Edward Parry (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Edward Parry
Sir Edward Parry
	Second World War Battle of the River Plate; Normandy landings;
Awards	Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)

KCB (8 April 1893 – 21 August 1972) was an officer of the Royal Navy

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Naval career

Parry joined the Royal Navy 1905 and served in the

First World War.^[2] He was appointed Officer in charge of the Anti-Submarine Establishment at Portland in 1936.^[2] In 1938 he attended the Imperial Defence College.^[1]

During the

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1950 New Year Honours^[3] before retiring in 1951.^[2]

In the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, Parry was played by Jack Gwillim.

References

^ ^a ^b "Royal Navy officer histories". Unit Histories. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
^ "No. 38799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. p. 39.

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Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939–1945

Military offices
Preceded by Henry Horan	Commander-in-Chief, New Zealand Division 1940–1941	Post discontinued
Preceded by Edmund Rushbrooke	Director of Naval Intelligence 1946–1948	Succeeded by Eric Longley-Cook
Preceded by John Talbot Savignac Hall	Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy 1948–1951	Succeeded by Eric Longley-Cook

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[lh-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

[3] "No. 38799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1949. p. 39.

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Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (1947–2019)	Sir Rob Lockhart Sir Thomas Elmhirst Sir Edward Parry K. M. Cariappa Sir Charles Pizey Subroto Mukerjee Kodandera Subayya Thimayya Ram Dass Katari Aspy Engineer Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri Arjan Singh Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sam Manekshaw Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Om Prakash Mehra Sourendra Nath Kohli Tapishwar Narain Raina Hrushikesh Moolgavkar Jal Cursetji Om Prakash Malhotra Idris Hasan Latif Ronald Lynsdale Pereira K. V. Krishna Rao Dilbagh Singh Oscar Stanley Dawson Arun Shridhar Vaidya Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Denis La Fontaine Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Surinder Mehra Sunith Francis Rodrigues Laxminarayan Ramdas Bipin Chandra Joshi S. K. Kaul Vijai Singh Shekhawat Shankar Roychowdhury Satish Sareen Ved Prakash Malik Sushil Kumar Sundararajan Padmanabhan Madhvendra Singh Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy Nirmal Chander Vij Arun Prakash Shashindra Pal Tyagi Joginder Jaswant Singh Sureesh Mehta Deepak Kapoor Pradeep Vasant Naik Nirmal Kumar Verma Norman Anil Kumar Browne Bikram Singh Arup Raha Sunil Lanba Birender Singh Dhanoa Bipin Rawat
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2020–2021)	Bipin Rawat
Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2021–2022)	M. M. Naravane (acting)
Chief of Defence Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee (2022–)	Anil Chauhan
(**Seconded from the British Armed Forces)

v t e Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy (1947–1948)	John Talbot Savignac Hall**
Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Royal Indian Navy (1948-1950)	John Talbot Savignac Hall Edward Parry
Chief of the Naval Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy (1950-1955)	Edward Parry Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey
Chief of the Naval Staff (1955–present)	Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey Sir Stephen Hope Carlill Ram Dass Katari Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman Adhar Kumar Chatterji Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda Sourendra Nath Kohli Jal Cursetji Ronald Lynsdale Pereira Oscar Stanley Dawson Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni Laxminarayan Ramdas Vijai Singh Shekhawat Vishnu Bhagwat Sushil Kumar Madhvendra Singh Arun Prakash Sureesh Mehta Nirmal Kumar Verma Devendra Kumar Joshi Robin K. Dhowan Sunil Lanba Karambir Singh R. Hari Kumar (incumbent)
**Seconded from the Royal Navy