Rear-Admiral Victor Gabriel Brodeur, CB,

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, CD (September 17, 1892 – October 6, 1976) was a

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officer. He was a member of the first batch of cadets accepted into the RCN and the first French speaker to reach the rank of rear admiral. Brodeur was the son of the politician and judge

Louis-Philippe Brodeur Louis-Philippe Brodeur, baptised Louis-Joseph-Alexandre Brodeur (August 21, 1862 – January 2, 1924) was a Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, federal Cabinet minister, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada, and puisne justice o ...

, who as Minister of the Naval Service introduced the ''

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'' which created the

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. In 1909, he was appointed officer cadet and assigned to CGS ''Canada'', as part of the Navy's first group of six cadets. Of the six, only

Percy Nelles Admiral Percy Walker Nelles, (7 January 1892 – 13 July 1951) was a flag officer in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and the Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 January 1934 to 15 January 1944. He oversaw the massive wartime expansion of the RCN and ...

rose higher in rank. Appointed midshipman in 1910, he served in HMCS ''Niobe'' before being transferred to HMS ''Dreadnought'' in 1911. Appointed sub-lieutenant in 1913, he served in HMS ''Berwick'' in 1914 during the

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. His son Nigel Brodeur reached the rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.

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