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Note. In naval circles it is custom to refer to the commander of a vessel as Captain. The Navy List bears the phrase "in command".
Strictly out of practical considerations CO (Commanding Officer) is used here on this site.
Although in Birmese names the first element is the family name, the Navy List tends to use the western style of treating the last element as family name, which is followed here.

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Clark, Charles Frederick	? - 13.02.1942 (KIA) [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 97, column 3]	S.Lt. 27.02.1936 Lt. 02.06.1940	01.12.1939 - 13.02.1942 HMS Sultan II (accounting base, Singapore) [killed aboard HMS Giang Bee (patrol vessel) when ship was sunk by a Japanese destroyer while evacuating from Singapore]
Cork, Philip Dorian Married (28.03.1936, Singapore) Edna Gladys McBride; one son, two daughters.	29.03.1909 Bromley district, Greater London / Kent - 02.04.1995	A/S.Lt. 06.01.1939 Lt. 06.06.1940	(04.1940) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) * 08.05.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Pengawal (tug) 14.10.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Pahlawan (harbour defence motor launch) (08.1942) - (04.1946) HMS Pahlawan (harbour defence motor launch) * * indexed, but not listed as such
Craig, John Harcourt Married ...; ... children.	11.04.1916 Birkenhead district, Cheshire - 01.2000 Hastings and Rother district, East Sussex	S.Lt. 20.01.1939 Lt. 11.07.1941 Lt.Cdr. 11.07.1949 DSC 19.02.1946 loss of HMS Hung Jao [decoration presented]	Education: St Edmund's College. Ware. 14.09.1940 - 23.09.1941 HMS Pangkor 24.09.1941 - (02.)1942 HMS Shun An 02.1942? - 02.1942 HMS Hung Jao (lost in action) 17.03.1942     captured at Padang (Sumatra) 03.1942 - 08.1945 POW in Japanese captivity in 10 different camps (report)

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Fittock, Charles Son of Charles Fittock (1873-1912/13?). Maried (01.1931, St George's Anglican Church, George Town, Penang, Straits Settlements) Isabel Catherine "Kuching" Anthony (23.11.1905 - 25.09.1967), daughter (with one brother) of Anthony Stephen Anthony (1871-1920), and Elizabeth Mary "Liza" Apcar (?-1952); one daughter. Kuching Fittock remarried (c. 1950) Lawrence Edmund George Seagroatt (1910-1960).	? Hong Kong ? - 28.02.1942 [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 98, column 1]	T/S.Lt. 1942?	Manager for Carreras [Senior Service Cigarettes etc] at Singapore. 13.02.1942     left Singapore for Sumatra aboard HMS Grashopper 28.02.1942     died aboard SS Ban Ho Guan when it was sunk by Japanese submarine IJ4 off Tjilatjap, where it was heading after evacuating men from Padang

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Gransden, John Collier	18.05.1909 Greenwich, Greater London, Kent - 04.1994 Chichester, Sussex	S.Lt. 11.06.1935 Lt. 14.08.1941 Lt.Cdr. 14.08.1949? (retd < 05.1950)	Was with the Borneo Company from 1932, to which he returned in 1946. (04.1940) no appointment listed 01.11.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Dragonfly (river gunboat) [ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Singapore 14.02.1942, and Gransden may have been still on it by then] 1942 - 1945 POW at Shirakawa, Formosa (07.1945) - (04.1946) HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) * * indexed, but not listed as such

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Herbert, Walter John	? -	Wt.Offr. 05.09.1935 S.Lt. 31.12.1937	joined Straits Settlements RNVR (Singapore) (04.1940) - (10.1940) no appointment listed
Huntley, Alfred Henry	see:	RNVR officers' section

 

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Legg, William Ivor Lionel	see:	RNVR officers' section

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Man, Frank Otto Stoe	see:	RNVR officers' section
McCracken, Douglas Oliver Son of Mr. and Mrs. O. McCracken, of Perth, Western Australia.	? - 15.02.1942 [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 93, column 1]	T/S.Lt. 1942?	believed to be on HMS Li Wo

 

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Tongue, James David Cowley	see:	RNVR officers' section

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Wakefield-Gush, Edward Gibbon	see:	RNVR officers' section
Wilkinson, Patrick Ormond Howard "Pat" Son (with one brother) of William Beastall Wilkinson (1874-1938), and Olive Howard Atkyns (1889-1964). Married (11.1940, Singapore) 1st Alice Gwendolyne ... (died on the HMS 'Yin Ping' which was bombed on 15.02.1942). Married 2nd (22.02.1946, Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, Kensington district, London) Pamela Mary Stephens (21.01.1925 - 28.11.1993), daughter (with two sisters) of Frederick Charles Stephens (1888-1958), and Lily May Farr (1891-1933). Pamela Wilkinson remarried (1954, Malawi) ... Lorimer. Married 3rd (1960, Australia) Olive Catchpole (1912 - 26.06.1985).	11.09.1912 Kew, Victoria, Australia - 25.03.1976 Esk, Queensland, Australia	A/S.Lt. 22.06.1940 Lt. 09.07.1941	(02.1941)     no appointment listed 14.02.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Pengail (motor launch) ? - 15.02.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Yin Ping (tug) (ship sunk by 2 Japanese warships off Mentok Light near Bangka Island; wounded & captured) 1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity (04.1946)     no appointment listed
Wykeham-Fiennes, David Eustace Martindale Twisleton- Fifth son (with four brothers) of Gerard Yorke Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, CBE (1864-1926), and Gwendolen Gisborne (1877-1968). Unmarried.	07.03.1916 - 07.1986 Broughton, Banbury, Oxfordshire	A/S.Lt. 11.03.1938 S.Lt. 01.01.1939 Lt. 07.03.1941 CBE 01.01.1964 New Year 64: Regional Director for South East Asia, Commonwealth Development Corporation, Malaysia	Education: Winchester College (Culver House; 1929-1934); New College, Oxford (BA Natural Sciences, 1937; MA, 1964). Employed with Mansfield & Co. Ltd., Singapore. (04.1940) - (06.1941) no appointment listed 11.07.1941 - 13.02.1942 HMS Fanling (patrol launch) [vessel sunk in Banka Strait 13.02.1942; wounded] 1942 - 1945 POW in Japanese captivity From 1946 again with Mansfield & Co. With Colonial Development Corporation since 1949 (Regional Controller, West Africa, 1954, East Asia & Pacific 1955-1964; Controller of Operations, London, 1965-1967). Industrial Adviser, NED Office, 1967. Director of Investco and other companies since 1969. Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

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