Percy Grant (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Percy Grant | |
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Birth name | Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant |
Born | 23 September 1867 |
Died | 8 September 1952 | (aged 84)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Second World War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath |
CB (23 September 1867 – 8 September 1952) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff
from 1919 to 1921.
Grant saw service in the
Egyptian War of 1882 as well as the Brazilian Naval Mutiny in 1893.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1890,[3] posted as a lieutenant for navigation on the battleship HMS Mars, and promoted to commander (Navigation) on 26 June 1902.[4] In September 1902 he was posted to HMS President for study at the Royal Naval College,[5] and in January the following year he was posted to the battleship HMS Ramillies, serving in the Mediterranean Fleet.[6]
He went on to serve during the
First World War initially as flag captain to Vice Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly in HMS Marlborough and then as flag captain and chief of staff to Admiral Sir Cecil Burney who was then second-in-command of the Grand Fleet.[2] In that capacity he saw his ship torpedoed and crippled at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.[7]
After the war he was appointed
Second World War to serve as Captain at the Port of Holyhead.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f The Dreadnought Project
- ^ a b c d e f Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ^ "No. 26093". The London Gazette. 3 October 1890. p. 5268.
- ^ "No. 27448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1902. p. 4198.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36881. London. 24 September 1902. p. 4.
- ^ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36978. London. 15 January 1903. p. 8.
- ^ Jutland Battle Melbourne Argus, 22 December 1920
External links
- The Dreadnought Project: Percy Grant