A. G. Forman
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Archibald George Forman CBE (1910-1967) was a British naval officer who became the first Chief of Naval Staff of the Ghana Navy.[1][2]
Forman was born in Brentford on 20 June 1910.[3][4] At age 17, he was an acting sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy. In 1931, he became a sub-lieutenant and promoted as a lieutenant two years after (1933). In 1941, he became Lieutenant Commander and commanded HMS Airdale[5] and HMS Lookout (G32). He was mentioned in dispatches in 1942, and became a Commander at the end of 1943, where he commanded HMS Garth (L20). In 1950, he was made Commodore. Retiring from active Navy service in July 1959,[6] he was seconded to the newly created Ghana Navy. Kwame Nkrumah, then the Ghana president, granted him a presidential commission as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore and appointed him Chief of Naval Staff.[7] This was after the navy had been established in 1959.[8]
After Nkrumah assumed the title of Supreme Commander in September, he replaced Commodore Forman with Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Hansen.[9] As Captain A. G. Forman he received a CBE in 1962.[10][11]
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- ↑ ADM 196/151/51, The National Archives
- ↑ BMD
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- ↑ Cdr. Archibald George Forman of the Royal Navy
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- ↑ 'Gen. Alexander leaves Ghana: changes in high command', The Times, 26 September 1961.
- ↑ 'The Birthday Honours', The Times, 2 June 1962.
- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 2 June 1962, p.4311
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