Robert Don Oliver
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Vice-Admiral Robert Don Oliver Template:Postnominals (17 March 1895 – 6 October 1980) was a Royal Navy officer who was appointed Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.
Oliver served in World War I taking part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914, fighting at Gallipoli in 1915 and then undertaking mine-laying off the German and Belgian coast.[1] Promoted to captain, he was given command of HMS Iron Duke in 1939.[2]
He also served in World War II and was commanding HMS Devonshire,[3] a heavy cruiser, on 21 November 1941, when he was informed that codebreakers had determined that German U-boats were going to be surfacing near him, to refuel from a merchant raider, the Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) Atlantis. Using the intelligence, Devonshire sunk Atlantis.[4] He later commanded the gunnery school HMS Excellent and then the cruiser Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..[2]
After the War he was appointed Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Weapons) and then Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff in 1946.[2] His last appointment, in 1947, was as Flag Officer commanding the 5th Cruiser Squadron,[2] before he retired on 26 September 1948, and was promoted to vice-admiral on the same day.[5]
In retirement he became Deputy Lieutenant of Roxburghshire.[6]
Family
In 1928 he married Torfrida Lois Acantha Huddart; there were no children.[6] Following the death of his first wife, he married Mrs M.J. Glendinning van der Velde in 1965.[6]
References
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- ↑ National Maritime Museum
- ↑ a b c d Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ↑ HMS Devonshire at www.uboat.net
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