Archibald George Forman
CBE (1910-1967) was a British
naval officer who became the first Chief of Naval Staff of the
Ghana Navy.
Ghana Navy service
Forman was born in
Brentford
Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross.
Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...
on 20 June 1910. An acting sub-lieutenant in the
Royal Navy aged 17, he became a sub-lieutenant in 1931, and lieutenant in 1933. He became Lieutenant Commander at the start of 1941, at this time he commanded
HMS Airdale and
HMS Lookout (G32), was mentioned in dispatches in 1942, and became a Commander at the close of 1943, at this time he commanded
HMS Garth (L20). In 1950 he was made Commodore. Retiring from active Navy service in July 1959, he was seconded to the newly created Ghana Navy.
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah (born 21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An in ...
, then the
Ghana president, granted him a presidential commission as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of
Commodore and appointed him Chief of Naval Staff.
This was after the navy had been established in 1959.
After Nkrumah assumed the title of Supreme Commander in September, he replaced Commodore Forman with Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Hansen. As Captain A. G. Forman he received a CBE in 1962.
[''Supplement to the London Gazette'', 2 June 1962]
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References
Ghana Navy personnel
Royal Navy officers
1910 births
1967 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Chiefs of Naval Staff (Ghana)
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