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J.H. Ruck-Keene   to   C.R. Ryman

Ruck-Keene, John Henry Son of Rev. Edmund Ralph Ruck Keene (1857-1932), and Emma Corrie (1860-1935). Brother of V.Adm. Philip Ruck-Keene, CB, CBE, DSO, RN. Married (27.09.1948, Oliva Cathedral, Gdynia, Poland) Mrs Patricia Fasson; one son.	05.05.1902 Lexden district, Essex - 17.10.1967 Church Farm, Hardwick, Depwade district, Norfolk	... ... A/S.Lt. 15.01.1922 S.Lt. 15.10.1922 Lt. 15.09.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.09.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1938 Capt. 30.06.1944 (retd 07.01.1954) OBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 [investiture 17.11.1942] DSC 11.07.1940 HM's birthday 1940 [investiture 06.08.1940] MID 05.05.1942 [cdd?] attack enemy forces Channel 13.03.1942 Hkn 15.04.1947 liberation of Norway	... - ... ... 08.1939 - 09.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragonfly (river gunboat) 01.09.1939 - 08.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Scarborough (sloop) (DSC) 24.05.1940 - 14.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Wanderer (destroyer) 26.04.1941 - 20.07.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Blencathra (destroyer) (OBE, despatches) (10.1942)     no appointment listed 08.10.1942 - (12.1942) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (02.1943) - (04.1943) no appointment listed 05.1943 - (06.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Orion (cruiser) (10.1944)     no appointment listed 03.10.1944 - (04.)1945 Captain, Rosyth Escort Force [HMS Cochrane] 05.1945     Naval Officer-in-Charge, Trondheim, Norway [HMS Odyssey] 13.09.1945 - 20.03.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Chequers (destroyer) ... - ... ...
Ruck-Keene, Philip Son of Rev. Edmund Ralph Ruck Keene (1857-1932), and Emma Corrie (1860-1935). Brother of Capt. John Henry Ruck-Keene, OBE, DSC, RN, Married (20.12.1923, Brentford district, Middlesex) Margherita Evelyn Constance Agatha "Dick" Gyles (29.06.1901-12.1991), daughter of R.Adm. Herbert Arthur David John Gyles of Orchards, Whimple, Devon; one daughter.	07.11.1897 Copford, Lexden district, Essex - 28.05.1977 Tavistock Hospital, Devonshire	S.Lt. 15.09.1917 Lt. 15.02.1919 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1927 Cdr. 31.12.1931 Capt. 31.12.1936 R.Adm. 05.07.1946 (retd 03.08.1949) V.Adm. (retd) 03.08.1949 CB 10.06.1948 HM's birthday 1948 CBE 11.06.1942 HM's birthday 1942 DSO 23.10.1945 air strikes Okinawa 03.-4.1945 MID 12.01.1943 attacks enemy supply bases Mediterranean LM 28.05.1946 ? Geo I 15.04.1947 ?	Education: Haileybury College (3rd term 1911-2nd term 1915). 09.1915     joined RN 01.02.1916     commissioned RN, serving mainly in submarines ? - (01.1919) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) 04.1923 - (08.1923) First Lieutenant, HMS L19 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 20.08.1924 - (01.1925) Commanding Officer, HMS H34 (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Maidstone] 06.03.1926 - (02.)1927 HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 12.05.1927 - (06.1928) Executive Officer, HMS X1 (submarine) (Mediterranean) 01.03.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Oswald (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] 02.11.1931 - (01.)1932 Admiralty [HMS President] (for Naval Equipment Department) [specially thanked by their Lordships of the Admiralty for his services in charge of the salvage operations on the wreck of submarine M2] 1932 - 05.1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Adamant (submarine depot ship) 17.05.1932 - (10.1932) temporary Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (5th Submarine Flotilla) 23.02.1933 - (06.1933) Admiralty [HMS President] (for Naval Equipment Department) 16.01.1934 - (11.1934) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 21.01.1935 - (07.1935) course, Staff College, Camberley [HMS President] 13.01.1936 - (02.)1937 Executive Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) (07.1937)     no appointment listed 11.10.1937 - 03.01.1938 senior officers' course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1938 - (04.)1939 Captain (S) 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship)] (Mediterranean) (08.1939)     HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) * (09.1939)     no appointment listed 17.11.1939 - 08.1940 Senior Officer, 3rd Submarine Flotilla [HMS Cyclops at Harwich/Rosyth, from 05.1940 HMS Maidstone at Rosyth] 09.1940 - (10.)1940 HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast) 09.12.1940 - 11.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Ferret (RN base, Londonderry) 31.05.1942 - 07.1943 Senior Officer, 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Medway at Alexandria, from 31.06.1942 after being sunk, ashore at HMS Medway II at Beirut] 07.1943 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) & Flag Captain to V.Adm. Sir Philip Vian, 1st Aircraft Carrier Squadron 1945 - 02?.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable 1946     appointed as chairman of the submarine escape committee which was to investigate and report on the efficiency and deficiencies of the escape arrangements built into the submarines of the Royal Navy 1946     ADC to the King 1946 - 1947 Flag Officer in Charge, Ceylon 08.08.1947 - 07?.1949 Director of Naval Training, Admiralty [HMS President]
Rugman, Walter Ardra * * birth & death registered under first names Ardra Walter	06.02.1903 Blackheath, Greenwich district, Greater London - (12?).1968 Weymouth district, Dorset	Seaman ? [SS10215] A/Gnr. (T) 01.10.1935 Gnr. (T) 1936?, seniority 01.10.1935 A/Cd.Gnr. (T) 18.06.1945 Cd.Gnr. (T) 01.10.1945 Lt. 01.04.1950 (retd 06.02.1953; age) MID 22.09.1942 Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 06.1942)	19.11.1935 - (02.)1936 HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 02.07.1936 - (04.)1939 HMS Hotspur (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 24.07.1939 - (09.)1939 HMS Vivacious (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Rosyth) 22.11.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Highlander (destroyer) 14.11.1941 - (08.1942) HMS Partridge (destroyer) (despatches) (02.1943)     no appointment listed 07.06.1943 - (01.)1945 HMS Owl (RN Air Station, Fearn, Ross-shire) 07.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Leviathan (aircraft carrier) (under construction) (07.1948)     no appointment listed 13.12.1948 - (05.1950) Administrative Staff, HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth)
Rump, Robert Hugh	24.03.1901 Hoxne, Norfolk - 29.04.1992 Bridport, Dorset	Midsh. 1920 Paym.S.Lt. 15.10.1921 Paym.Lt. 15.10.1923 Paym.Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1931 Paym.Cdr. 30.06.1939 Capt. (S) 30.06.1949 (retd 01.06.1955)	1919 entered RN as Paymaster Cadet 1919 - 1921 HMS Emperor of India (Mediterranean Fleet) 1923 - 1925 HMS Castor & HMS Calliope (Atlantic Fleet) 1925 - 1929 HMS Benbow & HMS Cardiff (Mediterranean Fleet) 1929 - 1931 Secretary to Captain of the Fleet, Atlantic Fleet [HMS Nelson] 1931 - 1933 HMS Ganges 1933 HMS Victory 1933 - 1935 Secretary to R.Adm. Everard John Hardman-Jones, Rosyth 1935 - 1936 HMS Royal Sovereign (Home Fleet) 1936 - 1939 HMS Herald (South China Fleet) 1939 - 1942 HMS President, HMS Daedalus & HMS Heron: 22.05.1939 - (08.1939) Staff, Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 19.02.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (02.1941) no appointment listed ? - ? HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton) (12.1941) no appointment listed 02.06.1942 - (08.)1942 HMS Kipanga (RN Air Station, Kilindini, Kenya) 01.09.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Korongo (RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Nairboi, Kenya) 21.11.1944 - 15.11.1945 HMS Nightjar (RN Air Station, Inskip, Lancashire) 15.11.1945 - 1949 HMS Condor, HMS President & HMS Implacable 1950 - 1952 Fleet Supply Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station 1952 - 1954 Captain-in-Command, Base Supply Officer and Staff Supply Officer to Flag Officer Malta and Staff Supply Officer to Mediterranean Flotillas, HMS Phoenicia 1954 - 1955 Senior Supply Officer, Royal Naval Base, Devonport, HMS Drake
Rushbrooke, Edmund Gerard Noel Son of Capt. William Henry Rushbrooke, JP, DL (Cosford, Thursley, Surrey, and Whitepoint, Queenstown, Ireland), and of Mrs Margaret Mary Rushbrooke. Married 1st (1926) Ada Stott Moncrieff; one daughter (deceased). Married 2nd (1937) Marjorie Wentworth Forbes (died 1970), widow of late Lt.Col. Edward Bayntun Grove Foster.	15.12.1892 Hambledon, Surrey - 09.10.1972 Bath, Somerset	A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.03.1914 Lt. 15.03.1916 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1924 Cdr. 31.12.1928 Capt. 30.06.1936 A/R.Adm. < 07.1945 R.Adm. 05.07.1945 (retd 1947) V.Adm. (retd) 22.10.1948 CBE 01.09.1942 Operations Salient (transfer of fighter aircraft to Malta 1942) & Style (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 07-08.1941) DSC 14.09.1917 service in vessels of the Harwich Force MID 01.09.1942 Operation Harpoon (Gibraltar-Malta convoy 11-15.06.1942) LM 15.10.1946 ? C&B 24.06.1947 training Chinese seamen	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth. 1914 - 1918 served European War in Destroyers as Sub-Lt and Lieut (DSC, Croix de Guerre, Board of Trade Life Saving Medal) 24.09.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, Torpedo Boat No. 4 01.09.1921 - (08.1923) staff of RN College, Dartmouth 06.02.1924 - (01.)1925 Executive Officer, HMS Pegasus (aircraft carrier) (China) 02.11.1925 - (05.)1926 Commanding Officer, HMS Vanoc (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 11.12.1926 - 14.01.1929 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 07.1929 - (10.1930) Commanding Officer, HMS Versatile (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 13.01.1931 - (01.)1932 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 21.06.1932 - (07.)1934 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.09.1934 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 14.11.1936 - (10.1938) Captain on the Staff [Chief of Intelligence Staff], China Station [HMS Kent (cruiser), accommodated in HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] (02.1939) - (04.1939) no appointment listed 26.07.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Guardian (netlayer) 16.08.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 24.04.1941 - 06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Eagle (aircraft carrier) (08.1942) no appointment listed 28.11.1942 - 15.09.1946 Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.01.1945 - 05.07.1945 also: Naval ADC to the King
Rushbrooke, Jermyn Married (20.12.1923, Shanghai) Catherine Maitland (1901 - 1929); one son.	05.04.1890 Thingoe district, Suffolk - 09.12.1968 Kent	... ... Lt. 01.10.1912 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1920 (retd 05.04.1933; own request) Cdr. (retd) 05.04.1933 A/Capt (retd) 24.07.1944?	15.01.1907     entered RN ... - ... ... 20.12.1939 - (04.)1940 HMS Afrikander V (RN base, Freetown, Sierra Leone) 28.08.1940 - (10.)1940 Staff Officer (Intelligence), 1st Cruiser Squadron [HMS Devonshire (cruiser)] 24.10.1940 - (02.)1941 Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (probably as British Naval Liaison Officer at Dakar) 19.05.1941 - (12.1941) Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer-in-Charge, Trinidad [HMS Benbow (RN base, Trinidad)] 07.1942 - (04.)1944 Resident Naval Officer, Nassau [HMS Malabar (RN base, Bermuda)] (06.1944)     no appointment listed 24.07.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Assegai (training establishment nr Durban, South Africa) (in charge of Detention Quarters) (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Russell, Alfred Spalding Married (25.11.1922, Eastbourne) Edith Margaret Taylor; two children.	07.07.1897 Kensington, Greater London, Middlesex - 29.08.1945 (died of cancer) [age 48] [Portchester (St. Mary) Churchyard]	... ... Midsh. 31.07.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.07.1916 S.Lt. 15.01.1917 Lt. 15.02.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1931 Capt. 30.06.1938 Cdre. 2nd cl. 12.01.1943? DSO 10.11.1942 Operation Pedestal [investiture 15.12.1942] PolRest 22.12.1942 services to Polish navy OON ? ?	Education: psc (after completing a course at, or serving for six months on the Staff of the RN Staff College); completed a course {one year) at the Military Staff College. ... - ... ... 02.01.1933 - (01.1934) Staff Officer (Operations) & Squadron Gunnery Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron [HMS Malaya (battleship)] (Home Fleet) 16.03.1935 - (10.1938) Executive Officer, HMS Apollo (cruiser) (America and West Indies Station & Devonport) 09.01.1939 - (02.)1939 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 10.02.1939 - 11.11.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Grimsby (escort vessel) 08.02.1940 - 27.05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) 08.07.1941 - (01.)1942 HMS Drake IV (accounting base, Devonport) (for duty in [= in charge of] Destroyer Office, Flagstaff Steps, Devonport) 20.01.1942 - 12.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) 26.03.1942 - 12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Kenya (cruiser) 12.01.1943 - (10.)1943 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 15.12.1943 - 01.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (06.1944)     no appointment listed 27.07.1944 - 02.05.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine establishment, Dunoon, Argyllshire) & in charge of Anti-Submarine Training Establishment (07.1945)     no appointment listed ? - 29.08.1945 HMS Victory IV (accounting section, Petersfield)
Russell, Archibald Boyd Only son of Mr & Mrs Jackson Russell, of Archerfield, North Berwick. Married 1st (06.04.1929, Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, Chelsea district, London) Helène Evelyn Carr, elder daughter of John H. Carr, and Mrs Carr, of Chicago, USA. Married 2nd (18.06.1938, London; marriage dissolved 1954) Joanna Law-Smith (15.09.1910 - 2002) (who was divorced from then Paym.Lt.Cdr. Alan Colquhoun Burnett, RN, and who later re-married thrice: (1954) Frederick Charles John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar (1908-1962), (1967) Charles John Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, 9th Baron Wharton (1908-1969), and (1971) Bruce Yorke), only daughter of Walter Henry Law-Smith (1883-1950), and Joanna Pauline Lydia Nitschke (1874-1951), of Adelaide, South Australia; two daughters.	09.06.1901 - 14.04.1970 Hays, Sedgehill, Mere district, Wiltshire	S.Lt. ? Lt. 15.12.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1930 (retd 09.06.1946) A/Cdr. 06.05.1942? Cdr. (retd) 09.06.1946 DSO 08.12.1942 Russian convoy PQ18 09.1942 [investiture 06.04.1943] MID 16.08.1940 Dunkirk 06.1940 MID 01.01.1941 New Year 1941 MID 16.03.1943 Operation Torch, assault Algiers MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy 06.1944)	15.01.1915     entered RN ... - ... ... 09.12.1924 - (01.1925) First Lieutenant, HMS PC 74 (patrol boat) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) (additional) (03.1926) - (05.1926) no appointment listed 11.05.1926 - (12.)1927 HMS Calcutta (cruiser) (North America & West Indies) 14.12.1927 - (07.1928) HMS Despatch (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 24.04.1929 - (06.)1929 HMS Vesper (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 07.1929 - (03.)1931 First Lieutenant, HMS Versatile (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 09.07.1931 - 11.07.1932 Commanding Officer, HMS Torrid (destroyer) (1st Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) (08.1932) - (09.1932) no appointment listed 04.01.1933 - 04.01.1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Westminster (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 05.01.1935 - 27.08.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Duchess (destroyer) (China) (10.1936) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 23.02.1937 - (09.)1937 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) (while under construction at Greenock & on commissioning 09.09.1937) 25.10.1937 - (07.)1939 HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (for reserve destroyers) 31.07.1939 - (04.)1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Whitehall (destroyer) 06.05.1942 - 21.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Malcolm (destroyer) 14.01.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Dorlin (Combined Operations base, Acharacle, Argyll) (06.1944)     SS Thysville (10.1944)     no appointment listed 10.11.1944 - (07.)1945 staff, HMS Lanka (RN base, Ceylon) 05.09.1945 - (10.1945) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Russell, the Hon. [Sir] Guy Herbrand Edward Second son of 2nd Baron Ampthill. Married (1939) Hon. Elizabeth Blades, daughter of 1st Baron Ebbisham, GBE; two sons, one daughter.	14.04.1898 St George Hanover Square, London - 25.09.1977 Wisborough Green, Sussex	... ... Lt. 15.10.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1931 Capt. 30.06.1936 R.Adm. 05.07.1945 V.Adm. 22.10.1948 Adm. (GL) 10.04.1952 (retd 07.01.1958) GBE 01.06.1953 Coronation List 1953 [investiture 30.06.1953] KCB 01.01.1951 New Year 1951 CB 01.01.1948 New Year 1948 [investiture 10.02.1948] CBE 09.02.1943 duties at Malta 1942 [investiture 12.12.1944] DSO 05.01.1944 sinking of Scharnhorst 12.1943 [investiture 12.12.1944] MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941 StOlav - state visit to Norway 06.1955	Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth; Staff College, Camberley (1929); Imperial Defence College (1937). 1911     joined RN 1914 - 1918 served European War at Gallipoli and Jutland at HMS Implacable & HMS Royal Oak (despatches) 1920 - 1921 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 15.03.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Spear (torpedo-boat destroyer) ? - 1924 HMS Tumult (torpedo-boat destroyer) 15.02.1924 - (01.)1925 on staff of RN College Dartmouth 05.01.1926 - (06.1928) HMS Enterprise (cruiser) (East Indies) 07.01.1929 - (08.1929) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 10.02.1930 - (01.)1932 Staff Officer (Operations), Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Warspite (battleship), later HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] 09.03.1932 - (09.1932) RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.02.1933 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (flagship Mediterranean Fleet) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) imperial defence course, Imperial Defence College (London) 01.02.1938 - (04.)1939 an Assistant Director of Plans, Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 08.1939 - (08.1939) Commanding Officer, HMS Protector (netlayer) 02.1940 - (12.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 1941     Naval Liaison Officer accompanying Lord Gort to Gibraltar 12.05.1942 - (08.1942) Chief of Staff to Field-Marshal Lord Gort, VC, Malta (CBE) [HMS St. Angelo (RN base, Malta)] 01.1943 - (12.)1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) & Flag Captain, Force H (despatches) 09.12.1943 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Duke of York (battleship) & Flag Captain, Home Fleet (DSO) 02.10.1944 - (07.1945) Naval Assistant to Second Sea Lord, Admiralty 02.01.1945 - 05.07.1945 also: Naval ADC to the King (04.1946)     HMS President 1946 - 1948 Naval Instructor, Imperial Defence College 21.01.1948 - (05.)1949 Flag Officer Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron [HMS Superb] 31.10.1949 - 1951 Admiral Commanding Reserves [HMS President] 1951 - 20.03.1953 Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station [HMS Terror] 1953 - 1955 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Second Sea Lord, and Chief of Naval Personnel 1956 - 1958 Commandant Imperial Defence College First and Principal ADC to the Queen, 1954-1958. Chairman: Nat. Assoc. of Boys' Clubs, 1958-1963; Missions to Seamen, 1960-1965; Radley College Council, 1965-1969.
Russell, John Blakeley Son of Maj. George Russell, military commandant of Netley, Hampsire, and Gladwys Miles. Married (1941) Mary Wendy "Bimmy" Chichester (actress Mary Seymour); three daughters, one son.	11.03.1917 Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire - 11.04.2005 Ilfracombe, Devon	Cadet 01.09.1934 Midsh. 01.09.1935 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1938 S.Lt. 20.10.1938, seniority 01.09.1937 A/Lt. 01.07.1939 ?, seniority 16.02.1939 Lt. 26.02.1939 (retd > 07.1945, < 04.1946; disabled) DSC 24.03.1942 sinking U131 17.12.1941 DSC 15.08.1944 Operation Shingle (landing at Anzio, 22.01.1944)	Education: Taunton School; Pangbourne Naval College 01.09.1934 - (07.1935) direct entry cadet, HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 30.10.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 27.06.1936 - (07.1937) HMS Amphion (cruiser) (Africa) 03.01.1938 - (08.)1938 promotion course, Portsmouth 19.09.1938 - (10.)1938 qualifying for anti-submarine duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Osprey] 15.10.1938 - (02.)1939 HMS Fame (destroyer) (Home Fleet) 06.03.1939 - (08.1939) pilots' course at No. 23 Flying Training School, Rochester ? - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm (flew Walrus amphibian aircraft) 01.04.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Bonaventure (cruiser) 11.03.1941 - (08.1942) First Lieutenant, HMS Exmoor (destroyer) 29.11.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Malaya (battleship) 03.03.1943 - 02.1944 HMS Quebec (combined training centre, Inverary) (for landing craft duty): 09.1943 - 02.1944 Principal Beach Master of N Commando (RN Commandos) (Anzio [Naval Party 867], Italy; lost his right leg) 02.1944 - (07.1945) no appointment listed (while recovering) He became a horticulturalist and award-winning sailor. Kept a smallholding with pigs and vegetables near Battle, Sussex, and later managed a feed mill for North Devon Farmers. Commodore of the North Devon Yacht club, 1957-...
Russell, Sydney John	22.03.1891 Upton Park, London - 17.04.1978 Kent	Seaman ? [272191] ... ... Mate (E) 07.05.1917 Eng.Lt. 07.05.1919 Eng.Lt.Cdr. 07.05.1927 (retd 22.03.1936) Eng.Cdr. (retd) 22.03.1936 OBE 13.06.1946 HM's birthday 1946	... - ... ... 20.07.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Venomous (torpedo-boat destroyer) 17.12.1924 - (02.1927) HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices) ... - ... ... (10.1940) - (02.1941) HMS Dauntless (cruiser) * 04.07.1941 - (04.1946) HMS Wildfire (RN base, Sheerness) (OBE) * indexed, but not listed as such
Rust, Henry Thew Son (with one brother and one sister) of Edward Rust (1860-1942), and Sarah Gregson Thew (1864-1934). Married (17.05.1927, St John's, Monkstown, Co. Cork, Ireland) Alice Sophia Belton (12.08.1903 - 24.08.1983), of Wimbledon, Surrey; two sons.	08.09.1900 Swalwell, Durham - 31.12.1942 (MPK) [age 42] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 3]	Midsh. 01.01.1917 A/S.Lt. 15.11.1918 S.Lt. 15.07.1919 Lt. 15.12.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1935 DSO 31.03.1942 clearing minefield The Nore 12.1941-01.1942 [presented to next-of-kin] MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe raid 19.08.1942) MID 27.04.1943 Convoy JW51B 12.1942 [posthumously]	15.09.1913     entered RN ... - ... ... 29.01.1938 - 10.1940 Staff Officer (Operations), Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] (12.1940) - (03.1941) no appointment listed 25.03.1941 - 08.04.1941 HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) 09.04.1941 - 15.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Sidmouth (Bangor class minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 9th Minesweeping Flotilla (DSO, despatches) (10.1942)     no appointment listed 15.11.1942 - 31.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Bramble (Halcyon class minesweeper) (despatches) [ship sunk by German surface force in Barentz Sea]
Rutherford, Neil Son of Richard Perry Rutherford (1878-1961), shipbuilder, and Lillian Marguerite Hall (1894-1987). Married (07.08.1948) Joan Margery Colville-Hyde (born 05.05.1923) (marriage dissolved 23.05.1972); one daughter.	15.05.1922 Wirral, Merseyside - 24.09.1976 Penmaenmawr, Wales (self-induced)	Midsh. 01.01.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1941 S.Lt. 01.11.1941 Lt. 01.06.1943 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1951 (General List 01.01.1957) (retd 05.01.1959) DSC 10.07.1945 6 war patrols (3 East Indies, 3 Southwest Pacific) DSC 29.06.1951 Korea	Education: RN College (01.1936-12.1939) 01.01.1940 - 01.1941 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 01.1941 - 05.1941 HMS Hero (destroyer) 05.1941 - 07.1941 HMS Valiant (battleship) 07.1941? - 08.1941 passage home [SS Empress of Asia] 01.09.1941 - (12.1941) promotion course, Portsmouth ? - 03.1942 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 03.1942 - 05.1942 submarine training course 20.05.1942 - 02.1943 HMS Tuna (submarine) 02.1943 - 07.1943 HMS P 556 (submarine) 05.07.1943 - 01.1946 First Lieutenant, HMS Spiteful (submarine) 08.02.1946 - 08.1946 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot) (for submarines) (Submarine Reserve Group K) 08.1946 - 09.1946 HMS Stygian (submarine) 10.1946 - 11.1946 HMS Ranee (Woolworth carrier) 01.1947 - 01.1948 specialist Torpedo & Anti-Submarine (TAS) course [HMS Vernon] 01.1948 - 09.1949 HMS Defiance (training establishment, Devonport) 09.1949 - 10.1949 passage to Far East [SS Devonshire] 10.1949 - 04.1952? HMS Black Swan (sloop) (3rd & 4th Frigate Flotillas and duties with C.T.G. 95.I., such as on the Staff, Commander Task Element (CTE) 95.1.4 (Korea; possibly POW)) 30.04.1952 - (05.1953) staff TAS, HMS Montclare (depot ship) (3rd Submarine Flotilla) 05.07.1954 - (01.1956) staff, Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet [HMS Cleopatra] (1958) Underwater Weapons Material Department (Bath), Admiralty [HMS President] * * (01.1957) already indexed, but not listed as such
Rutherford, William Francis Henry Crawford Only son of Col. Nathaniel John Crawford Rutherford, DSO, MB, RAMC (1874-1960). Married Annette Jessie Downing Wilson (23.02.1908 - 09.1993) [who was earlier (1937) married to Ronald G.P. Wood], daughter of William Downing Adlington Wilson, and Jean Jessie Clover (1885-1978); one daughter, one son (musician Mike Rutherford, of Genesis & Mike and the Mechanics).	09.05.1906 Wandsworth district, London - 07.10.1986 Surrey South-Western district, Surrey	... ... S.Lt. 01.12.1927 Lt. 01.09.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1942 Capt. 31.12.1946 (retd 07.01.1956) CBE 02.01.1956 New Year 1956 [investiture 21.02.1956] DSO 10.11.1953 Korea (7th list) [investiture 02.03.1954] MID 21.03.1941 Operation Medium (bombardment of Cherbourg 10.1940) MID 01.07.1941 HM's birthday 1941	15.01.1920     entered RN ... - ... ... 07.01.1937 - 17.01.1939 Gunnery Officer, HMAS Sydney (cruiser) 29.04.1939 - (12.1940) Gunnery Officer, HMS Revenge (battleship) (despatches twice) (02.1941)     no appointment listed 06.02.1941 - (12.1942) Gunnery Officer on the staff of Captain of the Fleet [HMS King George V (battleship)] (02.1943)     no appointment listed 23.02.1943 - (02.)1944 Executive Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (04.1944) - (04.1945) no appointment listed 15.05.1945 - (10.1945) Gunnery and Anti-Aircraft Warfare Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1946)     no appointment listed ... - ... ... (1953)     HMS Newcastle (DSO) (1955)     HMS Excellent (CBE) AFRAeS, MBIM.
Rutherford, William James Nicholas	21.08.1916 Dorking district, Surrey / Kent - 30.09.1983 Hastings and Rother district, Sussex	... ... Paym.Lt. 01.12.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.12.1946 Cdr. (S) 31.12.1951 (retd)	... - ... ... (01.1943)     Captain's Secretary, 1st Submarine Flotilla [HMS Medway II (submarine base, Beirut)] ... - ... ...
Ryan, Richard John Hammersley "Dick"	23.07.1903 Kensington, Greater London - 21.09.1940 (KIA) [age 37] Dagenham, Essex [Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery]	Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 1925? Lt. 15.08.1925 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1933 GC 20.12.1940 mine disposal Dagenham, Essex 21.09.1940	15.05.1921 - (08.1923) HMS Dunedin (light cruiser) 18.08.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, Portsmouth 15.02.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Despatch (cruiser) (China) 05.01.1928 - (06.1928) qualifying for torpedo duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Vernon] 25.05.1929 - (08.1929) Torpedo School, Portsmouth [HMS Vernon] 28.07.1930 - (06.1933) Squadron Torpedo Officer, New Zealand Station [HMS Diomede] (01.1934) no appointment listed 02.01.1934 - (07.1934) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) 21.05.1935 - (07.1937) Torpedo Officer, HMS Arethusa (cruiser) & as Squadron Torpedo Officer, 3rd Cruiser Squadron (Mediterranean) 10.01.1938 - (02.)1938 Electrical Department, HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) 24.02.1938 - (08.)1939 Torpedo Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) & as Fleet Torpedo Officer, America and West Indies Station 23.11.1939 - (04.)1940 Department of the Rear Admiral (Minelaying), Admiralty [HMS President] ? - 21.09.1940 Department of Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Admiralty [HMS President]
Ryan, Rev. William Richard Fenwick	06.12.1885 Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 24.01.1963 Vines Close, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset	Chaplain 08.02.1912 (retd)	Education: Dublin University (MA). 10.01.1940 - (10.1940) HMS Collingwood (training establishment, Fareham, Hampshire) ... - ... ...
Rycroft, Henry Richard Son of Sir Richard Nelson Rycroft, 5th Baronet, and his 2nd wife Emily Mary Lowry Corry (daughter of Col Hon. Henry Lowry Corry, Edwardstone Hall, Boxford). Married (1941) Penelope Gwendoline (died 21.02.2006), daughter of Lt-Col Charles Spenser Browne Evans-Lombe; one son, three daughters.	28.12.1911 Eaton Square, London (?) - 28.10.1985 Bosham, West Sussex	Cadet 01.05.1929 Midsh. 01.01.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1932 S.Lt. 16.11.1932 Lt. 16.08.1934 Lt.Cdr. 16.08.1942 Cdr. 31.12.1947 (retd 28.12.1961) OBE 01.01.1960 New Year 1960 DSC 21.12.1943 Operation Husky (incasion of Sicily 07.1943) MID 20.10.1942 sinking U-boat Mediterranean 04.08.1942	27.04.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.09.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 01.05.1932 - 01.1933 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.01.1933 - (06.)1933 promotion course, Portsmouth 26.09.1933 - (02.)1936 HMS Boreas (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 23.12.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Fareham (twin-screw minesweeper) (Mediterranean) 03.1937 - (06.)1938 First Lieutenant, HMS Sandpiper (river gunboat) (China) 14.07.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) (China) (08.1939) - (09.1939) no appointment listed 14.12.1939 - (02.)1941 First Lieutenant, HMS Highlander (destroyer) 28.10.1941 - 10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Tetcott (destroyer) (04.1944) - (06.)1944 HMS King Alfred (training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) * 28.08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Zodiac (destroyer) 30.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Gravelines (destroyer) 11.02.1948 - (07.1948) Commanding Officer, HMS Graemsay (minesweeping trawler) 03.11.1948 - (05.)1949 Commanding Officer, HMS Damsay (minesweeping trawler) 04.08.1949 - (05.1950) Executive Officer, HMS Siskin (RN Air Station, Gosport, Hants.) 09.03.1953 - (05.1953) HMS President (for miscellaneous services) (04.1955) no appointment listed 02.08.1955 - (07.1961) Assistant to Captain of the Dockyard, HM Dockyard Portsmouth [HMS Victory] * Starting date given (erroneously) as 15.02.1943; should perhaps be 15.02.1944.
Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley "Red" Son of Col. Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, CB, CIE, DSO, and Ida Josephine Grigg. Married (1941) Constance Hilarie Myfanwy Green-Wilkinson (died 1982); one son, one daughter.	16.02.1908 India - 29.06.1986 yacht "Watchdog", off Guernsey [Headington Crematorium, Oxford]	Midsh. 01.01.1927 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1929 S.Lt. 12.08.1930, seniority 01.03.1929 Lt. 01.06.1930 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1938 A/Cdr. < 04.1940 Cdr. 31.12.1940 Capt. 30.06.1948 (retd 23.02.1950) VC 21.05.1942 attack St. Nazaire 28.03.1942 * MID 02.10.1942 Operation Jubilee (Dieppe 08.1942) MID 14.11.1944 Operation Neptune (Normandy) MID 19.12.1944 U-boats attacked convoy Dover Straits CdeG ? St. Nazaire raid LegH ? St. Nazaire raid * On 28 March 1942 in the attack on St. Nazaire, France, Commander Ryder, commanding the Naval force, led HMS Campbeltown in under intense fire. When the main objective of the expedition had been accomplished and Campbeltown had been beached, Commander Ryder remained on the spot evacuating men from Campbeltown and conducting operations while exposed to heavy fire, and did not withdraw until it was certain that his ship could be of no more use. His motor gun boat (MGB. 314), full of dead and wounded, survived by a miracle and managed to withdraw through an intense barrage of fire.	Education: Hazelhurst School, Frant, and Cheltenham College 1926 entered Royal Navy 15.01.1927 - 1929 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 02.05.1929 - 05.01.1930 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 06.01.1930 - (04.)1930 promotion course, Portsmouth 27.12.1930 - (04.)1933 HMS Olympus (submarine) (China) 05.1933 - 05.1934 on half-pay: together with four other officers commissioned, financed and had privately built the yacht Tai Mo Shan & sailed it from Hong Kong to the UK (Dartmouth) for a year (05.1933-05.1934) 02.07.1934 - (07.1937) HMS President (for miscellaneous or special service): 1934 - 1937 a member of British Graham Land Expedition to the Antarctic: in command of the Research Yacht Penola (Polar Medal with Clasp) 30.08.1937 - (10.)1938 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 23.10.1938 - (08.)1939 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Mediterranean) 08.12.1939 - (04.)1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Willamette Valley (decoy or Q-ship) 1940 Commander [= Executive Officer], HMS Fleetwood (frigate) 01.02.1941 - 15.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Prince Philippe (landing ship infantry (small)) (sunk) 19.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services): 1941 - 1942 Naval Liaison Officer on the staff of GOC Southern Command at Wilton House, near Salisbury (08.1942) - (02.1943) Combined Operations HQ (Naval Administrative Planner): 28.03.1942 Naval Force Commander, St. Nazaire raid [10th Anti-Submarine Striking Force in MGB 314] 19.08.1942 took part in attack on Dieppe (Planning Staff) 01.05.1943 - (06.)1944 HMS Vectis (RN base, Seaview, Isle of Wight) (06.1944) Staff Captain, Group J2 (Normandy landings) [Deputy Senior Officer Assault Group in HM LCH 239] 14.08.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Opportune (destroyer) 11.10.1945 - (04.1946) Staff, Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty 01.03.1948 - 1950 Naval Attaché, Oslo (Norway) 1950-1955 MP (C) Merton and Morden Published: The attack on St Nazaire (1947); Coverplan (1953)
Rylands, James Wolferstan	19.05.1911 Thornbury district, Avon / Gloucestershire - 02.10.1984 Gipping & Hartismere district, Suffolk	Midsh. 01.05.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1931 S.Lt. 01.03.1932 Lt. 01.08.1933 Lt.Cdr. 01.08.1941 Cdr. 31.12.1947 (reld 20.05.1956; own request) MID 06.06.1941 attack by enemy aircraft 03.04.1941 MID 21.07.1942 sinking HMS Khartoum 23.06.1940 MID 24.04.1945 bombing Gothic Line / Adriatic Sea 1944	17.05.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 28.12.1929 - (02.)1931 HMS Delhi (cruiser) (America and West Indies) 24.09.1931 - 03.04.1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.04.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth 05.01.1933 - (06.1933) HMS Cygnet (destroyer) (Home Fleet) (01.1934)     no appointment listed 08.02.1934 - (11.)1934 HMS Witch (destroyer) (China) 17.12.1934 - (02.1936) HMS Decoy (destroyer) (China) (01.1937) - (02.1937) no appointment listed 15.02.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Hazard (minesweeper) [23.11.1937 exchanging crew with HMS Skipjack (minesweeper)] 04.04.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Brilliant (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 29.05.1939 - 23.06.1940 HMS Khartoum (destroyer) (beached off Perim Harbour after explosion during action with Italian submarine Torricelli 04.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Locust (gunboat) 25.08.1941 - (12.)1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (for Lancing establishment) 11.12.1941 - 12.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Grove (destroyer) (torpedoed & sunk by U-77 in central Mediterranean) (08.1942)     no appointment listed 30.08.1942 - 10.03.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Kimberley (destroyer) 01.06.1945 - (07.1945) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (04.1946)     no appointment listed 12.07.1946 - (07.1948) CONIS to Flag Officer Commanding British Naval Forces, Germany [HMS Royal Albert] 01.1949 - (05.1949) British Joint Services Mission, Washington, DC [HMS Saker] (05.1950)     no appointment listed (1951) Commanding Officer, HMS Rinaldo (minesweeper) 03.1953 - (07.1954) Naval Representative on Joint Planning Staff, Middle East [HMS Osiris] 03.01.1955 - (01.1956) directing staff, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President]
Ryman, Charles Reginald Son of Henry Robert Ryman (1852-1946), and Louisa Alice Anne Beetle (1860-1929). Married ((09?).1918, Cardiff district, Glamorganshire) Gladys May Llewellyn; two daughters, two sons.	25.02.1891 Walcot, Bath, Somerset - 29.10.1970	... ... Lt. 13.02.1919 (retd 20.02.1923; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 13.02.1927 A/Cdr. (retd) < 10.1944	13.10.1916     entered RN ... - ... ... 01.02.1938 - (04.)1941 Boom Defence Depot, Rosyth (for local and detached boom defences) [HMS Rooke] 07.05.1941 - (06.)1944 Boom Defence Officer, Plymouth (Boom Defence Depot, Plymouth) [HMS Drake IV] 09.1944 - (04.1946) Boom Defence Officer, Ceylon (Boom Defence Depot, Trincomalee) [HMS Highflyer]

 

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