Officers of the Royal Canadian Navy, November 1918

This information has been extracted from the (Royal) Navy List November 1918 (which was "corrected to October 18th, 1918"). A few notes are in order:

• only those officers with the rank of Midshipman and higher have been included.
• because of the difficulty in pinning-down the ships they were serving in, only members of the RCN proper (ie "regular" Navy) are included, and thus RCNR and RNCVR (Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve) are absent.
• it is traditional that officers and men be carried on a ship's books (ie borne in a vessel) for administrative reasons: HMCS Niobe (in Halifax Nova Scotia) and HMS President (London, United Kingdom) in particular were used for this purpose.
• the column Ship Number has been included in the table to simplify matters for those who have access to the orginal Navy List: in the book, the information is spread across several different chapters, it being necessary to first look up the list of RCN officers, then establish the ship they were serving in from their entry under the "general list" (by rank) - which is where the ship "number" was found, and only then find the name of the ship herself.
• naturally, Canadian ships are prefaced with HMCS (His Majesty's Canadian Ship), British ships with HMS (His Majesty's Ship). Despite her name, the battleship Canada was a British ship.
  
  

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  Royal Canadian Navy
  Department of the Naval Service
  
  

  Minister of the Naval Service: Colonel the Hon. Charles C. Ballantyne

  Private Secretary: Gustave Heidmann

  Deputy Minister of the Naval Service: George J. Desbarat

  Director of the Naval Service: Admiral Sir Charles E. Kingsmill

  Chief of Staff: Acting Commander Stephen H. Morres, RCN

  Consulting Naval Engineer: Acting Engineer-Captain Arthur C. Darley, RN

  Naval Secretary: Paymaster Lieut-Commander (acting) James R. Hemsted, RN

  General Superintendent, Radiotelegraphs: Lieutenant-Commander Charles P. Edwards, RNCVR

  Chief Accountant: Louis J. Beausoleil

  Director of Stores: John A. Wilson
  
  

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  Officers of the Royal Canadian Navy
  
  

  Name and Rank	Seniority	Remarks	Ship Number	Ship
  Admiral
  Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill	3 Apr 1917	Admiral, RN ret'd, Director of Naval Service	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe)
  Vice-Admiral
  William Oswald Story	27 Apr 1917	RN ret'd, Supt. of Esquimalt D'yard (NB: his entry in the list of RN officers states "Admiral in Charge of Halifax Dockyard"	-	-
  Captains
  Frederick Claude Coote Pasco	30 June 1890	RN ret'd	1009	(shore establishment Lansdowne)
  Edward Harrington Martin (Hon AdC to the Governor General)	31 Dec 1912	RN ret'd Captain Superintendent, Halifax D'yard		(seems to have been borne in HMCS Niobe)
  Walter Hose	19 Mar 1918	Commander, RN ret'd	1015	at one point borne in HMCS Stadacona, later "Captain of Patrols", borne in the patrol Depot Ship HMCS Seagull
  Commanders
  John Thomas Shenton	7 Dec 1906	RN ret'd	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service"
  Duncan Tatton Brown	30 June 1908	lent from RN	-	Halifax Dockyard
  Frederic William Haigh James (temp)	1 Apr 1910	RN (ret'd)	1015	HMCS Stadacona
  George Bernard Eldridge (Acting Captain)	7 Sept 1912	RN (ret'd)	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service"
  Arthur Francis Lysons Atwood	18 June 1914	RN (ret'd)	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service"
  Richard Markham Tyringham Stephens	1 Aug 1914	RN (ret'd), Dept. Naval Service, Ottawa	703	(borne in HMS President) "for Miscellaneous and Special Service"
  Edward Atcherley Eckersall Nixon	1 Aug 1915	RN (ret'd)	-	-
  Hugh Edward Holme	15 Feb 1917	RN (ret'd)	-	Commanding Officer HMCS Niobe
  Lieutenant-Commanders
  Stephen Harvey Morres (Acting Commander) (AdeC to the Governor General)	1 Apr 1910	RN (ret'd), Chief of Staff	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe for HQ in Ottawa)
  John Harry Knight	31 Dec 1910	RN (ret'd)	-	borne in patrol depot ship HMCS Seagull
  Percy Frederic Newcombe (Acting Commander)	1 Oct 1914	lent from RN	-	-
  Bertram Edward Jones (tempy) (Acting Commander)	30 Aug 1915	RN (Emergency List)	1014	HMCS Shearwater
  Wilfred Tyrrel Walker (tempy)	30 Oct 1915	RN (ret'd)	-	commanding officer (?) of HMCS Acadia
  Henry William Webb	22 July 1916	RN (ret'd)	-	-
  Allan Baddeley (tempy)	28 Nov 1917	-	-	-
  Edmund Gilling Hallewell	1 Aug 1918	RCN (lent to RN)	-	-
  Lieutenants
  Francis Beversham Hanson	1 Jan 1913	lent from RN	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe)
  Percy Walker Nelles	14 July 1914	lent to RN	38	(was in the cruiser HMS Antrim, but then was borne in HMCS Niobe as Flag Lieutenant)
  Henry Trennick Bate (tempy)	15 Aug 1914	lent to RN	138	HMS Cassandra
  Phillip Barry German (tempy)	23 Aug 1914	RCN	-	borne in sloop HMCS Shearwater
  Charles Taschereau Beard (late Mid. RNR)	14 Nov 1914	lent to RN	787	in command of destroyer HMS Saracen
  Victor Gabriel Brodeur	14 Jan 1915	lent to RN	133	cruiser HMS Caradoc
  John Francis Schofield (tempy)	12 Sept 1915	-	-	(borne in HMCS Niobe)
  Yvon Birley (tempy)	5 May 1916	-	-	commanding officer of HMCS Rainbow
  Arthur Stanley Dean (late Mid. RNR)	14 Jan 1917	lent to RN	129	battleship HMS Canada
  Ronald Cameron Watson	17 Apr 1917	lent to RN	226	borne in HMS Dolphin "for command of submarines"
  Leonard Warren Murray	1 June 1917	lent to RN	16	battleship HMS Agincourt
  George Clarence Jones	1 June 1917	lent to RN	910g	HMS Vanquisher
  Robert Frederick Lawson	15 July 1917	lent to RN	669	HMS Pasley
  Ronald Ian Agnew	15 July 1917	lent to RN	710	battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal
  James Denoon Laurie	2 Aug 1917	lent to RN	-	-
  John Moran Grant	17 Sept 1917	lent to RN	75	destroyer HMS Beaver
  John Eric Wodehouse Oland	2 Oct 1917	-	-	-
  George Arthur Worth	17 Nov 1917	lent to RN	302	destroyer HMS Foxhound
  Hubert James FitzMaurice Hibbard	17 Nov 1917	lent to RN	215	destroyer HMS Defender
  Leon Joseph Maurice Gauvreau	17 Dec 1917	lent to RN	626	HMS Oberon
  Alexander Harvey Dand	1 Jan 1918	lent to RN	686	light cruiser HMS Phaeton
  Douglas Burnell Moffatt	1 Jan 1918	lent to RN	165	destroyer HMS Cockatrice
  John Grant Edwards	1 Mar 1918	lent to RN	874	borne in HMS Thames for submarine course
  Robert Wainman Wood	1 June 1918	lent to RN	986	borne in submarine depot ship HMS Platypus "for submarines"
  William James Robert Beech	14 July 1918	lent to RN	31	borne in HMS Ambrose "for submarines"
  Harold Reed Tingley	5 Aug 1918	lent to RN	535	HMS Melampus
  Henry Wickens Stephens Soulsby	6 Aug 1918	lent to RN	417	HMS Jackal (TBD)
  Acting Lieutenants
  Howard Emerson Reid	5 Apr 1918	lent to RN	927	HMS Viscount
  Thomas Sandford Critchley	5 June 1918	lent to RN	860	HMS Tarpon
  Donald St. George Lindsay	5 June 1918	lent to RN	857	HMS Talisman
  Cuthbert Robert Holland Taylor	5 June 1918	lent to RN	6	destroyer HMS Acheron
  John Crispo Ingles Edwards	5 July 1918	lent to RN	125	destroyer HMS Cameleon
  Godfrey Musgrave Hibbard	1 Sept 1918	lent to RN	890a	HMS Torrid
  Sub-Lieutenants
  Richard Hibbard Oland	2 Aug 1917	lent to RN	71	HMS Barham
  Frank Llewellyn Houghton	16 Nov 1917	lent to RN	-	HMS PC63
  Arthur Roddy Pressy	16 Nov 1917	lent to RN	509	HMS Mameluke
  Roy Max Puddycombe	31 Dec 1917	lent to RN	458	destroyer HMS Legion
  Valentine Stuart Godfrey	2 Mar 1918	lent to RN	226	borne in HMS Dolphin for submarine course
  Acting Sub-Lieutenants
  Edson Crawford Sherwood	1 Nov 1917	lent to RN	-	-
  Frederick Gordon Hart	1 Mar 1918	-	609	HMS Nizam
  William Stuart Etleigh Morrison	1 Mar 1918	-	769	battleship HMS Royal Sovereign
  Morris Adrian Wood	1 Mar 1918	-	-	-
  Alfred Charles Wurtele	1 Mar 1918	-	850	flotilla leader HMS Swift
  Oswald Francis Walter Critchley	1 May 1918	lent to RN	134	HMS Carnarvon
  Midshipmen
  Wallace Bouchier Creery	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  George Berkeley Fraser Barnes	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Harold Taylor Wood Grant	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Alured Philip Musgrave	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Adrian Mitchell Hope	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Francis Robert Williams Roberts Gow	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Colin Degge Donald	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Edwin Alexander Thompson	2 Feb 1917	-	-	-
  Roger Edward Shelford Bidwell	15 Feb 1918	-	129	battleship HMS Canada
  Edmond Rollo Mainguy	15 Feb 1918	-	129	battleship HMS Canada
  Robert Benney Brett	15 Feb 1918	-	129	battleship HMS Canada
  Engineer-Captain
  William Smeeton Frowd	16 May 1916	RN (ret'd)	-	Halifax Dockyard
  Engineer-Lieutenant-Commander
  Richard Alexander Howley	1 Aug 1913	lent from RN	-	-
  Engineer-Lieutenants
  Angus Downes Mathwin Curry	11 May 1912	-	-	-
  Hubert John Napier-Hemy	26 June 1912	consulting naval engineer	-	-
  George Pauleston Clarke	17 Aug 1912	lent to RN	188a	HMS Coventry
  Frank Harvey Jefferson	4 Mar 1913	lent to RN	797a	HMS Scout
  Reginald Henry Wood	1 May 1916	lent from RN	1015	HMCS Stadacona
  George Leslie Stephens (act)	1 Nov 1915	-	-	-
  Ninian Bannatyne (act)	1 Jan 1916	-	-	borne in patrol depot ship HMCS Seagull
  Tempy. Engineer-Lieutenants
  Thomas Caleb Phillips (Act. Engineer-Lieut-Commander)	5 Nov 1915	lent from RN	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe) for HQ Ottawa
  Charles Gregg Parkyn	9 May 1917	-	-	-
  Naval Instructors
  Basil Shakespear Hartley (Director of Studies)(Instructor Commander RN)	14 June 1892	lent from RN	-	-
  Clive Garfield Allin	24 Oct 1910	-	-	-
  David Anton Frederick Robinson	1 Jan 1911	-	-	-
  Staff Surgeon
  Joseph Armound Rouseau	1 Dec 1916	-	-	(borne in HMCS Niobe) for RCN Hospital Halifax
  Surgeon
  George Allan Lyall Irwin	15 June 1912	-	-	(borne in HMCS Niobe) for RCN Hospital Halifax
  Fleet Paymaster
  George Burton Osborne (Paym. Commr. RN)	31 Mar 1910	lent from RN	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe)
  Staff Paymasters
  Harold Charles Frank Pinsent (Paym. Lieut.-Com. RN)	28 Mar 1917	lent from RN	-	-
  David Sidney Lambert	2 Mar 1918	Paym. Lieut-Com RN (lent)	1013	patrol depot ship HMCS Seagull
  Paymasters
  William Ernest Brissenden (Acting Staff Paymaster)	4 Sept 1909	Paym Lieut. RN (Emergency)	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe for victualling duties and for College)
  James Rustat Hemsted (Acting Staff Paym.)(Acting Paym. Lieut-Comm RN)	7 Dec 1912	Sec. Dept. Naval Service, Ottawa, lent from RN	1010	(borne in HMCS Niobe) Naval Secretary in Ottawa
  Gerald Philip Haddon (Acting Staff Paymaster)	7 Dec 1912	RCN (temp) Paym. Lieut (emergency list)	1015	borne in HMCS Stadacona
  Arthur Leslie Withers (Acting Staff Paymaster)	30 June 1911	RCN (tempy)	-	-(borne in HMCS Niobe) for HQ Ottawa
  George Cunningham Cook (tempy) (act)	1 Aug 1914	-	-	-
  Assistant Paymaster
  John E. Wood (Acting Staff Paymaster)(tempy)	18 Aug 1914	-	-	(borne in HMCS Niobe) "For Miscellaneous and Special Duties"
  Assistant Clerk
  Donald Stewart Neilson (tempy)	1 July 1917	-	-	-
  Shipwright Lieutenant
  John Henry Davey	29 June 1912	Commissioned Shipwright RN, Halifax Yard	-	-

  
  
  

  Additionally, there was a "temporary Commander, RCN" Frederick W. H. James borne in HMCS Rainbow for "miscellaneous and Special Service at Esquimalt".

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