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Robert Pedre
Rear Admiral Robert George Pedre (born 8 February 1975) is a senior Royal Navy officer and current Commander United Kingdom Strike Force. Naval career Educated at Davenant Foundation School, Imperial College London (BSc physics, 1996) and King's College London (MA Defence Studies, 2016), Pedre entered Britannia Royal Naval College on 18 September 1996. He became commanding officer of the , deployed on counter-terrorist operations in the Irish Sea, in 2003. As executive officer on the Type 22 frigate , Pedre was involved in the evacuation of personnel from Benghazi, Libya in 2009. He went on to command the Type 23 frigate in 2012, and the landing platform helicopter in 2016. ''Ocean'' served as flagship for Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and took part in Operation RUMAN (humanitarian support to the British Overseas Territories), before being decommissioned in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II on 27 March 2018. Pedre went on to be Assistant Head Defence Strategy at the Minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taunton
Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the Bishops of Winchester. Parts of the inner ward house were turned into the Museum of Somerset and Somerset Military Museum. For the Second Cornish uprising of 1497, Perkin Warbeck brought an army of 6,000; most surrendered to Henry VII on 4 October 1497. On 20 June 1685 the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England here in a rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the Castle's Great Hall. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunton in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842. Today it hosts Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset County Cricket Club, is the base of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, and is home to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office on Admiralty Way. The popular Taunton flow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
