Post by flakstruk on Jun 17, 2023 5:27:19 GMT
Birth name - Henry Harwood Harwood
Commands held
Born - 19 January 1888 ;St George Hanover Square, London
Died - 9 June 1950 (aged 62) ; Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Commands held
HMS Cumberland (June 1927 – June 1928)
HMS Warwick & 9th Destroyer Division (August 1929 – April 1930)
HMS London (March 1932 – January 1934)
HMS Exeter (September 1936 – August 1939)
South American Division of the North America and West Indies Station (25 August 1939 – April 1940)
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (December 1940 – April 1942)
Commander-in-Chief, Levant
Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands (April 1944 – March 1945)
Harwood had theorised about the engagement of a single very powerful adversary with weaker defending cruisers and was thus well prepared to engage the Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate.
Later commands were focused on coastal defence and support in north africa, and invasion defence in northern scottish islands.
Harwood had theorised about the engagement of a single very powerful adversary with weaker defending cruisers and was thus well prepared to engage the Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate.
Later commands were focused on coastal defence and support in north africa, and invasion defence in northern scottish islands.
