1945 Birthday Honours (Mention in Despatches)

This is a list of Mention in Despatches awarded in the 1945 Birthday Honours.

Royal Navy Surgeon Captain Gordon Ernest Dormer Ellis (Westbury, Wilts.). Commander John Wyndham Studholme, DSC (Hawick). Acting Commander Edmund Henry Cracroft Chapman (Harrogate). Acting Commander Lawrence Henry Phillips (Retd.). Commander George William Dobson, RD, RNR (Harpenden). Commander John Treasure Jones, RD, RNR. Commander Deny Parsons, RD, RNR (Dollar). Commander Charles Henry Williams, RD, RNR (Retd.) (Cressage, near Shrewsbury). Acting Commander Reginald Edkins Clarke, RD, RNR (Durban). Engineer Commander Harry Barton Olden (Retd.). Commander (E) Arnold Hirst (Yarmouth). Commander (E) Arthur Reginald Kirk (Sutton). Commander (E) Edward Horace Nutter. Commander (E) William Leonard Spear (Plymouth). Acting Commander (E) Clifford Ralph Snellgrove (Aylesbury). Commander (S) John Eustace Pibworth (Broghead, Morayshire). Temporary Major (Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Cecil Ross Borland, Royal Marines (Godalming). Lieutenant-Commander Eric Hart Dyke (Chagford, Devon). Lieutenant-Commander Robert Augustus Fell. Lieutenant-Commander Charles Gerald Forsberg (London). Lieutenant-Commander Brian Desmond Gallie, DSC (Dorchester). Lieutenant-Commander Colin Cargill Beveridge Mackenzie (Kingston, Bagpuize, near Abingdon). Lieutenant-Commander Nigel Edward Godfrey Roper, DSO. Lieutenant-Commander Peter Van Bredon Wadlow (Budleigh Salterton). Acting Lieutenant-Commander Philip Kynvin Lankester. Lieutenant-Commander Charles Alexander Meyer, RD, RNR (Holyhead). Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Ernest Milner, MBE, RD, RNR (Retd.) (Parkstone, Dorset). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander William Stanley Adams, RNR. Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (N) John Blair Anderson, RNR (Mauchline, Ayrshire). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander William Harold Brittain, DSC, RNR (Shrewsbury). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Jesse Dixon, RNR (Milford Haven). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Walter Gibson, RNR (Kelso). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander John Edward Miles, RNR (Hull). Lieutenant-Commander William Chilton Brooks, MBE, RNVR (Birkdale). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander John Kirke Craig, RNVR(Glasgow). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Ronald Fitzgerald Barton Beesley, RNVR Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Leslie Ernest Humphries Brunton, RNVR (Tonbridge). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Leonard Jolly, RNVR (Lytham). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Norman Herbert Jones, RNVR (Claygate). Acting Lieutenant-Commander William Norman Kennedy, RNVR (White Craigs, Renfrewshire). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey William Le Gallais, RNVR Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander Edward Hugh Pratt, RNVR (Canterbury). Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Charles William Coslett Stevens, RNVR (Cardiff). Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) Bruce John Albert Hawkes (Great Houghton). Lieutenant-Commander (E) Charles William Gordon Ham. Lieutenant-Commander (E) Malcolm Hazlitt Sayers, DSC. Lieutenant-Commander (E) Arthur Francis Turner (London). Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) John Nicholas Mutter (Retd.) (Gillingham). Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) Alfred James Brabban, RNR. Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) Alexander Arthur Graham, RNR (Giffnock). Temporary Lieutenant-Commander (E) Rodney William George Wise, RNR (Bruton, Somerset). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) John Morrison, RCNR (Vancouver). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (E) William Vanderzwan, DSC, RNVR Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Frank William Baskerville, LMSSA (Plymouth). Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Robert Burns Hamilton Faichney, RNVR (East Kilbride, Lanarkshire). Temporary Acting Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Francis Cameron Edington, MB, ChB, RNVR (Penrith). Temporary Acting Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander (D) Dennison Laverick, LDS, RCS, RNVR (London). Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Geoffrey Harold Lewis Kitson (Hunstanton). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Norman Victor Craven, RNVR (Southport). Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) David Hailing Hammond, RNVR Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (S) Tom Alistair MacFarlane, RNVR (Liverpool). The Reverend Donovan Bawdon Allen, MA, Temporary Chaplain, RNVR (Birmingham). Lieutenant Lesley Edney Blackmore (Weston-super-Mare). Lieutenant George Blackwood. Lieutenant Jack Broughton Cox (Winchcomb). Lieutenant Ronald Gargill Campbell Greenlees (Musselburgh). Lieutenant John Dorsett Owen Hinton. Lieutenant Alfred Nelson Littleboy (Fulham). Lieutenant Samuel George Potts (Plymouth). Lieutenant Laurence Robson. Lieutenant Howard Thomas Arthur Winnall (Auckland, New Zealand). Temporary Lieutenant James Ayton (Londonderry). Lieutenant Charles Peter d'Auvergne Aplin, RNR (London). Lieutenant Kenneth Maurice Cutler, RNR (Monkseaton). Lieutenant Peter Stanhope Marchant, RNR (Peaslake, Surrey). Lieutenant Kenneth Ashley Rowbotham, RNR (Barrow-in-Furness). Lieutenant Donald Philip Runtz, RNR (Beaconsfield). Lieutenant Stanley Samuel Mitchell, RNR (Farnham). Temporary Lieutenant David Lawrence Gall, RNR (Broughty Ferry, Scotland). Temporary Lieutenant Frank Rowland Pretty, RNR. Lieutenant Herbert James Spencer, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant Reginald Charles Anciaume, RNVR (Ealing). Temporary Lieutenant Thomas David Andrews, RNVR (Felixstowe). Temporary Lieutenant Kenneth Metcalfe Banks, RNVR (Northallerton). Temporary Lieutenant Jeffrey Stanway Blackburn, RNVR (Manchester). Temporary Lieutenant Frank Muil Brackenridge, RNVR (London, N.2). Temporary Lieutenant Reginald Robert Brett, RNVR (Hounslow). Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Arthur Byrne, RNVR Temporary Lieutenant Ernest Gray Cathro, RNVR (Angus). Temporary Lieutenant Reginald Henry Clifton, RNVR (Haywards Heath). Temporary Lieutenant Ray Cloberry Christian, RNVR (Derby). Temporary Lieutenant Harold Aubrey Dale, RNVR (Sunbury-on-Thames). Temporary Lieutenant Trevor Etienne Bruno de Hamel, RNVR (Lichfield). Temporary Lieutenant Arthur Dodd, RNVR (Gidea Park). Temporary Lieutenant Norman Edgar Gibbons, RNVR (Eltham). Temporary Lieutenant William Eric Myhill Grint, RNVR Temporary Lieutenant Jock Seton Guthrie, RNVR (Stratford-on-Avon). Temporary Lieutenant George Hatton, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant Norman Holloway, RNVR (Doncaster). Temporary Lieutenant John Hutchinson, RNVR (Halifax). Temporary Lieutenant Frederick John Jones, RNVR (Berechurch, near Colchester). Temporary Lieutenant John Hamar Jones, RNVR (Bournemouth). Temporary Lieutenant Robert Knott, RNVR (Stockport). Temporary Lieutenant Herbert William Leeds, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant William Lavell McNaughton, RNVR (Pinner). Temporary Lieutenant Gordon Oswald Reginald Meyer, RNVR (Putney). Temporary Lieutenant John Douglas Gordon Mitchell, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Charles Morrison, RNVR (Colchester). Temporary Lieutenant John Michael Joseph Palmer, RNVR (Leicester). Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Hayward Pannell, RNVR (Leatherhead). Temporary Lieutenant Richard Henry Powell, RNVR (Radcliffe-on-Trent). Temporary Lieutenant Charles Ernest Scrine, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant Stephen Cuthbert Samuel Skene, RNVR (Durham). Temporary Lieutenant Edmund Kidson Smith, RNVR (Leeds). Temporary Lieutenant Raymond William Smith, RNVR (West Bromwich). Temporary Lieutenant William Alfred Stevens, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant Donald Sutherland, RNVR (Ashurstwood). Temporary Lieutenant William Charles Thwaites, RNVR (Shoreham). Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Alexander John Tratner, RNVR (Llandrindod Wells). Temporary Lieutenant Reginald Henry Wade, RNVR (High Wycombe). Temporary Lieutenant Duncan James Campbell Walker, RNVR (Glasgow). Temporary Lieutenant George Harold Williams, RNVR Temporary Lieutenant Eric Ronald Wilson, RNVR (Hull). Temporary Lieutenant Wilfred Arthur Wortham, RNVR (London). Lieutenant Clive Barker Dillon, RANVR (Sydney). Temporary Lieutenant Ralph Gerald Murrell, RANVR. Temporary Lieutenant William Alexander Wood, RANVR (Sydney). Temporary Lieutenant Croft G. Brook, RCNVR (Vancouver). Temporary Lieutenant Allen Thomas Fallis, RCNVR (Winnipeg). Temporary Lieutenant John David Keys, RCNVR (Montreal). Temporary Lieutenant George Alexander Mavety, RCNVR (Toronto). Temporary Lieutenant Mervyn Alexander Patterson, VD, RCNVR (Regina, Sask.). Temporary Lieutenant Richard Miles Steele, RCNVR (St. John, N.B.). Temporary Lieutenant John Rawson Kenneth Stewart, RCNVR (Cowichan Bay, B.C.). Temporary Lieutenant Douglas Leonard Hazard, RNZNVR (Hamilton, New Zealand). Temporary Lieutenant Roderick Thomas McIndoe, RNZNVR (Wanganui, New Zealand). Temporary Lieutenant Kenneth Howden Webb, RNZNVR (Wellington, New Zealand). Temporary Acting Lieutenant George Baines, RNVR (Retford). Temporary Acting Lieutenant David Manson Muir, RNVR (Newton Mearns). Temporary Acting Lieutenant Peter Frederick Smith, RNVR (Hull). Temporary Lieutenant (A) Cecil Michael Keller, RNVR (Waterford, Eire). Acting Lieutenant (A) David Edmond Strachan Pery-Knox-Gore, RNVR (Maclear, Capt Province, S.A.). Temporary Lieutenant (A) Allen Whitelaw Stewart, RNVR (Rhu, Dumbartonshire). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Alexander Dennis Taylor (Loughborough). Acting Lieutenant (E) Clarence George Cole (Plymouth) Acting Lieutenant (E) William John Sims (Portsmouth). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Arthur Lionel Benke, RNR (Christchurch, Hants). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Arthur Elmer Blankley, RNR. Temporary Lieutenant (E) Thomas Henry Child, RNR (Cardiff). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Harold Gummer, RNR (Swindon). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Geoffrey Robert Harry Lewis, RNR (Cardiff). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Harold Paul James Poulson, RNR (Edinburgh). Lieutenant (E) Bruce Ford Booth, RCNR (Vancouver). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Archibald William Ainslie, RNVR (Newcastle upon Tyne). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Robert Bruce, RNVR (London, S.W.1). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Stanley James Duncombe, RNVR (London). Temporary Lieutenant (E) Walter Smith, RNVR (Wirral). Lieutenant (E) Llewellyn Ivor Jones, RNZNVR (Gloucester). Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant Gilbert Maurice Baird, MB, ChB, RNVR. Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant David Russell Kerr, MB, ChB, RNVR (Styal, Lanes). Lieutenant (S) Peter John Glason (Reading). Lieutenant (S) Robert Magill Young (Exeter). Temporary Lieutenant (S) Luis Diez, RNR (Liverpool). Temporary Lieutenant (S) Rodney George Pullen, RNR. Temporary Lieutenant (S) Arthur Leslie Bedwell, RNVR (Hornsey). Temporary Lieutenant (S) Maxwell Burton, RNVR. Temporary Lieutenant (S) Peter Vivian Lorne, RNVR (Blindley Heath, Surrey). Temporary Lieutenant (S) John Stoney, RNVR (Whitby). Temporary Lieutenant (S) Alec Warburton, RNVR (Liverpool). Lieutenant (S) David Charles Staley, KRNVR (Mombasa). Margery Rylance Bammant, Second Officer, WRNS. Skipper Lieutenant Magnus Andrew Smith, RD, RNR, 2388W.S. Acting Skipper Lieutenant William Cardno, RNR, W.S.2849 (Fraserburgh). Acting Skipper Lieutenant Arthur George Day, RNR, W.S.2087 (Poulton le Fylde). Acting Skipper Lieutenant Edward James Day, RNR, W.S.2704. Acting Chief Skipper James William Greengrass, RNR, W.S.3423 (Grimsby). Acting Chief Skipper William Henry Makings, RNR (Retd.), W.S.2740 (Grimsby). Acting Temporary Chief Skipper Robert Cooper, RNR, T.S.384 (Grimsby). Acting Temporary Chief Skipper Alfred Hales, RNR, T.S.182. Acting Temporary Chief Skipper George Wingfield Smith, RNR, T.S.118 (Kessingland Beach, hear Lowestoft). Acting Temporary Chief Skipper Cyril Young, RNR, T.S.542 (Hull). Skipper Vincent Nicolini, MBE, RNR, T.S.628 (Hull). Skipper George Sutherland, RNR, W.S.3726 (Hopeman, Morayshire). Temporary Skipper Frederick Webb, RNR, T.S.785. Temporary Skipper George Wood, RNR, T.8.966 (Aberdeen). Mr. Donovan John Shedlock Newton, Chief Officer, RFA. Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Robert William Burke, RNVR (Weybridge). Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Frank Robert Dixon, RNVR.