Cmdr. Frank Stanley Horace "Raffles" Greenaway
Royal Navy HMS Kestrel
from:London
Frank Greenaway was known as Raffles. Born 3rd of May 1915 in London and died 2002. Frank served in the Royal Navy during WW2.
This is his service history:
- Prob. Seaman Boy November 1932
- Ordinary Seaman 3rd of May 1933
- Able-Bodied Seaman 1935.
- Telegraphist Air Gunner 1939?
- T/S.Lt. 14th of February 1941
- T/Lt. 14th of February 1942 *
- T/A/Lt.Cdr. December 1945
- Lt.Cdr. 7th of December 1948, seniority 3rd of May 1948 (retd 3rd of May 1957)
- A/Cdr. 1952 * with full Watch Keeping Certificate; gained full "Qualified Officer" Status (1942/43?)
- November 1932 joined London division, RNVR [HMS President]
- 1936 qualified 3rd Class Gunnery (Anti Aircraft) Rate
- 1938 mobilised (stood down after Munich crisis)
- July 1939 mobilised August 1939 transferred to Fleet Air Arm August 1939 - January 1940 HMS Kestrel (RN Air Station, Worthy Down, Hampshire) (aircraft crashed; returned to General Service)
- 1st of April 1940 HMS Hambledon (destroyer)
- [Anti Aircraft 3rd Rate Seaman Gunner "as C.W. candidate"; survived mining in Dover Straits during Operation Lucid, October 1940]
- February 1940 - 1941 HMS King Alfred (RNVR officers' training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
- April 1941? qualified as ASDIC (Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee) control officer April 1941 HMS Reading (destroyer)
- December 1941 no appointment listed
- 1941? -1942? undertook radar control course
- 15th of March 1942 - 5th of October 1942 HMS Broadway (destroyer) (2nd Lieutenant / Watchkeeping, Anti-Submarine Control Officer and Radar Direction Officer)
- 6th of October 1942 - December 1943 HMS Goathland (destroyer) (Second Lieutenant)
- February 1944 -30th of April 1944 21st Escort Group as "Spare C/O" 1st of May 1944 - February 1945
- First Lieutenant, HMS Venomous (destroyer) [in charge while refitting at Falmouth till 1st of August 1944]
- 31st of March 1945 - June 1945 First Lieutenant, HMS Hoste (frigate)
- June 1945 - 1945 Commanding Officer [?], HMS Bentley (frigate)
1945 volunteered to serve in Far East for assault on mainland Japan
- 2nd of April 1946 - April 1946 Commanding -Officer, LST 3029 (landing ship, tank) (operating out of Colombo & Singapore)
- 1946 - 1947 Commanding Officer, LST 3504 (landing ship, tank)
- 7th of December 1948 transferred to Permanent RNVR, initially Cardiff Division, but from c. 1950 South Wales Division (List 1)
Frank was Executive Officer to Peter Ingledew when he became Commanding Officer of Cardiff Division at its inception in 1947, and was acting in command following Ingledew's health difficulties. He started up the newly formed South Wales Division RNVR (HMS Cambria) as Executive Officer and was in command of the motor minesweeper; HMS St David, divisional training ship; Commanding Officer for Divisional contingent & guard at the Coronation; Senior Reserve Commander, HM Coronation Review, Spithead; 1955 Senior Commander and Divisional Guard Commander at Royal Naval Reserve Forces Silver Jubilee Review, Horseguards Parade.
