Admiral Sir Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis GBE KCB (2 May 1884 – 26 May 1946) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Deputy First Sea Lord. He was...
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Third Sea Lord Percy Noble, Fourth Sea Lord Charles Little, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Sir Victor...
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Harwood. From 1936 she was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Kennedy-Purvis (later Sir Charles) and on 1 September 1937 she and her sister ship Sussex...
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accepted the need for a deputy first sea lord, with Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis installed as such in July 1942. Pound refused a peerage but was...
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by the Royal Marines detachment of Despatch, by Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Commander-in-Chief of the America and West Indies Station, who...
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Harold Howitt; Hubert Huddleston; 1st Baron Iliffe; John Kennedy; Arthur Power; Charles Kennedy-Purvis; Henry Peat; Thomas Williams Phillips; Hubert Rance;...
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Military offices Preceded by Vacant (last held by Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis) President, Royal Naval College, Greenwich 1943–1946 Succeeded by Sir Patrick...
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Sidney Meyrick (1937–40) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis (1940–41) Vice Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis (1942) Vice Admiral Sir Alban Curteis (1942–44)...
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(1934–1937) Vice-Admiral Sir Sidney Bailey (1937–1938) Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis (1938–1940) Vacant (1940–1943) Commodore Augustus Agar (1943–1946)...
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Succeeded by Guy Royle Preceded by Sir Matthew Best Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station 1937–1940 Succeeded by Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis...
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