Cadet School Ship HMS Conway - Honours

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Honours WW2 printed 27/01/2012
Cadet School Ship HMS Conway - Honours - World War Two
Compiled mainly from the London Gazette's records and other pertinent websites such as The Navy List etc., all information being in the public domain
Figures in brackets after the Gazette number refers to the relevant page in the series
Personal Information
Adams
Circumstances
DSC
Alwyn William Reginald 24.11.44
27/29?
36815 (5454)
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS Orestes
(Algerine M/S)
Home waters
Aitken
MiD
John Gordon
28.07.42
Citation/Information
Sources & Comments
For gallantry, skill, determination Page 2, See also:
and undaunted devotion to duty http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
during the landing of Allied
/stories/74/a5262374.shtml
Forces on the coast of Normandy
http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/s
hip/3795.html
Commanded Orestes from
Gazetted Lt Cdr RN 02.01.40,
22.10.43 to 16.10.44 (see
Retired List 31.12.52
personal account at ref below)
For good services when a
merchantman was set on fire in
Tobruk harbour
Page 2
hip/5489.html
CO of Polyanthus when sunk U-952
21.09.43, lost with all hands
35648 (3346)
Ty Lieut RNR
Mediterranean
Alington
DFC
Patrick Hamilton
11.08.41
NK
35217 (39940
A long citation extolling his
Pages 8 & 9
outstanding ability and leadership
in command first of a Sunderland
aircraft and then of the Squadron.
He carried out some remarkable
work during the evacuation from
Greece to Crete
Gazette 37407 awards Mention in
Despatches, New Year Honours
28.12.45
Retired as Wing Commander on 23
June 1963
Actg Sqdrn Leader RAFO No 230 Squadron
Mediterranean
Alington
Bar to DFC
William James
20.07.43
Honours WW2
.. displayed exceptional
keenness and determination to
inflict loss upon the Enemy ... 7
locomotives; 4 aircraft on the
ground and a hangar; a
minesweeper. He displays
fearless and skilful leadership.
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NK
Circumstances
36104 (3325)
Sources & Comments
Retired 10.02.1954, Wing
Commander
Actg Wing Cdr DFC AFC No. 264 Squadron
RAFO
Over Europe
Alington
DFC
William James
NK
Squadron Leader AFC
RAFO
29.01.43
35883 (592)
No 25 Squadron
Has completed a large number of Page 1
sorties and has destroyed two
Enemy aircraft at night.
Extremely able flight commander
whose success in night fighting
has been most praiseworthy
Not stated
Alington
AFC
William James
NK
26.09.41
35291 (5650)
Flight Lieut RAFO
No 2 Central
Flying School
UK
Allan
MiD
George
12.11.40
28/30
34991 (6550)
Lieutenant RNR
HM Submarines
At sea
Honours WW2
This officer has completed 2,700
hours of instructional flying of
which 595 hours have been flown
since December 1939. His great
enthusiasm for the work is
reflected in the high standard
attained by his pupils."
Survived a serious crash: “At 2330
hrs, Master aircraft T8550 was
involved in an accident, when the
engine failed completely immediately
after take off. The aircraft struck a
tree and capsized, the pilot, F/Lt
W.J. Alington, and his passenger
No.926724 Sgt D.W. Poole, were
both seriously but not fatally injured.”
For good services in HM
Unit-histories lists George Allan - but
Submarines in recent patrols and no details as yet
operations against the Enemy
Gazette 37662 0f 26.07.46: Lieut
Cdr George Allan, RNR awarded
RD
Many RNR officers were sent to
submarines as navigators as they
were in WW1
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Circumstances
Allen
Bar to DFC
Robert Swinton
24.12.40
29/31
35022 (7214)
Sources & Comments
106 Squadron, Bomber
Possibly one of several OC's who
Command flew Hampdens
moved to the RAF when jobs were
(until10/39), Manchesters )02/42), scarce at sea in the 1930s
then Lancasters. The Bar to
Swinton's DSC was among many
covered by one list after a busy
year for the RAF
http://www.cranstonart.co.uk/bomber
_command.htm
Source 2 has a brief biographical
note
Actg Sqdr Leader RAFO No 49 Squadron
Based at
Coningsby, Lincs
Allen
DFC
Robert Swinton
29/31
25.06.40
34767 (87)
Actg Sqdr Leader RAF
No 49 Squadron
Europe
Allen
DSO
Robert Swinton
02.09.41
29/30
35263 (5102)
During darkness, sighted a
See full citation of this notable event
Heinkel 111 and manoeuvred his in Gazette
a/c to enable his Sergeant
WOP/AG to shoot it down; then
chased a Ju87 which crashed and
burned, before continuing to
target. .. his initiative, outstanding
skill & resolution contributed ...
success ... operations
Aircraft probably a Hampden. Joined
RAF 1935
Raids on German warships in
Page 1 for a full citation for all
Brest, La Pelice and Cherbourg: involved
bravery, determination
and resource displayed by the
leader and air crews.
Wing Cdr R S Allen, DSO, DFC*
RAF retires at own request 02.03.56
A/Wing Cdr DFC RAFO No 106 Squadron
Bomber
Command
Anchor
OBE
Herbert John
10/12?
01.01.42
Not found
Commodore RD RNR
HMS Eaglet
(Accounting Base)
Commodore of
Ocean Convoys
Honours WW2
New Year Honours 1942
http://www.unithistories.com/units_in
dex/default.asp?file=../officers/perso
nsx.html
Gazette 37110 (2852) for MiD
MiD awarded 05.06.45 for 3 years In 1945 CO HMS Alaunia (Repair
service as Commodore Ocean
Ship). Died 25.10.58. Honours
Convoys
Board shows HF Anchor
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Circumstances
Anderson
DSC
Alan Hamilton Barnett
03.10.41
35296 (5770)
Lieutenant RNR
HM S/M Rorqual
Home waters
Andrew
DSC
Bruce John Bevis
28.04.42
34/36
35538 (1849)
Lieutenant RN
HM S/M
Thunderbolt
(ex-Thetis)
Atlantic &
Mediterranean
Andrew
MiD
Bruce John Bevis
24.09.43
34/36
36188 (4316)
Lieutenant DSC RN
HM S/M Unbroken
(CO)
Mediterranean
Andrew
MiD
Bruce John Bevis
20.11.45
34/36
Not found
Lieutenant DSC RN
HM S/M Subtle
Far East
Anthes
MBE
Denis del Strother
NK
28.04.44
364903 (2003)
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
For courage, skill and enterprise Page 2
in successful submarine patrols
Seems to have spent the whole
war in submarines
U-boat net shows him in command of
Scotsman 15.08.44 until end of War
For bravery & skill in successful
submarine operations
Page 1
nsx.html
Married Rosemary Goddard. Cdr
BJB Andrew, DSC, OBE RN retired
08/69, died 12/85
For outstanding bravery, skill and Page 2
devotion to duty in successful
patrols in HM Submarines
Known as "The wing-collar man"
because he favoured wing collars!
Married Rosemary Goddard. Cdr
BJB Andrew, DSC, OBE RN retired
08/69, died 12/85
Unit-histories quotes " war patrols
in Indian Ocean and Malacca
Strait"
nsx.html
Last years of service were in
diplomatic posts (Bangkok & Turkey)
In convoys under continual threat Page 1
from Enemy submarines: " ..
exceptional courage, skill and
their efficiency and leadership
played an important part in the
dangerous and vital operations
(Battle of the Atlantic)"
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Chief Officer, Merchant
Navy
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Not stated
Atlantic
Aplin
MiD
Charles Peter
D'Auvergne
NK
23.03.45
Lieutenant RNR
Not stated
Mediterranean
Atkins
MBE
Maurice Dudley
39/41
Second Officer
37002 (1661)
Showns as registered in 1958 as
Land Surveyor in British Columbia
For his actions during the loss of Information provided by Captain
the Empress of Asia in 1942, and Atkins
Empress of Canada 1943 and
thereafter
06.01.45
http://www.rcnvr.com/Merchant%20S
eaman%20in%20WW2.php
Canada 06.01.45
Not on Honours Board
SS Whitehall
Park, Canadian
Pacific Steamship
Various theatres
Bailey
DSC
George
28.06.46
30/31
Actg Commander RIN
37636 (3390)
HMIS Rohilkhand
(Bangor Class
Minesweeper)
Far East
Baker (aka Croft-Baker) MiD
Alan Jack Croft
15.11.42
37/39
35788 (4991)
Actg Sub Lieut RNR
HMS Kipling
Eastern
Mediterranean
Ball
MiD
Granville Murray
27/29?
19.11.43
36259 (5142)
Honours WW2
For distinguished service and
gallantry during the invasion of
the South of France
For distinguished services in the Page 2
Far East
Rohilkhand was a part of the
See Wikipaedia entry
Eastern Fleet, and escorted
numerous convoys between
Africa, British India and Australia
in 1943-45.
For bravery and devotion to duty Page 3
(Posthumous)
http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.
asp?menuid=14
Killed in HMS Kipling 11.05.42
(Reported Died of Wounds 13.05.42)
For courage & endurance in
Page 2 Noted as native of
defence against Enemy air attack Manchester
while .. on Convoy Escort Duty
Same citation as Captain Eric Hewitt
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Circumstances
Lieutenant RNR
HMS Shoreham,
Hythe or Rye
English Channel
Ball
MiD
Kenneth Rhodes
23.09.41
33/35
35284 (5571)
Flt Lieut RAF (RAFO)
9 Squadron
(Wellingtons)
Over Germany
Band
DSC
Brian Hugh
30/32
12.12.41
35382 (7104)
Lieut RN
HM S/M Upholder
At sea
Barnet
DSC
Avon Alexander
25.01.44
18/20
36345 (477)
Commander RD RNR
Senior Naval
Officer, Landings
Italy (Operations
Baytown & Ferdy)
Beardmore
Harold
OBE
01.07.41
12/14?
35204 (3737)
Chaplain, AKC, Royal
Navy
HMS Nelson
Sources & Comments
A generic list of personnel (RAF) CWGC; Page 5 of Gazette
Mentioned in Despatches by the
AOCinC
His name is followed by the
Joined RAF Short Service
notation "Missing"
Commission 27 July 1937
KiA 9 Sqdn Wellington bombers Aug
1941, buried near Hamburg
For courage, skill and resolution
in successful submarine patrols
Lost in HM S/M Olympus 08.08.42,
mined near Malta. 9 Survivors swam
7 miles to the island.
For gallantry, leadership and
Page 1
undaunted devotion to duty under
and continuous fire from the
Enemy during landings on the
Italian mainland when SNO (L)
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants
/906.html
CO Boarding Vessel Camito
1945-46 CO HMS Spurn Point
(ex-Elder,Fyffe) 1940-41. Sunk (Repair Ship). Died Aberdeen in
by U-boat 06.05.41
1985
Birthday Honours
Page 3
Served in HMS Hood, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_B
http://www.hmshood.org.uk/crew/ eardmore
navylists/az.php?Surnom=B but
ransferred to HMS Nelson at
Rosyth 1941 together with his bull
terrier "Bill"
Served as Chaplain RN 1927-1947.
Became Bishop of St Helena; died
November 1968, buried at sea
Force H, Gibraltar
Honours WW2
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Beaver
Circumstances
MiD
Sources & Comments
Gazette follows G D C Beaver
through WW1 (from 1916) and
WW2 (to 1947). One describes
his appointment as "Embarkation
Staff Officer"
LG 37954 (2173) States: "reverts to
unemployment on account of
disability; hon rank of Major
30.04.47"
George (Guy according NK
to LG) Duncan Campbell
06/08
Not found
Captain, IARO
Indian Army
Reserve of
Officers
NK
Beddoe
MiD
Charles Foyle
28.07.44
34/36
36634 (3566)
Lieutenant RNR
Not stated
Mediterranean
Bell
DSC
Charles Leigh de
Hauteville
28.04.44
16/18
36495 (2010)
Commander, RD, RNR
HMS Whitehall
(V&W Escort
Destroyer)
North Atlantic
Murmansk convoy
S28
Berna
Salvator Peter
MBE
08.06.45
32/34
37120 (3036)
Honours WW2
At a guess: In 'shipping' in India
pre-WW1, specialised in materials
and personnel transport.
Pobable identification. Unlikely to
make further progress on current
information
... outstanding courage,
Page 3
leadership, resource &
determination during the assault
on Anzio ...
unbroken flow of supplies ...
despite bombing, mining and
bombardment from shore
batteries
Nothing found on operational
web-sites
For courage, resolution and skill
in HM Ships ..... Whitehall in
successful operations with
Enemy submarines. He
commanded various escort
destroyers and ended the war in
HMS
Palomares (FD Ship). Credited
with sinking U-306 on 31.10.43
NE of Azores.
Page 2
hip/4277.html
In 1957 is reported as Master
"Empress of England"
Birthday Honours
Page 4
For continuous service at sea.
http://www.rcnvr.com/Merchant%20S
Reference has a good description eaman%20in%20WW2.php
of his career during the war years
including being torpedoed in SS
Beaverdale in April 1941 (Third
Officer)
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Circumstances
Chief Officer
CPS Ship
Whitehall Park
At sea
Bickford
DSC
Jack Grant
22.12.39
10/13
Commander RN
34759 (8546)
HMS Express
Home waters
Bickford
DSO
Jack Grant
16.08.40
10/13
34925 (5064)
Captain DSC RN
HMS Express
(Destroyer/Minela
yer) (Captain (D)
20th Flotilla)
Dunkirk
Blampied
MBE
Richard
18/20?
28.12.45
37410 (158)
Ty Actg Lieut Cdr
RNZNR
Merchant
Shipping Officer,
Naval Staff
New Zealand
Bloye
DSC
Norman Herbert Barton
19.01.45
19/21?
36903 (517)
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
HMS Fabius (M/S
Base Adriatic)
Mediterranean
Boyle
MiD
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
... for successful actions against Page 2
Enemy submarines
Express was lost during a minelaying
operation off the Dutch coast
Lost in HMS Express 06/40 (KIA)
.. for good services in the
withdrawal of the Allied Armies
from the beaches at Dunkirk
Page 2
Express was badly damaged during a
minelaying operation off the Belgian
coast 31/08/40
Captain Bickford died of wounds on
10/09/40 and was buried at sea.
New Year Honours, no specific
citation
See Elizabeth College Guernsey
records
Born Guernsey 10.04.04. Union Co
of NZ 1924-40, 1945-52, died
1/11/52
For courage & skill in hazardous http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/ww_ii_awar
minesweeping operations off the ds_for_rn_minesweeping_B.htm
Adriatic Coast (Ancon)
nsx.html
Gaz 35664 11.08.42 awards RD, Honours Board gives BLOYER, but
Bloye's names are identical (NHB)
Outstanding Leadership, skill &
devotion to duty in HMCS
Chaudinere in a sccessful
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http://www.rcnvr.com/
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Circumstances
Douglas Seaman
operation against a U-Boat
(U-744 sunk in Atlantic in March
1944)
39/41
Vice Admiral D S Boyle CF RCN
retired in 1977, died 2001
Sub Lieutenant RCN
HMCS
Chaudinere (River
Class Frigate)
Atlantic
Brand
OBE
Eric Sydney
02.06.43
09/10
36034 (2478)
Captain RCN
Naval HQ Ottowa
(Director of Trade
& Intelligence)
Canada
Briggs
DSC
William Edward Slade
30.06.42
21/23
35587 (2534)
Actg Lieut Cdr RCNR
HMCS Orillia
(Flower Cl)
North Atlantic
Brooke-Alder
DSC
Geoffrey
36/38?
A/Sub Lieut RNR
03.9.1940
34938
Unknown
Minesweeper
Home waters
Brookes
DSC
John Geoffrey
NK
24/03/1942
35495 (1318)
Lieutenant RN
HMS Speedy
(Halcyon M/S)
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
... contributed materially to the Page 2
establishment of an efficient U.S.
Navy organisation for the
control of shipping in co-operation http://www.rcnvr.com/B%20-%20RC
with Canadian Forces. Birthday N%20-%20WW2.php
Honours 1942
Loan to RCN 1939
List 1985 shows Captain ES Brand
RN (Retd) in Canada; died 1991
For bravery, respurce and
devotion to duty - Birthday
Honours, Canadian
recommendation
Reference describes haw Orilla
took fuel from a torpedoed tanker
Tachez which aided her
subsequent salvage
Page 2
For bravery, skill and enterprise
in minesweeping operations off
the coasts
of Holland, Belgium and France
Gazette page 2
http://www.rcnvr.com/B%20-%20RC
N%20-%20WW2.php
Promoted Captain RCN(R) on
30.06.57
Promoted to Lieut RNR 07/09/42
For courage, endurance &
devotion to duty while
minesweeping in HM Ships ...,
Speedy ...
Page 2
Also awarded MBE NY Honours 1959
Apparently transferred from RNR,
see Gazette 34649 28.07.39
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Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Northern waters
and
Mediterranean
Brooke-Smith
GC
Francis Haffey
24.06.41
34/36
Sub Lieut RNR
35201 (3651)
Mine disposal
Manchester Ship
Canal
Brown
MiD
Patrick Richards
25.07.44
21/22
36634 (3565)
For great gallantry and undaunted Page 1
devotion to duty
See Conway ref. for more details http://www.hmsconway.org/Notablesn
and photographs of Francis B-S ew.html
and his medals (in IWM)
Member of a Conway "dynasty"
A long citation for awards after
the assault on Anzio, ending
"despite bombing, mining and
bombardment from shore
batteries"
Page 2
Gaz 36397 dated 25.02.44 awards
RD
Actg Lieut Cdr, RD, RNR Not stated
Italy
Burke
KBE (possible
error)
Wick (Ulick?) Bernard
08/09
Captain, Brevet Major
Devonshire
Regiment
Buxton
MiD
Sydney William
08.06.44
29/32
Ty Lieutenant RCNVR
36545 (2659)
HMCS Verlaine
Not stated
Cambridge
DSC
John Stephen
10.11.42
17/19
35780 (4882)
Ty Actg Lieut Cdr RNVR HMML 106
Honours WW2
ULICK BERNARD BURKE MC is Awarded MC WW1, Devon
listed as a "Retired Offr,
Regiment, Western Front, but not
re-employed" in two Gazettes
shown on Conway Honours Board.
Placed on the "H P"- Half-Pay - list
due to wounds in 1920
1940 and 1947 - Captain, (Bevet Coukl be related to the Irish Peerage
Major), finally left the Army about (Clanrickarde, Sligo)
1957 (aged 60-plus?)
See WW1 listing for award of MC Wick and Ulick probably a
in 1918
mis-interpretation - but no sign of a
KBE
Displayed courage and devotion http://www.rcnvr.com/B%20-%20RC
to duty in that he re-entered a
N%20-%20WW2.php
burning tanker hatch in order to
assist in the rescue of two Naval Page 7
Firefighters
King's Birthday Honours List
For bravery in action against the http://www.unithistories.com/units_in
Enemy while serving in HM Gun dex/default.asp?file=../officers/perso
Boats
nsx.html
Good entry in Unit Histories
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Circumstances
Sources & Comments
East Coast
Coastal Forces
Cameron
John
CIE
28.12.43
04/06*
Captain, Royal Indian
Navy
37407 (11)
Principal Officer,
Mercantile Marine
Dept
Calcutta
Campbell*
OBE
John Duncan
NK
02/04
Not Found
Colonel DSO Indian
Army
Not Known
Page 11
* The Conway. Entered Royal Indian
Marine 1906
Thirty seven years service
Gazette 3461 (3704) 02.06.39
"The Conway" WW1 Honours Board
states "retires on an India
Pension 03.04.39
Gazette 36556 (2764) 09.06.44
state "ceases to beLong to the
Indian Reserve of Regular
Officers"
DSO was awarded in First World THIS IS NOT THE J D CAMPBELL
War
QUOTED IN WW1 LIST (ARE
THERE TWO?)
India (probable)
Cann
Denis More
DSC
24.09.40
09/11*
34953 (5709)
Lieut Cdr RN (Retd)
HM A/S Trawler
Indian Star
Norway
Carroll
DSC
Charles Laurence
29.12.42
23/25
35841 (24)
Actg Lieut Cdr RNR
HM M/S Trawler
Noble Nora
Mediterranean
Casey
CBE
Denis Arthur
Honours WW2
For services in Norway
* The Conway; BBC People's War
shows Indian Star escorting E Coast
Convoy
Can find no further record of Cann
after this
New Year's Honours. Generic
citation: Gallantry or outstanding
service in the face of the
Enemy ..... zeal, patience,
cheerfulmness and for setting an
example .... the high tradition of
the
Royal Navy could not have been
upheld
Page 24; U-Boat.net shows him as
CO RIFLEMAN (Algerine) 16.01.44
to End of War
Naval-net shows him CO Trawler
ORPHEUS 1941; CO Trawler
NOBLE NORA 1942. Med.
List 1985 shows Captain, DSC, RD in
Lymington
New Year Honours 1942,
awarded before the DSO
See next entry
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Circumstances
02/04
Not found
Commodore, DSC, RD,
RNR
Commodore of
Convoys
Atlantic and
Northern waters
Casey
DSO
Denis Arthur
21.07.42
02/04
35639 (3201)
Sources & Comments
Commodore Master, Royal Mail
Andes 1948/49. RNR ADC to the
King 1944
For bravery, seamonship &
resolution in bringing a convoy
from Murmansk in the face of
nsx.html
relentless and determined attacks Page 1
by Enemy U-boats & aircraft
DSC for service in submarines
Commodore Master, Royal Mail
WW1
Andes 1948/49. RNR ADC to the
King 1944
Commodore, CBE, DSC, Convoy PQ10 to
RD, RNR
Murmansk
Northern waters
Chard
MiD
Edward Rex
02.06.44
36/38?
36544 (2605)
Sub Lieutenant RNVR
HMS Scorpion
North Russian
Convoys escort
Chodzko
MiD(1)
Michael Anthony
16.08.40
25/28
Sub Lieut RNVR
34925 (5069)
Motor Boat Aura
English Channeel
Christian
DSC
John Macindoe
28/30
Not found
Lieutenant RN
HMS Grebe
(RNAS Deheila,
Alexandra)
Mediterranean
Honours WW2
King's Birthday Honours - a long Page 41
list (88 pages) of awards without
specific citation
Served on post-war until 1952.
Reported died 11 March 2011 "aged
88"
Not positive ident, but fits the Board
description. Stated to be from
Axbridge
For good services in the
withdrawal of Allied Armies from
the beaches at Dunkirk
MiD(2) not yet found
See:
http://www.hmsconway.org/Notablesn
ew.html#other
List 1985 in London
May have been posthumous but
nothing found in Gazette
Listed on the In Memoriam Board
of Glasgow Academy as DSC
KiA 8 June 1941, see Memorial List
and CWGC
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Circumstances
Christian
MiD
John Macindoe
25.06.40
28/30
34882 (3919)
Lieutenant RN
HMS Ark Royal
803 Squadron
Norway
Clarke
Bar to DSC
John Richard
06.07.45
NK
37170 (3561)
Ty Actg Lieut Cdr DSC
RNVR
HMS Watchman
Sources & Comments
For daring and resource in the
Page 3
conduct of hazardous and
successful operations by the
Fleet Air
Supporting army on the Coast of KiA 8 June 1941 see Memorial
Norway
Listing
Also shown with DSC on Honours
Board but no record found
For gallantry, determination and Page 5
skill while serving in HM Ship
Watchman.
He was CO of Watchman (V&W U-Boat.net
Escort) and sank U-1195 in the
Channel
Unable to find first DSC. CO
Watchman from 27.05.44 to end of
War
English Channel
Clarke
DSC
John Richard
NK
A/Lieut Cdr RNVR
22.12.44
36858 (5915)
HMS Watchman
Normandy
landings
Clarke
MBE
Richard Thomas
29.01.43
NK
35886 (603)
Third Officer, Merchant
Navy
Not stated
For gallantry, Skill, determination
and undaunted devotion to duty
during the landing of Allied forces
in Europe
Escorting assault convoys
Commanded HMS Pytchley later on
After the ship was torpedoed and Page 1
sunk one of the boats made a
voyage of 20 days before being
picked up .................... it was due
to the courge, skill & fortitude of
Mr Clarke during the latter
part of the voyage that the boat Ten of the occupants died
was brought to safety
Not stated
Clarke
Winston Raymond
DSC and MiD
Defies all efforts to track on usual
web-sites
Canada, New Zealand, Australia,
Esquire, Captain - nothing
15/16
Would have been senior
Honours WW2
13
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Clibborn
William Lancelot
NK
Captain, Merchant Navy
OBE
28.05.43
36035 (2491)
NK
NK
Birthday Honours
Clutterbuck
DSC
David G C
`
26/29*
Not found
The history of HMS
Two other Clutterbucks were
Newfoundland (Navy-net) shows awarded DSCs - possible
Clutterbuck as serving in the ship mis-interpretation
1942-1946 but does not show him *HMS Conway: KGM winner 1929,
with a DSC. Membership
RN Direct Entry
similarly does not list DSC
Listed 1985: VA Sir David G, KBE,
CB in Lymington
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS
Newfoundland
(possible)
Not known
Clutterbuck
MiD
David G C
Page 1
The history of HMS
Newfoundland (Navy-net) shows
Clutterbuck as serving in the ship
1942-1946 in rank of Lieut Cdr
RN.
26/29*
Past President of the HMS
Newfoundland Association
Collinson
DSC
Frank Bentley
NK
Lieut Cdr RNR (Retd)
30.11.43
NK
HMS Test (River
Class Frigate)
North Atlantic
Collinson
Frank Bentley
NK
MiD
For successful submarine patrols Unit-History info; inferred on date
09.06.40
NK
HM S/M Tetrach
To be researched
Collinson
Frank Bentley
NK
MiD
25.08.42
Not found
HMS Oxslip
(Flower Class)
North Atlantic
Honours WW2
U-436 sunk in North Atlantic
West of Cape Ortega, Spain
26.05.43
Murmansk convoys 03.05.42
U-Boat.net and Unit-Histories
Naval-History.net
Commanded three escort vessels
from August 1940-1945 (Shades of
Ericson "Cruel Sea")
14
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Coombs
William Harry
CBE
06.06.47
07/09
37979 (2582)
Sources & Comments
Birthday Honours
Captain Coombs was the pioneer
of improvement for conditions of
employment for officers of
the Merchant Navy and much
invloved with the MMSA and
management of Conway
Page 12
Conway web-site
Sinking of U-636 in North
Atkantic, West of Ireland
21.04.45
hip/5646.html
A man of small stature but large
heart (compiler's opinion)
Captain (Hon Cdr RNR) President,
Officers'
(Merchant Navy)
Federation Ltd
United Kingdom
Cooper
Bar to DSC
Jack Winston
24/26
Lieut Cdr DSC RNR
11.09.45
NK
HMS Bazely
(Captain Class
Frigate)
Atlantic
Cooper
Jack Winston
DSC
19.09.44
Sinking of U-765 06.05.44
Page 3
For courage, resolution and skill U-Boat.net
in ant-U-Boat operations
24/26
36707 (4335)
A/ Lieut Cdr RNR (Retd) HMS Bligh
(Captain Class
Frigate)
Atlantic
OBE
No record of an award of OBE to
J W Cooper. However Captain J
E Cooper, Cargo
Superintendent, Sea Transport
Division, Ministry of War
Transport was made OBE
Gazette 36781 (5081) 03.11.44 Could be mistaken identity
Corkhill
DSC
For gallantry and coolness in
Page 2
action against heavy odds off the
coast of Norway
Anthony David
34/38
19.07.40
34901 (4492)
Midshipman (A) RN
HMS Devonshire
(Heavy Cruiser)
Norwegian waters
Cooper
Jack Winston
24/26
Honours WW2
List 1985 shows Cdr AD Corkhill
DSC in Salcombe. Active member
of Conway Club
15
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Coughlan
DSC
Denis Harold George
05.05.44
25/27
36505 (2126)
A/Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Cromarty
(Minesweeper)
North African
waters
Coughlan
MiD
Denis Harold George
17.12.43
25/27
Lieut RNR
36295 (5542)
HMS Boston
(Minesweeper)
Mediterranean
Coultas
OBE
Ernest
19.03.40
08/10
34815 (1701)
Master, Clan Line
SS Clan MacBean
Atlantic
Crabb
GM
Lionel Kenneth
21.01.44
22/24
36345 (477)
Ty Lieutenant RNVR
Clearance diving
units
Mediterranean
Crabb
OBE
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
For great skill, endurance &
Page 2.
devotion to duty ... in clearing
http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/ww_ii_awar
Enemy minefields to enable
ds_for_rn_minesweeping_C.htm
supply
convoys and bombardment
forces to operate in support of the dex/default.asp?file=../officers/perso
8th Army in their advance from nsx.html
Egypt to Tunisia
Captain D H G Coughlan, DSC, RD**
RNR was awarded a 3rd clasp to the
RD 22.04.66
For gallant and distinguished
services & untiring devotion to
duty in operations which led to
the capture of Sicily (Operation
Husky)
Page 4. See previous entry for DSC
Captain Coughlan died in 1989
Won an encounter with a U-Boat:
" ... by resolute handling of his
ship, by brilliantly
forestalling the enemy's
movements and courageously
holding his course and speed ....
.. he saved his ship" - also forced
the sub to dive, leaving the gun
crew in the sea (then saved)
Page 1: it has a graphic account of
the incident
Son, Peter Coultas, provides first
hand details
Also awarded Lloyds' Siver Medal for
the same incident. Died July 1949
The King has been graciously
Page 1
pleased to approve the award of
the George Medal for gallantry
Good story told on "divernet.com" http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articl
see below
es.pl?id=3072&sc=&ac=d&an=
He is the famous "Buster" Crabb, see
many sources regarding his
adventures and demise
For Distinguished Service during Page 1
the War in Europe
16
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lionel Kenneth
07.12.45
22/24
37380 (5983)
Ty Lieut Cdr (Sp) GM
RNVR
Clearance diving
Sources & Comments
Good story told on "divernet.com" http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articl
see below
es.pl?id=3072&sc=&ac=d&an=
He is the famous "Buster" Crabb, see
many sources regarding his
adventures and demise
European waters
Crick
Bar to DSC
Trevor George Payne
10.09.43
For great skill & daring in action
with Enemy submarines in the
Atlantic
Sank Italian S/M 'Leonardo do
Vinci' NE from the Azores
Page 2. U-boat.net (HMS Ness)
Commanded Hussar at outbreak
of war. Nothing found re this
award - may have been WW1?
Commanded Ness from Nav
1942
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Ch
rono-22MS-Halc-Jason.htm
* The Conway
15/17*
36169 (4074)
A/ Commander DSC RN HMS Ness (River
Class Frigate)
Atlantic
Crick
DSC
Trevor George Payne
NK
15/17*
Not found
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS Hussar (or
another Halcyon
M/S) possibly
UK Waters and
North Russia
Crick
MiD
Trevor George Payne
22.12.44
15/17*
36858 (5910)
London Gazette scoured for this one
with no result
Fleet support activities in WW2 were
greatly enhanced by these
experienced people.
The citation on page 1 of the
Page 2. *The Conway
Gazette is currently not available
Must have been the same time as http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Ch
he won the OBE, see entry and rono-22MS-Halc-Jason.htm
ref below
Commanded Jason 05.01.44 to
25.12.44
A/Commander DSC* RN HMS Jason
Nortmandy waters
Crick
OBE
Trevor George Payne
01.12.44
15/17*
36825 (5571)
For great courage and skill under Page 1. * The Conway.. In an
attack from the air
interview in 1969 he said "It was a
queer way to get a gong"
Was Senior Officer of the group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Brit
of minesweepers that came under omart_(J22)#Assigned_to_the_Norm
attack from RAF Typhoon
andy_landings
fighters off Le Havre 27/08/44 - Appalling "friendly fire" case.
HMS Britomart & Hussar lost,
Blamed on FO British Assault Area's
Salamander damaged.
intelligence
A/Commander DSC* RN HMS Jason
(Halcyon M/S)
Honours WW2
17
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Normandy waters
(suffered
casualties)
Crockett
MiD
John Alexander
29.12.44
31/33
Ty Lieutenant RNR
36866 (48)
Not stated
Not stated
Crozier
MiD
Robert Arthur
10.11.44
NK
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
36794 (5219)
Not stated
Normandy
landings
Day
Archibald
10/12
CBE
01/01/1943
35841 (7)
Captain RN
Staff of
Commodore
Dover
Dover
Day
DSO
Archibald
20/11/1945
13/14
37358 (5655)
Captain RN
HM Surveying
Ship White Bear
Far East
Dibley
DSC
George
03.12.43
20/22?
36275 (5333)
Honours WW2
New Year Honours. No specified Page 48. No mention in other
citation (...for good service ...)
web-sites
Two Gazette entries: Appontment as
Ty S/Lt 02.09.40 and to Ty Lt
24.05.42
List 1985 living in Cumbria
A long list of recipients: "For
Page 1 of 16
gallantry, skill & devotion to duty
Forces on the coast of
Normandy"
New Years Honours
No record, but served on the staff of
Commodore, Dover 1939-1943
For courage, efficiency and
devotion to duty in establishing
navigation
aids in the Approaches to the
Rangoon river, in minesweeping
and the
survey of the river prior to the
assault on the city in May 1945
Charts and Surveys in Peace & War,
R O Morris
Vice Admiral Sir Archibald Day, KBE,
CB, DSO, Hydrographer of the Navy
50-55
For steadfast courage and skill in Page 1
dangerous and important
minesweeping operations
Operation Antidote involved the http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/MCD_Histo
Flotilla sweeping from Galita,
ry_Frames.htm
Algeria to Susse, Tunisia in 1943
Awarded an MiD for operations in the
Shetlands in HMS Pangbourne.
Nothing further in Gazettes
18
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
12th
Minesweeping
Flotilla
North Africa
Dibley
MiD
George
05/06/1942
20/22?
35591 (2549)
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
HMS Pangbourne
Home waters
Dickinson
DFC
John Edward
30/32
17.11.44
36799 (5284)
PO RAFVR
102 Squadron,
Bomber
Command
UK (Based
Pocklington)
Dobson
DSC
Joseph Everard
NK
21/23*
Not found
Actg Commander RNR
(Retd)
NK
Sources & Comments
For bravery, determination and
fortitude in omportant
mineseeping operations
Awarded an MiD for operations in the
Shetlands in HMS Pangbourne.
Commanded HM Trawler Dromio
which sank after collision with Italian
Valdarno off Whitby 22/12/39
Long list of aircrew awards
Gazette 36592 shows him
commissioned as A/PO RAFVR
13.05.44
Possibly noted cricketer (Devon.
Leicestershire), died Torquay
24.03.03
Gazette 36955, 23.02.45 (1079)
lists him as awarded the RD, but
does not mention DSC
Earlier gazettes show S/Lt
05.06.29 and Retired "at own
request" 20.02.34
Gazette 43200 (16) 31.12.63:
awarded MBE, described as
Chairman of Committee,
Altrincham, Sale and Disrict Unit,
Sea Cadet Corps"
Nothing found on any other sites 18.05.11
* Mentioned in genealogy site:
http://lynallenby.familytreeguide.com/
getperson.php?personID=I84753&tre
e=T1&PHPSESSID=e32e7cc8efd8c5
1bd3ad00897417bd15 as
Commander RNR MBE
Cdr John Petter Dobson RD RNR
was awarded the DSC 09.07.40 possible mis-identity
NK
Dodds
OBE
Bernard Cyril
22.09.44
NK
36717 (4439)
Honours WW2
His ship was torpedoed and sunk Page 3
immediately. The Captain
displayed courage, coolness and
leadership of a high order .... he
took charge of one of the boats
and brought it safely to land
after 14 days.
Ship was sailing independently
19
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Captain MN
Not stated (more
research needed)
At Sea
Douglas
OBE
Alexander Thomas
20/22
05.05.44
36505 (2125)
Lieutenant Commander
RNR (Retd)
Not stated
Sources & Comments
For distinguished services in
Page 1
salvage and repair work which
enabled the Port of Naples to be
used by Allied Shipping
Awarded by the President of the USA
Gazette 37683 (4063) 09.08.46
permits wearing the US Medal of
Freedom and Bronze Star
Italy
Douglas-Watson
DSO
Francis
25.10.40
09/10**
34979 (6227)
Actg Commander RN
HMS Pangbourne
English Channel
Dowding
CBE
John Charles Keith
09.10.42
04/06
35743 (4447)
Captain (A/Cdre) DSO
RD RNR
River Afton
(Master: Harold
William Charlton)
North Russia
Convoy
Commodore
(PQ17)
Dowding
DSO
John Charles Keith
04/06
16.08.40
34925 (6064)
Commander RD RNR
HMS Mona's Isle
(Armed Boarding
Vessel)
Dunkirk
Honours WW2
from the French coast
* Wed 29th May "Minesweeper
Pangbourne damaged by
German bombing at Dunkirk, 2
officers wounded"
Page 1. * Naval-history.net.
Memorial Board. ** The Conway
nsx.html
Killed at Piraeus when CLAN
FRASER's cargo of TNT exploded
and wrecked the harbour
For bravery and resolution as
Page 1 and
Commodore of a North Russian http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/con
Convoy
voypq17.html
Much has been written about the http://www.unithistories.com/officers/
fate of PQ17, which was
RNR_officersD.html
disastrous, R Afton was sunk and
survivors were picked up by HMS Went on to participate in major WW2
Lotus
events, see reference source 2.
ADC to the King 09/45
For good services during the
from the beaches of Dunkirk
Page 2
Orient Line from 1919, Staff
Commander 1936
20
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Drew
CBE
New Year Honours
Harold
28.12.45
Chief Staff Officer, 18th Cruiser
Squadron (HMS Manchester)
31.05.41-08.42
09/10
37407 (13)
Captain DSC RN
Not stated
Not stated
Drew
CB
Thomas Bernard
31.12.43
02/03
36309 (3)
Vice Admiral OBE, RN
(Retd)
HMS Southern
Prince
Not stated
Drew
OBE
rono-06CL-Manchester.htm
Page 13
Award of DSC shown on WW1
Honours Board
New Year Honours
OBE awarded in WW1 during chase
of Goeben & Breslau by HMS
Gloucester
RA Minelayers 24.02.42 to 04.02 http://www.unithistories.com/units_bri
43 (Northern Barrage)
tish/RN_WApproaches.html
Joined Conway 1902, entered Navy
1903
Not relevant to WW2. Award was
for an action in WW1
Thomas Bernard
02/03
See entry for award of CB
Drinkwater
OBE
New Year Honours
John
01/01/1942
06/07
35399
Transferred from RNR as Sub
Lieut RN on the Supplementary
List 01/06/14
Promoted to Lt Cdr 01/06/23
Commander RN (Retd)
NK
NK
Duff
MiD(3)
Douglas Valder
19.09.41
14/15
35281 (5500)
Ty Lieutenant RNVR
NOIC Derna and
CO HM Yacht
"Eskimo Nell"
Western Desert
Schooner Flotilla,
Mediterranean
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Enterprise and seamanship while
serving off the Libyan coast
Only one MiD found in the
Gazette and Unit Histories. An
adventurous character and
prolific author, he is well
described in the Notable Old
Conways section
21
Listed as serving in HMAS/M J7 as
Lieutenant post WW1
Joined Conway 1906, entered RN
(ex-RNR). A submariner.
Page 2
nsx.html
Final wartime job was with the
Admiralty "Irregular Warfare Depart"
in Teignmouth
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Duncan
OBE
John
27.08.43
NK
36151 (3865)
Captain MN
Not stated in
Gazette
Singapore
Easton
DSC
Alan Herbert
18.11.42
17/19
Lt RCNR
35833 (5567)
HMCS Sackville
(Flower Cl.)
North Atlantic
Easton
MiD
Alan Herbert
17/19
03.10.44
Not given
Lieut Cdr DSC RCNR
HMCS
Saskatchewan
Atlantic
Eliott
OBE
Gerald Otho Rooskie
1888/90
WW1
See below
Commander RN (Retd)
Not known
Not known
Ellis
DSC
Robert Wilson
28.05.43
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
A long citation, incuding: ...
Page 1
courage, skill and outstading
seamanship in difficult and
dangerous
circumstances .... valuable
services to military authorities,
troops and refugees ...
The ship was at Singapore as the The Chief Engineer was included in
Japanese advanced
this citation
Distinguished service before the http://www.rcnvr.com/E%20-%20RC
Enemy. Working with two others, N%20-%20WW2.php
sank U-588 on 31.07.42
Commanded two corvettes and a
destroyer
Died Sept.'01. Author "50 North"
Outstanding skill and devotion to http://www.rcnvr.com/E%20-%20RC
duty in a successful action
N%20-%20WW2.php
against Enemy trawlers and
U-Boats
Left the service at the end of 1944.
Authored two books on Battle of the
Atlantic. Died 2001
Gazette 40616 of 25.10.55
Page 51
publicises his death on 5
September 1955 in Paignton for
Probate purposes
See WW1 Listing. Shown as "RN"
but this is possibly an error
Birthday Honours: For Gallantry,
or outstanding service, or zeal,
patience and cheerfulness, and
for setting an example of
wholehearted devotion to duty
without which the high standard
of the
22
U-Boat.net has him CO HMS Lyme
Regis (Bangor M/S) as T/Cdr RNVR
from 05.03.45
CO Seagull (Halcyon)
16.08.43-13.02.45
27/01/2012
Circumstances
18/20
36033
Ty Lieut RNR
Not stated in
citation. A
minesweeper
Not stated
English
MiD
Malcolm Christopher
NK
29/31
Lieutenant RNR
Not found
Anti Submarine
Escorts
Atlantic and
Mediterranean
Esson
MiD
Alan Flockhart
15.06.45
35-ish
37136 (3188)
Lieutenant RNR
HM S/M
Ultimatum
Mediterranean
Esson
MiD
Alan Flockhart
27.08.40
35-ish
34933 (5265
Midshipman RNR
HMS Venomous
(V&W Destroyer)
European waters
Euman
MiD
Charles
1899/1901*
18.08.40
34925 (5068)
Commander RN (Retd)
HM Skoot
Brandaris (Balloon
Vessel)
Dunkirk
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Royal Navy could not have been List 1985 shows Cdr R W Ellis RNR
upheld
in Liverpool
Two promotion Gazettes raised http://www.naval-history.net/
for MC English RNR, to Sub Lt
(24.9.39) and to Lt Cdr 22.10.47
CO of KLO (Nor.A/S Whaler) in N http://www.uboat.net/index.html
Africa, and Gloxinia Flower Cl)
05.04.42 to10.43
For gallantry, tencity and
Page 2
undaunted devotion to duty on
patrols in the Aegean area during
one of
the most dangerous periods of
the war in the Mediterranean
hip/3544.html
CO of Ultimatum from 11.06.45 to
04.09.45
Good services in operations off
the Dutch, Belgian and French
coasts
Venomous was active in the
evacuation of Allied forces from
Europe. She continued in the
role
of convoy escort throughout the
war.
rono-10DD-09VW-Venomous.htm
Lieut A F Esson RNR to Reired List
28.05.49
For services in the withdrawal of Page 6
Allied Armies from the beaches at
Dunkirk
* The Conway
Shown as i/c Lady Blanche (6/40)
and Britanny (7/41)
23
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Everett
DSO
Douglas Henry
23.02.40
13/14
34796 (1057)
Captain MBE RN
HMS Ajax
Battle of the River
Plate
Everett
MiD
Also awarded MiD 05.44 for
Operation Shingle
Douglas Henry
21.12.43
and CBE at the end of the war in
the Far East whr he commanded
the Carrier HMS Arbiter
13/14
NK
Captain MBE DSO RN
Staff Officer
Force V
Invasion of Sicily
Faning
DSC
Michael Roger Eaton
08.01.42
24/25
Not found
Lieut Cdr RN
Boat Unit, RM
Mobile Naval
Base Defence
Crete
Mediterranean
Fitzmaurice
DSC
William (or Wilfred, see 08.08.41
below) Vere
31/33
35242 (46500
Sub Lieut RNR
HMS Nile (for
Trawler OUSE)
Tobruk, Libya
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
In recognition of the gallant and http://www.unithistories.com/units_in
successful action with the
"Admiral Graf Spee". 'who, as
nsx.html
Commanders of their ships,
Page 1
having done as much as they
could during the long months of
waiting
to perfect ...... so that they dstood Listed as D D Everett. Officer of the
the test of battle
Chilean Order of Merit
nsx.html
Rear Admiral D H Everett, CB, CBE,
DSO, RN died 26.08.1986
States "withdrawal from Crete",
no further details
nsx.html
OBE awarded in 1958. T/F from
RNR in 1937
List 1985 shows Cdr MRE Faning,
OBE, DSC RN (24/25) Suffolk (died
03/91)
For courage and devotion to duty Page 2
during operations in the
Mediterranean
S/Lt Fitzmaurice and 8 ratings
Naval-History.net
wounded when Ouse sunk by a
mine
Burkes Peerage shows first name as
Wilfred. He was invalided out and
died in1975
24
27/01/2012
Circumstances
William Edmund
Albert Medal
(Posthumous)
13.05.41
19/20
35164
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS Hazlemere
(CO January
1941)
East coast convoy
escort
Frankcom
Charles Edward Nowall
(or Newall)
OBE
01/01/43
18/20
35841 (8)
Fletcher
A sad and noted event, see
CWGC entry at reference
Lost life attempting to rescue
Amy Johnson, Auxiliarty Air
Transport pilot and famous
pioneering avatrix, from the
Thames estuary
Sources & Comments
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_
details.aspx?casualty=2361382
See Memorial data. Note: AM would
have bcome GC had Fletcher
survived
New Year's Honours 1943
Well known post-war as Marine
Superintendent of Ocean
Weather Ships of the
Meteorological Office
Seedie's Roll & Gaz 35841 (8)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southend
_Pier#HMS_Leigh mentions HMS
Leigh
List 1985 shows Cdr CEM Frankcom
OBE RNR (Retd), Norwich
A/Commander RD RNR HMS Leigh
(Rtd)
(Southend Pier)
Probably E. Coast
Convoys
Fraser
DSC
Ian Edward
06.04.43
36/38
359167 (1584)
Lieutenant RNR
HM S/M Sahib
Mediterranean
Fraser
Legion of Merit
(USA)
29.11.46
37805 (5912)
Ian Edward
36/38
Lieut, VC, DSC, RNR
HMS Bonaventure
(for HM S/M XE-3)
Far East
Fraser
VC
Ian Edward
09.11.45
Honours WW2
Bravery in successful Submarine Page 2.
patrols
Sahib is recorded as sinking
U-301 on 21.01.43
rono-12SS-06S-Sahib.htm
Lieut Cdr I E Fraser, VC, DSC, RD*,
RNR (retd) is a Patron of the Conway
Club
For outstanding services when in Page 2
command of HM S/M XE-3
Went on to become a pioneer in the
commercial diving industry
A long citation detailing the
Page 2
exploit when XE-3 sank a
Japanese cruiser in the Johore
Strait
it includes " ... courage and
Personal account in his book
determination are beyond praise "Frogman VC" 1957
... "
25
27/01/2012
Circumstances
36/38
37346 (5529)
Lieutenant DSC, RNR
HMS Bonaventure
(for HM S/M XE-3)
Far East
Fraser
MiD (Posthumous)Bravery and skill in a successful
attack on Enemy shipping while
serving in Light Coastal
18.06.43
Forces
36062 (2819)
James Lovat
33/35
Ty Lieut RNVR
HM MTB 233
Home waters
Fraser-Smith
James Buchanan
37/39
MiD
Garstin
CBE
Richard Hart
06.03.42
1900/02*
35481 (1105)
Captain OBE RIN
Naval Officer in
Charge, Basrah
Iraq
Gelling
DSC
William Emerson
30.04.43
19/21?
36001 (2004)
RD RNR
Minesweeping and
Mine
Countermeasures
North Africa
Gibson
William
02/04
OBE
28.05.43
36033 (2426)
Sources & Comments
One of WW2's most famous daring
and gallant exploits
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_
details.aspx?casualty=2843704
Page 1
See Memorial Board. Buried in
Killearn Parish Churchyard
Nothing found
Complete blank
For distinguished services in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-So
Persian Gulf
viet_invasion_of_Iran
Operation Countenance involved *"The Conway" - entered RIM. The
an Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran Liverpool Naval Memorial
to secure the oil fields and supply
lines to the Russian Eastern Front
Lost while Commodore of Ocean
Convoys in October 1942 in SS
Stentor
For bravery and distinguished
services which led to the landing
of the Allied Armies in North
Africa
Shown as CO Teroma 10.06.40
(Trawler M/S) and Aristocrat
01/01/41 (AA Escort Paddler)
Gaz 34873 14.06.40 awards RD
Gaz 36866 (47) awards MiD
Shown as CO Teroma 10.06.40
(Trawler M/S) and Aristocrat
01/01/41 (AA Escort Paddler)
NY Honours 1945 shows Lieut Cdr
DSC RD RNR awards MiD
King's Birthday Honours
MC was WW1, see Honours Board
List 1985: Lt Col W Gibson, DSO,
OBE, MC, FSI in Bucks
Lieut Colonel, DSO, MC Home Guard
Honours WW2
26
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Buckinghamshire
OBE
Birthday Honours
Giles
Herbert Joseph
05.06.42
NK
35586 (2490)
Captain, RD, RNR (Retd) Master, Merchant
Navy
At sea, not
specified
Goodwin
George Archibald
Wycliffe
31/33 appr
OBE (Gazette for Birthday Honours (MBE) 02.06.44 Data from CWGC Web-site only
MBE)
02.06.44
36544 (2573)
Lieut(A) RN
HMS Garuda
RN Air Station, S
India
Goodwin
DSC
Richard John Grove
05.05.44
20's?
36505 (2126)
A/Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Gullane
North African
Coast
Goodwin
Richard John Grove
MiD
01.07.41
20's?
35204 (3747)
Lieut RNR
HMS Borde
Gowan
MiD
Henry Carty
29/30
03.07.42
35622 (2985)
Cat C identity in Memorial Listing
Killed 16.11.44 aged 34 years, air
crash
Minesweeping in support of
Page 2
Western Desert
Skill endurance and devotion to http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/ww_ii_awar
duty in clearing Enemy minefields ds_for_rn_minesweeping_G.htm
to enable supply convoys and
bombardment forces to operate in Lieut. Cdr R J G Goodwin, RD, DSC,
support of the 8th Army intheir
RNR retires 01.07.50
advance from Egypt to Tunis
Kings Birthday Honours
Page 13
ds_for_rn_minesweeping_G.htm
Described as a magnetic mine
experiemental craft
For promptness and resource in
the salvage of (their) ship
List 1985 Cdr HC Gowan, OBE RN
(Retd) Helensburgh
Lieutenant RN
Honours WW2
27
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Gray (Grey)
DFC
John Francis
26.05.44
28/30
A/Wing Cdr RAFO
36536 (2491)
207 Squadron
RAF (Lancaster
bombers)
Europe, Bomber
Command
Gray (Grey)
DSO
John Francis
24.11.44
A long citation describing the
http://www.flyingforyourlife.com/gunn
action, comcluding: "This officer ers/ww2/sutherland/
has participated in many sorties
and has invariably displayed a
high standard of skill and
gallantry"
A vivid description of the action,
including crew photograph taken
after landing is at souce 1
Note spelling of name GREY
A long citation describing how 7
enemy aircraft were destroyed,
concluding: "This officer has
commanded the Squadron with
great success"
MiD
William Victor Spiers
40/43
03/03/1944
36411
Midshipman RNR
HMS Sheffield
Northern Arctic
waters
Grieve
MiD
Kenneth Campbell
10.01.41
25/28
35041 (260)
Lieutenant RN
HMS Eagle
Honours WW2
Gazette 37993 of 20.06.47 appoints
Gray to a permanent commission as
Sqdrn Leader RAF
Gazette 37849 of 10.01.47 gives
permission to wear the Dutch DFC
awarded to him.
Note spelling of name GREY
28/30
36816 (5465)
A/Wing Cdr DFC RAFO 207 Squadron
RAF (Lancaster
bombers)
Europe, Bomber
Command
Green
Sources & Comments
For gallantry, distinguished
service and devotion to duty
during the action in which the
German battleship Scharhorst
was sunk.
London Gazette 36411 page 3
Reported to have maintained
discipline in the TS during the action
For courage, enterprise, and
Page 2
devotion to duty in conract with
the Enemy
Gaz 35166 (2870) of 16.05.41
repeats to awards and adds " for
outstanding courage & skill in a
brilliant and wholly successful
J W Hale received the DSO for this
night attack by the FAA on the
action
Italian Fleet at Taranto
28
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Griffiths
Glyn Walter Thomas
33/35
MiD
Groves
MiD
John
26.05.44
39/40?
Midshipman RNR
36537 (2496)
HMS Poole
At sea
Haes
Arthur Ernest
NK
Wing Commander RAF
Haes
Sources & Comments
No information
Nothing found
Searched again 26/04.2011 - no
result.
For courage and skill in
dangerous minesweeping
operations
Operation Antidote
Page 4
OBE
28.12.45
37407
NK
NK
New Year Honours
Page 4
DSC Gazetted
"Edmund M H "
Kings Birthday Honours
Edward (Edmund) Mount 05.06.42
11/13*
35586 (2506)
Commander RN
(A/Captain)
HMS Moreton Bay
(AMC) or HMS
Egret
NK
King Haakon VII
Freedon Cross
Edward Mount
11.04.47
11/13*
37931 (1675)
Acting Captain DSC RN NK
NK
Haes
ds_for_rn_minesweeping_G.htm
Promoted to Wing Cdr 10.12.40
For outstanding zeal, patience
and cheerfulness and for never
failing to set an example of
For services connected to the
liberation of Norway
Page 32 Element of doubt: three
Mount Haes: Edward, Edmund and
Eric A
* The Conway
Edward Died 1968, buried in Kirkley
Cemetery born 1898
Page 1
* The Conway
Haigh
John Noel Fisher
16/18*
Commander (E) RN
MiD
25.06.43
36072 (2947)
NK
NK
For courage, leadership and skill Page 3
* The Conway
Hailstone
DSC
For bravery in action and under Page 2
fire at Tobruk, helped save
burning petrol tanker while under
fire
Honours WW2
29
27/01/2012
Circumstances
William Blaxland Ernest 13.11.42
Sources & Comments
nsx.html
Served in Blue Funnel 1920-38, also
served in RNR in WW1
08/11
35788 (4990)
Lieut Cdr RNR
Sea Transport
Officer
Tobruk
Hainsworth
DSC
Derek Milner
40/42?
06/06/1944
Midshipman RNR
HM Ships Affleck,
Dahlia, Garlies,
Gore Gould,
Hurricane, and
Spey
North Atlantic
Escort Group
Halbert
DSC
Minesweeping in support of
Western Desert
William Edward
09.05.44
NK
36505 (2126)
Minesweeping almost
continuously throughout the
War,commanding Romney,
Whitehaven,
Postillion May have commanded Native of Toxteth. Invalided out
Corvette Marigold for 8 months in 06.04.47
1942 (doubtful)
Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Whitehaven
(Bangor M/S)
Mediterranean
Halbert
MiD (3)
William Edward
03.09.40
NK
34938
Lieut RNR
HMS Sutton
Dunkirk
Hale
DSO
John William
20/22*
16.05.41
35166 (2869)
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS Illustrious
Honours WW2
Successful actions against
U-Boats while on convoy escort
duty
U-91, U358 and U-392 sunk
London Gazette 36551 2/06/1944
page 1
See also Lt Cdr Magnus Work's Bar
to the DSC
For good service in
minesweeping operations
MiD(2) 31.03.42 for Minefield
clearance; MiD(3) Normandy,
Operation Neptune
nsx.html
hip/4788.html
rono-22MS-OldHunt-Sutton.htm
Native of Toxteth. Invalided out
06.04.47
Outstanding courage and skill in Page 1
a brilliant and wholly successful
attack by the Fleet Air Arm
on the Italian fleet at Taranto
* The Conway
CO of 819 Squadron Feb 1940Jan 1941
30
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Mediterranean
Halfhide
Arthur Robert
CBE
02.01.40
03/05*
Captain RN
34763
HMS Adventure
(Minelayer)
Home waters
Hall
MiD (1)
Charles Edward
10.11.44
21/23
36794 (5219)
A/ Lieut Cdr RNR (Retd) Not stated
Normandy
Hall
MiD(2)
Charles Edward
229.12.44
21/23
36866 (47)
New Year's Honours
Shown as NOIC Isle of Man
09.44 to 07.45
Page 1; * "The Conway"
Career NO; retired 1945
For gallantry, determination and
undaunted devotion to duty
Awarded RD 06.10.44
New Years Honours. "For
gallantry and outstanding service
in the face of the Enemy and for
zeal patience and cheefulness in
dangerous waters and for stting
an example for outstanding
devotion to duty, upholding the Awarded RD 06.10.44
high standard of the traditions of
the Royal Navy"
Actg Lieut Cdr RD RNR Not stated
(Retd)
Not stated
Hall
MiD
Thomas George Stanley 01.06.44
16/18
36544 (2604)
Ty Lieutenant RNVR
Not stated
Not stated
Hallett
DSC
Alan Ritson
NK
Lieutenant RN
02.10.42
35733 (4353)
Birthday Honours "For gallantry
or outstanding service in the face
of the Enemy and for
zeal patience and cheefulness in
dangerous waters and for setting
an example for outstanding
devotion to duty, upholding the Where was a 44 year old Lt RNVR
high standard of the traditions of serving| with such distinction?
the Royal Navy"
For bravery and skill in air
operations in the Middle East
Page 3
No other entries for Hallett post-war
Middle East
Hamilton
Honours WW2
MiD
For determination and skill in
action against Enemy
Submarines
31
Page 2. U-boat.net
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Timothy Walker Beamish 21.11.41
Pollock
NK
35357 (6772)
Sub Lieut RNR
HMS Hydrangea
North Atlantic
Harrison Broadley
DFC
John
29.08.41
NK
35260
A/ Sqdn Leader RAF
(MiD)
No. 82 Squadron
(Blenheims)
Mediteranean
Hartley
MiD
Robert Victor
30.07.43
31/33
Third Officer, Merchant
Navy
36115 (3483)
Merchant Ship
Sources & Comments
Record shows Hydrangea (Lt J E
Woolfenden) sank U-401
03.08.41
No record found of a DSC
Lieut TWBP Hamilton DSC RNR
shown as CO of HMS Clarkia from
07.03.45
A long citation: While leading an Page 7
attack on Enemy destroyers near
Pantellaria one engine was
hit and caught fire; the attack
Clearly survived. Transferred to the
pressed, but both engines failed; Reserve in 11/45. Nat Front
bombs hit a target ship before the parliamentary candidate 1973
aircraft went into the sea.
Died of cancer after voluntarily
(Reported missing)
piloting an aircraft through the
fall-out of UK 1st atomic bomb .
For brave conduct when (his) ship Page 3
encountered Enemy ships,
submarines, aircraft or mines
One of a long list of recipients of
MN Commendations
At sea
Haughton
Bar to DSC
Wilfred John
NK
Ty Lieut RNVR
14.04.44
36537 (2819)
HMS Boston
Mediterranean
Haughton
DSC
Wilfred John
05.05.44
NK
Ty Lieut RNVR
36505 (2126)
HMS Boston
(Bangor class
M/S)
North African
waters
Honours WW2
dangerous minesweeping
ds_for_rn_minesweeping_H.htm
operations for Operation Antidote
Page 4
For great skill, endurance &
Page 2
devotion to duty in clearing
enemy minefields to enable
supply
convoys and bombardment
forces to operate in support of the ds_for_rn_minesweeping_H.htm
8th Army in their advance from
Egypt to Tunis
32
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Hayes
DSC
Godfrey Harry
36/38
27.12.42
Unable to locate
Prob A/Sub Lt RNR
HMS Gatinais
(ex-French ship) Navigating Officer
English Channel
Hayman
MiD
James William
NK
Chief Petty Officer RN
23.01.42
35432 (434)
HMS Marigold
Hayward
MiD
Peter William
13.07.45
39/40
37180 (3671)
Lieut RNR (19/8/44)
HMS Ekins
(Captain Class
Frigate)
European waters
Hewitt
MiD
Eric
19.11.43
19/21
36259
Commander RD RNR
HMS Shoreham
(CO)
Home waters
Higgins
Francis Bernard
OBE
04.06.46
14/15
37598 (2795)
Sources & Comments
For Courageous and Continuous http://www.rcnvr.com/a%20-%20CAN
good service in the Channel
ADIANS%20in%20RN%20-%20WW
Mobile Balloon Barrage
2.php
RCN Awards web-site
Trassferred to the Canadian Navy Newsletter No 52 2006 has obituary
in 1942. King's Gold Medal 1938 of Captain G H Hayes DSC OMM CD
RCN
For skill and enterprise in action
against Enemy submarines
Unlikely, but fits the search criteria
For exceptional skill, courage and Pages 1, 2
resource while serving in HMS
Ekins in an action in which
two explosive motor boats and a See
midget submarine were destroyed http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/s
and lter for their good work
hip/5658.html to find fate of Ekins
damage control and bringing their List 1985 in Bungay, Suffolk
ship safely to port after being
torpedoed
For courage and endurance in
Gazette page 2
defence against enemy air
attacks while
serving in HM Ships Shoreham,
Hythe and Rye on convoy escort
duty
Captain E Hewitt RD RNR, List 1985
Capt/Super Conway
Birthday Honours List
WW1 Gazette searched with no
trace
Element of doubt, but sounds
convincing
Chief Inspector of Mines Colonial Mines
Service
Gold Coast
Honours WW2
33
27/01/2012
Hill
Circumstances
DSC
Joseph (John) Sterndale 29.12.42
de Montclare (or
Montclar or Montelan)
35/36
35841 (24)
Sub Lieutenant RN
HMS Halcyon
Northern Waters
Hill
DSC with Bar
New Year Honours
Sources & Comments
Gaz: 36220 22.03.43 shows
promotion from S/Lt to Lt 16.11.42
For gallantry and outstanding
service in the face of the Enemy
Seedie's Roll states
Note variations to recorded names
Minesweeping in North Russia in
1942
See previous entry for first DSC
and note confusion over names in
Gazette.
Joseph (John) Sterndale
de Montclare (or
Montclar)
35/36
Nothing found
Lieutenant DSC RN
Hilton
AFC
Frederick William
NK
Sqdn Ldr RAFO
11.10.40
34966 (5958)
NK
NK
Hocart
DSC
George Collas
23/24
19.03.43
35950 (1371)
Lieut RNR (Retd)
HMS Hazard
(Halcyon M/S C.O.)
North Russian
waters
Hopper
MiD
Peter Nelson
35/37 appr
01.08.41
35237 (451)
Midshipman RNR
HMS Nubian
Mediterranean
Honours WW2
The King pleased to award to
AFC
Nothing further found
For bravery, skill and resolution
while minesweeping in North
Russian waters
Page 3. Naval-history.net shows him
as CO of HMS Harrow before going
to Hazard
U-boat.net
Last 1985 in Guernsey.
Commanded Hazard 03.08.42 to
05.01.43
For coolness, skill and enterprise Page 2
when an Italian Convoy and its
Escorts were sunk between
Sicily and Tripoli
Action is mentioned in U-boat.net List 1985 shows P.Hopper (43/45) in
entry
Mosman NSW Australia
34
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Hulse
MBE
Neil Sidney
15.01.43
35/37
35869 (394)
Second Officer MN
Empire Lawrence
(a CAM ship)
North Russian
Convoy
Hunt
DSC
Eric George Guilding
31.08.45
15/17*
37281
Commander RIN
Not stated
Red Sea
Hunt
MBE
New Year's Honours List
Frank William
29.12.44
36/39
36866
Carried out occupation surveys
and supported landings in Sicily
and
the Mediterranean
Lieutenant RN
Hydrographic
Survey Unit
Mediterranean
Hunt
DSO* DSC* Mid* A noted submarine "Ace" during
WW2, continued a long career in
the Royal Navy
1942-1944
Conway Club newsletter prints
letter from 90 years old Captain
Hunt describing the loss of HM
See below
S/M Unity on 29/04/40
George Edward
30/32
Lieut & Lieut Cdr RN
HMS/Ms Unity,
Proteus, Ultor and
Polish S/M Sokol
Mainly
Mediterranean
Hunter
OBE
Honours WW2
The ship ..... was incessantly
attacked for five days ... hit by
bombs abandonment was
ordered.
The ship's Anti-Aircraft defence
was in charge of the Second
Officer ...... the ship put up such
a fine defence.
Sources & Comments
Page 2. This was the infamous
Convoy PQ16
15 crew lost (Lloyd's War Losses)
Died Aug '07 (Conway newsletter
obituary)
For outstanding service in coastal Page 3
operation in the Red Sea which
led to the capture of Massawa
in April 1941, and the clearing of * "The Conway" - entered RIM
the harbour at Massawa
Gazette informs that A/Captain E G
G Hunt RN (ex-RIN) retires as WSR
Captain 11.47 (health)
A long list of awards "for
distinguished service during the
war in Europe"
35
Charts & Surveys in Peace & War" Morris
List 1985 in Lrt. Hutt, NZ (Cdr RN
Retd)
nsx.html
This distinguished Old Conway and
retired naval officer lives in
Queensland (2008)
Gazettes 35196 and 35766
27/01/2012
Circumstances
William Kelly
07.12.45
22/24
37380 (5984)
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
NK
Europe
Hutchings
MiD
Frank Goddard
18/20
Lt Cdr RD RCNR
Hutchings
Kenelm Jocelyn
Townshend
16/19
Commander RNR
Two Gazettes found awarding RD
Oct '42 and promotion to Lieut
Cdr in May '41
1985 List Lt Cdr OBE RD RNR (ret)
in California
This officer stands out as an
RCN World War Two.. He served
excellent example of a good
continually in minesweepers
commanding officer. Keen
throughout
capable,
08.01.44
energetic, hard-working he
http://www.rcnvr.com/H%20-%20RC
radiates an atmosphere of
N%20-%20WW2.php
cheerful efficiency wherever he
goes; and
NY Hons Jan '44 his unswerving devotion to duty is List 1985 in Ontario
in the highest traditions of the
Service
HMCS
Westmount (CO Bangor class M/S)
Canadian waters
Crois de Guerrre No trace of this award to a
Hutchings in the London Gazette
NK
In 1985 List: Cdr RNR Ret in Sussex
NK
NK
Hutchings
MiD
Kenelm Jocelyn
Townshend
16/19
14.11.44
Commander RD RNR
Not stated
Normandy
For gallantry, skill, determination
during the landing of
Allied Forces on the coast of
Normandy
36815 (5456)
Innis (Listed as INNISS) DFC
A long list of honours. In 1985 List:
Cdr RNR Ret .in Sussex
King's Birthday List
Aubrey Richard de Lisle 06.07.43
33/35
36084 (3094)
Flight Lieut RAF
No 248 Squadron
- Beaufighters,
Mosquitoes
European theatre
Innis (Listed as INNISS) MiD
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
248 Squadron - good article in
Wikipedia
Retd 1957 as Wing Cdr
A long list of RAF awards
36
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/h2
48.html
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Aubrey Richard de Lisle 14.03.41
33/35
35107 (1575)
Pilot Officer
248 Squadron Blenheim a/c
Anti-shipping
strikes European
waters
Irvine
DSC (Bar
awarded 1945)
George Walter Alexander 28.05.43
Thomas
19/21?
36033 (2442)
Sources & Comments
Entered 29.04.39 as A/PO RAF.
Service was extended in 1946 as
Squadron Leader
List 1985 Sheepwash, N Devon Wing Cdr (Retd)
Birthday Honours - a long list of Page 26
naval officers: For gallantry or
oustanding service in the face of
the Enemy ..... without which the
high tradition of the Royal Navy
could not have been upheld
Bar to the DSC Gazetted
13/02/1945 for Operation
Neptune
1945-46 CO HMS Dodman Point,
Landing Craft Repair Ship
Commander RNR (Retd) Minesweeping
(Bangor Class)
Mediterranean
and Home waters
Irvine
MiD
George Walter Alexander NK
Thomas Irvine
NK
NK
HM Ships
Fraserburgh,
Romney or
Whitehaven
At sea
Irving
Robert Beaufin
1890/92 appr
KB
28.05.43
36033 (2418)
Capt. RD OBE RNR
(Ret)
Commodore
Captain Cunard
White Star Ltd
At Sea
Honours WW2
Gazette entry for the MiD not
found. Commander Irvine
commanded three Bangor class
minesweepers from August 1941 to
February 1945, being awarded
the DSC in the last named.
Uboat-net
See also:
nsx.html
Birthday Honours
Page 2
Sir Robert Irving (1877-1954)
inherited the family home "Bonshaw"
37
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Irving
OBE
Robert Beaufin
29.07.19
1890/92 appr
31483 (9832)
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
CinC
Mediterranean
Staff
Palestine
Jennings
DSC
William John
06.02.42
37/39?
35449(684)
Midshipman RNR
HMS Sotra (M/S
Whaler)
Mediterranean
Johnston
John
DSC
Sources & Comments
For valuable services in Naval
Page 2. Should be on WW1
Transport , as Officer-in-Charge Honours Board (and, indeed, is!)
Landing military stores
on the Palestine coast
http://erwinbagpiper.com/a_short_his
tory_of_bonshaw.htm
Sir Robert Irving (1877-1954)
inherited the family home "Bonshaw"
For bravery and endurance
mineweeping under attack from
Enemy aircraft
Since he lost his life before this
award was gazetted, he possibly
died without knowing he
had been honoured
Page 2
http://www.naval-history.net/ most
useful
Mid W J Jennings DSC RNR lost in
Barham 25.11.41, see Memorial Lists
Nothing found, WW1 or 2
He was possibly Master (aged
mid- to late-sixties).
1887/89
Tried again 01.05.11 - nothing
Jones
DSC
Denis Hervey
34/36
27/08/1940
34933
Sub Lieutenant RNR
HMS Venetia
Hone Waters
Keay
OBE
Stanley Walter
23.01.44
NK
36347
Chief Officer Merchant
Navy
NK
For good services off the Dutch,
Belgian and French coasts
Lost in HMS Venetia in Thames
Estuary 19.10.41 see Memorial List
Ship was attacked by Enemy
aircraft, caught fire and was lost.
A very long citation regarding a
ship on fire in convoy, during
which the Chief Officer acted
with great gallantry, only leaving This is a "possible" and requires the
the ship when she finally
dates to be checked
foundered
Mediterranean
King
Honours WW2
MiD
Birthday Honours
38
Page 13
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Frederic Geoffrey
27.06.41
21/23
Ty Lieut RNR
35204 (3747)
Not found
Not found
Knibbs
MiD
Richard Burden
27/04/1905
22/24
NK
Lieut R.A
80 HAA Regt.
Italy
Knight
MiD
George Douglas
05.02.43
NK
35895
Third Officer
Not known
Mediterranean
(Operation
Pedestal)
Labey
MBE
George Thomas
04.06.46
02/04
47598 (2792)
Branch Pilot (Ret)
Bengal Pilot
Service
India
Laing
Ian Horace
30/32
DSC
Post '42
Ty Sub Lieut RNR
Schooner Tiberio
Western Desert
Service
Lane
OBE
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
and cheerfulness, and never
failing to set an example of
Gazette 36074 promoted BSM
CWGC Rolls
Burden to Subaltern 29.06.43
MiD may have been posthumous,
no record found
KiA Italy 1944; buried in the
Florence War Cenetry
For gallantry, skill & resolution
Page 2 (710)
while an important convoy was
fought through to Malta in the
face of relentless attacks by day
& night from Enemy aircraft,
submarines ansd surface forces
See also D Young in the same
citation
Birthday Honours
Page 38. Authored History of the
Bengal Pilot Service, see:
http://remistry.wordpress.com/
The Conway, page 226 shows Labey
and FHA Lendrum as having entered
the BPS
Also awarded Military Cross WW1
(Mesopotamia)
Seelie's Roll
Navy-Net lists him as C.O. of Tiberio
List 1985 in Liverpool
Nothing found on Gazette
web-site
Birthday Honours
39
Unit histories
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Harry Robertson
02.06.43
1914/16?
Gaz 36033 (2423)
Commander RD RNR
Commodore of
Ocean Convoys
Ocean Convoys
Lang
DSO
George Holbrow
05.03.18
1896/97
30564 (2927)
Commander RN
Torpedo Boat
Destroyers
Not stated
Lawrence
MiD
Charles James
21/23
Sqdrn Ldr RAFVR
No trace
Gazette shows ADC (as
Commodore) to GRVI 11/52, in
funeral procession (with Hewitt)
17/06/52, Retired 1954
Entered RNR as Lt in 1924. I/C
Southend-on-Sea 1941-42
For services in Torpedo Boats
and Destroyers up to the 31
December 1917
Page 1
The Conway lists him as entering the
Navy 1897 and the DSO entry
Why is this in the WW2 Honours
List?
Official number 76487 quoted for
OBE may be wrong
List 1985 Gosport
Lawrence
Charles James
21/23
Sqdrn Ldr RAFVR
OBE
28.12.45
37407 (38)
NK
NK
New Year's Honours
Learmont
CIE
Birthday Honours
Percy Hewitt
04.06.46
10/12*
37598
Captain RIN
RIN Staff
India
Leigh
MiD
Thomas Edwin Shea
28.06.40
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
List 1985 Gosport
Gazette 334499 shows Transferred
from RIM to RN. "Under Two Flags"
Mentioned as a much respected *The Conway: Entered RI Marine;
investigating officer in the Indian Gazette: retired 06/6/47 (with CIE)
Navy "mutiny" of 1946
Thirty five years, including two wars,
deserves recognition! Died a the age
of 91 years
For daring, resource and devotion Page 4000
to duty in the Second Battle of
Narvik
Icarus was an "I" Clas Fleet
Gazette 23.09.55: TES Leigh
destroyer equipped to lay mines (deceased), Chief Offr. ss Benin
Palm, awarded Queen's
40
27/01/2012
Circumstances
35/37?
34885
Midshipman RNR
HMS Icarus
Norwegian waters
L'Estrange
DSC
Henry Owen
26/29
04.01.42
Lieut RNR
HMS Kingston
Agate (A/S
Trawler)
Northern waters
Letty
DSC
Angus
05.07.40
30's
34890
Sub Lieut RNR
NK
NK
Letty
DSO
Angus
26.03.43
29/31?
35960 (1481)
Lieutenant DSC RNR
Naval Intelligence
Division
Not known
Ling
OBE
John Thurston
09.01.45
NK
36884 (283)
Captain Merchant Navy
SS Adviser,
Charente
Steamship Co
(T&J Harrison)
Indian Ocean
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Commendation for Brave Conduct
for assisting the Police in making an
arrest
New Year's Honours 1942.
Involved with capture of U-570
Excellent web-site:
www.guy.ukideas/lebook/hlml/chapte
r_fourteen.html
Cdr H O L'Estrange RD DSC RNR
(Commodore RFA) died 'in harness'
Singapore Dec '72
No specific citation, simply
Page 4151; Roots web-site
"announced"
Information states "a minelaying
operation"
Gazetted Captain RNR 31.12.59.
Reported died 1985 in Devon
No citation: "For distinguished
services"
A Cloak & Dagger specialist
serving in the Admiralty's
Irregular Warfare department
Page 1481
Peter Benyon
Lt Cdr 1947; Quoted in a search
engine as "Chief Officer in the
Merchant Navy" post war
Outstanding coolness and
courage. All 66 crew survived.
"Adviser" was torpedoed in
darkness, crew safely
abandoned ship in boats.
Captain re-boarded
and eventually, together with the
crew, prevented ship from
sinking; taken in tow and thus
saved.
41
Page 7
U-boat.net tells the story from the
German side.
A long detailed citation, well worth
reading
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lock
MBE
Geoffrey Dalls
02/05
Chief Air Raid Wardem
29.12.44
Logie
MiD
George Malcolm
39/41
NK
Not found
Captain R.S. Fusiliers
NK
NK
Lowe
GM
Stanley William
NK
Ty Lieut. RNVR
29.08.41
35261
NK
NK
MacGregor
Ivor Gregor
MiD
08/10
Nothing found
Mare
Phillip Armitage
CIE
08.06.45
05/07*
Commodore RIN
37119
Chief of
Administration,
RIN HQ
India
Marriott
MiD
George Brian
30.04.43
36001
HM Tug St Day
Gibraltar 01.01.42
Ty Lieut RNR
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Gazette 36869 29.12.44 (128)
New Year Honours awards MBE
to Geoffrey Denis Lock MC
the Chief Air Raid Warden
Possible printing error
Civil Defence
Bath
The only mention in the gazette is Gazette 37444 p. 666 22.01.46
Lieut G M Logie being promted to
Captain 16.06.45
Nothing about a MiD
This could be him. More information
needed
For gallantry and undaunted
devotion to duty
No information
Would have been in his fifties,
possibly ship's master
Confusion over initials and names
Birthday Honours
Captain P A Mare is shown in
command of HMIS Sutlej at
Belfast and Madras during
hostilities
*The Conway: entered Royal Indian
Marine 1907
Sutlej was a Black Swan sloop
For bravery, endurance and
Page 4
devotion to duty in North African
waters
42
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Martin
2nd Bar to DSC
Alistair Angus
23.03.45
18/20?
37002 (1660)
Commander DSC RD
RNR
HMS Rothesay
Sources & Comments
Southern France
See also
ds_for_rn_minesweeping_M.htm
See also:
nsx.html
Mediterranean
Martin
Bar to DSC
Alistair Angus
18/20?
03.12.43
36276 (5333)
Commander RD RNR
HMS Rothesay
Mediterranean
Martin
DSC
Alistair Angus
31.12.40
18/20?
35209 (1447)
For courage and devotion to duty
in minesweeping operations
Outstanding zeal, patience and
cheerfulness for never failing to
set n example of devotion to duty
without which the high tradition of
the Royal Navy could not have
been upheld.
New Year Honours List
Page 26
Wikipedia article on Thomas
Ballantyne Martin
Captain Alister Angus Martin was a
member of a noted Northumberland
family. His father was a surgeon and
his brother Thomas became was a
parliamentarian.
Lieut Cdr RNR
Martin
DSO
Alistair Angus
18/20?
08.06.45
37127 (3088)
Acting Captain RNR
HMS Rothesay
Gulf of Corinth
Martin
MiD(1)
Alistair Angus
18/20?
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
04.10.40
34961 (5879)
HMM/S Trawler
Taipo
Honours WW2
For minesweeping operations
Page 3088
over dense and shallow
minefields in opening up the
Greek
ports in the Gulf of Corinth
Served in Rothesay from July '41 First name's spelling confusing.
until the end of the war in Europe Commanded HQ Ship LARGS in Far
East
For courage and devotion to duty
when ship attacked by Enemy
aircraft
43
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
LP Trawlers Unit
Martin
MiD(2)
Alistair Angus
27.03.42
18/20?
Cdr DSC RD RNR
35506 (1447)
Minesweepers
Mediterranean
Martin
MiD(3)
Alistair Angus
18/20?
Commander RD RNR
(i) 10.11.44
36794 (5227)
HMS Rothesay
Mediterranean
Martin
King's
Commendation
Egerton Gabriel Baynes 03.08.43
1899/1901
36151 (3867)
Master Merchant Navy
SS Athelviking
(Molasses tanker)
At sea
OBE
Martin
Egerton Gabriel Baynes 02.06.44
1899/1901
36547 (2669)
Master, Merchant Navy
SS Athelviking
(Molasses carrier)
At sea
Martin
Bar to DSC
John Dennis
14.12.45
28/30
Lieutenant DSC RN
Honours WW2
Courage, skill and endurance
while minesweeping
See
Courage and devotion to duty
minesweeping in the
Mediterranean
Died June 1979 in Hampshire
A list of Merchant Mariners: "For
brave conduct when their ships
aircraft, submarines or mines".
Two others in Gazettes 35760
and 37149
Listed in Source 2 as having the
OBE "Three King's
Commendations"
Page 3
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.anc
estry.com/~treevecwll/athelviking.ht
m
Master , SS Athelviking, Life lost
when subsequently torpedoed and
sunk by U-1232 14/01/45
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.anc
estry.com/~treevecwll/athelviking.ht
m
OBE is not shown on the Honours
Board. See reference for loss of ship
and life in 1945
Courage, efficiency and devotion Page 6156
to duty whilst serving in HM
Submarines in aggressive
operations against Japanese
shipping, often performed in
shallow waters and in the face of
serious opposition
HM S/M Solent
Gulf of Siam
44
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Martin
DSC
John Dennis
28/30
14.05.43
36019
Lieutenant RN
NK
NK
Martin
DSC
Kenneth Henry
14.12.45
35/37
36019
Lieutenant RN
HM S/M Sleuth
Gulf of Siam
Martin-Leake
MC
Cecil William Rhodes
37/39
29.02.45
36961 (1173)
Lieut 2nd Dragoons
Royal Armoured
Corps
Germany
Matheson
DSC
Roderick Lees
23/25
21.11.41
35357 (7661)
Lieut Cdr RN
HMS Manchester
Mediterranean
Maundrell
MiD
Arthur Goodall
1899/1900
No trace
Mawson
MiD
Vivian Adams
NK
19.01.45
36903
Honours WW2
For successful patrols in
submarines
Sources & Comments
P 2217
One of two Submariner brothers who
formed a unique partnership
Courage, efficiency and devotion
to duty whilst serving in HM
Submarines in aggressive
operations against Japanese
shipping, often performed in
shallow waters and in the face of
serious opposition
Page 6156
services in North West Europe
Gazette and CWGC
Club Newsltter Spring 2003. King's
Goild Medal 1937
Died Oct '02. Partnered his brother J
D (Joe) Martin CO of Solent in
remarkable teaming
Buried in Becklingen War Cemetry
1945
For courage and resolution in
operations in Mediterranean
rono-06CL-Manchester.htm
waters. Manchester was
damaged in action during a Malta
Convoy 23.07.41
Gazetted Lieut to Lt Cdr
14.04.39. Retired 14.04.52
Manchester was repaired in the US
and subsequently lost off North
Africa in 1942
Would have been late fifties;
probably a Master
minesweeping operations in the
Approaches to Le Havre
45
Page 3
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Ty Lieut RNVR
NK
French coastal
waters
McCallum
BEM
Donald
1943
40/42
NF
Apprentice Cadet
SS Empire Hope
Mediterranean
(Operation
Pedestal)
McReynolds
DSC
John Bernard
19.05.44
NK
Actg Ty Lt Cdr RNR
36526
NK
Mediterranean
McVey
MiD
Thomas
31/33
Lieut RNR
26.09.41
352809
HMS Hawkins
East Africa
Miller
DSC
John Isdale
30.05.41
17/19
35178
Sources & Comments
Empire Hope was bombed and Personal account by Captain Donald
sunk. McCallum was ordered to McCallum, Aug 2010
a lifeboat which had been
lowered with 55 men in but
without the plug. He shinned
down the falls and put the plug in.
Rescued by HMS Penn. States
that "the battle was fierce but I
thought it was the norm"
Now living (2010) in Kiama, NSW,
Australia
For outstanding courage,
Page 2
resolution, leadership, skill, or
devotion to duty inHM Shps (59
plus
listed) in operations which led to
successful landings on the Italian
mainland at Salerno
For good services in operations Page 3
off the coast of Italian East Africa
List 1985 in Glasgow
Gallantry and distinguished
Page 2
services inthe withdrawal from
the beaches of Greece and in
face
of many and great difficulties
many thousands of Troops of the
Allied Armies
HMS Salvia (Lt Cdr JI Miller RD DSO
DSC*) was torpedoed and lost with
all hands 24.12.41
Lieut Cdr RD DSO RNR NK (Probably
HMS Salvia)
Greece
Honours WW2
46
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Miller
Bar to DSC
John Isdale
17/19
06.01.42
35409
Sources & Comments
For outstanding gallantry.
Page 1
fortitude and resolution during the
Battle of Crete
HMS Salvia (Lt Cdr JI Miller RD DSO
DSC*) was torpedoed and lost with
all hands 24.12.41
Lieut Cdr RD DSO DSC HMS Salvia
RNR
Crete
Miller
DSO
John Isdale
28.04.40
17/19
34835
Lieut. Cdr RNR
HM Trawler
Blackfly
Home waters
Miller
DSC
Robert Stevenson
NK
09.07.40
34893 (4257)
Lieut RNR
HMS Lynx
(Minesweeping
Base Base in
Dover)
Channel
Miller
MiD
Robert Stevenson
27.08.40
NK
34933 (5266)
HMS Keith
European waters
Milne-Henderson
Thomas Maxwell Stuart
CIE
27.06.41
03/05*
Commodore, OBE RIN
35204
Chief of Staff,
Royal Indian Navy
India
Honours WW2
For exemplary enterprise, zeal, Page 2
leadership and resource in
Anit-Submarine Trawlers and
untiring endeavours to harass the
Enemy
Awarded RD on 03.09.40. See also
Memorial Board
Good service in the Royal Navy
since the outbreak of the War.
Page 15
Lieut Cdr Miller was wounded when
HMS Tweed was torpedoed and sunk
SW of Ireland 07/44
For good services in Operations Page 2
off the Dutch, Belgian and French
coasts
Keith was sunk by Suka
dive-bombers off Dunkirk on
01/06/40
Birthday Honours
Page 2. *The Conway
Gazette 35625, Page 3, Captain
Milne-Henderson retires
See entry for OBE below
47
27/01/2012
Milne-Henderson
Circumstances
OBE
Thomas Maxwell Stuart
03/05*
Several Gazettes chart his move
from "Major RE" to "Lieut RIM"
and the OBE is mentioned
After entries for 1919. Appointed
CoS RIN in 1937
Scottish surnames" shows brief
biography. Was Surveyor i/c
Marine Survey of India 1930/35
Sources & Comments
* The Conway (entry into the RIM)
http://www.fife.50megs.com/scottishsurnames-m.htm
Native of Edinburgh
Lieut Royal Indian Marine Inland Water
Transport
NK
Monro*
OBE
Kenneth Stanley
15/18
07.12.45
37380
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
Convoy Duties
Not stated
Moore
George Dunbar
CBE
31.12.43
10/12*
36309
Captain (Cdre 2nd Cl)
RAN
Commanded HMS
Dauntless
1939-41
2nd Naval
Member, ANB
Moorhouse
MiD
Arthur
28.05.43
20/22
36034
Lieut RCNR
HMS Red Deer
(Bangor M/S)
Atlantic
Moorhouse
MiD
Leslie Hough
NK
15/17
Lieut Cdr RNR
NK
St Zeno (ASW
Trawler) ?
Honours WW2
For distinguished service during RNR Officer site states in command
the war in Europe
HM Landing Ship Dock Northway in
1945
List 1985 in Thorpe Bay, Essex
(Captain RNR Retd)
New Year's Honours
Pag 8; * The Conway; KGM 1912
Attended the Japanese surrender in
Tokyo Bay
Went into the RAN from Conway in
1912; Rear Admiral Moore died in
July 1979
Birthday Honours "This officer
Page 11
has been in continuous command
of HMC Ships since Spring
1940 and has, at all times,
conducted himslef with unfailing
cheerfulness and devotion to
duty"
Seved HMCS Shediac (Flower
List 1985 Victoria BC Canada
Cl), Sault Ste Marie (Algerine)
Gazette 36734 06.10.44 records Comissioned HMS St Zeno (ASW
award of R.D.
Trawler) from builder July 1940, CO
to 25.09.40
Thorough search 09.05.11
Sub Lieut 17.05.27, Lt 04.0730; Ret
List 05.09.32 (drills lapsed?)
Named in u-bot.net as CO St Zeno
48
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
UK Waters ?
Morgan
Charles Eric
01/02*
CB
29.12.44
36866
Rear Admiral DSO RN
HMS Baldur
(FOIC)
Iceland
Morgan
MiD
Charles Eric
01/02*
Captain DSO RN
30.01.42
35443
HMS Valiant
Mediterranean
Morgan
DSC
Geoffrey
NK
NK
Not found
New Year's Honours
Page 3
* "The Conway"
Awarded KBE before retiring as Vice
Admiral, see Conway (Notables)
For bravery and enterprise in the Page 2; * The Conway
Battle of Matapan
DSO in 1st World War
No trace found of the award of
Ship taken from Navy List 01/42
the DSC. Tried again 30.03.11 unsuccessful
HMS Stag was base establishnment
for Mediterranean naval parties;
36955 (1079) Award of RD to Lieut
Cdr Geoffrey Morgan DSC RNR
(Retd) on 23.02.45
Lieut Cdr RD RNR (retd) HMS Stag
Crete
Morgan
Sir Charles Eric
01/02*
Vice Admiral CB DSO
KCB
04.06.46
37598
Naval Personnel
and Admiral
Commanding
Reserves
Admiralty
Birthday Honours
Page 3
* The Conway
A navigation (N) specialist
Mortimer
William Wyndham
20/22
Ty A/Lieut Cdr RNR
MBE
04.06.46
37598 (2767)
Not stated
Not stated
Page 13
Mortimer
MiD
For gallantry and devotion to duty Page 1
at Singapore
William Wyndham
20/22
Actg Ty Lieut Cdr RNR
11.12.42
35823 (5461)
Not stated
Singapore
Honours WW2
List 1985 Onchan IoM
List 1985 Onchan IoM
49
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Mould
Bar to DFC
Peter William Olbert
09.09.41
32/33
35270
Sources & Comments
A long citation including "...
Page 3
magnificent example and
courage ..". His squadron
accounted for
8 aircraft destroyed, 14 probably Killed in Action defending Malta
destroyed and 7 damaged
01/10/1941
See Memorial Board. Gained triple
blue at RAF College, Cranwell
Sqdrn Ldr RAF
Battle of Britain
Mould
DFC
Peter William Olbert
32/33
16/07/1940
3498
For operational flying . Is reputed Page 3
to have shot down the first enemy
aircraft of the War
Killed in Actio 01/10/41 defending
Malta
Flight Lieut RAF
Murray
MiD
Andrew (listed as Arthur) 13.04.45
Gerrard
38/39?
37035 (2022)
Sub Lieut RNR
Seven HM Ships
listed
Home Fleet
Murray
Ronald Gordon
09/11
CBE
28.12.45
37407 (13)
Captain (E) RN
Not stated
Not stated
Myers
Leslie Brian
14/17
MiD
Nedwill
Peter Anthony
33/35
MiD
01.01.41
35029
Honours WW2
Leadership,skill and daring in an Page 2
attack on an enemy convoy while
serving in (list of ships:
Norfolk, Bellona, Onslow, Orwell,
Onslaught, Trumpeter & Premier)
Quoted as from Hale, Lancs
Numerous operations against
shipping and land-based targets were
carried out at this time off Norway
New Years Honours List
Name not on Board. Rear Admiral
(E) R G Murray awarded CB in 1950,
Retires 1951
Nothing found
Re-searched Feb 2011
MiDs often difficult to locate. This
one seems hopeless. Name
change?
New Year's Honours
50
Page 28; Chief Cadet Captain
CWGC Memorial at Lee-on-Solent
KiA HMS Sheffield 26.05.41
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lieut RN
Not stated,
probably HMS
Sheffield
Newbigin
MBE
Thomas Leslie
29/31
01.01.46
Not found
Lieutenant RNVR
HMS Odyssey
Admiralty Salvage
Department
Newbigin
MiD
Thomas Leslie
08.01.42
29/31
Not found
Lieutenant RNVR
MTB 216
10th MTB Flotilla
Crete
O'Brien
DFC
Hubert John
25/27?
01.12.44
36828
Flying Officer RAF
No 220 Squadron
(Liberators)
South Atlantic
Ogilvy
MiD
George
37/39
23.03.45
37002
Sources & Comments
http://www.unithistories.com/officers/
RNVR_officersN.html
Name misspelt on Honours Board
(Newbiggin)
Withdrawal from Crete. MTB 216 http://www.unithistories.com/officers/
bombed/sunk Suda Bay 23.05.41 RNVR_officersN.html
Excellent notes and photos in
reference provided by Thomas' son
Douglas
Became Admiralty Salvage Officer,
Levant. Qualified as a mechanical
engineer after Conway
No specific citation but the
Squadron is quoted ad was
patrolling the South Atlantic
Page 3. Earlier Gazette dated
31.08.43 shows promotion to PO
from Flt Sgt
220 Sqdrn web-site
Squadron Leader H J O'Brien DFC
RAF retires 01.03.59
Southern France
Long list of awards after the
operation
Transferred to Lieut (A) RN 18.11.43
Became a dentist. King's Gold
Medallist 1939. Flew over Conway in
Spitfire 1942
Lieut (A) RN (ex Lt RNR) With an RAF
Fighter Squadron
Mediterranean
(Personal
account)
Oldroyd
AFC
Arthur Waite
NK
31.12.40
35029
Honours WW2
New Years Honours "For gallant Page 33
conduct"
A Gazette of Sept 1939 shows A W
Oldroyd recalled from the reserve
51
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
A/Flight Lieut RAF (Res Not known
AFO)
Not known
Oldroyd
DFC
Arthur Waite
19.05.42
NK
35569
Sqdn Ldr RAF (Res AFO)Bomber
Command
Europe
Painter
DSC
Douglas Francome
22/01/1943
09/10
35877 (493)
RN (Retd)
HMS Pozarica,
Anti Aircraft escort
ship
Northern Waters
(Convoy PQ17)
Paris
George William
MBE
15.01.46
30/32
37433
Major IEME
NK
Burma
Paris
MiD
George William
30/32
Major
NK
Passmore-Edwards
MiD
Henry Ellis
06.03.42
Honours WW2
A long citation referring to a raid Page 33
on the Skoda works at Pilsen; it
concludes "displayed skill and
courage of a high standard which
largely contributed to the safe
return of his aircraft and crew"
Could have been 49 or 50 Squadron
Gazette 37487 01.03.46
publishes promotion from Lt Cdr
(retd) to Commander (Retd) to
date 03.09.45
Painter was 2i/c of Pozarica
(converted fruit carrier) when she
distinguished herself during the
notorious convoy PQ17 to North
Russia in 1943
CO, Captain EDW Lawford RN
(Retd) was awarded DSO in
same Gazette
"The Conway" shows entry to RNC
1910 (name D Francome Painter)
New Year's Honours
services in Burma
Page 4
Navy Lists show he was probably a
casualty (injured) when the destroyer
HMS Vehement was mined in 1918
and subsequently invalided out as a
Lieutenant in 1922.
By 1939 was a Lt Cdr on Retired List.
Pozarica was sunk in January 1943
off Bougie, North Africa
Colonel George W Paris Died Dec
'98 in Lymington
Not found in Gazette, see
previous entry
List 1985 in Lymington
Indian Army
Engineers
NK
For courage, enterprise and
* The Conway
devotion to duty in operations in
the
Persian Gulf
52
27/01/2012
Circumstances
13/15*
Lieut Cdr RINR
35481
HMIS Lawrence
(Minesweeping
Sloop)
Persian Gulf
Peate
DSC
Henry Benjamin
21.12.43
17/19 est
36295 (5540)
Commander RD RNR
HMS Prins Albert
(LSI) C.O.
Operation "Husky"
Peate
MiD
Henry Benjamin
See below
17/19 est
36526 (2356) and
35558 (2111)
Commander DSC RD
RNR
HMS Prins Albert
(LSI) C.O.
1941-45
As required, see
ship's record
Peirse
Sir Richard Edmund
Charles
06/08?
KCB
01/06/1940
Air Marshal
AOC Bomber
Command
United Kingdom
Philips
(Craven-Phillips)*
OBE
Percival Hutchinson
02.06.44
19/20
36544 (2572)
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
"For gallant and distinguished
services and untiring devotion to
duty which led to the capture of
Sicily by Allied Forces
Excellent write-up in the
reference below, including
photographs
RNR_officersP.html -
Four mentions:see reference
below, two Gazettes found for
18.05.44 and 12.05.42
See also citation for DSC
RNR_officersP.html
Birthday Honours 1940
London Gazette by inference
Wikpipedia biographical note
Not found
Suffered burns after a fire in his ship:
took up tapestry to keep his fingers
supple, and remained an active
needleman thereafter
Mentioned in Despatches 4
times.Retired as Capt RNR; died
October 1989
Prins Albert was present at many
landings in the Mediterranean and in
Europe
Mentioned in Despatches 4
times.Retired as Capt RNR; died
October 1989
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse
KCB, DSO, AFC RAF died in 1970
Birthday Honours (evidence
points to him being specialised in dex/default.asp?file=../officers/perso
servicing submarines)
nsx.html (for George)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peoples The Conway lists P H Craven Phillips
war/stories/68/a6687868.shtml
as joining 1919. NL shows Cdr (E)
(Bonaventure II)
OBE MIMarE in Victory
Navy List shows him in HMS
Honours Board incorrect spelling and
Newfoundland 10/45 and Dolphin style. See Memorial List for George,
01/41
KiA 1942
53
27/01/2012
Circumstances
(E) RN
HMS Bonaventure
(S/M Mothership)
Mediterranean
Phillips
DSC
George
20's/30's
02.10.42
35729
Ty Lieut RNVR
Combined
Operations
English Channel
Phillips
MiD
George
20's/30's
10.11.44
36709
Ty A/Lieut Cdr DSC
RNVR
Combined
Operations
Normandy
Pinckney
OBE
Charles Wilfred Cecil
NK
NK
NK
Lieut Cdr RD RNR
HMS Jennet
Mediterranean
Pizey
Bar to DSO
Charles Thomas Mark
27.11.42
12/15
35805
Captain RN
Captain (D) 21st
DF
Northern waters Convoy PQ 18
Pizey
CB
Charles Thomas Mark
27.03.42
Honours WW2
For daring and resolution while
commanding the forces in the
raid on Dieppe
Sources & Comments
Page 2
This is not positive identification but
the name and awards fit precisely
For gallantry, skill, determination Page 7
Not positive, but it fits the name and
awards precisely
Gazette 35273 12.09.41 awards Kindell
R.D. but no information re OBE.
HMS Jenner is listed as a
Boom Defence Vessel in the
Tobruk/Port Said area in 1941
Was Jennet a "Net" class BD
Vessel? Not so listed by U-Boat.net
For gallantry, skill & resolution in Page 1
HMS Ships escorting an
important Convoy to North Russia
in the face of relentless attack by
enemy aircraft and submarines
First DSO was in the NY Honours List 1985 in Burnham on Sea,
01.01.42
Somerset
Daring and fine judgement in
Page 1
leading a sriking force of HM
Destroyers .. against the German
Battle Cruisers Scharnhorst,
Gnuisenau, and Cruiser Prinz
Eugen
54
27/01/2012
Circumstances
12/15
35506
Captain RN
COS to RA(D)
Home Fleet in
HMS Tyne
Nothern waters
Pizey
MiD
Charles Thomas Mark
27.06.41
12/15
35204
Captain RN
Captain (D) 21st
DF 24.06.40 1942
Poole
Bar to DSC
James Malcolm Stuart
25.09.42
35/36
35723
Lieutenant RN
HMS/M Urge
Mediterranean
Poole
DSC
James Malcolm Stuart
35/36
28.11.41
35365
Lieutenant RN
HMS/M Urge
Mediterranean
Preston
DSC
Henry Francis Morrison
19/21
Lieutenant RNR
07.12.43
36275 (5333)
HM Minesweepers
Mediterranean
Preston
MiD
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
From Dec 1943 to 1945 DOO The
Admiralty; 1945-46 CoS to CinC
Home Fleet (Nelson)
Page 12
and cheerfulness, and never
failing to set an exapmple of
without which the honour of the
Royal Navy would not be upheld
There was another MiD in New
Years Honours 12.40
For bravery and devotion to duty Page 3
on successful submarine patrols.
Urge sank and damaged several Wikipedia
Italian Navy heavy and light units
Urge was lost in April-May 1942; see
also Memorial Board
Outstanding bravery, skill and
resolution on successful
submarine patrols
Page 1
See entry for Bar to DSC; see also
Memorial Board
For steadfast courage and skill in
dangerous and important
minesweeping operations - a list
of a
dozen ships follows
For skill in actions against enemy
submarines
55
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Henry Francis Morrison
01.06.43
19/21
36046 (2632)
Lieutenant RNR
HMS Cadmus
(Algerine m/s)
Mediterranean
Pretty
DSC
Francis Cecil
27.03.17
04/07
A/Lieut RNR
29997
NK
NK
Pretty
DSO
No record found in London
Gazette other than OBE &
DSC(WW1)
No other sites mention a DSO,
could this have been
posthumous?
MV Nottingham fought back and see Memorial Board, CWGC States
tried to ram the attacking U-Boat "DSC, OBE" only
Pretty
OBE
Francis Cecil
31.01.41
04/07
35064 (687)
Vessel struck by bombs and
Page 3
ship/cargo saved - a long citation
at ref.
Name of ship and whereabouts
not stated
see Memorial Board, lost in MV
Nottingham 07.11.1941
Master MN
Not stated
(Merchant Vessel)
Mediterranean
(Malta Convoy)?
Prim
MiD
Thomas Mark (listed on
Board as M T Prim)
NK
Ty Sub Lieut RNR
10.12.43
Pulvertaft
William Godfrey
OBE
28.05.43
Francis Cecil
04/07
Cadmus rammed a surfaced
submarine in December 1943
while employed minesweeping
and as an escort in the
Mediterranean
Cadmus escorted POZARICA
into Bougie (see entry for D F
Painter)
Not stated - Note: WWOne, not
Two
Listed in The Conway WW1
Honours
The Conway
see Memorial Board
Master MN
Honours WW2
For outstanding service in
fire-fighting after an explosion
Page 3
Birthday Honours
Page 8
* "The Conway"
36284
NK
NK
56
27/01/2012
Circumstances
17/19*
36033
Commander(E) RN
NK
NK
Rattray
Arthur Rullion
CB
08.06.45
04/06*
Rear Admiral CIE RIN
37119
Naval Staff
FOIC Bombay
Revill
DSC
David Haigh
11.09.42
35/37
35706
Lieutenant RNR
HMS Wild Swan
(Modified S
destroyer)
Atlantic
Riches (query, see
below)
MiD
Neville Hurry
19/20
36050
Lieut Royal Engineers
Gazetted Lieut
14.05.43
Roberts
AFC
David Neal
20/22
1938-40
NA
Squadron Leader RAF
NK
NK
Roberts
OBE
David Neal
20/22
23.09.41
35284
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
To Dartmouth same date as W E
Fletcher (viz)
Birthday Honours
Under Two Ensigns" History of
Indian Navy 1945-50
* "The Conway" - entered RIM
... for bravery and skill while
Page 2
serving in HMS Wild Swan.
Wild Swan was .... attacked by U-Boat.net
12 German dive bombers on
17.06.42 and sunk, but not before
six aircraft had been shot down Former Chief Cadet Captain, MPK
HMS Beverley Aoril 1943
Gazette 37170 of 06.07.45 lists
award of MiD to A/Lt Col Ian
Hurry Riches RM in Italy
This unusual second name may
have led to confusion. No trace of
award to Neville
Honours Board lists H N Riches, not
N H Riches; Conway records show N
H
Always listed in Gazette with
AFC, but no citation found
Gazette 34810 dated 12.03.40
Air Cdre, died Oct 2000 Air
Commodore CBE
For distinguished service
rendered in operational
commands of the RAF from 1
October 1940
to 31 March 1941
Gazette
Air Commodore D N Roberts made
CBE 20.12.53
57
27/01/2012
Wing Commander AFC
RAF
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
NK
NK
Robinson
AFC
Basil Vernon
28/29
NK
NK
Wing Cdr RAF
No 35 Squadron
Europe
Robinson
Bar to DFC
Basil Vernon
05.01.43
28/29
35855
Wing Cdr DSO, DFC
RAF
No 35 Squadron
Mentioned in Gazettes, but no
entry found for this award
Group Capt B V Robinson DSO
DFC* AFC RAF KIA over Berlin
in1943 aged 31
In Nov '42 during a raid on Turin Pages 1 and 2
a dangerous fire broke out ... he
ordered his crew to bale out
then, single handedly, flew his 4
engined bomber across the Alps
and returned safely to base.
(There is long citation at
reference)
in1943 aged 31
Europe
Robinson
DSO
Basil Vernon
28/29
06.01.42
35413
Wing Commander RAF
No 35 Squadron
Europe
Robinson
Commendn.
(Posthumous)
David
10.08.45
37/39
37219 (4121)
Third Officer MN
SS Empire
Javelin (Blue Star)
English Channel
Rogers
OBE
John Cecil Kelly
31.12.40
Honours WW2
.... For the December '41 attack
on GNEISNAU and
SCHARNHORST at Brest
in1943 aged 31
Empire Javelin, a Landing Ship
Infantry, was on passage from
Portsmouth to Le Havre on
28.12.44 when she was
torpedoed and sunk. Citation:
"Brave conduct when their ship
aircraft, submarines or mines"
Page 3 of Gazette and CWGC listing
Tower Hill MN Memorial. No
mention of this sinking in U-boat .net
David Robinson's name is missing
from the Conway Memoriam Board
Captain Kelly Rogers was a
pioneer civil air transport pilot.
He is listed on the Conway website under noteable Old Conways, http://www.kg6gb.org/1939.htm
see also the URL under Source 2
58
27/01/2012
Circumstances
19/21
Try 35029 (14)
Captain
British Overses
Airways
Corporation
Wartime civil
aviation (flying
boats)
Rosoman
MiD
Richard Robert Loane
20/22
31.12.40
35029
Lt Cdr RNR
HMS Tiercel
(Armed Yacht:
Boarding Vessel)
Home Waters
Rump
OBE
Frederick John (always
listed as plain Fred
Rump)
27/29
Air Cdre RAF
02.06.44
Russell Flint
MiD
Francis Murray
33/35
12.06.42
35596
Lieutenant RNVR
HMS Thanet
East coast of
Malaya
Ryland
John
CIE
28.12.45
13/16
A/Captain RIN
37407
HMIS Sutlej
Sabine
OBE
Charles Wheatstone
1940
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Flew Churchill from Plymouth to Captain J C Kelly Rogers OBE,
Bermuda in 1942
FRAeS, born 1905. Became first
Chief Pilot of Aer Lingus
Lieut R R L Tiercel RNR (Retd) http://www.navypedia.org/ships/uk/bri
listed in the New Year's Honours! t_aux_ayachts.htm
Tiercel listed variously as A/S
Yacht, Contraband Control, etc.
in service from 09/1939 to 1941
List 1985 in Guernsey
Birthday Honours
Another F J Rump was appoint PO in
1946 (relation?)
36544
NK
NK
List 1985 in Petersfield
For gallantry, steadfastness and
devotion to duty in ... HMS
Thanet in a night action with a
superior Japanese force.
Thanet (S Class destroyer) sunk
in action 27.01.42
Page 3
U-Boat.net
A professional artist, RF painted the
honours board after the war
New Year Honours
Page 12
Records show Sutlej employed in Noted in "The Conway" as "Entered
supporting operations in Rangoon the RIM"
and the Andamans
While in command of HM
Surveying ship Franklin in
support of
minelaying operations 1939/41
Dover Strait, Faeroes
59
Charts and Surveys in War & Peace,
R O Morris
27/01/2012
Circumstances
13/15
NK
Commander RN
HMS Franklin
Home Waters
Salter
MiD
Douglas Collier
NK
Lieutenant RN
04.10.40
34861
HMS Hood
Norway
Sampson
DSC
Charles David
NK
03.12.43
36275
Lieutenant RNVR
HMS Polruan
Mediterranean
Sampson
MiD
Charles David
NK
10.11.44
36794
Lieutenant RNVR
HMS Polruan (CO
Feb'43 to Jan '45)
Mediterranean
Sanders
DSC
Harry Marcus Crews
12.11.40
16/18
34991 (6551)
RNR
HMS Gladiolus
Sources & Comments
Cdr Sabine retired in 1951, but
continued as a reviser of SD's until
1975
For gallantry and devotion to duty Page 2
in operations in Norway
For steadfast courage and skill in Page 1
a dangerous and important
minesweeping operation while
serving in HMS ... Polruan ..
U-Boat net
Last mention is Lieut Cdr C D
Sampson VRD DSC RNVR on
For minesweeping operations in Pge 15
the Mediterranean
U-Boat net
Last mention is Lieut Cdr C D
Sampson VRD DSC RNVR on
Gazette page unavailable. On
01.07.40 U-26 was scuttled after
being damaged by 8 depth
charges fron Gladiolus and
bombs from an RAAF
Sunderland. The U-boat crew
survived and
made prisoner
U-boat-net
For enterprise, skill and devotion
to duty in action against Enemy
submarines
On 27.06.41 U-556 (Herbert
Wohlfarth) was sunk by depth
charges from HMS Nasturtium,
U-Boat Net
Gaz 35161 (2740) 13.05.41 awards
RD
The estate of the late HMC Sanders
was published on 21.10.41
North Atlantic
Sanders
DSO
Harry Marcus Crews
05.09.41
Honours WW2
60
Gladiolus was lost with all hands
while picking up survivors 17.10.41,
torpedoed by U-558
27/01/2012
Circumstances
16/18
35268 (5205)
Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Gladiolus
North Atlantic
Sargent
DSC
Paul
NK
Commander RNR
28.03.44
37002 (1660)
Sources & Comments
Celandine and Gladiolus (5 dead, See Memorial Board for Lt Cdr HMC
41 survivors)
Sanders DSO, DSC, RD, RNR.
Medals sold at auction in 2007 for
£8000
Distinguished service and
Southern France
Mediterranean
Sargent
MiD
Paul
NK
Commander RNR
17.12.43
36295 (5541)
Gallant and distinguished
Page 3
services and untiring devotion to
duty which led to the capture of
Sicily by Allied Forces
Spelled "Sargeant" on Honour Board
Mediterranean
Sarll
DFC
John (Jack) Charles
(Gratwick)
29/32
25/01/1946
37447 (711)
550 Squadron was part of
Bomber Command flying
Lancasters
see:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercomm
and/h550.html
Gazetted A/PO Short Service
24/08/37 "Flight" magazine
see:
Found SARLL mentioned in "The
http://www.rafwatton.info/Portals/ Cadet" Oct 1967. Board shows
0/21pics/21pilots.html# contains SAREL. Probably identified
photo 1939
Squadron Leader RAFO 550 Squadron
Europe
Saunders
MiD
James Begg
14.01.44
25/27
Lieut Cdr RN
36334
Not Stated
Mediterranean
Scott
DSC
"B Scott" not found, could 10.12.43
be David Scott
36284
Honours WW2
Page 2
service in HM Ships Nelson,
Warspite, Rodney, Valiant, etc. in
operations in the Mediterranean
from the time of the entry of Italy
into the War until the
surrender of the Italian fleet.
Page 2
services in an attack on enemy
Merchant Shipping while serving
in Light Coastal Craft
A Coastal Forces Association lists a
video interview with Cdr David Scott
61
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lieut RN
Light Coastal
Forces
Home waters and
Mediteranean
Scott
MiD
Sources & Comments
Probably similar activities as for
his DSC see above
"B Scott" not found, could
be David Scott
A Coastal Forces Association lists a
video interview with Cdr David Scott
Lieut RN
Light Coastal
Forces
Home waters and
Mediteranean
Sharman
Henry Clare
MiD
31.12.43
NK
36309
Ty Lieutenant RNR
NK
NK
Simms
DSO
Charles E
20.02.40
12/14
34796
Commander (E) RN
HMS Exeter
Battle of the River
Plate
Sivewright
DSC
Robert Henry Vivian
27.03.1942
07/09*
Commander RN (retd)
35506
9th Minesweeping
Flotilla
Belgian coast
Sivewright
MiD
Robert Henry Vivian
01.01.1941
Honours WW2
New Years Honours recognition Page 36
... zeal, patience & cheerfulness
in dangerous waters, and for
setting an example of wholehearted devotion to duty,
Listed as a resident of Spalding.
upholding the high tradition of the Could have been in the Patrol
Royal Navy
Service?
.. who, by his zeal and energy,
Page 2
brought his engines to full power
in record time, and his
thorough knowledge of the ship
and perfect organisation, checked
the damage. His calm and
cheerful manner set a fine
Promoted to Captain (E) 05.01.45
example to his fellows.
For courage, skill and endurance The London Gazette 35506 page 3
while minesweeping dangerous in
dangerous waters in
HM Ships Bangor, Blythe,
*"The Conway"
Eastbourne, Ilfracombe,
Peterhead, Polruan, Rothsay and
Sidmouth
For ... wholehearted devotion to London Gazette page 29
duty without which the high
tradition of the Royal Navy could
not have been upheld
"The Conway"
62
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
07/09*
35029
Commander RN (Retd)
9th Minesweeping
Flotilla
UK waters
Smith
DSC
Frank
21/23
Ty Lieut (E) RNR
28.05.43
36033
Not Stated
Not Stated
Smith
DSO
Vivian Funge
01.08.41
23/25 appr
35237
Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Aubretia
North Atlantic
Smith (aka
Duggan-Smith)
DFC
Peter Duggan
1939-40
32/35
34639 & 34986
RNZAFR
113 Squadron
Burma
Smythe
DSC
John Patrick
23/25
10.12.43
36284
Lt Cdr RNR
HMS Stonechat
(Corvette)
North Atlantic
Stephen (Listed as
Stephens)
John Andrew William
(John William)
Bar to DFC
Assumed to be J W Stephens
Page 15
22.11.40
No citation given
and/h107.html
Honours WW2
Part of a generic list which includes a
DSO for Louis Mountbatten
For ... gallantry or outstanding
Page 26
service in the face of the Enemy
.....
The only 'mariner' Frank Smith listed
For enterprise and skill in action Page 4
against enemy submarines
U-Boat net has a good account of S/Lt 22.05.28; Lt 15.05.30; Lt Cdr
the capture of U-110 resulting in 03.05.38, Cdr Rtd 31.08.50
acquisition of German codes
RD awarded 21.10.41
Cdr V F Smith RD DSO RNR O.C.
HMS Evenlode July 1944- May 1945
Gazette show first commission
Gazettes and 113 Squadron history
(SS) as PO and then. in 1940 to (various sources)
FO already with a DFC
113 Squadron history mention
Squdrn Ldr Peter Duggan-Smith
in connection with operations
against Japanese forces in 1942. Died in Vancouver 2003. Occupation
shown as "Shipping Co Cadet" on
entry 1939
For gallantry in action in HM
Page 2
Ships Stork & Stonecrop on
Convoy
Escort Duty
U-boat net
While in command of Cam (River List 1985 in Gravesend, Kent
Cl) ship was badly damaged
01.07.44
63
27/01/2012
Circumstances
29/30
34998 (6699)
Actg Flt Lieut RAFO
No 107 Squadron
(Blenheims)
See web-site for
107 Squadron
Stephen (Listed as
Stephens)
John Andrew William
(John William)
29/30
Flying Officer RAF
DFC
20.02.40
No citation
Stephen (Listed as
Stephens)
John Andrew William
(John William)
Mid
31.01.47
29/30
Squadron Leader RAF
37868 (559)
Probably still 107
Squadron
See below
01.07.46 Flight Lieut J W
Stephens appointed to a
Permanent Commission and
promoted
to Sq Ldr 01.08.47
Stephenson
MiD
John Keith Burdett
16/17*
Lieut Commander RN
28.06.40
34885 (4000)
HMS Warspite
Northern waters
Stephenson
OBE
John Keith Burdett
16/17*
NK
Not found
Commander RN (Retd)
NK
NK
Stewart
DSC
John Parker
02.01.1942
NK
35407
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
JAW Stephen not found. Honours
Board Lists a DSO, but nothing found
in the records
and/h107.html
JAW Stephen not found
34795 (10055)
Probably 107
Squadron
See below
and/h107.html
JAW Stephen not found
For daring, resource and devotion
to duty in the Second Battle of
Narvik
* The Conway
Possibly a post-War Birthday or
New Years Honours list, but
nothing found
No trace on any of the usual
web-sites
* The Conway
Gazette 37956 24/04/47 places Lieut
Cdr J K B Stephenson RN on the
Retired List with the rank of Cdr. (no
OBE)
For skill and enterprise in action Page 2
against enemy submarines
CO HMS Arabis (Corvette) sank
U-651 29.06.41
10.06.40 listed as CO HMS Elstan in
Norway
64
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Lieut Cdr RNR
HMS Arabis
North Atlantic
Stewart
MiD
John Parker
NK
Lieut Cdr RNR
03.10.41
35296
HMS Arabis
North Atlantic
Stride
MiD
Desmond Adair
02/04*
Commander RN (Retd)
16.08.1940
34925
Sources & Comments
For good services against enemy Page 2
submarines
from the
beaches at Dunkirk
London Gazette 34925 page 6
* The Conway
UK
Studd
Theodore Quintus
MiD
01.01.45
09/11
36866
Gp Capt RAF
NK
NK
Sturdy
Bar to DFC
Walter Ronald Nisbet
12.01.43
32/34?
35898
Squdrn Ldr
No. 214 Squadron
European bomber
operations
Sutcliffe (listed as
Sutcliff *)
MiD
George Ernest
24.11.44
1899/1901
Commander RN (Retd)
36815 (5456)
Not stated
Normandy
Swift
Bar to DSC
Honours WW2
The Conway: KGM winner 1911
Gaz 30913, page 9 20.09.18 cites
" .. 60 successful bombing raids
.... skillful pilot ... no matter
what adverse conditions may
1919 Commissioned as Flt Lt RAF.
prevail - awarded DFC
1985 List in Exmouth, Devon
See
Page 2
http://www.214squadron.org.uk/P
ersonnel_S.htm For
comprehensive biography
of this Canadian OC who sailed
with "CPS pre-war and became a
chiropractor afterwards.
Died in Vancouver in 1985.
No trace of his first DFC. 4
references to promotion 1939-1941
For distinguished service in
operations which led to the
successful landing of Allied
Forces in
Europe
* Noted in "The Conway" re entry
into RN
For courage & determination in a Conway newsletter No. 52 Autumn
series of successful attacks on
2006
Enemy escorted convoys off
65
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Donald Holmes
31/33
Lieutenant RN
10.11.44
36794 (5224)
HMS Bellona
Home Waters
the coast of France
Swift
DSC
For courage, resolution and skill Gazette page ?
in minesweeping
Donald Holmes
31/33
14.11.41
35349 (631)
Lieut RN
HMS Cromer
UK waters
Swift
MiD (1)
Donald Holmes
03.09.1940
31/33
34938 (5387)
Lieutenant RN
HMS Dunoon
(Minesweeper)
UK Waters
Swift
MiD (2)
Donald Holmes
31/33
Lieutenant RN
24.11.44
36815 (5457)
HMS Bellona
(Probably)
Normandy coast
Taylor
DSC
For gallantry, tenacity and
undaunted devotion to duty in
patrols in the Aegean area
throughtout one of the most
dangerous periods of the war in
the Mediterranean
Charles William
15.06.45
27/30
37136 (3187)
http://home.cogeco.ca/~gchalcraft/s
m/page31.html
He commanded Vampire until the RD awarded to Lt Cdr C W Taylor
end of the war, see also
DSC RNR 04.03.47; retires 01.07.50
A/Lieut Cdr RNR
H M S/M Vampire
(in command)
Aegean and
Greek waters
Honours WW2
Page 12
Commander Swift's Obit June '06
Later awarded Bar to DSC, Listed as
Captain RN 1985
For services on the occasion of
the loss of HMS Dunoon. As
senior surviving officer after the
ship was blown up by a rogue
mine, he ensured no-one was left
on board before abandoning ship
himself
Dunoon was mined and sunk
25nm ENE Gt Yarmouth
Served his time in P&O before T/F to
RN from RNR pre-war. Specialised
as Navigator
Gallantry, skill, determination and Page 5
undaunted devotion to duty
66
hip/3580.html
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Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Taylor
MiD
Ralph Palmer
19/21
NK
NK
Lt Col Indian Army
Tochi Scouts
Not stated
Thelwell
Robert George
NK
Commander RD RNR
OBE
01.01.41
35029
NK
NK
Page 8
Thomas
DSC
For courage, resolution and
devotion to duty in the face of
Enemy air attacks
Page 2
Allan
05.09.41
NK
35268
Lieut SASDF (or
SARNVR)
HMSAS Southern
Sea
Mediterranean
Thomas
MiD
Peter Hugh
37/39
18.09.42
35713
Sub Lieut RNR
HMS Ithuriel
(Destroyer)
Mediterranean
(Operation
Harpoon+)
Thornton
DSC
Frederick Harold
NK
1943-44
Not found
Lieutenant Cdr RNR
HMS Lord Lloyd
and Pimpernel
Western
Approaches
Honours WW2
One entry found for a Major (Ty
Lt Col) R P Taylor, 17th Dogra
Regt., attd Tochi Scouts
See Gaz. 36261 (5176) 23.11.43
All sources accessed. No sign of this
one apart from suggestion above, fits
pattern
SASDF provided a flotilla of
ex-Whale chasers for mineweeping
in N Africa
Southern Sea reported damaged in
air attack at Tobruk
For bravery and resolution in HM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ithu
Ships (21 listed) while escorting riel_(H05)
an important Convoy to Malta
+ Seedie's Roll
List 1985: Capt P H Thomas RD
living in Crediton, Devon
Noted as CO of Lord Lloyd (A/S
Trawler) 1940 and Pimpernel
(Corvette) 1942
Gaz 35487 13.03.42 page 3
promoted to Lt Cdr RNR (18.02.42)
RD awarded 07.04.44 (DSC quoted)
See also 36544 Captain Ernest Hugh
Thornton RD RNR, Union Castle
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Circumstances
Thornton
OBE
Frederick Harold
NK
1943-44
Sources & Comments
Noted as CO of Lord Lloyd (A?S Gaz 35487 13.03.42 page 3
Trawler) 1940 and Pimpernel
promoted to Lt Cdr RNR (18.02.42)
(Corvette) 1942
RD awarded 07.04.44 (DSC quoted)
Gaz 35487 13.03.42 records
promotion to Lt Cdr RNR (18.02.42)
Lieut Cdr RNR
Western
Approaches
Thornycroft
MiD(3)
Charles Edward Mytton
34/36
31.03.44
36454 (1555)
Lt Cdr RN
Mediteranean
Fleet
Aegean Sea
Thornycroft
MiD
Charles Edward Mytton
34/36
Lieut RN
15.01.43
35870 (390)
NK
North Russia
convoy
Tidswell
DSC
Frederick George
Pre-7/42
18/20
NK
MiD(1) A long New Year Honours
list for operations in the Aegean
Sea
Promoted Lieut Cdr RN 20.07.48 Awarded MBE in 1959
List 1985 in Corscombe, Dorchester,
died 2009
For gallantry, skill and devotion to Among awards for Arctic convoy
duty in face of persistent air
operations
attack and bringing ship to port
after being damaged
See other entry
Gazette 35648 page 2 28.07.42
awards MiD for "Great bravery
and devotion to duty"
This quotes Tidswell as having
the DSC
Nothing else about the DSC in the
London Gazette
Not in the Unit Histories source
Elgin was mined/damaged 04.05.44
and deemed not worth repairing
Lieutenant Cdr RNZNVR HMS Elgin or
HMS Birch
Home Waters Minesweeping
Timbrell
DSC
Robert Walter
35/37
27.08.40
34932
Sub Lieut RCN
HMS Llanthony
Dunkirk beaches
Honours WW2
... for good services in the
Page 6
the beaches at Dunkirk
RADML R W Trimbell CMM, DSC,
CD, RCN 01.02.20-18.04.2006
68
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Circumstances
Timbrell
MiD(2)
Robert Walter
35/37
01.08.44
NK
Lieut RCN
HMCS Ottowa,
UK Waters
Tippetts
DSO
Harry Jeffreys
NK
38/40
Not found
Ty Lieutenant RNR
NK
NK
Treweek
OBE
Cecil Randolph
29.12.44
1900/01
36867 (112)
Captain RD RNR (Retd) Master, Canadian
Merchant Navy
At Sea
Turbett
Cecil Lefroy
10/12*
OBE
09.07.40
31893
Commander RIN
Not stated
India based
Tyler
MiD
Charles Frederick
19.05.44
20/23
Lieut RNR
35626
Not specified
Mediterranean
Tyrer
DSC
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
U-Boat 621 was sunk in the Bay U-Boat net and Wikipedia entry
of Biscay, followed by U-984 two
days later by a Canadian Escort
Group
RADML R W Trimbell CMM, DSC,
CD, RCN 01.02.20-18.04.2006
No information on award, but two
Gazettes show his promotion to
Sub Lieut (18.06.43)
and to Lieut (24.11.44), the DSO
would thus have been awarded
after this date
Seedie's Roll does not show DSO
Navy List shows him in command
HDML 1181 (Lt RNR 14.10.44 - No
DSO)
Chief Cadet Captain Summer Term
1940
New Year Honours on
Page 4
recommendation of the Canadian
Government
Employed by Imperial Oil Co
Canadian web-site www.rcnvr.com
since 1919 and Park Shipping: in
command at sea throughout the
war in dangerous waters and
highly respected
Wongly transposed to Trewick
Page 4
* The Conway
Gazette 38186 shows Capt C L
Turbett OBE RN (ex-RIN) retires
Outstanding courage, resolution, Page 4
leadership, skill or devotion to
duty in operations which led to
successful landings on the Italian Gaz 37728 02.10.42 promoted Lieut
mainland at Selerno
RNR Snrty 26.04.42
List 1985 in Newick, Sussex
For courage and determination in Page 12
.... a series of successful attacks
on Enemy escorted convoys
69
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Circumstances
Edward Austen
10.11.44
1930's
36794 (5224)
Lieut RN
See below
Home Fleet
Veater
DSC
Alan
15.06.45
NK
37136
Lieut RNR
HMS Retalick
Home waters
Walgate
MiD
Richard
16.12.41
28/30*
35382
Lieut RNR
HM A/S Trawler
Vascoma
Northern waters,
convoy escort
Walker
DSC
Edward John Raymond
13.11.42
34/36
35788 (4990)
Sub Lieut SDF
HM S.A. Ship
Protea or
Southern Maid
Eastern
Mediterranean
Warwick
MiD
William Eldon
26/28
April 1945
Not found
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
off the coast of France (14 ships
listed in one of which he would
have been serving)
Donald Swift was in Bellona at this
time, see entry
For bravery, determination and
devotion to duty while serving in
HMS Retalick and Light Coastal
Forces in operations against
E-boats.
Enemy submarines, and
explosive motor boats
Page 2
Sank 4 German Mini submarines
(Biba boats)
Qoted as being from Rotherham
For good service in action against Gazette page 3; and U-Boat Net
enemy submarines
25 August 1941 U-452 was sunk * 1985 List
SE of Iceland by HM A/S Trawler
Vascama
Listing 1985 shows Lt Cdr Walgate in
Formby, Liverpool
For skill and resource in action
Page 2
against Enemy submarines while
serving in HM Ships Protea
and Southern Maid See source 2: http://www.naval-history.net/WW2Ca
Italian submarine Ondina sunk by mpaignsItalianNavy2.htm
Armed Trawlers Protea and
Southern Maid working with a
FAA Walrus from 700 Squadron
on 11.07.42
Obituary reports" ... mentioned in Undated Obituary (Telegraph?)
despatches for attacks on three
U-Boats in the Kola Inlet ... "
Survived the sinking of HM AMC Commodore Master, Cunard Line.
"Andonia" SE of Iceland in June Captain CBE RD RNR (retd)
1940. Subsequently commander
A/S escorts, corvettes and
frigates
70
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Circumstances
RNR
HMS Farnham
Castle
North Russian
waters
Watson
DSC
Donald Eric Ogilvy
10.10.41
28/31
35308
Lieut RN
HMS Truant
Mediteranean
Watson
MiD
Donald Eric Ogilvy
07.05.40
28/31
34845
Lieut. RN
HMS Truant
European Waters
Watson
MiD
Donald Eric Ogilvy
08.08.41
28/31
35242
Lieut. RN
HMS/M Truant
European waters
Watson
MBE
Douglass Rannie
06.08.43
27/29
Lieutenant RCNR
36126 (3587)
HMCS Mordern
Not stated
Watson
MBE
John Raymond
07/09/1945
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
Page 1
successful submarine patrols
By 1941 Truant was operating in See:
the Mediterranean
hip/3494.html
Donald Watson was lost on 11/11/42
in HM S/M Unbeaten
Daring, endurance and resource Page 2
in the conduct of hazardous and
dangerous operations against
the Enemy in His Majesty's
submarines
hip/3494.html
in HM S/M Unbeaten
For skill and enterprise in HMS
Truant
1940-41 Truant was very active
and successful in European
waters under Hurchinson and
Haggard, See:
http://www.uboat.net/allies/warshi
ps/ship/3494.html
Page 1
CWGC list DE Ogilvy Watson (listed
under "O")
in HM S/M Unbeaten
For outstanding leadership and Page 1
enterprise in taking a boarding
party abord a sinking merchant
vessel, rescuing crew members,
and salvaging a motor launch she
was carrying as deck cargo
http://www.rcnvr.com/W%20-%20RC
N%20-%20WW2.php
See also Source 2
Listed on Honours Board as OBE
For courage and initiative when in until they were picked up
charge of a boarding party sent
from HMS Loch More to
board a captured German U-boat
off the North of Scoland. When
the U-Boat started to sink he
71
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Circumstances
42/43
37260, page 1
Midshipman RNR
HMS Loch More
Home waters
Whayman
Bar to DSC
Jackson
19.05.44
19/21
Commander RNR
36526
SNO Landing
Salerno
Mediterranean
Whayman
DSC
Jackson
21.01.44
NK
Commander RNR
36354
Sources & Comments
mustered the party on deck,
Now (2008) resident in Auckland, NZ
"gave orders to abandon her, and
kept the party together in the
water
For outstanding courage,
resolution and devotion to duty in
operations
which led to successful landings
on the Italian mainland and at
Salerno.
nsx.html
Captain J Whayman CBE DSC* RD
RNR died Februaru 1987 in Banbury,
Oxfordshire
Commodore Master, Booth Line
For courage and unceasing
devotion to duty landing
reinforcements vitally
important to the Army in crossing
VOLTURNO River
nsx.html
Oxfordshire
Mediterranean
Whayman
MiD
Jackson
09.10.42
NK
Commander RNR
35743
Whayman
MiD
Jackson
06.11.44
NK
Commander RNR
36794
For good services on escort duty http://www.unithistories.com/units_in
in HM Ships Havelock and
Lavender
nsx.html
Oxfordshire
For courage, skill, determination http://www.unithistories.com/units_in
and undaunted devotion to duty dex/default.asp?file=../officers/perso
nsx.html
Forces in Normandy
Oxfordshire
Home Waters
White
DSC
Hedley Ian Saxton
07.12.45
Honours WW2
For distinguished service during Page 5
the war in Europe
http://www.uboat.net/allies/command
ers/commanders.php?cID=2640
72
27/01/2012
Circumstances
33/35?
37380
Lieutenant RNR
HMS Guillemot
At Sea
MiD
White
William Douglas Stanley 24.09.40
32/32
34953
Lieutenant RN
HMS Protector
Norway
Wilcox
MBE
Sources & Comments
Commanded three escort vessels Promoted to Lt Cdr 08/11/47 Gazette
1940-45
No 38167, RD 09.11.49, Cdr 30/06
54.
For services in or near Narvik
Unable to find any history of
Protector in this campaign
Page 2
Protector was a netlayer launched in
1936 designed to lay nets to protect
the fleet
Birthday Honours List
William Harold Mortimer 09.07.40
NK
34893
Page 8. In 1939 Wilcox rejoined
from the Reserve of Officers of the
RASC
The inference is that Wilcox had
been a Regular soldier
Captain RASC
Wilcox
MiD
service in North Africa
William Harold Mortimer 14.09.43
NK
36173
RASC records have photo of RASC
Training Depot staff, Central Med.
Force D3/1568 June 1945 showing
Wilcox
Gaz 37775 of 01.11.46 he retires
with hon rank of Lieut Colonel
Capt (temp Major) RASC NK
North Africa
Wilkes
Frank Moorly
MBE
No information in Gazette or any
other known source
Chances are he was Merchant
Navy, aged 40 plus, Ch Offr or
Master
15/16
Honours WW2
No trace in London Gazette. Tried
again 30.03.11
73
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Circumstances
Wilson
MiD
Graham Francis
Winstanley
02/04
Captain DSO RN
19/10/1945
Woolfenden
DSC
Joseph Eric
21.11.41
24/26
35357 (6772)
Lieut RNR
HMS Hydrangea
(Flower Class)
North Atlantc
Work
2nd Bar to DSC
Magnus Spence
16.03.45
26/27
36992 (1506)
Ty Actg Lieut Cdr DSC
RNR
HMS Bamborough
Castle
Northern Waters
Work
Bar to DSC
Honours WW2
Sources & Comments
For good service, leadership and
resource during captivity in
Germany in organising escapes
from the prison camp over a
period of several years by which
means valuable information was
received by the War Office.
The Great War D.S.O. group of
seven awarded to Captain G. F. W.
Wilson, Royal Navy, who was
decorated for his command of the
sloop Zinnia during a skilfully
executed attack on an enemy
submarine in May 1917 - Zinnia
worked in close liaison with
Queenstown Command’s Q-Ships,
on one occasion coming to the
rescue of Gordon Campbell’s
Pargust: taken P.O.W. in the
1939-45 War, following the sinking of
the armed boarding vessel Van Dyck
off Norway in 1940, Wilson was
S.B.O. at Marlag und Milag and won
a “mention” for his part in organising
escape activities
37318 (5180)
Captured off Norway. POW
HMS Vandyke
(BV) and POW in
Germany
Captured off
Narvik
For determination and skill in
Sub Lieut TWBP Hamilton was also
action against Enemy submarines in Hydrangea (see entry)
Hydrangea took part in the
The Conway: KGM 1926. Gazette
sinking of U-401 03.08.41
35728 awarded RD 02.10.42
Google shows him as Snr. 1st Officer
of Caronia 29.01.49 and 15.08.50,
Captain 1967
For gallant service, endurance
and devotion to duty while
serving in HMS Bamborough
Castle
in Arctic seas while escorting
convoys to and from Russia
CO 28.03.44 to 11.03.45. A
highly successful escort captain,
he never lost a man
Page 2
Obituaries in Daily Telegraph,
Conway Newsletter, etc
U-387 was sunk in the Barents Sea
on 09.12.44
For outstanding leadership, skill Page 1
and devotion to duty in HMS
Dahlia in successful actions with
74
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Magnus Spence
02.06.44
26/27
36551 (2703)
Tc Actg Lieut Cdr DSC
RNR
HMS Dahlia
Sources & Comments
U-boats while on convay escort
duty in the Atlantic
Left Dahlia 28.12.43, stood by
Bamborough Castle
For gallantry and distinguished
service in the face of the enemy
Dahlia was part of First Escort
Group
London Gazette 36309, page 32;
also autobiographical notes
see also award of Bars to the DSC
Atlantic
Work
DSC
Magnus Spence
31/12/1943
26/27
Lieutenant RNR
36309
HMS Dahlia
North Atlantic
Wynne-Edwards
Bar to DSC
Cecil John
14/16
20.12.42
35466
Commander RN
1st Minelaying
Squadron
Northern waters
Wynne-Edwards
DSC
Cecil John
14/16
Lieut Cdr RN
For good service in the
Gazette
the beaches of Dunkirk
34867
NK
Home waters
Wynne-Edwards
MiD
Cecil John
27/06/1941
14/16
35204
Commander RN
1st Minelaying
Squadron
Home waters
Yool
CB
William Munro
08/10?
Air Vice Marshal
28.12.45
37407
AOC Admin (Med)
Honours WW2
For bravery, seamanship, and
Gazette page 3
devotion to duty while serving in
HM Minelayers
Squadron Navigating Officer
"N" specialist, became Director of the
Admiralty Compass Observatory
King's Birthday Awards: for
outstanding zeal, patience and
cheerfulness
and never failing to set an
example of wholehearted
devotion to duty,
without which the high tradition of
the Royal Navy could not be
upheld.
Gazette
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/YO
OL.shtml
75
Senior navigator of the 1st
Minelaying Squadron, Northern
Barrage
27/01/2012
Circumstances
Sources & Comments
Mediterranean &
Middle East
Yool
CBE
William Munro
08/10?
28.12.40
35029
Group Captain RAF
Staff College
United Kingdom
Young
MiD
David
05.02.43
40/42
Cadet, Merchant Navy
35895
Ship and
Company not
stated
Mediterranean
Honours WW2
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/YO
OL.shtml
Joined army RFC 1915, RAF 1919,
retired as AVM 1949
For gallantry, skill & resolution
while an important convoy was
fought through to Malta in the
face of relentless attacks by day
& night from Enemy aircraft,
submarines and surface forces
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