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, RNZNVR = Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve, Tpy = Temporary, Mid = Midshipman, KIA = Killed in Action, MPK = Missing Presumed Killed.

 

December 43 - November 45

 

Rank

Name

Appointed

Notes

       

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

D. K. Evans (act)

- Mar 44

In command

 

 

 

 

Tpy. Major, R.M.

P. P. Nelson-Grade

16 Oct 44

In command

 

 

 

 

Tpy. Lieut.-Conn. (A), (P)

P. C. S. Chilton (act)

11 Feb 45

 

       

Tpy. Lieut. (A) R.N.V.R. (P) 

D.F.W. Davies

1 May 44

 
 

R.M. Norris

1 May 44

 

 

C.V. Brewer

- Mar 44

 

 

P. R. Thompson

23 Nov 44

 

 

 

 

 

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

R. N. W. Collier

1May 44

 
 

H. Colgate

1May 44

 
 

K. S. Bailey

1May 44

 
 

M. J. Reuse

1May 44

 
 

W. C. Hutchison

1May 44

 

 

E. Barker

1May 44

 
 

I. J. Baker

1May 44

Killed, air crash 2 Oct 44

 

P. S. Ross

1May 44

Killed, air crash 18 Jan 45

 

J. R. Ionns

1May 44

 
 

K. E. Vogan

1May 44

Killed, air crash 30 Nay 45

 

H. Hodgkinson

1May 44

 
 

C. H. Schwenger

1May 44

 
 

J. W. Todd

1May 44

 
 

A. Sargent

1May 44

 
 

G. V. Thomas

1Mar 44

 
 

J. R. Stephenson

1Sep 44

 
  R.J. McHaffie ? Killed, air crash 10 Oct 44
 

J. C. Maynard

23 Nov 44

 

 

D. J. Scarrett

23 Nov 44

Killed, air crash 18 Feb 45

 

W. Noble

23 Nov 44

 

 

R. C. Read

23 Nov 44

 

 

R. G. Kennett

23 Nov 44

 
 

D. A. Golding

23 Nov 44

 

 

R. G. C. Ambrose

23 Dec 44

 
 

A. R. Thornton

5 Jan 45

 
 

 

 

 

TTpy. Sub- Lieut. (A), R.C.N.V.R. (P)

J. A. Ferguson

15 May 44

 

 

 

 

 

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

I. V. Brown

1May 44

 

 

 

 

 

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

J. B. Neville

27 Dec 44

 

 

R. Aspin

27 Dec 44

 

       

S.N.C.O.s

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Junior Rates

 

Joined Sqn

 

-

  -  
       

Information drawn from the Navy list June1944 through October 1945 (final edition before squadron disbanded)

 


List last modified 09 June 2020


 

In Memoriam
 

 

Name

Record

Cemetery/Memorial

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Peter Storm ROSS, RNVR

CWGC entry

GLASGOW (CRAIGTON) CEMETERY

Sec. I. Grave 530.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Richard James MCHAFFIE, RNVR

CWGC entry

COLVEND PARISH CHURCHYARD

Sec. L. Grave 34-35-36.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Ivor John BAKER, RNVR

CWGC entry

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Bay 5, Panel 4

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Kenneth Ernest VOGAN, RNVR

CWGC entry

SYDNEY WAR CEMETERY

2W. C. 12.

Sub-Lieut. (A) (P) Deryck John SCARROTT, RNVR

CWGC entry

LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL

Bay 6, Panel 4

 

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