Zealand - 06.06.1988 Surrey Mid-Eastern district, Surrey	Midsh. 01.01.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1939 S.Lt. 16.03.1939 Lt. 01.03.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1953 Capt. 30.06.1961 (retd 07.07.1970) DSC 01.01.1945 New Year 1945	Education: Hamilton High School, New Zealand; RN College, Dartmouth (1933-1936) 01.01.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Barham (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.02.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.01.1939 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 31.07.1939 - (02.1941) HMS Durban (cruiser) (Far East) (12.1941)     no appointment listed 31.03.1942 - (10.)1943 First Lieutenant & Navigating Officer, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) (Atlantic) (12.1943) no appointment listed 24.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Wasp (Coastal Forces base, Dover) (for MTB's) (1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 25 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 5th MTB Flotilla (12.1944) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 354 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 5th MTB Flotilla 14.03.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 501 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 36th MTB Flotilla 08.08.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HM MTB 498 (motor torpedo boat) & Senior Officer, 38th MTB Flotilla 28.09.1946 - (07.1948) HMS Virago (destroyer) 15.03.1949 - (05.)1949 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 11.07.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 5516 (motor torpedo boat) (05.1953) Admiralty [HMS President] * 01.06.1954 - (01.)1956 on staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 28.05.1956 - (01.)1957 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.11.1957 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, HMS Barrosa (destroyer) (07.1961) no appointment listed 14.09.1961 - (02.1963) Deputy Director of the Trade and Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.12.1963 - (02.1964) Commanding Officer, HMS Galatea (destroyer) (02.1968)     HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) * 21.10.1968 - (02.1969) Commanding Officer, HMS Blake (command helicopter cruiser) 1969? - 1970 Commanding Officer, HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore) * indexed, but not listed as such Keen rugby player.
Plumer, John Henry	27.04.1899 Dartford district, Kent - 14.08.1977 Ashford district	... ... Lt. 15.07.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1929 (retd 27.04.1944) A/Cdr. 19.10.1942? Cdr. (retd) 27.04.1944	... - ... ... 06.06.1929 - (02.)1931 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 07.08.1931 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Shamrock (destroyer) (Gibraltar) 08.05.1933 - (06.)1933 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Dryad] 20.07.1933 - (11.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Vortigern (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (07.1935) no appointment listed 09.01.1936 - (02.)1936 Tactical School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 16.05.1936 - (02.)1937 RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 16.05.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for training duties) 31.07.1939 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Rosyth) (04.1940) HMS Fiji (cruiser) * 01.07.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Beehive (Coastal Forces base, Felixstowe) 01.07.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Dinosaur (Combined Operations base, Troon) 19.10.1942 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Dundonald (Combined Operations base, Auchengate) (07.1945) no appointment listed 13.12.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Bulolo * indexed, but not listed as such
Plunkett-Ernle-Erle- Drax, Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly [04.10.1916 addition of Ernle-Erle-Drax to the name] 2nd son of 17th Baron Dunsany and Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor, only child of Col. Francis Augustus Plunkett Burton, Coldstream Guards. Married (15.04.1916) Kathleen Meda Irene (died 1980), only daughter of Quintin Chalmers, MD; one son, four daughters.	28.08.1880 St Marylebone, Greater London - 16.10.1967 Poole, Dorset	Midsh. 15.07.1896 S.Lt. 14.01.1900 Lt. 15.01.1901 Cdr. 30.06.1912 Capt. 30.06.1916 R.Adm. 16.01.1928 V.Adm. 24.09.1932 Adm. 02.01.1936 (retd 01.10.1941; own request) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 01.04.1943 (dispersed 24.07.1945) (reverted to retd 19.09.1945) KCB 01.01.1934 New Year 1934 CB 02.01.1928 New Year 1928 DSO 17.05.1918 as Commanding Officer, HMS Blanche Russian Order of St Stanislas (2nd cl.) with swords (1916); Grand Cross, Order of Orange Nassau (The Netherlands) (19.01.1943)	Education: Cheam School; RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 15.07.1894     entered RN 1896     went to sea 10.04.1912     War Staff Course 24.02.1913     War Staff duties, First Battle Cruiser Squadron 1914 - 1919 served afloat in the Grand Fleet; present, on board HMS Lion, at the Heligoland Action, Dogger Bank, and Jutland (despatches, promoted to Captain) 1919 - 1922 Director of Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich 15.01.1923 1924 - - (08.)1923 1924 President of Naval Inter-Allied Commission of Control (Berlin) [HMS President] (01.1925)     no appointment listed 10.04.1926 - (02.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Marlborough (battleship) (Atlantic) (07.1927)     no appointment listed 1927 - 1928 also: Naval ADC to the King (04.1928) - (06.1928) no appointment listed 12.04.1929 - (04.)1930 Rear-Admiral, 1st [later: 2nd] Battle Squadron [HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 06.05.1929-18.05.1929, then HMS Barham (battleship)] (Atlantic Fleet) [assumed command 06.05.1929] (08.1930) - (10.1930) no appointment listed 18.12.1930 - (01.)1932 Director of Manning Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.04.1932 - 11.10.1934 Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station [HMS Delhi, later HMS Norfolk] [assumed command 11.05.1932] (02.1935)     no appointment listed 11.06.1935 - 30.09.1938 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth Station [HMS Drake] (10.)1938 - (08.)1939 no appointment listed 05.08.1939 - 01.09.1939 HMS President (additional; for special duty outside Admiralty) 01.04.1939 - 01.10.1941 also: First and Principal Naval ADC to the King 02.09.1939 - 15.09.1939 HMS President (additional; for unemployed time) 16.09.1939 - 21.09.1939 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty not exceeding 6 months) 22.09.1939 - 15.10.1939 HMS President (additional; for unemployed time) 16.10.1939 - 27.10.1939 HMS President (additional; for special servicie outside Admiralty) 28.10.1939 - 30.11.1939 HMS President (additional; for unemployed time) 01.12.1939 - 02.04.1941 Commander-in-Chief, The Nore [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] 01.04.1939 - 01.10.1941 also: First and Principal Naval ADC to the King 01.04.1943 - 24.07.1945 Commodore of Ocean Convoys [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool; for Liverpool Convoy Pool)] Served with Home Guard, 1941-1943. Justice of the Peace (JP). Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Dorset, 28.10.1941. Published: The modern officer of the watch (1918); England's last chance (1938); Mission to Moscow (1939); The art of war, 20th Century version (1943); World War III, some pros and cons (1954); History of Charborough, 1056-1956 (1956); Solar heated swimming pools (1962); A handbook of solar heating (1965); A few notes on health, happiness and wisdom (1965); Quotes and notes (1966); The uncertain future (1967).
Pochon, David Arthur	24.01.1908 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 27.04.1986 Bodmin district, Cornwall	Boatsw. 01.07.1937 A/Lt. ? Lt. 02.1941, seniority 16.11.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1946 (retd 24.01.1953) MID 28.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	... - ... ... 21.03.1940 - (04.)1940 HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) 16.11.1940 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Kellett (Hunt class minesweeper) (08.1942) HMS Kellett (Hunt class minesweeper) * 15.01.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (04.1944) - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Poole (Bangor class minesweeper) ** ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such ** (04.1946) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Poe, Arthur Geoffrey From Cosham.	02.03.1907 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 15.04.1984 Worthing district, West Sussex	Cadet 15.09.1920 Midsh. 15.01.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1927 S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.05.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 31.12.1949 (retd 07.01.1959) DSC 04.05.1943 Operation Torch (sunk French chasseur)	09.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Carysfort (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.08.1925 - (05.1926) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.04.1927 - 02.1928 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.1928 - (06.1928) promotion course, Portsmouth 12.05.1929 - (04.)1930 pilot's course, RAF Base, Leuchars [attached to RAF] 26.05.1930 - (01.)1932 pilot, No. 405 Flight FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] (Mediterranean) [attached to RAF] 13.08.1932 - (09.)1932 pilot, No. 444 Flight FAA [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] [attached to RAF] 15.11.1932 - (01.1934) staff, RN College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 05.01.1935 - (07.1937) Executive Officer, HMS Falmouth (escort vessel) (China) 17.01.1938 - (04.1939) Flag Lt.Cdr. to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 24.07.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 11.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Georgetown (destroyer) 23.09.1941 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Brilliant (destroyer) 05.04.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Dipper (RN Air Station, Henstridge, Somerset) 02.1944 - (07.1945) Commander Flying, HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) (04.1946) no appointment listed 23.03.1948 - (05.1949) staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (05.1950) no appointment listed 05.1953 - (04.1955) Captain-in-Charge, RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire [HMS Daedalus] (01.1956) no appointment listed 01.12.1956 - 03.07.1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanguard & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth 07.07.1958 - 07.01.1959 also: Naval ADC to the Queen
Pointer, Douglas Arthur	see:	Poynter, Douglas Arthur
Poland, [Sir] Albert Lawrence Married (1931) Leila Helen Beatrice Sly; two sons.	18.06.1895 Lewisham, Greater London / Kent - 20.03.1967 [St Merryn, Nr Padstow, Cornwall ?]	Lt. 30.04.1917 Lt.Cdr. 30.04.1925 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 30.06.1939 Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.04.1944? R.Adm. 10.07.1948 V.Adm. 15.08.1951 (retd 16.12.1954) KBE 01.06.1953 Coronation List 1953 CB 08.09.1942 Malta convoy 22.03.1942 DSO 25.06.1940 Norwegian coast DSO 23.09.1941 demolition Benghazi dern? service Tobruk DSC 1918 ? MID 17.11.1942 operations in Middle East 07-10.1941 MID 31.10.1944 Operation Crimson Geo I 15.04.1947 ?	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 1914 - 1918 served European War ... - ... ... 22.07.1937 - (08.)1939 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 15.09.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Black Swan (sloop) 27.10.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) 02.1941 - (12.1941) Senior Naval Officer, Inshore Squadron (Middle East) [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) (additional; for various services)] 02.1942 - (08.1942) Commanding Officer, HMS Jervis (destroyer) 17.02.1943 - 15.02.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS St. George (training establishment, Isle of Man) (1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Relentless (destroyer) 01.04.1944 - 28.02.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) & Commodore (D) Eastern Fleet 27.04.1946 - (07.)1948 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, The Nore [HMS Pembroke] 04.09.1948 - 1950 Senior British Naval Officer and Flag Officer Liaison, Middle East [HMS Stag] (05.1950)     no appointment listed 05.09.1950 - (07.)1954 Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Chatham [HMS Pembroke]
Poland, Allan Son of William Poland, Blackheath. Married (13.04.1912) Phyllis (died 1968), daughter of Dr Robert Ambrose Weston, LRCP, Portsmouth; one daughter [who married Capt. Charles Thorburn Addis, DSO, RN], and one son (Lt. William Anthony Weston Poland, RN, lost in HMS Thetis, 01.06.1939). Residence: (1947) Berins Hill, Ipsden, Oxfordshire.	07.12.1888 Blackheath ? - 06.02.1984 Surrey South-Western district, Surrey	A/S.Lt. 15.03.1908? S.Lt. 21.12.1908, seniority 15.03.1908 Lt. 16.03.1910, seniority 15.03.1909 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1917 Cdr. 31.12.1921 Capt. 31.12.1928 Cdre. 1st cl. 27.04.1938? Cdre. 2nd cl. 31.07.1939 R.Adm. 06.01.1940 (retd 08.01.1940) A/V.Adm. (retd) 17.07.1942 (dispersed 17.01.1947) (reverted to retd 04.04.1947) CBE 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (Sicily 07.1943) DSO 20.09.1918 for service in submarines 01-06.1918 MID WW I ? Grand Officer, Order of Humayun (Persia); Knight Commander, Order of the Phœnix (Greece); Order of George I, 2nd class (Greece) (15.04.1947)	15.09.1903     entered Navy 1910 - 1937 served in submarines and in command of submarine flotillas: 07.1923 - (08.1923) HMS President (for duty under Director of Naval Intelligence inside Admiralty) 22.10.1923 - 29.10.1923 Admiralty 29.10.1923 - (01.1925) Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.06.1926 - (07.1927) Commander (S), 4th Submarine Flotilla [HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship)] (China) 19.07.1929 - (02.)1931 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (S) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 15.07.1931 - (09.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Colombo (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 17.03.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) 01.03.1935 - (02.)1937 Captain (S) at Fort Blockhouse [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) & in command of Submarine Flotilla 12.02.1937 - (02.)1938 Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf & Commanding Officer, HMS Shoreham (escort vessel) (East Indies) 27.04.1938 - (06.)1938 Commodore Commanding East Indies Station [HMS Norfolk (cruiser)] 25.07.1938 - 06.04.1939 Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf & Commanding Officer, HMS Shoreham (escort vessel) (East Indies) 06.04.1939 - 06.05.1939 Commodore Commanding East Indies Station (temporary) 01.08.1939 - ? also: Naval ADC to the King 31.07.1939 - 19.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) & Commodore Commanding 9th Cruiser Squadron (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth)  (Commodore 2nd Class) 01.08.1939 - 05.01.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 22.02.1940 - 01.04.1940 HMS President (additional; not to join) 02.04.1940 - 12.05.1940 HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda) (additional) (as Commodore 2nd Class) 13.05.1940 - 13.07.1942 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)] (as Commodore 2nd Class) 17.07.1942 - 26.08.1942 Senior British Naval Officer Western Atlantic (temporary) (as Acting Vice-Admiral) 08.10.1942 - 31.10.1942 HMS President (additional; for disposal) 01.11.1942 - 31.05.1945 Rear-Admiral, Alexandria [HMS Nile] 01.06.1945 - 15.07.1945 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) 16.07.1945 - 16.01.1947 Naval Assistant to Director of Sea Transport [HMS President]
Poland, Edmund Nicholas 2nd son of late Major Raymond A. Poland, RMLI and Mrs F.O. Bayly Jones. Married (1941) Pauline Ruth Margaret Pechell; three sons, one daughter (and one daughter deceased).	19.02.1917 Droxford district, Hampshire - 10.03.2012 Bognor Regis, West Sussex	S.Lt. 01.02.1938 Lt. 01.11.1939 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1947 Cdr. 31.12.1950 Capt. 31.12.1956 R.Adm. 07.07.1965 (retd 10.01.1968) CB 1967 ? CBE 1962 ?	Education: RN College Dartmouth served at sea during Abyssinian and Palestine crises, Spanish Civil War 20.02.1939 - (08.1939) HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 02.03.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Eclipse (destroyer) (convoy duties (Norwegian waters)) 05.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (for motor torpedo boats) 18.11.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Nile (RN base. Alexandria) (for HM MTB 73 (motor torpedo boat))  10.04.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Mosquito (for MTBs) (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 1943 Torpedo Specialist 02.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Landrail (for torpedo duties) 23.02.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Furious (aircraft carrier) (for torpedo duties) Staff Officer (Operations) to Naval Force Commander, Burma 02.1945 - (07.1945) Squadron Torpedo Officer, HMS Royalist (04.1946) no appointment listed 1946 HMS Hornet Flotilla Torpedo and Anti­Submarine Officer of Third Submarine Flotilla, HMS Montclare 1950 Air Warfare Division, Admiralty 1953 British Naval Staff, Washington 1955 completed a course at Joint Services Staff College Directorate of Tactics and Ship Requirements, Admiralty 1956 comd RN Air Station, Abbotsinch [HMS Sanderling] Nato Standing Gp, Washington 1962 Director of Under Sea Warfare (Naval), Ministry of Defence 1965 - 1968 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet Vice­Pres., Internat. Prisoners' Aid Assoc., 1978, Chm. (UK), 1979; Vice­Pres., Scottish Assoc. for Care and Resettlement of Offenders, 1979 (Dir, 1974-1979)
Pollock, Charles Harington Son of George Hume Pollock (1870-1924) and Margaret Agneta Harington (1871-1954). Married (18.06.1938) Patricia Aileen Domville Heming; one daughter.	01.09.1906 St Marylebone, Greater London / London - 24.03.1983 Saffron Walden, Essex	Cadet ? Midsh. 15.09.1924 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1927 S.Lt. 01.09.1927 Lt. 01.09.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1937 (retd 27.04.1949) A/Cdr. < 06.1944 Cdr. (retd) 27.04.1949 DSC 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 MID 24.03.1942 minesweeping Northern Waters	Education: West Downs School, Winchester (1915) 15.05.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.04.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Dundalk (twin screw minesweeper) (1st Minesweeping Floitlla) 21.03.1930 - (01.1932) HMS Dragon (cruiser) (America and West Indies) (09.1932) no appointment listed 15.05.1933 - (07.1935) First Lieutenant, HMS Searcher (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 12.10.1935 - (02.1938) Executive Officer, HMS Dundee (escort vessel) (America and West Indies) (06.1938) no appointment listed 01.07.1938 - (08.1939) RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 10.1939 - (04.1940) Executive Officer, HMS Hampton (auxiliary minelayer) 31.07.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for special service) 10.08.1941 - (06.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Seagull (minesweeper) 23.08.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Pangbourne (minesweeper) 14.11.1944 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Corbrae (repair ship) 10.05.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Carnavon Bay
Pollock, John King "Jack" Son of Dr. Edward Stoute Pollock (?-1949), and Mary Ethel King, of Exeter, Devonshire. Married (03.09.1930, Holy Trinity Church, Formby, Ormskirk district, Lancashire) Gertrude Brenda Prangley ((06?).1901 - 21.05.1984), second daughter of George Dean Prangley (1866-1942), and Mabel Archbould (1870-1911), of Formby, Lancashire; one son, one daughter.	23.05.1896 Stratton district, Cornwall - 14.05.1982 Exeter, Devonshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.03.1919 (retd 15.02.1923) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.03.1927 (reactivated 09.11.19139) (reverted to retd < 04.1946)	09.1914     entered RN 09.11.1939 - 14.09.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Notts County (anti-submarine trawler) 09.1940 - (10.1940) Commanding Officer, HMS Snowdrop (corvette) 15.01.1941 - (04.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Sandhurst (depot ship) (06.1944)     no appointment listed (10.1944) - (07.1945) HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Pollock, [Sir] Michael Patrick Son of late C.A. Pollock and Mrs G. Pollock. Married 1st (1940) Margaret Steacy (died 1951), Bermuda; two sons, one daughter. Married 2nd (1954) Marjory Helen Reece (née Bisset); one step daughter.	19.10.1916 Altrincham, Cheshire - 27.09.2006 Martock, Somerset	Cadet 01.01.1934? Midsh. 01.09.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1937 S.Lt. 01.05.1937 Lt. 01.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1950 Capt. 30.06.1955 R.Adm. 07.07.1964 V.Adm. 26.12.1967 Adm. 21.04.1970 Adm. of the Fleet 01.03.1974 GCB 01.01.1971 New Year 1971 KCB 14.06.1969 HM's birthday 1969 CB 11.06.1966 HM's birthday 1966 LVO 18.03.1952 services funeral King George VI DSC 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 MID 29.06.1943 torpedo attack Eastern Mediterranean 18.11.1942 MID 07.03.1944 sinking of the Scharnhorst MID 17.04.1945 minelaying & attack enemy convoy Norway 01.1945	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (1930-1933). 1930 entered Navy 1934? - 1934 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1934 - (02.)1936 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 1936 - 1936 HMS Express (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 31.12.1936 - (02.)1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.04.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 30.10.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS York (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 1939 - 1945 served World War II in N Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic and Indian Ocean (despatches thrice): 30.06.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Warspite (battleship) 02.10.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Vanessa (destroyer) 20.01.1941 - (02.)1941 specialised in Gunnery [HMS Excellent] (12.1941) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) * 16.03.1942 - (06.)1943 Gunnery Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser) 01.07.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 15.11.1943 - (04.1946) Gunnery Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & Squadron Gunnery Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron (07.1948) no appointment listed 11.04.1949 - (05.)1949 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 09.08.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Glasgow 23.09.1952 - (05.1953) Commander [= Executive Officer], Junior Officers War Course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 11.06.1954 - (04.1955) Executive Officer, HMS Newcastle 02.01.1956 - (01.1957) Assistant Director of Plans Division (W), Admiralty [HMS President] 1958 - 1959 Commanding Officer, HMS Vigo and Portsmouth Squadron 08.01.1960 - (07.1961) Director Surface Division, Weapons Department, Admiralty 21.01.1962 - (02.)1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal 1964 - 1966 Asst Chief of Naval Staff 1966 - 1967 Flag Officer Second in Command, Home Fleet 26.12.1967 - (02.)1969 Flag Officer, Submarines and Nato Commander Submarines, Eastern Atlantic (COMSUBEASTATLANT) 1970 - 1971 Controller of the Navy 03.1971 - 1974 Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord 1972 - 1974 also: First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen Bath King of Arms, 1976-1985. Chaiman, Naval Insurance Trust, 1976-1981; Liddell Hart Trustee, 1976-1981. Local Councillor, 1986-. * indexed, but not listed as such
Pomeroy, Arthur Shubrook Son of Mr and Mrs Archibald William Pomeroy.	13.09.1911 Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa - 03.05.1990 Cape Town, South Africa	Midsh. RNR 17.06.1929 A/S.Lt. RNR 13.09.1932 S.Lt. RNR 05.02.1935 Prob. S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 01.06.1937 S.Lt. (Supplementary List) 24.03.1938, seniority 01.06.1937 Lt. 24.04.1939, seniority 13.09.1935 Lt.Cdr. 13.09.1943 (retd 13.09.1956) DSC 25.08.1942 Murmansk convoys 03-05.1942 [investiture 15.12.1942] 39|45 St - - Atl St - & clasp France & Germany Pac St - - WM 39|45 - - MID 14.05.1946 attacks on 27.03.1942	Education: Boys High School, Rondebosch, Cape; SATS General Botha (27.06.1927-06.1929). Served Merchant Navy (P & O Company).       joined RNR; qualified in minesweeping 14.02.1931     training, HMS Marlbrough 06.12.1935 - (08.1936) HMS Huntley (twin screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 14.06.1937     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (07.1937)     no appointment listed (02.1938)     no appointment listed 05.04.1938 - (10.)1940 HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (chase of Scharnhorst & Gneisenau; provided cover at Dunkirk 12.11.1940 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Boadicea (destroyer) 12.01.1942 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Volunteer (destroyer)(DSC, despatches) 08.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Walpole (destroyer) (12.1943) - (10.1944) no appointment listed: (06.1944)     Beach Master, Sword Beach (Normandy), then Staff Officer (Operations) of the Support Squadron of "Force S" based on HM LCH 285 which was sunk by a mine at the end of June, off Sword Beach 15.11.1944 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Tumult (destroyer) [actually assumed command probably mid-December 1944] 23.10.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown) (as Senior Officer, Reserve Destroyers) [11.1947 took HMS Kempenfelt (destroyer) out of reserve at Chatham and steamed her to Simonstown, Cape Town to join the Cape Station Reserve Fleet] (05.1950)     no appointment listed 09.1950 - (05.1951) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous duties) [upon the outbreak of the Korean war - appointed as liaison officer on the staff of Adm. Joy (US Navy) - the UN commander of all naval forces in the Korean theatre] c. 1954     Naval Trials Officer during Germ Warfare Trials in the Bahamas aboard the Landing Ship "Mother Ship" LST 3102 "HMS Ben Lomond" (07.1954)     no appointment listed 08.11.1954 - (01.1956) HMS Cochrane (Rosyth Maritime Headquarters, Pitreavie, Dunfermline, Fife) (for miscellaneous duties) Returned to Merchant Navy for a few years. Published: The first thirty years. In: Both watches (periodical of South African Nautical College “General Botha”),1962.
Pomfret, Arnold Ashworth Son of John and Eleanor Pomfret. Married (1928) Carlene Blundstone; one son, two daughters.	01.06.1900 Blackpool, Fylde district, Lancashire - 03.04.1984 Taunton Deane, Somerset	Sg.Lt. 22.08.1922 [short service commission] Sg.Lt. RNVR 24.02.1926 Sg.Lt. 13.08.1926, seniority 13.08.1923 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 13.08.1929 Sg.Cdr. 13.08.1934 Sg.Capt. 30.06.1944 Sg.R.Adm. 30.10.1954 (retd 30.10.1957) CB 13.06.1957 HM's birthday 1957 [investiture 16.07.1957] OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 [investiture 01.04.1941]	Education: Manchester University and postgraduate at London, Capetown and Oxford; MB, ChB (Manchester, 1922), DO (Oxon, 1934), DOMS (RCS&PEng, 1934) 14.11.1922 - (08.)1923 on staff of 5th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader)] 09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Tarantula (gunboat) (China) 24.02.1926 - 12.08.1926 served RNVR (London Division, List 2) 13.08.1926     re-entered RN 16.10.1926 - (06.)1928 HMS Endeavour (surveying vessel) 12.09.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) 17.12.1929 - (10.)1930 HMS Harebell (fishery protection cruiser (sloop)) 12.12.1930 - (02.)1931 Medical Officer's post-graduate course [HMS President] 19.03.1931 - (01.)1934 Royal Hospital, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [HMS Tamar] (Gilbert Blane Medallist, 1934) (07.1934)     short course of instruction 27.09.1934 - (02.)1935 Medical Officer's promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.03.1935 - (07.)1937 Royal Hospital, Haslar (specialist in ophthalmology) [HMS Victory] 18.10.1937 - (02.)1941 Medical Officer in charge, Royal Naval Sick Quarters, Wei-Hai-Wei, northern China [HMS Tamar] 18.08.1941 - (08.)1943 Medical Officer, HMS Buzzard (RN Air Station, Lympne, Kent) 07.09.1943 - (10.)1943 RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 15.10.1943 - (06.)1944 Assistant to the Medical Director-General of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.08.1944 - (07.1945) Staff Medical Officer to Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] 20.04.1946 - (10.1947) Medical Officer-in-Charge of Royal Hospital Simonstown, South Africa [HMS Afrikander] & as Fleet Medical Officer, South Atlantic 04.06.1948 - (05.)1949 Medical Officer-in-Charge of Royal Naval Hospital Portland [HMS Osprey] & as Principal Medical Officer, Sore Establishment, Portland 22.08.1949 - (05.1950) Medical Officer-in-Charge of Royal Naval Hospital Bermuda [HMS Malabar] 01.04.1952 - (07.)1954 an Assistant to the Medical Director-General of the Navy, Admiralty [HMS President] 1954 - 1957 also: Queen's Honorary Surgeon 30.10.1954 - 30.10.1957 Medical Officer-in-Charge, Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth [HMS Drake] & for duty of Staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth CStJ (1957). Played First Class cricket for the RN in 1929. Literature: Carlene Pomfret, Cabin trunks and far horizons (1991; family biography, by his wife)
Pont, Kenneth Hugh Burberry	16.04.1920 Steyning district, Sussex - 14.04.1978 Kingston on Thames district, Surrey	S.Lt. 01.05.1941 Lt. 16.05.1942 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1950 (retd < 05.1953)	(08.1942) no appointment listed (02.1943) no appointment listed 27.03.1943 - (12.)1943 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 21.12.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Black Prince (cruiser) 08.08.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Queen (escort carrier) 11.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Cochrane (depot ship, Rosyth) ? - (07.1948) HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Corsham, Wilts.) * 17.07.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Howe (for miscellaneous duties) Clerical Officer, Richmond, Surrey. * indexed, but not listed as such
Pool, Richard Anthony West Son of Garnett Wolsey Pool (1883-1958), and Dorothy Rowbotham (1891-1985).. Married 1st ((06?).1946, Portsmouth district, Hampshire) Adeline C. Carey. Married 2nd ((12?).1953, Kensington district, London) Susan H. Reid (17.08.1928 - 05.11.2017), daughter (with one brother) of John Lillingston Reid (1885-1958), and Edith Amy Oldham (1896-1983); three children.	08.09.1919 Felixstowe, Woodbridge district, Suffolk - 01.04.1995 Sudborne, Woodbridge, Deben district, Suffolk	Cadet 01.09.1937 Midsh. 01.09.1938 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1940 Lt. 01.11.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1949 Cdr. 30.06.1954 (retd 21.04.1958) DSC 18.12.1945 resource & bravery while POW with Japanese [decoration posted] MID 29.01.1946 West Coast Malaya raids 12.1941-01.1942	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne (1933-09.1937). 09.1937     HMS Erebus (monitor), later serving in HMS Vindictive & HMS Royal Sovereign 07.1939 - 05.1940 HMS Revenge (Royal Sovereign class battleship) [once war began he took part in convoy operations in the North Atlantic] 06.05.1940 - (06.)1940 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] [at Dunkirk he commanded a motor launch named Marlborough; in July 1940 he was a member of a boarding party which seized two French destroyers in Portsmouth harbour after the French surrender] (08.1940)     no appointment listed 06.09.1940 - 10.12.1941 HMS Repulse (Repulse class battlecruiser) [he survived the sinking of Repulse off the coast of Malaya], 11.12.1941 - 16.05.1942 HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) [was in the last RN evacuation from Singapore February 13, 1942; he reached the desert island of Tjebia off Sumatra in motor launch HMML 310 together with the senior naval officer in Singapore when it was captured Rear Adm E.J. Spooner; Pool survived for three months on Tjebia before escaping in a fishing boat; captured by the Japanese on the nearby island of Daboe] (06.1942) - (07.1945) no appointment listed while in Japanese captivity as POW [spent the next 38 months as a PoW on the Burma-Siam railway] ... - ... ... Published: Course for disaster : from Scapa Flow to the River Kwai (1987).
Poole, Robert Godmond Son (with one brother) of Rev. Francis Oswald Poole (1870-1949), and Maud Madeline Dawson (1868-1943). Married (03.04.1930, St Austell district, Cornwall; divorced 1970) Violet Alice Rosalind Hanson (11.03.1909 - 15.01.1999); two daughters.	22.09.1901 Toxteth Park district, Lancashire - 25.12.1973 Cuckfield district, Sussex	... ... A/S.Lt. 15.01.1921 S.Lt. 15.09.1921 Lt. 15.04.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1936 A/Capt. 07.1942 Capt. 30.06.1943 (retd 08.07.1952)	15.05.1915     entered service ... - ... ... 11.06.1937 - 28.09.1938 Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence) on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Canberra (cruiser)] 29.09.1938 - 13.10.1938 Staff Officer (Operations) on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Canberra (cruiser)] 14.10.1938 - 08.06.1939 Staff Officer (Operations and Intelligence) on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding HM Australian Squadron [HMAS Canberra (cruiser)] 09.06.1939 - 07?.1939 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to UK & reversion to RN) 08.1939 - 10.1939 Commander (Flying), HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) 10.1939 - 19.02.1940 Fleet Air Arm 20.02.1940 - 17.06.1940 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services: for FAA training) 18.06.1940 - 14.05.1941 Commander (P), HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) 15.05.1941 - 31.05.1941 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (for CAM ships) 01.06.1941 - 07.1942 Executive Officer, HMS Shropshire (London class cruiser) 07.1942 - 03.05.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Phoenix (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fayid, Egypt) 01.06.1943 - 14.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Gannet (RN Air Station, Eglinton, Co. Londonderry) & as Senior Officer, Naval Air Stations, Northern Ireland 15.01.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Chaser (escort carrier) 18.06.1946 - 06.1948 Assistant Director Naval Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Pope, [Sir] John Ernle Youngest son (with two brothers) of Cdr. Rowland Kyrle Cecil Pope, DSO, OBE, RN (1888-1976), and Agnes Jessie Macdonald (1894-1968), of Billingshurst, Sussex. Brother of R.Adm. Michael Douglas [Kyrle] Pope, CB, MBE, DL. Married 1st (21.04.1943, Horsham Parish Church, Horsham, Sussex; marriage dissolved) Pamela Mary Davies, WRNS, elder daughter of Arthur H. Davies, and Mrs Davies, of Rookery Wood, Slinfold; five sons. Married 2nd Bunnie Webber.	22.05.1921 Virginia Water, Surrey - 21.05.1998 Homme house, Much Marcle, Hereford district, Herefordshire	Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 16.12.1940 Lt. 01.02.1942 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1950 Cdr. 30.06.1954 Capt. 30.06.1960 R.Adm. 07.07.1969 V.Adm. 03.10.1972 (retd 07.10.1976) KCB 01.01.1976 New Year 1976 [investiture 02.03.1976] MID 24.02.1942 Force K, attack enemy convoy Mediterranean 09.11.1942  MID 11.06.1946 wind up Far East	Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1935-02.08.1938; Hawke House; Admiralty No. 1508). 01.09.1938 - 04.1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.05.1939 - (10.)1940 HMS Cornwall (Kent class cruiser) 14.11.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) 06.01.1941 - (04.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (06.1941)     promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] * 03.06.1941 - 11.05.1942 HMS Lively (L class destroyer) [ship sunk by German aircraft in eastern Mediterranean] (06.1942) - (08.1942) no appointment listed 19.08.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Lochailort (Combined Operations base, Inverailort Castle, nr Inverness) 12.03.1943 - (02.)1944 HMS Brilliant (B class destroyer) (04.1944)     no appointment listed (06.)1944 - (10.)1944 signals course 12.1944 - 06.1945 Communications Officer, HMS Quilliam (Q class destroyer) (for Signal Communication duty) 23.06.1945 - (04.1946) Communications Officer, Flotilla Staff [HMS Grenville (U class destroyer)] ... - .. ... 1962 - 1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Decoy 1964 - 1966 Director, Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] 1966 - 1968 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle 1969 - 1971 Flag Officer, Western Fleet Flotillas 1971 - 1974 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet 1974 - 1976 Commander, Allied Naval Forces, S Europe Deputy President, Royal Naval Association.
Pope, John Henry Newman Son (with two brothers) of Justin John Pope (1889-1962), and Cecily Veronica McAweeny (1892-1961). Married (04.08.1951, Naval Base Chapel, Singapore) Valerie Trenwith (06.09.1929 - 12.07.1977), daughter (with one sister) of Robert Watson Trenwith (1883-1965), and Eunice Nield (1895-1988); four sons, three daughters.	19.08.1921 Kuriang, Foochow, Shanghai, China - 16.10.1982 Torbay district, Devon	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1941 S.Lt. 21.10.1941, seniority 01.10.1940 Lt. 09.1942, seniority 01.06.1942 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1950 (retd 01.02.1956) MID 16.01.1945 destruction U-boat East Indies 07.07.1944	Education: Shanghai Public School. 01.01.1939 - (08.)1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 26.08.1939 - (02.)1940 HMS Eskimo (Tribal class destroyer) 17.02.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Resolution (Royal Sovereign class battleship) 05.05.1941 - (10.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (12.1941)     submarine course [HMS Dolphin] * 15.01.1942 - (02.)1942 HMS Forth (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 17.02.1942 - (04.)1942 HMS P 611 (submarine) 23.05.1942 - (10.)1942 HMS Proteus (P class submarine) 30.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Osiris (O class submarine) 31.03.1943 - (06.)1943 HMS Sealion (S class submarine) 27.07.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Telemachus (T class submarine) (despatches) 1945 - (04.)1945 submarine Commanding Officer's course 26.06.1945 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Varangian (U class submarine) ... - ... ...
Pope *, Michael Donald * from about late 1946 / early 1947 known by last name of Kyrle Pope Eldest son of Cdr. Rowland Kyrle Cecil Pope, DSO, OBE, RN, and Agnes Jessie Macdonald, of Billinghurst, Sussex. Brother of V.Adm. Sir John Ernle Pope, KCB. Married 1st (1940) Elizabeth Kelso (divorced). Married 2nd (1947) Angela Suzanne Parlby (née Layton) (born 1921); one son, one daughter, one step-daughter.	01.10.1916 London - 14.09.2008 Castle Grove Nursing Home, Bampton (formerly of Tiverton, Devon)	Cadet 01.09.1934 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 20.10.1938, seniority 01.09.1937 Lt. 25.03.1939, seniority 01.01.1939 c. 1939/40, seniority 01.10.1938 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1946 Cdr. 30.06.1951 Capt. 30.06.1958 R.Adm. 07.07.1967 (retd 02.04.1970) CB 14.06.1969 HM's birthday 1969 MBE 22.01.1946 escape attempts as POW	Education: Wellington College, Berkshire. 01.09.1934     special entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Kent (cruiser) (China) 26.10.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 05.09.1938 - (10.)1938 submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] 16.12.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (for submarines) 05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Thames (submarine) (Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Maidstone] 02.08.1939 - 01.08.1940 Third Hand, HMS Oswald (submarine) (ship rammed & taken POW) [background story] 02.08.1940 - 1945 prisoner of war in Italian / German captivity (first near Venice, then at Abruzzi, then (c. 1942/43) at Campo 5 at Gavi, and finally at Marlag und Milag Nord (near Lübeck; POW # 1104]) 15.01.1946 - (10.)1947 HMS Vanguard (battlecruiser) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 04.04.1949 - (05.1949) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) (05.1950)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 06.1951 - (05.)1953 HMS Saker (British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC) (07.1954)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.02.1955 - (04.)1955 Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence), Germany [HMS Royal Prince] (at Minden) 01.10.1955 - (01.)1956 HMS Royal Albert (Germany) (for miscellaneous duties) 04.03.1956 - (01.)1957 Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence), Germany [HMS Royal Prince] 18.07.1958 - 1960 Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence), Far East Station [HMS Terror] (07.1961)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 25.04.1962 - (02.)1964 Commanding Officer, HMS Jufair & as Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf 1965 - 1967 Ministry of Defence (Naval Intelligence) 07.06.1967 - (02.)1969 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Far East Command [HMS Terror] Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hertfordshire, 08.12.1983. General Manager of the Middle East Navigation Aids Service, Bahrain, 1971-1977. Dean’s Administrator at St Alban’s Abbey, 1977-1980. Director of the Jerusalem & the East Mission Trust, 1978-1992. County President, Royal British Legion, 1987-1995. Literature: Suzanne Kyrle Pope, The same wife in every port (1998; wife's memoirs) * indexed, but not listed as such
Pope, Rowland Kyrle Cecil Son (with four sisters and one brother) of Rev. Andrew Pope (1844-1924), and Harriet Mary Ernle Money-Kyrle (1848-1937), of Upton Bishop, nr Ross, Herefordshire. Married (22.07.1915, Holy Trinity Church, Paddington, Middlesex) Agnes Jessie Macdonald (1895? - 23.09.1968), daughter of Donald Macdonald, of Hong Kong; three sons (R.Adm. Michael Donald [Kyrle] Pope, CB, MBE, RN, Maj. Andrew Alec Kyrle Pope, KSLI [killed in action 06.06.1944], V.Adm. Sir John Ernle Pope, KCB).	02.03.1888 Diddlebury, Shropshire - 01.06.1976 Homme House, Much Marcle, Leominster district, Herefordshire	... .... A/S.Lt. 30.06.1907 S.Lt. ? Lt. 31.12.1909 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1917 (retd 02.10.1929; own request) Cdr. (retd) 02.10.1929 (reverted to retd > 07.1945, < 10.1945) DSO 01.01.1919 ? OBE 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 16.02.1943] MID 14.09.1917 action with enemy submarines MID 04.10.1918 service in vessels on escort, convoy and patrol duties CdeG 14.05.1918 ?	15.09.1902     entered RN ... - ... ... 26.02.1919 - ... Commanding Officer, HMS P 38 (P class patrol boat) ... - ... ... 19.08.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (additional; for various services) 05.08.1940 - 01.1942 Press Officer, HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) 22.01.1942 - 18.06.1942 HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) (08.1942)     Press Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * (10.1942)     no appointment listed 26.10.1942 - (08.)1943 Executive Officer, HMS Badger (RN base, Harwich) 18.08.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Mastodon (Combined Operations base, Exbury, nr Southampton) (02.1944) - (10.1944) no appointment listed 11.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) Deputy Lieutenant (DL) 12,05,1952 & High Sheriff 1968, Herefordshire. * indexed, but not listed as such
Portal, [Sir] Reginald Henry Son (with four brothers) of the second marriage of Edward Robert Portal, JP, DL (1854-1953), country gentleman and former barrister, and Ellinor Kate Hill (1866-1946), of Sulham, Pangbourne. Brother of Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. Married 1926, Helen (died 1983), daughter of late Frederick Anderson; two sons two daughters. Brother of Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles Portal.	06.09.1894 Hungerford, Berkshire - 18.06.1983 Yeovil, Somerset	S.Lt. 15.07.1916 Lt. 15.02.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1926 Capt. 30.06.1934 A/R.Adm. ? R.Adm. 08.07.1943 V.Adm. 03.05.1947 Adm. 04.10.1950 (retd 01.05.1951; at own request to facilitate the promotion of junior officers) KCB 01.01.1949 New Year 1949 CB 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 DSC 31.05.1916 combat with enemy aeroplane Dardanelles MID 11.03.1941 good services since the outbreak of war	15.05.1907     joined RN 1914 - 1919 served European War with RN and RNAS (air observer; 1916 Observer, seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal) 1923     Torpedo Officer       Flight Commander, aircraft carriers HMS Eagle and HMS Furious       Squadron Torpedo Officer, HMS Hood (battlecruiser)       Executive Officer, HMS Royal Oak (battleship) 08.1939 - 1941 Commanding Officer, HMS York (cruiser) 26.09.1941 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 01.01.1943 - (06.)1944 Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Air), Admiralty 12.01.1943 - 08.07.1943 also: Naval ADC to the King 11.1944 - (07.)1945 Flag Officer, Naval Air Stations, Australia [HMS Golden Hind (RN manning depot, Sydney, NSW)] 1946 - 1947 Senior Naval Representative of the British Element of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (Australia) 1947 - 1951 Flag Officer, Air (Home)
Porter, Jack Basil Cutler Son of Lieut. Jack Parford Porter, RN, and Edith Florence Porter; husband of Mary Knowles Porter, of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.	07.05.1911 Plymouth district, Devon - 17.12.1942 (KIA) [age 31] [Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 51, column 1]	Midsh. RNR 01.05.1928 A/S.Lt. RNR 07.05.1932 Lt. RNR 23.05.1936 Lt. (Supplementary List) 19.03.1937, seniority 07.05.1935 Lt. 1938?, seniority 07.05.1935	01.04.1937 - (07.1937) HMS Winchester (destroyer) 28.09.1937 - (02.1938) anti-submarine course, RN College, Greenwich 24.05.1938 - (10.1938) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment) 21.01.1939 - (08.1939) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Gloucester (cruiser) 20.03.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Cochrane (as Squadron Signals and W/T Officer) 27.09.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Nimrod 10.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Weston ? - 17.12.1942 HMS Avalon III
Porter, Michael John	04.04.1925 - 14.06.2013	Cadet 01.01.1943 Midsh. 01.09.1943 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1945 S.Lt. 12.02.1946, seniority 01.08.1944 Lt. 02.11.1947, seniority 01.09.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1953 Cdr. 30.06.1958 (retd 03.05.1969; own request)	01.09.1943 - (10.1944) HMS Rodney (battleship) (07.1945)     no appointment listed 10.1945 - 09.1947 HMS Alacrity (sloop) (in lieu of specialist Navigating Officer) (07.1948) no appointment listed 12.12.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Theseus (aircraft carrier) 14.03.1953 - (05.1953) HMS Dryad (navigation an direction school, Portsmouth) ? - (04.)1955 Britannia College 15.08.1955 - (01.1956) HMS Saintes (destroyer) (01.1957)     HMS Armada (destroyer) * (1957?) - (1958?) staff of Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Gambia (cruiser)] 07.09.1958 - (01.1959) Chief Staff Officer to Commodore Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf Station [HMS Jufair (RN base, Bahrein, Persian Gulf)] 06.05.1960 - (07.1961) Commanding Officer, HMS Saintes (destroyer) 17.05.1962 - (02.1964) Naval Assistant, Navigation and Direction Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.03.1966 - (02.)1968 Commanding Officer, HMS Safeguard (RN Boom Defence Moorings and Marine Salvage School) & Commanding Officer, Boom Defence and Marine Salvage Depots, Scottish Command 20.05.1968 - (02.1969) Directorate of Naval Service Conditions, Naval Personal Services and Training Department, Navy Department AMBIM * indexed, but not listed as such
Porter, Stewart Armstrong "Sam" Married Pamela "Jackie" Nash; one son, one daughter.	01.11.1915 Surbiton, Greater London - 30.04.2004 [Tunbridge Wells?], Kent	... . Lt. 16.10.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 ... . Capt. 31.12.1956 (retd 01.01.1959) DSC 29.06.1943 patrols Mediterranean, sinking enemy ships [investiture 27.07.1943] MID 06.11.1945 war patrols Far East 08.1944-08.1945	... - ... ... 03.02.1939 - (12.1941) First Lieutenant, HMS Rover (submarine) 04.1942 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS P556 (submarine) 20.12.1942 - (06.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tribune (submarine) 08.07.1943 - 09.1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 24.09.1943 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Tudor (submarine) 19.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse) ... - ... ...
Pott, Herbert Third son of Col. William Pott, of Steyning, Sussex. Brother of Lt.Col. E.H. Pott, Maj. W.T. Pott, and Col. D. Pott. Married (08.01.1931, St Paul's, Knightsbridge) Mary Grant, third daughter of F.M.S. Grant, Knockie Lodge, Inverness.	31.05.1886 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 04.08.1945 Thanes Croft, Shamley Green, Surrey	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 22.04.1907 Lt. 31.12.1908 Lt.Cdr. 31.12.1916 Cdr. 31.12.1920 Capt. 31.12.1927 R.Adm. 10.01.1939 (retd 11.01.1939) (reverted to retd 1945) MVO 04.06.1928 HM's birthday 1928 LM 20.03.1945 Naval Attaché Washington	Education: HMS Britannia. 15.09.1901     entered Navy       specialized in signals 23.04.1907     HMS Achilles 08.1914 - 1916 Flag Lieutenant to R.Adm. Sir Archibald Moore [HMS Invincible (Grand Fleet/North Sea) & HMS King Alfred (Madeira-Canaries Station)] 11.1916     Executive Officer, HMS Caroline (cruiser) 1919     HMS New Zealand 1920     Executive Officer, HMS Calcutta (West Indies)       signals school 26.04.1923 - (08.1923) Executive Officer, HMS Thunderer (battleshup; cadet training ship) (01.1925)     HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (China) * (05.1926)     no appointment listed 09.08.1926 - 09.01.1928 Commander, HMS Victoria and Albert (Royal yacht) (Portsmouth) (04.1928)     no appointment listed 23.04.1928 - (06.)1928 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 08.1928 - (08.)1930 Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, Mediterranean Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Cairo (cruiser)] 12.01.1931 - (02.)1931 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.10.1931 - (06.)1933 Commanding Officer, HMS President & as Naval Member of the RNVR Committee & from 05.10.1931 as Assistant to the Admiral Commanding Reserves 28.12.1933 - (01.)1934 Admiralty [HMS President] (for 3 months' study of foreign language in Italy) 26.04.1934 - 02.08.1936 Naval Attaché, Rome (accredited to Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and Turkey) [HMS President] 21.09.1936 - (10.1936) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (01.1937)     no appointment listed 20.01.1937 - (10.1938) Commanding, Officer, HMS London (cruiser) & from (07.)1937-(08.)1938 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) 29.08.1939 - 15.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Flora (RN base, Invergordon) 11.06.1940 - 26.09.1944 Naval Attaché, Washington, DC (accredited to USA, Panama, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Salvador) [HMS President] (Legion of Merit) * indexed, but not listed as such
Potter, Benjamin "Ben"	05.04.1899 Greenfield, Sadleworth, West Riding of Yorkshire - 01.08.1965 Oldham district, Lancashire	Seaman ? [M25808] A/Wt. Writer 01.01.1939 Wt. Writer = Wt. Writer Offr. 1940?, seniority 01.01.1939 Cd. Writer Offr. = Sen.Cd. Writter Offr. 17.04.1945 (retd 05.04.1949; age) Lt. (S) (retd) 05.04.1949	24.02.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Forton) 07.09.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) (12.1941)     HMS St George (training establishment, Douglas, Isle of Man) * (08.1942) - (07.1945) no appointment listed while being captured at Java and being a POW in Japanese captivity 07.02.1946 - 08.03.1946 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 09.03.1946 - (07.1948) RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Poulton, Cyril Hugh	01.03.1892 Hoddesdon, Ware district, Hertfordshire - 16.02.1956 Biggleswade district	A/Mate 22.06.1918 [J1902] Mate = S.Lt. 22.06.1918 A/Lt. ? (retd 16.10.1922; own request) Lt. (retd) 17.08.1923, seniority 16.10.1922 A/Lt.Cdr. (retd) ? Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.09.1939 Cdr. (retd) > 07.1945 GM 14.01.1941 mine disposal MID 20.12.1940 mine disposal	07.06.1917     commissioned 14.09.1918 - (07.1919) HMS Nymphe (destroyer) 04.11.1940 - (07.1945) Torpedoes and Mining Department
Pound, Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Eldest son of Alfred John Pound, barrister, and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers, of Boston, USA. Married (14.10.1908) Bessie Caroline Grace Whitehead (died 1943), daughter of John Livesay Whitehead, physician, of Ventnor, Isle of Wight; two sons (Capt. Martin Pound, RM & Capt. George Dudley Pound, RN), one daughter.	29.08.1877 Park View, Wroxall, Isle of Wight - 21.10.1943 London (brain tumour) [Golders Green Crematorium, Middlesex]	Cadet 15.01.1891 Midsh. 15.01.1893 S.Lt. 29.08.1896 Lt. 29.08.1898 Cdr. 30.06.1909 Capt. 31.12.1914 R.Adm. 01.03.1926 V.Adm. 15.05.1930 Adm. 16.01.1935 Adm. of the Fleet 31.07.1939 GCB 02.01.1939 New Year 1939 OM 03.09.1943 First Sea Lord GCVO 23.07.1937 ? KCB 03.06.1933 HM's birthday 1933 CB 03.06.1919 HM's birthday 1919 MID 15.09.1916 Battle of Jutland 31.05.1916 StOlav 13.10.1942 services to Norway PolRes 22.12.1942 services to Polish navy Royal Humane Society's Bronze Medal (accident aboard HMS Superb 30.06.1911); Officer of Legion of Honour (France) 12.12.1919; Rising Sun 3rd class (Japan) 08.03.1920; DSM (USA) 12.12.1919	Education: Fonthill, East Grinstead; The Limes, Greenwich; HMS Britannia, etc. 15.01.1891     entered RN as a cadet; specialized in Torpedo .. - ... ... 30.05.1911 - 06.01.1913 Commander, HMS Superb 06.01.1913 - 21.04.1914 RN War College [HMS President] 21.04.1914 - 17.01.1915 HMS St Vincent 20.03.1915 - 24.10.1915 Additional Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.10.1915 - 07.1917 Commanding Officer, HMS Colossus & Flag Captain 07.1917 - 10.1917 Assistant to Director of Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.1917 - 18.01.1918 Assistant Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.01.1918 - 15.07.1919 Director of Operations (Home), Admiralty [HMS President] 20.05.1920 - 11.10.1920 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (additional; for special service on staff of Rear-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron) 11.10.1920 - 18.04.1922 Commanding Officer, HMS Repulse (battlecruiser) [re-commissioned 01.01.1921] 19.04.1922 - 03.05.1922 Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty inside Admiralty) 03.05.1922 - 09.03.1925 Director of Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.03.1925 - 01.05.1925 senior officers' tactical course [HMS Victory] 02.05.1925 - 01.01.1927 Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (02.1927)     no appointment listed 20.03.1927 - 20.04.1927 Admiralty [HMS President] (for duty inside Admiralty) 21.04.1927 - 22.04.1929 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff 21.05.1929 - 24.04.1931 Rear-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Renown (battlecruiser)] 01.12.1931 - 31.01.1932 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special duty inside Admiralty in connection with the Disarmament Conference) 01.02.1932 - 06.07.1932 British Naval Representative on the Permanent Advisory Commission of the League of Nations [HMS President] 07.07.1932 - 30.08.1932 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special duty inside Admiralty) 31.08.1932 - 30.09.1935 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Personnel (Second Sea Lord) [HMS President] 09.10.1935 - 20.03.1936 Chief of Staff, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Resolution (battleship), then HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 20.03.1936 - 11.06.1939 Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship), then HMS Warspite (battleship)] 12.06.1939 - 15.10.1943 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Staff (First Sea Lord) 01.10.1941 - 21.10.1943 also: First and Principal Naval ADC to the King Literature: Cdr. Kenneth Edwards, Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., Admiral of the Fleet. In: Men of action (1943, p. 160-182); Robin Brodhurst, Churchill's anchor : Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, OM, GCB, GCVO (2000)
Pound, George Dudley Son of Adm. of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, and Bessie Caroline Grace Whitehead.	12.04.1913 Portsmouth district, Hampshire - 18.08.1995 Chichester district, Sussex	Cadet 01.09.1930 Midsh. 01.05.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 01.05.1934 Lt. 01.02.1936 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1944 Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 10.02.1965) CBE 08.06.1963 HM's birthday 1963 DSC 10.03.1942 sinking Italian submarine Ferraris 10.1941 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 1942	06.09.1930 - (06.)1933 HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 28.09.1933 - (01.1934) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.01.1935 - (07.)1937 HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (Devonport) 22.08.1937 - (06.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Vanquisher (destroyer) (Portland) 07.06.1938 - (08.1939) HMS Cossack (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 22.02.1940 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Hurricane (destroyer) (10.1941) HMS Lamerton (destroyer) 23.11.1941 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Lauderdale (destroyer) 12.1943 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Myngs (destroyer) 17.01.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Wakeful (destroyer) 08.02.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) 07.1947 - (05.1949) on staff of Rear-Admiral Washington DC and Naval Representative on the United Nations Military Staff Committee [HMS Saker] (05.1950) HMS President * 11.07.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, HMS Widemouth Bay ? - (04.1955) Naval Training Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (01.1956) no appointment listed (01.1957) no appointment listed (12.1957) - (06.)1958 Commanding Officer, HMNZS Royalist (cruiser) [on loand to RNZN] 25.09.1958 - (01.1959) Commanding Officer, Anti-Submarine Training Establishment [HMS Osprey] & as Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Sea Training (07.1961) no appointment listed 26.07.1961 - (02.1964) Captain-in-Charge, Clyde [HMS Cochrane] * indexed, but not listed as such
Pounds, Thomas Herbert Bellingham	25.09.1909 Newcastle upon Tyne district, Northumberland - 12.04.1973 Wingerworth, Chesterfield district, Derbyshire	... ... Lt. 25.09.1933 Lt.Cdr. 25.09.1941 (retd 25.09.1954; age)	... - ... ... 01.11.1938 - (02.1940) HMS Norfolk (Norfolk class cruiser) ... - ... ...
Powell, Arthur	22.03.1897 Southsea, Hampshire - died between 08.1981 and 08.1983 ??	Lt. 15.07.1918 (emgcy) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 15.07.1926 Cdr. (emgcy) 22.03.1937	01.1910     entered RN 26.10.1939 - 26.05.1940 HMAS Penguin (RAN base, Sydney, NSW) (as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Newcastle) 27.05.1940 - 05.06.1940 HMAS Penguin (additional) 06.06.1940 - 30.06.1940 HMAS Cerberus (additional; for passage to Singapore per "Merkur") 01.07.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) (for duty in office of Captain on the staff of Commander-in-Chief China) 06.1942 - (08.1942) HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon) (for miscellaneous duties at Colombo) (02.1943) - (06.1943) no appointment listed 04.06.1943 - 10.07.1943 HMAS Kuttabul (additional) 11.07.1943 - 12.08.1944 HMAS Moreton (RAN base staff, Brisbane) (as Chief Staff Officer to Naval Officer-in-Charge, Brisbane) 13.08.1944 - 10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMAS Kuttabul (later also as Staff Officer (Reserves)) 10.1945 - 30.11.1945 HMAS Rushcutter (additional; for discharge)
Powell, Anthony Cotton Son of Edward Cotton Powell (1846-1922), and Anne Caroline Ingram (1866-1940). Married (28.07.1928, Sopley, Dorset) Mary Eveleen Grindle (1895-1956).	19.04.1894 Chelsea, London, Middlesex - 02.10.1964 Chepstow district	Lt.Cdr 15.05.1924 Cdr. (retd) 19.04.1934	Education: RN College, Osborne (1907). 15.01.1907     entered RN ... - ... ... 01.07.1937 - 31.12.1940 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, London Area (under Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty) [HMS President] 01.01.1941 - 01.06.1943 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Manchester Area (under Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty) [HMS President] 02.06.1943 - (04.1946) an Assistant to the Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President]
Powell, Christopher Francis Boyd   Son of E.E. Powell, and Jane Sutcliffe Jinty. Residence: (1945) Haverfordwest.	20.10.1898 - 22.12.1982 North Dorset district, Dorsetshire	Midsh. 01.09.1917 Lt. 15.02.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1929 (retd 13.10.1934; own request) Cdr. (retd) 20.10.1938 (reactivated 1939/40?) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 01.01.1945 New Year 1945 [investiture 16.10.1945]	? - (01.1919) HMS Barham (battleship) (08.1923)     no appointment listed 03.01.1925 - (01.)1925 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for training in coastal motor boats) 30.06.1925 - (07.)1927 HMS Colossus (accommodation ship; boys' training ship, Devonport) 25.08.1927 - (06.)1928 HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (Africa) 18.09.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (Africa) 19.12.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Frobisher (cruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 24.07.1930 - (02.1931) Executive Officer, HMS Harebell (fishery protection cruiser; sloop) (01.1932)     no appointment listed 25.05.1932 - (06.1933) HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) (01.1934) - (08.1934) no appointment listed Fishery officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1937. (04.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Skirmisher (RN base, Milford Haven) * 06.1941 - (10.1944) Executive Officer, HMS Resource (repair ship) (01.1945)     no appointment listed (07.1945)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Powell, Edward Henry	07.07.1883 Paddington, London - 21.12.1956	Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.11.1925 A/Cdr. (retd) ? (reverted to retd < 06.1944)	(07.1918)     First Lieutenant, HMS C 22 (submarine) ... - ... ... 27.12.1939 - (04.)1940 RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 05.1940 - (02.)1943 HMS Cabot (RN training establishment, Ashley Down, Bristol) 10.1943 - (12.1943) Executive Officer, HMS Triphibian II (training establishment, Uniacke Barracks, Harrogate) (04.1944)     no appointment listed
Powell, James Son of James Powell, of Pylewell, Hythe, Southampton & Hyde Park, London, later of Lower Lockhams, Botley, Hampshire. Married (07.12.1914) Gertrude Eileen Blenkinsop, daughter of late Lt.Col. F. Blenkinsop, IMS; one son, three daughters.	19.06.1887 - 07.09.1971 Twyford, Hampshire	... ... Lt. 30.12.1908 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1916 Cdr. 30.06.1922 Capt. 31.12.1929 (retd 25.06.1940) Cdre. 2nd cl. 25.06.1940 & 14.02.1944 R.Adm. (retd) 25.06.1940 (dispersed 05.08.1945) (reverted to retd 20.10.1945) DSO 27.06.1919 minelaying North Sea MID WW I ?	Education: Eton (1st semester 1901-1st semester 1902); HMS Britannia. 15.01.1904     entered RN ... - ... ... 19.12.1931 - 25.07.1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship) ... - ... ... 1936 - 1938 Captain-in-Charge and King's Harbour Master, Portland 20.10.1938 - 27.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Malabar (RN barracks, Bermuda) & in charge of HM Naval Establishments, Bermuda (from 25.06.1940 as Cdre. 2nd cl. RN) 05.01.1940 - 25.06.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 29.05.1942 - 08.10.1942 HMS President (additional; whilst on passage) 09.10.1942 - 30.10.1942 HMS President (additional; for disposal) 01.11.1942 - 13.02.1944 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for Liverpool Convoy Pool) (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR) 14.02.1944 - 24.07.1945 Commodore Superintendent Taranto & Italian Ports [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RN) 25.07.1945 - 05.08.1945 Commodore-in-Charge Taranto & Commodore Superintendent Taranto Dockyard [HMS Fabius (RN base, Taranto, Italy)] (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RN)
Powell, Jeffrey William Son of William Powell, and Florence Wildish. Married 1st ((07?).1942, Lewisham district, London; divorced 1963) Joan Helen Daglish; two sons. Married 2nd ((04?).1964, Chelsea district, London) Susan J. Peters; two daughters.	11.02.1921 Lambeth district, London - 08.06.2008 Wivelsfield, Sussex	Midsh. (A) 11.09.1939 A/S.Lt. (A) 19.01.1941 S.Lt. (A) 11.02.1942 Lt. (A) 19.07.1943 Lt. 1949/50?, seniority 19.07.1943 Lt.Cdr. 19.07.1951 Cdr. 31.12.1954 (retd 18.09.1965) DSC 19.12.1944 Operation Begonia [investiture 06.03.1945] MID 28.04.1942 operations in Mediterranean MID 28.11.1944 minelaying Norway	(12.1939) - (05.1940) Fleet Air Arm (06.1940)     no appointment listed 24.07.1940 - (12.1940) acting observer, 823 Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys)] 06.01.1941 - (06.)1941 acting observer, HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt) 01.06.1941 - (06.)1942 acting observer, 826 Squadron FAA [HMS Grebe (RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria, Egypt)] (despatches) 27.07.1942 - (08.)1943 HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) (for instructional staff) 01.09.1943 - (10.)1943 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) 01.10.1943 - (12.)1944 observer, 846 Squadron FAA [at Scottish air stations, from 04.01.1944-03.06.1944 HMS Tracker (Archer class escort carrier), from 05.07.1944 HMS Trumpeter (Archer class escort carrier)] (DSC, despatches) 12.12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for various services) *       post-war appointments included HMS Merlin, HMS Vengeance, HMS Gannet, HMS Glory, HMS Mounts Bay & HMS Victorious * According to name index of Navy Lists (01.1945)-(04.1946) serving at Admiralty [HMS President]. In officers' listings showing at HMS Daedalus, though.
Powell, John Trevor	10.04.1902 Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire - 18.06.1985 Isle of Wight	Midsh. 15.09.1919 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922 Lt. 15.07.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1932 (retd 10.04.1947) A/Cdr. > 04.1941, < 06.1941 Cdr. (retd) 10.04.1947 OBE 08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944 MID 01.01.1943 New Year 1943 MID 30.05.1944 North Russian convoy 02.1944	... - ... ... 05.12.1939 - (03.)1939 Navigating Officer, HMS Barham (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) 19.03.1940 - (08.)1940 Navigating Officer, HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship) & as Squadron Navigating Officer to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, Home Fleet 07.09.1940 - 22.08.1942 Squadron Navigating Officer and Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, Home Fleet [HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) 23.08.1942 - (06.)1944 Staff Officer (Operations) to Rear-Admiral Destroyers, Home Fleet [HMS Tyne (destroyer depot ship) (OBE, despatches twice) 09.1944 - 04.11.1944 Assistant King's Harbour Master and Assistant Commander of the Dockyard, HM Dockyard Ceylon [HMS Highflyer] 05.11.1944 - (07.)1945 Commander of the Dockyard, HM Dockyard Ceylon and King's Harbour Master, Trincomalee [HMS Highflyer] (10.1945)     HM Dockyard, Ceylon [HMS Highflyer] * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Powell, Thomas Aislabie	12.03.1890 - 04.04.1959	A/S.Lt. 30.07.1909 S.Lt. 08.04.1910, seniority 30.07.1909 Lt. 01.04.1912 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1920 (retd 12.03.1933; own request) Cdr. (retd) 12.03.1933 MID 20.02.1919 * * Has been in command of `G.4' for eighteen months during which time he has often been on patrols near our own and enemy minefields. He was especially selected for a trip down to the Kullen and entrance to the Belts when after a long interval a  submarine was sent there on receipt of special information.	15.09.1904     entered RN 16.05.1915     First Lieutenant, HMS C 15 (submarine) Commanding Officer, HMS C 8 (submarine) Commander (S) 11th Submarine Flotilla 12.08.1919 - 12.07.1921 Commanding Officer, HMS H 49 (submarine) ... - ... ... 11.03.1940 - 30.06.1943 Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.07.1943 - (01.)1945 Anti-U-Boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (07.1945)     Anti-U-Boat Division, Admiralty [HMS President] * (04.1946)     no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such
Power, Sir Arthur John Son of E.J. Power. Married 1st (1918) Amy (died 1945), eldest daughter of Col. D.A. Bingham; three sons (V.Adm. Sir Arthur Mackenzie Power, KCB, MBE). Married 2nd (1947) Margaret Joyce, Second Officer, WRNS, only daughter of A.H.St C. Watson, Penfold House, Hendon, NW4.	12.04.1889 - 28.01.1960 Gosport district, Hampshire	A/S.Lt. 15.01.1909? S.Lt. 10.09.1909, seniority 15.01.1909 Lt. 15.04.1910 Lt.Cdr. 31.04.1918 Cdr. 31.12.1922 Capt. 30.06.1929 R.Adm. 25.06.1940 V.Adm. 04.08.1943 A/Adm. 12.1944 Adm. 06.05.1946 Adm. of the Fleet 22.04.1952 GCB 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 KCB 01.01.1944 New Year 1944 CB 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 GBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 CVO 29.01.1936 ? MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky MID 23.05.1944 Operation Avalanche MID 15.06.1944 air strikes Sabang & Surabaya 04-05.1944 MID 31.10.1944 Operation Crimson PolRes 22.12.1942 services to Polish navy LM 29.01.1946 ? OON 15.03.1949 services to Royal Netherlands Navy Knight of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (01.01.1951)	15.05.1904     entered RN       Gunnery Officer, HMS Magnificent (battleship) 17.08.1917 - (01.1919) Gunnery Officer, HMS Princess Royal (battle cruiser)        Gunnery Officer, HMS Royal Arthur (cruiser)       Gunnery Officer,  HMS Raglan (monitor) 24.07.1929 - (02.1931) Ordnance Committee (Woolwich) [HMS President] (01.1932) - (09.1932) no appointment listed (01.1934) - (07.1935) Imperial Defence Course 03.10.1935 - (07.)1937 Commanding Officer, Gunnery School, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 17.01.1938 - 26.07.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier) (while under construction) 26.07.1938 - 04.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier), from 26.07.1939 also Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Aircraft Carriers, Home Fleet 13.12.1939 - 25.06.1940 also: Naval ADC to the King 28.05.1940 - 27.05.1942 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Home) [HMS President] 28.05.1942 - 11.07.1942 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 01.08.1942 - 06.05.1943 Rear-Admiral Commanding 15th Cruiser Squadron [HMS Cleopatra] [assumed command 12.09.1942] 07.05.1943 - 09.1943 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Malta [HMS St. Angelo] 24.09.1943 - 11.1943 Flag Officer Liaison Italy [HMS Hannibal (additional)] 01.12.1943 - 11.1944 Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Eastern Fleet [briefly HMS Lanka, later HMS Renown] 22.11.1944 - (10.)1945 Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station [HMS Lanka, later HMS Landguard] 27.02.1946 - 1948 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Chief of Naval Personnel (Second Sea Lord) 13.05.1948 - (05.)1950 Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station [HMS St Angelo] 18.10.1950 - 17.10.1952 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth 1951 - 1952 also Naval Commander-in-Chief, Home (designate) 15.01.1951 - 24.04.1952 First and Principal Naval ADC to King George VI & to the Queen (02-04.1952) 1952 - (1952/53?) Allied Commander-in-Chief Channel and Southern North Sea Command Deputy Lieutenant, Southampton (27.04.1953).
Power, [Sir] Arthur Mackenzie Son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur John Power, GCB, GBE, CVO. Married (11.05.1949) Marcia Helen Gell; two sons, one daughter.	18.06.1921 - 17.11.1984 Liphook, Hampshire	Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.08.1940 Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1949 Cdr. 31.12.1952 Capt. 30.06.1959 R.Adm. 07.07.1968 V.Adm. 29.11.1971 (retd 07.04.1975) KCB 1974 ? MBE 1952 ?	01.09.1938 - 08.1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 04.08.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 06.09.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Cossack (destroyer) 23.01.1941 - (02.)1941 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 01.09.1941 - (10.)1943 HMS Offa (destroyer) (12.1943)     HMS Offa (destroyer) * 28.12.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Caprice (destroyer) 15.04.1945 - (07.1945) HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) (04.1946)     gunnery course ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Power, [Sir] Manley Laurence Son (with two sisters) of Admiral Sir Laurence Eliot Power, KCB, CVO (1864-1927), and Muriel Want.  Married (02.08.1930, Freshwater Parish Church) Barbara Alice Mary Topham, elder daughter of Alfred Frank Topham, KC (1874-1952), and Alice Charlotte Kennedy, of Yarmouth and London; one daughter, one son deceased.	10.01.1904 Kingston, Middlesex / Surrey - 17.05.1981 Yarmouth, Isle of Wight	Cadet 1917 Midsh. 15.01.1922 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1924 S.Lt. 31.10.1925, seniority 15.02.1925 Lt. 15.11.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1934 Cdr. 30.06.1939 A/Capt. 31.08.1943 Capt. 31.12.1943 Cdre. 1st cl. 05.1952? R.Adm. 08.07.1953 V.Adm. 07.09.1956 Adm. 22.07.1960 (retd 25.10.1961) KCB 12.06.1958 HM's birthday 1958 [investiture 15.07.1958] CB 09.06.1955 HM's birthday 1955 [investiture 12.07.1955] CBE 20.04.1943 Operation Torch (landings in N Africa 08.11.1942) [investiture 18.04.1944] OBE 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy landings 06.1944) [investiture 12.03.1946] DSO 10.07.1945 Operation Dukedom (destruction of a Japanese cruiser 15-18.05.1945) [investiture 12.03.1946] MID 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (invasion of Sicily 07.1943) MID 06.06.1944 Operation Shingle (landing at Anzio 22.01.1944) LM 19.03.1946 Staff Officer Planning Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean CdeG 15.04.1958 Near East 1956	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth. 15.09.1917     entered RN 25.09.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 31.08.1926 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS H48 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 08.1928 - (08.1929) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 19.03.1930 - (02.1931) First Lieutenant, HMS L52 (submarine) 23.07.1931 - (09.1932) First Lieutenant, HMS L53 (submarine) 21.04.1933 - (01.1934) Commanding Officer, HMS H32 (submarine) (Portsmouth) 15.01.1935 - (07.1935) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1936 - (02.1936) Staff Officer (Operations), 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship)] (Mediterranean) 01.1937 - (02.1937) HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines) (Mediterranean) 31.05.1937 - (04.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Severn (submarine) (Mediterranean) 21.08.1939 - (06.)1942 Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in- Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta), later HMS Warspite (battleship), later HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 09.06.1942 - 26.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Opportune (destroyer) (Russian convoys) 09.1942 - 12.1942 Staff Officer (Operations) to the Naval Commander Expeditionary Force, Algiers 01.01.1943 - (10.)1943 Staff Officer (Plans) to the Commander-in- Chief Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)] * 31.12.1943 - 02.04.1944 Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans) to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers)] 03.04.1944 - 23.04.1944 HMS Victory IV (additional; for foreign service leave & whilst unemployed) 24.04.1944 - 09.07.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 26th Destroyer Flotilla 09.07.1944 - 17.11.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Myngs (destroyer) 17.11.1944 - 14.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Saumarez (destroyer) 13.02.1946 - 07.1946 Deputy Director of Plans, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.1946 - (07.1948) Senior Naval Member of the Directing Staff at the Joint Services Staff College 04.05.1949 - (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (RN base, Portland)       Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet 05.1952 - (05.1953) Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean [HMS St Angelo] 04.1954 - (01.1956) Senior Naval Member, Directing Staff, Imperial Defence College 1956 - 1957 Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers 1957 - 1959 Deputy Chief of Naval Staff & 5th Sea Lord 09.03.1959 - 1961 Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] & Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel & Commander-in-Chief, Home Station (Designate) County Court, Isle of Wight, 1964-1974. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Hampshire, 1965-1974. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Isle of Wight, 1974. * (12.1943) still indexed, but no longer listed as such
Powlett, Philip Frederick Only son of V.Adm. Frederick Armand Powlett, CBE (1873-1963), and Nora Chaplin (1888-1934). Married (1935) Frances Elizabeth Sykes Elwell, daughter of Edward Elwell, of Cranbrook, B.C., Canada; two sons, one daughter.	13.11.1906 Alverstoke, Hampshire - 15.01.1991 Lyng, Norwich, Norfolk	Midsh. 15.09.1924 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1927 S.Lt. 16.09.1927 Lt. 16.06.1929 Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 30.06.1949 R.Adm. 07.01.1959 (retd 25.04.1962) CB 31.12.1960 New Year 1961 DSO  24.03.1942 sinking U131 & U434 17.12.1941 DSO  01.09.1942 Operation Harpoon DSC 29.07.1941 rescue bombed SS Archangel MID 11.10.1940 blocking Zeebrugge Canal of Dieppe KW 22.12.1942 services to Polish Navy	Education: Newlands School, Seaford; RN Colleges, Dartmouth & Osborne (19201924). 15.09.1924 - (03.)1926 HMS Hawkins (cruiser) (China) 30.12.1926 - (07.1927) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (04.1928)     no appointment listed 28.04.1928 - (06.)1929 HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 07.06.1929 - 01.1931 HMS Whitley (destroyer) 13.01.1931 - (03.1931) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) (12.1931) - (09.1932) course, Greenwich 04.10.1932 - (03.)1935 HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (07.1935)     no appointment listed 29.07.1935 - (10.1935) Admiralty [HMS President] (for 4 months' study of foreign languages in Spain) 14.01.1936 - (08.)1936 HMS President IV (base defences, Mediterranean) (10.1936)     no appointment listed 05.10.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Resource (repair ship) (Mediterranean) 12.04.1937 - (07.)1937 HMS Wrestler (destroyer) (Portsmouth Local Destroyer Flotilla)) 22.08.1937 - (12.)1938 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet) 20.12.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Hastings (escort vessel) 05.09.1939 - 20.01.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Shearwater (patrol vessel) 27.02.1941 - 11.03.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Blankney (escort destroyer) (04.1943)     no appointment listed (06.)1943 - (04.)1944 Flotilla Officer, Boat Company, RM Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization 1 (MNBDO1) 03.06.1944 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) 12.06.1944 - early1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Cassandra (destroyer) 31.03.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) 01.1946 - (04.)1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Wakeful (destroyer) 05.11.1946 - (07.)1948 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.12.1948 - (05.1949) Commander of the College, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.05.1950 - (05.1951) Deputy Director of Naval Air Organisation and Training [showing under HMS President (for miscellaneous services)] 10.06.1952 - (05.)1953 Senior Officer, Reserve Fleet, Clyde [HMS Jupiter] 27.04.1954 - (07.)1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Venus & as Captain (F), 6th Frigate Squadron 18.10.1954 - (04.)1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Undine & as Captain (F), 6th Frigate Squadron (01.1956)     no appointment listed 05.04.1956 - 1958 Commanding Officer, HMS Sea Eagle, and as Director (RN), Joint Anti-Submarine School, and Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland 05.02.1959 - 03.03.1962 Flag Officer, Gibraltar, and Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Gibraltar & Commander Gibraltar, Mediterranean, NATO (COMGIBMED) Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Norfolk, 1974.
Poynter *, Douglas Arthur * initially registered in the Navy under the last name Pointer	01.03.1920 Thanet district, Kent - 12.10.1999 Farnham, West Surrey	Midsh. (A) 21.11.1938 A/S.Lt. (A) 01.03.1940 S.Lt. (A) 04.1942, seniority 01.03.1941 Lt. (A) 11.1942, seniority 01.09.1942 Lt. 02.06.1948, seniority 01.09.1942 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1950 Cdr. 30.06.1955 Capt. 31.12.1962 (retd 07.01.1972) CVO 24.12.1968 to be dated 17.11.1968 MBE 19.03.1946 for outstanding services while prisoner of war	21.11.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Devonport) (for training) 13.02.1939 - (04.)1939 observers' course [HMS Excellent] 15.05.1939 - (08.)1939 observers' course [HMS Excellent] ... Squadron FAA [HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier)] ? - 22.09.1940 825 Squadron FAA [HMS Furious (aircraft carrier)]  (force-landed during an operation against German ships in Trondheim; evaded, but eventually captured) 1940 - 1945 prisoner of war (Stalag Luft III; escape attempt 1944) 03.04.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Fernie 15.04.1947 - (07.1948) Communications Officer, HMS London 02.06.1948 transferred to the Executive Branch (05.1950) no appointment listed 01.05.1952 - (05.1953) on staff of Flag Officer, Malaya & Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard Singapore [HMS Terror] 22.02.1954 - (04.1955) Fleet Communications Officer 2 (FCO2), Mediterranean Fleet [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 12.12.1955 - (01.1956) Executive Officer, HMS Mercury II 13.06.1960 - (07.1961) Executive Officer, RN Base, Singapore [HMS Terror] 18.12.1962 - (02.1963) Signals Officer, Far East [HMS Terror] 1963 Deputy Director of Naval Signals, Admiralty 1965 Senior Officers' War Course 01.11.1966 - (02.1968) Defence (Naval, Military & Air) Attaché to Chili, Peru and Ecuador (Santiago, Lima & Quito) 1969 - (06.1971) Director of Naval Signals, Admiralty 07.07.1971 07.01.1972 also: Naval ADC to the Queen Naval Regional Officer, London Area, 1972-1980. Elected to Waverley Borough Council, 1983, and up to 1992 was Chairman, then Vice-Chairman, of the Finance Committee. From 1992 onwards, committee member of his local Conservative Association and Residents' Association.
Pratt, [Rev.] Geoffrey Archibald Henry Son (with one sister) of Henry Simcox Pratt (1861-), and Helen Constance Hodson (1866-).	30.05.1907 Wolverhampton district, Shropshire / Staffordshire / West Midlands - 26.06.1976 Hastings district (lately of Ealing)	Cadet 01.09.1924? Midsh. 15.05.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1927 S.Lt. 25.10.1928, seniority 01.03.1928 Lt. 19.07.1929, seniority 01.04.1929 (emgcy > 09.1932, < 06.1933) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 01.04.1937 A/Cdr. (emgcy) 06.1943 (reverted to emgcy < 04.1946)	15.09.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Emperor of India (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.04.1926 - (07.)1927 HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 29.09.1927 - 11.04.1928 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.04.1928 - (06.1928) promotion course, Portsmouth 11.06.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Vimiera (destroyer) (Mediterranean) (1930) HMS London (cruiser) (04.1930)     no appointment listed 12.04.1930 - (08.)1930 long navigation course, HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 01.09.1930 - (02.)1931 Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 13.08.1931 - 11.11.1931 Navigating Officer, HMS Petersfield (twin screw minesweeper) (China) (wrecked on Tung Yung Island; reprimanded at court-martial) (01.1932)     no appointment listed (09.1932)     no appointment listed Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 03.07.1935. (04.1940)     Admiralty [HMS President] * 07.06.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Proserpine (RN base, Scapa) 01.04.1941 - (02.)1943 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (for navigating duties) 05.1943 - 06.1943 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) 06.1943 - 11.1945 Commander of Dockyard and Deputy Superintendent, Alexandria [HMS Nile] Post-war joined the Church. Ordained a Priest in the London diocese (from Salisbury), 12.06.1949. * indexed, but not listed as such
Prescott-Decie, Richard	(12?).1920 Bockleton - 16.10.1982	Cadet 01.01.1939 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.10.1940 Lt. 01.08.1942 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1950 (retd 16.09.1956)	01.01.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (08.1942) HMS Fort York (minesweeper) * 07.08.1942 - (06.1943) First Lieutenant, HMS Vivien (destroyer) 07.08.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Arrow (destroyer) 11.03.1944 - (04.1946) First Lieutenant, HMS Marne (destroyer) 15.05.1948 - (07.1948) Squadron Physical Training & Welfare Officer, 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Newcastle (cruiser)] 11.04.1950 - (05.1950) HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) 28.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Newcastle (cruiser) 09.01.1956 - (01.1956) staff of Flag Officer, Scotland [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth)] * indexed, but not listed as such
Preston, Sir Lionel George Son of George Frederick Preston (1857?-1905), and Maria Bennett Everitt (1851-1921). Married 1st (04.01.1902, Wembdon, Bridgwater, Somerset) Emily Elizabeth Bryant (1869? - 01.02.1958), elder daughter of Edgar Bryant; one son. Married 2nd ((03?).1958, Leicester district, Leicestershire) Ivy Lily Record (01.11.1903 - 30.03.1989), daughter of Charles Record, of Sheppey, Kent; one son.	27.09.1875 Liscard, Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 21.09.1971 Dunstable, Bedfordshire	Midsh. 15.03.1891 A/S.Lt. 14.09.1894 S.Lt. 1895?, seniority 14.09.1894 Lt. 01.04.1897 Cdr. 30.06.1907 * Capt. 31.12.1914 R.Adm. 18.07.1925 V.Adm. 02.04.1930 Adm. 08.02.1934 (retd 16.01.1935; own request) (reactivated 16.09.1939) (reverted to retd 29.03.1945) KCB 26.06.1934 HM's birthday 1934 CB 01.01.1916 New Year 1916: for minesweeping services MID 1916? for proceeding at once in HMS Skipjack to the assistance of two trawlers which had been mined off Scarborough, and anchoring the ship in the mine-field to destroy several mines which the trawlers had swept up LegH 15.09.1916 wartime service * special promotion: for seamanlike handling of HMS Bruiser in heavy weather off Malta, and on a dark night, when, by taking his ship alongside HMS Ariel, which was rapidly sinking, the majority of the officers and crew were saved	Education: Stubbington House, Fareham, Hampshire; RN College, HMS Britannia (15.07.1888-06.1890). 22.07.1890 - 10.05.1893 under training in HMS Northumberland, HMS Triumph, HMS Trafalgar 10.05.1893 - 07.06.1893 HMS Achilles (iron screw ship) (under training) 11.07.1893 - 31.03.1894 HMS Victory (additional; while sick; appointment to HMS Narcissus (armoured cruiser) was never effectuated) 25.04.1894 - 01.05.1894 HMS Repulse (battleship) (under training) 02.05.1894 - 09.1894 HMS Volage (iron screw corvette) (under training) 09.1894 - 02.1895 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.1895 - 20.07.1895 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 21.07.1895 - 08.1895 HMS Fox (2nd class cruiser) (lent for tactical exercises) 08.1895 - 11.11.1895 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Excellent] 12.11.1895 - 15.02.1899 HMS Cordelia (screw corvette) 16.02.1899 - 19.03.1900 HMS Northampton (iron armoured frigate) 20.03.1900 - 06.10.1901 First Lieutenant, HMS Rosario (took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion; invalided home, reaching UK 21.11.1901) 22.11.1901 - 20.01.1902 HMS Duke of Wellington (additional; for foreign service leave & full pay sick leave) 21.01.1902 - 29.05.1902 HMS Vivid (for RN Barracks Devonport) 30.05.1902 - 23.01.1905 First Lieutenant, HMS Hearty (employed on Fishery Duties under Admiral Commanding Coast Guard and Reserves) 25.02.1905 - 15.06.1905 HMS Excellent & Vernon (additional for short courses in (G) and (T)) 20.06.1905 - 10.10.1905 Commanding Officer, HMS Doon (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vivid] 10.10.1905 - 05.12.1905 Commanding Officer, HMS Express (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vivid] 05.12.1905 - 22.12.1905 Commanding Officer, HMS Foam (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 22.12.1905 - 10.07.1907 Commanding Officer, HMS Bruiser (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 11.07.1907 - 30.09.1907 on half-pay 01.10.1907 - 03.01.1908 HMS President (additional; for War Course) 03.01.1908 - 07.04.1908 Commanding Officer, HM TB 107 & Commander of the Devonport Torpedo Boat Flotilla [tender to HMS Vivid] 07.04.1908 - 12.1909 Commanding Officer, HM TB 81 & Commander of the Devonport Torpedo Boat Flotilla [tender to HMS Vivid] 12.1909 - 04.01.1910 Commanding Officer, HM TB 99 & Commander of the Devonport Torpedo Boat Flotilla [tender to HMS Vivid] 04.01.1910 - 07.12.1910 Commanding Officer, HMS Tartar (torpedo-boat destroyer) (First Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet) [tender to HMS Blenheim] 07.12.1910 - 01.08.1912 Commanding Officer, HMS Wolverine (torpedo-boat destroyer) (Third Destroyer Flotilla) [tender to HMS Blenheim] 18.08.1912 - 20.12.1912 HMS President (for signal and war courses at Portsmouth) 03.02.1913 - 21.02.1913 HMS President (for torpedo course) 17.03.1913 - 04.1913 Commanding Officer, HMS Swiftsure (battleship) [tender to HMS Terrible] 04.1913 - 06.1913 Commanding Officer, HMS Highflyer (cruiser) 06.1913 - 01.02.1914 Commanding Officer, HMS Jason (torpedo gunboat) & for command of Minesweeping Flotilla 02.02.1914 - 04.03.1914 HMS Neptune (additional; for special service & for command of Minesweeping Flotilla) 05.03.1914 - 02.06.1915 Commanding Officer HMS Skipjack (torpedo gunboat) & for command of Minesweeping Flotilla (CB, despatches, Legion of Honour) 02.06.1915 - 22.06.1915 HMS Victory (for HMS Hollyhock, while under construction) 23.06.1915 - 09.06.1916 Commanding Officer, HMS Hollyhock (Acacia class sloop) & Captain-in-Charge of the Grand Fleet Minesweeping Force 09.06.1916 - 02.1917 Commanding Officer, HMS Lupin (Arabis class sloop) & Captain-in-Charge, Fleet Minesweepers 02.1917 - 10.10.1919 Captain of Minesweeping, from 05.1917 Superintendent of Minesweeping, from 10.1917 Director of the Minesweeping Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (in charge of the direction of the clearance of mines in British areas after war) 01.12.1919 - 16.11.1920 as Captain Auxiliary Patrol in command of the Patrol, Mine-Sweeping Training and Fishing Protection Flotilla [HMS Harebell] 16.11.1920 - 16.11.1922 Captain-in-Charge, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 17.11.1922 - 01.02.1923 unemployed 02.05.1923 - 16.05.1925 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) 02.09.1924 - 1925 also: Naval ADC to the King 06.1925 - 08.08.1926 unemployed, from 18.07.1925 on half-pay 09.08.1926 - 12.1926 senior officers' technical course (part I) 24.12.1926 - 01.1929 Rear-Admiral Commanding, 3rd Cruiser Squadron 01.07.1929 - 10.1929 senior officers' technical course (part II) 14.10.1929 - 03.1930 senior officers' war course 24.03.1930 - 13.04.1930 HMS President (for duty inside Admiralty) 14.04.1930 - 20.09.1932 Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport, Admiralty [HMS President] 19.10.1932 - 16.01.1933 HMS President (for miscellaneous or special service) 17.01.1933 - 15.01.1935 Commandant, Imperial Defence College 16.09.1939 - 31.01.1940 HMS President (for duty outside Admiralty; as Adviser on Minesweeping) 01.02.1940 - 16.02.1945 Director of the Small Vessels Pool, Admiralty [HMS President] 16.02.1945 - 29.03.1945 HMS Victory IV (additional; for disposal) Published: Sea and river painters of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century (1937).
Price, Albert Edward Married 1st Frances Louise Randle. Married 2nd Sheila Maureen Inlgis (or Travers?)	30.12.1878 Bedminster, Bristol, Somerset - 26.07.1947 Arbroath, Angus, Scotland (cerebral haemorrhage)	Boy 2nd cl. 12.07.1894 [180270] Boy 1st cl. 23.05.1895 Ord.Sea. 30.12.1896 AB Sea. 02.12.1897 Ldg.Sea. 09.02.1904 Petty Offr. 2nd cl. 13.01.1905 Petty Offr. 1st cl. 16.04.1906 Petty Offr. (NS) 13.03.1907 A/Gnr. (T) 18.11.1915 Gnr. (T) 21.11.1916, seniority 18.11.1915 Cd.Gnr. (T) 18.11.1925 (retd 30.12.1928; age) Lt. (retd) 30.12.1928 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 08.02.1943 (dispersed 23.08.1945) (reld 18.10.1945; medically unfit) (reverted to retd 19.10.1945) MID 11.1918 for services in minelaying LSGCM 03.10.1918 ?	Clerk. 12.07.1894 - 11.02.1896 HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport) 12.02.1896 - 15.04.1896 HMS Devastation (mastless turret ship) 16.04.1896 - 23.04.1896 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 24.04.1896 - 07.07.1899 HMS Fox (cruiser) 08.07.1899 - 31.10.1899 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 01.11.1899 - 23.06.1900 HMS Cambridge (gunnery ship) 24.06.1900 - 19.04.1901 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 20.04.1901 - 30.09.1901 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 01.10.1901 - 07.02.1904 HMS Antelope (torpedo gunboat) 08.02.1904 - 11.02.1904 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 12.02.1904 - 21.01.1905 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 22.01.1905 - 03.02.1905 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 04.02.1905 - 31.12.1906 HMS Victorious (battleship) 01.01.1907 - 05.04.1907 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 06.04.1907 - 12.03.1909 HMS Impregnable (boys' training establishment, Devonport) 13.03.1909 - 02.11.1909 HMS Sutlej (armoured cruiser) 03.11.1909 - 13.12.1909 HMS Niobe (armoured cruiser) 14.12.1909 - 22.12.1911 HMS Kent (armoured cruiser) 23.12.1911 - 08.02.1912 HMS Royal Arthur (armoured cruiser) 09.02.1912 - 30.04.1912 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 01.05.1912 - 12.05.1912 HMS Theseus (armoured cruiser) 13.05.1912 - 11.08.1912 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 12.08.1912 - 25.03.1913 HMS Vivid II (RN barracks, Devonport) 26.03.1913 - 05.07.1913 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 06.07.1913 - 22.08.1913 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 23.08.1913 - 22.07.1915 HMS Adventure (cruiser) 23.07.1915 - 05.11.1915 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 06.11.1915 - 17.11.1915 HMS Vivid I (RN barracks, Devonport) 18.11.1915 - 14.02.1916 HMS Defiance (torpedo school ship, Devonport) 14.02.1916 - 08.01.1917 HMS Pembroke (for HMS .....) (for torpedo duties) 08.01.1917 - 22.04.1917 several intended appointments cancelled: HMS Abdiel, then HMS Princess Margaret, then HMS Abdiel, then HMS Sandhurst [for HMS Undine] 22.04.1917 - 10.1918? HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for HMS Ferret) (for torpedo duties; on commissioning) 10.1918? - 10.04.1919 HMS [Leander?] (for HMS Prince) (for torpedo duties) 10.04.1919 - 06.1919 HMS Vivid (for HMS [Tartar?/Panter?]) (for torpedo duties) & HMS Defiance (temporarily; on reducing) 11.04.1919 HMS Vivid (for HMS .....) (for torpedo duties) (temporarily) [cancelled] 06.1919 - 02.11.1920 HMS Sandhurst (for HMS Valentine (torpedo boat destroyer)) (for torpedo duties) 03.11.1920 - 30.09.1921 HMS [Tiger?] (for HMS .....) (for torpedo duties) 08.05.1922 - 01.12.1922 HMS Vernon (for OOW duties) (temporarily) 01.12.1922 - 02.11.1924 HMS Danae (light cruiser) (for torpedo duties) 03.11.1924 - 11.1925 HMS Sable (destroyer) (Portsmouth) [based at HMS Vernon] 11.1925 - 23.05.1927 HMS Vanoc (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) [based at HMS Vernon] 24.05.1927 - 16.11.1927 HMS Malcolm (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Nore) (for destroyers in reserve) 17.11.1927 - 01.1928 HMS Dartmouth (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for destroyers in reserve) 01.1928 - 10.12.1928 HMS Constance (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) (for destroyers in reserve) 08.02.1940 - 23.08.1945 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for mining and minesweeping equipment duties)
Price, Rodney Athelstan	09.01.1912 - 11.04.1943 [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 72, column 3]	Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 01.01.1933 Lt. 01.03.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1943	... - ... ... 04.07.1942 - 11.04.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Beverley (Town class destroyer)
Prideaux, Andrew George Son (with one sister and three brothers) of Walter Treverbian Prideaux (1875-1958), and Marion Fenn Arbuthnot (1878-1958). Married 1st (01.04.1944, Tonbridge district, Kent) Eleanor Abigail Broome (1921 - 23.02.2014), daughter of George Broome; one son, one daughter. Married 2nd ((03?).1970, London City) Elizabeth Constance Griffin, daughter of Dr Charles Norman Griffin.	10.03.1918 Ladbroke Grove, Kensington district, London - 17.05.2016 St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight	Cadet 01.09.1936 Midsh. 01.05.1937 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1939 S.Lt. 1940?, seniority 01.05.1939 Lt. 16.11.1940 Lt.Cdr. 16.11.1948 (retd 28.05.1958) DSC 20.07.1943 7 war patrols from Malta [decoration posted]	Education: Eton (1936). 01.09.1936     special entry cadet ... - ... ... 01.05.1939 - (09.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (12.)1939 - (04.)1940 Fleet Air Arm 03.04.1940 - (04.)1941 HMS Rochester (Shoreham class sloop) (06.1941)     submarine course, Portsmouth [HMS Dolphin] * 30.06.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (for submarines) 23.08.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS P 36 (submarine) 24.03.1942 - (04.)1943 First Lieutenant, HMS Unrivalled (U class submarine) (DSC) 10.05.1943 - (08.)1943 submarine Commanding Officer's course [HMS Dolphin] 02.08.1943 - (10.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS L 26 (submarine) 05.03.1945 - 05.1945 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 15.05.1945 - 03.12.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Seneschal (S class submarine) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such
Pridham, [Sir] Arthur Francis "Toby" Married (15.09.1911) ...; three daughters.	03.06.1886 Honiton, Devon - 27.01.1975 [Ringwood, Hants ?] [buried at sea, off Portland]	Midsh. 30.01.1903 A/S.Lt. 30.03.1906 Lt. 01.10.1908 Cdr. 31.12.1919 Capt. 31.12.1926 R.Adm. 10.08.1938 (retd 01.10.1941) V.Adm. (retd) 01.10.1941 (dispersed 27.09.1945) (reverted to retd 23.11.1945) KBE 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 CB 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 LM 02.12.1946 Pres. Ordnance Board Imperial Russian Order of St Stanislas (2nd Class with Swords) (1919?)	Education: HMS Britannia; Imperial Defence College (1927). 15.09.1901     joined RN, HMS Britannia 1902 - 1913 HMS Isis (1902), HMS Jupiter (1903), HMS Caesar (1905), RN College Greenwich (1906), HMS Magnificent, Navigation School (1906), HMS Excellent (1907), HMS Natal (1907), HMS Berwick, HMS Excellent (1910), HMS Racehorse, HMS Swiftsure, ITP Staff (1912), HMS Formidable, HMS Irresistible, Admiralty, HMS Excellent (1913) 1914 - 1919 served European War: Gunnery Officer of HMS Weymouth (1913), Shannon (1916) and Marlborough (1917) 1920     Admiralty 1922     Commander, HMS Marlborough  1924     Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 1928?     Commanding Officer, HMS Concord 26.09.1928 - (08.1929) Commanding Officer, HMS Calliope (cruiser) 1929     Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) 06.10.1930 - 28.03.1932 Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 28.03.1932 - (09.1932) Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty [HMS President] 18.07.1933 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Excellent (Gunnery School, Portsmouth) 01.02.1936 - 20.05.1938 Flag Captain, HMS Hood (battle cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to V.Adm. Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron 1937     also: Naval ADC to the King 1938     Assistant Controller 16.06.1939 - 23.08.1939 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 24.08.1939 - 01.10.1940 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber Area [HMS Pembroke (additional)] 04.10.1940 - 30.10.1940 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 01.11.1940 - 01.01.1942 Senior Naval Member of the Ordnance Board [HMS President (additional)] (from 01.10.1941 as R.Adm.) 02.01.1942 - 26.08.1945 President of the Ordnance Board [HMS President (additional)] (as V.Adm.) 27.08.1946 - 27.09.1946 HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty) Member of General Board, National Physical Laboratory, 1943-1948. Published: Close of a dynasty (1956).
Pridham-Wippell, Sir Henry Daniel Son of P.H. Pridham Wippell, Barrister-at-Law, Thorverton, Devon, and Clara, daughter of Wm Ascroft, Oldham. Married (1918), Elsie, daughter of late J.H. Crouch, Hove, and widow of Lt­Com. A.G. Onslow, DSC, RN; one son, one daughter.	12.08.1885 Bromley, Kent - 02.04.1952 Kingsdown, Deal, Kent	Midsh. 1901 A/S.Lt. 30.12.1904? S.Lt. 28.02.1906, seniority 30.12.1904 Lt. 01.04.1907 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1915 Cdr. 30.06.1919 Capt. 31.12.1926 Cdre. 2nd cl. 31.03.1936? R.Adm. 11.01.1938 V.Adm. 03.01.1941 A/Adm. 02.04.1942-20.05.1942 Adm. 30.06.1944 (retd 04.02.1948; own request) KCB 03.06.1941 Cape Matapan CB 08.06.1939 HM's birthday 1939 CVO 03.06.1929 HM's birthday 1929 GrWC 11.11.1941 ? MID 20.02.1919 ? Order of the Nile, 4th class (Egypt) (17.05.1918)	Education: The Limes, Greenwich; HMS Britannia; Imperial Defence College. 15.05.1900     joined RN 1914 - 1919 served European War: HMS Audacious (sunk, 1914) & HMS Warspite, Grand Fleet, and Commanding Officer, of Destroyers at Gallipoli, Adriatic and Palestine coast (despatches, Order of Nile IV cl.) 2 years     as Commander in the Operations Division, Naval Staff (01.1925)     no appointment listed (07.1927)     HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) * 09.06.1928 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 14.01.1931 - (01.1932) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 24.04.1932 - 1933 Commanding Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) & Captain (D), 6th Destroyer Flotilla (Home Fleet) 05.12.1933 - (07.)1935 Director of Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 06.01.1936 - (02.1936) tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 31.03.1936 - (02.)1938 Commodore (D) commanding Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Cairo (cruiser), then HMS Aurora (cruiser)] 30.05.1937 - 11.01.1938 Naval ADC to the King 02.05.1938 - 08.05.1938 Directorate of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.05.1938 - 08.05.1940 Director of Personal Services, Admiralty [HMS President] 09.05.1940 - 23.10.1940 Rear Admiral Commanding, 1st Battle Squadron [HMS Royal Sovereign (Royal Sovereign class battleship), from ... HMS Malaya (Queen Elizabeth class battleship)] 24.10.1940 - 11.05.1941 Vice-Admiral Commanding Light Forces & Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Orion (Leander class cruiser)] 12.05.1941 - 31.03.1942 Vice-Admiral Commanding 1st Battle Squadron & Second-in-Command, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth class battleship), from .... HMS Barham (Queen Elizabeth class battleship), from 25.11.1941 HMS Woolwich (destroyer depot ship)] 02.04.1942 - 20.05.1942 Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean (temporary) 01.08.1942 - 10.07.1945 Flag Officer Commanding Dover [HMS Lynx (RN base, Dover)] 11.07.1945 - 26.11.1945 HMS President (additional; while unemployed) 27.11.1945 - 01.12.1947 Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake] * indexed, but not listed as such
Priestley, Edward Overend   Son (with one sister and one brother) of Robert Chambers Priestley (1857-1937), and Ida Mary Smith (1864-1944). Married (15.03.1917, Devonport district, Devonshire) Millicent Christine Allan (19.01.1889 - (12?.)1969); one daughter, one son.	25.05.1889 St Marylebone district, London - 30.03.1942 (died on active service) [age 52] [Immingham (St Andrew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire	... ... Lt. 15.10.1909 S.Lt. 03.04.1909, seniority 15.07.1908 Lt. 28.07.1910, seniority 15.10.1909 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1917 (retd 12.12.1919; own request) Cdr. (retd) 25.05.1929 DSC 23.03.1917 ? CdeG 23.03.1917 for distinguished services rendered during the war	... - ... ... 14.06.1913     obtained civil aviator's licence (No. 518) taken on a Bristol Biplane at The Bristol School, Larkhill, Salisbury Plain ... - ... ... 13.05.1940 - (02.)1941 Maintenance Commander, HMS Spartiate (RN base Clyde, Glasgow) 11.02.1941 - 30.03.1942 on staff of Flag Officer-in-Charge, Humber [HMS Beaver II (RN base, Immingham)]
Pringle, John	23.11.1905 - 04.1991 Winchester district, Hampshire	Midsh. 15.09.1923 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1926 S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.08.1927 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1935 Cdr.   30.06.1941 (retd 23.11.1955; age) A/Capt. 11.1951? OBE 02.01.1950 New Year 1950 [decoration posted]	15.05.1919     entered RN 15.09.1923 - (01.1925) HMS Valiant (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.04.1926 - 15.01.1927 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 16.01.1927 - (07.)1927 promotion course, Portsmouth 16.07.1927 - (08.)1929 HMS Wren (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 31.10.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Whirlwind (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 25.09.1930 - (02.)1931 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] 03.10.1931 - (09.1932) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 02.01.1933 - (06.1933) Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Home Fleet) 29.01.1934 - (07.)1934 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 23.10.1934 - (02.)1937 Gunnery Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 17.05.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 04.04.1938 - (10.1938) Gunnery Officer, HMS Coventry (cruiser) (Portsmouth) 09.01.1939 - (08.)1939 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) & as Squadron Gunnery Officer, 5th Cruiser Squadron (China) 27.12.1939 - (02.)1941 Gunnery Officer, HMS Cornwall (cruiser) 28.07.1941 - (02.)1943 Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (06.1943)     no appointment listed 07.1943 - (06.)1944 Fleet Gunnery Officer, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] 09.10.1944 - (10.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Active 02.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Hargood (frigate) 15.02.1946 - (10.1947) HMS Victory III (RN base, Portsmouth) (for command of destroyer flotilla) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 30.12.1948 - (05.1950) Assistant Naval Attaché, Shanghai 11.1951 - (05.1953) Chief of Staff to the Head of the British Naval Mission to Greece [HMS St Angelo (RN base, Malta)] ? - (04.1955) Admiral Commanding Reserves' Office
Priston, Harold Robert	30.01.1885 - 28.06.1975	... ... Cdr. 30.06.1918 Capt. (retd) 30.10.1930	... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President]
Pritchard, John Rowlands	see:	RNVR officers' section
Profit, Anthony Robert	30.01.1916 - 06.11.1998	... ... Lt. 14.06.1939 Lt.Cdr. 14.06.1947 (retd) DSC 27.01.1942 ? MID 03.12.1940 ?	Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (07.1945) HMS Trident ... - ... ...
Prophit, William James Grierson	29.08.1900 Cuckfield, Sussex - 18.07.1955	Midsh. 07.05.1917 Paym.Midsh. 25.01.1919 Paym.Lt. 29.08.1922 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 29.08.1930 T/Paym.Cdr. ? Paym.Cdr. 31.12.1937 (retd 30.08.1949) A/Paym.Capt. = A/Capt. (S) > 04.1944, < 06.1944 OBE 02.06.1943 HM's birthday	HMS Hawkins 25.09.1937 - (08.1939) Admiral's Secretary, Rear-Admiral and Senior Naval Officer, Yangtse [HMS Scorpion] 11.04.1940 - (02.1943) HMS Aurora (cruiser) (06.1943) - (08.1943) no appointment listed (10.1943) HMS Corinthian (12.1943) - (04.1944) no appointment listed (06.1944) - (04.1946) Naval Secretary, Royal New Zealand Navy
Proudfoot, Francis Babington	11.09.1900 Headington, Oxfordshire - 28.04.1983 Cambridge district	Lt. 15.12.1920 (retd 15.02.1923; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.12.1928 A/Cdr. (retd) 20.01.1944? (reverted to retd > 04.1946)	09.01.1917     entered RN (08.1922) HMS Hood (battlecruiser) 15.06.1939 - 01.06.194) Commanding Officer, HMS Skipjack (minesweeper) (Reserve Fleet, the Nore; Dunkirk) [ship sunk at Zuydcote Pass near Dunkirk after aerial attack] 21.07.1941 - (08.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Lowestoft (sloop) 27.09.1942 - (02.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Cygnet (sloop) (06.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 20.01.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Saunders (Combined Operations base, Kabret, Egypt) 01.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Phoenicia (base, Manoel Island, Malta GC)
Pugh, Charles Richard Vernon "Dick" Married; four children.	08.01.1903 Coventry district, Warwickshire - 12.09.1979 Truro district, Cornwall	... ... Lt. 15.08.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1939 A/Capt. 10.03.1943 Capt. 30.06.1944 (retd 30.01.1951) CBE  11.12.1945 wind up Europe 1945 [investiture 01.03.1949] MID 04.05.1943 Operation Torch (landings in North Africa 11.1942) MID 01.01.1946 New Year 1946 (while at HMS Odyssey) Hkn 15.04.1947 liberation of Norway	15.09.1916     entered RN ... - ... ... 28.12.1938 - 01.03.1939 Admiralty [HMS President] 01.03.1939 - (12.1940) Air Matériel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1941)     Air Matériel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] * 15.03.1941 - (06.)1941 Admiralty [HMS President] (for special and miscellaneous services) 23.06.1941 - (12.)1942 Commander (Flying), HMS Indomitable (aircraft carrier) (despatches) 14.12.1942 - 10.03.1943 Air Matériel Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 10.03.1943 - (04.)1944 Deputy Director of Air Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.06.1944 - (04.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Jackdaw (RN Air Station, Crail, Fife) 05.1945     Naval Officer-in-Charge, Oslo, Norway (07.1945)     no appointment listed       HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (CBE) 23.10.1945 - ? Commanding Officer, HMS Ravager (escort carrier) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 04.1946 - (10.1947) Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland and Captain Superintendent HMNZ Dockyard Auckland [HMNZS Philomel] (assumed command 20.06.1946) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 09.1948 - (10.1948) Admiralty [HMS President] ... - ... ...
Pugh, Hugh Smith	21.06.1899 - (12?).1969 Isle of Wight	... .... Lt. 15.02.1921 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1928 (retd 23.12.1930; own request) Cdr. (retd) 21.06.1939 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) OBE 01.01.1944 New Year 1944	07.09.1917     entered RN ... - ... ... 1939 - 1942 HMS Hawkins 1942 - 1943 HMS Rodney (OBE) 1943 - 1945 HMS Vulture 1945     HMS Warren
Pugsley, Anthony Follett "Tony" Eldest son (with one sister and one brother) of John Follett Pugsley (1871-1956), and Lucy Melton Chorley Loveband (1878-1954), of Hornhill, Tiverton, Devon, later of Whitefield, Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Married (08.04.1931, St Barnabas, Addison Road, Kensington, London) Barbara Byam Shaw (30.10.1901 - 14.10.1989), daughter (with three brothers) of the pre-Raphaelite artist John Byam Liston Shaw (Byam Shaw) (1872-1919), and Caroline Evelyn Eunice Pyke-Nott (1870-1959), of London W11; one son.	07.12.1901 Tiverton, Devon - 17.07.1990 Milverton, Taunton, Somerset	Midsh. 01.05.1918 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1921 S.Lt. 15.05.1922 A/Lt. 15.08.1923 Lt. 03.10.1923, seniority 15.08.1923 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1931 Cdr. 30.06.1936 Capt. 31.12.1942 R.Adm 08.01.1952 (retd 02.06.1954) CB 22.12.1944 Operation Infatuate (Walcheren 11.1944) [investiture 16.03.1945] DSO 02.06.1943 HM's birthday 1943 [investiture 27.07.1943] DSO 24.08.1943 destruction enemy convoy Eastern Mediterranean 01.06.1943 [investiture 09.11.1943] DSO 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944) [investiture 16.03.1945] MID 19.07.1940 ship attacked Norway MID 18.02.1941 attack of enemy destroyers off Dutch coast 29.11.1940 MID 01.01.1942 New Year 1942 Grk WC 02.04.1946 destruction enemy convoy Eastern Mediterranean 01.06.1943 [decoration posted]	Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (15.09.1915-04.1918). 01.05.1918 -  (06.)1920 HMS Warspite (battleship) (served European War) 11.06.1920 - (12.1920) HMS Vortigern (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Columbine (RN base, Port Edgar)] (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) (11.1920 on recommissioning) 05.01.1921 - 03.01.1922 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (1st Battle Squadron, Atlantic Fleet) (08.1921 on recommissioning) 04.01.1922 - 04.1922 HMS Vortigern (torpedo-boat destroyer) (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) 19.04.1922 - 07.1922 HMS President (additional; for course at Cambridge University) 11.09.1922 - 15.12.1922 HMS Excellent (additional; for gunnery course for rank of Lt., followed by torpedo & navigation courses)  02.01.1923 - 04.12.1924 HMS Spenser (flotilla leader) (2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) (09.1924 on recommissioning) 04.12.1924 - 26.01.1925 HMS Stuart (flotilla leader) (2nd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean) 27.01.1925 - (02.)1927 HMS Widgeon (shallow draught steamer) (Upper Yangtse, China) (04.1927) - (07.1927) no appointment listed 22.08.1927 - 27.08.1928 HMS Valhalla (destroyer) (6th Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) 28.08.1928 - 03.1930 HMS Whitshed (destroyer) (4th Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean) 24.03.1930 - 05.1930 HMS Vansittart (from 10.04.1930 in command) 18.06.1930 - 25.07.1930 HMS Vivid (RN base, Chatham) (additional; for unemployed time) 26.07.1930 - 30.04.1931 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Battlecruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet) 01.05.1931 - (01.)1933 HMS Mackay (flotilla leader) (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean) (12.1931 on recommissioning) (05.1933)     no appointment listed  25.05.1933 - 31.03.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS P 40 (patrol boat) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 13.04.1934 - 07.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Antelope (destroyer) (3rd Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean) (08.1935)     no appointment listed 06.09.1935 - (06.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Westcott (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) (08.1936)     no appointment listed 10.08.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship, Coast of Scotland Command) (for Maintenance Reserve Destroyers) 03.03.1937 - (04.)1939 on staff of Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1939)     no appointment listed 08.05.1939 - 12.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Javelin (J class destroyer) (Norway, Dunkirk) (despatches twice) 28.12.1940 - 23.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Fearless (F class destroyer) (Mediterranean) (despatches) 25.09.1941 - 04.01.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Paladin (P class destroyer) (Eastern Fleet) (DSO) 08.01.1943 - 22.06.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Jervis (J class destroyer) & Captain (D), 14th Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean) (Bar to DSO, Greek War Cross) (06.1943)     no appointment listed 09.08.1943 -  07.1945 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional), from 01.11.1943 HMS Odyssey (naval parties accounting base) (additional): 09.08.1943 - (06.)1944 Senior Officer Assault Group 'J1' [HMS Lawford (Captain class frigate)] (2nd Bar to DSO) (10.)1944 - (05.)1945 Commander Naval Force “T“ (Operation Infatuate (Walcheren) [HMS Kingsmill (Captain class frigate)], and later Holland waterways, based at Bergen-op-Zoom) (CB) 09.07.1945 - 29.11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Trafalgar (Battle class destroyer) & Captain (D), 19th Destroyer Flotilla (Far East) (04.1947)     no appointment listed 09.06.1947 - (07.)1948 Directing Staff, RN War College [renamed: Senior Officers War Course], RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (10.1948)     RN College, Greenwich * 11.1948 - 12.1950 Naval Officer-in-Charge, Londonderry & Director (RN) Joint Anti-Submarine School [HMS Sea Eagle] 02.01.1951 - 09.1951 Commanding Officer, HMS Warrior (aircraft carrier) 12.1951 - 11.1953 Flag Officer, Malaya & Admiral Superintendent, HM Dockyard, Singapore [HMS Terror (RN base, Singapore)] (01.1954)     no appointment listed Published: Destroyer man (1957; with Captain Donald Macintyre). * indexed, but not listed as such
Pumphrey, Edward Nigel Married (1940) Frances Mary Salkeld; one son, one daughter.	27.07.1910 Gateshead district, Durham / Tyne and Wear - 29.09.1994 Liss, Basingstoke, Hampshire	Midsh. 01.05.1928 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1930 S.Lt. 16.05.1931 Lt. 16.05.1933 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1943 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 01.07.1956; own request) DSO  31.03.1942 attacked battle cruisers Dover 12.02.1942 DSO  02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee DSO  06.07.1943 action with enemy convoy Plymouth area 27.04.1943 DSC 21.10.1941 attacked Channel convoy 08.09.1941 MID 06.06.1941 attacked escorted tanker 11.04.1941 MID 06.01.1942 attacked enemy convoy Dover Straits 03.11.1941 MID 10.07.1945 operations Arakan coast 11.1944-03.1945 MID 20.11.1945 assault Rangoon 05.1945	15.01.1924     entered RN 31.12.1927 - (04.)1930 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) 25.09.1930 - (02.)1931 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 01.12.1931 - (01.)1934 HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 15.12.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley) 04.11.1935 - (02.)1936 Boys' Training Establishment, St Budeaux [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 23.12.1936 - (02.)1937 First Lieutenant, HMS Huntley (twin screw minesweeper) 03.1937 - (06.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Seamew (river gunboat) (China) 18.06.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) (09.1939) no appointment listed 21.11.1939 - (04.)1940 First Lieutenant, HMS Wessex (destroyer) 01.08.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Hornet (Coastal Forces base, Gosport) (04.1941) - (09.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 35 (motor torpedo boat) (11.1941) Commanding Officer, HM MTB 38 (motor torpedo boat) (02.1942) ty Commanding Officer, HM MTB 221 (motor torpedo boat) 17.04.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Brocklesby (destroyer) 08.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Goathland (destroyer) (12.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (11.1944) - (05.)1945 Force W (07.1945) no appointment listed ? - 02.1946 Commanding Officer, LST 3028 & Senior Officer, 50th LST Flotilla 05.01.1948 - (07.1948) Executive Officer, HMS Liverpool (05.1949) no appointment listed 02.1950 - (05.1950) Naval Officer-in-Charge, RN Base Trieste [HMS St Angelo] (05.1953) HMS President * 03.02.1955 - (01.1956) Commanding Officer, HMS Cardigan Bay Farmer. * indexed, but not listed as such
Purse, Cuthbert Richard	06.12.1908 Steyning, Sussex - 25.07.1983	Prob. S.Lt. RNR 30.09.1932 S.Lt. RNR 21.07.1933, seniority 30.09.1932 Lt. RNR 30.09.1934 Lt. (Supplementary List) 24.04.1937, seniority 06.12.1932 Lt. 1938?, seniority 06.12.1932 Lt.Cdr. 06.12.1940 (retd 06.12.1953) A/Cdr. 01.10.1952? Hon. Cdr. ? DSC 28.06.1940 2nd Battle of Narvik [investiture 23.09.1941] DSC 06.04.1943 Operation Torch [investiture 07.12.1943] OBE  01.01.1955 New Year 1955 [decoration presented] MID 01.06.1943 destruction U-boat Mediterranean 23.02.1943 Pakistan Republic Commemoration Medal (for service with Pakistan forces on 23.03.1956)	09.09.1933 - (01.1934) HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (to complete 9 months' training) 12.04.1937 - (07.1937) RN Barracks, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 29.11.1937 - (02.1938) P & R/T course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 03.04.1938 - (10.1938) First Lieutenant, HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) 14.06.1939 - (04.)1941 First Lieutenant & Gunnery Officer, HMS Hero (destroyer) [his account of the Battle of Narvik] (06.1941)     no appointment listed 11.06.1941 - (08.)1941 HMS Malaya (battleship) 25.09.1941 - 10.12.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Castleton (destroyer) 11.12.1941 - 30.11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Lamerton (destroyer) (12.1943)     no appointment listed 04.01.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 19.08.1944 - 24.06.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ashanti (destroyer) 25.06.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Zephyr (destroyer) 31.01.1949 - (05.1950) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) 01.10.1952 - (01.1956) HMS Highflyer (serving with Royal Pakistan Navy)
Puxley, William Lavallin "Bill" Married Margaret Kesia ...; .. children (one daughter?).	05.07.1898 Llanddarog, Carmarthenshire, Dyfed - 13.01.1969 Basingstoke district	Lt. 15.08.1919 (emgcy 11.12.1925) Lt.Cdr. (emgcy) 15.08.1927 A/Cdr. (emgcy) 01.1943? A/Capt. (emgcy) 15.04.1944? OBE  08.06.1944 HM's birthday 1944: for good services in action with destroyer force	05.1911     entered RN served in World War I 15.02.1923 - (01.1925) Navigating Officer, HMS Valerian (sloop) (North America and West Indies) London stockbroker in the interbellum 25.08.1939 - (04.)1940 Trade Division, Admiralty [HMS President] [possibly involved with censorship] 05.1940 took command of a small vessel involved in the Dunkirk evacuation 22.10.1940 22.10.1940 28.02.1941 - - - 01.1943 28.02.1941 01.1943 HMS Montgomery (destroyer) First Lieutenant Commanding Officer 01.1943 - 15.04.1944 on staff of Captain (D), Halifax [HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS)] [on loan to RCN] 15.04.1944 - (07.1945) Captain (D), Halifax [HMCS Stadacona (RCN base, Halifax, NS)] [on loan to RCN]

 

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