Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears,

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, CB (25 April 1862 – 21 June 1941) was a British

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officer, who served in the

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Naval service

Pears joined the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to

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on 30 June 1885. He took part in the

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, for which he was promoted to

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on 25 May 1897. He was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS ''Perseus'' in early 1901, when the ship was commissioned to form part of the East Indies fleet. He was in charge when in September 1901 she prevented the landing of Turkish troops at Kuwait. The following year he was in charge when troops from the ''Perseus'' demolished the fort at

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in response to pirate activities by the locals there.

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* Royal Navy vice admirals Royal Navy admirals of World War I 1862 births 1941 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-navy-bio-stub