St. John Aldrich Micklethwait DSO, RN

Born  4 Mar 1901


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Ranks

15 May 1920 A/S.Lt.
15 Jan 1921 S.Lt.
15 Jun 1922 Lt.
15 Jun 1930 Lt.Cdr.
31 Dec 1935 Cdr.
31 Dec 1940 Capt.
7 Jul 1950 Rear-Admiral

Retired: 15 Dec 1953


Decorations

1 Jan 1940 DSO
28 Jun 1940 Bar to DSO
8 Sep 1942 2nd Bar to DSO
1 Jan 1952 CB

Warship Commands listed for St. John Aldrich Micklethwait, RN


ShipRankTypeFromTo
HMS Eskimo (F 75)Cdr.Destroyer9 Dec 193815 Nov 1940
HMS Cardiff (D 58)Capt.Light cruiser27 Aug 19412 Feb 1942
HMS Sikh (F 82)Capt.Destroyer21 Feb 194214 Sep 1942
HMS Onslow (G 17)Capt.Destroyer6 Sep 1945early 1946

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Events related to this officer

Light cruiser HMS Cardiff (D 58)


5 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

12 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

14 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

19 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

23 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted bombardment exercises in the Clyde area. (1)

26 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

28 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (1)

29 Nov 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted exercises in the Clyde area with aircraft. (1)

3 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (2)

4 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (2)

10 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (2)

17 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (2)

18 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area. (2)

26 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted radar exercises in the Clyde area. (2)

28 Dec 1941 (position 0.00, 0.00)
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted D/G trials on the D/G range off Helensburg. (2)

31 Dec 1941
HMS Cardiff (Capt. P.K. Enright, RN) conducted gunnery exercises for the gunnery school in the Clyde area.

[No logbook of HMS Cardiff is available for the month of January 1942. Therefore details for this month will be missing. HMS Cardiff continued her duty as gunnery training ship for most of this month. On 29 January 1942 she was taken in hand at the John Brown shipyard at Dalmuir (Clydebank) for a short refit.] (2)

Sources

  1. ADM 53/113827
  2. ADM 53/113828

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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