Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Gordon Moore | |
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |
Third Sea Lord
from 1912 to 1914.
Moore joined the
2nd Battlecruiser Squadron from 1914.[1]
As Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty's second-in-command at the Battle of Dogger Bank, Moore led the sinking of SMS Blücher in January 1915.[4] Heavily criticized for allowing the seriously-damaged SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger to escape together with the undamaged SMS Moltke, he was "quietly removed from the Grand Fleet and assigned to command (the 9th Cruiser Squadron) in the Canary Islands where the possibility of any appearance by German surface ships was remote".[5]
In 1917, Moore went on to be Controller of the Mechanical Warfare Department.[1] He retired in 1919.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Moore, Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. Archived from the original on 31 July 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
- ^ "No. 27335". The London Gazette. 19 July 1901. p. 4779.
- ^ "Appointments". The Times. No. 36970. London. 6 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ World War One By Priscilla Mary Roberts, p.585
- ISBN 978-0394528335.
External links
Media related to Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore at Wikimedia Commons
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