Bernard Rawlings (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Bernard Rawlings 7th Cruiser Squadron (1941) (1931–32)1st Battle Squadron (1940–41, 1944–45) HMS Valiant (1939–40) HMS Delhi (1932–34) HMS Curacoa (1932) HMS Active | |
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| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (Greece)Mentioned in dispatches (2) Legion of Merit (United States) Order of George I (Greece) War Cross |
Second World War
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Naval career
Rawlings was born in
Foreign Office and undertook Military Missions in Poland.[2] He then commanded the destroyer Active and then the cruisers Curacoa and Delhi before becoming Naval Attaché in Tokyo in 1936.[2]
Rawlings served in the
7th Cruiser Squadron in May, and became Assistant Chief of Naval Staff in April 1942.[2] He was appointed Flag Officer, West Africa in March 1943 with the acting rank of Vice-Admiral before being promoted to the rank in November, and in December became Flag Officer, Eastern Mediterranean.[2] He went on to be second-in-command of the British Pacific Fleet with his flag in HMS King George V.[3] He commanded the British Carrier Force, Task Force 57, in the Pacific from 1944 through the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945,[4] and retired in 1946.[2]
Rawlings died in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, on 30 September 1962.[1]
References
- ^ a b uboat.net Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings OBE, RN
- ^ a b c d e f Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ National Maritime Museum Archived 1 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stevens, Mike (27 March 2005). "What my Dad Did for Us in the War". WW2 People's War. BBC.
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