Ships
- HMS Enterprise (D52) Captain from 2 March 1940 · Relieved on 15 July 1942
John Campbell Annesley had HMS Enterprise (D52) from 2 March 1940 until 15 July 1942. He was in command when she was escorting military convoys in the Bay of Bengal in December 1941, and he still had her for the April 1942 search with Force A and the rescue of Dorsetshire's survivors.
Uboat.net records that he was born on 2 August 1895 at Kensington, London, and that he died on 26 April 1964. It gives no place of death.
The rank table lists midshipman on 15 January 1913, acting sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1915, sub-lieutenant on 15 September 1915, lieutenant on 15 March 1917, lieutenant-commander on 15 March 1925, commander on 31 December 1930, and captain on 31 December 1938. He retired on 8 January 1948. He was awarded the DSO on 23 July 1918 and mentioned in despatches on 26 September 1940. The page says it has no career narrative.
The only command the fetched page lists in this war is Enterprise. Mason has her, under the outbreak of war with Japan, escorting military convoys from the Bay of Bengal to Rangoon and Singapore, then EM10 in January 1942, Viper Force into Rangoon on 11 February, convoy MS5 in the Celebes Sea on 7 March, and Force A at the end of March. On 6 April she rescued 1,122 survivors from Dorsetshire. Annesley left on 15 July 1942, while she was still on Indian Ocean escort. The pages do not say what the 1940 mention in despatches was for.
He retired on 8 January 1948. The fetched pages do not record a later appointment. He died on 26 April 1964.