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.

 

 

November 1943 - November 1945

 

Rank

Name

Appointed

Notes

       

Tpy. Lieut. Conn. (A) (P) R.N.V.R.

C. C. Tomkinson

5 Aug 43

In command

KIA, 26.3.45

       
 Lieut. Conn. (A) (P) J. B. Edmundson, RN DSC 26 Oct 44 In command 27.3.45.
KIA, 20.5.45
       
Lieut. Conn. (A) (P) J. G. Baldwin RN 21 May 45 In command
       
Tpy. Lieut. Conn. (A) (P) R.N.Z.N.V.R. D. K. Evans - Jun 45 In command
       
       
Lieut. (E) H. W. D. Addington 15 Aug 43  
       
Tpy. Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) V. A. Fancourt 15 Nov 43  
  W. Knight 15 Aug 43  
  F. A. Marris 09 Sep 44 FTR from Combat Air patrol, 18.4.45
       
Tpy. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) D. W. W. Allom 09 Jun 45  
  P. D. Bennett 5 Apr 45 Ex 1845 Squadron. KIA on operations over Japan 30.7.45

 

G. A. Bowser 06 Nov 44  
  R. H. Bums 09 Sep 44 KIA, 07.04.45
  A. P. A. Cargill 22 May 45  
  R. W. Chamber - Sep 45  
  D. T. Chute 09 Sep 44 Lieutenant 05.03.45 & In Command 27.08.45
  A.J.French 15 Aug 43  
  H. Griffin 14 Dec 44  
  P. W. C. Griffiths - Sep 45  
  K. W. Hardiman 5 Apr 45 Ex 1845 Squadron D.O.I. 17.5.45
  A. W. Harper 09 Jun 45  
  H. Hemmingway 5 Apr 45 Ex 1835 Squdron
  E. Hill 15 Aug 43 KIA, 17.10.44
  W. Knight 15 Aug 43  
  J. C. Leddy 5 Apr 45 Ex 1835 Squdron
  G. C. McCrone 09 Jun 45  
  H. M. McEnery 22 May 45  
  L. MacKinnon 23 Nov 43  
  S. G. F. Maynard 01 Dec 43 KIA, 29.1.45
  J. B. Nash - Sep 45  
  P. C. O'Connor 23 Nov 43 Ex 1835 Squdron
  J. R. O.Neil-Martin - Sep 45  
  J. A. O.Neil-Shaw - Sep 45  
  D. Robertson 15 Aug 43 FTR, Operation Ridge Able 26.4.44. PoW
  C. H. Singleton 16 Feb 44  
  R. Watt 5 Apr 45 Ex 1835 Squdron
  H. West - Sep 45  
  G. W. Woodrow 09 Jun 45  
       
Tpy. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.C.N.V.R. (P) B. L. Haytor 23 Nov 43 Ex 1835 Squdron
  D. J. Sheppard, DSC 23 Nov 43 Ex 1835 Squadron
Lieutenant 09 Feb 45
       
Tpy. Sub-Lieut. (A) R.N.Z.N.V.R. (P) P. Coltman 09 Apr 44  
  A. W. Direen 15 Nov 43  
  R. J. Forsyth 09 Sep 44  
  A. J. French 23 Nov 43  
       
  J. D. Harris 27 Nov 43  
  D. Holland 09 Sep 44  
  J. W. Mayhead 15 Nov 43 FTR, Operation Ridge Able 26.4.44. PoW
  H. A. Rhodes, DSC 09 Sep 44  
  D. S. Wallace 23 Nov 43 Ex 1835 Squadron.  Killed, air crash 01.12.43
  E. H. S. Wright 23 Nov 43 Ex 1835 Squdron
  R. L. Whyte 29 Nov 44  
       
Tpy. act. Sub-Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) M.T. Blair 15 Nov 43  
  R. Brown 22 May 45  
  A. P. A. Cargill 22 May 45  
  I. R. Leslie 22 May 45  
  N. P. Prettyjohn 09 Jun 45  
  W.H.Rose 15 Nov 43  
  I. Webster 09 Jun 45  
       

S.N.C.O.s

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Junior Rates

 

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Information drawn from the Navy list December 1943 through October 1945

 

 


List last modified 25 September 2021


 

In Memoriam
 

 

Name

Record

Cemetery/Memorial

Lieut. Commander (A) (P) Christopher Charles TOMKINSON, RNVR

CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 6. Panel 2.

Lieut. Commander (A) (P)  James Brooke EDMUNDSON, RN

CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 5. Panel 7.
Lieut. (A) (P) Frederick Alexander MARRIS, RNVR CWGC entry SAI WAN WAR CEMETERY, Hong Kong
VII. F. 8.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Eric HILL, RNVR

CWGC entry KRANJI WAR CEMETERY, Singapore
Sp. 27. C. 9.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) John David WALLACE, RNZNVR

CWGC entry

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD CEMETERY, New Hampshire, USA
Lot 140.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Matthew Thomas BLAIR,  RNVR

CWGC entry JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY, Indonesia
3. F. 18.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Sidney NEWTON, RNVR

CWGC entry YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY, Japan
Brit. Sec. R. C. 12.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Peter Dare BENNETT, RNVR

CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 6. Panel 3.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Stanley Gordon Frederick MAYNARD, RNVR

CWGC entry JAKARTA WAR CEMETERY, Indonesia
3. C. 18.
Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) KENNETH WALTER HARDIMAN, RNVR CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 6. Panel 4.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Robert Hugh BURNS, RNVR

CWGC entry LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL
Bay 6. Panel 3.

 

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