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The Silent Fleet
By Geoff Nayler
The Cockleshell Canoes: British Military Canoes of World War Two
By Quentin Rees
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29927" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gregory-Smith </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>William Frank Niemann </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.N. T Commando </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>bar to Distinguished Service Cross </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Normandy 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 24.1.1910 Ashton-under-Lyne,Cheshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Dartmouth Naval College 1922</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Tiger 1927 (Cadet)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Midshipman</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Cumberland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Suffolk</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant 1932</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Warspite</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Cricket</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Foresight 1936</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Jaguar 1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Commander</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Eridge 1940-42</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award D.S.C. (Malta convoy 1941)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award D.S.O. (Battle of Sirte 1942)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award bar to D.S.O. (sinking of submarine U-568 - 1942)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Combined Operations HQ,London 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Senior Staff and Training Officer,Force G</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Principal Beachmaster,Gold Beach,Normandy 6.6.1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award bar to D.S.C.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Combined Operations</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>British delegation,Yalta Conference 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>staff appointments postwar,including</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Naval Attache to the Non-Arab Middle East,Ankara,Turkey</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief Staff Officer (Intelligence) to Commander-in-Chief,Mediterranean</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1960</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>warden of Wilson House Hall of Residence,St Mary's Medical School,Paddington</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Jean Chalmers Sime October 1940 in Dundee,Scotland (died April 2006) (2 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 4.5.2009</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-f-n-gregory-smith.8762/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8762-dbaf0dfebd04d7aa82476f0891db6717.jpg?1591389367" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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