Ships
- HMS Ceres (D59) Acting Captain from 11 June 1943 · Relieved on 4 November 1943
Roy Carlton Harry had Ceres as an acting captain. Uboat.net gives 11 June 1943 to 4 November 1943. Unithistories.com gives 31 March 1943 through October 1943. The command line keeps the uboat.net dates, because 31 March would overlap Cecil Charles Acland Allen. He was in command when she left the East Indies in September 1943.
Unithistories says he was the son of Sampson Harry. He married Mary Alexina Simons on 27 October 1926. They had no children. He was born on 29 August 1899 at Lambeth and died on 17 September 1972 at Portsmouth. Uboat.net gives the same birth date and no death.
He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne. Unithistories lists lieutenant on 5 January 1923 with seniority of 15 February 1922, lieutenant-commander on 15 February 1930, commander on 30 June 1936, acting captain between June and August 1943, and captain on 30 June 1944. He retired on 8 July 1953. Uboat.net dates the acting captain's rank 11 June 1943, the day its Ceres command starts, and the captain's rank 30 June 1944, and it gives the CBE on 1 June 1953. His career on the unithistories page is physical and recreational training: Barham in the Mediterranean, Calcutta on the Africa Station, the Home Fleet flagship Nelson, and the schools at Portsmouth and Devonport. He commanded the escort vessel Rochester in February 1939 and Bridgewater from 2 June 1939 into April 1940, and he was at the Devonport barracks from 8 January 1941 into February 1943.
Unithistories starts him in Ceres on 31 March 1943. Uboat.net starts him on 11 June 1943, the day Allen left, and ends him on 4 November 1943. Mason has her on Indian Ocean convoy defence through August 1943, withdrawn from the East Indies in September, and sailing from Suez for Plymouth on 27 September. By November the decision had been taken to use her as an accommodation ship. The uboat.net end, 4 November, is the day Wilmot Pynson Bennitt took her. After Ceres, unithistories gives him the escort carrier Arbiter from December 1943 into June 1944, and the air station Gannet at Eglinton from 15 November 1944 into July 1945.
He was superintendent of the physical-training school at Portsmouth in 1946, and from February 1948 he was Captain-in-Charge and Captain Superintendent of the dockyard at Simonstown. In 1953 he was Director of the Royal Navy School of Physical Training, and from 17 January to 8 July 1953 he was a naval aide-de-camp to the Queen. He was appointed CBE on 1 June 1953 and retired on 8 July 1953. Unithistories says that after he retired he directed the National Playing Fields Association in London and travelled up each day from Portsmouth. He died at Portsmouth on 17 September 1972.