Royal Navy Awards

Leading Telegraphist Peter Malcolm Goodyear was awarded the D.S.M. for service aboard HMSm SAFARI - gazetted 6 July 1943.

Regards
Hugh

 

Award Cross of Valour (Polish) Petty Officer Athole Graham Coning, Royal Navy HMS Griffin for rescuing Polish troops from Nazaire [1940]


Gloucester Citizen 5th March 1942

 

Award Distinguished Service Medal Temporary Petty Officer Cook Cecil Roy Smith, (P/MX.51629) Narvik & Malta

The King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday, to approve awards show below, for outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld.



Derby Daily Telegraph 16th March 1945

 

Award Distinguished Service Medal Acting Able Seaman Cyril Doggett (D/JX.190979)



Derby Daily Telegraph 16th March 1945

 

HMS AURORA.

Hugh

 

DEMS gunner aboard ss KENNETH HAWKSFIELD - Chief Engineer was called Richard Spencer Dring who also received an MBE(Civ). His DSM was awarded in 1945 when he was not ascribed to a ship but it would be for that action in 1942.

Hugh

 

Award British Empire Medal (Military) Able Seaman James Johnstone, rescue H.M.S. Hardy (R08)

Falkirk Herald 7th October 1944

Hardy, ship loss​

ANKERS, Reginald W, Able Seaman, D/JX 170256, MPK
BRYAN, Gordon H, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 417493, MPK
CARTER, Harold G, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 566389, MPK
CHAMBERS, Clifford, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 565859, MPK
DAWSON, Raymond H, Writer, D/MX 122554, MPK
DONLAN, Thomas, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 552138, MPK
GARTSIDE, Fred, Leading Cook (S), D/MX 66465, MPK
GREATBANKS, Reginald, Able Seaman, D/JX 306054, MPK
GREAVES, John T, Electrical Artificer 4c, D/MX 102291, MPK
HAMLETT, George, Able Seaman, D/SSX 25668, MPK
HARDWICK, Clifford, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 419364, MPK
HAWTHORNE, Joseph, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 417579, MPK
HENSON, James V, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 418893, MPK
HOWIE, Thomas G, Ty/Act/Leading Stoker, D/KX 103879, DOW
JOHNSON, Arthur J, Leading Seaman (Pens), D/J 16173, MPK
JOHNSON, Bernard, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 417552, MPK
JONES, Henry L, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 369895, MPK
LEE, Robert, Ordinary Telegraphist, D/JX 402047, MPK
LITTLE, George A, Ty/Petty Officer, D/J 101838, MPK
LORD, James A, Ty/Act/Leading Seaman, D/SSX 22927, MPK
MALES, Frederick J, Petty Officer, D/JX 132022, MPK
MCHUGH, Michael J, Ty/Supply Petty Officer, D/MX 61196, MPK
MELLIN, Maldwyn J, Stoker 1c, D/KX 138697, MPK
MURRELL, John W, Able Seaman, D/JX 369066, MPK
NEEDHAM, Patrick J, Act/Able Seaman, D/JX 198409, MPK
ROYALES, James, Act/Able Seaman, D/JX 368601, MPK
SMITH, Albert G K, Ordinary Seaman, D/JX 417195, MPK
SMITH, Arthur S, Able Seaman, D/JX 304425, MPK
SMITH, Sydney T, Ordinary Telegraphist, D/JX 387322, DOW
SMYTH, Joseph P, Able Seaman, D/JX 132396, MPK
STEVENS, Raymond D, Stoker 1c, D/KX 137794, MPK
STUART, Granville, Able Seaman, D/JX 418315, MPK
TAYLER, Douglas T, Able Seaman, D/JX 419163, MPK
THOMAS, Sidney J, Able Seaman, D/JX 366897, MPK
TUCKWELL, Charles E, Ty/Act/Petty Officer (Pens), D/J 115434, MPK

 

Second Officer Frederick Charles Chisholm, Merchant Navy

Award: King Commendation "Services rendered when attacked by enemy ships"

Frederick Charles Chisholm (British) - Crew lists of Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net


23rd December 1943 Aberdeen Weekly Journal


Frederick Charles Chisholm | Australian War Memorial (awm.gov.au)

 

He received a Commendation gazetted 9 November 1943 for services when the CLAN MACPHERSON was torpedoed and sunk on 1 May 1943.
His second Commendation gazetted 21 December 1943 for services when the HALIZONES was bombed on 27 July and sank on 30 July 1943.

Regards
Hugh

 

Leading Supply Assistant Joseph Henry Green, Mentioned in dispatches "courage, skill and determination in pressing home a successful attack on the Japanese naval base at Sabang"

Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner 4th November 1944

 

LSA Joseph Henry Green was awarded a Mention in Dispatches for Operation Crimson in 1944 while serving aboard the destroyer HMS QUALITY.

Regards
Hugh

 

Able Seaman Peter Parkinson, Mentioned in Dispatches "for courage, resolution and skill while serving in anti U-boat operations."

Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner 9th December 1944

 

AB Peter Parkinson was awarded a Mention in Dispatches for service aboard HMS STATICE on 6 July 1944.

Checking online I can find that on the 6 July 1944 HMS STATICE was involved in a convoy attack off Beachy Head, "U-678" was lost to Canadian destroyers "Ottawa" and "Kootenay" and British corvette "Statice". (naval-history.net)

Regards
Hugh

 

D/MX 50355 Chief Engine room Artificer William Smith awarded DSM "...for courage,, resolution and skill in operations against U-boats." (Banff) HMS Bligh(?)

Aberdeen Weekly Journal 28th September 1944

 

Lieutenant Anthony Foster Collett, Royal Navy HMS Unique awarded Distinguished Service Cross for "courage and skill in successful submarine patrols"

Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic 29th November 1941

 

Lieutenant Commander Richard Vere Essex Case, R.N.R. Trawler Stella Capella

Distinguished Service Cross

Cdr. Richard Vere Essex Case , DSO, DSC, RD of the Royal Navy Reserve (RNR) - Allied Warship Commanders of WWII - uboat.net

Liverpool Echo 13th August 1940


Commander R V E Case DSO, DSC, RD, RNR : "HMS Rother"

 

DSO Lt. Robert Boyd, DSC Royal Navy HM Submarines Submarine HMS Untiring (P 59)

Lt.Cdr. Robert Boyd , DSO, DSC of the Royal Navy (RN) - Allied Warship Commanders of WWII - uboat.net

Larne Times 13th July 1944

 

Lt-Cmdr. J.F. Smyth, R.N.R. awarded OBE

2nd May 1945 Liverpool Echo

 

Temporary Commission RNR under T124 Articles in 1939. Long service during both world wars.
Survivior of the loss of BRITTANIC in 1916.

T/LtCdr(E), HMS PRINSES ASTRID in 1945 when awarded OBE.

Regards
Hugh

 

Stoker James Dewair Philiban Mentioned in Despatches

Stirling Observer 27th April 1943