Dennis William O'Sullivan ( David )

 

Barry Swithenbank

 

David Michael Stelmach

 

3rd March 1952 - 26th May 2024

Susan Ellen Travis

 

RNH Stonehouse Reunion 2023 Absent Friends

10/10/21  -  07/10/23

Naomi Key

Kevin "Buck" Ryan

Marion Taylor (Jones)

Christopher Radford

Gareth George

Joan Brightman

Georgina Schembri

Robert Thomas

Paul Barletta

Bob Burton

Kevin Pyke

Lt Cdr Dave Park

Glenn Etchells

Angela May (Savage)

Phil Sirkinson

Surg Cdr Robert Hanson

Eric Faulkner

Keith Wynn

Barry Dyer

Ken Parsons

Malcolm White

Tony Sear

Ben Gosling

Jacqueline Huddart (Bruford)

Patricia Woodruft

Derek Wellburn

Paul Madiria

Stella Devadason

Jan Mathers

Kim Swinthebank

Pete Davis

Dave Curtis

Matron Margaret Collis

Pat Bolt

Matron Pat Gould

Dave Hotchkiss

Frank Thompson

Sam Small

Chris Holmes

Surg Lt Cdr Peter Fowler

Julia Halls

Stephen Davis

Paul Egan

Tracy Clark (Kerridge/ Basson)

Lt Cdr John MIllward

Cdr Derek Shone

Peter Okey

Brian Capps

Sur Cdr Douglas Sommerville

Liz Knight

Stephen Davis

It is with great sadness and regret we have to report that our friend and colleague

Stephen Davies,

crossed the bar on

Sunday 16th July 2023

Stella Devadason

 

Follow this link for more information on this lovely Lady

POMA Derek Wellburn

Derek Wellburn crossed the bar peacefully at

Hartley Park Care Home on the

5th November at 12:38

Reunion 2021 - Absent Friends 20/09/2018 - 09/10/21

Gareth Freeman

Cdr Robin Hussey

John Roberts

Surg Cdr (D) Madgewick

Titch Cooper

Dave Lancaster

Bob Irons

Surg Cdr J C Walker

WOMA Myhill

Cdr Comrie QARNNS

Vicky Nimmo ( Couch)

Paul Watts

Surg Capt McKay

Scouse Nickson

Ken Purchase

Don Pleasance

Jim Goldie

Graham Taff Evans

Surg Cdr Holt

SNS Vicky Gill

Tony Punchy French

Capt Trish Hambling QARNNS

Jim Sharp

Surg Cdr Pace

Capt Mick Bowen QARNNS

Bob Todd

WO1MA Kellie Sharp INM

Bob Hunter

Lorraine Vrettos ( Pikkajago )

Ted Rann

Bob Morris

Karen Hudson ( Sagar/Ellis)

Ian Wattley

Shelia Wright ( Morton )

John Short

Denise Clapp ( Burford )

Mick Fay

Roxanne Egerton

Sylvia Hines-Randle

Marie Hudson ( Calvert )

Annie Trayhurn

Reunion 2018. Absent Friends October 2016 - September 2018

Lt Cdr (MS) Derek Golding

Robert Spencer-Fleet

Cdr Kev Charlton

John Sheridan

Carol Rose

Eric Norton

Surg Lt (D) Steve Reeves

Surg Cdr Hugh Cox

Phillip Tranter

Chris Ferguson

Gary Keith

Malcolm Watton

Lucy MacDonald

Robert Evans

Jeff Lumley

Taff Hutchins

George Nicholls

John Billings

Ken Martin

Terry Mullins

George Bowels

Chris Ridley

Roy Bishop

Brian May

Surg Capt Rick Jolly

Dave Roebuck

Heather Clarke

Margaret Mwangi

Surg Cdr Phillip Jones

Martin le Good

SRA Drinkwater

Ken Toplis

Cdr (MS) Robin Hussey

Peter Woolven

Kenneth Bradford

Surg Capt Harrison

Surg Commodore Nick Baldock

Bob Locke

RNH Reunion 2016 - Absent Friends October 2014 - 2016

Penny Hall

Malcolm Hughes

John Avis

Surg Cdr Richard Wingate

Ron Bewley

Dianne Bright ( Robertson )

Juliet Bond

Victoria Lloyd

Richard Mainwaring

John "Stokes" Rigby

John Willcocks

Jock Gowan

Robert Ryder

Robert Laverick

Steve Lloyd

S/Lt Anna Bolam 

( Defence Medical Group South West )

Ross Whalley

Surg Cdr H Ellis

Elizabeth Aitkin ( Brown )

Matron Pamela Greystone

Andy Ellis (SM)

SRA D A Coppock

Surg Capt MCH Jackson

Brenda Woodland ( Pidgeon )

JD "George" Heslop

Barbara McLeod

Brian Purdham

George Hampton

Surg Cdr Neville Scholes

Surg Capt Nick Blacklock

Bridget Ling  (O'Holloran )

Susan Holyer

Carol Armitage

Lt Cdr (MS) Pete Wellings

Cameron Handy

Supt NO Jill Last

Theresa Doyle

Susan Gore ( Scarborough)

Susan Griffin

Surg Capt Rob Morrow

LNN Laura Hyde

Jeff Pink

George Murray Bowden

Beverley Woolley

Michael "Spike" Edwards

Matron in Chief Cynthia Cook

Brian Phillips

John D'Albert

Matthew "Spider" Webb

Stephen O'Conner

Olive Davis ( Wife of Sid Davis )

Cynthia Cooke, born June 11 1919, died April 20 2016

 

Cynthia Cooke.

Born June 11 1919, died April 20 2016

 

Cynthia Cooke, who has died aged 96, nursed newly released PoWs and later became Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service.   

 In January 1945 Cynthia Cooke was a nurse at the Royal Navy hospital at Herne Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, when she volunteered to staff the makeshift hospital facilities onboard the aircraft carrier Formidable. Over the next few months Formidable steamed more than 100,000 miles and carried nearly 14,000 former PoWs to Sydney as well as returning troops from the Far East. 

On her first mission, after battling through a typhoon, Formidable collected some 1,000 emaciated Australians from Manila. Loading the men in their weakened state from landing craft to Formidable took three days, and in order to load one former prisoner, suffering from tuberculosis of the spinal column, Cynthia Cooke helped to manufacture a body-length plaster of Paris case which incorporated stretcher poles. On October 24 Formidable sailed for Papua New Guinea to collect 1,254 Punjabi soldiers who were in an even worse condition than the Australians, most suffering from malaria and severe eczema. 

Though antibiotics and antiseptic treatments were available, the best treatment for most men was curry, which they cooked themselves on the flightdeck. There was only methylated spirits to clean ulcers and Cynthia Cooke would warn through a translator that it would hurt. It was, however, translated to the patients as: “If doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t do any good.” Cynthia Cooke returned to Britain in the escort carrier Queen. 

In order to go on watch in the sickbay she used to cross the flightdeck to avoid the mutual embarrassment of seeing the ship’s company half-naked in the messdecks. But when, on one occasion, a gust of wind nearly blew her overboard, she was subsequently always carefully chaperoned through the messdecks A guardsman’s daughter, Cynthia Felicity Joan Cooke was born on June 11 1919 at Bealings, Suffolk, and educated at Stockwell County Secondary School, south London, where the first headmistress, Rosa Basset, had introduced the Dalton Plan, which gave pupils the freedom and opportunity to develop initiative and self-reliance.  

In 1938 Cynthia Cooke began training at Tite Street Children’s Hospital, Chelsea. She worked as a theatre sister during the Blitz, and in 1943 joined the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS), beginning her career at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar.   There, before D-Day, she cycled to the hospital past columns of Canadian tanks, where the men greeted her with cries of “Hello, Sugar! Are you rationed?” 

In late 1944 she travelled to Australia in a troopship carrying some 4,000 Royal Marines. Post-war Cynthia Cooke served in the sickbays at RNAS Dale in Pembrokeshire, where a young national serviceman, David Attenborough, gave her a hand-drawn chart to help identify seabirds. She served in naval hospitals in Chatham, Hong Kong, Malta and Plymouth, and was principal tutor at the Navy’s training school from 1970 to 1973. 

As Matron-in-Chief of the QARNNS, from 1973 to 1976, she lived in an official residence at Haslar where she interviewed all budding new sisters – she accepted one girl who arrived for her interview in a party frock, because “she had made an effort” – and resisted all attempts to disband the nursing service. Cynthia Cooke was conferred with the Royal Red Cross in 1964, became Commander of the Order of St John in 1974, and was appointed CBE in 1975. 

In retirement she returned to Suffolk, where she cared for her mother who lived until she was 102, and supported good works, including the Royal British Legion for Women, blood donors, and her parish church.

Reunion Obituaries List pre 2016

 Friends and Colleagues, Sadly no longer with us.

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William Henry ROSS (Danny)
1950 - 2009

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SURGEON COMMODORE F. R. WILKES - MBE, OSt.J., QHS., FRCS (Eng.)

3rd August 1934 -- 18th November 2006

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Surg Rear-Admiral David Askey Lammiman C.B. L.V.O

30th June 1932 - 27th January 2009

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SNN Jayne Noden (Lees)

10th July 2007, aged 50 yrs

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CDR (MS) Ian Titch Coulton

 Passed away Friday 1st February 2008

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Chief (N) David Matthews

Passed away suddenly on 6th February 2008 

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MS Lt Adrian Skinner

Dates Unknown

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Audrey Beverley James

22nd September 1954 - 28th January 2014

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Don Harris

 NAFFI Barman Geneva Club
Passed away on 6th February 2008


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Former PO (MA) Stanley Major

Died ?

Served 1951 - 1971

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Former MT1 Reg F K Burlace

Died 24th October 2005

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Iain Whitehead

Died 5th June 2006

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Former SBPO (CDO) D John A A Tull

Died 31st October 2005

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Former POMA (O) Ted Lewis

Died ?

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Dawson Welsh

Died 11th March 1996

Aged 44

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CPOMT Stephen Philip Gane

1953 - 2009

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Claire Mavis Taylor Formerly Matron - in - Chief  QARNNS

Passed away on February 23rd 2010, aged 66 years.

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Norman ( Nick ) Carter

Passed away 27th July 2002

Aged 71

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SRA Frank Golden

Passed away 5th January 2014

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Denis Camp ( Naval Stores Officer )

Died Suddenly in March 2006

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Alan (Tash) Ashmore

Died 14th October 2005

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Peter William Hopkins

1956 - 2001

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MT1 Paul (Bungy) Williams (Radiographer)

No other details at this time.

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FCMT Brian (Curly) Morris (Radiographer)

No further details.

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Former CPO MA Dave Eardley

Died Late 80s

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Lt CDR Sue Croughan QARNNS

Died Still in service

No other details at this time.

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MS Lt CDR Arwel Hughes

Health Inspector

No other details

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CPOMA Richard C W Vellacott

Died 9th February 1978

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Steve (Sam) Holden

Passed away 2005

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Brenda Burton nee Marshalsay  

G class 1973

Died 30th November 2013 

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Former CPOMA  Peter Roberts.

Died Tuesday 25 Nov 2013.

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POMA John"Jock" Winton.

Died Thursday 23rd May 2013

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CPOMA(O) Robert "Bob" Hanvey.

Died Saturday 19th January 2013

Aged 83

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CMT® Ben Lyons

25th November 2012

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Surgeon Vice Admiral Sir Godfrey Milton-Thompson

Died peacefully at home on 23rd September 2012, aged 82.

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Derek Harding.

Derek lost his battle with cancer 08 Sep 12.

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Tony Pitts

No other details

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Cathy Wilson (Whitehead) W Class.

Sadly Cathy lost her battle with cancer aged 50,10 July 2012.

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CPOMA Steve Bannister.

Steve passed away suddenly on Friday evening 06 July 2012.

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Lesley Phillbrick (Vyse). 

15 April 2012 

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POMA Terry Wood

Died 10 April 2012

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LMA (SM) Keith Burns

Died 3rd April 2012

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Wardmaster Norman Mclaren

Died 8th March 2012.

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Chief Ted Hardman.

Died thursday 08 March 2012.

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Eric Gordon "General" Booth.

General passed away 22nd February 2012 aged 60.

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POMA Stephen Sharpe.

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POMA John Stewart. 

Passed away 16th Dec 2011

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CPOMA Danny Lewis. 

Passed away 16th September 2011

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FCMA Terry Clarke

Passed away 4th September 2011

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CPOMA Tony Webster

Died in Derriford hospital 25th June 2011

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Surg Vice Admiral Sir James Watt

Died 26th December 2009

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Dave Owen

9th November 2009

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Harry Ferris former MT1 N

Passed away in January 2011

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Former MT1/CMT (N) Colin Singleton

Passed away on 7th December 2010

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Roy Edge (xray)

Died 2010

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SVA Ian Jenkins

Passed away 2009

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Former MA Ian Douglas

Died 26th December 2008

at the Rowans Hospice, Portsmouth.

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Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir John Harrison

Died on 7th March 2010

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Commander J. McKenzie

Passed away,monday 26th July 2010, aged 93

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Mick Graham

Monday 22nd March 2010

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Mike Stretton

Friday 07 May 10

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Greg Ronkay

11th December 2009

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Surg Cdr Bryan Adams Radiologist.

14th November 2009

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Surg Capt James Wright

October 2008

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Ex CPOMA GARY WILLIAMS 

Died 24th April,2009 aged 65.

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Simone Baxter

No other details other than thought to have died 2006?

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Phil Newcombe

Passed away on 22 April 2009

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Ex Surg Cdr Alistair Neal

Suddenly, in his sleep, on Saturday, February 14, 2009

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John Gregg

John died yesterday 22nd September 2011

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Megs Allen of class 32

Passed away November 2011

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Ex-LMA(SM) Keith Burns

Crossed the Bar on Friday 3rd April 2012 at 12:30

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Former RN Medic Colin Emordy

Passed away 16th feb 2014

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William Charles Chapman OBE

Surgeon Commander RN Rtd 

Passed away 7th March 2014

Aged 83yrs.

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Anthony Joseph Nutbrown

3rd August 1954 - 14th March 2014

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Andrew Michael Forbes
'Andy'

23rd January 1951 - 24th June 2014

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Chrissie Jeffs ( Eggleston )

28/07/2014

Z Class 1972

Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. 

Royal Naval Hospital. Plymouth.

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Former POMA(O) Jim Royle

Died 24.1.2015

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John David Heslop

(George)

31st August 1954 - 9th April 2015

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Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service (Retired)

Cynthia Cooke

June 11 1919, died April 20 2016

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