Leonard 'Rover' Reynolds - Telegraph Later, from a base at the island of Vis in the Adriatic, Reynolds took part in clandestine operations among enemy-occupied islands, seeing many friends and their boats blown up by mines. In three years of war, MGB 658 sank or damaged more than 26 enemy craft. Reynolds was awarded a DSC, and her crew of three officers and 30 ratings were between them awarded four more DSCs, five DSMs and were mentioned in despatches eight times. Leonard Charles Reynolds was born on June 29 1923, the son of a London policeman, and grew up at Wallington, Surrey, being educated at the local grammar school. On the outbreak of war he joined Sun Life Insurance, which was evacuated to Wrest Park in Bedfordshire . After the war he gained a teaching certificate and returned to his old school while studying at night for a degree at Birkbeck College, London. After a spell at Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School in Ramsgate, in 1960 he was appointed headmaster of Kendal Grammar School. From 1965 to 1981 he was head of Maidenhead Grammar School (later Desborough comprehensive). He served as chairman of the Berkshire Association of Secondary Heads. Reynolds was also a JP; an active Rotary member; and a keen supporter of Maidenhead Arts Council. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1978. For more than 30 years Reynolds was on the Admiralty Interview Board, which vets potential officers, thus helping to shape the Royal Navy and Royal Marines officer corps . Reynolds lived life by the Scout law which he had learned as a boy, and was a scout master of four troops. In 1980 he was awarded the Silver Wolf (the Scout Association's highest award), and in 1981 was appointed OBE for services to the movement. His nickname "Rover" was coined when he attended a meeting of Deep Sea Scouts in wartime Malta. He was the author of Motor Gunboat 658: the Small Boat War in the Mediterranean, which has not been out of print since 1955, and in retirement wrote three books which form the definitive history of coastal forces in the Second World War. He married, in 1946, Win Darbyshire, who survives him with their son and daughter. Leonard "Rover" Reynolds, born June 29 1923, died April 18 2013