A HARD FOUGHT SHIP
The story of HMS Venomous

A Hard Fought Ship is dedicated to the memory of all those who served on HMS Venomous between 1919 and 1946. This list of officers who served on Venomous is taken from the quarterly issues of the Navy List. Back runs of the Navy List are held at the National Archives in Kew and major naval libraries. Where officers served in World War II their names were also included on the crew lists compiled by TNT Records Management from the Pay and Victualing Ledgers. See the links to the three crew lists below. If a member of your family who served on Venomous as an officer is not on this list contact the publisher. Further details of their service career can be found on the unithistories.com web site (click on the links below). Brief biographies of the commanding officers of HMS Venomous (1919-45) can be seen here: http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/commandingofficers.html Find out how to obtain an officer's official record of service.

A new edition was published in May 2017 which will can be bought online bought post free from this web site.

The names of the entire ship's Company of HMS Venomous - both officers and men - have been extracted from the Pay and Victualing ledgers for three significant dates and can be seen online:

A complete list of officers
known to have served in HMS Venomous
1919-46

Their names link to further details of their lives on this website or to entries in unihistories.com
Most off these officers appear in the new edition of A Hard Fought Ship: the story of HMS Venomous (2017).

Contact the publisher if you have information about officers who are known to have served in Venomous but are not on this list.

A B C  D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Name	Rank (speciality)	Dates
Adams, E.O.	Sub Lt, RN	1920-1
Allen	Warrant Officer, RN Gunner (T)	1922
Allen, H.M.	Lt Cdr, RN (Engineer)	1928-9
Alleyne, R.M.	Lt, RN	1921
B
Baker, H.L.S.	Sub Lt, RN	1919-20
Barlow, P.	Mid., RN	1924
Barney, Stephen J.	Sub Lt, RNVR	1943
Beckerman, W.	Mid., RNVR	1944-5
Blair, James	Lt, RNVR	1945
Botley, T.W.	Mid., RN	1919
Brice, L.J.	Mid., RNR	1921
Browning, R.	Lt, RNVR (Surgeon)	1941-2
Buchanan, H.J.	Sub Lt, RAN	1922
Buckel, K.W.S.	Lt, RN	1938
Burges, R.Y.	Sub Lt, RN	1922
Button, H.J.B. (Jimmie)	Warrant Officer, RN (Boatswain)	1942
Byrne, C.A.	Lt, RANVR	1943
C
Cannell, G.D.S.	Gunner (T)	1944
Cashman, Michael	First Lt, RN	3/1942-12/1943
Caudle, Derek W.	Lt, RNVR	1944-5
Chatwin, C.A.N.	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1929
Clark, I.T.	Lt, RN	1928-9
Coleman, John F.	Lt, RNR	8/1942-12/1943
Corby, J.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner)	1926-
Crossman, J.D.	Sub Lt, RN	1924-5
Cottam, G.M.	Lt, RNVR	1940
D
Dawnay, P.	Mid., RN	1924
De Courcy-Ireland,  S.B.	Lt, RN	1920-1
De Voil, L.C.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1926-8
Donald, C.G.W.	Lt, RN	1926-8
Douglas-Watson,  F.	Lt, RN	1922-5
Duff, D.A.R.	Lt, RN	1939
Dunn,  F.A.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1920-2
Durell, Henry D.	Lt, RN (CO)	1943
E
Eaton,  Leslie C.	Lt, RNVR	1942-3
Ellard, C.W. BSc	Schoolmaster	1926
Elliott, R.C.	Mid., RNVR	1942-3
Esson,  A.F	Mid., RNR	1939-41
F
Falcon-Steward, Hugh W	Cdr, RN (CO	1941-2
Forster, William R.	Lt(E), RNR (Engineer)	1944-6
Fretwell, V.V.W	Mid., RNR	1922
G
Gannon, E.D.	Sub Lt, RN	1920
Gardner, L.G.	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1921-3
Goodyear, G.N.	Cd. Eng. RN, CO (in Reserve)	1935-6
Gotto, R.	Mid., RN	1922
Greenaway, Frank S.H. (Raffles)	Lt, RNVR	1944-5
Gregg, Claude J.M.	Sub Lt, RN	1928
Gregory, S.C.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1928-9
Grieve, P.	Cd. Eng. RN, CO (in Reserve)	1929-33
H
Haddow, C.C	Mid., RN	1940
Hare, M.	Mid., RN	1928
Harrison, C.E.P.	Lt, RN	1927-9
Helps, G.A.	Mid, RN	1927
Henderson, H.P.	Cdr, RN (CO)	1940-1
Hicks, W.H.	Lt, RN (Engineer) CO (in Reserve)	1933
Hollins, W.F.	Lt, RN	1924-5
Hunter, F.L.W.	Lt, RN	1943
Hunter, T.H.	Lt Cdr, RN (Engineer)	1936-7
Hurry, E.	Sub Lt, RN	1919
I
N/A	N/A	N/A
J
Jackson, R.	Lt, RN	1929
Jocelyn, Viscount	Mid., RN	1929
K
Kershaw, Peter	Lt., RNVR	1940-1
Knight, J.T.	Mid., RNR	1941
L
Lansky, Miroslav S.	Sub Lt, RNVR	1945
Lapthorn, C.G.	Warrant Officer, RN (Engineer)	1943
Lawson, A.D.A.	Lt Cdr, RNVR (CO)	1944-5
Lewis, R.A.W.	Mid., RN	1925
Lewis, W.F.H.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1939
M
Mackenzie, Angus A.	First Lt, RNR	1940-1
Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, D.H.	Cdr, RN (CO)	1942-3
Manton, R.	Lt, RN (Engineer)	1924-5
Martin, John N.	Sub Lt, RNVR	1944-5
Maxwell, Ian L.	Lt (Surgeon)	1942-3
Maunsell, F.R.G.	Lt, RN	1925-7
McBeath, John E.H.	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1940
McGrath, D.S.	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1923-4
MacIntyre, Donald G.F.W.	Lt Cdr, RN	1939
McPhee, A.D. (Homer)	Lt, RN	1941
Milner, C.W.B.	Sub Lt, RN	1939-40
Milner, G.C.	Lt, RNVR (Surgeon)	1942
Moore, R.	Sub Lt, RN	1923-4
Mundy, H.M.S.	Sub Lt, RN	1919-20
N
Nicholl, R.A.F.	Sub Lt, RN	1919
Nichols, R.F.	Sub Lt, RN	1920
Norman, P.	Mid, RN	1923
O
Ommanney, L.F.N. (Om)	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1925-6
Orchard, R.W.	Warrant Officer RN (Engineer)	1926
Owen, A.L.	Mid., RN	1922
P
Parkes, Albert E.	Warrant Officer, RN (Engineer)	1940-1
Pawle, E.	Sub Lt, RN	1925
Pead, Horace R.	Warrant Officer, RN (Engineer)	1942-3
Pemberton, R.H.S.	Mid., RN	1929
Perry, A.E.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1919
Philip, J.H.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner)	1919
Philpott, R.T.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1922-3
Pinckney, E.P.H.	Lt, RN	1926-8
Portal, N.H.	Sub Lt, RN	1922
Prentice, J.D.	Sub Lt, RN	1919
Prideaux, Arthur G. (Guyon)	Lt Cdr, RNVR (CO)	1945
Proes, N.M.E.	Sub Lt, RNVR	1942
Pudner, W.H.	Eng. Cdr, RN	1921
Q
N/A	N/A	N/A
R
Redman, W.R.J.	Lt, RN	1928-9
Robertson, C.L.	Sub Lt, RN	1920
Robertson-MacDonald, A.D.J.	Lt, RN	1922-3
Rodger, R.H.S. (Robin)	Mid., RN	1920
Ross, C.P.	Sub Lt, RN	1938
Rushbrooke, E.G.N.	Lt Cdr, RN (CO)	1927-8
Russell, S.P.B.	Cdr, RN (CO)	1919-21
Russell, S.J.	Lt, RN (Engineer)	1922-3
S
Sangster, Anthony d'E. T. (Tony)	Lt, RN	3/1942-8/1943
Scott, D.C.	Lt, RN (Engineer)	1921-2
Simms, Arthur N. ("Snakehips")	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1942-3
Sims, L.	Lt, RN (Engineer)	1926-7
Spooner, D.R.	Sub. Lt., RN	1941
Stallybrass, E.O.	Lt Cdr (Engineer) RN, CO (in Reserve)	1937-9
Stokes	Mid., RN	1925-6
T
Taylor, E.A.	Lt, RN (Engineer) CO (in Reserve)	1935-6
Lord Teynham, Roper-Curzon, C.J.H.	Lt Cdr, The Lord (CO)	1942
Thomson, Robert K.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1940-1
Thompson, G.H.	Sub Lt, RN	1921-2
Thorpe, Thomas B.	Sub Lt, RNVR	1944-5
Tod, D.	Mid., RN	1921
Tomkinson, M.W.	Mid., RN	1927
Tonkyn, E.D.	Warrant Officer, RN (Engineer)	1939
Tucker, John C. DSC	Sub Lt, RNR (Gunnery Officer)	1941
U
N/A	N/A	N/A
V
Vaughan-Lewis, John C.M.	Lt, RN	1939-40
W
Watson, B.C.	Captain (D) 4th Destroyer Flotilla	1928-30
Weatherall, A.T.H.	Mid., RNR	1921
Welby-Everard, P.H.E.	Sub Lt, RN	1922
Wells, Walter Reginald DSM	Lt, RN	1939-41
Western, J.T.G	Lt, RN	1938
Wheele, W.E.	Warrant Officer, RN (Gunner (T))	1923-4
Whitfield, J.F.	Mid., RN	1922
Wilson, H.A.	Cd. Gnr. (T)	1930
Wilson, J.A.B.	Lt, RN	1919-20
Wood, G.E.C.	Lt, RN	1922-3
Wood, J.H.I.	Lt, RN	1922
Woodyatt, P.B.	Lt, RNVR (Surgeon)	1940
X
N/A	N/A	N/A
Y
Young, R.S. (Rex)	Mid., RN	1921
Z
N/A	N/A	N/A

Brief biographies of the commanding officers of HMS Venomous (1919-45) can be seen here:
http://www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk/commandingofficers.html

The story of HMS Venomous is told by Bob Moore and Captain John Rodgaard USN (Ret) in
A Hard Fought Ship
  Buy the new hardback edition online for £35 post free in the UK
Take a look at the Contents Page and List of Illustrations

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