Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal...
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Kelly, Fourth Sea Lord Sir Frederick Field, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Dudley Pound, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff The Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord 30 April...
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Mediterranean littoral. In autumn 1943, on the death of the incumbent, Sir Dudley Pound, Cunningham was promoted to First Sea Lord, the professional head of...
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Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Brooke's predecessor as chairman, retired as a result of poor health and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham succeeded Pound as First...
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politician from New York Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian lawyer Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British naval officer Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate...
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Sir Dudley Pound (1943). British Pathé. Retrieved 21 October 2022. - newsreel of the ceremonial funeral of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, showing...
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Britain's possessions there, most notably Singapore. First Sea Lord Sir Dudley Pound represented that Singapore could be adequately defended only if the Royal...
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his son Louis was serving, for a week at the invitation of the captain Dudley Pound. It was his last voyage; he died at 42 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly,...
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forces on 1 July, shadowed and attacked. The First Sea Lord, Admiral Dudley Pound, acting on information that German ships, including German battleship Tirpitz...
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spring of 1939. In June 1939, Vice Admiral Andrew Cunningham replaced Dudley Pound and took Warspite to Istanbul for talks with the Turkish government....
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Marshal Dowding David Bamber as Admiral Ramsay Paul Leonard as Admiral Dudley Pound Demetri Goritsas as Cabinet Secretary Bridges Olivier Broche as Paul...
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surface fleet had plans to intercept the convoy and the First Sea Lord Dudley Pound decided to recall all escorts and to scatter the convoy, resulting in...
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Officer but directly to the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound. In anticipation of the outbreak of World War 2 on 3 September 1939 the...
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Surya Sen (1894–1934), was given a burial at sea in the Bay of Bengal Dudley Pound (1877–1943), cremated ashes scattered Atholl MacGregor (1883–1945), Hong...
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history Dudley Pope (cricketer) (1906–1934), English cricketer Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord Dudley Richards...
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Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield Sir Roger Backhouse Sir Dudley Pound The Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope Sir John Cunningham The Lord Fraser of...
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Hope. Churchill wrote correctly that the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, thought the Mediterranean route was too dangerous, but he did not mention...
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(1878–1939) 7 September 1938 12 June 1939 278 days 74 Pound, DudleyAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound (1877–1943) 12 June 1939 15 October 1943 4 years,...
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Churchill General Sir John Dill, British Army Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Royal Navy Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfred Freeman, Royal Air Force Permanent...
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years 1939–43 it was under the command of First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (1877–1943). As a result of the earlier changes the Royal Navy entered...
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Andrew Cunningham to undertake the interment of the ashes of Admiral Sir Dudley Pound and his late wife in the Solent, 30 miles (48 km) off Nab Tower. In December...
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left to right: Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, General Sir Alan Brooke, Mr Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill...
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second half of the Potsdam Conference and announced the Defeat of Japan. Dudley Pound was First Sea Lord and as such the professional head of the Royal Navy...
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Mediterranean Fleet, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, requesting the assistance of naval vessels capable of providing landing parties. Pound dispatched HMS Repulse and...
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Minister Winston Churchill discussed Far East reinforcement with Admiral Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord. Churchill proposed augmenting phase 1 with a King...
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service ministers were usually joined by the CoS who were Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord; Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, the Chief of the Air...
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the First Sea Lord, Admiral Dudley Pound, to discuss plans should the crisis end in a war. It was agreed at the Darlan-Pound meeting that the French fleet...
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shipping a serious problem. During the Munich Crisis of 1938, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, was concerned about...
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her in January 1905. He struck up a firm and lasting friendship with Dudley Pound in a busy eighteen months on board, leaving the ship early after selection...
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Madden, Bt Sir Frederick Field The Lord Chatfield Sir Roger Backhouse Sir Dudley Pound The Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope Sir John Cunningham The Lord Fraser of...
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