OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 10

OBITUARY

ADMIRAL STURDEE. tfn*» Aaaoeiktioa—By Telegraph—Copjrrigh* LONDON, May 7. The death is announced of Admiral Sturdee—Reuter. Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, was bom in 1859. He entered the Navy in 1871, and served in the Egyptian War, 1882, being present at the bombardment of Alexandria as a lieutenant in the Hecla. He was assistant to the Director of Naval Ordnance, 1893-97, and Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence. 1900-2. Chief of Staff of the Mediterranean fleet, 1905-7, he was Rear-Admiral of the First Battle Squadron, 1910, and commanded the Second Cruiser Squadron, 1912-13. Sturdeo was Chief of the War Staff, 1014-15, and it was while thus employed that Lord Fisher sent him to the Pacific to find and defeat Von Spec. The crushing defeat of the German squadron off the Falkland Islands followed on December 8, 1914. In the battle of Jutland Admiral Sturdee was in command of the Fourth Battle Squadron. He was Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, 1918-21. Promoted RearAdmiral, 1910, and Admiral 1917. he was made Admiral of the Fleet, 1921. Knighted in 1913, he was created a baronet, January 1, 1916. In 1919 he received a grant of £IO,OOO for his services during the Great War. Admiral Sturdee in the last year or two has taken an energetic part in the movement for raising funds for the preservation of Nelson’s flagship Victory.