BRITISH NAVAL STAFF

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 7

BRITISH NAVAL STAFF

Appointment Announced

(Received May 6, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 6.

Rear-Admiral H. R. Moore has been appointed Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant to the Chief of Naval Staff. He will take up his duties on July 25.

Rear-Admiral Henry Ruthven Moore, C. 8., C.V.0., D. 5.0., has had considerable experience as a naval staff officer. He was navigator of H.M.S. Castor, the light cruiser flagship of the Grand Fleet destroyer flotillas during the greater part of the Great war, and received the D.S.O. for his services in that ship in the Battle of Jutland. Promoted .captain on December 31, 1926, he commanded the cruisers Caradoc and Dauntless in the West Indies and the Neptune in the Home Fleet. A graduate of the Imperial Defence course at the Royal Naval War College, he served for two years as Director of the Plans Division at the Admiralty. He received the C.V.O. at the Coronation naval review in May, 1937. While serving for a period of two and a quarter years as Chief of Staff, Home Fleet, in H.M.S. Nelson, he was promoted Rear-Admiral on January 11, 1938. He was appointed Chief -of Staff to Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Cork, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth on May 16, 1938. Since Marek 31, 1939, he has been in command of the Third Cruiser Squadron, flying his flag in H.M.S. Arethusa. He received the C. 8., in the King’s Birthday Honours in June of last year. Rear-Admiral Moore’s appointment, following closely on that of Vice-Admir-al T. S. V. Phillips, C. 8., as Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff is evidence of an important strengthening of that department at the Admiralty. Probably no officer has a wider or longer experience of naval staff work than Vice-Admiral nilUm-SJW