GLAISTER / HAWLEY engagement

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 15 Oct 2022: Mr H.A. Glaister and Miss M.A. Hawley - The engagement is announced between Henry, elder son of Mr and Mrs Stephen Glaister, of Alresford, Hampshire, and Miranda, middle daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Hawley, of Colton, Staffordshire.

Henry Augustus b 1994 s of Stephen Blair GLAISTER b Feb 1958 and Melita Louise b 1962 d of Henry Aymar HELY-HUTCHINSON 1925-2015 (2xgt gs of 3rd Earl of DONOUGHMORE 1787-1851) and Maria Anna DE ERNEY d 2022 of Hungary.

Miranda Alice b 1996 d of Charles John HAWLEY b Feb 1965 by his 1992 m reg Q3 Hants to Victoria Louise b 1967 d of Maj Nicholas Mark PRIDEAUX b 1940 scion of that gentry family of Elderslie and of the BIRCH REYNARDSON gentry family of Adwell House and Amanda Fiona b 1946 reg Q2 Hants d of Cdr Donald CAMERON VC RN 1916-61 by his 1940 m to Eve KILPATRICK.

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The following extract is from the London Gazette dated 22 February 1944, related to the Victoria Cross awarded to Cdr Donald Cameron , then Lt RN:

  The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the VICTORIA CROSS for valour to': Lieutenant Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., Royal Navy. Lieutenant Donald Cameron, R.N.R. Lieutenants Place and Cameron were the Commanding Officers of two of His Majesty's Midget Submarines X 7 and X 6 which on 22nd September 1943 carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored in the protected anchorage of Kaafiord, North Norway. To reach the anchorage necessitated the penetration of an enemy minefield and a passage of fifty miles up the fiord, known to be vigilantly patrolled by the enemy and to be guarded by nets, gun defences and listening posts, this after a passage of at least a thousand miles from base. Having successfully eluded all these hazards and entered the fleet anchorage, Lieutenants Place and Cameron, with a complete disregard for danger, worked their small craft past the close anti-submarine and torpedo nets surrounding the Tirpitz, and from a position inside these nets, carried out a cool and determined attack. Whilst they were still inside the nets a fierce enemy counter attack by guns and depth charges developed which made their withdrawal impossible. Lieutenants Place and Cameron therefore scuttled their craft to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy. Before doing so they took every measure to ensure the safety of their crews, the majority of whom, together with themselves, were subsequently taken prisoner.