Admiral Sir Charles Saumarez Daniel, (23 June 1894 – 11 February 1981) was a

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officer who went on to be

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Naval career

Educated at Southcliffe School in

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, the

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, and the

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, Daniel was commissioned into the

in 1912.Papers of Admiral Sir Charles Daniel
/ref> He served in the

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taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
/ref> He was made Experimental Commander at HM Signal School in 1928 and executive officer of in 1933 before becoming a member of staff for the Joint Planning Committee at the

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in 1936. He served in the

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initially as Captain (Destroyers) for the

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and then, from 1940, as Director of Plans at the Admiralty. He went on to be Captain of in 1941, Flag Officer, Combined Operations in 1943 and Vice Admiral in charge of Administration for the

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in 1944. After the war, he became

and then, from 1949, Commandant of the Imperial Defence College before retiring in 1952. In retirement he became Chairman of the Television Advisory Committee.

Family

In 1919, he married Marjory Katharine Wilson; they had one daughter. Following the death of his first wife, he married Beatrice Pendlebury Worsley, widow of his

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John Pares Wilson, in 1963.

References

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