DREAMS COME TRUE

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1932, Page 6

DREAMS COME TRUE

BOY WHO BECAME AN ADMIRAL

SYDNEY, Feb. 11

Although he wa s born in Dubbo, a country town in New South Waies far from the sea, young Ribin Dalglish, who has just been appointed by the Admiralty Admiral in Command of the Australian Fleet, dreamed of the day when he would *e a sailor, and he 'whetted his ambition by reading the daring tales of Captain IMarryat, R. M. Ballantyne, and Gordon Stables. In fact, he read everything nautical that he could lay Iris hands on. Little did dream in those far off days that the time was approaching when he would command the Australian Navy. In 18©, when Robin was nine, his father, the late James Gampsie Dalglish, one of the founders and first directors of the Broken Hill Mining Company, died, and Robin went with his mother and five brothers and sisters to England. There he was able to fulfil his boyhood ambition, for he was permitted to join the British Navy. His dreamy had come fine. His advance in the Navy was rapid, and before the war he was on the staff of the Royal Naval College at Osborne. During the Great iWar he was commander of the cruiser Canada with the Grand Fleet, and he was promoted captain in December, 1918. From 1920 to 1922 ho was captain of tile battleship Barham, in the First Battle 'Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, and was chief staff officer to Vice-Admiral Sir ..llliam Nicholson. iH'o commanded the Royal /Naval Boys' Training Establishment at Shot ley for a while, and was Naval Asistanl to the Second Sen Lord of /the Admiralty. He was made, a read Admiral in April last.

'File now Admiral, who will arrive in Sydney on April 26th, is noted for his prowess in athletics. .He married a grand-niece, of Sir Alfred Stephen, a former Chief Justice of New South' Wales. There are seven children, and the eldest, aged 18, is with the Navy, and is at present stationed n| Bermuda. The youngest child is hut throe mouths.