X CRAFT AND CHARIOTS Brown, John Frederick Beaufoy

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Brown
  • FORENAME
John Frederick Beaufoy
  • UNIT
R.N. (HMS Bonaventure) X Craft
  • RANK
Lieutenant Commander
  • NUMBER
  • AWARD
Order of the British Empire
  • PLACE
Flotilla Duties 1943-45
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 1910
educated Marlborough House
RN College,Dartmouth
commission as Midshipman,RN 1927
HMS Revenge 1927-28
HMS Rodney 1928-30
HMS Walker 1929
HMS Rodney 1929-30
RN College,Greenwich 1930-31
Sub Lieutenant 1931
Submarine Course 1931-32
HM Submarine Oxley 1932-36
Lieutenant 1933
Submarine Commanding Officer's Course,Portsmouth 1939
HM Submarine Taku 1940-41
Lieutenant Commander 1941
award DSC 1941
Staff Officer (Administration),Flag Officer (Submarines) 1941-42
HMS Varbel II (C.O.Midget Sub.Training Base/Training Officer) 1943-45
acting Commander 1945-47
British Naval Liaison Officer to US 7th Fleet 1945-46
Staff Officer to Senior Officer,Force S,HMS Tamar II 1946
Deputy British Resident Naval Officer,Shanghai,China 1946-47
award Legion of Merit (US) 1947
HMS Belfast 1947-48
HMS Duke of York 1948-49
Commander 1948
Staff Officer to Flag Officer (Air),Home Fleet,HMS Daedalus 1949-51
HMS Gambia 1951-52
Naval War College 1953
Executive Officer,RN Barracks,Portsmouth 1953
HMS Boxer 1954-55
Captain of the Fleet,Far East Fleet,HMS Terror 1955-58
Member of the Council of King George's Fund for Sailors 1958-60
Deputy Director of Welfare and Service Conditions and Fleet Supply Duties Division,Diector General of Personal Service and Officer Appointments Department,
Admiralty 1959-60
UK Member for the Military Agency for Standardisation,NATO 1960-63
RN Aide de Camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II 1962
retired 1963
died 1979
 
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