Individual Details
Ian Gordon Templer
(17 Jun 1918 - 21 Sep 2018)
Educated at Hamilton House, Ealing and Bradfield.
Joined Fleet Air Arm in 1938 after a year with Dunlop Ltd.
Commissioned 1941. Flew Fairy Swordfish. MID in North Africa.
Served as an instructor in the in America on Grumman Martlets.
Lt Royal Navy.
Re-joined Dunlop’s and after marriage lived near Birmingham and Tamworth-in-Arden.
He and Pam then moved to Woodcote (Nr Reading), not far from my parent, in 1983 and then to Sonning Common in 1985. They then moved to Hartfield in East Sussex in 1993, to Charmouth in Dorset in 2009, before a final move to The Hyde Care Home in 2016.
Joined Fleet Air Arm in 1938 after a year with Dunlop Ltd.
Commissioned 1941. Flew Fairy Swordfish. MID in North Africa.
Served as an instructor in the in America on Grumman Martlets.
Lt Royal Navy.
Re-joined Dunlop’s and after marriage lived near Birmingham and Tamworth-in-Arden.
He and Pam then moved to Woodcote (Nr Reading), not far from my parent, in 1983 and then to Sonning Common in 1985. They then moved to Hartfield in East Sussex in 1993, to Charmouth in Dorset in 2009, before a final move to The Hyde Care Home in 2016.
Events
| Birth | 17 Jun 1918 | Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Residence | 1921 | 21 Inglis Road, Ealing, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Military service | Bet 1939 and 1945 | ||||
| Military | 1940 | Commissioned | |||
| Military | Dec 1941 |  | |||
| Military | 6 Oct 1942 | Sub Lt - Mentioned in Despatches (RNVR) | | ||
| Military | 1943 | Promoted to temp Lt (RNVR) | |||
| Marriage | 2 Feb 1946 | St. John's Wood, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - Pamela Elizabeth Marzetti | |||
| Death | 21 Sep 2018 | Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
Families
| Spouse | Pamela Elizabeth Marzetti (1921 - 2017) |
| Child | David Francis Templer |
| Child | Sally Mary Templer |
| Child | Briony Elizabeth Templer |
| Father | John Francis Harvey "Jack" Templer (1885 - 1978) |
| Mother | Edith Margaret Edwards (1887 - 1929) |
| Sibling | Capt Francis Edward Templer (1916 - 1990) |
Notes
Military
Qualified for Pilot duties in Fleet Air Arm - HMS Grebe821 Naval Air Squadron
821 Squadron was re-formed at Detling in July 1941, initially tasked with carrying out anti-submarine duties in Orkney. In November they were transferred to Egypt, and in March 1942 they were re-equipped with six Fairey Albacores. They carried out bombing raids on Rhodes, and in Egypt were active in supporting ground forces at Maaten Bagush, Gambut and Daba. 821 Squadron was transferred again in November 1942 to operate out of RAF Hal Far, on Malta, attacking enemy supply convoys headed to North Africa. Four of the squadron's aircraft were transferred to Castel Benito, Tripoli in March 1943 to support night bombing raids by the Royal Air Force in Libya. In July 1943 at the time of Husky, 821 squadron was based at Hal Far on Malta with Albacores for torpedo/spotter/reconnaissance. The entire squadron then transferred to Tunis in June to attack enemy shipping. Wiki
HMS Grebe was the Royal Navy designation for the prewar Alexandria airport, known as Dekheila, during its use in World War II as a shore base for aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA)