Captain
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Guy D'Oyly-Hughes
DSO &
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,
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(8 August 1891 – 8 June 1940) was an officer in the
Royal Navy
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.
Service career
Early life
Guy D'Oyly-Hughes was born in 1891 in
Salt Lake City
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, Utah, United States, the son of Samuel Hughes, a British physician, and Kezia D'Oyly Hughes. At the age of nine, he was sent to Britain to complete his education, followed by his parents in 1901. They eventually settled in
Southampton
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. D'Oyly-Hughes married Anne Margaret Gladys Crawford, with whom he had two daughters.
First World War
During the
First World War
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, Lieutenant D'Oyly-Hughes was a
submarine
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r and second in command of , which was highly successful in the
Dardanelles Campaign. He was awarded the
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in June 1915 after a patrol in which his captain, Lieutenant Commander
Martin Nasmith
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, was awarded the
Victoria Cross
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. D'Oyly-Hughes was awarded the DSC after swimming ashore from ''E11'' with explosives and blowing up part of the
Constantinople-Baghdad Railway on 21 August 1915.
Second World War and death
In June 1939, as a
captain
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, he was given command of the
aircraft carrier
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. D'Oyly-Hughes had learned to fly and continually rejected the advice of the ship's professional aviators, according to Winton. Returning to Britain from the
Norwegian campaign on 8 June 1940, ''Glorious'' and her destroyer escort of and were surprised and caught by and in the
Norwegian Sea
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. All three British ships were sunk with the loss of at least 1,533 lives. D'Oyly-Hughes went down with his ship.
''Glorious'' had been sighted in conditions of maximum visibility, a condition in which an aircraft carrier would normally have one or more aircraft out on a
Combat Air Patrol
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. ''Glorious'' had no such patrol, and was unable to reach maximum speed before coming in range of the enemy's 11-inch guns. Winton describes D'Oyly-Hughes' lack of belief in the effectiveness of air patrols and the questions raised by numerous commentators, including eyewitnesses from ''Glorious'' and ''Scharnhorst'', about the captain's judgement in this and other matters.
See also
Hansard
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report on the debate "HMS Glorious" in the
House of Commons
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on 28 January 1999.
HMS Glorious
'' House of Commons Debate 28 January 1999 vol 324 cc564-76. Retrieved 10 September 2020
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