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Sailors. The biography of one brave sailor will be added each month. |
| ALLAN |
Lieutenant, William Evan Crawford |
| ARMSTRONG | Commodore, John Malet, CBE DSO US Navy Cross |
| BAND | Lieutenant Commander, John Morrell, US Navy Cross |
| BECHER | Rear Admiral, Otto Humphrey, CBE DSO DSC* MiD US Legion of Merit |
| BERRYMAN | Able Seaman, Mosstyn MID |
| BLAND | Chief Petty Officer Cook, Robert Havelock BEM MID |
| BOWEN | Commander, Rowland Griffiths OBE MID K St J RAN |
| BOYD | Chief Petty Officer, Erle Alwin Greglach BEM |
| BOYE | Third Officer, Ruby |
| BRACEGIRDLE | Rear Admiral, Sir Leighton Seymour KCVO CMG DSO |
| BRACEGIRDLE | Commander Warwick Seymour DSC** MiD* |
| BROWN | Lieutenant Commander, Kenneth James |
| BUCHANAN | Lieutenant Commander, James Collier DFC |
| BURRELL | Vice Admiral, Sir Henry Mackay KBE CB MiD |
| CALLAWAY | Lieutenant Commander, Arthur Henry DSO RANVR |
| CALLAWAY | Commodore, Ian Arthur OAM MiD |
| CHESTERMAN | Commander, Henry Swinfield OBE, U.S. Legion of Merit |
| CLIFF | Lieutenant Commander, Geoffrey John OBE MBE GC & Bar |
| COLLINS | Vice Admiral, John Augustine KBE CB |
| DARBY | Captain (Surgeon), Leonard CBE MB Ch.B |
| DAVIES | Midshipman, Robert Ian MiD |
| DECHAINEUX | Captain, Emile Frank Verlaine DSC Legion of Merit(USA) |
| DUMARESQ | Rear Admiral, John Saumarez CB CVO |
| EMMS | Leading Cook(O), Francis Bassett ‘Dick’ MID |
| FARNCOMB |
Rear Admiral, Harold Bruce CB, DSO, MVO, MiD** US Navy Cross, US Legion of Merit |
| FITZGERALD | Chief Petty Officer, William Terence OAM |
| FLANDERS | Leading Wran Writer, Edith Jessie (nee Edgar) |
| GATACRE | Rear Admiral Galfry George Ormond CBE DSO DSC* MiD |
| GILLING | Lieutenant, Douglas Laurance, RANVR |
| GOLDSWORTHY | Lieutenant Commander, Leonard 'Leon' Verdi GC DSC GM RANVR |
| GOSSE | Lieutenant Commander, George GC RANVR |
| GRIFFITHS | Rear Admiral Guy Richmond, AO DSO DSC |
| HALL | Lieutenant Commander Henry Albert Longdon 'Nobby' MBE OAM MiD |
| HAMER | Captain, David John, AM DSC |
| HAYNES | Captain, Gerald Mellor, DSC |
| HEYEN |
Captain Gerhard Heinrich MBE Lieutenant Commander MiD RD U.S. Legion Of Merit(O) RANR (S) |
| HUDSPETH | Lieutenant Commander, Kenneth Robert DSC and 2 Bars, RANVR |
| LEE | Coder, Ronald George 'Dixie' |
| LINTON | Commander, Edward Wilfred 'Jake', BEM MCD |
| LONG | Command, Rupert Basil Michel, OBE |
| MAIDEN | Warrant Officer, Agnes Lenore "Lennie" |
| MARTIN | Rear Admiral, Sir David James, KCMG AO |
| MASON | Lieutenant Commander, Paul Edward Allen, DSC(U.S.) DSC(U.K.) |
| McCLEMANS | Chief Officer, Sheila Mary, CMG OBE SJM |
| McGOVERN | Able Seaman, Francis Joseph, OAM |
| McKENZIE | Florence Violet 'Mrs Mac', OBE |
| McNICOLL | Vice Admiral, Sir Alan Wedel Ramsay KBE CB GM |
| MESLEY | Rear Admiral, Jack Statton CBE MVO DSC |
| MITCHELL | Able Seaman, Reuben Joseph Edwin DSM |
| MORRISON | Rear Admiral, Thomas Kenneth CB CBE DSC MiD |
| MORROW | Commodore, James Cairns CBE DSO DSC MiD |
| NAVE | Captain, Theodore Eric (Eric) OBE RAN (RN) |
| OOM | Commander, Karl Erik, OBE, US Legion of Merit, US Bronze Star |
| PEEK | Vice Admiral, Sir Richard Innes Peek, KBE, CB, DSC*, US Legion of Merit |
| PETHEBRIDGE | Stoker 2nd Class, Charles Alexander |
| PIRRIE | Sub-Lieutenant, Richard MiD |
| PROVAN | Third Officer, Frances Betty |
| RHODES | Lieutenant, Ian Desmond GCM |
| ROBERTSON | Rear Admiral, Andrew John AO DSC |
| ROGERS | Chief Petty Officer Coxswain, Jonathan GC DSM |
| ROSENTHAL | Commodore, Alvord Sydney OBE DSO and Bar |
| RUDD | Leading Seaman, Dalmorton Joseph Owendale DSM |
| SHEAN | Lieutenant Commander, Maxwell Henry DSC & Bar, US Bronze Star |
| SHEEAN | Ordinary Seaman, Edward 'Teddy' VC |
| SMITH | Admiral, Sir Victor Alfred Trumper AC KBE CB DSC RAN |
| SMYTH | Commodore, Dacre Henry Deudraeth AO |
| SPEEDY | Commander, Ian Maxwell 'Max' DSC |
| STEVENSON | Captain, John Philip AM |
| STOKER | Lieutenant Commander, Henry Hugh Gordon Dacre DSC MiD |
| STOREY | Commander Arthur Stanley DSC* |
| SYME | Lieutenant, Hugh Randall GC GM and Bar RANVR |
| TAYLOR | Acting Leading Seaman, Ronald 'Buck' |
| TICKELL | Rear Admiral, Frederick CMG MID |
| TREACY | Paymaster Captain Alfred Martin OBE |
| WALLER | Captain, Hector Macdonald Laws DSO and Bar |
| WALLS | Vice Admiral Robert Andrew Kevin AO |
| WELLARD | Able Seaman Robert Henry DSM |
| WRENCH | Chief Petty Officer Stoker, Alfred James BEM MID |