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Rank equals: Chief Petty Officer

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E 18 (I 98)
177854
Born: 28th Feb, 1879.
Died: 1st Jun, 1916.
Aged: 37
Bagg, Edwin Albert Thomas
Chief Petty Officer
RN DoB 28/02/1878
Tarpon (N 17)
D/J 77988
Died: 10th Apr, 1940.
Aged: 37
Banfield, Edgar
Chief Petty Officer
P 48
P/J 97480
Died: 25th Dec, 1942.
Aged: 38
Barber, Frederick Henry
Chief Petty Officer
Oxley (N 55)
C/J41545
Born: 31st Jan, 1899.
Aged: 40
From: West Ham, Essex UK
Bargrove, Richard Ernest John
Chief Petty Officer
M 1
224812
Died: 12th Nov, 1925.
Aged: 38
Bicker, Roland
Chief Petty Officer
Odin (N 84)
C/J 99732
Born: 22nd Mar, 1905.
Died: 14th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 35
Biggerstaff, Edward James
Chief Petty Officer
Given DoB 22/11/1905
Pandora (N 42)
D/J89821
Died: 1st Apr, 1942.
Aged: 41
Breen, Ernest Charles
Chief Petty Officer
P 222
C/J 106898
Died: 12th Dec, 1942.
Aged: 35
Brooks, Bertram Alfred
Chief Petty Officer
L 24
224883
Died: 10th Jan, 1924.
Aged: 37
Buck, Elijah Frederick
Chief Petty Officer
Olympus (N 35)
P/J 83485
Died: 8th May, 1942.
Aged: 41
Burton, William Stanley MID
Chief Petty Officer
Swordfish (N 61)
C/J 109431
Died: 7th Nov, 1940.
Aged: 32
Bush, Roland William MID
Chief Petty Officer
K 17
186086
Died: 31st Jan, 1918.
Aged: 38
Case, Charles DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Usurper (P 56)
P/JX 142727
Died: 12th Oct, 1943.
Aged: 25
Charman, John
Chief Petty Officer
Union (N 56)
P/J 111325
Died: 20th Jul, 1941.
Aged: 32
Clark, Charles
Chief Petty Officer
Regent (N 41)
C/JX 127992
Died: 18th Apr, 1943.
Aged: 32
Clifford, Raymond Alfred
Chief Petty Officer
Triton (N 15)
D/J 95711
Died: 8th Dec, 1940.
Aged: 37
Codman, Herbert Cyril Percival MID
Chief Petty Officer
Regulus (N 88)
C/JX 1282257
Died: 26th Nov, 1940.
Aged: 29
Coe-Smith, Harry
Chief Petty Officer
Born Smith, Harry. Served as Coe-Smith, Harry
Tarpon (N 17)
C/J 103082
Died: 10th Apr, 1940.
Aged: 34
Collins, Leslie Alban
Chief Petty Officer
H 49
C/J 108151
Died: 18th Oct, 1904.
Aged: 33
Davidson, James Henry DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Odin (N 84)
C/J 104811
Died: 14th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 36
Dawson, Ralph
Chief Petty Officer
Narwhal (N 45)
D/J 92099
Died: 23rd Jul, 1940.
Aged: 37
Denner, William Frederick James DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Splendid (P 228)
C/JX 125574
Died: 19th Feb, 1945.
Aged: 35
From: Folkestone, Kent
Dixon, Samuel Hughes DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Samuel Dixon was born in October 1910, the son of Samuel and Agnes Dixon and entered the Royal Navy in 1928. He joined the submarine branch in February 1942 as a Petty Officer Torpedo Gunner’s Mate. He served in HM Submarines L26 and H50 before joining HMS Splendid in October 1942.

Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch, who had been his Commanding Officer at that time said of him later 'a calm and utterly reliable torpedo expert, one of the finest men I was privileged to be shipmates with. I certainly recommended him for a decoration, he richly deserved it.'

One of the survivors when Splendid was forced to the surface after a depth charge attack, Dixon was held as a PoW in Italy and then transferred to Germany. He was killed in a strafing raid by USAAF Mustang aircraft near Halberstadt on 19 February 1945 during a forced march by his German captors away from the advancing Red Army.

He left a widow, Agnes, in Folkestone, Kent.

He was awarded the DSM (see London Gazette date 6th Apr 1943) his medal was presented to his wife.
Thorn (N 11)
D/J 97357
Died: 7th Aug, 1943.
Aged: 38
Eason, William James MID
Chief Petty Officer
Cyclops (F31) 1905 - 1947
P/J 98921
Born: 5th May, 1905.
Died: 26th Apr, 1945.
Aged: 39
From: Wrexham, Denbighshire
Fisher, William Edward
Chief Petty Officer
William Fisher joined the Navy as a Boy Seaman on 17th September 1920 and, as a Torpedoman served mainly in Cruisers and in the Aircraft Carriers Glorious, Furious and Hermes and in the Battleship HMS Barham.

By 1940 he was a Chief Petty Officer (LTO) and was later drafted to the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Cyclops. He was taken ill with a toxemia of unknown origin and died from myocardial failure in the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow.

He was the husband of Ellen Maud Fisher (nee Pilcher) and the father on Ronald Arthur Fisher.
Oxley (N 55)
C/J34250
Born: 9th Nov, 1898.
Aged: 40
From: Rawlapindi, India UK
Francis, Alfred Richard
Chief Petty Officer
P 615
D/JX 135862
Died: 18th Apr, 1943.
Aged: 28
Goulstone, Francis Gerald MID
Chief Petty Officer
L 10
163894
Died: 30th Oct, 1918.
Aged: 43
Gurney, Alfred Albert
Chief Petty Officer
L 55
226859
Died: 9th Jun, 1919.
Aged: 31
Guy, James
Chief Petty Officer
Thistle (N 24)
P/J 80048
Died: 10th Apr, 1940.
Aged: 38
Hammond, Herbert Tom
Chief Petty Officer
Grampus (N 56)
P/J 39728
Died: 16th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 40
Hart, Albert
Chief Petty Officer
P 222
D/KX 85352
Died: 12th Dec, 1942.
Aged: 27
Hartley, William
Chief Petty Officer
Spearfish (N 69)
D/J 48891
Died: 1st Jul, 1940.
Aged: 40
Ibbotson, William
Chief Petty Officer
Urge (N 17)
P/J 110919
Died: 29th Apr, 1942.
Aged: 33
Jackman, Charley John DSM*, MID*
Chief Petty Officer
Triad (N 53)
C/JX 128624
Died: 15th Oct, 1940.
Aged: 29
Johnson, Frank Walter
Chief Petty Officer
M 2
J 18133
Died: 26th Jan, 1932.
Aged: 37
King, James
Chief Petty Officer
Stonehenge (P 232)
P/JX 149065
Died: 20th Mar, 1944.
Aged: 24
Kirwin, Kenneth John DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Snapper (N 39)
C/J 103942
Died: 11th Feb, 1941.
Aged: 34
Laker, John William
Chief Petty Officer
P311 (Tutankhamen)
P/J 113433
Died: 2nd Jan, 1943.
Aged: 33
Lee, Arthur Stephen Kingston DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Rainbow (N 16)
D/J 103456
Died: 4th Oct, 1940.
Aged: 34
Leslie-Reed, Alexander Charles
Chief Petty Officer
Turbulent (N 98)
P/J 91592
Aged: 40
Lyfield, Albert Ray
Chief Petty Officer
E 3 (I 83)
160606
Died: 18th Oct, 1914.
Aged: 39
Macfarlane, George Webster
Chief Petty Officer
Syrtis (P 241)
D/J 107897
Died: 28th Mar, 1944.
Aged: 36
Mackenzie, Donald
Chief Petty Officer
Sickle (P 224)
P/J 114226
Born: 4th Mar, 1910.
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 34
From: Pontypridd, Glamorgan
Mitchell, Cecil John
Chief Petty Officer
One of seven children, the son of John Mitchell (1882 to 1947) and Hagar nee Collins (1882 to 1961)

Cecil joined the Royal Navy in 1925 as a Boy II Class, whilst employed as a “colliery boy”. He trained at HMS Impregnable, a 106 gun “wooden wall” warship launched in 1810 and used from 1862 as a training ship. He was here from June 1925 to October 1926, by which time he had been promoted to Boy I Class.

Once trained, he went aboard the battleship HMS Benbow until the 25th of August 1927 and then the light cruiser HMS Cambrian upon which he was promoted from Boy to Ordinary and then Able Seaman and also signed up for twelve years on the 4th of May 1928.

Having signed up, he was posted to the destroyer HMS Blanche, followed by the battleship, HMS Revenge from 1932 to 1934.

Cecil continued to serve alternatively on ships and shore stations. His next ship was the battleship Iron Duke; battleship Repulse, 1936 (in which he was promoted to Acting Petty Officer); cruiser HMS Belfast 1939 four months; He was awarded the Naval General Service Medal (Palestine claps) on the 11th of March 1941, then on the 23rd of September 1941 he transferred to HMS Dolphin, HQ for the submarine service and thence to the submarine depot ship Cyclops on the 11th of November.

His service record does not record his ships served on after the Cyclops. However, he is known to have have been a torpedo instructor and to have served on the submarine Seraph during Operation Torch, the North African landings in 1942.
Thames (N 71)
D/J 53601
Died: 3rd Aug, 1940.
Aged: 39
Mott, Herbert Edwin
Chief Petty Officer
Truculent (P 315)
P/KX 83137
Born: 3rd Dec, 1911.
Died: 12th Jan, 1950.
Aged: 38
Neighbour, Russell Albert
Chief Petty Officer
Unbeaten (N 93)
P/J 107443
Died: 11th Nov, 1942.
Aged: 35
Norris, Raymond Dean DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Triumph (N 18)
P/J 107537
Died: 21st Jan, 1942.
Aged: 34
Nott, Reginald DSM*
Chief Petty Officer
Traveller (N 48)
P/JX 129472
Died: 4th Dec, 1942.
Aged: 31
Payne, Charles Edmund Hunkin DSM
Chief Petty Officer
O/N 214121
Born: 17th Mar, 1885.
Died: 6th Aug, 1944.
Aged: 59
From: Haggerston, London
Pusey, George Henry
Chief Petty Officer
Whilst serving at HMS Dolphin, died in the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar from pneumonia and Paget's Disease. He was the son of Henry and Mary Ann Pusey.
Medway (F25) 1928 - 1942
J93794
Died: 30th Jun, 1942.
Quaife, Thomas
Chief Petty Officer
Phoenix (N 96)
P/J 58643
Died: 10th Jul, 1940.
Aged: 39
Randell, Victor Cecil
Chief Petty Officer
Simoom (P 225)
P/JX 136102
Died: 19th Nov, 1943.
Aged: 35
Rawe, James Alexander
Chief Petty Officer
SSX12777
Tigris (N 63)
C/JX 130103
Died: 27th Feb, 1943.
Aged: 32
Richman, Scott Lyon DSM*
Chief Petty Officer
Thunderbolt (N 25)
P/J 97099
Died: 14th Mar, 1943.
Aged: 39
Ringham, Fred
Chief Petty Officer
Sickle (P 224)
C/JX 135449
Died: 16th Jun, 1944.
Aged: 28
Rolph, David
Chief Petty Officer
Orpheus (N 46)
P/J 84952
Died: 27th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 37
Scott, Thomas Norman
Chief Petty Officer
Thistle (N 24)
C/J 96699
Died: 10th Apr, 1940.
Aged: 35
Thompson, John Harry
Chief Petty Officer
Unique (N 95)
D/J 98271
Died: 10th Oct, 1942.
Aged: 38
Tuck, Allen Royson
Chief Petty Officer
Pandora (N 42)
P/J 103781
Died: 1st Apr, 1942.
Aged: 36
Vernon, Arthur
Chief Petty Officer
Thunderbolt (N 25)
P/J 98724
Born: 8th Sep, 1904.
Died: 14th Mar, 1943.
Aged: 38
Walters, Harold Percy DSM*
Chief Petty Officer
Stratagem (P 234)
C/JX 149286
Died: 22nd Nov, 1944.
Aged: 30
Welshman, Maurice Waites DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Narwhal (N 45)
C/J 108318
Died: 23rd Jul, 1940.
Aged: 32
Whalebone, Frederick John DSM
Chief Petty Officer
Turbulent (N 98)
C/JX125656
Aged: 33
Wilkes, George Harold
Chief Petty Officer
Affray (P 421)
MX 745978
Born: 26th Jun, 1921.
Died: 16th Apr, 1951.
Aged: 29
Denny, Frederick Charles
Chief Petty Officer Electrician
Affray (P 421)
C/JX 157156
Born: 5th May, 1922.
Died: 16th Apr, 1951.
Aged: 28
Burberry, Alfred Henry
Chief Petty Officer Stoker
E 18 (I 98)
289749
Died: 1st Jun, 1916.
Aged: 35
Sheppard, Samuel Arthur
Chief Petty Officer Stoker
Affray (P 421)
P/KX 82925
Born: 2nd Oct, 1913.
Died: 16th Apr, 1951.
Aged: 37
Whitbread, Reginald Arthur
Chief Petty Officer Stoker
Narwhal (N 45)
D/J 97177
Died: 23rd Jul, 1940.
Aged: 35
Duckham, Harry Roy
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Rainbow (N 16)
P/J 68155
Died: 4th Oct, 1940.
Aged: 38
Guppy, Ambrose Nelson Clive
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Turbulent (N 98)
P/J 107992
Aged: 34
Hadley, William Kerly
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Orpheus (N 46)
C/J 113288
Died: 27th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 31
Hardaker, Gordon
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Vandal (P 64)
C/J 104901
Died: 24th Feb, 1943.
Aged: 36
Hinds, Alfred Charles
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Salmon (N 65)
P/J 39553
Died: 9th Jul, 1940.
Aged: 41
Palmer, George
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Grampus (N 56)
P/J 49226
Died: 16th Jun, 1940.
Aged: 40
Paxton, Alexandria Adolphus
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist
Perseus (N 36)
D/J 72812
Died: 6th Dec, 1941.
Aged: 40
Wardrop, Henry Vallance DSM
Chief Petty Officer Telegraphist

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There is no branch of His Majesty's Forces which in this war has suffered the same proportion of total loss as our submarine service.

It is the most dangerous of all services.

That is perhaps the reason why the First Lord tells me that the entry into it is keenly sought by Officers and Men.

I feel sure the House would wish to testify its gratitude and admiration to our Submariners for their Skill - Courage and Devotion which has proved of inestimable value to the sustenance of our country.

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