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Flag Officer Malaya - (1939-1941) Flag Officer, Malaya and Forward Areas- (1945-1955) Flag Officer, Malayan Area, by 1956 occupied by Rear Admiral George Thring. [23] Flag Officer Maritime Aviation/AOC No. 3 Group RAF, 2000–2003. Superseded by Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm who is not a Flag Officer. Flag Officer, Malta – FO Malta (1934–43 ...
Officers of the Royal Navy during World War II (1939-1945). United Kingdom portal ... John Adams (Royal Navy officer) Augustus Agar; Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet;
Pages in category "Royal Navy personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 412 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Personnel of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II (1939-1945). ... William Bailey (Royal Navy officer) John Arnold Baker; Richard Baker (broadcaster)
Robert Peverell Hichens was born 2 March 1909, the son of Doctor Peverell Smythe Hichens and Constance Sawbridge Hichens. [3] [4] He spent his early life in Northampton, until the start of the Great War when his father—an officer in a Territorial Army unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps—was sent to France, and the rest of the family moved to St Mawes in Cornwall. [5]
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1925 as a Special Entry Cadet. Then-Lt Cdr Beattie, a 33-year-old in command of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Campbeltown, the tactical lynchpin of the St Nazaire Raid in 1942, was awarded the VC, recognized as being: For great gallantry and determination in the attack on St. Nazaire in command of HMS Campbeltown.
Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & Two Bars, DSC (26 January 1904 – 23 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. Following the war, he was an author of numerous books on British naval history.