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Stoker naval career began in 1900 with training aboard HMS Britannia. By 1904 he had been promoted to acting sub-lieutenant, and began studying at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He volunteered for the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Aged 23 he was given a submarine command and promoted to lieutenant. Later he was given responsibility to open Britain's first submarine station on Gibraltar.
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Gavin Menzies Has different type of infobox and author we shall see Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker Arthur Hezlet Lynch Maydon Gilbert Hackforth-Jones Norman Douglas Holbrook John Gaimes Francis Cromie Alastair Mars John Harvey-Jones John Egerton Broome Douglas Reid Kinnier Basil Charles Godfrey Place Ian McGeoch Anthony Miers Geoffrey Saxton White Neil Rutherford Rupert Lonsdale Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker | |
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Nickname(s) | Harry |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1913-1920 1939-1945 |
Rank | Lieutenant Commander |
Commands | HMAS AE2 |
Battles / wars | World War I World War II |
Awards | Distinguished Service Order |
Relations | Bram Stoker cousin |
Other work | Actor Theatre director |
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1975 |
Rank | Vice Admiral |
Commands | HMS Otter HMS Superb HMS Vanguard 2nd Submarine Squadron |
Awards | CVO |
Other work | Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) |
Basil Charles Godfrey Place | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Commands | Midget Submarine X.7 |
Battles / wars | World War II |
Awards | VC, CB, CVO, DSC Cross of Valour |
Stephen Lynch Conway Maydon | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1931-1945? |
Rank | Lieutenant-Commander |
Commands | HMS L26, HMS Umbra HMS Tradewind |
Awards | DSO and bar DSC |
Other work | Politician Government minister |
Rupert Lonsdale | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1927-1946 Honourable discharge |
Rank | Commander |
Commands | HMS Seal |
Battles / wars | World War II Prisoner of War |
Awards | Mentioned in despatches |
Other work | Anglican vicar |
Gilbert Hackforth-Jones | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1914-1936 |
Rank | Commander |
Battles / wars | World War I |
Other work | Prolific author |
David Russell | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1970 |
Rank | Commodore |
Commands | HMS Vanguard (S28) |
Other work | Chief executive of The Harpur Trust |
Neil Rutherford | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1936-1959 |
Rank | Lieutenant Commander |
Commands | HMS Spiteful Commander-in-chief Nore |
Battles / wars | World War II
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Awards | DSC |
Richard Douglas Sandford | |
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Buried | |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Commands | HMS C3 HMS G11 |
Battles / wars | World War I |
Awards | Victoria Cross |
Relations | Brigadier Daniel Sandford |
Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker | |
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Other work | Actor |
Geoffrey Saxton White | |
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Buried | Portsmouth Naval Memorial |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1902-1918 |
Rank | Lieutenant Commander |
Commands | HMS E14 |
Awards | Victoria Cross |
Anthony Miers | |
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Buried | Tomnahurich Cemetery, Inverness, Scotland |
Years of service | 1929-1956 |
Rank | Rear admiral |
Commands | HMS Torbay |
Battles / wars | WWII |
Awards | VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar |
Ian McGeoch | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1931-1970 |
Rank | Vice-admiral |
Commands | HMS Ursula, HMS Splendid, HMS Fernie, 3rd Submarine Squadron, Director of Undersurface Warfare, |
Battles / wars | WWII |
Awards | Mention in dispatches DSO DSC CB |
Other work | MPhil, Editor of Naval Review, Author of An Affair of Chances: a Submariner's Odyssey, 1939-44 and Earl Mountbatten, The Princely Sailor, member of the Queen’s Bodyguard for Scotland |
Norman Douglas Holbrook | |
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Buried | St James Old Churchyard, Stedham, West Sussex |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Rank | Commander |
Commands | HMS B11 |
Battles / wars | World War I |
Awards | Victoria Cross. The name New South Wales town of Germanton was changed to Holbrook in his honour. |
Sir Arthur Richard Hezlet | |
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Nickname(s) | Baldy |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1928-1964 |
Rank | Vice-admiral |
Commands | HMS H44, HMS Unique,, HMS Ursula, HMS Upholder, HMS Trident, HMS Trenchant, HMS Newfoundland |
Battles / wars | World War II Occupation of Norway |
Awards | KBE CB DSO and Bar DSC Legion of Merit (United States) Mentioned in Dispatches |
Other work | N.I. president of the Royal British Legion RNLI Member of the general synod of the Church of Ireland council member of the University of Ulster, Author of The Submarine and Sea Power, Aircraft and Sea Power, B Specials, The Electron and Sea Power, HMS Trenchant at War: from Chatham to the Banka Strait, History of British and Allied Submarine Operations. |
John Gaimes | |
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Buried | |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1901-1921 |
Rank | Submarine Commander |
Commands | HMS A9 HMS B9 HMS C37 HMS K5 |
Battles / wars | World War I |
Awards | DSO |
Francis Newton Allen Cromie | |
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Buried | Archangel Memorial Saint Petersburg |
Allegiance | British Empire |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1903-1918 |
Rank | Lieutenant Commander, Naval attaché |
Commands | HMS_E19 |
Battles / wars | British submarine flotilla in the Baltic Boxer Uprising |
Awards | CB DSO |
John Egerton Broome | |
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Nickname(s) | Jack |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1917-1947 |
Rank | Submariner Commander, Captain (D) |
Commands | HMS Rainbow HMS Veteran First Escort Group, HMS Keppel HMS Avalon HMS Begum HMS Vernon HMS Ramillies |
Battles / wars | Norwegian campaign |
Awards | Mentioned in DispatchesDistinguished Service CrossBurma Star |
Other work | Writer and Cartoonist |
Douglas Reid Kinnier | |
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Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | British Merchant Navy |
Rank | Captain and honorary lieutenancy in the Royal Naval Reserve |
Commands | SS Ortega |
Battles / wars | Escape of the SS Ortega from the German cruiser Dresden |
Awards | DSC |