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Title: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Numpty75 on Saturday 05 October 19 12:17 BST (UK)
Hi, could anyone help me identify the Naval Officers in these photos, please? I believe they will all be deceased now as the photos may have been taken between c.1930 to c.1950. The photos were found in my late grandfathers photo albums. I have identified the ranks ok but have had no luck in putting names to the people. I don't know what ships these were on either. If i could identify just one Officer it may give me a lead to identifying the rest. I believe my grandfather took the pictures or obtained them at the time.
Thank you
p.s i am unable to upload the second photo for some reason - it is 172kb
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Trishanne on Saturday 05 October 19 18:38 BST (UK)
The tompion on the gun behind the officers looks like that on HMS Griffin. I don't know if that helps at all
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 06 October 19 10:29 BST (UK)
Good one Pat...More info here:

https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4398.html

Carol
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Numpty75 on Sunday 06 October 19 16:56 BST (UK)
Cool Thank you Trishanne and Treetotal. I will investigate  :)
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: despair on Sunday 06 October 19 17:30 BST (UK)
You may find some pictures here:-

https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersL.html

Regards
Roger
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Numpty75 on Sunday 06 October 19 17:57 BST (UK)
Thank you Roger - no luck so far but I appreciate the hint.
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: ainslie on Sunday 06 October 19 19:15 BST (UK)
The central figure may be an Admiral and his stand-up wing collar may help to date the photo, as they went out of use.
On our left is a Captain, and right is a Commander, all are Royal Navy, with WW1 medals.
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: MaecW on Sunday 06 October 19 22:33 BST (UK)
Although I like the Griffin tampion association, the guns in the photo are a bit big for a destroyer. They look more like battleship/battle cruiser barrels and that suggests that the group might be a fleet Admiral with his ship's Captain and the Captain's deputy, the Commander.
Perhaps just pre-WW2 ?
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: tonepad on Sunday 06 October 19 22:35 BST (UK)
Quote from: MaecW on Sunday 06 October 19 22:33 BST (UK)
Although I like the Griffin tampion association, the guns in the photo are a bit big for a destroyer. They look more like battleship/battle cruiser barrels and that suggests that the group might be a fleet Admiral with his ship's Captain and the Captain's deputy, the Commander.
Perhaps just pre-WW2 ?


HMS Revenge

https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/1636.html


Tony
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: MaecW on Sunday 06 October 19 22:55 BST (UK)
That'll be it.  Good one, Tony
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Drosybont on Sunday 06 October 19 23:02 BST (UK)
What looks very much like the same photo was in the Portsmouth Evening News on Wednesday 30 May 1934.  The captions says " Captain S.D. Tillard (Flag Captain), Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse, and Commander R.S.G. Nicholson."

Drosybont
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: tonepad on Monday 07 October 19 05:56 BST (UK)
Captain of HMS Revenge:

Captain Stephen D. Tillard, 9 August, 1932 – 2 August, 1934


http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Stephen_Dowell_Tillard


Tony
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: tonepad on Monday 07 October 19 06:05 BST (UK)
Roger Roland Charles Backhouse

http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Roger_Roland_Charles_Backhouse



Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson

http://dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Randolph_Stewart_Gresham_Nicholson




Tony
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: Wiggy on Monday 07 October 19 08:40 BST (UK)
Well found folks!!   8)

Wiggy
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: japeflakes on Monday 07 October 19 12:52 BST (UK)
just to try a bit of colour
Title: Re: Royal Navy Officers - Please help identify them - Photo c.1930 to c.1950 maybe
Post by: John915 on Wednesday 16 October 19 19:10 BST (UK)
Good evening,

I thought the one in the middle looked like Humphry Bogart and that it was from a film. Until I read the reply from Drosybont.

John915