Officers of the RCN (original) (raw)
naturally, Canadian ships are prefaced with HMCS (His Majesty's Canadian Ship),British ships with HMS (His Majesty's Ship). Despite her name, the battleship _Canada_was a British ship.
Royal Canadian Navy
Department of the Naval Service
Minister of the Naval Service: Colonel the Hon. Charles C. Ballantyne
Private Secretary: Gustave Heidmann
Deputy Minister of the Naval Service: George J. Desbarat
Director of the Naval Service: Admiral Sir Charles E. Kingsmill
Chief of Staff: Acting Commander Stephen H. Morres, RCN
Consulting Naval Engineer: Acting Engineer-Captain Arthur C. Darley, RN
Naval Secretary: Paymaster Lieut-Commander (acting) James R. Hemsted, RN
General Superintendent, Radiotelegraphs: Lieutenant-Commander Charles P. Edwards, RNCVR
Chief Accountant: Louis J. Beausoleil
Director of Stores: John A. Wilson
Officers of the Royal Canadian Navy
| Name and Rank | Seniority | Remarks | Ship Number | Ship |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral | ||||
| Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill | 3 Apr 1917 | Admiral, RN ret'd, Director of Naval Service | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) |
| Vice-Admiral | ||||
| William Oswald Story | 27 Apr 1917 | RN ret'd, Supt. of Esquimalt D'yard (NB: his entry in the list of RN officers states "Admiral in Charge of Halifax Dockyard" | - | - |
| Captains | ||||
| Frederick Claude Coote Pasco | 30 June 1890 | RN ret'd | 1009 | (shore establishment Lansdowne) |
| Edward Harrington Martin (Hon AdC to the Governor General) | 31 Dec 1912 | RN ret'd Captain Superintendent, Halifax D'yard | (seems to have been borne in HMCS Niobe) | |
| Walter Hose | 19 Mar 1918 | Commander, RN ret'd | 1015 | at one point borne in HMCS_Stadacona_, later "Captain of Patrols", borne in the patrol Depot Ship HMCS Seagull |
| Commanders | ||||
| John Thomas Shenton | 7 Dec 1906 | RN ret'd | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service" |
| Duncan Tatton Brown | 30 June 1908 | lent from RN | - | Halifax Dockyard |
| Frederic William Haigh James (temp) | 1 Apr 1910 | RN (ret'd) | 1015 | HMCS Stadacona |
| George Bernard Eldridge (Acting Captain) | 7 Sept 1912 | RN (ret'd) | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service" |
| Arthur Francis Lysons Atwood | 18 June 1914 | RN (ret'd) | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service" |
| Richard Markham Tyringham Stephens | 1 Aug 1914 | RN (ret'd), Dept. Naval Service, Ottawa | 703 | (borne in HMS President) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service" |
| Edward Atcherley Eckersall Nixon | 1 Aug 1915 | RN (ret'd) | - | - |
| Hugh Edward Holme | 15 Feb 1917 | RN (ret'd) | - | Commanding Officer HMCS_Niobe_ |
| Lieutenant-Commanders | ||||
| Stephen Harvey Morres (Acting Commander) (AdeC to the Governor General) | 1 Apr 1910 | RN (ret'd), Chief of Staff | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe for HQ in Ottawa) |
| John Harry Knight | 31 Dec 1910 | RN (ret'd) | - | borne in patrol depot ship HMCS_Seagull_ |
| Percy Frederic Newcombe (Acting Commander) | 1 Oct 1914 | lent from RN | - | - |
| Bertram Edward Jones (tempy) (Acting Commander) | 30 Aug 1915 | RN (Emergency List) | 1014 | HMCS Shearwater |
| Wilfred Tyrrel Walker (tempy) | 30 Oct 1915 | RN (ret'd) | - | commanding officer (?) of HMCS Acadia |
| Henry William Webb | 22 July 1916 | RN (ret'd) | - | - |
| Allan Baddeley (tempy) | 28 Nov 1917 | - | - | - |
| Edmund Gilling Hallewell | 1 Aug 1918 | RCN (lent to RN) | - | - |
| Lieutenants | ||||
| Francis Beversham Hanson | 1 Jan 1913 | lent from RN | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) |
| Percy Walker Nelles | 14 July 1914 | lent to RN | 38 | (was in the cruiser HMS Antrim, but then was borne in HMCS_Niobe_ as Flag Lieutenant) |
| Henry Trennick Bate (tempy) | 15 Aug 1914 | lent to RN | 138 | HMS Cassandra |
| Phillip Barry German (tempy) | 23 Aug 1914 | RCN | - | borne in sloop HMCS_Shearwater_ |
| Charles Taschereau Beard (late Mid. RNR) | 14 Nov 1914 | lent to RN | 787 | in command of destroyer HMS_Saracen_ |
| Victor Gabriel Brodeur | 14 Jan 1915 | lent to RN | 133 | cruiser HMS Caradoc |
| John Francis Schofield (tempy) | 12 Sept 1915 | - | - | (borne in HMCS Niobe) |
| Yvon Birley (tempy) | 5 May 1916 | - | - | commanding officer of HMCS_Rainbow_ |
| Arthur Stanley Dean (late Mid. RNR) | 14 Jan 1917 | lent to RN | 129 | battleship HMS Canada |
| Ronald Cameron Watson | 17 Apr 1917 | lent to RN | 226 | borne in HMS Dolphin "for command of submarines" |
| Leonard Warren Murray | 1 June 1917 | lent to RN | 16 | battleship HMS Agincourt |
| George Clarence Jones | 1 June 1917 | lent to RN | 910g | HMS Vanquisher |
| Robert Frederick Lawson | 15 July 1917 | lent to RN | 669 | HMS Pasley |
| Ronald Ian Agnew | 15 July 1917 | lent to RN | 710 | battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal |
| James Denoon Laurie | 2 Aug 1917 | lent to RN | - | - |
| John Moran Grant | 17 Sept 1917 | lent to RN | 75 | destroyer HMS Beaver |
| John Eric Wodehouse Oland | 2 Oct 1917 | - | - | - |
| George Arthur Worth | 17 Nov 1917 | lent to RN | 302 | destroyer HMS Foxhound |
| Hubert James FitzMaurice Hibbard | 17 Nov 1917 | lent to RN | 215 | destroyer HMS Defender |
| Leon Joseph Maurice Gauvreau | 17 Dec 1917 | lent to RN | 626 | HMS Oberon |
| Alexander Harvey Dand | 1 Jan 1918 | lent to RN | 686 | light cruiser HMS Phaeton |
| Douglas Burnell Moffatt | 1 Jan 1918 | lent to RN | 165 | destroyer HMS Cockatrice |
| John Grant Edwards | 1 Mar 1918 | lent to RN | 874 | borne in HMS Thames for submarine course |
| Robert Wainman Wood | 1 June 1918 | lent to RN | 986 | borne in submarine depot ship HMS Platypus "for submarines" |
| William James Robert Beech | 14 July 1918 | lent to RN | 31 | borne in HMS Ambrose "for submarines" |
| Harold Reed Tingley | 5 Aug 1918 | lent to RN | 535 | HMS Melampus |
| Henry Wickens Stephens Soulsby | 6 Aug 1918 | lent to RN | 417 | HMS Jackal (TBD) |
| Acting Lieutenants | ||||
| Howard Emerson Reid | 5 Apr 1918 | lent to RN | 927 | HMS Viscount |
| Thomas Sandford Critchley | 5 June 1918 | lent to RN | 860 | HMS Tarpon |
| Donald St. George Lindsay | 5 June 1918 | lent to RN | 857 | HMS Talisman |
| Cuthbert Robert Holland Taylor | 5 June 1918 | lent to RN | 6 | destroyer HMS Acheron |
| John Crispo Ingles Edwards | 5 July 1918 | lent to RN | 125 | destroyer HMS Cameleon |
| Godfrey Musgrave Hibbard | 1 Sept 1918 | lent to RN | 890a | HMS Torrid |
| Sub-Lieutenants | ||||
| Richard Hibbard Oland | 2 Aug 1917 | lent to RN | 71 | HMS Barham |
| Frank Llewellyn Houghton | 16 Nov 1917 | lent to RN | - | HMS PC63 |
| Arthur Roddy Pressy | 16 Nov 1917 | lent to RN | 509 | HMS Mameluke |
| Roy Max Puddycombe | 31 Dec 1917 | lent to RN | 458 | destroyer HMS Legion |
| Valentine Stuart Godfrey | 2 Mar 1918 | lent to RN | 226 | borne in HMS Dolphin for submarine course |
| Acting Sub-Lieutenants | ||||
| Edson Crawford Sherwood | 1 Nov 1917 | lent to RN | - | - |
| Frederick Gordon Hart | 1 Mar 1918 | - | 609 | HMS Nizam |
| William Stuart Etleigh Morrison | 1 Mar 1918 | - | 769 | battleship HMS Royal Sovereign |
| Morris Adrian Wood | 1 Mar 1918 | - | - | - |
| Alfred Charles Wurtele | 1 Mar 1918 | - | 850 | flotilla leader HMS Swift |
| Oswald Francis Walter Critchley | 1 May 1918 | lent to RN | 134 | HMS Carnarvon |
| Midshipmen | ||||
| Wallace Bouchier Creery | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| George Berkeley Fraser Barnes | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Harold Taylor Wood Grant | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Alured Philip Musgrave | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Adrian Mitchell Hope | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Francis Robert Williams Roberts Gow | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Colin Degge Donald | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Edwin Alexander Thompson | 2 Feb 1917 | - | - | - |
| Roger Edward Shelford Bidwell | 15 Feb 1918 | - | 129 | battleship HMS Canada |
| Edmond Rollo Mainguy | 15 Feb 1918 | - | 129 | battleship HMS Canada |
| Robert Benney Brett | 15 Feb 1918 | - | 129 | battleship HMS Canada |
| Engineer-Captain | ||||
| William Smeeton Frowd | 16 May 1916 | RN (ret'd) | - | Halifax Dockyard |
| Engineer-Lieutenant-Commander | ||||
| Richard Alexander Howley | 1 Aug 1913 | lent from RN | - | - |
| Engineer-Lieutenants | ||||
| Angus Downes Mathwin Curry | 11 May 1912 | - | - | - |
| Hubert John Napier-Hemy | 26 June 1912 | consulting naval engineer | - | - |
| George Pauleston Clarke | 17 Aug 1912 | lent to RN | 188a | HMS Coventry |
| Frank Harvey Jefferson | 4 Mar 1913 | lent to RN | 797a | HMS Scout |
| Reginald Henry Wood | 1 May 1916 | lent from RN | 1015 | HMCS Stadacona |
| George Leslie Stephens (act) | 1 Nov 1915 | - | - | - |
| Ninian Bannatyne (act) | 1 Jan 1916 | - | - | borne in patrol depot ship HMCS_Seagull_ |
| Tempy. Engineer-Lieutenants | ||||
| Thomas Caleb Phillips (Act. Engineer-Lieut-Commander) | 5 Nov 1915 | lent from RN | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) for HQ Ottawa |
| Charles Gregg Parkyn | 9 May 1917 | - | - | - |
| Naval Instructors | ||||
| Basil Shakespear Hartley (Director of Studies)(Instructor Commander RN) | 14 June 1892 | lent from RN | - | - |
| Clive Garfield Allin | 24 Oct 1910 | - | - | - |
| David Anton Frederick Robinson | 1 Jan 1911 | - | - | - |
| Staff Surgeon | ||||
| Joseph Armound Rouseau | 1 Dec 1916 | - | - | (borne in HMCS Niobe) for RCN Hospital Halifax |
| Surgeon | ||||
| George Allan Lyall Irwin | 15 June 1912 | - | - | (borne in HMCS Niobe) for RCN Hospital Halifax |
| Fleet Paymaster | ||||
| George Burton Osborne (Paym. Commr. RN) | 31 Mar 1910 | lent from RN | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) |
| Staff Paymasters | ||||
| Harold Charles Frank Pinsent (Paym. Lieut.-Com. RN) | 28 Mar 1917 | lent from RN | - | - |
| David Sidney Lambert | 2 Mar 1918 | Paym. Lieut-Com RN (lent) | 1013 | patrol depot ship HMCS Seagull |
| Paymasters | ||||
| William Ernest Brissenden (Acting Staff Paymaster) | 4 Sept 1909 | Paym Lieut. RN (Emergency) | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe for victualling duties and for College) |
| James Rustat Hemsted (Acting Staff Paym.)(Acting Paym. Lieut-Comm RN) | 7 Dec 1912 | Sec. Dept. Naval Service, Ottawa, lent from RN | 1010 | (borne in HMCS Niobe) Naval Secretary in Ottawa |
| Gerald Philip Haddon (Acting Staff Paymaster) | 7 Dec 1912 | RCN (temp) Paym. Lieut (emergency list) | 1015 | borne in HMCS Stadacona |
| Arthur Leslie Withers (Acting Staff Paymaster) | 30 June 1911 | RCN (tempy) | - | -(borne in HMCS Niobe) for HQ Ottawa |
| George Cunningham Cook (tempy) (act) | 1 Aug 1914 | - | - | - |
| Assistant Paymaster | ||||
| John E. Wood (Acting Staff Paymaster)(tempy) | 18 Aug 1914 | - | - | (borne in HMCS Niobe) "For Miscellaneous and Special Duties" |
| Assistant Clerk | ||||
| Donald Stewart Neilson (tempy) | 1 July 1917 | - | - | - |
| Shipwright Lieutenant | ||||
| John Henry Davey | 29 June 1912 | Commissioned Shipwright RN, Halifax Yard | - | - |
Additionally, there was a "temporary Commander, RCN" Frederick W. H. James borne in HMCS Rainbow for "miscellaneous and Special Service at Esquimalt".
Last Updated: 12 July, 1999.
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