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850 Naval Air Squadron

Aircrew and squadron personnel

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, RNVR = Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, RANVR = Royal Australian 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.

Dates: Dates for commanding officers are taken from Sturtivant, R & Balance, T., (1994)'Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm'  All other dates are taken from the Navy Lists and may not accurately reflect the exact date of appointment. Date of death is taken from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records.

850 (1) January 1943

Rank

Name

Appointed

Notes

Lieut. (A)  (P) J. H Dundas, DSC 01 Dec 42 In command
  J. F. Armold 01 Dec 42  
       

Lieut. (A)  (O)

 J. H. Stenning

07 Jan 43

In command
  G. R. Coy 01 Dec 42  
       

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

A. E. Ballentyne

01 Dec 42

 

  W. E. Griffiths 01 Dec 42  
  G. A. Hougiton 01 Jan 43  
  P. H. Lockwood 01 Jan 43  
  R. C. Muneay 01 Dec 42  
  W. C. Murrey 01 Jan 43  
  D. R. Park 01 Dec 42  
  G. A. Radley 01 Dec 42  
  F. A. Searman 01 Dec 42  
  S. H. Thurstans 01 Jan 43  
  A. T. Trotnaan 01 Jan 43  
  M. F. Wheeler 01 Jan 43  
  C. d'A. Williams 01 Dec 42  
       
Tpy. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (O) K. D. Callaway 01 Dec 42  
  E. B. Dixon 01 Dec 42  
  D. F. Ellwood 01 Dec 42  
  N. D. B. Harris 01 Dec 42  
  K. L. Jones 01 Dec 42  
  L. F. Sage 01 Dec 42  
       
Tpy. Act. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) J. L. Galloway 01 Jan 43  
  J. S. Toner 01 Jan 43  
       
Tpy. Act. Sub- Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (O) E. A. Davies 01 Jan 43  
  R. W. Holme 01 Jan 43  
  R. Jolly 01 Dec 42  
  K. E. Neiderer 01 Dec 42  
  G. C. Richardson 01 Dec 42  
       
Tpy. Mid. (A) R.N.V.R. (O) J. C. Medcalf 01 Dec 42  
       

Information drawn from the Navy list December 1942 through February 1943 (final edition before squadron disbanded)
 

 

850 (2) September 43 - August 1945

Rank

Name

Appointed

Notes

Lieut.-Conn. (A),  (P)

A. P. Boddam-Whetham, DSC

01 Sep 43

In command

       
Tpy. Lieut.-Conn. (A) R.N.V.R. (O) B. White, DSC   In command
Joined as Lieutenant  01 Aug 43
       
Lieut. (A) (O) R. Stainer 01 Sep 43 Killed. air crash 18.11.43
       

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

A. T. Bohn ?

 

       
Tpy. Sub- Lieut. (A), R.N.V.R. (P) J. H. Day 01 Sep 43  
  A. A. Dickson 01 Sep 43

Killed. air crash 18.11.43

  J. Incley 01 Sep 43  
  E. T. Genge 01 Sep 43  
  R. D. Hall  10 Aug 44  
  G. G. Hunkin 01 Sep 43  
  H. Marsh 01 Sep 43  
  R. C. Sheard 01 Jun 44  
  K. W. Stevenson 01 Sep 43  
       
py. Sub- Lieut. (A), R.N.V.R. (o) G. F. Arnold R.

15 Nov 43

 
  A. J. Black, DSC 01 Sept 43  
  P R. J. Burch B. 01 Sept 43   
  V. Doxatt-Pratt 18 Jul 44  
  R. W. Couison 05 June 44  
  W. H. Mason G. 01 Sept 43  
  R. Scrowston 03 June 443  
  L. A. Sims 01 Sept 43  
  D. S. Taylor 20 Apr 44  
  G. S. Thompson 01 Sept 43  
  B. Wood 01 Sept 43  
       

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

J. W. Meek 01 Sept 43  
       
       
Tpy. Acting Sub-Lieut. (A), R.N.V.R. (P) G. Goodchild 01 Sept 43  
  R. F. B. Kerr 01 Sept 43  
  K. A. Robertson 01 Sept 43  

 

S. Staubrook

01 Sept 43

 

  D. R. Whitehead 01 Sept 43  
       

Tpy. Acting Sub-Lieut. (A), R.N.V.R. (O)

R. L. Beckett

01 Sept 43

 
  R. G. Bloom 01 Sept 43  
  J. B. Gass  01 Sept 43  
  T. B. Shead 01 Sept 43  

 

     

Telegraphist Air Gunners

     

Leading TAG

T. C. R. Williams

 

Killed. air crash 18.11.43

 

 

 

 

Information drawn from the Navy list October 1943 through January 1945 (final edition before squadron disbanded)
 

 

 


List last modified 23 October 2022


In Memoriam

The Fleet Air Arm memorial at Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. Located outside the former Naval Air Station and Fleet Air Arm Barracks this records the names of almost 2,000 men of that service who died during the Second World War and who have no known grave.

Details taken from the records of the Commonwealth War Grave Commission

Name & Rank

CWGC details

Date of death

Cemetery/Memorial

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Andrew Alexander DICKSON, RNVR

CWGC Record

18 November 1943

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Bay 4, Panel 6.

Lieut. (A) (O) Robert STAINER

CWGC Record

18 November 1943

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Bay 4, Panel 3.

Leading Airman Thomas Charles Robert WILLIAMS

CWGC Record 

18 November 1943

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Bay 4, Panel 3.

 

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