Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - F (original) (raw)
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Fairbairn, Alan Bernard Murray ![]() ![]() |
20.02.1906 Plymouth, Devon - 06.01.1995 New Forest district, Hampshire | ... ... A/S.Lt. 01.01.1928 S.Lt. 1929?, seniority 01.11.1927 Lt. 01.02.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.02.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1942 (retd 10.03.1954; own request) | Education: Sherborne School. 06.1924 special entry cadet ... - ... ... 25.07.1939 - 06.1942 Torpedo Officer, HMS Valiant (battleship) (despatches) 06.1942 - 06.01.1943 HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (for Electrical Department) 06.01.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Vernon (torpedo school & experimental establishment, Roedean School, Brighton) (in charge of Electrical Department) ... - ... ... |
Fairbairn, Bernard William Murray ![]() |
18.04.1880 Alderbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire - 05.04.1960 Seven Gables Nursing Home, Addington, Winslow, Buckinghamshire (formerly of Claydon, near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire) | Naval Cadet 15.07.1894 Midsh. 12.09.1896 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1900 S.Lt. 28.03.1901, seniority 15.01.1900 Lt. 04.11.1901, seniority 15.07.1901 Lt.Cdr. 15.07.1909 Cdr. 30.06.1914 Capt. 30.06.1919 R.Adm. 20.04.1931 V.Adm. 01.01.1936 (retd 02.01.1936) (dispersal 28.08.1945) (reld 23.10.1945) (reverted to retd 24.10.1945) Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 03.09.1939 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: HMS Britannia. 15.07.1894 entered RN ... - ... ... 15.08.1922 - 14.10.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (cruise of the Special Service Squadron) 27.10.1924 - 26.02.1925 Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.07.1925 - 16.04.1927 Commanding Officer, Gunnery School, HMS Vivid (RN Barracks, Devonport) 16.04.1927 - 22.04.1927 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 22.04.1927 - 23.12.1928 Director of Gunnery Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.12.1928 - 15.04.1929 Director of Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.04.1929 - 01.12.1930 Commanding Officer, HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 13.01.1931 - 18.12.1931 Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College [HMS President] 02.01.1932 - 01.08.1934 Vice-President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President] 01.08.1934 - 02.01.1936 President of the Ordnance Committee, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [HMS President] 03.09.1939 - 05.07.1940 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Pembroke IV] 05.07.1940 - 11.05.1942 Commodore of Convoys [HMS Eaglet II] 12.05.1942 - 28.08.1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Milford Haven [HMS Skirmisher] (to serve in rank of R.Adm.) |
Falcon-Steward, Hugh William ![]() |
04.06.1907 Chertsey, Surrey - 12.08.1987 Gosforth, Whitehaven district, Cumberland | Cadet 15.01.1924? Midsh. 15.05.1925 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1927 S.Lt. 25.10.1928, seniority 01.04.1928 Lt. 01.11.1929 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1937 Cdr. 31.12.1939 (retd 04.06.1957) A/Capt. < 04.1946 till 1947? | 15.01.1921 entered RN 06.09.1924 - 13.11.1926 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 13.11.1926 - 03.1927 HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 03.1927 - 09.1927 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) HMS Whitehall (destroyer) (Mediterranean) * 29.09.1927 - 11.04.1928 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 12.04.1928 - 10.1928 promotion course, Portsmouth 08.11.1928 - 25.02.1930 HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 12.04.1930 - 30.12.1931 HMS Vidette (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 qualifying for anti-submarine duties, RN College, Greenwich [HMS Osprey] (09.1932) no appointment listed 12.01.1933 - (08.)1934 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 25.10.1934 - (02.)1935 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Escapade (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) 30.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Echo (destroyer) (and for flotilla duties, 5th Destroyer Flotilla) (Home Fleet) 30.10.1935 - (02.)1936 Anti-Submarine Officer, 19th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Douglas (flotilla leader)] (Mediterranean) (accommodated in HMS Viceroy) 15.06.1936 - 1936 HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 22.09.1936 - (06.)1938 Anti-Submarine Officer, 4th Destroyer Flotilla [HMS Campbell (flotilla leader), later: HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) (and for flotilla duties) 15.08.1938 - (09.1939) HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (04.1940) no appointment listed (10.1940) no appointment listed 28.11.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Boscawen (RN base, Portland) (additional; for various services) 03.07.1941 - 18.12.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Venomous (destroyer) (despatches) [except for 02.1942-04.1942] 30.12.1942 - (01.)1945 Staff Officer (Tactics) on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches [HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool)] 02.1945 - 04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Braithwaite (frigate) 03.04.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Helmsdale (frigate) ? - (04.1946) Combined Operations Joint Planning Staff, Combined Operations HQ 08.09.1947 - (05.1950) Officer-in-Charge, Harbour Defence Training Centre, Devonport [HMS Defiance] 01.09.1952 - (07.)1954 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 30.08.1954 - (01.)1957 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] (OBE) * indexed, but not listed as such |
Falkner, Robert Ian Tardrew "Pip" |
06.04.1916 Taplow, Buckinghamshire - 08.05.1975 Kensington, London | Cadet 01.09.1933 Midsh. 01.05.1934 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1936 S.Lt. 04.10.1937, seniority 01.01.1937 Lt. 27.09.1938, seniority 01.08.1938 > 08.1939, seniority 01.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1945 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 (retd 29.06.1948) | Education: RN College, Dartmouth (Grenville Term) 01.09.1933 - (01.)1934 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 03.05.1934 - (07.1934) HMS Achilles (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 12.01.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies) 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 10.08.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.04.1938 - (08.)1938 HMS Hermes (aircraft carrier) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 22.09.1938 - (04.)1939 HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth) (for MTBs) 04.1939 - 21.10.1940 Commanding Officer, MTB No. 17 [HMS Vulcan (Coastal Forces depot ship)] (sunk in mining off Ostend) (02.1941) no appointment listed 08.08.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (08.1942) HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) * 04.10.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Pakenham (destroyer) (for Signal & W/T duties) 17.04.1943 - (12.1943) Fleet Wireless Assistant, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt)] 02.1944 - (07.1945) Communications and Radio Equipment, British Army Delegation, Washington [HMS Saker] 01.02.1946 - (07.1946) Radio Equipment Department, Admiralty [HMS President] Company director.* indexed, but not listed as such |
Fallowfield, Walter Herman Gordon ![]() |
27.04.1888 Ochiltree House, nr Mauchline, Ayrshire, Scotland -06.12.1954 RN Hospital, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk | Midsh. 15.07.1904 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1907 S.Lt. 17.09.1908, seniority 15.11.1907 Lt. 30.06.1910 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1918 Cdr. 312.12.1924 Capt. 31.12.1931 (retd 09.07.1941) (dispersal 14.02.1946) (reld 11.04.1946) (reverted to retd 12.04.1946; medically unfit) | 15.01.1903 entered RN 01.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Benbow (battleship) (Mediterranean Fleet) (01.1925) no appointment listed 07.04.1925 - (05.1926) Executive Officer, HMS Durban (cruiser) (China) (07.1927) no appointment listed 03.10.1927 - (08.1929) Mobilisation Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.01.1930 - (01.)1932 Executive Officer, HMS Warspite (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 08.08.1932 - (09.1932) Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth 23.03.1933 - (07.1935) HMS Dundee (sloop) (America & West Indies) (02.1936) no appointment listed 18.09.1936 - (08.)1938 Captain-in-Charge, Ceylon [HMS Norfolk II (RN base & dockyard, Ceylon)] (10.1938) no appointment listed (02.1939) no appointment listed 15.02.1939 - 29.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (Home Fleet & Battle of River Plate) 01.03.1940 - 13.05.1940 HMS Victory (additional; for foreign service leave & unemployed time) 14.05.1940 - 21.05.1940 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty with imperial defence course) 22.05.1940 - 02.05.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Ganges (New Entry training establishment, Shotley Gate, Ipswich, Suffolk) 03.05.1944 - 16.05.1944 HMS Victory IV (for disposal) 17.05..1944 - 04.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Imperieuse I & Naval Officer-in-Charge Gairloch & from 21.10.1944 as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Clyde 05.12.1944 - 26.02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Clyde 27.02.1945 - 14.10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Kent (cruiser) & Senior Officer Reserve Fleet, Clyde |
Fancourt, Henry Lockhart St John |
01.04.1900 -08.01.2004 | Midsh. 01.01.1916 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1918 S.Lt. 15.09.1918 Lt. 15.08.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.08.1928 Cdr. 31.12.1933 Capt. 31.12.1940 (retd 07.01.1950) | 01.1913 entered RN ... - ... ... 18.01.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkney) ... - ... ... 15.01.1943 - 06.10.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) 07.10.1943 - 23.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Unicorn (aircraft carrier) ... - ... ... |
Faning, Michael Roger Eaton |
27.08.1908 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk - 01.03.1991 Gipping and Hartismere, Suffolk | Midsh. RNR 01.01.1926 A/S.Lt. RNR 27.08.1929 S.Lt. RNR 01.08.1931 Lt. RNR 15.07.1933 Lt. (Supplementary List) 13.03.1937, seniority 27.08.1932 Lt. 1938?, seniority 27.08.1932 Lt.Cdr. 27.08.1940 (retd 27.08.1953) A/Cdr. 20.07.1945?, till > 04.1946 & < 05.1953 Cdr. Royal Malayan Navy < 1958 | 10.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Glorious (aircraft carrier) (Mediterranean) (07.1937) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 01.12.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness) 04.04.1938 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Walpole (destroyer) ? - (02.1941) Boat Unit, Royal Marines (RM) Group Mobile Naval Base Defence Organization (MNBDO) (1) 03.1942 - 07.1943 Commanding Officer, St Joseph's Barracks, Ceylon [HMS Lanka] (10.1943) no appointment listed 04.11.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Asbury (accommodation, Asbury Park, New Jersey) (for miscellaneous duties) (04.1944) - (06.1944) HMS Fitzroy (frigate) * 13.06.1944 - (04.)1945 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) 20.07.1945 - (04.1946) Executive Officer, HMS Queen (escort carrier) 16.01.1947 - (10.1947) HMS St Vincent (boys' training establishment, Gosport, Hants.) ** 14.11.1949 - (05.1950) RN Barracks, Devonport [HMS Drake] 23.04.1952 - (05.1953) HMS Terror (monitor) * indexed, but not listed as such ** (07.1948) still indexed, but no longer listed as such |
Fanning, Antony Edward "Tony" |
15.11.1918 Blyth - 29.12.2005 [Windsor ?] | Cadet 01.01.1936 Midsh. 01.09.1936 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1938 S.Lt. 01.01.1939 Lt. 01.01.1940 > 06.1944, seniority 01.06.1938 * A/Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.06.1946 (retd 17.11.1958) Hon. Cdr. 17.11.1978 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: RN College, Dartmouth (05.1932-01.1936) 01.01.1936 - 01.09.1936 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 01.09.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.06.1937 - (08.)1938 HMS Revenge (battleship) (Home Fleet) 05.09.1938 - (04.)1939 promotion course, Portsmouth 12.06.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Milford (escort vessel) (Africa) [As the Anti-Submarine Control Officer and Gunnery Control Officer he was responsible for the sinking or capture of the French Submarine Pontcelet, a large s/m. He dropped the depth charges and when it surfaced he was GCO and they hit the Conning Tower first shot. No decorations were given for this attack on a hostile French submarine.] 1941 - 1941 qualified as Navigating Officer [HMS Dryad] 15.09.1941 - (12.)1941 Navigating Officer, HMS Eglinton (destroyer) 1941 - 01.1942 Navigating Officer, 50th ML Flotilla (mining the coast of France and Belgium) 01.1942 - (08.)1942 Navigating Officer, HMS Campbell (destroyer) 16.09.1942 - (10.)1943 Navigating Officer, HMS Mendip (destroyer) (12.1943) - (06.)1944 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) * (06.)1944 - 08.1944 Staff Officer (Operations) & Staff Navigating Officer, Assault Group L2 [HMS Woolverstone] (Normandy landings, and later on the staff of the Turn Round Control Organisation at Southampton) 14.08.1944 - (07.1945) Executive Officer, HMS Caesar (destroyer) (and for navigation duties) (4 North Russian convoys) (04.1946) no appointment listed took part in the intervention landings in Indonesia Navigation and Direction (ND+) Specialist & Navigating Officer, HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 15.03.1948 - (05.1949) Navigating Officer, HMS Liverpool (cruiser) (05.1950) no appointment listed Head of the Action Information Training Centre, HMS Dryad (navigation training establishment, Portsmouth) (05.1953) no appointment listed 30.12.1953 - 1958 HMS Dryad (navigation training establishment, Portsmouth) (dealing with Navigating Officers' appointments) * indexed, but not listed as suchLecturer, London Planetarium. Joined the Admiralty Compass Observatory (ACO) at Slough in 1960, and was Naval Deputy Director, Navigation Directorate, Navy Department from 09.03.1962, becoming (after the amalgamation with the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment) the Senior Naval Officer & Application Commander, retiring finally on 17.11.1978. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (F.R.I.N) and a Gold Medallist of that Institute. Also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Published: Astronomy explained (1963; republished as: Planets, stars and galaxies : descriptive astronomy for beginners, 1966); Steady as she goes : a history of the Compass Department of the Admiralty (1986); wrote many other items such as the 'History of the Action Information Organisation (AIO)' for the Naval Radar History Book (Vol 1.); also contributed to the RIN's latest book 'The History of Air Navigation' just published. |
Fanshawe, Peter Evelyn |
13.09.1911 - 31.01.1994 Wandsworth, London | Cadet 01.01.1929 Midsh. 01.09.1929 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1932 S.Lt. 16.05.1932 Lt. 16.05.1934 Lt.Cdr. 16.05.1942 Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 31.12.1953 (retd 1966) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: RN College, Dartmouth 05.01.1929 - (08.1929) HMS Renown (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 04.01.1930 - (02.1931) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) (China) 31.12.1931 - (01.)1932 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 22.08.1932 - (09.1932) promotion course, Portsmouth 12.04.1933 - (07.)1935 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) (Mediterranean) 07.10.1935 - (02.)1936 observers' course 29.06.1936 - (07.)1937 acting observer, HMS Courageous (aircraft carrier) (Home Fleet) 01.12.1937 - (04.1939) observer, HMS Birmingham (cruiser) (China) (08.1939) - (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm 23.05.1940 - 13.06.1940 senior observer, 803 Squadron FAA [HMS Ark Royal (aircraft carrier)] [aircraft L2991, piloted by J. Casson, made an emergency landing on an operation to Trondheim; captured] 1940 - 1945 prisoner of war (Stalag Luft III; chief organiser ('dispersal chief') of the 'great escape') (07.1945) HM Dockyard, Colombo * 03.1946 - (04.1946) observer, HMS Vengeance (aircraft carrier) 29.09.1947 - (07.1948) observer, HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (05.1950) Commanding Officer, HMS Amethyst (sloop) (Korea) * 19.05.1952 - (05.1953) Executive Officer, RN Barracks, Lee-on-Solent [HMS Daedalus] 21.12.1954 - 1957 Commanding Officer, HMAS Albatross (RAN Air Station, Nowra) & Resident Naval Officer, Jervis Bay 10.07.1959 - (07.1961) Director of Naval Air Organisation and Training (DAOT), Admiralty [HMS President] 1962 - 1963 Vice-President, Admiralty Interview Board 16.02.1963 - 1966 Naval Assistant to Naval Secretary [HMS President] Served on the West African Committee in Ghana until 1975 and then was secretary of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 and 1785.* indexed, but not listed as such |
Fanshawe, Timothy Claude Upton "Tim" |
19.08.1915 - 01.08.1949 Naval Hospital, Haslar (died of leukaemia) | Cadet 01.01.1933 Midsh. 01.09.1933 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1936 S.Lt. 01.11.1936 Lt. 16.10.1938 Lt.Cdr. 16.10.1946 ![]() |
Education: RN College, Dartmouth 01.01.1933 - 01.09.1933 HMS Frobisher (cadet training cruiser) 02.09.1933 - (02.)1936 HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 29.04.1936 - 03.01.1937 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.01.1937 - (07.)1937 promotion course, Portsmouth 28.08.1937 - (04.)1939 HMS Londonderry (escort vessel) (Africa) 22.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Amazon (destroyer) (12.1941) no appointment listed (06.1942) Liaison Officer, SS Bhutan (Port Said-Malta convoy) 07.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Cleopatra (cruiser) (06.1943) HMS Javelin (destroyer) * 08.1943 - 02.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Southdown (destroyer) 08.05.1945 - (07.1945) HMS St Vincent (preliminary air training establishment, Gosport, Hampshire) (for preliminary air training duties) (04.1946) no appointment listed 10.1946 - 29.08.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Octavia (Algerine class minesweeper) (07.1948) no appointment listed (05.1949) no appointment listed * indexed, but not listed as such |
Farnfield, Gilbert Lescombe ![]() |
15.11.1907 Thanet, Kent - 11.11.1961 Ranfurly Castle Golf Course, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire | A/S.Lt. RNR 15.11.1928 S.Lt. RNR 01.10.1932 Lt. RNR 18.09.1934 Lt. (Supplementary List) 30.03.1937, seniority 15.11.1931 Lt. 1938?, seniority 15.11.1931 Lt.Cdr. 15.11.1939 Cdr. 30.06.1945 Capt. 30.06.1950 (retd 07.07.1959) | 27.12.1935 - (02.1936) HMS Orion (cruiser) (Home Fleet) * 19.04.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 04.04.1938 - (04.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS Electra (destroyer), later HMS Keith (flotilla leader) (Home Fleet) 20.06.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Hereward (destroyer) 30.10.1940 - 11.07.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Defender (destroyer) (sunk) 15.06.1942 - (06.)1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Quality (destroyer) 11.11.1944 - (07.1945) HMS Warren (Combined Operations base, Largs) 10.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Orlando (RN base, Greenock) (for staff duties) (05.1950) - (01.1956) no appointment listed * (02.1937) still indexed, but no longer listed as such |
Farnol, James Jeffrey Edward ![]() |
21.05.1912 Croydon district, London -18.05.1974 died as a result of an accident at sea whilst serving with the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard | Cadet 01.09.1929 Midsh. 01.05.1930 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1932 S.Lt. 01.05.1933 Lt. 01.09.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.09.1943 Cdr. 30.06.1947 Capt. 30.06.1952 (retd 13.04.1956) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
... - ... ... 10.1939 - (12.)1940 HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) 10.12.1940 - (04.)1942 Gunnery Officer, HMS Inglefield (destroyer) (despatches) 05.1942 - (12.1942) Gunnery Officer, HMS Milne (destroyer) (02.1943) - (04.1943) HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) * (06.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed 28.08.1944 - (04.1946) Gunnery Officer, HMS Sheffield (cruiser) ... - ... ... 10.12.1950 - 07.1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Morecambe Bay (anti-aircraft frigate) (Bar to DSC, Bronze Star Medal (US), Officer Legion of Merit (US)) 03.03.1953 - (04.)1955 Commanding Officer, HMS Diligence 22.08.1955 - 20.031956 Commanding Officer, HMS Wizard |
Farquhar, John Wentworth ![]() |
23.04.1897 St George district, Ednburgh City, Scotland - 17.10.1985 Johnstone district, Renfrew, Scotland | Midsh. 03.08.1914 ?, seniority 31.07.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.07.1916 S.Lt. 15.01.1917 A/Lt. 15.03.1918 Lt. ?, seniority 15.02.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 Cdr. 31.12.1932 Capt. 31.12.1939 (retd 08.01.1949) (reverted to retd 22.05.1949) Cdre. 2nd cl. 01.09.1945? ![]() |
01.1910 entered RN (08.1923) College 20.10.1924 - (01.1925) HMS Rocket (destroyer) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 15.12.1925 - (05.1926) Signal School (Experimental) [HMS Victory] 31.05.1927 - (08.)1929 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) 28.08.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) (for anti-submarine school) 22.07.1930 - (01.)1932 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (and as Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer, Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932) no appointment listed (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed 03.08.1933 - (02.)1936 Executive Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) (New Zealand Division) 14.12.1936 - (02.)1939 Commanding Officer, Anti-Submarine School, Portland [HMS Osprey] 02.03.1939 - (12.1939) Executive Officer, HMS Dunedin (cruiser; boys' seagoing training ship and T/B target ship) (Reserve Fleet, Portsmouth) 31.01.1940 - 25.02.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) 26.02.1940 - 19.06.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Despatch (cruiser) 20.06.1940 - 20.10.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Diomede (cruiser) 26.07.1941 - 23.02.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty as Duty Captain) 24.02.1942 - 02.09.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) & as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Campbeltown 03.09.1943 - 30.09.1943 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 01.10.1943 - (03?).1944 Naval Assault Group Commander S1 [HMS Cochrane (additional), from 01.11.1943 HMS Odyssey (additional)] (03?).1944 - 11.06.1944 Senior Officer Assault Group (SOAG) G1 [Force "G"] [HMS Odyssey (addtional)] [aboard HMS Nith] (Normandy); soon after the initial landings appointed as: Captain Southbound Sailings [seriously injured while proceeding inshore in MGB 17 11.06.1944] 07.08.1945 - 31.08.1945 HMS Cochrane (additional) 01.09.1945 - (04.1946) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth [HMS Cochrane (RN base, Rosyth) (additional)] 20.11.1947 - (07.1948) Flag Captain, HMS Sussex (cruiser) 07.1948 - 08.01.1949 also: Navy ADC to the King |
Farquharson, John Phelips ![]() |
14.06.1884 Corfu - 31.03.1960 Homington, Salisbury, Wiltshire | Naval Cadet 15.09.1899 Midsh. 28.02.1901 A/S.Lt. 30.04.1904? S.Lt. 23.06.1905, seniority 30.04.1904 Lt. 01.10.1906 Lt.Cdr. 01.10.1914 Cdr. 31.12.1918 (retd 14.06.1930; own request) Capt. (retd) 14.06.1930 (recalled 11.1939 [A/Capt.]) (dispersal 07.01.1946) (reld 04.03.1946) (reverted to retd 05.03.1946) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
15.09.1899 entered RN 07.08.1918 - (01.1919) Commanding Officer, HMS Catania (armed yacht) 29.08.1921 - (08.)1923 Executive Officer, HMS Dauntless (light cruiser) 18.09.1923 - (05.1926) HMS Vernon (torpedo school, Portsmouth) (for submarine detection duties) (07.1927) no appointment listed 20.07.1927 - (08.1929) Executive Officer, HMS Fisgard (depot for training of artificer apprentices) (04.1930) no appointment listed (04.1940) no appointment listed 01.04.1940 - (12.1941) HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for miscellaneous services: as Capt. (M.L.) Chatham) 05.1942 - 11.1943 Captain M/L (motor launches), Brightlingsea [HMS Nemo (auxiliary patrol base, Brightlingsea)] * (12.1943) no appointment listed 15.01.1944 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Attack (Coastal Forces base, Portland) * 05.1942 also (temporarily) as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Brightlingsea |
Farrant, James Gerald ![]() ![]() |
06.07.1901 - 26.09.1997 New Forest district, Hampshire | Midsh. 01.04.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1922 S.Lt. 1923?, seniority 15.08.1922 Lt. 15.05.1924 Lt.Cdr. 15.05.1932 Cdr. 31.12.1939 (retd 06.07.1951) A/Capt. > 04.1946, < 04.1947 | 15.06.1919 - 31.03.1921 special entry cadet, HMS Carnarvon 03.01.1923 - (08.1923) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 17.03.1924 - (01.)1925 HMS Scythe (destroyer) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 13.08.1925 - (07.)1927 HMS Wolfhound (destroyer) (Atlantic Fleet) 29.09.1927 - (06.)1928 qualifying for anti-submarine duties, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 01.08.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 04.11.1929 - (04.)1930 HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school, Portland) 01.05.1930 - (02.)1931 Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Thruster (destroyer) (China) 05.05.1931 - (09.1932) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Keith (destroyer; flotilla leader, 4th Destroyer flotilla) (and for anti-submarine duties in flotilla) 17.01.1933 - (06.1933) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1934 - (07.1935) Fleet Anti-Submarine Officer, Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship)] (02.1936) no appointment listed 20.06.1936 - (10.1938) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Nelson (battleship) (Home Fleet) 04.01.1939 - (04.)1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for junior officers' war course) 27.07.1939 - (09.1939) Anti-Submarine Officer, HMS Cardiff (cruiser) & for Squadron duties, Reserve Fleet Destroyer Flotillas (Devonport) (04.1940) - (10.1940) HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) * 12.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (for miscellaneous services) 06.11.1941 - (08.1942) Executive Officer, HMS Delhi (cruiser) (02.1943) no appointment listed (06.1943) no appointment listed (07.1943) Staff Officer (Operations) to Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (despatches) (08.1943) no appointment listed 20.09.1943 - (10.)1943 Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (12.1943) no appointment listed 16.12.1943 - 14.12.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Aldenham (escort destroyer) [ship mined & sunk in north-east Adriatic] (despatches) (07.1945) HMS Beaufort (destroyer) * 10.10.1945 - 01.02.1946 Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.02.1946 - (07.1948) Deputy Director of Underwater Weapons Department (Anti-Submarine), Admiralty [HMS President] 28.02.1949 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) * indexed, but not listed as such |
Farrell, William James ![]() |
24.05.1909 Devonport district, Devon - 24.02.1974 St Maughans, Hereford district, Monmouth | ... ... Paym.Lt.Cdr. = Lt.Cdr. (S) 01.10.1939 T/Paym.Cdr. 10.08.1940? A/Paym.Cdr. = A/Cdr. (S) 28.05.1942? Cdr. (S) 30.06.1945 (retd 24.05.1959) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
... - ... ... 10.1937 qualified as interpreter in Russian 04.01.1938 - (04.)1940 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) 10.08.1940 - (12.1941) Secretary to Flag Officer Commanding Force H [HMS Rodney (battleship)] 28.05.1942 - (12.1943) on personal staff of Commander-in-Chief, Levant [HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria)] (04.1944) - (01.1945) HMS Nile * (06.1944) staff of Flag Officer Assault Area (07.1945) HMS Douglas * ... - ... .... (1959) HMS Ariel * indexed, but not listed as such |
Fasson, Francis Anthony Blair "Tony" ![]() |
17.07.1913 Scotland - 30.10.1942 Mediterranean (KIA) [age 29] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 62, column 1] | Midsh. 01.05.1931 A/S.Lt. 01.09.1933 S.Lt. 16.05.1934 Lt. 16.09.1936 RAF: F/O 15.09.1935 * "Awarded the George Cross for most conspicuous gallantry in carrying out hazardous work in a very brave manner." Lt. Fasson together with Able Seaman Colin Grazier, R.N., both boarded a sinking submarine following action by H.M.S. Petard. The crew of the submarine surrendered and survivors were taken off. In total darkness Fasson and Grazier entered the sinking submarine to capture instruments and documentation fully aware of the dangers. They continued to hand over documents and equipment until suddenly the vessel sank like a stone without warning and took both to their deaths . Both were posthumously awarded the George Cross. | 06.09.1930 - (06.)1933 Midshipman, HMS Rodney (battleship) (Home Fleet) 28.09.1933 - (01.1934) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 05.01.1935 - (07.1935) HMS Curacoa (cruiser; gunnery and torpedo school cruiser, Portsmouth) 15.09.1935 - (02.1936) pilot's course, No. 1 Flying Training School, Leuchars [attached to RAF till 16.06.1936] 18.07.1936 - (02.1937) HMS Salamander (sloop minesweeper) 19.04.1937 - (02.1938) HMS Shoreham (escort vessel) (and for divisional gunnery and minesweeping duties) (East Indies) (06.1938) no appointment listed 01.07.1938 - (08.1938) Physical and Recreational Training course, Portsmouth 05.08.1938 - (10.1938) First Lieutenant, HMS Windsor (destroyer) (Portsmouth local flotilla) (04.1939) no appointment listed 20.07.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Hostile (destroyer) (02.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) * 03.1942 - 30.10.1942 First Lieutenant, HMS Petard (destroyer) * indexed, but not listed as such |
Faulkner, George Haines |
27.04.1893 Handsworth, Staffordshire -22.08.1983 Lustleigh, Newton Abbot district, Devon | Midsh. 15.09.1910 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1913 S.Lt. > 30.10.1913 Lt. 21.10.1914 [special promotion in in recognition of his services in the naval flight off Heligoland] Lt.Cdr. 21.10.1922 Cdr. 30.06.1928 Capt. 31.12.1935 (retd 02.01.1945) (dispersal 25.08.1947) (reverted to retd 29.10.1947) Cdre. 2nd class 15.02.1943 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: Lickey Hills School, Worcestershire; RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth (1906-1910). 15.01.1906 - 14.09.1910 training establishments 15.09.1910 - 15.09.1911 HMS Bellerophon (Home Fleet) 29.09.1911 - 09.1913 HMS Argyll (Home Fleet) 08.10.1913 - 12.11.1913 HMS Tyne (for Torpedo-Boat Destroyers) 13.11.1913 - 05.02.1914 [lent] HMS Shannon (for Emergency Reserve Destroyers) 06.02.1914 - 12.04.1914 HMS Shannon (additional) 13.04.1914 - 08.05.1916 HMS Laertes [tender to HMS Dido] (wounded in action with German Fleet 28.08.1914; shell wound right thigh; admitted to hospital for 3 weeks) 09.05.1916 - 20.06.1916 HMS Legion [tender to HMS Dido] 21.06.1916 - 20.01.1917 HMS Laertes [tender to HMS Pembroke, from ...06.1916 to HMS Dido] 21.01.1917 - 01.02.1918 HMS Red Gauntlet [tender to HMS Dido] 02.02.1918 - 02.04.1918 HMS Nimrod (flotilla leader) (for gunnery duties) 02.04.1918 - 16.12.1918 Commanding Officer, HMS Mystic (torpedo-boat destroyer) 17.12.1918 - 05.1919 Commanding Officer, HMS Thruster (torpedo-boat destroyer) 19.06.1919 - 30.09.1919 HMS Patriot (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Columbine] 01.10.1919 - 12.08.1920 HMS Thanet (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Columbine] 13.08.1920 - 14.12.1921 HMS Viscount (torpedo-boat destroyer) 15.12.1921 - 15.08.1922 HMS Valiant (battleship) 16.08.1922 - 25.09.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 26.09.1922 - 08.07.1923 war staff course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 09.07.1923 - 31.07.1923 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 01.08.1923 - 07.02.1925 HMS Hood (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) (additional; as Assistant War Staff Officer) (temporary) [on Special Service Squadron World Cruise] 08.02.1925 - 28.03.1925 HMS Revenge (on staff (operations) of Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet) (temporary) [lent, vice Cdr. G.P. Thomson, sick] 29.03.1925 - 30.04.1925 no appointment listed 01.05.1925 - 17.08.1925 HMS Revenge (on staff (operations) of Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet) (temporary) 11.09.1925 - 08.10.1925 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 09.10.1925 - 30.12.1926 HMS Montrose (flotilla leader, 1st Destroyer Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 31.12.1926 - 09.04.1928 Commanding Officer, HMS Voyager (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 10.04.1928 - 09.06.1928 no appointment listed 10.06.1928 - 07.10.1928 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 08.10.1928 - 13.12.1928 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth (Part 2) [HMS Victory] 14.12.1928 - 13.01.1929 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 14.01.1929 - 14.03.1929 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth (Part 1) [HMS Victory] 15.03.1929 - 01.05.1931 Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 02.05.1931 - 01.06.1931 HMS Vivid (additional; for unemployed time) 02.06.1931 - 23.04.1932 Executive Officer, HMS Comus (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 24.04.1932 - 26.07.1932 no appointment listed 27.07.1932 - 02.1935 Executive Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (on recommissioning) 02.1935 - 11.09.1935 no appointment listed 12.09.1935 - 16.09.1935 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional) 17.09.1935 - 11.10.1936 HMS President IV (Base Defences, Mediterranean) 12.10.1936 - 14.01.1937 Senior Officers’ War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.01.1937 - 17.02.1937 HMS Bideford (escort vessel) Persian Gulf) (additional) 18.02.1937 - 16.04.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (escort vessel) (Persian Gulf) & from 10.04.1938 Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf (temporary) 17.04.1938 - 29.07.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Shoreham (escort vessel) & as Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf (temporary) 30.07.1938 - 25.09.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (escort vessel) (Persian Gulf) 26.09.1938 - 30.09.1938 Senior Officer Minesweeping Flotilla Mediterranean 01.10.1938 - 31.10.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Pangbourne (twin screw minesweeper) & as Senior Officer, 3rd Minesweeping Flotilla (Mediterranean) 01.11.1938 - 02.12.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (escort vessel) (Persian Gulf) 03.12.1938 - 29.01.1939 foreign service leave 30.01.1939 - 12.03.1939 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; whilst unemployed) 13.03.1939 - 18.06.1939 Senior Officers’ War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 19.06.1939 - 30.07.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) & as Senior Officer Reserve Fleet Nore 31.07.1939 - 04.09.1939 HMS Pembroke IV (accounting base, Chatham) 05.09.1939 - 01.05.1941 on staff of Commander-in-Chief Nore Command [HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham)] (from 09.09.1939-28.11.1939 as Chief of Staff) 02.05.1941 - 21.06.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) 22.06.1942 - 07.08.1942 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty, for Boat Committee) 08.08.1942 - 14.02.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Berwick (cruiser) 15.02.1943 - 19.03.1945 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief South Atlantic and as Principal Sea Transport Officer for the Union of South Africa [HMS Afrikander (RN base, Simonstown)] 07.07.1944 - 02.01.1945 also: Naval ADC to the King 20.03.1945 - 19.04.1945 HMS Victory IV (additional; while unemployed) 20.04.1945 - 12.07.1945 lent to New Zealand Division 13.07.1945 - 05.1947 First Naval Member & Chief of Naval Staff New Zealand Naval Board (Navy Office, Wellington) [lent to New Zealand Division] (CB) 05.1947 - 25.08.1947 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for passage to UK & full pay service leave) |
Faulkner, George Vivian Barnett ![]() ![]() |
18.03.1897 Woolfardisworthy, Crediton, Exeter district, Devon - 02.07.1962 Cape Town, South Africa | Midsh. 02.08.1914 ?, seniority 31.07.1914 A/S.Lt. 15.05.1916 S.Lt. 15.11.1916 A/Lt. 15.01.1918 Lt. 15.05.1918 10.05.1922, seniority 15.02.1918 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1926 Cdr. 30.06.1932 (dispersed 18.03.1947) (retd 14.05.1947; age) (granted War Service Rank of Capt.) A/Capt. 12.02.1942 ![]() |
Education: RN College, Osborne & Dartmouth (01.1910-02.08.1914). 02.08.1914 - 13.09.1914 HMS Victorious (battleship) 13.09.1914 - 18.06.1916 HMS Neptune (battleship) 18.06.1916 - 05.1917 HMS Ambuscade (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Hecla (special torpedo vessel (dep�t ship))] 19.05.1917 - 22.05.1917 HMS Tetrarch (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Blake (cruiser)] 22.05.1917 - 19.03.1918 HMS Ulysses (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)] 19.03.1918 - 02.04.1919 First Lieutenant, HMS Sabrina (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Sandhurst (destroyer depot ship)] 02.04.1919 - 26.04.1919 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (additional; to report at Admiralty) 26.04.1919 - 06.1919 HMS Tenedos (torpedo-boat destroyer) [tender to HMS Prince George (battleship)] 06.1919 - 07.06.1921 HMS Birmingham (light cruiser) [tender to HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth)] 03.07.1921 - 02.08.1921 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 02.08.1921 - 17.08.1921 HMS Tring (twin-screw minesweeper) (for navigational duties in lieu of Lt. (N) [temporarily]) [tender to HMS Ganges (training establishment, Shotley)] 17.08.1921 - 10.10.1921 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 10.10.1921 - 03.1922 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (additional; to qualify in long navigation course) 12.03.1922 - 19.04.1922 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional for unemployed time) 19.04.1922 - 28.09.1922 HMS Barham (battleship) (additional; for navigating duties) (temporarily) 28.09.1922 - 21.11.1922 Navigating Officer, HMS Godetia (sloop) 21.11.1922 - 03.1923 Navigating Officer, HMS Harebell (sloop) 10.03.1923 - 23.04.1923 Navigating Officer, HMS Newark (twin-screw minesweeper) (temporarily) 23.04.1923 - 04.1925 Navigating Officer, HMS Wallflower (sloop) (Africa) 09.09.1925 - 05.10.1925 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 05.10.1925 - 19.01.1926 HMS Dryad (navigation school, Portsmouth) (additional; for 1st class ship course) 19.01.1926 - 20.01.1926 Navigating Officer, HMS Enterprise (cruiser) [tender to HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport)] (for trials) 20.01.1926 - 07.12.1926 Assistant Navigating Officer, HMS Lucia (submarine depot ship) (Mediterranean) (temporary) 08.12.1926 - 24.04.1929 Navigating Officer, HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (China) [tender to HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham), re-commissioned 19.01.1927] 25.05.1929 - 04.04.1932 Navigating Officer, HMS Shropshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham), commissioned 24.09.1929] 08.08.1932 - 16.08.1932 HMS President (additional; for meteorological course at Air Ministry) 16.08.1932 - 06.1933 Navigating Officer, HMS Dorsetshire (cruiser) & as Squadron Navigating Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Home Fleet) 13.06.1933 - 14.12.1934 Navigating Officer, HMS Leander (cruiser) (and as Squadron Navigating Officer, 2nd Cruiser Squadron) (Home Fleet) 15.01.1935 - 12.1935 staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (psc) 01.01.1936 - 07.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Saltburn (twin-screw minesweeper; signal and navigation schools sloop) (temporary) 04.07.1936 - 28.07.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Escapade (destroyer) (Home Fleet) [assumed command 20.07.1936] 01.08.1938 - 24.09.1940 naval staff, Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President (additional)] 24.09.1940 - 03.12.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Koningin Emma (commando troop ship) [tender to HMS Caroline (RN base, Belfast)] 03.12.1940 - 05.02.1941 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services: for duty outside Admiralty with Director of Combined Operations) 05.02.1941 - 10.12.1941 HMS President (for special and miscellaneous services: for duty inside Admiralty with Director of Combined Operations) 10.12.1941 - 12.02.1942 HMS President (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty: for duty with Commodore Combined Operations & as Assistant Naval Adviser, Combined Operations) 12.02.1942 - 06.1942 Captain of Fleet on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet [HMS Lanka (RN base, Colombo, Ceylon)] 06.1942 - 07.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Erebus (Erebus class monitor) [this appointment cancelled according to his handwritten service record] 26.07.1942 - 08?.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (D class cruiser) (temporarily) 08?.1942 - 11?.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Tana (RN base, Kilindini, Kenya) & as Maintenance Captain on staff of Flag Officer East Africa and Zanzibar [according to handwritten service record] 08.1942 - 02.11.1942 HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) [according to Navy List] 02.11.1942 - 12.11.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Hecla (destroyer depot ship) (torpedoed & sunk off Morocco by U-515) 31.12.1942 - 11.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Abercrombie (Abercrombie class monitor) [tender to HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne)] (Silver Star Medal) 11.1943 - 04.1944 HMS St. Angelo (RN base, Malta) (additional; for miscellaneous duties at Malta: as Captain Superintendent, Taranto) 03.05.1944 - 16.05.1944 HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (additional; for training) 16.05.1944 - 23.10.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Ravager (Archer class escort carrier) 10.12.1945 - 12.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Lynx (RN base Dover) & Naval Officer-in-Charge Dover 18.12.1946 - 18.03.1947 HMS Pembroke I (RN base, Chatham) (additional; not to join) |
Faulkner, Hugh Webb ![]() |
13.06.1900 Mount Bischoff, Tasmania, Australia - 24.05.1969 Taunton, Somerset | T/Midsh. 15.07.1916 T/A/S.Lt. 20.12.1918, seniority 15.05.1918 S.Lt. 15.01.1919 Lt. 15.06.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.06.1928 Cdr. 30.06.1934 Capt. 30.06.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. 22.11.1943-05.03.1945 Cdre. 1st cl. 06.03.1945-01.12.1945 R.Adm. 08.07.1949 (retd 27.06.1952; medically unfit) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: Melbourne Grammar School; RN Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth. 15.07.1916 - 15.04.1920 served RAN (Permanent Naval Forces of Australia): 15.07.1916 - 08.05.1918 HMAS Australia 09.05.1918 - 27.07.1918 London Depot RAN 28.07.1918 - 28.07.1919 HMAS Australia 29.07.1919 - 30.09.1919 HMAS Swan 01.10.1919 - 26.02.1920 HMAS Cerberus 27.02.1920 - 15.04.1920 London Depot RAN 18.07.1921 - (08.)1923 HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 27.09.1923 - (01.)1925 qualifying for gunnery duties [HMS Excellent] 06.1925 - (05.1926) Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid] 08.1926 - 06.1927 Assistant Gunnery Officer, HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) (07.1927) no appointment listed 25.08.1927 - (08.)1929 Gunnery Officer, HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) (Africa) 30.10.1929 - (02.1931) Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Vivid] (01.1932) no appointment listed 03.08.1932 - (07.)1934 Gunnery Officer, HMS Norfolk (cruiser) & as Fleet Gunnery Officer, America and West Indies Station 22.11.1934 - 16.03.1936 Executive Officer, Gunnery School, Devonport [HMS Drake] 20.04.1936 - 26.04.1936 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 27.04.1936 - 30.05.1938 Assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 31.05.1938 - 31.07.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Resolution (battleship) (Home Fleet) [until commissioning on 06.07.1940 on the books of HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport) (additional)] 01.08.1940 - 12.08.1940 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (additional; for unemployed time) 13.08.1940 - 23.10.1940 HMS President (additional; for special service outside Admiralty) 24.10.1940 - 19.02.1941 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 27.02.1941 - 02.03.1941 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) (additional; for command of HMS Roberts (monitor) & for duty with Admiral Superintendent, Contract-Built Ships) 03.03.1941 - 16.03.1941 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) (temporary) 17.03.1941 - 30.05.1941 HMS Spartiate (RN base, Glasgow) (additional; as Captain Minesweeping Glasgow) (temporary) 31.05.1941 - 02.05.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Edinburgh (cruiser) & as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer, 18th Cruiser Squadron (despatches twice) 20.07.1942 - 31.10.1942 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Expeditionary Force [HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty)] 01.11.1942 - 08.11.1942 Chief Staff Officer to Commander Eastern Naval Task Force [HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) (additional; for HMS Evolution (operations base))] (DSO) 09.11.1942 - 09.12.1942 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Inshore Squadron [HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) (additional; for HMS Evolution (operations base))] 10.12.1942 - 21.03.1943 Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral "B" [HMS President (additional; for duty outside Admiralty)] 22.03.1943 - 13.07.1943 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral Force "P" [HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) (additional)] (despatches) 14.07.1943 - 06.10.1943 Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer Sicily [HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) (additional)] (despatches) 07.10.1943 - 21.11.1943 Senior Naval Officer, Sicily [HMS Excellent II (accounting base, Portsmouth) (additional)] 22.11.1943 - 05.03.1945 Commodore Combined Operations [HMS President (additional; for duty inside Combined Operations Headquarters as Commodore Combined Operations)] 06.03.1945 - 02.09.1945 Chief of Staff to Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief Expeditionary Force (ANXCF) [HMS Odyssey (additional), later HMS Royal Henry (additional)] (CBE) 03.09.1945 - 01.12.1945 HMS Victory IV (accounting section, Portsmouth) 01.12.1945 - 07.07.1947 Commanding Officer, HMS Triumph (aircraft carrier) [up to 09.06.1946 HMS Calliope (RN base, Tyne) (additional; and for duty with Admiral Superintendent, Contract-Built Ships)] & from 07.01.1947-20.01.1947 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Vice-Admiral (Air) and Second-in-Command Mediterranean & from 15.03.1947-07.07.1947 as Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Flag Officer (Air) and Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet 28.02.1948 - (05.)1949 Captain of Royal Naval College, Dartmouth [HMS Britannia] 01.1950 - 1951 Flag Officer, Malayan Area & Admiral Superintendent HM Dockyard, Singapore (CB) Fellow of the Woodward Corporation. CStJ DL, 1968, High Sheriff, 1969, Somerset. |
Favell, Richard Molyneux ![]() |
12.03.1914 - 10.1995 Penzance, Cornwall | ... ... Midsh. 01.01.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1934 S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.10.1935 Lt.Cdr. 01.07.1943 Cdr. 31.12.1947 (retd 13.12.1949) ![]() |
... - ... ... 25.04.1931 - (01.)1934 HMS Resolution (battleship) (Mediterranean) 02.05.1934 - 06.01.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 07.01.1935 - (02.1935) promotion course, Portsmouth ... - ... ... 17.02.1939 - (08.1939) First Lieutenant, HMS H 33 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 01.1940 - (04.1940) HMS Elfin (submarine base, Blyth) 06.01.1941 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS H 33 (submarine) 05.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) 14.07.1942 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS P 312 (submarine), renamed 1943: HMS Trespasser 10.04.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Talent (submarine) ... - ... ... High Sheriff of Cornwall, 1963. Deputy Lieutenant (DL), Cornwall, 31.12.1971. |
Fawkes, George Barney Hamley ![]() |
04.09.1903 - 26.07.1967 [Bermuda?] | Midsh. 15.09.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924 S.Lt. 30.07.1924 Lt. 30.12.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.12.1933 Cdr. 30.06.1938 A/Capt. 05.07.1942? Capt. 31.12.1942 Cdre. 1st cl. 1951? R.Adm. 08.07.1952 (retd 29.02.1956) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: RN Colleges, Osborne & Dartmouth. 1920 entered RN 06.05.1923 - (08.1923) Midshipman, HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship) 10.04.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 04.1926 - (05.1926) HMS L 54 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) (Mediterranean) 15.04.1927 - (05.)1928 First Lieutenant, HMS L 54 (submarine) (2nd Submarine Flotilla) 24.05.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Torrid (destroyer) (Anti-Submarine Flotilla, Portland) 08.07.1929 - (08.)1929 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) (for submarines) 08.08.1929 - (02.1931) First Lieutenant, HMS Osiris (submarine) (3rd Submarine Flotilla, China) (01.1932) no appointment listed 23.04.1932 - (10.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS H 50 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) 17.01.1933 - (06.1933) staff course, RN Staff College, Greenwich [HMS President] (01.1934) no appointment listed 05.01.1934 - (11.1934) Staff Officer (Operations) to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (battleship)] 14.01.1935 - (02.)1935 submarine Commanding Officers' course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto] 02.04.1935 - (02.1937) Commanding Officer, HMS Otus (submarine) (China) (07.1937) no appointment listed 06.12.1937 - (02.)1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot ship, Gosport) ((and for duty with submarines) 09.05.1938 - (06.)1938 tactical course, HM Dockyard, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 29.08.1938 - (04.)1940 Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 30.12.1940 - (02.)1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Pigmy (submarine base, Gibraltar) & Captain (S/M), 8th Submarine Flotilla 1941 British Military Mission to USSR (Black Sea) (12.1941) no appointment listed 05.07.1942 - 12.1943 Commanding Officer, HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) & Captain (S/M), 8th Submarine Flotilla (Gibraltar, Algiers, Alexandria) 12.1943 - (04.)1944 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport] 20.05.1944 - (04.)1946 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport] 27.11.1946 - (07.1948) Flag Captain & Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station [HMS Sheffield] 25.01.1949 - (05.1950) Director of Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 12.1951 - 1953 Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Indomitable, later HMS Vanguard] 09.02.1954 - 07.12.1955 Flag Officer Submarines [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] & Commander Submarine Forces Eastern Atlantic, NATO (01.1956) no appointment listed |
Fegen, Edward Stephen Fogarty ![]() |
08.10.1891 Southsea, Hampshire - 05.11.1940 Atlantic Ocean (KIA) [age 49] [Chatham Naval Memorial, panel 34, column 1] | Midsh. 15.05.1909 S.Lt. 15.05.1912 Lt. 15.10.1913 Lt.Cdr. 15.10.1921 Cdr. 30.06.1927 A/Capt. 02.1940 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
15.09.1904 joined RN 1914 - 1918 Lieutenant in the ships Amphion and Faulknor, and as second in command of torpedo-boat No. 26 and the destroyer Moy (01.1919) HMS Paladin (torpedo-boat destroyer) (01.1922) HMS Whitley 12.1922 - 01.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Somme (torpedo-boat destroyer) 01.1924 - 11.1924 Commanding Officer, HMS Volunteer (torpedo-boat destroyer) 28.11.1924 - (01.1925) Executive Officer, HMS Colossus (battleship; boys' training ship, Devonport) 15.01.1926 - (07.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Forres (twin screw minesweeper) (Devonport) 11.1927 - 11.1927 Senior Officers' Technical Course, Portsmouth 26.11.1927 - 09.12.1927 London Depot RAN [HMAS Cerberus II (additional)] [on loan to RAN] 10.12.1927 - 18.01.1928 HMAS Cerberus (additional for passage to Australia per "Orsova") [on loan to RAN] 19.01.1928 - 22.08.1929 Executive Officer, RAN College, Jervis Bay, NSW, Australia [HMAS Franklin] [on loan to RAN] 23.08.1929 - 03.09.1929 HMAS Penguin (additional; to await passage for UK) [on loan to RAN] 04.09.1929 - 07.12.1929 London Depot RAN [HMAS Cerberus] (additional; for passage to UK per "RMS Cathay") [on loan to RAN] 23.12.1929 - (02.1931) Executive Officer, HMS Suffolk (cruiser) (China) (01.1932) no appointment listed 25.07.1932 - (07.)1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Osprey (anti-submarine school) (08.1934) no appointment listed 15.10.1934 - 02.1935 Senior Officers' War Course, RN College, Greenwich 02.04.1935 - (07.)1935 Commanding Officer, HMS Dauntless (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet) 12.07.1935 - 08.1938 Staff of Captain of Dockyard, HM Dockyard Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 19.09.1938 - (10.1938) Commanding Officer, HMS Dragon (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet) 09.02.1939 - (04.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Curlew (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet) 01.07.1939 - 02.1940 Executive Officer, HMS Emerald (cruiser) 02.1940 - 05.11.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Jervis Bay (armed merchant cruiser) |
Fell, William Richmond"Tiny" |
31.01.1897 Wellington, New Zealand - 28.11.1981 Eastbourne, Wellington, New Zealand | Midsh. 1916 S.Lt. 30.09.1917 Lt. 30.06.1919 Lt.Cdr. 30.06.1927 (retd 31.01.1942) A/Cdr. > 04.1940, < 10.1940 Cdr. (retd) 31.01.1942 A/Capt. > 10.1944, < 01.1945 (reverted to retd 1948) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: Wellington College, New Zealand; Crediton Grammar School, Devon, 1914-15; Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, 1915-16. 15.04.1916 entered RN (under the Dominion scheme) 1916 - 1917 HMS Warspite (battleship) (Battle of Jutland) 1917 - 1918 P.11 (a unit of the Dover Patrol engaged in escorting Channel convoys by day and patrolling the Dover mine barrage by night) 1918 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) 25.07.1922 - (08.1923) HMNZS Chatham (light cruiser) 01.11.1924 - (01.)1925 First Lieutenant, HMS K 2 (submarine) (1st Submarine flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest] 13.11.1925 - (05.)1926 First Lieutenant, HMS L 16 (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet) [tender to HMS Conquest, from 05.1926 HMS Vulcan] 11.1926 submarine Commanding Officer's qualifying course [HMS Alecto] (02.1927) short course of instruction 28.02.1927 - (07.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) (5th Submarine Flotilla, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Alecto] 14.12.1927 - (06.1928) HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (4th Submarine Flotilla, China) (for submarines) 01.01.1929 - (04.)1930 Commanding Officer, HMS L 3 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] 15.04.1930 - (08.)1930 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 01.08.1930 - (01.)1932 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (5th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines; and for instructional duties) 15.01.1932 - 17.04.1934 Commanding Officer, HMS Oxley (submarine) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] 01.05.1934 - (08.)1934 HMS Viscount (destroyer) (6th Submarine Flotilla) (temporarily) 17.10.1934 - (11.1934) HMS Calypso (cruiser) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) [tender to HMS Caledon] 05.01.1935 - (02.)1935 HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (5th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines; and for instructional duties) 31.05.1935 - 18.01.1936 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 19.01.1936 - 15.03.1936 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) 16.03.1936 - (01.)1937 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for submarines) 02.02.1937 - (10.1938) in command of "C" Group of Submarines in Immediate Reserve [HMS Titania (submarine depot ship)] (02.1939) no appointment listed (04.1939) no appointment listed (08.1939) no appointment listed 02.08.1939 - (09.)1939 Commanding Officer, HMS H 31 (submarine) [tender to HMS Titania] (appointment possibly not effectuated) 09.1939 - (04.)1940 in command of reserve submarines at Portland [HMS H 43 (submarine), which together with the trawler Tamura spent the winter of 1939-1940 in a fruitless and uncomfortable search for U-boats suspected of lurking in Irish territorial waters] 1940 volunteered to serve with Q-Ships (submarine decoy ships) 04.1940 commanded a group of five trawlers known as the Gubbins Flotilla, which was despatched to support soldiers landed in Norway under the leadership of Colonel Gubbins (Norwegian campaign) (DSC) 21.06.1940 - (10.1940) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services at Admiralty) 08.01.1941 - (12.1941) Commanding Officer, HMS Prince Charles (landing ship infantry) (Vaagso raid 12.1941; despatches) 12.06.1942 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) [returned to submarines and set up a training base in western Scotland to work on the development of human torpedoes or 'chariots'; also involved in the development of the midget submarines or X-craft, 1943, which were used in a successful attack on the Tirpitz in Altafjord, Norway, September 1943] 18.01.1944 - 11.1946 Commanding Officer, HMS Bonaventure (depot ship for midget submarines) (home waters, Loch Striven & Pacific) (CBE) 03.09.1947 - (07.)1948 Boom Defence Officer, Mediterranean and Malta, HM Boom Depot, Malta [HMS St Angelo] 1948 - 1960 was retained in civilian capacity by the Admiralty and continued to supervise salvage operations (Admiralty Marine Salvage Officer, grade I): 1949 - 1950 Ship Target Trials home and abroad 28.11.1951 - 18.04.1955 Boom Defence and Salvage Officer (Grade I), Portsmouth 19.04.1955 - 1956 Boom Defence and Salvage Officer (Grade I), Clyde 1956 - 1957 Principal Salvage Office, Suez (CMG) Returned to New Zealand in retirement, 1960. Published: short stories contributed to Blackwood's, 1945-49; The sea surrenders, 1960; The sea our shield, 1966. |
Fellowes, Thomas Balfour ![]() |
13.07.1891 -11.02.1974 | ... ... Capt. 30.06.1934 (retd 28.10.1938; own request) | ... - ... ... 07.1940 - 04.02.1942 on staff of Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] 05.02.1942 - (08.1942) Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth [HMS Drake (RN base, Devonport)] |
Feltham, James |
13.04.1888 Coventry, Warwickshire -30.07.1975 Chichester district, West Sussex | Seaman ? [235009] A/Mate 22.06.1918 Lt. ? 21.03.1923, seniority 22.06.1920 Lt.Cdr. 22.06.1928 (retd 28.10.1929) Cdr. (retd) 28.10.1929 A/Capt. (retd) > 02.1941, < 08.1942 (reverted to retd 1945/46) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
26.10.1918 - (07.1919) HMS Dolphin (for submarine course) 01.05.1924 - (05.1926) HMS M 3 (submarine) (Atlantic Fleet) 23.05.1927 - (07.1927) HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 01.02.1928 - (06.1928) HMS Bluebell (sloop) (China) (08.1929) no appointment listed 15.06.1939 - (03.1940) HMS Cochrane (depot ship, Rosyth) (for command of group of minesweeping trawlers, later: additional for various services) 14.03.1940 - (08.1942) HMS Claverhouse (parent ship, Leith and Granton) (08.1942) - (07.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Claverhouse II (minesweeping base, Granton) 31.07.1943 - (06.1944) Captain Minesweeping, Yarmouth [HMS Miranda] (07.1945) no appointment listed |
Felton, Evelyn Seccombe ![]() ![]() |
28.07.1899 -15.08.1964 Bournemouth | A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 15.03.1918 Lt. 15.03.1920 Lt.Cdr. 15.03.1928 (retd 28.07.1944) A/Cdr. 01.07.1940? Cdr. (retd) 28.07.1944 | 05.1912 entered RN (01.1919) Admiralty [HMS President] 25.02.1923 joined submarine service 23.07.1923 - (08.1923) HMS Conquest (light cruiser) (additional; for submarines) 09.05.1924 - 04.07.1925 First Lieutenant, HMS H 49 (submarine) (Portland) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 01.03.1926 - (02.)1927 HMS Royal Oak (battleship) (Mediterranean) 22.04.1927 - (07.1927) First Lieutenant, HMS M 3 (submarine) (Reserve, Portsmouth) [tender to HMS Ross] 16.01.1928 - 10.04.1928 submarine Commanding Officer's course, Portsmouth [HMS Alecto] 10.04.1928 - (06.1928) Commanding Officer, HMS H 47 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Vulcan] 01.05.1929 - (08.1930) HMS Barham (battleship) (Atlantic Fleet) 19.01.1931 - (02.)1931 HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) (6th Submarine Flotilla) (for submarines) 02.06.1931 - (01.)1932 Commanding Officer, HMS H 44 (submarine) (6th Submarine Flotilla) [tender to HMS Titania] 16.04.1932 - 11.09.1932 HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (for submarines) 11.09.1932 - 01.05.1933 HMS Wolsey (destroyer) (1st Submarine Flotilla, Mediterranean) (for submarines) 01.05.1933 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Otway (submarine) (Mediterranean) [tender to HMS Douglas] 09.01.1936 - 10.08.1937 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (China) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 10.08.1937 - 21.09.1937 Commanding Officer, HMS Rainbow (submarine) (China) [tender to HMS Medway] (02.1938) no appointment listed 12.06.1938 - 12.07.1938 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for unemployed time) 12.07.1938 - 16.12.1938 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for command of "A" Group of submarines in immediate reserve) 16.12.1938 - 15.02.1939 in command of "D" Group of Submarines [HMS Dwarf] 15.02.1939 - 18.03.1939 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 18.03.1939 - 30.04.1939 in command of "D" Group of Submarines [HMS Dwarf] 30.04.1939 - 02.07.1939 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 02.07.1939 - 25.07.1939 in command of "D" Group of Submarines [HMS Dwarf] 25.07.1939 - 01.07.1940 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (as spare Commanding Officer for submarines) 01.07.1940 - 28.05.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Dwarf (particular service vessel) (and for duty with submarines) [tender to HMS Dolphin] 28.05.1941 - (06.)1943 HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) (for Fort Blockhouse & for duty with submarines) (08.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 07.12.1943 - 02.1944 Senior Officer Submarines, Haifa [HMS Medway II (1st Submarine Flotilla base, Beirut)] 02.1944 - 05.05.1944 HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) (additional) 05.05.1944 - 24.08.1944 HMS Ambrose (submarine depot ship) (additional; for submarines) 24.08.1944 - 04.04.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Alecto (submarine depot ship) 04.04.1945 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) |
Fenton, Frederick Roy ![]() ![]() |
18.10.1905 Portsmouth, Hampshire - 12.01.1997 Isle of Wight | Seaman ? [M36754] Wt. Shipwr. 13.05.1936 Wt.Air Mechanic = Wt.Aircr.Offr. 07.1939, seniority 13.05.1936 Cd.Aircr.Offr. 01.10.1944 Lt. (A), later Lt. (E) 01.04.1946 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.04.1954 (retd < 01.1959) | 22.07.1936 - (08.1939) HMS Sheffield (cruiser) (Home Fleet) (04.1940) Fleet Air Arm (10.1940) no appointment listed 10.10.1940 - (08.)1942 HMS Heron (RN Air Station, Yeovilton, Somerset) (for technical duties) 15.09.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Activity (escort carrier) (10.1944) no appointment listed 22.12.1944 - (04.1946) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) 05.07.1948 - (05.1950) HMS Falcon (RN Air Station, Hal Far, Malta) (for air engineering duties) 19.03.1951 - (05.)1953 Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 05.10.1953 - (01.1957) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) * indexed, but not listed as such |
Fenton, Henry George ![]() |
17.09.1887 Rochdale, Lancashire - 15.12.1961Portsmouth district, Hampshire | Gnr. 01.08.1914 Cd.Gnr. 01.08.1924 Lt. 01.10.1933 (retd 17.09.1937) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 01.10.1941 (reverted to retd < 04.1946) | ... - ... ... 01.11.1926 - (07.1927) HMS Excellent (gunnery school, Portsmouth) (in charge of stores of Experimental Department) ... - ... ... 18.09.1939 - (08.)1942 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) 12.08.1942 - (02.)1944 HMS Shrapnel (RN base, Southampton) (10.1944) - (07.1945) no appointment listed |
Fenton, James Edmund ![]() ![]() |
05.11.1903 India - 13.02.1960South Cerney, Gloucestershire | Midsh. 15.09.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.01.1924 S.Lt. 15.10.1924 Lt. 15.12.1926 Lt.Cdr. 15.12.1934 Cdr. 31.12.1941 (retd 05.11.1953) (reverted to retd 18.05.1954) ![]() |
Education: RN College, Osborne (15.05.1917-...). ... - ... ... (09.1939) no appointment listed (12.1939) - (03.1940) Fleet Air Arm 29.03.1940 - (12.1940) Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 28.01.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Argus (aircraft carrier) (OBE) 28.04.1942 - (12.1942) HMS Condor (RN Air Station, Arbroath) 12.01.1943 - 31.01.1943 Naval Air Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.02.1943 - (01.)1945 Naval Air Organisation Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (04.1945) no appointment listed 16.06.1945 - (07.)1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Taff (River class frigate) & as Senior Officer, 77th Escort Group 01.09.1945 - (10.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Gombroon (RN base, Rangoon) & as Commander, Burma Coast Escort Force 07.03.1946 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Loch Quoich (Loch class frigate) ... - ... ... |
Fenton, John Munro Crosland![]() |
22.03.1921 Braehead, Cromarty - 12.2004 still alive | Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.09.1939 S.Lt. 01.10.1940 Lt. 01.12.1941 Lt.Cdr. 01.12.1949 (retd) ![]() |
01.09.1938 - (08.)1939 special entry cadet, HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 04.08.1939 - (02.)1941 HMS Diomede (cruiser) 25.09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Winchelsea (destroyer) 09.03.1942 - (06.)1943 HMS Talbot (submarine depot ship) (Malta) [serving in submarines HMS Unruffled & HMS Unbroken] 24.07.1943 - (04.)1944 First Lieutenant, HMS United (submarine) 01.06.1944 - (06.1944) HMS Elfin (submarine depot ship) (and for duty with submarines) (07.1945) HMS Ferret IV (base for surrendered U-boats, Lishally) * (04.1946) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such |
Fenton, Patrick Arthur Dominic ![]() |
23.06.1924 St Marylebone district, London - 07.2000Cheltenham district, Gloucestershire | Cadet 01.01.1943 Midsh. (E) 01.09.1943 S.Lt. (E) 12.02.1946, seniority 01.10.1944 Lt. (E) 01.01.1946 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.01.1954 (reld 1959/60?) | (04.1943) - (06.1944) no appointment listed (10.1944) - (04.1946) HMS Argonaut (cruiser) * ... - ... ... 10.04.1953 - (07.1954) HMS Crane ... - ... ... Marine engineer.* indexed, but not listed as such |
Fenton-Livingstone, Robert George |
11.01.1895 Edinburgh, Scotland - 28.02.1942 [age 47] [Plymouth Naval Memorial, panel 101, column 1] | Midsh. 15.05.1912 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1914 A/Lt. (retd) ? Lt. (retd) 06.10.1917 Lt.Cdr. (retd) 06.10.1925 A/Cdr. (retd) 19.08.1939? ![]() |
15.09.1909 entered RN 15.05.1912 HMS Cornwallis 24.05.1913 - 20.06.1913 London Depot RAN (for passage to Australia) [lent to RAN] 21.06.1913 - 31.01.1915 HMAS Australia (battlecruiser) [lent to RAN] 01.02.1915 - 11.02.1915 London Depot RAN (for passage to UK) [lent to RAN] 19.08.1939 - 28.02.1942 Maintenance Commander & Drafting Commander, HMS Sultan (RN base, Singapore) [went missing during the evacuation of Singapore] |
Fernie, Robert Russell ![]() |
(12?).1922 Bucklow district, Cheshire - 18.04.1943 (MPK) [age 20] [Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 73, column 1] | Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 1942?, seniority 01.08.1941 | 01.09.1940 - 23.06.1941 HMAS Australia (cruiser) 24.06.1941 - 1941 HMAS Penguin (RAN depot, Sydney, NSW) (additional; for passage to UK per RMS Dunedin) 14.10.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Cumberland (cruiser) 01.05.1942 - (08.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 12.12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Medway II (base for 1st Submarine Flotilla, Beirut) (> 02.)1943 - 18.04.1943 HMS Regent (submarine) (sank off the coast of Bisceglie (Barletta) after a collision with a mine; complete crew missing, presumed killed) |
Fickling, Peter Angus ![]() |
13.07.1923 Bournemouth, Hampshire - 10.02.1965 Rhu, Scotland (which is the day he went missing) | Midsh. 01.09.1940 A/S.Lt. 01.05.1942 S.Lt. 10.07.1942 Lt. 16.09.1944 Lt.Cdr. 16.09.1952 Cdr. 30.06.1960 | Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1937-...; Drake House, later Exmouth House; Admiralty No. 1738); Joint Services Staff College (26th course, 1962; jssc). 01.09.1940 - (02.)1941 HMS Kenya (cruiser) 09.1941 - (12.1941) HMS Icarus (destroyer) 01.05.1942 - (08.)1942 promotion course, Portsmouth 30.12.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS P 556 (submarine) 17.03.1943 - 16.05.1944 on loan to RAN: 17.03.1943 - 18.03.1943 London Depot RAN 19.03.1943 - 12.05.1943 HMAS Penguin 13.05.1943 - 21.06.1943 HMAS Penguin (additional; for duty with HMAS K 9 (submarine)) 22.06.1943 - 31.03.1944 HMAS K 9 (submarine) [HMAS Penguin, from 29.07.1943 HMAS Rushcutter] 01.04.1944 - 16.05.1944 HMAS Penguin (additional; for passage to UK in SS Randfontein) 17.05.1944 - ? HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship) * (06.1944) no appointment listed (07.1945) HMS Ferret IV (Captain (S/M) Surrendered U-boats Lishally) * 28.06.1945 - (04.1946) First Lieutenant, HMS Seraph (submarine) 15.11.1947 - (07.1948) First Lieutenant, HMS Templar (submarine) 23.02.1949 - (05.1949) HMS Forth (submarine depot ship, Malta) (05.1950) no appointment listed 21.08.1950 - 16.02.1952 Commanding Officer, HMS Sidon (submarine) (05.1953) no appointment listed 03.1955 - (01.1957) Commanding Officer, HMS Trump (submarine) ** (01.1959) HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport) * 01.07.1960 - (07.1961) Naval Equipment Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 07.12.1962 - 10.02.1965 HMS Maidstone (submarine depot ship, 3rd Submarine Flotilla, Faslane) [went missing] (02.1968) - (02.1969) HMS Dryad (RN naval navigation and direction school, Southwick, nr Fareham, Hants) *** * indexed, but not listed as such** according to paperwork in family possession he may have served as Commanding Officer of HMS Teredo, S/M spare Crew, RGC & RGS from 20.01.1955 to 24.10.1955, which is not substantiated by the Navy List, however*** although he went missing in 1965, he is still borne on the Navy List in the late 1960s, but no longer in 1971 |
Field, Sir Frederick Laurence ![]() ![]() |
19.04.1871 - 24.10.1945 [York ?] | Lt. 1893 Cdr. 1902 Capt. 31.12.1907 R.Adm. 11.02.1919 V.Adm. 26.09.1924 Adm. 05.04.1928 Adm. of the Fleet 31.01.1933 (retd 1933?) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
15.07.1884 joined RN 1900 landed from Barfleur in Boxer Rebellion, China (wounded in taking Tientsin City, despatches, China medal, Relief of Pekin clasp) 1912 - 1914 superintendent of signal schools (1916) Commanding Officer, HMS King George V (battleship) (Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916; despatches, CB, CMG, 2nd Class of Russian Order of St Anne with Swords, Order of Crown of Rumania, Legion of Honour, American DSM) 1916 - 1918 Chief of Staff to Admiral 2nd in Command, Grand Fleet 1918 - 1920 Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty (04.)1920 - 1923 3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy 15.05.1923 - (01.)1925 Rear-Admiral commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron [HMS Hood (battlecruiser)] 1923 - 1924 Acting Vice-Admiral Commanding Special Service Squadron during World Cruise (05.)1925 - (04.)1928 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff 01.05.1928 - (04.)1930 Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Queen Elizabeth (battleship), later: HMS Warspite (battleship)] 30.07.1930 - (01.)1933 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (First Sea Lord of the Admiralty) and Chief of Naval Staff 1939 - 1945 no active posting listed |
Field, Reginald Gerald Richard |
23.11.1913 Devonport district, Devon - 02.01.1999 South East Hampshire | Engine Room Artificer 3rd class ? [D/MX 47778] Wt.Eng. (renamed: Cd.Eng.) 01.10.1943 Sen.Cd.Eng. 01.04.1950 Eng.Lt. (Special Duties List: Marine Engineering) 01.01.1957 Eng.Lt.Cdr. (SD List) 01.04.1959 (retd 23.11.1963) ![]() |
? - 11.07.1941 HMS Defender (destroyer) 04.11.1943 - (07.1945) HMS Illustrious (aircraft carrier) 15.01.1946 - (04.1946) HMS Fierce 11.1947 - (05.1949) HMS Reclaim 17.08.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Challenger 03.03.1953 - (01.1956) HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent) (01.1957) HMS Theseus * 02.09.1958 - (07.1961) HMS Paladin (02.1963) HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) * * indexed, but not listed as such |
Fieldhouse, [Sir] John David Elliott; Baron Fieldhouse (cr. 1990; Life Peer), of Gosport in the County of Hampshire ![]() |
12.02.1928 - 17.02.1992 | Midsh. 01.09.1945 ... .... Adm. of the Fleet ? (retd 1989) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
04.11.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Norfolk (cruiser) (East Indies Fleet) entered Submarine Service, 1948; comd HMS Acheron, 1955; CO HMS Dreadnought, 1964-66; Executive Officer, HMS Hermes, 1967; Captain SM10 (Polaris Squadron), 1968-70; Captain HMS Diomede, 1971; Comdr, Standing NavalForce Atlantic, 1972-73; Dir, Naval Warfare, 1973-74; Flag Officer, Second Flotilla, 1974-76; Flag Officer, Submarines, and Comdr Submarine Force, E Atlantic Area, 1976-78; Controller of the Navy, 1979-81; Commander-in-Chief Fleet, and Allied Commander-in-Chief, Channel and Eastern Atlantic, 1981-82; Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, 1982-85. First and Principal Naval ADC to the Queen, 1982-85. Chief of the Defence Staff, 1985-88. Consultant, Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd, 1990-; Non-executive Director, DESC Ltd, 1991-. Chairman, White Ensign Association, 1990-. Liveryman: Shipwrights' Co., 1982-; Glovers' Co., 1983-; Freeman, Clockmakers' Co., 1984. Hon. DSc (Eng) London, 1989. |
Figgins, James "Jim" |
13.12.1886 Drogheda, Ardee, Louth, Ireland - 30.09.1962 Prestbury, Gloucestershire | A/Mate 15.09.1912 Mate 17.10.1913, seniority 14.02.1913 Lt. 14.11.1915 Lt.Cdr. 14.11.1923 Cdr. 31.12.1926 Capt. 31.12.1933 (retd < 07.1944) (reverted to retd < 04.1946) R.Adm. (retd) 01.03.1946 ![]() |
? - (01.1919) HMS Sardonyx (torpedo-boat destroyer) 15.08.1922 - (08.1923) First Lieutenant, HMS Burslem (twin screw minesweeper) 22.08.1924 - (05.1926) Commanding Officer, HMS Badminton (twin screw minesweeper) 10.01.1927 - (02.)1927 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (07.1927) no appointment listed 01.07.1927 - (04.)1930 Executive Officer, HMS Titania (submarine depot ship) 20.08.1930 - (01.)1932 Training Commander, HMS Vivid (RN base, Devonport) (additional) 27.08.1932 - (01.)1934 Executive Officer, HMS Iron Duke (battleship; training ship) 19.03.1934 - (08.)1934 senior officers' war course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 15.10.1934 - (11.1934) senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (02.1935) no appointment listed 09.02.1935 - 09.1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Bridgewater (patrol sloop) (Africa) (10.1936) no appointment listed 17.10.1936 - (02.)1937 HMS Pembroke (RN base, Chatham) (for charge of Sub-Depot Sheerness) 16.02.1937 - 01.05.1939 Commanding Officer, HMS Wildfire (training establishment, Sheerness) 26.07.1939 - 15.08.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Newcastle (cruiser) (Home Fleet) 01.10.1940 - (12.1943) Commanding Officer, HMS Glendower (training establishment, Pwllheli, North Wales) (04.1944) - (01.1945) no appointment listed 01.02.1945 - (07.1945) Commanding Officer, HMS Minos (RN base, Lowestoft) & Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft |
Filer, William Brook "Bill" ![]() ![]() |
06.08.1917 Lambeth district, Greater London / London / Surrey - 31.01.2011 | Petty Offr. ? [P/JX 140118] Gnr. 28.10.1944 Lt. 31.07.1946 Lt.Cdr. 31.07.1954 (retd 06.08.1962) | (01.1945) no appointment listed 05.02.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Tedworth (Hunt class minesweeper) ... - ... ... |
Fillery, Richard Michael ![]() |
29.05.1923 - 07.02.2001 | ... ... A/S.Lt. (E) 01.08.1944 A/Lt. (E) < 10.1945 Lt. (E) 18.04.1946, seniority 01.08.1944 Lt.Cdr. (E) 01.08.1952 (retd 29.01.1959) | Education: Nautical College, Pangbourne. ... - ... ... ? - (10.1945) HMS Norfolk ... - ... ... |
Filleul, John Seymour |
03.10.1920 - 11.06.1991 Whitby, Yorkshire | Cadet 01.05.1939 Midsh. 01.01.1940 S.Lt. 01.05.1941 Lt. 01.03.1943 Lt.Cdr. 01.03.1951 (retd 29.04.1960) | 01.01.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Sheffield (cruiser) 27.01.1942 - (02.1943) HMS Stork (sloop) 08.1943 - (06.1944) HMS Starling (sloop) * 01.05.1945 - (07.1945) First Lieutenant, HMS Serapis (destroyer) 31.08.1945 - (04.1946) HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove Battery, Hove, Sussex/Exbury) 20.06.1949 - (05.1950) HMS Unicorn 09.1952 - (05.1953) Commanding Officer, MMS 1038 17.05.1954 - (01.1956) HMS President (for miscellaneous duties) * (06.1943) already indexed, but not listed as such |
Finlayson, Alfred William John ![]() |
03.09.1887 Germany -10.03.1960 Berry Knoll, Burley | A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. ? Lt. 01.04.1910 Lt.Cdr. 01.04.1918 Cdr. 30.06.1924 (retd 22.12.1933) Capt. (retd) 22.12.1933 | 15.01.1903 entered RN ... - ... ... 20.09.1925 - (05.1926) Executive Officer, HMS Lowestoft (cruiser) ... - ... ... 10.04.1928 - (06.)1928 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth 03.08.1928 - (04.1930) Operations Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (10.1930) no appointment listed 03.01.1931 - (01.1932) Commanding Officer, HMS Snapdragon (sloop) (Atlantic Fleet) (09.1932) no appointment listed 05.04.1933 - (06.1933) HMS Greenwich (destroyer depot ship) (Rosyth) (for Maintenance Reserve destroyers) ... - ... ... 01.03.1940 - (02.1941) HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria, Egypt) (08.1942) no appointment listed 23.11.1942 - (10.)1943 Department of the Director of Dockyards, Admiralty 31.10.1943 - (06.1944) Commanding Officer, HMS Cabbala (coding school, Lowton, Warrington, Lancs.) (07.1945) no appointment listed |
Firth, Charles Leslie ![]() ![]() |
21.05.1900 Buenos Ayres, Argentine - 08.07.1971 | Midsh. 01.11.1918 A/S.Lt. ? S.Lt. 31.05.1921, seniority 15.01.1921 A/Lt. ? Lt. 03.10.1923, seniority 15.04.1922 Lt.Cdr. 15.04.1930 Cdr. 30.06.1935 A/Capt. 04.1941 Capt. 30.06.1941 (retd 07.07.1950) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: St Paul's 11.1918 HMS Tiger 25.03.1919 - 3.107.1919 HMAS Sydney [lent to RAN] 01.08.1919 - 15.08.1919 HMAS Australia [lent to RAN] 1922 - 1923? HMS Victoria and Albert (HM's yacht) 30.07.1923 - (01.)1925 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Mediterranean) 05.10.1925 - (05.1926) qualifying for signal duties, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 12.04.1927 - (06.)1928 Signal Officer, HMS Campbell (flotilla leader) (6th Destroyer Flotilla) 11.07.1928 - (10.)1930 Flag Lieutenant to Commodore Commanding Atlantic Fleet Destroyer Flotillas [HMS Centaur (cruiser)] 17.10.1930 - (02.)1931 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 20.11.1931 - (06.1933) Flag Lieutenant-Commander to Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet [HMS Coventry (cruiser)] (01.1934) no appointment listed 16.03.1934 - (07.)1935 HMS Victory (RN base, Portsmouth) (for signal school) 31.07.1935 - (02.)1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Broke (flotilla leader) (Reserve Fleet, Devonport) 20.03.1936 - 18.02.1938 Commanding Officer, HMS Grafton (destroyer) (Mediterranean) 13.06.1938 - (09.1939) Signal Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 15.01.1940 - 16.07.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Imogen (destroyer) (ship sunk after collision in Pentland Firth) 27.08.1940 - 04.1941 Commanding Officer, HMS Jackal (destroyer) 04.1941 - 07.1941 Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral R.L. Burnett (Rear-Admiral (Minelayers) Port ZA) [HMS Southern Prince] 05.07.1941 - (02.)1943 Deputy Director Signal Department (R), Admiralty [HMS President] 05.1943 - 30.09.1944 Commanding Officer, HMS Troubridge (flotilla leader) & Captain (D) 24th Destroyer Flotilla 03.12.1944 - (07.)1945 Deputy Director Signal Division (V/S and W/T), Admiralty [HMS President] 03.01.1946 - (10.1947) Commanding Officer, HMS Mercury (signal school, nr. Petersfield) (07.1948) no appointment listed 01.08.1948 - (05.1949) Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief America and West Indies Station [HMS Glasgow] (05.1950) no appointment listed |
Firth, Thomas Mark Bernard ![]() |
25.02.1923 Ecclesall Bierlow district, West Riding of Yorkshire - 17.11.1988 Chichester district, West Sussex (formerly of Shawford, Winchester, Hampshire) | Cadet 01.09.1941 Midsh. 01.05.1942 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1942 S.Lt. 06.1944, seniority 01.04.1943 Lt. 04.12.1944, seniority 01.05.1944 Lt.Cdr. 01.05.1952 Cdr. 31.12.1955 (retd & re-employed 25.02.1976) (reverted to retd 25.02.1982) ![]() |
(10.1941) - (04.1942) no appointment listed 01.05.1942 - (12.1943) HMS Anson (King George V class battleship) (02.1944) - (04.1944) HMS Anson (King George V class battleship) * 20.05.1944 - (07.)1945 HMS Scourge (S class destroyer) 08.09.1945 - (04.1946) HMS Hotham (Captain class frigate) ... - ... ... |
Fisher, [Sir] Douglas Blake |
23.10.1890 - 04.10.1963 [Brockenhurst, Hants ?] | Midsh. 15.01.1907 A/S.Lt. 30.05.1910 S.Lt. 19.12.1910, seniority 30.05.1910 Lt. 30.08.1912 Lt.Cdr. 30.08.1920 Cdr. 31.12.1925 Capt. 31.12.1932 A/R.Adm. 08.06.1942 R.Adm. 28.07.1942 V.Adm. 20.12.1945 (retd 13.07.1948) Adm. (retd) 22.06.1949 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: Stubbington House, Fareham; RN College, Dartmouth; Imperial Defence College. 15.09.1905 entered RN 1914 - 1917 served European War, HMS Iron Duke (battleship) 1918 - 1920 HMS Caradoc (cruiser) (despatches, OBE) 25.10.1924 - (01.1925) Gunnery Officer, HMS Iron Duke (battleship) (Mediterranean) 15.03.1926 - 30.03.1926 Admiralty 30.03.1926 - (06.)1928 Naval Ordnance Department, Admiralty [HMS President] 20.11.1928 - (10.1930) HMS Revenge (battleship) (Mediterranean) (02.1931) no appointment listed 18.08.1931 - (09.1932) Training and Staff Duties Division, Admiralty [HMS President] (05.1933) - (06.1933) no appointment listed (01.1934) no appointment listed 25.09.1934 - (07.1935) Commanding Officer, HMS Bideford (sloop) (Persian Gulf) 13.09.1935 - (02.1936) Commanding Officer, HMS Norfolk III (RN base, Aden) 12.01.1937 - (07.1937) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College 10.01.1938 - (02.1938) course at Senior Officers' School, Sheerness [HMS President] 08.04.1938 - 11.04.1938 HMS Nelson (additional) 12.04.1938 - 21.03.1940 Captain of the Fleet to Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [HMS Nelson (Nelson class battleship), from 06.12.1939 HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship), from 01.01.1940 HMS Rodney (Nelson class battleship)] 22.03.1940 - 16.04.1940 HMS Victory (additional; whilst unemployed) 17.04.1940 - 26.04.1940 HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) (additional) 27.04.1940 - 22.03.1942 Commanding Officer, HMS Warspite (Queen Elizabeth class battleship) & from 04.05.1940 as Flag Captain to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean 06.02.1942 - 28.07.1942 also: Naval ADC to the King 05.1942 - (04.)1944 HMS President (additional; for special and miscellaneous duties): 08.06.1942 - 14.06.1942 for duty inside Admiralty with Naval Intelligence Division 26.07.1942 - 13.03.1943 for duty as Senior Naval British Officer, Russia 18.03.1943 - (04.)1944 for duty with No. 30 Military Mission, Moscow (06.1944) no appointment listed 29.08.1944 - 08.09.1944 HMS Odyssee (additional; for duty with Allied Naval Commander Expeditionary Force (ANCXF)) 09.09.1944 - 09.10.1944 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 10.10.1944 - 19.09.1945 Flag Officer Fleet Train, British Pacific Fleet [HMS Montclare] 20.09.1945 - 10.11.1945 Flag Officer, Western Area British Pacific Fleet & Flag Officer, Fleet Train 18.12.1945 - 20.12.1945 HMS President (additional; whilst unemployed) 21.12.1945 - 20.01.1946 HMS President (additional; for duty inside Admiralty) 21.01.1946 - 28.03.1948 a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty & Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supply and Transport [HMS President] 29.03.1948 - 13.07.1948 HMS President (additional; for leave & dispersal) |
Fisher, Hubert Holdrich |
13.11.1898 Milton, Kent - 16.11.1976 Walsall, West Midlands | Sg.Lt. 05.11.1925 Sg.Lt.Cdr. 05.11.1931 Sg.Cdr. 05.11.1937 (retd 13.11.1953) | Education: Epsom College (1912-1916); Queen's College, Cambridge (BA 1919) & St. Bartholomew's Hospital; MB, BCh 1926; FRCS Ed. 1926; MRCS Eng, LRCP Lond 1924. ... - ... ... 26.01.1927? - (07.1927) 12th RM Battalion ... - ... ... 03.09.1939 - (08.)1941 RN Hospital, Portland [HMS Boscawen] 27.08.1941 - (04.)1943 HMS Illustrious (Illustrious class aircraft carrier) 15.05.1943 - (06.)1943 RN Barracks, Chatham [HMS Pembroke] 04.06.1943 - (10.1944) RN Hospital, Portland [HMS Boscawen] 01.1945 - (10.1945) RN Auxiliary Hospital Brisbane, Australia [HMS Furneaux] ... - ... ... |
Fisher, Ralph Lindsay ![]() |
18.06.1903 Edmonton - 19.04.1988 Chichester, Sussex | Midsh. 15.05.1921 A/S.Lt. 15.09.1923 S.Lt. 12.03.1925, seniority 30.03.1924 Lt. 30.10.1925 Lt.Cdr. 30.10.1933 Cdr. 31.12.1939 Capt. 30.06.1945 R.Adm. 07.07.1954 (retd 15.01.1957) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: RN Colleges Osborne & Dartmouth 1920 went to sea 04.12.1922 - (08.1923) HMS Royal Sovereign (battleship) 18.08.1924 - (01.1925) promotion course, Portsmouth 17.11.1925 - (05.)1928 HMS Cardiff (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (06.1928) no appointment listed 19.07.1928 - (08.)1929 HMS Tiger (battlecruiser) (Atlantic Fleet) 19.11.1929 - (02.)1931 Lieutenant, Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 12.10.1931 - (09.)1932 First Lieutenant, HMS Wishart (destroyer) (China and Hong Kong) 24.04.1933 - (06.1933) HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong) (for miscellaneous services) (01.1934) no appointment listed 15.01.1935 - 1936 Staff Course, RN Staff College, Greenwich 01.01.1936 - (07.)1937 staff, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] (for Junior Officers' War Course) 12.07.1937 - (08.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Vindictive (cruiser; cadet training cruiser) 18.12.1939 - 29.05.1940 Commanding Officer, HMS Wakeful (destroyer) (Dunkirk) [ship sunk after being torpedoed by E-boats] 08.11.1940 - (02.)1941 Staff Officer (Operations) to Vice-Admiral Light Forces, Eastern Mediterranean [HMS Orion] 12.05.1941 - (08.)1942 Staff Officer (Operations) to R.Adm. (Destroyers), Mediterranean [(HMS Hero ?, later) HMS Woolwich] 1942 - 1943 Chief Staff Officer to Senior Naval Officer Inshore Squadron, North Africa 01.03.1943 - (08.)1943 HMS Nile (RN base, Alexandria) 06.10.1943 - 1945 Commanding Officer,HMS Musketeer (destroyer) (Arctic, Atlantic and Mediterranean) 01.05.1945 - (07.)1945 Plans Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 01.10.1945 - (04.)1946 Deputy Director of Movements, Admiralty [HMS President] 29.03.1947 - 1948 Commanding Officer, HMS Solebay & Captain (D), 5th Destroyer Flotilla 1948 - (05.)1950 Directing Staff of Joint Services Staff College 1950 - 1952 Chief of Staff Far East 30.01.1953 - 1954 Commanding Officer, HMS Indefatigable (aircraft carrier) 20.11.1954 - 1957 Flag Officer Ground Training (Home Air Command) [HMS Daedalus (RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent)] |
Fitz-George, George William Frederick ![]() ![]() ![]() |
12.10.1891 London - 13.06.1960 Tours, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne, France | ... ... Lt. 15.05.1915 (retd 19.05.1920; own request) Lt.Cdr. (retd) 15.05.1923 Cdr. (retd) 19.06.1942, seniority 12.10.1931 | 15.09.1904 commissioned, RN ... - ... ... 10.07.1943 - (10.1944) on staff of Allied Naval Liaison Officer (Capt. E.L. Wharton), HMS Hannibal (RN base, Algiers, Algeria/Taranto, Italy) |
Fitzgerald, John Uniacke Penrose |
27.07.1888 Dunganstown, Co. Wicklow, Ireland - 11.12.1940 (KIA) [age 52] [Liverpool Naval Memorial, panel 1, column 1] | ... ... Lt. 15.03.1909 Cdr. 31.12.1921 Capt. 30.06.1929 R.Adm. 05.01.1940 (retd 06.01.1940) (reverted to retd 28.09.1940) Capt. RNR 10.10.1940 Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR 10.10.1940 | Education: Summerfields, Oxford; HMS Britannia (1903). 15.05.1903 entered RN 1909 - 1911 HMS Perseus in Persian Gulf (naval general service medal) specialised in torpedoes 1916 First Lieutenant, HMS Collingwood (battleship) (Jutland) 13.07.1923 - (01.)1925 for duty with Rear-Admiral (Submarines) [HMS Dolphin (submarine depot, Gosport)] 08.1925 - (07.)1927 Commanding Officer, HMS Tarantula (gunboat) & Senior Officer, West River (China) (during troubles in Canton and Pearl River) 12.03.1928 - 23.12.1928 HMS President 17.03.1928 - 23.12.1928 Torpedo Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 24.12.1928 - (08.)1929 Tactical Division, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.12.1929 - (02.)1931 Commanding Officer, HMS Caledon (cruiser) (Mediterranean) 08.10.1931 - (07.)1934 Naval Attach�, Paris [HMS President] 14.01.1935 - (02.)1935 senior officers' technical course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 17.06.1935 - 23.09.1935 London Depot RAN [HMS Victory I] [lent to RAN] 24.09.1935 - 08.10.1937 Commanding Officer, HMAS Sydney (cruiser) [lent to RAN] 09.10.1937 - 18.10.1937 HMAS Penguin [lent to RAN] 19.10.1937 - 27.01.1938 London Depot RAN [lent to RAN] 28.01.1938 - 13.02.1940 Director of Torpedoes and Mining, Admiralty [HMS President] 14.02.1940 - 27.02.1940 HMS President (additional; for special service inside Admiralty, not exceeding 6 months) 28.02.1940 - 03.07.1940 HMS President (additional; for special service) 03.1940 - 06.1940 commanded an expeditionary force of naval specialists in France 04.07.1940 - 04.08.1940 HMS Victory (additional; for special service) 05.08.1940 - 27.09.1940 HMS Marshal Soult (additional [tender to HMS Victory] 10.10.1940 - 11.12.1940 HMS Eaglet (RN base, Liverpool) (additional; for Liverpool Convoy Pool) (as Cdre. 2nd cl. RNR) ? - 11.12.1940 Commodore of Convoy HX 92 aboard steamer Rotorua which was attacked & sunk by U-96, some 110 miles west of St Kilda) |
Fitzgerald, Maurice O'Brien |
09.09.1914 Christchurch district, Hampshire - 15.09.1987 Barnstaple district, Devon | Cadet 01.01.1932 Midsh. 01.09.1932 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1935 S.Lt. 01.12.1935 Lt. 16.06.1938 A/Lt.Cdr. 22.01.1945? Lt.Cdr. 16.06.1946 (retd 07.02.1955) ![]() ![]() |
21.01.1932 - 30.09.1932 HMS Malaya (battleship) (Home Fleet) 01.10.1932 - (08.)1934 HMS Berwick (cruiser) (China) (11.1934) no appointment listed 03.01.1935 - 01.09.1935 promotion course, RN College, Greenwich [HMS President] 02.09.1935 - (02.)1936 promotion course, Portsmouth 22.07.1936 - (10.1938) HMS Bideford (escort vessel) (Persian Gulf) 30.01.1939 - (04.)1939 First Lieutenant, HMS Wanderer (destroyer) (The Nore) 02.05.1939 - (08.)1939 HMS Ramillies (battleship) (Mediterranean) 11.1939 - (04.1940) First Lieutenant, HMS Witch (destroyer) 14.01.1941 - (02.)1941 anti-submarine course, HMS Nimrod (anti-submarine training establishment, Campbeltown) 27.06.1941 - (12.1941) HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishments, Hove & Lancing, Sussex) (for Lancing establishment) 11.05.1942 - (06.)1944 HMS Royal Arthur (training establishment, Skegness) 28.06.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Malaya (battleship) 22.01.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Onyx (Algerine class minesweeper) 08.1947 - (05.1949) Commanding Officer, HMS Plucky (Algerine class minesweeper) 24.04.1950 - (05.1950) Admiralty [HMS President] (for miscellaneous services) 21.07.1952 - (07.1954) on staff of Commodore-in-Charge, Hong Kong [HMS Tamar (RN base, Hong Kong)] |
Fitzgerald, Reginald Patrick"Reggie" ![]() |
30.05.1921 Chelsea, London - 01.03.2002 Chippenham, Wiltshire | Cadet 01.09.1938 Midsh. 01.05.1939 A/S.Lt. 01.01.1941 S.Lt. 16.04.1941 Lt. 01.11.1942 A/Lt.Cdr. > 07.1945, < 04.1946 Lt.Cdr. 01.11.1950 Cdr. 30.06.1955 (retd 30.05.1964) | Education: RN College, Dartmouth (01.01.1935-02.08.1938; St Vincent House; Admiralty No. 1482) 01.09.1938 - 04.1939 HMS Vindictive (cadet training cruiser) 01.05.1939 - (08.)1940 HMS Glasgow (cruiser) 08.08.1940 - (12.1940) HMS Achates (destroyer) 06.01.1941 - (04.)1941 promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] (06.1941) promotion course, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] * (08.1941) submarine course * 11.08.1941 - (10.)1941 HMS Medway (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 15.10.1941 - (04.)1942 HMS Thrasher (submarine) (despatches) 25.04.1942 - (02.)1943 HMS Thrasher (submarine) (DSC) 02.1943 - (04.)1943 HMS P 555 (submarine) 01.04.1943 - (12.1943) HMS Varangian (submarine) 06.01.1944 - (02.)1944 HMS Cyclops (submarine depot ship) (for submarines) 12.02.1944 - (06.)1944 HMS Moreta (RN base, Haifa) 01.08.1944 - (10.1944) HMS Ambrose (base for 9th Submarine Flotilla, Dundee) (01.1945) - (02.1945) submarine Commanding Officers' course 03.03.1945 - 31.07.1945 Commanding Officer, HMS Unrivalled (submarine) 15.10.1945 - (04.1946) Commanding Officer, HMS Vox (submarine) ... - ... ... * indexed, but not listed as such |
FitzGerald, Robert Francis Uniacke Penrose ![]() |
08.09.1886 Rathdrum district, Co. Wicklow, Ireland - 19.09.1965 Wadhurst, Battle district, Sussex | ... ... Lt. 15.02.1907 Lt.Cdr. 15.02.1915 A/Cdr. ? Cdr. 31.12.1918 (retd 30.09.1932; own request) Capt. (retd) 30.09.1932 (reverted to retd > 10.1945, < 04.1946) | 15.05.1901 commissioned, RN ... - ... ... 01.09.1939 - (06.)1941 an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Holton Heath Area (RN Cordite Factory) (under Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty) [HMS President] (08.1941) an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Birmingham Area (under Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty) [HMS President] 11.08.1941 - (10.1945) an Assistant Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Carwent (under Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty) [HMS President] |
Fitzherbert, Sir Herbert |
10.08.1885 Kingswear, Totnes, Devon - 30.10.1958 | A/S.Lt. 30.03.1905? S.Lt. 30.03.1906, seniority 30.03.1905 Lt. 1907 Cdr. 1917 Capt. 30.06.1924 R.Adm. 02.01.1936 V.Adm. 31.07.1939 (retd 21.06.1943) Adm. (retd) 1950, seniority 22.10.1943 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Education: HMS Britannia 15.09.1900 joined RN 1914 - 1916 Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Commanding-in-Chief (served Battle of Jutland (despatches)) (01.1925) no appointment listed (05.1926) no appointment listed 07.08.1926 - (06.1928) Flag Captain, HMS Coventry (cruiser) & Chief Staff Officer to Rear-Admiral (D) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet 14.03.1929 - (10.1930) Naval Assistant to First Sea Lord [HMS President] 14.01.1931 - (01.1932) Imperial Defence Course, Imperial Defence College 04.01.1932 - (01.)1934 Commanding Officer, Signal School, Portsmouth [HMS Victory] 02.02.1934 - 1936 Commanding Officer, HMS Devonshire (cruiser) (Mediterranean) (02.1936) no appointment listed (02.1937) no appointment listed 15.03.1937 - (07.1937) Senior Officers' War Course, RN War College, Greenwich [HMS President] 08.10.1937 lent to Government of India, as: 20.11.1937 - 22.03.1943 Flag Officer Commanding Royal Indian Navy & Naval Adviser to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and Defence Member & Principal Sea Transport Officer, India (02.1943) - (12.1943) no appointment listed 31.03.1944 - 05.1945 Flag Officer-in-Charge, Tunisia [HMS Hasdrubal] 02.05.1945 HMS Victory (additional; for disposal) |
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