Ships
- HMS Dauntless (D45) Lieutenant Commander from 1 August 1943 · Relieved on 2 October 1943
Edwin Peter Fitzmaurice Atkinson had HMS Dauntless as a lieutenant commander from 1 August 1943 until 2 October 1943, while she was being fitted as a training ship.
Uboat.net gives his birth as 25 December 1907 and his death as 14 February 1991, aged 83, in the Portsmouth district of Hampshire. It gives no birthplace.
The rank line runs from sub-lieutenant on 16 January 1929, lieutenant on 16 January 1931, and lieutenant commander on 16 January 1939. He was promoted commander on 30 June 1945, after he had left Dauntless. The page says it has no career narrative, and it lists no decoration.
The only command on his page is Dauntless. On 29 September 1943, with her refit and conversion completed, she went from Chatham Dockyard to Sheerness. The page cites the ship's log, ADM 53/117317.
The fetched page records the 1945 promotion and the 1991 death, and no appointment between them.