COPP Hall, Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Hall
  • FORENAME
Geoffrey Penrose Dickinson
  • UNIT
R.N. COPP 7
  • RANK
Lieutenant
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Distinguished Service Cross,Mention in Despatches
  • PLACE
Far East 1943-44
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 19.7.1916
HMS Frobisher 1935
HMS Southampton
HMS Franklin (Sub Lt)
HM Sloop Scarborough 1939
HMS Challenger (Lt) 1941
Staff of a minesweeping squadron 1942
COPP 1943-44
HMS Bigbury Bay 1945-47
HMNZS Lachlan 1947-52 (Lt Cdr)
1952-57 HMSs Franklin,Scott,Owen (Cdr)
Admiralty 1958
HMS Owen 1959-62
Assistant Hydrographer,Admiralty 1963-64 (Captain)
HMS Hecla 1965-70
Hydrographer of the Navy 1971-75 (Rear Admiral)
retired 1975
DSC Arakan coast 1943
MiD Op.Frippery,N.Sumatra 1944
C.B. 1973
Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire
married Mary Carlisle (WRNS officer) during war (3 children)
memoir "Sailor's Luck" 1999
died 18.1.2005
 
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