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Flag Officer, Middle East
The Flag Officer, Middle East was a command appointment of the Royal Navy, established for two distinct periods from 194658 and then from . From the appointment was located in the Suez Canal Zone or, after the Suez Crisis, in the Cyprus area; when reestablished from the post of Flag Officer, Arabian Seas and Persian Gulf, the focus was on the other side of Arabia. The headquarters moved from HMS Juffair, HMS ''Juffair'' in Bahrain to HMS Sheba, Tawahi (Aden), Steamer Point, Aden in 1962, and was located there until the British evacuation from Aden in 1967. In August 1946 the title Commander-in-Chief, Levant was discontinued. Instead the title Senior British Naval Officer and Flag Officer Liaison, Middle East was adopted. In 1958 the last Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, hauled down his flag. His former units and establishments were transferred to the joint-service Middle East Command at Aden. In 1959 the former East Indies Persian Gulf Division and Red Sea division were amalgamated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early Middle Ages, medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the English Navy of the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the early 18th century until the World War II, Second World War, it was the world's most powerful navy. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry McCall
Admiral Sir Henry William Urquhart McCall (11 June 1895 – 23 March 1980) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Reserve Fleet from 1951 until his retirement in 1953. Naval career McCall joined the Royal Navy as midshipman in the cruiser at the Cape of Good Hope in 1908. He served in the First World War as sub-lieutenant in the steamship HMS ''Daffodil'' from 1915, as Executive Officer in the destroyer in the Grand Fleet from 1916 and as First Lieutenant in the destroyer in the Grand Fleet from 1918. He was present at the Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919. He became commanding officer of the destroyer in the Mediterranean Fleet in 1932 and naval attaché at Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1938. McCall served in the Second World War as commanding officer of the cruiser from 1940, as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sir Percy Noble who was Head of the British Naval Delegation to Washington, D.C., from 1943, and as commanding officer of the battleship i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Officers Of The Royal Navy
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where communication is challenging (such as the maritime environment, where semaphore is used). Many flags fall into groups of similar designs called flag families. The study of flags is known as "vexillology" from the Latin , meaning "flag" or "banner". National flags are patriotic symbols with widely varied interpretations that often include strong military associations because of their original and ongoing use for that purpose. Flags are also used in messaging, advertising, or for decorative purposes. Some military units are called "flags" after their use of flags. A ''flag'' (Arabic: ) is equivalent to a brigade in Arab countries. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Martin (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice Admiral Sir John Edward Ludgate Martin, (10 May 1918 – 31 May 2011) was a Royal Navy officer and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey. Naval career Martin joined the Royal Navy in 1938. He served in the Second World War, taking part in the Dunkirk evacuation when his ship, Sun Tug 15, undertook four trips to Dunkirk to pick up evacuees. He also served as a navigation officer in the Mediterranean and took part in the invasion of Sicily in 1943. Martin was appointed deputy director of Manpower Planning at the Admiralty in 1959, Senior Naval Officer in the West Indies in 1961 and Commander of British Forces in the Caribbean Area in 1962. He went on to be Captain at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1963, Flag Officer, Middle East in 1966 and Commander of British Forces in the Gulf in 1967. His last appointments were as Director General of Naval Personal Services and Training in 1968 and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in 1970; he retired in 1973. In retirement h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Norris Howes
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Fitzroy Talbot
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL (22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Early life Son of Royal Navy Captain Henry Fitzroy George Talbot (1874-1920), DSO (a third great-grandson of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737) and Susan Blair Athol (died 1951), daughter of William Allison, of South Kilvington, Thirsk, Yorkshire, Talbot had an elder sister, Nesta (1905-1994). His paternal ancestors included the politicians Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, and Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth. Naval career Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Fitzroy Talbot joined the Royal Navy in 1926. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Miers
Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, (11 November 1906 – 30 June 1985), known as "Crap Miers" and "Gamp", was a Royal Navy officer who served in the submarine service during the Second World War. Miers was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was allegedly responsible for two war crime incidents, while commanding , including the shooting of seven Germans in a life raft. Early life Born in 1906 in Inverness, Scotland, the son of an army captain killed in the First World War, Miers was educated at Stubbington House School in Gosport, Edinburgh Academy, and Wellington College. In 1924 he joined the Royal Navy as a special entry cadet and volunteered for the submarine service in 1929. He could be hot-tempered, and in 1933 was court martialled for striking a rating. Miers' career however continued, with his first submarine command (1936–7) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Willet Brock
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Graham Henry Stokes
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HMS Osiris
Three ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Osiris'', after the Egyptian mythology, Egyptian god Osiris: * was an launched in 1916 and sold in 1921. * was an launched in 1928 and sold in 1946, being broken up in 1952. * was an launched in 1962 and sold to Canada in 1992, where she was dismantled for spare parts and broken up that year. * was a shore establishment in Egypt in the late 1940s/early 1950s. {{DEFAULTSORT:Osiris, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Campbell (Royal Navy Officer)
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