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Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore, (2 February 1862 – 2 April 1934) was a

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officer who served as

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from 1912 to 1914.

Naval career

Moore joined the

in 1875 and served in the

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of 1882. He was promoted to

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17 July 1901, and later

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. He was appointed Naval Assistant to the

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in 1907 and Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes in 1909. He went on to be

in 1912. He served in the

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, commanding the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron from 1914. As Vice Admiral

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's second-in-command at the Battle of Dogger Bank, Moore led the sinking of SMS ''Blücher'' in January 1915. Heavily criticized for allowing the seriously-damaged SMS ''Seydlitz'' and SMS ''Derfflinger'' to escape together with the undamaged SMS ''Moltke'', he was "quietly removed from the Grand Fleet and assigned to command (the

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) in the Canary Islands where the possibility of any appearance by German surface ships was remote". In 1917, Moore went on to be Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department. He retired in 1919.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Gordon 1862 births 1934 deaths Royal Navy admirals of World War I Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Lords of the Admiralty Royal Navy personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War People from Westminster Military personnel from London