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Captain Francis Walter Despard Twigg (1883–1951) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. [1] [2] He was made OBE in 1919 for valuable services in Command of HMS Lysander as a Senior Officer of Convoy Escorts. [3] [3] [4] In 1946 he was awarded the Legion of Merit, Degree of Legionnaire. [1]
The Plans Division was established on 28 September 1917 it evolved out of the earlier Plans Section (Section 16) [3] of the Operations Division of the Naval Staff. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff whose view was that plans and operations as functions should be separate and distinct. [4]
Cadets that transfer to the senior member side between the ages of 18 and 20 receive the grade of flight officer (if the highest cadet award earned was the Mitchell), technical flight officer (if the highest cadet award earned was the Earhart) or senior flight officer (if the highest cadet award earned was the Spaatz) after completion of Level ...
After the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 and Joe Fagan's subsequent resignation as manager, Kenny Dalglish served as the player–manager of Liverpool from 1985 to 1990.. A player–coach (also playing coach, captain–coach, or player–manager) is a member of a sports team who simultaneously holds both playing and coaching duties.
[109] [110] [111] The squadron was tasked with convoy, towing, and blockade duties as well as transporting troops, supplies, mail, and dispatches for the U.S. Army and was also ordered to cooperate with the U.S. Navy. [112] The squadron was under the overall command of Captain John A. Webster, Sr., who chose Ewing as his flagship. Webster ...
Major (temporary) Eric Cooke (345402), General List, Infantry. Senior Commander (temporary) Margaret Louise Fletcher-Cooke, Women's Auxiliary Corps (India). Captain (temporary) Robert Arthur Cooper, Southern Rhodesia Military Forces. Captain Sidney Baden Redvers Cooper (73416), Coldstream Guards.
From 1546 until 1832 prime responsibility for administering H.M. Royal Navy Dockyards lay with the Navy Board, and resident commissioners who were naval officers though civilian employees of the Navy Board, not sea officers [4] in charge of the day-to-day operational running of the dockyard and superintendence of its sea officer and ratings staff, following the abolition of that board its ...
Captain The Hon. Alexander E. Bethell, 1903–1906; Captain Bernard Currey, 21 December 1906–1908; Captain Stuart Nicholson, 21 December 1908–1911; Captain Edward F. B. Charlton, 1911–1914; Captain Philip W. Dumas, 15 August 1914–1917; Captain Algernon H. C. Candy, 8 February 1917–1919; Captain Brien M. Money, 1919–1921