The list below is complied from various sources: Commissioned officers are as they appear in the relevant editions of the Navy List [note, because of a time lag between appointments and the publication of the lists some officers are not included]. Names of Telegraphist Air Gunners are primarily drawn from incident reports. Maintenance and other squadron personnel from Admiralty Fleet Orders.  

 

Abbreviations: A = Air Branch, P = Pilot, O = Observer, TAG = Telegraphist Air Gunner, RM = Royal Nay, RM = Royal Marines, RNVR = Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, RCNVR = Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve, RNZNVR = Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve, Tpy = Temporary, Mid = Midshipman, KIA = Killed in Action, MPK = Missing Presumed Killed, FTR = Failed To Return.

 

 

August 1943 - June 1944

 

Rank

Name

Appointed

Notes

       

Lieut. Conn. (A) (P) RN

T. W. Harrington

01 Aug 43

In command

To 1844 as CO 15 Dec 43

  M. Hordern 15 Dec 43 In command
       
Tpy. Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) P. J. E. Nichols 24 Mar 44  
  R- B. Phillips 7 Dec 43  
  J. E. Scott 18 Oct 43 B Flt Tracker then 846 Sqn
  L. C. Wort 01 Aug 43  
       
Tpy. Lieut. (A) R.N.Z.N.V.R. (P) B. N. Girdlestone 01 Jan 44 Ex 748 B Sqn
       

Tpy. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P)

G. R. Blake 17 Mar 44  
  J. M. Boswell 01 Aug 43  
  R. A. Fleischman-Allen 01 Aug 43  
  D. L. W. Frearson 01 Aug 43  
  E. B. Gray 06 Dec 43  
  J. K. Harrop 07 Dec 43  
  K. N. Hassett 20 Mar 44  
  T. D. Lucey 05 Nov 43 B Flt Tracker then 846 Sdn
  W. B. Machin 05 Mar 44  
  G. W. McCabe  - Nov 43 Ex 748 B Sqn - B Flt then 846 Sqn
  D. A. Merritt 30 Dec 43  
  R. Moss 05 Mar 44  
  A. L. Parker 20 Mar 44  
  T. H. Pemberton 07 Dec 43  
  R. E. Pritchard 07 Dec 43  
  N. T. Quigley 25 Nov 43  
  D. S. Rooke 17 Mar 44  
  W .S. Smith 01 Aug 43  
  R. J. Smyth 01 Aug 43  
  J. W. Tomlinson 20 Mar 44  
  R. Thomas  02 Feb 44 Ex 878 Squadron
  J. N. Wardill  01 Aug 43 Killed, air crash 28.10.43
  C. G. Watson  - Nov 43 B Flt then 846 Sqn
  J. F. Wilson 20 Mar 44  
  D. A. Wright - Nov 43  
  J. A. F. Wood - Nov 43  
  B. A. G. Woodwards 06 Dec 43  
       
Tpy. Sub-Lieut. (A) R.N.Z.N.V.R. (P) J. C. R. Buxton 25 Mar 44  
  R. P. Gibson 27 Feb 44  
  E. H. Hardwick 20 Mar 44  
  N. F. W. Howorth 20 Mar 44  
  W .P. Hughes 4 20 Mar 4  
  J. M .Kay 01 Aug 43  
  M. E. R. Keates 05 Mar 44  
  W. J. Kurnev 20 Mar 44  
  M. F. McPhee 20 Dec 43  
  D. M. Methven 20 Mar 44  
  J. A. Quigg 02 Feb 44 Ex 878 Squadron
  G. G. Smith 07 Dec 43  
  R. J. Spiers 02 Dec 43  
  A. H. Smith 07 Apr 44  
  L. F. Weatherall 01 Aug 43  
       
       

S.N.C.O.s

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Junior Rates

 

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Information drawn from the Navy list October 1943 through June 1944

 

 


List last modified 21 December 2021


In Memoriam
 

 

Name

Record

Cemetery/Memorial

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) John Nightingale WARDILL, RNVR

CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 4. Panel 7.

 

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