36 NAVY NEWS, OCTOBER 2009
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Rear Admiral Sir David William Haslam. and Prinz Eugen in the English Channel George Langley. AB. Ganges Boy. Served The list recognises service on
1942 he went to sea as a midshipman in 1942 he was awarded the DSO for in Scott, Jaguar, Crossbow and Eagle. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and
in the light cruiser Birmingham, then the his conspicuous gallantry; he was badly HMS Ganges Association, Ton Class national operations for the period October
Australian destroyer Quickmatch and the injured and after convalescence he was Association and Basingstoke RNA. May 10. 1 2008 to April 30 2009:
battleship Resolution, taking part in Indian posted to RNAS Fighter Training Station Aged 68. AFGHANISTAN
We flick back through the pages of Navy
Ocean convoy operations and the taking of at Yeovilton and demobbed 1946. July 31. Neville ‘Ken’ Keenan. AB. Ganges Bar to Distinguished Service Order
Madagascar from the Vichy French. After Aged 90. Boy. Served in Ashanti, Hubberston also (DSO)
News to see which stories were drawing
North Sea convoy duty in Vivien he opted to Bryan ‘Jacko’ Jackman. CPOMEM. submarines Alaric and Alderney. HMS Brigadier Gordon Kenneth Messenger
become a surveyor in 1944 and was appointed Served 1952-75 in Loch Tralaig, Ganges Association and Basingtoke RNA. DSO, Royal Marines
attention in past decades... to the armed yacht White Bear carrying out Challenger, Maidstone, Chevron, Brenchley, July 17. Aged 63. Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
surveys at night behind Japanese lines in Troughbridge, Verulam, Barrosa, Victorious, Fred Gwilliams. Electrical branch. Served Lt Col James Andrew John Morris,
October 1969
Burma, mapping unexplored estuaries. After Intrepid, Fearless, Berry Head and Hermes. 1954-61 in Vanguard and Diana. St Helens Royal Marines
the war he surveyed wrecks in the North Sea; August 23. Aged 74. branch. Aged 76. Offi cer of the Order of The British
seconded to the RAN for two years working Douglas ‘Dougie’ Richardson. AB. Sam Hill. AB. National Serviceman. Empire (OBE)
QUESTIONNAIRES about bell-bottoms were going out to ships
on the Great Barrier Reef; then navigator and Served 1963-73 in Cavalier and Caprice Served 1947-49 in Maidstone and also Lt Col Alan Litster, Royal Marines
all over the Fleet as the Navy reviewed its uniforms.
subsequently 2iC of the Scott, Dalrymple and (1968) and HMS Caprice 1968 Association. played rugby for the RN. Treasurer and Lt Col Charles Richard Stickland, Royal
The other big talking point (sartorially at least) was hair – and
Vidal from 1949-58 conducting survey work August 6. Aged 64. Trustee of St Helens RNA. Marines
in home waters, the Persian Gulf, East Africa, Mary Smallpage (née Berry). Land Army. Gillian Drury. Associate member Henlow Member of the Order of The British
Navy News sympathised with young sailors who felt their chances
the Mediterranean, West Indies and Belize (a Daughter of the MD of Pigerskills Yard in branch. August 11. Empire (MBE)
of ‘trapping’ were much reduced by their regulation1950s short
shallow area in the Gulf is named Haslam’s Sunderland and ‘christened’ Morecambe Sheila Scott. Wren SW/OP. Served WO2 Kevin John Cheeseman, Royal
back and sides.
Patches). Promoted to commander 1957; in Bay at the Sunderland shipyard November 1 1944-47 at Crosby Hall Chelsea, Lochinvar Marines
1964 he rescued 180 women and children 1944. Associate member of HMS Morecambe and NCSO Ramsgate. Secretary from 1988 Maj Adam Timothy Stephen Crawford,
Indeed, a member of the Navy News staff had picked up a
from the Zanzibar Revolt in which thousands Bay Association. August 15. Aged 89. and a life member from 1999 Henlow RNA. Royal Marines
sailor thumbing a lift home who confessed that being allowed
were killed – appointed OBE. He surveyed Henry Alexander Marsden. Leading August. Surg Lt Henry Dowlen, Royal Navy
to grow sideburns was the one regulation whose change would
the North Atlantic seabed to confi rm the Signalman ‘Bunce’. Served 1941-45 Landing Sheila Clarke. Associate member and Maj Tristan Harris, Royal Marines
safety of deep-diving submarines and to Craft 455 and Brocklesby. August 17. Aged welfare committee member Wigston & Maj Ross Walker Preston, Royal
most improve his life.
provide navigational references. After a tour 86. District branch. August 2. Marines
It was unfair, opined Navy News, to condemn sailors to
in Whitehall as assistant hydrographer he John H S Houghton. PO MEM(M). Joined Michael John Billett RM. Ipswich branch. Royal Red Cross
second place in the romance stakes “while dollies go for the
commanded Hydra surveying the Solomon as a boy entrant 1961 leaving for three years Aged 77. Lt Cdr Alison Jayne Hofman ARRC,
Islands, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea and rejoining he served 22 years in Loch John Arthur Underwood. PO Supply. Queen Alexandra’s Royal Navy Nursing
fellows with the modern styles.”
– awarded the Admiral Sir George Back Fyne, Orion, Torquay, Euryalus, Danae (1st Ipswich branch. Service
Award in 1974 by the Royal Geographical and 2nd commissions, it was also his fi nal ‘Jim’ Williams. L/AFO FAA. Served 1943- Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC)
October 1979
Society. After a tour at Hydrographical ship) and Leander; Malaysia Campaign. After 46 at Ringtail working on Barracuda aircraft. Mne James Malone, Royal Marines
HQ, Taunton as Assistant Director (Naval), training at Sultan he joined Hermes, Raleigh Margate branch. August 26. Aged 83. Mne Steven Nethery, Royal Marines
OCTOBER’S Navy News was decidedly sombre, with a
promoted to rear-admiral and Hydrographer (training new entries) then Drake working on Mike Rockett. Fleet CPO. Ganges Boy Military Cross (MC)
of the Navy 1975-85; elected a Younger casualty action centre during the Falklands and served 24 years. Former secretary then Mne Samuel Alexander, Royal Marines
goodly part of the paper devoted to Admiral of the Fleet Earl Brother of Trinity House in 1976. President War. August 23. Aged 64. chairman of Loughton RNA, also secretary to Cpl John Ballance, Royal Marines
Mountbatten, who had died at the end of August when the IRA
of Derby and Taunton Sea Cadets, Derby Joe Foggo. HMS Caledonia 1937 Boy’s Loughton RBL. September 5. Aged 77. Cpl Richard Bateman, Royal Marines
blew up his boat on a family holiday.
RNA and Friends of HMS Vidal Association. 1939 Association. August 2. Aged 87. Terence ‘Terry’ Cooper. Tel(S). Served Maj Richard John Cantrill, Royal
August. Aged 86. John ‘Jack’ Leadbetter Mulligan. in Ganges, Drake, Vanguard, Ulster (D83), Marines
The front page showed his coffin on a gun carriage in the Capt Sir Edward Archdale. Entered Yeoman of Signals. Served 1939-54 in Ladybird (Sasebo-Japan), Tyne, Victory, Sgt Noel Gerard Connolly, Royal
September sunshine outside Westminster Abbey. His black
Dartmouth 1935. After war broke out he Queen Elizabeth (onboard when she was Mercury and Osprey (TTB). Founder member Marines
charger, Dolly, is standing with her head bowed and her
continued his training in Vindictive and badly damaged by Italian limpet mines in of HMS Ladybird Association, member RN Sgt Andrew Leaver, Royal Marines
Edinburgh. 1940 he was midshipman 1941), Tobruk in an LCT, Malta Convoys and Amateur Radio Society (G3YHA) and York & MA1 Kate Louise Nesbitt, Royal Navy
master’s boots reversed in the stirrups. to Sabre, which made several voyages survived the sinking of M/V Pampas (1942). District RNA. August 27. Aged 76. Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
The Navy took a major part in his funeral on September 5,
to Dunkirk, eventually evacuating 5,765 Special Service duties North Africa coast
LST & LANDING CRAFT ASSOCIATION
Lt Cdr Gavin Ian Simmonite, Royal Navy
with sailors drawing his coffin through London. Ratings from
soldiers and which later evacuated more (42-43) then Shiant (43-44), Glory when the
A G Wilson. Served LCIs and LCTs. June
Mention in Despatches (MiD)
troops and civilians from ports in north-west Japanese signed the surrender on board; Cpl Russell Howard Coles, Royal
HMS Mercury made up the coffin bearer party for the burial France and Alderney. After completing his
21.
Widemouth Bay on anti-piracy patrols off
K E Low. Served LCAs, LCT 1001 and
Marines
at Romsey Abbey and the firing party was drawn from 45
training in Hood and Bulldog he volunteered the China coast, Dutch-Indonesian Confl ict
LCT(R). July 31.
L/Cpl Steven Daniel Fyfe, Royal
Commando Royal Marines.
for the submarine service. 1942-43 he
and Palestine Patrols (46-47); Loch Arkaig
J L Sones. Served LCT 7058. August 15.
Marines
completed 12 war patrols, mainly with
(48-50), Superb – American & West Indies
LMA Richard Hogben, Royal Navy
P42, Unbroken; he manned the three-inch
Station (50-52) and Surprise when she acted
FLEET AIR ARM ASSOCIATION Acting Cpl Adam Mabrouk, Royal
October 1989
gun where within moments of surfacing,
as Royal Yacht for the Coronation Review at
Peter Mowlam. AM(A)1. Served 1945-47. Marines
he was able to hit his target – awarded a
Spithead 1953. Widemouth Bay Association,
Joined at Gosling, trained at RAF St Athan Cpl Samuel Joseph McCormick, Royal
“CIVVIES to clean ships” was the headline, with the news
DSC for the damage infl icted on the Italian
life member, former president, vice chairman
then Hornbill (R&D Unit) and Vulture (741B Marines
that homecoming sailors were about to get a hand with the
cruisers Bolzano and Muzio Attendolo by
and press offi cer of the Royal Naval Patrol
Squadron). Essex branch. August 26. Sgt James Ian Melhuish, Royal Marines
one salvo of four torpedoes. He returned to
Service Association and life member of The
James Bright. AM(O)1. Served 1943-46. Marine David George Middlemas, Royal
chores. teaching at the gunnery school Excellent, George Cross Island Association. August 28. Hitchin branch. July 20. Aged 85. Marines
Contracts were being finalised in Devonport, Portsmouth and
then gunnery offi cer of Daring. 1956-58
Aged 85.
ALGERINES ASSOCIATION
Cpl Scott Muir, Royal Marines
Rosyth for teams of civilian cleaners with high-tech equipment
he was fl eet gunnery offi cer on the staff of
Walter William Roland Walker DSM.
Maurice Avery. Sto/Mec. Served in
Mne Iain Andrew Penrose, Royal
the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean
Gunner on Landing Craft. Served 1941-45.
Marines
to clean surface ships in refit and operational time. 1959-62 a member of directing staff of the
Stormcloud. June 13. Aged 81.
Joined on his 18th birthday. Earned DSM at
Roy Morris. Sto. Served in Fancy. July
Cpl Mathew Silcock, Royal Marines
It was planned to provide every ship with a deep clean and
RN Tactical School then served two years
Battle of Anzio for continual fi ring after his
20. Aged 91.
Maj Nigel John Powell Somerville,
some painting inside and out every six months.
at the Admiralty. His last appointment was
loading crew had been destroyed by enemy
George Fordham. AB Served in Harrier.
Royal Marines
as Captain of the Dockyard and Queen’s
fi re. September 6. Aged 85.
Acting Sgt Jason Paul Walker, Royal
The idea was to reduce the drudgery for sailors, allowing Harbour Master, Chatham. July 31. Aged
Associate member. July 24.
R A ‘Bob’ Tidd. AB TM. Submarine
Edward Partridge. AB. Served in
Marines
them more time for leave, courses, sport, team training and
87.
service 1942-46 in Oberon, Truculent, Truant
Coquette. July 26. Aged 85.
Maj Andrew Patrick Leonard Watkins,
recreation, and thereby improve retention as manpower was
Lt Cdr Reginald ‘Mac’ Samples DSO. As
and Auriga. Submariners Association, Bath
John Corbin. AB. Served in Espiegle. July
Royal Marines
observer in one of the antiquated Swordfi sh
branch. Aged 84.
Cpl Andrew Watt, Royal Marines
tight. aircraft of 825 Squadron that made a torpedo
26. Aged 87.
Tony Deacon. AB (Asdic). Served in Loch
Horace Gammon. Sto/Mec. Served in
WO2 Adrian Webb, Royal Marines
attack on the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau
Fada, Loring and Emerald. HMS Loch Fada
Myrmidon. September 10. Aged 84.
Cpl Thomas Webster, Royal Marines
Association. September 9. Aged 84.
Cpl Edward James Winslow, Royal
Marines
ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION
Trooper Mark Adams, Royal Marines
Henry John Raikes. Coder. Served
Mermaid (1943) also in Malta under the Swap drafts
Queen’s Commendation for Valuable
Service (QCVS)
command of CinCMed. Past treasurer
Cdr Gail Margaret Axon, Royal Navy
Bridgend RNA. June 15. Aged 84.
Sgt Derrin Mark Canterbury, Royal
Ron Fielding. Served Bastion,
Marines
Bossington, Leopard and Llandaff. National
Sgt James Horrocks, Royal Marines
Council member and standard bearer for
ET(ME) Mangles drafted to MCM2
Acting WO2 Garry Mason, Royal
No.10 Area; also chairman and standard
Squadron Portsmouth currently would
Marines
bearer for Salford RNA. August 25. Aged 67.
like to swap for any CVS, Type 42 or
Col Andrew Thomas Westenberg
SHIP of the MONTH
Ron Wheeler. Past standard bearer
Type 45. Contact 0753 840 0748 or email
Maynard, Royal Marines
Hanworth RNA.
scottmangles@hotmail.com.
Cpl Elvet Llewellyn Williams, Royal
Alfred Finch. Chief PO Ordnance Artifi cer
Marines
(CHOA). His favourite ship was Maori.
Maj Julian Graham Wilson, Royal
President Gloucester RNA. August 17. Aged
Marines
92.
IRAQ
Bernard Spencer RM. Served 1942-45 in
Sports lottery
Companion of the Order of St Michael
the Burmese and Pacifi c theatres. Longest
and St George (CMG)
serving member of Dursley & District RNA
Major General Andrew Salmon, Royal
and branch chairman 1986-89 and 1992-95.
Collectors’ Corner Marines
August 24.
Offi cer of the Order of The British
Lt Cdr Phil Humphries RNVR. Served
August 22: £5,000 – AET W R Barrett;
Build an exciting and interesting collection of B&W and coloured postcard
Empire (OBE)
1940-46 and 1951-55 in Pembroke,
£1,500 – PO O’Shea; £500 – PO S R
Col David Christopher Michael King,
Collingwood, Sunfl ower, King Alfred,
McInnes.
Royal Marines
sized photographs of ships and aircraft of the Royal Navy and RFA’s.
Armadillo, RN Commandos, Glenroy, Lizard,
August 29: £5,000 – Lt R A Lightfoot;
Col Peter George David Taylor, Royal
LSTs 373 and 413, Duncansby Head, Berry
£1,500 – OM2 B J White; £500 – Cpl W N
Marines
Head and Tiree. One of the fi rst offi cers to
MacFarlane.
Lt Col Colin David Ward, Royal Marines
train the RN Commandos. Bexhill branch.
September 5: £5,000 – ETME F Dowdall;
Mention in Despatches (MiD)
August 13. Aged 87. £1,500 – Surg Lt J I Robin; £500 – NN M
Only £12.50
Mne Lee Tyers, Royal Marines
UK £14.50 Overseas
John ‘Jack’ W Mead. Leading Seaman Clements.
Queen’s Commendation for Bravery
LTO. Served 1942-46 in Orwell, Chelmer and September 12: £5,000 – AB P H McDuff;
(QCB)
Eskimo. Life member Thurrock/HQ. August £1,500 – Lt A D Newns; £500 – Lt J K
Cpl Gregory Llewellyn, Royal Marines
I YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION
6. Weller.
Queen’s Commendation for Valuable
Service (QCVS)
Lt Col Matthew John Andrew Jackson,
Which includes ONE NEW postcard sized photograph
Contact sheet
Royal Marines
Capt Duncan Thomas George Quaye,
Royal Navy
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